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<span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="background-color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: monospace , monospace;">beyond delighted to be welcoming back <u><b>Michael Hurley</b></u> to the Cube Cinema, Bristol. Wild and true, vernacular troubadour songs, carried on the wind. One of the greatest</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="background-color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: monospace , monospace;">Also honoured to have unique song-fragmentor <u><b>Ashley Paul</b></u> along, with fresh duo formation and a startling new album to unpick</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="background-color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: monospace , monospace;">Further primitive pleasure from postFahey string explorer <u><b>Gwenifer Raymond</b></u>. Appalachian ghost-channeling. Album forthcoming on Tompkins Square</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="background-color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: monospace , monospace;">Tickets flying physically from the Here Shop, Stokes Croft and online from <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/%23date%3D2018-06-23%26event_id%3D45619&source=gmail&ust=1529354450034000&usg=AFQjCNFLiZSD9Es1o8aUq6HGb3mN7bTL4A" href="https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/#date=2018-06-23&event_id=45619" target="_blank">here</a></span></span></span>shieldshapedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03717875979845938172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565696908975866441.post-20368579949606122902014-04-07T17:05:00.001-07:002014-04-07T17:19:37.555-07:00THE GREAT NORTH-EASTERN…<span style="color: #4c1130;"><br /></span>
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been a swell of outsider goodness flowing from the north-east these past
few years. A sprawling constellation of freak acts and outsider labels,
unspooling streams of beautiful/deranged audiotape in all directions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very happy to have four choice exponents of
the NE no-audience underground here in Bristol.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></b></span></span><br />
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founder of <a href="http://www.singingknivesrecords.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b>Singing Knives Records</b></a> – an essential node in the north-east outer –
and member of improv folkskronk trio The Hunter Gracchus. With Roman Nose he
uses vocals, various free-reed instruments and an array of pitch/timbre
modifying effects pedals to create microtonal and polyrhythmic
fevers of ecstatic dissonances.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></b></span></span></span></div>
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throat-splutter from Luke Poot, of Very Rich Lexicon, Hard Pan, Chastity Potatoe and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXg3sr16Xww" target="_blank">a twice-touring duo with Phil Minton</a>. Lo-fidelity remedial sound poetry of the
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and voices. Particularly out-to-lunch drones & wails, vocals that veer from
having that nice mouthful-of-mussels vibe to a more euro-academic
too-much-coffee buzz to private language gurgle and “dictaphone work that would
give Gwilly Edmondez the horn”. Junk rattling. Ouch.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></b></span></span><br />
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He jams with a bank of old dictaphones and broken walkmen and antique effects
pedals all wired together with strings of snot, scraps of sticky tape and bits
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this one in the upstairs room at <b><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/The+Miner%27s+Arms/@51.47118,-2.57636,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xecc8d0e726e8535c" target="_blank">The Miner’s Arms</a></b> in St Werburghs. A new venue
for /shieldshaped/ but a sweet spot and a swell pub. Cosy. Up the stairs by the pool table. Only £4 entry, starts 8pm</span></span></span></div>
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Delighted to be hosting a rare live appearance from the <b>John Wall/Mark Durgan</b> duo, whose self-titled collaboration – released in 2012 on <a href="http://www.entracte.co.uk/project/john-wallmark-durgan-e139/" target="_blank"><b>Entr'acte</b></a> – earned them high acclaim from all corners of the experimental music press.</div>
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On paper, Wall/Durgan might seem an unlikely pairing. <a href="http://utterpsalm.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b>Wall</b></a>'s series of self-released CDs – from 1995's Alterstill up to 2005's Cphon – marked him out as one of the most original and revered composers of the era. His micro-scalpelled assemblages of samples, and painstaking, pointillist editing displayed a complexity far exceeding that of most plunderphonic contemporaries. Needle-sharp and impeccably detailed.<br />
<a href="http://markdurgan.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b>Durgan</b></a>, meanwhile, has been ploughing a different sort of furrow. Since 1986, both under his own name and as Putrefier, he has been refining a form of noise music that is entirely his own. Drawing on musique concrete, but realised on an industrialesque array of home-made and jerry-rigged devices, his sound is full-bodied, combustive and visceral. His releases have wormed out through a host of legendary subcultural labels: Broken Flag, RRRecords, Harbinger Sound, and – more recently – Gods of Tundra and Pan.</div>
