Not Applicable

Icarus + Pando Pando

Projections by Dan Conway

Sunday, 8th December 2024, 9:00pm
Set Times:
9:00pm – Icarus
10:00pm – Pando Pando

£8 / £6 Advance via: https://wegottickets.com/event/639514/

New River Studios: https://maps.app.goo.gl/oYokRGxz3XNWiv3q8

Electronic duo Icarus launch their new album ‘An Ever-Growing Meridional Entertainment Transgression At The Edge Of The Multiverse’, their first studio album in over 10 years. Formed in 1997 by cousins Ollie Bown and Sam Britton, Icarus have over the course of a trailblazing career (that spans releases on labels such as The Leaf Label, Temporary Residence and Output Recordings as well as remixes for the likes of Fourtet, Caribou and Murcof), created genre defying, kaleidoscopic electronica, epitomised by an air of mischievousness and revelry.

“Deliciously and maddeningly unclassifiable” – The Wire

Electronics and drums/percussion trio Pando Pando bring together three acclaimed musicians from London’s alternative, jazz and improvised music scenes to explore a combined sound world that surfs on waves of electronics, free jazz and noise.

“Pando Pando release an energy that is more than welcome, it is highly desirable, it is riveting, leaving the listener unsure of where the next note is coming from, but delighted when it arrives” – Ian D. Hall, Liverpool Sound & Vision

Scarla O’Horror + Mieko Shimizu + Will Glaser & Matt Cargill

Saturday, 12th October 2024, 7:30pm

£10 / £8 Advance via: https://wegottickets.com/event/633155

New River Studios: https://maps.app.goo.gl/oYokRGxz3XNWiv3q8

The Quartet of Scarla O’Horror (Alex Bonney, Tim Giles and Isambard Khroustaliov with George Crowley filling in for James Allsopp) bring their riotous, celebratory fusion of jazz and electronics to New River Studios to launch their new album ‘Semiconductor Taxidermy for the Masses’.

Support comes from the awesome Mieko Shimizu and a new collaboration between legendary drummer Will Glaser and Sly & The Family Drone frontman and supreme noise-master Matt Cargill

The instrumentation of the SCHUBERT-RUPP-OHLMEIER trio carries the idea of a classical piano trio (violin, piano, cello) further into contemporary improvisational music and, with the diverse expressive possibilities of soprano saxophone, bass clarinet and electric guitar, opens up completely new possibilities for transforming the colour of individual notes and combined sounds into a lively texture, free of stylistic or dramaturgical restrictions.

The intrinsic tonal vocabulary of the individual instruments is on an equal footing with extended playing techniques and both are used exclusively to shape a radically unconditioned sound progression. The result is a very multifaceted collective sound that is always in motion and always poses the right questions to the listener’s expectations in a fascinating way.

Entropy Hug by Schubert-Rupp-Ohlmeier on Bandcamp

“Best described as Avant Garde electronic jazz with undertones of the cabaret, this sense of the future is one to be taken seriously, and as tracks such as the fiercely demanding and ultimately satisfying The Graveyard of Sharks, Fluffy Wires, the homage in name in Eno’s Bathroom, Dolphin Suicide, and the fantastic It Must Have Been The Magpies, Pando Pando release an energy that is more than welcome, it is highly desirable, it is riveting, leaving the listener unsure of where the next note is coming from, but delighted when it arrives and with a flourish of generosity of flavour.” Ian D. Hall, Liverpool Sound & Vision

See Pando Pando Live!

Pando Pando + UKAEA + The Glass Key

Tue, Apr 16, 7:00 PM
Two Palms
289 Mare Street, Hackney, London, E8 1EJ, United Kingdom
£11.85

https://dice.fm/event/vl8y6-pando-pando-ukaea-the-glass-key-16th-apr-two-palms-london-tickets

‘Nebula 1 & 2’ is the first collaboration between Mieko Shimizu and Jasmine Morris, commissioned as part of a Not Applicable season of live performances hosted in venues throughout London in 2023.

Musical landscapes formed of arresting string harmonies dissolve into electro-acoustic seas, eventually submerging us into a world of rhythmic electronic currents and ancient memories. As the compositions evolve, we wash up on the shores of what might be distant planets, familiar but uncanny, our senses reawakened to a new reality where inter-planetary and inter-generational forces unite.

The recording captures a unique moment in Mieko and Jasmine’s respective lives and acknowledges a shared passion for electronic music, fostered in part through their relationship as mother and daughter.