Triptych 06: David Holmes/Andy Votel/Dom Thomas: Voice of the Seven woods

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Triptych 06: David Holmes/Andy Votel/Dom Thomas: Voice of the Seven woods
Saturday 29th April
The Lemon Tree
£10 + £1.50 b/fee
Doors Open: 10.30pm

David Holmes
This Film's Crap, Let's Slash The Seats, charged Belfasts sonic conqueror David Holmes on his brooding, groove-inflected debut (1998 ). Let's Get Killed, he further blazed on his funk-lubed urban-jungle follow up (1999).

Holmes enlivens cinemas and dance-floors alike: his pursuit as a reverenced sound-track composer has engendered comparisons to John Barry and Ennio Morricone  thanks to his gritty ambience, philharmonic sweeps, and clarion arch-jazz, (see the dusky ambience of Ocean's Eleven, or the retro funk-groove of Out of Sight).

Holmes diversion as a DJ is equally venerated, as his exotic, obscure and obsolete Triptych set will avidly testify  expect a B-Music burl of euro-trash, cosmic rock, whacked-out jazz, Turkish break-beats, vintage prog and acid folk. Olé!

Andy Votel
Like a zippy Tasmanian devil he whirls  over filmmaking, remixing, designing, recording, label presiding, hat collecting, composing, shoe amassing, (and probably a hundred other things)  in a giddy burl.

Latter-day polymath Andy Votel  who co-founded Manchesters impish Twisted Nerve imprint with cohort and beanie-king Badly Drawn Boy  has loitered in hip-hop crews, owns over 200 shoes, and has worked with Kings Of Convenience, Can and Mouse on Mars.

Also a dizzying B-Music activist, he spins records eclectic as one might a gyroscope: soul, disco, krautrock, exotica, Polish jazz and Eastern folk are among Votels myriad passions: catch him if you dare  and if you can.

Dom Thomas
An ardent, assiduous B-Music crusader  whose love of obscure, obsolete, deleted and delectable experimental vintage pop music has sparked a vibrant record-stall, dance-floor and sub-cultural uprising  Manchester beat-freak Dominic Thomas, (alongside groove-daddy Andy Votel), spearheads an infectious, impetuous campaign that champions long-forgotten way-out sounds and oft-unrecalled glorious off-kilter counter-culture: taking  as its starting points  psych, prog, space-rock, ye-ye, euro beat, psych-folk, junk-funk, exotic pop and wacked-out jazz. Naturally.

Voice of the Seven Woods
Straddling krautrock, acid-folk, jazz, prog and tropicalia, (loosely bound by a randy Manchester sitar), prodigal pop knave Voice of the Seven Woods, (alias euphonious scamp and exotic one-man-band Rick Tomlinson), has fraternised with the likes of the Fence Collectives Lone Pigeon, and Twisted Nerve label-mate Badly Drawn Boy  to sire an acid-folk, esoteric wonder. A funambulist in the B-Music / Finders Keepers cavalcade, Voice of the Seven Woods peculiar acoustic spells render Tomlinson a preternatural gem.
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