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Recent years have seen diversification from both artists: Wall collaborating with poet <a href="http://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/p=13919" target="_blank"><b>Alex Rodgers</b></a> for an album; Durgan joining anti-music assaultists <a href="http://www.thenewblockaders.org.uk/" target="_blank"><b>the New Blockaders</b></a>, as well as appearing at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (as part of <a href="http://ratkje.no/" target="_blank"><b>Maja Ratkje</b></a>'s Crepuscular Hour).<br />
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Also on the bill we have <a href="http://behaviourbsu.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"><b>Behaviour</b></a> an 11-piece improv ensemble led by <b>Andy Keep</b>. Now in its eighth year, the annually rotating line-up is formed from 3rd year students on Bath Spa University's renowned CMT course. Working with a huge spread of self-designed sound sources – hacked hardware devices, instrumentalised found objects, software environments, circuit bending, homemade instruments, etc – the group perform interpretations of classic large ensemble improv works as well as original strategy-based compositions.</div>
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For this one-off performance, they are collaborating with sonic artist (and pioneer of the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZQK3pBkAl4&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank"><b>sonic marble run</b></a>) <b>Jon Pigott</b>, who will be producing direct visuals triggered by the audio output of the ensemble.<br />
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Downstairs at <a href="http://www.cafe-kino.com/" target="_blank"><b>Café Kino</b></a>, Stokes Croft, Bristol.<br />
Tickets just £5 (£3 students/conc.). Available in advance from the <a href="http://www.thingsfromhere.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b>Here Shop</b></a>/<a href="http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b>Bristol Ticket Shop</b></a>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i> Tickets in advance only, <b>very limited capacity</b> - make your move now</i><br /><br />Ticket Outlets: <br /><a href="http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/" target="_blank">Bristol Ticket Shop</a> <br /><a href="http://www.thingsfromhere.co.uk/" target="_blank">Here Shop </a><br />Presented by <a href="http://www.qujunktions.com/" target="_blank"><b>Qu Junktions</b></a> and <b>/ShieldShaped/</b> *<br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Michael Hurley's songbook is one of the most important living, walking, talking, singing, playing bodies of work in northern American culture. He is a singer of absorbing old-style Americana songs, by turns melancholic and funny, and chock-a-snock with love, life and wolves.<br /><br />Hurley, known affectionately to his fans as 'Snock', was born in 1941 in Florida. He has unleashed a string of consistently ground-flattening records on such labels as the seminal and anthological Smithsonian Folkways Records (his debut record First Songs was recorded on the same reel-to-reel machine that taped Leadbelly's Last Sessions) and the prolific omni-temporal roundabout that is Mississippi Records. Hurley's songs seem to criss-cross time and labels without convention, just like the man himself. Come track him down, it's open season, he is doing two sets. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/video/marc-israel/snock-39-n-roll-adventures-with-michael-hurley-complete-film/51000107" target="_blank">Snock 'N Roll: Adventures With Michael Hurley (Complete Film) </a></span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlQsX35lH_k%20%E2%80%A8Michael%20Hurley%20Sweedeedee%20(1971)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Michael Hurley - Tea Song (1965)</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Katie and Kim are two Scottish cooks who have been in and out of Bristol over the last few years whipping up delight wherever their pots hit the spot. They love to eat, talk about the food they are about to serve, gossip about the meals they could be eating and talk about the music they just heard. Always tasty and constantly up for a new challenge, Katie and Kim will be creating a complimentary plate of food for all members of the audience with extra snacks and treats on sale during the day/night.</span><br />
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is a finely measured album and one of the best heard this year. In the
welcome strain and stains of Crescent, Third Eye Foundation, Flying
Saucer Attack et al in his west country melancholic reverie. However
clear piano, drifting banjo pluck and emotional and dreamtime vocals
lends Timberwolf a brooding clarity unheard of round here. Definitely
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Avarus like a jam. Dip your fingers into this pot of fermented Finnish free music. Epic and endless, rumbling and stumbling, space-y psychedelic folk jams from a band that conjure all manner of moods. Formed in Tampere, Finland in 2001 by members of bands The Anaksimandros and Pylon, the group expands and contracts with the weather. A rare treat to have them here. Hear Hear. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The Moons of Mulagi seem to have come from somewhere and wherever that has been it has been Funz. Recordings, rivers, sittings, places, people, lanes, gay bottles, Saskatoon and Whelk. In-the-moment and outta-site musical specifics. Highly recommended but never experienced. Virgin territory and butter for it. <br /><br /><a href="http://funz.bandcamp.com/">http://funz.bandcamp.com</a></span>shieldshapedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03717875979845938172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565696908975866441.post-52944925096911841712013-01-04T07:25:00.001-08:002013-01-04T07:28:51.237-08:00twentytwelve<div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">concluding part of a piece that first surfaced on the Ytiu LP last year. One of my favourite groups of any time<br />
<b>2:40 The Bowles - Worrywort</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">low-slung already-defunct Australian outfit. Lot of great Australian sounds caught my ear this year.<br />
