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The Lemon Tree is very pleased to play host to...
The Karma Lounge:
in association with Urbanscot: Edinburgh Collective+Surface Empire+Clarita+more
Saturday 18th March
The Lemon Tree
Tickets £7 (£5.50 concessions & Regulars)
Doors Open: 9.30pm
Show Starts: 10.30pm
Full line up
Edinburgh Collective
Surface Empire
Clarita
Jae P.
Raff
plus hosts
Bibow General
Laura McCrum
The Lemon Tree is delighted to host Karma Lounge, a club-night showcasing the most exciting hip hop and r & b talent in Scotland. This event sees no fewer than five of the hottest live acts hosted by Bibow General (formerly of Soul II Soul Soundsystem) and Urban Scot's Laura McCrum. Edinburgh Collective boast hugely energetic stage presence which has seen them recently support both Sway and Kalashnekoff. Surface Empire won BBC Radio 1's "8 Mile" competition along with Blak Twang. Clarita is a superb vocalist in the classic soul style who features on the Yush 2K double album. Glasgow based hip hop artist Jae P has won BBC Radio 1 Xtra's Homegrown competition, and releases on the Haatsville label. Raff is a 25 year old, Scottish/Italian soul-singer/songwriter based in Edinburgh with designs on global success, DJ Mag have said he "Puts Scotland on the map, something with longevity."
Please note: entry to this event will only be to people 18 years and over
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Tune Up presents:
Bill Wells, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Tenniscoats: Kama Aina , Kazumi Nikaidoh
Sunday 16th April
The Lemon Tree
Tickets 9 (6 concessions & Regulars)
Doors Open: 7.30pm
Show Starts: 8pm
Falkirk's Bill Wells - who has worked with everyone from Arab Strap to Bobby Wellins - presents a package tour comprising four of Japans most original and inventive contemporary acts.
Maher Shalal Hash Baz (Be Quick If You Steal Something) is the main vehicle for Japan's 'King Of Error' Tori Kudo whose musical history stretches back to the late 70's. Their music is based on spontaneity, melody and experimentation, with an ever changing line-up that favours untrained musicians.
Saya and Ueno, former members of Maher Shalal Hash Baz, are the nucleus of the band Tenniscoats, renowned as one of the most engaging live bands in Japan, their performances impossible to predict in terms of instrumentation and material.
Kama Aima (Island Man) is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Takuji Aoyagi whose most recent release, Two Fingers, is so-called since all the pieces featured on it can be played with just two fingers.
Kazumi Nikaidoh is one of the most unconventional performers to emerge in recent years, a singer-songwriter who accompanies herself on guitar combining passages of pure improvisation with haunting original melodies.
The evening will also feature a collaborative set between Bill Wells and the above musicians.
http://www.lemontree.org/Music/event.cfm?eventid=2780&tempmonth=4
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Tune Up presents:
Bill Wells, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Tenniscoats: Kama Aina , Kazumi Nikaidoh
Sunday 16th April
The Lemon Tree
Tickets 9 (6 concessions & Regulars)
Doors Open: 7.30pm
Show Starts: 8pm
Falkirk's Bill Wells - who has worked with everyone from Arab Strap to Bobby Wellins - presents a package tour comprising four of Japans most original and inventive contemporary acts.
Maher Shalal Hash Baz (Be Quick If You Steal Something) is the main vehicle for Japan's 'King Of Error' Tori Kudo whose musical history stretches back to the late 70's. Their music is based on spontaneity, melody and experimentation, with an ever changing line-up that favours untrained musicians.
Saya and Ueno, former members of Maher Shalal Hash Baz, are the nucleus of the band Tenniscoats, renowned as one of the most engaging live bands in Japan, their performances impossible to predict in terms of instrumentation and material.
Kama Aima (Island Man) is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Takuji Aoyagi whose most recent release, Two Fingers, is so-called since all the pieces featured on it can be played with just two fingers.
Kazumi Nikaidoh is one of the most unconventional performers to emerge in recent years, a singer-songwriter who accompanies herself on guitar combining passages of pure improvisation with haunting original melodies.
