The positive force
is the deep force that moves
everything
You don't know,
but it leads you to the future
choice
of peace and harmony.
Space travellers crashing in
outta nowhere. Delighted to have Al Doum & the Faryds 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
and immerse yourself…
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
catalogue.
Following last year’s
private-pressed eponymous LP, their new album, Positive Force,Is co-released next month by Black Sweat Records (the band’s own label) and Glasgow’s Julia Dream Recordings (new
art-label run by Andrew Ross, correspondent for the legendary Volcanic Tongue
record shop).
Al Doum & the Faryds live is
an experience not to be missed: transcendental and intoxicating, music for the
mind and body. Feel the positive force.
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Support on the evening comes from
one-man-band phenomenon, Ichi.
Hailing from Nagoya, Japan, but now based (at
least part-time) in Bristol, Ichi is one of the most exciting and unlikely live
performers you’re ever likely to witness. At once playful and totally sincere,
Ichi takes the concept of one-man-band to its most fantastic illogical
conclusion. With tape-loops, steel drum, ping-pong balls, trumpet, balloons,
alarm clocks and a whole arsenal of further home-made devices, Ichi’s live sets
are truly magical and guaranteed to leave you blown away.
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Opening proceedings, it is our
pleasure to welcome Bristol’s own Snails. A duo of Dan Weltman (Hollowbody) and
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.
Sitting in a conservatory,
heavily blanketed, during a rainstorm, watching snails climbing on the roof.
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All this at Café Kino, Stokes
Croft.