<b>6:00 Jason Lescalleet - Nice Ass</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Taken from Jason's tour-only 7" split with Graham Lambkin. Jason played one of my favourite sets of the year at Kino. Like watching sounds fall down a well.<br />
<b>9:55 Rozi Plain - Cold Tap</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Taken from Rozi's second full album. That's Ichi on the steel pan, also.<br />
<b>13:04 Le Ton Mite/Karl Blau - Track 4</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">McCloud stepped in to fill the void left by an ill support act. Here he is clattering with Karl Blau. A winner.<br />
<b>16:01 Michael Hurley - Pretty Girl on Roller Skates</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">was a dream finally seeing Michael play, and the Cube was a perfect venue. Mississippi issued a load of recordings made at the same time as those that appeared on his first album. I always thought that 'dance around in your bones' line was written by Waits/Burroughs; turns out it was lifted from a 1920s novelty song<br />
<b>22:17 Hans Krüsi - EX HK. (excerpt)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">was chuffed to find this in a second-hand stall in town. Hans Krüsi was a Swiss outsider artist. The record from which this is taken collates a load of his private cassette recordings.<br />
<b>23:38 Harry Pussy - I Fought the Police</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Standout track from the One Plus One LP, which colelcts a load of HP demos and whathaveyou.<br />
<b>28:00 Russell Hoban - The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz (excerpt)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Russell Hoban died at the very end of last year. This is a reading (by Eleanor Bron) of an extract from a favourite book by a favourite writer. RIP.<br />
<b>32:48 Bruce Langhorne - Ending</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">From his soundtrack to Peter Fonda's The Hired Hand. Finally issued on vinyl this year. Bruce Langhorne was the original Mr Tambourine Man.<br />
<b>37:19 Anton Bruhin - Trumpi Cheng</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Anton Bruhin was probably my most-listened-to artist of the last year. Here's one of his extaordinary jews-harp workouts<br />
<b>40:24 Josephine foster - Waterfall</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">couldn't resist the jews-harp segue. Opening track from one of the best records of the year.<br />
<b>43:43 Sky Needle - Rest in a Well</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">More from Oz, Sky Needle build most of their instruments themselves.<br />
<b>48:03 Henry Thomas - Fishing Blues</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Great re-issue of early bluesman on Mississippi again. Those panpipes are made outta sugarcane; he called them quills.<br />
<b>50:38 Mad Nanna - My Two Kids</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">no-fidelity basement scuzz, from Australia again.<br />
<b>53:09 Derek MonyPeny - Asuf</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Solo oud oddity from this Richard Bishop associate.<br />
<b>55:55 Al Doum & the Faryds - Ship of Joy</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">AD&TD completely blew me away with their Kino gig. Great guys.<br />
<b>1:01:25 Smegma - Portions of "son of geek" including "carnival geek"</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Got lost in the LAFMS Blorp Essette box set for a couple months earlier this year. Hard to know what to pick from it - so much goodness.<br />
<b>1:04:33 Jacques Brodier - Chansons dans les flammes</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Late entry for possible album of the year. Jacques Brodier has been making this kind of perfectly-executed dreamstate radio art since the 70s, but only just had it released this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hey folks, things just got even more special...<br /><br />very pleased to announce a last-minute addition to tomorrow's bill:<span> <b>Le</b></span><b> <span><span class="yiv114807484il">Ton</span></span> <span><span class="yiv114807484il">Mité</span></span></b>
is the project of a modern troubadour. The songs tell the story of
McCloud Zicmuse, an artist and musician who lost his home in Olympia,
USA, was stranded in France for some years, then found himself in Brussels, Belgium. Le Ton Mité's music has been compared to Moondog, Charles Ives, Caetano Veloso and Eric
Satie. Mr
Zicmuse sings in French as he has lived and currently lives in countries
that speak this language. <span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> He is also known as an active member of the
'free music' improvising community & is seen frequently singing
& playing percussion with his junkyard sonic group Hoquets.<span> </span></span>Le</span> <span><span class="yiv114807484il">Ton</span></span> <span><span class="yiv114807484il">Mité</span></span>
has recorded and collaborated with such groups as Maher Shalal Hash Baz,
Deerhoof, Tenniscoats, Mt.Eerie, <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Old
Time Relijun, </span> l'ocelle mare, Oneone
& Darugaries. <br />Listen to his album '<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">"Version d'un ouvrage traduit" by </span>Le Ton Mité: <a href="http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/le-ton-mit%C3%A9-version-d-un-ouvrage-traduit/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/le-ton-mit%C3%A9-version-d-un-ouvrage-traduit/</a><br />interview on The Quietus: <a href="http://thequietus.com/articles/08321-hoquets-interview-mix" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://thequietus.com/articles/08321-hoquets-interview-mix</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">really recommend coming down early for this one...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">keep warm and well,</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>You don't know,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>of peace and harmony.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Space travellers crashing in