The evening will also feature a collaborative set between Bill Wells and the above musicians.
http://www.lemontree.org/Music/event.cfm?eventid=2780&tempmonth=4
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Triptych 06: Uroy+Topcat + guests
Thursday 27th April
Tickets 14+1.50 b/fee
Doors Open: 9pm
He's the Originator! The Father of the Dancefloor! The first Jamaican deejay to shake the nation! Ladies and gentleman, we give you: U-Roy.
Born in Jonestown, Jamaica, in 1942, and championed by King Tubby, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Bunny Lee and the late, great Duke Reid, U-Roy's unprecedented success in the late 60s and early 70s with reggae blueprints such as 'Wake The Town' Rule The Nation' and 'Wear You To The Ball' rendered him one of his homeland's biggest stars. Originating a style so distinctive as to change the face of Jamaican music, U-Roy's vibrant, unshakeable interpretations propelled reggae rhythms across the globe, not least toward the UK, where he became a cultural, and critical, hero.
U-Roy is an absolute must-see: he put DJs and reggae music on the map; he proved a direct influence on American rap. His legacy to popular music is massive.
The indisputable leader of the gang? You bet your sweet ass, baby: UK dancehall legend and hip-hop junglist Top Cat has a string of reggae smashes to his credit, (as both a performer and producer), and is an award-winning DJ to boot. His blistering ragga chants and flawless delivery have also infiltrated collaborations with artists from underground jungle thumpers Shy FX, to the Beta Band's skewed genius Steve Mason, aka King Biscuit Time ,on his ace, Bush-baiting single, CI Am 15. From an early career toasting with UK Sound Systems to a raft of classic releases including Request The Style, Push Up U Lighter, and Love Me Sess, Top Cat is one of the UKs most dexterous and delirious, MCs.
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Triptych 06: King Creosote/Akron/Family/Adem/Kitchen Cynics
Friday 28th April
The Lemon Tree
10 + 1.50 b/fee
Doors Open: 8pm
King Creosote
In 1994, the singer / songwriter with Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra and Khartoum Heroes realised that an increasing number of his songs were either not folky / bluegrassy enough for the Dubhs, or had too few chords for the Heroes. King Creosote crowned himself to bring to the world - "songs with relatively few chords in a non-bluegrass style", except in those cases where "this song is an over-elaborate bluegrass ditty". In 2005, KC live might, fully clothed, only sport the accordion, with some rare guitar / banjo / box-playing from Pip Dylan of Spain, naturist and ogre of beauty.
King Creosote maintains that the song is more important than the style, and that the performance outweighs recording quality. If a part can't be recorded in one take, scrap it for something simpler. No sample should be longer than four seconds, and although samples should be in tune or in time, not necessarily both. King Creosote detests noodling virtuoso, and thus has a go on whatever instrument is at hand. Anyway, duff tunes strengthen the songs on either side. A KC album starts at the beginning, and don't finish 'til the end - by design. Except where they start in the middle and grow out of control. KC is still unknown outside of his small coastal village.
Akron/Family
A prodigious, swooning Brooklyn brood of measured, revered, multi-instrumentalists, Akron/Familys muse is infused in elegant, orphic, oddball folk and thrilling, meticulous, psyche-warped rock.
Their radiating 2005 eponymous debut was heralded one of the years finest and most enduring releases: the Brooklyn four-piece carve a gnarled, enchanting art that traverses out-folk, guitar meditations, drone passages and sing-a-long swamp rawk.
Signed to the distinguished Young God imprint, (Devendra Banhart, Mi and Lau) their label boss is fted Swans commander Michael Gira a guru with whom Akron/Family also shared an ace release last year, playing alongside his Angels of Light.
Amidst Charalimbides, Radiohead and Six Organs of Admittance, Akron/Family glide and tussle: they entwine eastern canticles and dense finger picking and electronic trickery like no other.
Adem
Cometh sublime folk, cometh Adem: a pastoral, prodigal delectation whose acoustic trickery and laptop psalms are dramatic and fragile in equal measure.
A sometime member of post-rockers Fridge and a one-time musician with Badly Drawn Boy, Adem recently contributed to Vashti Bunyans lovely Lookaftering album. Master of serenades and exquisite song-craft, he has recently played with Bert Jansch, Smog and SFAs Gruff Rhys: among whom Adem and his arias sparkle.
