Friday 29 March 2013

John Wall & Mark Durgan + Behaviour @ Café Kino, Fri 17 May

/ShieldShaped/ returns to the Kino basement with a spectacular double punch of improv power and hive-mindedness.


Delighted to be hosting a rare live appearance from the John Wall/Mark Durgan duo, whose self-titled collaboration – released in 2012 on Entr'acte – earned them high acclaim from all corners of the experimental music press.



On paper, Wall/Durgan might seem an unlikely pairing. Wall'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.
Durgan, 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.

Recent years have seen diversification from both artists: Wall collaborating with poet Alex Rodgers for an album; Durgan joining anti-music assaultists the New Blockaders, as well as appearing at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (as part of Maja Ratkje's Crepuscular Hour).
Two masters of their craft and two diverse voices, Wall and Durgan have found a remarkably fertile common ground. Tonight they dig it over with laptop and assorted electronics.

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Also on the bill we have Behaviour an 11-piece improv ensemble led by Andy Keep. 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.

For this one-off performance, they are collaborating with sonic artist (and pioneer of the sonic marble run) Jon Pigott, who will be producing direct visuals triggered by the audio output of the ensemble.

Downstairs at Café Kino, Stokes Croft, Bristol.
Tickets just £5 (£3 students/conc.). Available in advance from the Here Shop/Bristol Ticket Shop.

Thursday 28 March 2013

Katie & Kim's 'Slap Up': Michael Hurley/Avarus/Timberwolf/Dan Haywood: Dapple/The Moons of Mulagi + home-cooked food and much more... – secret Bristol location, Bank Holiday Monday 6th May

Tuck in to two sessions of music and food courtesy of five acts, including two sets by the legendary Michael Hurley and some divine home-cooked cuisine by Katie & Kim. All to be found at an amazing secret location on the first Monday in May... a bank holiday gathering to nourish the soul.



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Session one: 3pm till 8pm

MICHAEL HURLEY / TIMBERWOLF
 / DAN HAYWOOD: DAPPLE



+ A complimentary plate of food from KATIE & KIM's KITCHEN
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Session two: 
8pm till midnight 

MICHAEL HURLEY / 
AVARUS / 
THE MOONS OF MULAGI


+ A complimentary plate of food from KATIE & KIM's KITCHEN
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Tickets:
Limited Joint Pass - £25. (All the acts in both sessions including 2 sets by Michael Hurley + one plate of food). Strictly 15 places only!
Session 1 Pass - £15 (3 acts + one plate of food)


Session 2 Pass - £15 (3 acts + one plate of food)


Tickets in advance only, very limited capacity - make your move now

Ticket Outlets:
Bristol Ticket Shop
Here Shop
Presented by Qu Junktions and /ShieldShaped/

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Michael Hurley
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.

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.



Snock 'N Roll: Adventures With Michael Hurley (Complete Film)


Michael Hurley - Tea Song (1965)
Michael Hurley - Sweedeedee
Michael Hurley - O My Stars (1980)


Katie and Kim


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.

http://katieandkimskitchen.blogspot.co.uk/


Timberwolf
 

…. beautifully splintered. The newly self-released album ‘Dusk, maybe’ 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 pitch up early to to witness music from the wooded one.


Avarus 

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.



Dan Haywood: Dapple
 

A brand new cycle of sweet and intimate folksong from the genius Lancastrian songwriter/poet/ornithologist who birthed the New Hawks. Last seen in Bristol channelling Dylan in support of Josephine Foster, this outing sees Haywood in a gentler but no less compelling zone.

http://vimeo.com/24920196

 


The Moons of Mulagi 

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.

http://funz.bandcamp.com