outta nowhere. Delighted to have <a href="http://aldoumandthefaryds.tk/" target="_blank"><b>Al Doum & the Faryds</b></a> stopping
by in Bristol on their first ever UK tour. Channeling the spirits of all your
favourite cosmic explorers (Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders...), the
Faryds’ sound is a hot bath of exotic groove and sweet-smelling freak-out. Come
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<span style="font-size: small;">While the six-piece hail from
northern Italy, their sonics range across continental divides. Drawing on
percussive tribal rhythms, highlife guitar licks, eastern winds, desert blues
and, particularly, the more psychedelicised end of Arabian musics, the
resultant sound is somewhere between the most liquid-grooved
Embryo/Sunburned/No-Neck jams and the wilder reaches of the Sublime Frequencies
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<span style="font-size: small;">Following last year’s
private-pressed eponymous LP, their new album, <a href="http://f0.bcbits.com/z/42/29/4229311630-1.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Positive Force</b></a>,Is co-released next month by <a href="http://blacksweatrecords.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><b>Black Sweat Records</b></a> (the band’s own label) and Glasgow’s <b><a href="http://www.juliadreamrecordings.com/" target="_blank">Julia Dream Recordings</a> </b>(new
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Ichi takes the concept of one-man-band to its most fantastic illogical
conclusion. With tape-loops, steel drum, ping-pong balls, trumpet, balloons,
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Mog Fry (the Wraiths), Snails initially formed to soundtrack a budget slasher
movie involving a homicidal nun. Sadly no Baftas resulted, but this bonding
process led to the creation of several more lost soundtracks, and a beautiful
7” release on top underground folk label Great Pop Supplement. Evoking
influences as diverse as Moondog, Basil Kirchin and Clive Palmer, their sound
is sweet and melancholy; lonely and comforting.</span></div>
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super excited to welcome long-time /shieldshaped/ obsession <a href="http://home.comcast.net/%7Eglistening/site/" target="_blank"><b>JASON LESCALLEET</b></a> to these parts. A towering presence in the US underground for the past decade or so, JL has built a reputation as an utterly unique noise artist with a true and singular vision.<br />
Lescalleet is a master of magnetism: he works primarily with tape – both audio cassettes and open reels – and the medium burns into red-hot life in his hands. Despite operating at the fringe of a genre noted for its coldness and impenetrability, Jason's music is both deep and poignant. In his hands, the qualities and imperfections of both the tapes and the obsolete machinery that play them serve to evoke human frailty and tenderness. His self-released 2006 LP, <a href="http://www.discogs.com/Jason-Lescalleet-The-Pilgrim/release/859184" target="_blank">The Pilgrim</a> – part audio-memorial to his late father/part self-healing catharsis – is possibly one of the most haunting and haunted works ever committed to vinyl. Or check his pair of collaborative albums – The <a href="http://www.erstwhilerecords.com/catalog/059_info.html" target="_blank">Breadwinner and Air Supply</a> – made with <b>The Shadow Ring's Graham Lambkin</b>, for a ghostly, Beckettian exploration of the mundanities of everyday household living.</div>
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Much of Jason;s work is concerned with capturing both the sound and the feeling of decay; he operates between the poles of both composition and decomposition<br />
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<i>"he works degraded formats as abstract metaphor for human relations, not as cynical commentary, but as an aid to revelation and remembrance, the warm glow of analoge and the physicality of tape loops and editing obsessively reiterating the human touch at the centre of this music" - Jon Dale, The Wire</i><br />
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Recent months have seen a flurry of recorded activity from Jason, with cassettes on <a href="http://chondriticsound.com/" target="_blank"><b>Chrondritic Sound</b></a> and <a href="http://vimeo.com/hansonrecords" target="_blank"><b>Hanson</b></a>, a double album on <a href="http://www.erstwhilerecords.com/" target="_blank"><b>Erstwhile</b></a>, and a collaborative LP with <b>Aaron Dilloway</b> (<b>Wolf Eyes</b>) upcoming on the consistently awesome <a href="http://www.pan-act.com/" target="_blank"><b>Pan</b></a> imprint. But JL's rep is built as much on his live shows – where he highlights the fragile/tactile natures of his music, with tape reels spooling around the space. His performances are gestural, visceral and able to navigate great leaps in scale - from the subatomic to the universal... Jason has only performed solo a couple of times previous on these shores, so this is a rare opportunity to witness this master at work.</div>
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<b>Aigon DAAC</b> is a promising new trio comprising <a href="http://www.skjolbrot.org/" target="_blank"><b>Dan Bennett</b></a> (skjølbrot, ex-Hunting Lodge), <a href="http://www.dominiclash.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b>Dominic Lash</b></a> (bassist collaborator with Chris Corsano/Evan Parker/Tony Conrad/Joe Morris/etc) and <a href="http://animalpsi.com/2012/04/stuart-chalmers-myths-and-beasts-and-stuart-chalmersrobert-ridley-shackleton-blunders-review/" target="_blank"><b>Stuart Chalmers</b></a> (cassette mangler)<br />