His woozy strings and soaring oratorios and whispering, harmonium charms prove a highlight wherever Adem plays live: from Londons Royal Festival Hall and the Green Man Festival, to myriad Fence Collective shindigs and glam-bashes at the Tate Modern.
His 2003 inaugural offering, Homesongs, (Domino), proved one of the decades finest debuts and asserted Adem as one of the UKs most precious (and precocious) stars.
Kitchen Cynics
A one-man psych-folk vanquisher from Aberdeen, Alan Davidson aka Kitchen Cynics has cultivated wry acoustic apologues and warm machine parables since the 1980s. He has propagated a slew of cassettes and albums and CDRs, while live alliances include Damon Krukowski (of Damon & Naomi) and Masaki Batoh (of Ghost).
Kitchen Cynics mythological, prosaic and deadpan narratives map the universal and the personal: the sea and lasagne and fossils and love. Recalling Nick Drake, Syd Barrett and Roy Harper, Davidsons elemental inflection and elegiac emblems as evinced on current album, Tunnels (Barl Fire) are a timely reminder of his fate as a treasured, exceptional outsider idol.
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Triptych 06: Odetta/James Blood Ulmer/Grant Campbell
Saturday 29th April
The Lemon Tree
16 + 1.50 b/fee
Doors Open: 6.30pm
Odetta
The irrefutable Queen of American Folk, African-American legend Odetta is one of the most influential and critical artists of our time.
Discovered by singer, actor and social activist Harry Belafonte, Odettas sublime guitar structures and baritone splendour inspired a legion of sonic monarchs; including Janis Joplin, (whom, it is said, found her voice when she heard Odetta); and Bob Dylan, (whom she famously inspired to pick up an acoustic guitar). Indeed, Odettas exquisite and singular star was recently re-kindled thanks to her breathtaking, vintage footage in Martin Scorceses Dylan grand slam, No Direction Home
A prominent figure in the Civil Rights movement who walked arm-in-arm with
Martin Luther King, Odettas atomic blues, folk, work and protest songs have long aroused political ardour and broken vital ground for black female artists.
Now 75, the exalted folk, jazz, and blues crusader remains one of American musics greatest treasures.
James Blood Ulmer
An extraordinary American guitar pioneer and rightfully lionised free-jazz iconoclast, James Blood Ulmers stellar career has seen him evolve from avant-garde visionary to elder statesman of the blues.
Long regarded as one of his generations most inventive musicians, multiple-Grammy nominee Ulmers groundbreaking art has challenged funk, free jazz, blues and African-American idioms for five decades.
As accomplished and mesmerising as he is experimental, Ulmer's advanced jazz, abstract blues, raga meditations and harmolodic aphorisms were informed and championed by saxophone marvel Ornette Coleman, with whom Ulmer resided, studied and recorded in the early 1970s.
Also saluted for his aural alliances with deviating luminaries including blues guru Ry Cooder, bebop jazz star Art Blakey and improv maestro Derek Bailey, Ulmers all-consuming, remarkable art is uniquely unparalleled and truly un-missable.
Grant Campbell
Evoking Micah P Hinson and Bruce Springsteen, gravelly Clydebank troubadour Grant Campbell is an inner-city cowboy, a brambly folk Romeo: a quiet delight to behold. His enchanting 2005 debut album, Postcards from Nowhere, was recorded at home in Glasgow. Its a gentle, exquisite exposition of amber ranch canticles and scorched alt-folk lullabies: it is unadorned, potent, gruff and wonderful.
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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. Ol!
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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Triptych 06: Arab Strap/Kieran Hebden (Fourtet) & Steve Reid: Bill Wells and Tape/Aidan John Moffat
Sunday 30th April
14 + 1.50 b/fee
Doors Open: 7pm
Arab Strap
Falkirk's resplendent drone-poets and bedroom-bards Arab Strap are a beautiful, lyrical, woebegone duo whose barren psalms and candid narratives have rendered them one of Scotland's most critical bands.
The deuce assure surprises at this years Triptych: theyll curate a day of japes in Aberdeen which will include special performances from Four Tet, Steve Reid, Bill Wells, Tape plus an exclusive, spoken-word recital from one Aidan John Moffat.
Also lauded solo artists, crushing versifier Aidan Moffat makes cenotaphs of beauty as L. Pierre, while devastating melodist Malcolm Middletons Into the Woods was one of the finest albums of last year.
