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
An evening of off kilter revelry, avant-pop and pycho-funk from two bands who have consistently thwarted musical expectations and dared to sail uncharted waters in search of new horizons.
Blurt + World Sanguine Report
Friday 4th October, 2024 @ 8:00pm – £10 Advance / £13 On the Door
New River Studios 199 Eade Rd Harringay Warehouse District London N4 1DN
Blurt
Ted Milton – voice, saxophone Steve Eagles – guitar David Aylward – drums
Founded by poet & performance artist Ted Milton in 1979 and described variously as “post-punk pogo-jazz” and “no-wave psycho-funk” trio Blurt were associated with Factory Records during the 1980s before moving on to pastures new.
In the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall, their performances at festivals, clubs and squats across a soon to be unified Europe as well as their uncompromising recorded output became legendary; symbolic of the riotous celebration of new found freedoms and the denouncing of long enforced social taboos.
Irreverent to the last, they continue to stoke the fires of the independent music scene in their own inimitable way. Of recent, cover versions of Blurt songs have also started appearing as a whole new generation discover their sound. Their latest release ‘My Mother Was a Friend of an Enemy of the People’; a compilation of seminal live recordings is being hailed as an instant classic.
World Sanguine Report
Andrew Plummer – voice, elec. guitar Matthew Bourne – harmonium Ruth Goller – elec. bass, voice Will Glaser – drum kit
Avant-rock band, World Sanguine Report perform material from their forthcoming album “Songs From The Harbour” – Plummer’s bruised vocals and darkly-enthralling lyrics, alongside Goller’s voice are enveloped in a tide of swirling tones, textures and rhythms from accompanying guitars, bass, harmonium and drums. In often stark arrangement, World Sanguine Report revel on a journey through songs from a dark side of life and love.
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.
“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
‘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.