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Also on the night, Kurt from <b><a href="http://www.infinite-limits.com/default.aspx" target="_blank">Infinite Limits</a></b> will be manning a pop-up record shop. IL is one of the UKs premier outlets for limited and hard-to-obtain underground music-objects: cassettes, vinyl, CDs, lathe-cuts, art editions... bring pocket money for this rare real-life browsing opportunity<br />
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All this at <a href="http://www.cafe-kino.com/" target="_blank"><b>Café Kino</b></a>, Stokes Croft, Bristol.<br />
October 9th, 8pm<br />
<a href="http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/" target="_blank"><i><u><b>Tickets £7 adv</b></u></i></a></div>shieldshapedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03717875979845938172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565696908975866441.post-59600084537540839512012-03-14T08:19:00.001-07:002012-03-14T08:40:25.882-07:00The Tobacconists present Smoking is Green<div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The Tobacconists present<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>a radiophonic opera in four cigarettes</i></span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">+ <span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>H</b></span> + <span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Stuart Chalmers</b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">Café Kino, Stokes Croft, Bristol,</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday 11 April 2012, 8pm</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tickets: £6.50 adv</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7204/6982124185_07a4f8e6db_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7204/6982124185_07a4f8e6db_b.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> <style>
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<span style="font-family: Courier;">Qu Junktions and ShieldShaped bring you...</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://qujunktions.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/MichaelHurley1-207x207.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://qujunktions.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/MichaelHurley1-207x207.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Courier;"> </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: Courier;">MICHAEL HURLEY</span></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Courier;">ROZI PLAIN, DEAN McPHEE</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
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<a href="http://www.snockonews.net/">http://www.snockonews.net/</a><a href="http://www.myspace.com/video/marc-israel/snock-39-n-roll-adventures-with-michael-hurley-complete-film/51000107"></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQwjJSsjiPQ"> performing “Knockando”, October 2011 </a> </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlQsX35lH_k">“Tea song” from “First Songs” 1965</a></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFQcALI_EPE"><span style="font-family: Courier;">“Sweedeedee” from “Armchair Boogie” 1971</span></a></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TzhOiMudFI">“O My Stars” from “Snockgrass” 1980</a> </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: Courier;">Some covers of MH songs:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj3bhrWnzeA">Violent Femmes covering “Werewolf"</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGxU9zPROKo">Cat Power covering “Sweedeedee" </a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Courier;">The perfect middle section to this bill is <span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>Rozi Plain</b></u></span> whose effortless, beatific and gracious songs have come to mean a lot to folks round here. She has a timeless, English, rustic and dewy eyed sound, but with a raw and tender undertow that allows her songs to snag unexpected heartstrings, making you wistful for a time and place and somebody that you have yet to experience. Dreamy…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><a href="http://roziplain.co.uk/">http://roziplain.co.uk/</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>Dean McPhee</b></u></span> is a solo electric guitarist who lives in West Yorkshire. He plays a Fender Telecaster through a valve amp and effects. His fluid, hypnotic and melodic style touches on Davey Graham territory, but factors in aspects of Krautrock and sprawling post-rock atmospherics. Something says this is a intense guitar player that needs to be heard direct with no interference. The Wire talked of his...”free-ranging variations on melodic ideas via a mesmerising progression of harmonics, cleanly picked notes, full chords and string-bending arabesques…”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.deanmcphee.com/"><span style="font-family: Courier;">http://www.deanmcphee.com</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Courier;">Brought to the wider, weirder public by ShieldShaped & <a href="http://www.qujunktions.com/">Qu Junktions</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>shieldshapedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03717875979845938172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565696908975866441.post-27626628692335395672012-02-05T09:23:00.000-08:002012-02-05T09:23:58.011-08:00My favourite records of last yearThese were my favourite records, tapes and CDs of 2011:<br />
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Ghédalia Tazartès - Works 1977-79 (Vinyl On Demand)<br />
The No-Neck Blues Band - Ytiu (Kellipah)<br />
Ernst Karel - Swiss Mountain Transport Systems (Gruenrekorder)<br />
Flaming Dragons of Middle Earth - Electric Scaryland (Beniffer Editions)<br />
The Dust Busters with John Cohen - Prohibition is a Failure (no label)<br />
Village of Spaces - Morning Nap (Turned Word)<br />
Julian Lynch - Buffalo Songs (Goaty Tapes)<br />
Village of Spaces - Alchemy and Trust (Turned Word)<br />
Group Ongaku - Music of Group Ongaku (Seer Sound Archive)<br />
Dan Hayward's New Hawks (Timbreland)<br />
Shabbazz Palaces - Black Up (Sub Pop)<br />
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (Island)<br />