Yet the Strap remain very much intact as their current album, The Last Romance, certifies: it conveys the singular, innovative blueprint of a band who trouble hearts and tremble feet with their tender eulogies and tragi-disco beats.
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid
In electronic musics Olympian dominion, Kieran Hebden vaulted the highest bar; raised it above the stars; cleared it again.
Londons Hebden aka contempo artisan Four Tet runs rings around his stellar contemporaries with an unparalleled palette of hip-hop and techno; drum loops and birdsong; gentle funk and grizzly beats; obscure folk and neo-classical sweeps: as best evinced on 2003s Rounds album, and last years follow up, Everything Ecstatic (Domino).
Its his work with legendary drummer Steve Reid, however, which is currently rousing startled remark: their 2005 Spirit Jazz collaboration (Soul Jazz), and this years Exchange Sessions Vol. 1 (Domino) testifies to a vital collaborative effort, and its Reid with whom Hebden a long-term Triptych comrade is set to perform this year.
Bill Wells
A brilliant local jazz-agitator variously described as Stirlings answer to Sun Ra and a Zen-like commander of vibrant psalms, groove alchemist Bill Wells lavish, life-affirming art traverses dexterous avant-garde improvisation and soaring, cinematic awe.
Hes recorded for the Geographic imprint; performed with the likes of Will Oldham and Jens Lekman; collaborated with Isobel Campbell, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Future Pilot AKA and is set to further confound sonic boundaries and enchant music fans when he joins technoid Swedish dreamboats Tape onstage, (at the fevered behest of Arab Strap), for a special one-off Triptych performance in Aberdeen.
Tape
Evoking divergent and fted names like Gastr del Sol, Talk Talk, John Fahey, Faust and Fennesz, dreamy Swedish trio Tape smudge the margins between bucolic and electric; between devised and improvised; between day and night.
The triumvirate Stockholms Andreas Berthling, Johan Berthling and Tomas Hallonsten infuse technological and rural doctrines to striking effect. Armed with an amorous, nigh-infinite arsenal of field recordings, concrete sounds, banjos, vibraphones, synths, Chinese flutes and countless other aural accoutrements the three-piece mine a fertile seam indeed.
Tapes second and most recent album, Milieu (Hapna), forages and forges this organic and electronic integration its an experimental, gentle treatise whose impressive, impressionistic, gauzy melodies are at once human and mechanical; measured and spontaneous; dark and light.
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Triptych 06: Arab Strap/Kieran Hebden (Fourtet) & Steve Reid: Bill Wells and Tape/Aidan John Moffat
Sunday 30th April
14 + 1.50 b/fee
Doors Open: 7pm
Arab Strap
Falkirk's resplendent drone-poets and bedroom-bards Arab Strap are a beautiful, lyrical, woebegone duo whose barren psalms and candid narratives have rendered them one of Scotland's most critical bands.
The deuce assure surprises at this years Triptych: theyll curate a day of japes in Aberdeen which will include special performances from Four Tet, Steve Reid, Bill Wells, Tape plus an exclusive, spoken-word recital from one Aidan John Moffat.
Also lauded solo artists, crushing versifier Aidan Moffat makes cenotaphs of beauty as L. Pierre, while devastating melodist Malcolm Middletons Into the Woods was one of the finest albums of last year.
Yet the Strap remain very much intact as their current album, The Last Romance, certifies: it conveys the singular, innovative blueprint of a band who trouble hearts and tremble feet with their tender eulogies and tragi-disco beats.
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid
In electronic musics Olympian dominion, Kieran Hebden vaulted the highest bar; raised it above the stars; cleared it again.
Londons Hebden aka contempo artisan Four Tet runs rings around his stellar contemporaries with an unparalleled palette of hip-hop and techno; drum loops and birdsong; gentle funk and grizzly beats; obscure folk and neo-classical sweeps: as best evinced on 2003s Rounds album, and last years follow up, Everything Ecstatic (Domino).
Its his work with legendary drummer Steve Reid, however, which is currently rousing startled remark: their 2005 Spirit Jazz collaboration (Soul Jazz), and this years Exchange Sessions Vol. 1 (Domino) testifies to a vital collaborative effort, and its Reid with whom Hebden a long-term Triptych comrade is set to perform this year.
