Frosty Jack Posted March 13, 2005 Report Share Posted March 13, 2005 interesting music are thrilled about putting this type event on for the very 1st time in Aberdeen; a package of artists operating in the avant experimental & psychedelic FREE FOLK field of music. If you follow contemporary music you will be aware of this, as The Wire Magazine & Brian Morton have been highlighting this very important music genre for some time. Contemporary music festivals like Instal, KYTN & Le Weekend have been increasing their exposure to artists operating in this loose improvised music genre. Come & see/hear this 1st hand. Tuesday 15th March The TunnelsDoors 8pm Entry 5Josephine Foster (usa), Taurpis Tula (scotland/usa)James Blackshaw (eng)Peter Wright (nz)Josephine FosterAs a solo artist and as one half of the avant-folk duo Born Heller (who are due to play @ Slint's All Tomorrow's Parties festival), Chicago's Josephine Foster is an absolute gem! The balmy influence of her beautiful, fragmented Appalachian folk songs overflow with a child-like sincerity, heartbroken sorrow and a warm-heartedness sure to charm even the most surly and jaded of us all. Foster's simple songwriting and soaring, almost operatic vocals have fairly been compared to English folk-music legend Shirley Collins, but Vashti Bunyan, Elizabeth Cotten and The Kossoy Sisters also seem good points of reference here, playing ukulele, banjo, guitar and harp amongst other instruments. After three gorgeous self-released solo recordings and albums with Born Heller and "rock'n'roll" group The Supposed under her belt, Foster looks set to release her first official solo-album on Locust Music in April 2005.www.100songsising.comTaurpis Tulataurpis tula from glasgow, scotland is the duo of heather leigh (charalambides and scorces) on petal steel/vocals and david leigh on guitar, navigating rivers of steel string with their fists and throats. Their all-improvised music works loops of spectral sound into beautifully fucked tonal hymns.www.taurpistula.comlast release reviewexamining drones and loops from the epic cragginess of The Dream Academy and Terry Riley to its currency amongst laptop popsters and free-guitar types has long been a passion. To create improvised, trance-driven music with subtlety, emotionalism, hymn-like melody and physicality is rare. Glasgow, Scotland's Taurpis Tula is that precious find. Guitarist/shortwave radio operator David Keenan and vocalist/pedal steel guitarist Heather Leigh Murray make a highly charged, soul-soothing music, borrowed and blue. Atop wave-generated ambience an opera of muffled tones influenced by Holger Czukay's experiments in church music and oblique sampling and haunted vocal reveries, they scratch, scrape and caress their guitars. This technique, adapted from the pounded-meat playing of Fred Frith, has become sensuousin their capable hands, resulting in the crying sounds of steel strings that any country cowpoke would envy. - A.D. Amorosi, Philadelphia City Paper.net.James Blackshaw23-year old London-based guitarist James Blackshaw's playing sounds as inspiring as the Adirondacks (or Appalachians or the Sierra Nevadas). Put quite simply, there's a new finger picker in town, and he smokes in a post Robbie Basho way that will have you Jack Rose fans tripping over your tongues reaching for new ostentatious descriptions to wow the hip masses with. Blackshaw's twelve-string fairly rattles along, resonating to produceunbridled raga-like flurries, bursting with energy, yet harnessed with enough melodic definition to their fluid motions. There can be no doubt that this guy really can play. His debut album 'Celeste' was released on Campbell Kneale's (AKA Birchville Cat Motel) Celebrate Psi Phenomenon label in late 2004 and was quickly followed by the drone/raga epic 'Lost Prayers and Motionless Dances' on Digitalis Industries. A split-album with US-based free-folk collective Davenport is due out on Static Records in February 2005.www.shoryobuni.f2g.net/sunshrinePeter WrightPeter Wright has been a highly prolific and important figure in the New Zealand underground music scene for years and a true innovator in the realms of minimal drone-based experimentation. Currently residing in London, 2004 saw the release of Wright's long-running collaboration with Finland's Uton on Digitalis Industries and solo-album 'Desolation Beauty Violence' on Foxglove, as well as a re-issue of 'Distant Bombs' on Last Visible Dog, which has been regarded by many as an essential album in it's genre. Using a mixture of organic instrumentation such as 12-string electic guitar in open tunings, violin and suspended bottles with field recordings and some minor computer manipulation, Wright creates incredibly sad, beautiful and hypnotic soundscapes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted March 14, 2005 Report Share Posted March 14, 2005 & a total quality night will be had by all who attendA ***** of Slint's ATP, David Keenan & quality improvisors all on one billmust be near as damn-it the most eclectic line up-of the year 2005 inAberdeen & its only March........cheers FJ for event posting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmd040 Posted March 14, 2005 Report Share Posted March 14, 2005 This one sounds like it should not be missed at any cost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted March 14, 2005 Report Share Posted March 14, 2005 This one sounds like it should not be missed at any cost.It will certainly be different, i'll be interested in seeing how many new faces with open minds turn-up. The evening will cross-over different music genres & cannot really be catergorised into easy record shop sections. It really deserves a great turn-outLovely write up by Delboy on Thursday night's EE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragudave Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 That was a damn fine evening. Beats the crap out of Triptych and their booking fees and high ticket prices...Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 That was a damn fine evening. Beats the crap out of Triptych and their booking fees and high ticket prices...DaveThanks for that Dave, I totally agree, David Keenan was very chuffed about the venue, the turnout, the sound & the courtesy of the audience, (barring two stupid women & their muppet) hopefully more Keenan eclectica to follow sometime. ive just posted this elewhere:-Well i did say it would be different, can such a single bill have such a width of music & one act cause complete & utter division of opinion. Personally I'd rather have a discussion/rant about last nights proceedings than 100's of NICE/GREAT/FORGETTABLEevents. From this guy & others "One of the best & most imaginative interesting music events.thanks to all our regulars for their continued support Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragudave Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 Aye we did hear some girly voice every so often but that didnt detract from the gig. Perhaps David Keenan will get a Wire sponsored gig or two there is he was that impressed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 Aye we did hear some girly voice every so often but that didnt detract from the gig...That was Philip getting excited Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Zeenat Aman Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 That was Philip getting excited Thanks for sending the cd's, they arrived safe and well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 No problem - thought you might enjoy "These Trails", too. Were you knackered after the Interesting Music night? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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