Anton Bruhin - Deux Pipes (Alga Marghen)<br />
Bill Orcutt - How the Thing Sings (Mego)<br />
Jason Lescalleet - Music for Magnetic Tape (Arbor)<br />
Blake Rumfitt - The Dog (no label)<br />
Stare Case - Public Vanity (American Tapes)<br />
Eli Keszler/Ashley Paul - Aster LP #2 (Rel)<br />
Jason Lescalleet - This Is What I Do vol 1 (Glistening Examples)<br />
Sky Needle - Neckliner (Albert's Basement)shieldshapedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03717875979845938172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565696908975866441.post-23721770504999858022011-12-06T14:22:00.000-08:002011-12-06T14:22:38.565-08:00Here's A Health To The Barley Mow With Alasdair Roberts + Finglebone + ShieldShaped DJ<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><u>DJ Karlsson on the roof</u> (that's me) playing records for this:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Join us this fine Sunday for a celebration of folk culture, ritual and song both old, new and recontextualised. Renowned Scottish musician and interpreter of traditional ballads Alasdair Roberts will be performing live with support from rising Salisbury-based experimental folk musician Finglebone. This will be interspersed with footage and films from the BFI archives that document interesting and arcane rituals in British folk culture. <br />
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Plus... LTA utilising deterritorialised social energies and force fields in a performance before the film and live art projections in the lounge and garden. Music in the bar by <b>DJ Karlsson on the Roof</b>. <br />
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Keep an eye out for possible special guests to be announced soon! <br />
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<a href="http://www.dragcity.com/artists/alasdair-roberts">http://www.dragcity.com/artists/alasdair-roberts</a> <br />
<a href="http://finglebone.bandcamp.com/">http://finglebone.bandcamp.com/</a> <br />
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jul/14/bfi-heres-to-a-health-barley-mow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jul/14/bfi-heres-to-a-health-barley-mow</a><br />
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<b>I'll be playing old British folk and UK-based weirdness</b><br />
<b>Come and say hello...</b><br />
<b>Cheers, Sam </b>shieldshapedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03717875979845938172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565696908975866441.post-78226260266419187992011-10-13T07:23:00.000-07:002011-10-13T07:23:56.636-07:00Deas & Denton, Birchall/Cheetham Duo, Sounding + pop-up record shop @ The Croft – 30th November 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6034/6240825528_83ae0c2fb3_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6034/6240825528_83ae0c2fb3_b.jpg" width="454" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Deas & Denton</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Birchall/Cheetham Duo</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sounding</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>+ Infinite Limits pop-up record shop</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>@ The Croft, Stokes Croft, Bristol</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Wednesday 30th November</b></span><br />
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<u><span style="font-size: large;"><b>tickets only £4 adv</b></span></u><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>A Towering triple-bill of exquisite noise and transcendent improv, featuring acts from two of the UK underground's hottest labels: <a href="http://www.blackest-rainbow.moonfruit.com/">Blackest Rainbow</a> and <a href="http://www.miemusic.co.uk/">MIE Music</a>. + pop-up record shop!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Deas & Denton</b></span><br />
<i>Cam Deas (perhaps better known for his solo acoustic guitar work) teams up with Adam Denton for a twin-electric feedback assault. Intense pulsation and unholy tone float, channeling the spirits of La Monte Young, Eliane Radigue and Morton Subotnick through a no-fidelity industrial filter. Like hitting guitars with a helicopter. Deas & Denton have releases out on Blackest Rainbow, and another LP on their own <a href="http://www.presenttimeexercises.com/">Present Time Exercises</a> imprint.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Birchall/Cheetham Duo</b></span><br />
<i>David Birchall and Andrew Cheetham met through playing in Rhys Chatham's G3 ensemble. They have gone on to develop a sound that explores the deconstruction of rock music within the wider context of free improv. At once chaotic and considered, Birchall/Cheetham Duo push the drums/guitar envelope up and down several flights of stairs. Their upcoming MIE Music release is a wide-eyed investigation of dynamics, tone, rhythm and texture.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sounding</b></span><br />
<i>A new project from Ben Moon – one half of Sheffield's <b>Forest Creature</b>, who have released thump n grind party-noise on Blackest Rainbow, drawing on the directness of Fuck Buttons, Black Dice and Yellow Swans. The Sounding project holds a Reichian minimalist mirror up to the FC sound.</i><br />
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plus<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Infinite Limits Pop-up Record Shop</b></span><br />
<i>a rare opportunity to browse and purchase stock from one of the UK's finest outsider-music specialists: vinyl, CDs, CDRs, cassettes, private press, art editions... Bring pocket money</i><br />
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A co-promotion with <a href="http://www.infinite-limits.com/">Infinite Limits</a> and <a href="http://www.the-croft.com/">The Croft</a><br />