Bill Wells
A brilliant local jazz-agitator variously described as Stirlings answer to Sun Ra and a Zen-like commander of vibrant psalms, groove alchemist Bill Wells lavish, life-affirming art traverses dexterous avant-garde improvisation and soaring, cinematic awe.
Hes recorded for the Geographic imprint; performed with the likes of Will Oldham and Jens Lekman; collaborated with Isobel Campbell, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Future Pilot AKA and is set to further confound sonic boundaries and enchant music fans when he joins technoid Swedish dreamboats Tape onstage, (at the fevered behest of Arab Strap), for a special one-off Triptych performance in Aberdeen.
Tape
Evoking divergent and fted names like Gastr del Sol, Talk Talk, John Fahey, Faust and Fennesz, dreamy Swedish trio Tape smudge the margins between bucolic and electric; between devised and improvised; between day and night.
The triumvirate Stockholms Andreas Berthling, Johan Berthling and Tomas Hallonsten infuse technological and rural doctrines to striking effect. Armed with an amorous, nigh-infinite arsenal of field recordings, concrete sounds, banjos, vibraphones, synths, Chinese flutes and countless other aural accoutrements the three-piece mine a fertile seam indeed.
Tapes second and most recent album, Milieu (Hapna), forages and forges this organic and electronic integration its an experimental, gentle treatise whose impressive, impressionistic, gauzy melodies are at once human and mechanical; measured and spontaneous; dark and light.
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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. Ol!
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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Triptych 06: Odetta/James Blood Ulmer/Grant Campbell
Saturday 29th April
The Lemon Tree
16 + 1.50 b/fee
Doors Open: 6.30pm
Odetta
The irrefutable Queen of American Folk, African-American legend Odetta is one of the most influential and critical artists of our time.
Discovered by singer, actor and social activist Harry Belafonte, Odettas sublime guitar structures and baritone splendour inspired a legion of sonic monarchs; including Janis Joplin, (whom, it is said, found her voice when she heard Odetta); and Bob Dylan, (whom she famously inspired to pick up an acoustic guitar). Indeed, Odettas exquisite and singular star was recently re-kindled thanks to her breathtaking, vintage footage in Martin Scorceses Dylan grand slam, No Direction Home
A prominent figure in the Civil Rights movement who walked arm-in-arm with
Martin Luther King, Odettas atomic blues, folk, work and protest songs have long aroused political ardour and broken vital ground for black female artists.
Now 75, the exalted folk, jazz, and blues crusader remains one of American musics greatest treasures.
James Blood Ulmer
An extraordinary American guitar pioneer and rightfully lionised free-jazz iconoclast, James Blood Ulmers stellar career has seen him evolve from avant-garde visionary to elder statesman of the blues.
Long regarded as one of his generations most inventive musicians, multiple-Grammy nominee Ulmers groundbreaking art has challenged funk, free jazz, blues and African-American idioms for five decades.
As accomplished and mesmerising as he is experimental, Ulmer's advanced jazz, abstract blues, raga meditations and harmolodic aphorisms were informed and championed by saxophone marvel Ornette Coleman, with whom Ulmer resided, studied and recorded in the early 1970s.
Also saluted for his aural alliances with deviating luminaries including blues guru Ry Cooder, bebop jazz star Art Blakey and improv maestro Derek Bailey, Ulmers all-consuming, remarkable art is uniquely unparalleled and truly un-missable.
Grant Campbell
Evoking Micah P Hinson and Bruce Springsteen, gravelly Clydebank troubadour Grant Campbell is an inner-city cowboy, a brambly folk Romeo: a quiet delight to behold. His enchanting 2005 debut album, Postcards from Nowhere, was recorded at home in Glasgow. Its a gentle, exquisite exposition of amber ranch canticles and scorched alt-folk lullabies: it is unadorned, potent, gruff and wonderful.
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Triptych 06: King Creosote/Akron/Family/Adem/Kitchen Cynics
Friday 28th April
The Lemon Tree
10 + 1.50 b/fee
Doors Open: 8pm
King Creosote
In 1994, the singer / songwriter with Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra and Khartoum Heroes realised that an increasing number of his songs were either not folky / bluegrassy enough for the Dubhs, or had too few chords for the Heroes. King Creosote crowned himself to bring to the world - "songs with relatively few chords in a non-bluegrass style", except in those cases where "this song is an over-elaborate bluegrass ditty". In 2005, KC live might, fully clothed, only sport the accordion, with some rare guitar / banjo / box-playing from Pip Dylan of Spain, naturist and ogre of beauty.
King Creosote maintains that the song is more important than the style, and that the performance outweighs recording quality. If a part can't be recorded in one take, scrap it for something simpler. No sample should be longer than four seconds, and although samples should be in tune or in time, not necessarily both. King Creosote detests noodling virtuoso, and thus has a go on whatever instrument is at hand. Anyway, duff tunes strengthen the songs on either side. A KC album starts at the beginning, and don't finish 'til the end - by design. Except where they start in the middle and grow out of control. KC is still unknown outside of his small coastal village.
Akron/Family
A prodigious, swooning Brooklyn brood of measured, revered, multi-instrumentalists, Akron/Familys muse is infused in elegant, orphic, oddball folk and thrilling, meticulous, psyche-warped rock.
Their radiating 2005 eponymous debut was heralded one of the years finest and most enduring releases: the Brooklyn four-piece carve a gnarled, enchanting art that traverses out-folk, guitar meditations, drone passages and sing-a-long swamp rawk.
Signed to the distinguished Young God imprint, (Devendra Banhart, Mi and Lau) their label boss is fted Swans commander Michael Gira a guru with whom Akron/Family also shared an ace release last year, playing alongside his Angels of Light.
Amidst Charalimbides, Radiohead and Six Organs of Admittance, Akron/Family glide and tussle: they entwine eastern canticles and dense finger picking and electronic trickery like no other.
Adem
Cometh sublime folk, cometh Adem: a pastoral, prodigal delectation whose acoustic trickery and laptop psalms are dramatic and fragile in equal measure.
A sometime member of post-rockers Fridge and a one-time musician with Badly Drawn Boy, Adem recently contributed to Vashti Bunyans lovely Lookaftering album. Master of serenades and exquisite song-craft, he has recently played with Bert Jansch, Smog and SFAs Gruff Rhys: among whom Adem and his arias sparkle.
His woozy strings and soaring oratorios and whispering, harmonium charms prove a highlight wherever Adem plays live: from Londons Royal Festival Hall and the Green Man Festival, to myriad Fence Collective shindigs and glam-bashes at the Tate Modern.
His 2003 inaugural offering, Homesongs, (Domino), proved one of the decades finest debuts and asserted Adem as one of the UKs most precious (and precocious) stars.
Kitchen Cynics
A one-man psych-folk vanquisher from Aberdeen, Alan Davidson aka Kitchen Cynics has cultivated wry acoustic apologues and warm machine parables since the 1980s. He has propagated a slew of cassettes and albums and CDRs, while live alliances include Damon Krukowski (of Damon & Naomi) and Masaki Batoh (of Ghost).
Kitchen Cynics mythological, prosaic and deadpan narratives map the universal and the personal: the sea and lasagne and fossils and love. Recalling Nick Drake, Syd Barrett and Roy Harper, Davidsons elemental inflection and elegiac emblems as evinced on current album, Tunnels (Barl Fire) are a timely reminder of his fate as a treasured, exceptional outsider idol.
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Triptych 06: Uroy+Topcat + guests
Thursday 27th April
Tickets 14+1.50 b/fee
Doors Open: 9pm
He's the Originator! The Father of the Dancefloor! The first Jamaican deejay to shake the nation! Ladies and gentleman, we give you: U-Roy.
Born in Jonestown, Jamaica, in 1942, and championed by King Tubby, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Bunny Lee and the late, great Duke Reid, U-Roy's unprecedented success in the late 60s and early 70s with reggae blueprints such as 'Wake The Town' Rule The Nation' and 'Wear You To The Ball' rendered him one of his homeland's biggest stars. Originating a style so distinctive as to change the face of Jamaican music, U-Roy's vibrant, unshakeable interpretations propelled reggae rhythms across the globe, not least toward the UK, where he became a cultural, and critical, hero.
U-Roy is an absolute must-see: he put DJs and reggae music on the map; he proved a direct influence on American rap. His legacy to popular music is massive.