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<i>tickets available from all usual outlets</i>shieldshapedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03717875979845938172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565696908975866441.post-34976294716044556972011-06-20T02:41:00.000-07:002011-06-20T02:41:14.329-07:00Tickets on sale: A NIGHT OF THE NEW OLD-TIME...Tickets for A NIGHT OF THE NEW OLD-TIME... are on sale at<br />
<a href="http://www.thingsfromhere.co.uk/">The Here Shop</a>, Stokes Croft, Bristol<br />
<a href="http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/">Bristol Ticket Shop</a>, Broadmead, Bristol (online/telephone sales also)<br />
and from me in person<br />
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The Scout Hut is a small venue, so recommend buying tickets in advance.<br />
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Thanksshieldshapedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03717875979845938172noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565696908975866441.post-404050204141112732011-06-11T07:08:00.000-07:002011-06-11T07:08:51.160-07:00shieldshaped presents: A NIGHT OF THE NEW OLD TIME... Tuesday 28 June, The Scout Hut, Bristol<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3251/5821258784_f27cd01cf9_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3251/5821258784_f27cd01cf9_b.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><u><b><span style="font-size: small;">Shieldshaped presents: A NIGHT OF THE NEW OLD TIME...</span></b></u></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The Dust Busters</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">From Brooklyn, New York, the Dust Busters are the sound of the <i>old</i> weird America. Freewheeling, high-energy resurrectors of scratchy 78-rpm ballads, backporch fiddle stomp and dusty jug-band blues.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Dust Busters met while playing music with the legendary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cohen_%28musician%29"><b>John Cohen</b></a> (of the <a href="http://www.wirz.de/music/nlcr/grafik/fa24914.jpg"><b>New Lost City Ramblers</b></a>), and have since gone on to record albums both with Cohen and with <b>Peter Stampfel</b> (of the <b>Holy Modal Rounders</b> and <b>The Fugs</b>). Alongside their recent self-released Prohibition Is A Failure album, The trio have another LP due on Smithsonian Folkways as well as an album-length collaboration with Stampfel and Michael Hurley (a follow-up to 1976's seminal Have Moicy LP).</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Dust Busters are hardcore aficionados of American primitive musics, devoting much time to the study of old 78s and field recordings, and channeling the wild energy of these records into their own performances. Just like the old time string bands that inspire them – the Skillet Lickers, the Mississippi Sheiks, Dykes Magic City Trio, etc – the Dust Busters know how to set the music on fire: this is old music stripped-down, raw, and made young again.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><i>“Three of my favorite people to play and sing with ever, kicking musical ass all over the landscape. If you like your<span> </span>trad/roots benter and hotter than normal, you’ll love this!” - Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders and Fugs. </i></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Boxcar Aldous Huxley</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">One might hear Balkan melody, old-time banjo and brass band pomp wrapped up in Tin Pan Alley melodrama. These are songs that speak of such esoteric topics as abandoned funeral trains, Messianic visions in the Canadian wilderness, and ill-fated amateur space exploration.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">On stage, Boxcar Aldous Huxley are a cavalcade of dapper tweeds, inaccurate historical lecturing and rattertrap musicality, trading rickety banjo clatterings one moment for ornate choral refrains the next. The harmonium wheezes; the clarinet shrieks; Stephen Foster revolves slowly in his grave.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is music rooted in the past, but not a past that ever actually happened.</span><em><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span></em></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><em><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">“Like people from some grim future trying to figure out what Broadway sounded like.” – <b>Curtis Eller</b></span></span></em></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Plus</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Shellac Sounds gramophone DJs</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">members of <b>Crescent</b> and <b>Movietone</b> playing old 78s on wind-up gramophones</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thursday 28 June, 7.30pm</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">at The <a href="http://www.avonscouts.org.uk/boathouse/"><b>Benjamin Perry Scout Hut</b></a>, Redcliffe Parade, Harbourside, Bristol (brown wooden building across the water from the Thekla</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">£5 ADV</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><u><span style="font-size: small;">BYO Liquor</span></u></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.avonscouts.org.uk/boathouse/boathouse01.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="193" src="http://www.avonscouts.org.uk/boathouse/boathouse01.gif" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> records, CDs and original letterpressed posters available for purchase on the night<em><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"></span></span></em></i></span></div>shieldshapedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03717875979845938172noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565696908975866441.post-32380592797083323412011-04-23T11:38:00.000-07:002011-04-23T11:38:16.476-07:00Shieldshaped #2: Damon & Naomi w/Kurihara, Richard Youngs, Silver Pyre – 14th May, Cube Cinema, Bristol<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5024/5646529511_0bf252b06d_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5024/5646529511_0bf252b06d_b.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><b>An amazing bill of artists that have played in a bundle of sublime incarnations but have their own true voices and sounds and perfect weirdness. </b><br />