The indisputable leader of the gang? You bet your sweet ass, baby: UK dancehall legend and hip-hop junglist Top Cat has a string of reggae smashes to his credit, (as both a performer and producer), and is an award-winning DJ to boot. His blistering ragga chants and flawless delivery have also infiltrated collaborations with artists from underground jungle thumpers Shy FX, to the Beta Band's skewed genius Steve Mason, aka King Biscuit Time ,on his ace, Bush-baiting single, CI Am 15. From an early career toasting with UK Sound Systems to a raft of classic releases including Request The Style, Push Up U Lighter, and Love Me Sess, Top Cat is one of the UKs most dexterous and delirious, MCs.
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Triptych 06: Kool Keith & Kutmasta Kurt + guests
Wednesday 26th April
The Lemon Tree
12 + 1.50 b/fee
Doors Open: 8pm
One of hip-hops most prolific and innovative talents, erudite rapid-fire rapper Kool Keiths resum reads like a historic account of the genre: hes a founder member of legendary mid-80s Bronx trailblazers Ultramagnetic MCs; hes the man whose pseudonyms include Dr Octagon, Black Elvis, Dr Dooom (and about a dozen others); hes the man whose celebrated collaborations include Beck, the Prodigy, DJ Shadow and Dan the Automator (Gorillaz).
Proliferant West Coast hip-hop hero and ardent midas Kutmasta Kurt has cast his platinum, wax scratching magic on the Beastie Boys, Dilated Peoples, Blackalicious and Mos Def.
But it's his abiding alliance with incalculable rap star Kool Keith for which he's most acclaimed. It's a cardinal partnership that has proved ceaselessly inventive since their first collaborations over ten years ago: they worked together on Keith's Dr Octagon, Black Elvis and Dr Dooom projects amongst others, and it's with Keith that Kurt is set to ignite Triptych.
Also a daredevil remixer, DJ and solo producer, Kurt released the ace Redneck Games epistle last year. His striking armory of livid beats and clamorous samples and resilient rhythms continue to define him as one of the underground's most incredible, insightful and in-demand figures.
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Triptych 06: Kool Keith & Kutmasta Kurt + guests
Wednesday 26th April
The Lemon Tree
12 + 1.50 b/fee
Doors Open: 8pm
One of hip-hops most prolific and innovative talents, erudite rapid-fire rapper Kool Keiths resum reads like a historic account of the genre: hes a founder member of legendary mid-80s Bronx trailblazers Ultramagnetic MCs; hes the man whose pseudonyms include Dr Octagon, Black Elvis, Dr Dooom (and about a dozen others); hes the man whose celebrated collaborations include Beck, the Prodigy, DJ Shadow and Dan the Automator (Gorillaz).
Proliferant West Coast hip-hop hero and ardent midas Kutmasta Kurt has cast his platinum, wax scratching magic on the Beastie Boys, Dilated Peoples, Blackalicious and Mos Def.
But it's his abiding alliance with incalculable rap star Kool Keith for which he's most acclaimed. It's a cardinal partnership that has proved ceaselessly inventive since their first collaborations over ten years ago: they worked together on Keith's Dr Octagon, Black Elvis and Dr Dooom projects amongst others, and it's with Keith that Kurt is set to ignite Triptych.
Also a daredevil remixer, DJ and solo producer, Kurt released the ace Redneck Games epistle last year. His striking armory of livid beats and clamorous samples and resilient rhythms continue to define him as one of the underground's most incredible, insightful and in-demand figures.
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Just announced: The truly fabulous John Spillane will be supporting Karen at this gig
Karen Matheson plus John Spillane
Saturday 18th February The Lemon Tree
13.50 (9 concessions & Regulars)
Doors Open: 8pm | onstage: 8.30pm
Karen Matheson tours to celebrate the release of her third solo album, and her first of entirely Gaelic material. The album is a simple, mainly acoustic affair providing the perfect platform for the vocal brilliance that has stunned audiences around the world with Capercaillie.