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<a href="http://www.damonandnaomi.com/">Damon & Naomi</a> are v. famous from being in <b>Galaxie 500</b> as well as their pursuits in the written word and duo work. Tonight they play with stella axe man <b>Michio Kurihara</b> from <b>Ghost</b> / <b>Boris</b>. <br />
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<a href="http://www.myspace.com/richardyoungsmusic">Richard Youngs</a> has one of the most naturally spectacular and irreverent back catalogue and his beautifully warped oeuvre takes in folk songs/tape noise/cosmic electronic and sheer pop and savage prog. Tonight Damon joins him on drums. <br />
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Plus <a href="http://www.myspace.com/silverpyre/">Silver Pyre </a>- the work of Gary Fawle, imbuing deep, rich westcountry drones with flickering Detroit textures, loading up rural-meets-urban anthems from his forthcoming debut album proper. <br />
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<b>A Qu Junktions / ShieldShaped / Cube OneOff</b>shieldshapedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03717875979845938172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565696908975866441.post-72769757940149530052011-04-06T16:25:00.000-07:002011-04-06T16:25:55.939-07:00thanksthanks to everyone who came along last night. <br />
Details of another fine show coming soon...shieldshapedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03717875979845938172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565696908975866441.post-8157163060009910662011-03-21T10:45:00.000-07:002011-03-21T10:45:02.653-07:00first shieldshaped promotion: 5th April, Cafe Kino Bristol<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnuqSy0YTZtMx9tE6GSqNsN-rswBFndu-an4T94V4LQznIWUSht3l7CfgZjSFBE0y5K7_mhvJ7eu-WO7uvGlbWH0FthXCb1CKGXCl_Fmp90S9L-j8WmSM34hGYjmHA9cumWKz9YdYOXdlz/s1600/ChapmanTylerKeszler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnuqSy0YTZtMx9tE6GSqNsN-rswBFndu-an4T94V4LQznIWUSht3l7CfgZjSFBE0y5K7_mhvJ7eu-WO7uvGlbWH0FthXCb1CKGXCl_Fmp90S9L-j8WmSM34hGYjmHA9cumWKz9YdYOXdlz/s320/ChapmanTylerKeszler.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The first ShieldShaped gig, a co-promotion with Qu Junktions, is coming up.<br />
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<div class="headline"> <h2>Michael Chapman + William Tyler + Eli Keszler </h2></div><div class="venue">at <a href="http://www.cafe-kino.com/" target="_blank">Cafe Kino, Bristol</a> </div><div class="details">(Tue 5th Apr 2011 / 7.30pm / £7 adv)</div>A double bill of nomadic guitar men who follow their own maps and hearts, with the welcome addition of a superlative new-school percussionist.<br />
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<a href="http://www.michaelchapman.co.uk/">Michael Chapman</a> is a UK folk legend, his records have been released by Harvest and John Peel and has been championed by artists such as No Neck Blues Band and Jack Rose, with whom he toured the US. William is versed in more wayward indie country ways, and has been playing out with Lambchop a lot over the last 10 years. Via his jams with Silver Jews he also hooked up with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. Different types, ages and influences but, each possesses their own special way of playing the guitar. <br />
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While <a href="http://www.tompkinssquare.com/william-tyler.html">William Tyler</a> was sessioning with artists as diverse as country legend Charlie Louvin and soul singer Candi Staton, he spent time at home working on fragmentary guitar pieces and tape collages under the moniker The Paper Hats, calling on the spirit of Sandy Bull and the early Siltbreeze catalog. Then in 2008, his old friend and collaborator Volker Zander (Calexico) released the Paper Hats LP 'Desert Canyon' on his Apparent Extent imprint, and the two toured Europe. Now Tyler has released his first album under his own name, 'Behold the Spirit' (Tompkins Square), a collection of acoustic and electric guitar works intertwined with open form audio landscapes and delicately arranged instrumentation. Equal parts Appalachian drone and ambient noise.<br />
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<a href="http://elikeszler.com/">Eli Keszler</a> is a composer/multi-instrumentalist based in Providence, Rhode Island. He primarily uses percussion, bowed crotales, guitar as well as invented instruments (his harps which use strings and motors) to create his sound that balances droning harmonics with shaterring acoustic sustain and fast, free rhythm, all working in balance with his integrated installations. <br />
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In recent years Eli has collaborated with artists as diverse as Jandek, Roscoe Mitchell, Phil Niblock, Aki Onda, Ran Blake and Loren Connors, as well as performing and recording regularly as a solo artist. Drawing on elements of muscular free jazz skronk and sparse pointillist improv, Eli's music straddles the worlds of DIY art-punk and textural post-war composition. Alongside the string of CDs, cassettes, records and prints released through his own Rel Records imprint, he has recently released a mind-blowing LP, Oxtirn, on the iconic ESP-DISK label. Hot on the heels of some great reviews (The Wire, Volcanic Tongue, Digitalis, etc), Eli Keszler is back for his second UK tour.shieldshapedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03717875979845938172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565696908975866441.post-18929715337686528062011-03-02T03:18:00.000-08:002011-03-02T03:18:55.751-08:00HelloShieldShaped is about music.<br />
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