"Sometimes, Matheson sounds like Madonna must have wanted to on her last couple of records, but without any studio enhancement of her natural vocal purity." Scotland on Sunday
"...remarkable in English but breathtaking when she draws on Hebridean roots to sing in Gaelic." The Daily Telegraph
"Karen Matheson's vocals are the coolest - swirling and slamming - amazingly dynamic." NME
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Just announced: The truly fabulous John Spillane will be supporting Karen at this gig
Karen Matheson plus John Spillane
Saturday 18th February The Lemon Tree
13.50 (9 concessions & Regulars)
Doors Open: 8pm | onstage: 8.30pm
Karen Matheson tours to celebrate the release of her third solo album, and her first of entirely Gaelic material. The album is a simple, mainly acoustic affair providing the perfect platform for the vocal brilliance that has stunned audiences around the world with Capercaillie.
"Sometimes, Matheson sounds like Madonna must have wanted to on her last couple of records, but without any studio enhancement of her natural vocal purity." Scotland on Sunday
"...remarkable in English but breathtaking when she draws on Hebridean roots to sing in Gaelic." The Daily Telegraph
"Karen Matheson's vocals are the coolest - swirling and slamming - amazingly dynamic." NME
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An evening with Nickel Creek
Wednesday 15th February The Lemon Tree
13.50 (9 concessions & Regulars)
Doors Open: 8pm | onstage: 8.30pm
Now on their third album, neo-bluegrass trio Nickel Creek are still frighteningly young, talented and unafraid to take their music into new territory. While their grounding is in bluegrass, they ignore boundaries between other music styles to come up with a completely unique sound that really comes into its own during their stunning live performances.
"Nickel Creek blends bluegrass, classical music and pop with irresistible aplomb, and sings like angels to boot." Washington Post
"Arguably the finest acoustic string ensemble operating today. Nickel Creek is the future of American acoustic music, and the future never looked rosier." - Chicago Tribune
"they don't think twice about making musical bedfellows of Bob Dylan and Bach in the middle of a bluegrass tune." Los Angeles Times
"With influences as diverse as Elliot Smith, Radiohead, Murray Peharia, and Bach, the Creek are certainly willing to experiment." Mojo
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Redd Up plus Eskimo Blonde and KF Tokyo
Friday 10th February The Lemon Tree
5 (3.25 concessions & Regulars)
Doors Open: 9pm | onstage: 9.30pm
Redd-Up were formed in the summer of 2002 when 5 friends got together to perform at a music festival in their hometown of Fochabers in the North of Scotland. With singer Colin Campbell's outstanding song writing talent as a base, the mix of styles, influences and creative musicianship soon created a distinctive sound that captivated the audience and the band itself.
The success and enjoyment of this debut performance was enough to convince Colin, who had spent several years performing around the Edinburgh scene, to move to Aberdeen where the rest of the band were based. The band soon got down to writing more material, rehearsing and gigging. This collective effort subsequently led to the recording of the Hindsight CD in 2004, the second CD recorded by the band.
With material varying from high-energy rock songs to soulful acoustic numbers, Redd-Up are a refreshingly original band with a continually developing infectious sound...definitely not to be missed!!
Karma Lounge at LT on Saturday night
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The Lemon Tree is very pleased to play host to...
The Karma Lounge:
in association with Urbanscot: Edinburgh Collective+Surface Empire+Clarita+more
Saturday 18th March
The Lemon Tree
Tickets 7 (5.50 concessions & Regulars)
Doors Open: 9.30pm
Show Starts: 10.30pm
Full line up
Edinburgh Collective
Surface Empire
Clarita
Jae P.
Raff
plus hosts
Bibow General
Laura McCrum
The Lemon Tree is delighted to host Karma Lounge, a club-night showcasing the most exciting hip hop and r & b talent in Scotland. This event sees no fewer than five of the hottest live acts hosted by Bibow General (formerly of Soul II Soul Soundsystem) and Urban Scot's Laura McCrum. Edinburgh Collective boast hugely energetic stage presence which has seen them recently support both Sway and Kalashnekoff. Surface Empire won BBC Radio 1's "8 Mile" competition along with Blak Twang. Clarita is a superb vocalist in the classic soul style who features on the Yush 2K double album. Glasgow based hip hop artist Jae P has won BBC Radio 1 Xtra's Homegrown competition, and releases on the Haatsville label. Raff is a 25 year old, Scottish/Italian soul-singer/songwriter based in Edinburgh with designs on global success, DJ Mag have said he "Puts Scotland on the map, something with longevity."
Please note: entry to this event will only be to people 18 years and over
http://www.lemontree.org/Music/event.cfm?eventid=2836