chilli Posted August 1, 2005 Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 interesting music in conjunction with The Tunnels are proud to bring you an evening of wonderful entertainment featuring some of the leading exponents in the experimental "Free Folk" movevement:-Tues 23rd AugThe TunnelsDoors 8pmEntrance 5featuringJosephine Foster (USA)Mi & L'au (Finland)Taurpis Tula (Scotland/USA)Mickel Mass (Aberdeen)Josephine Foster"As half of the duo Born Heller, Josephine Foster stitched together operatic vocals with the stark, plaintive music of the Appalachian hills - Dock Boggs going on a date with a less confrontational Diamanda Galas. This album utilises a traditional group format but the results are no less disquieting. This is disturbing, inward-looking stuff, reminiscent of west coast psych if Fly Agaric had been the drug of choice. Patti Smith is a very loose starting point but Foster also appears to be channelling the aforementioned Galas, K.U.K.L period Bjork and hippy folk visionary Tom Rapp. Opener Well Heeled Man could well be Shirley Collins picnicking with the Manson family. - Peter Redmond, Mojo ****"Leaves leaps wildly across the spectrum, strewing faint semblances of punk to the right, psychedelia to the left and folk somewhere in the middle. Mainly, though, the group works the trippy 60s psych vibe, like a medieval orchestra meets Jefferson Airplane" - Laura Barcella, Venus Magazine Fall 2004"She's a Grace Slick for the 21st century -- and that's all grace, no slick, an amazing combination of God-given ability and formal skill. You can hear Jefferson Airplane in her music, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Joan Baez. . . . She's also the one, out of that whole scene, that has embraced the electric guitar, while at the same time being the most classical of them all."From Michael Gira (SWANS & Young gods records)MI AND LAU, COMING SOON ON YOUNG GOD RECORDS . We have recently finishedrecording an album by Mi and Lau here in Brooklyn. I co-produced it withthem. It turned out very lovely indeed. It was a privilege to work with suchtalented, sincere, and intensely focused individuals. They have a quitepassion that is expressed both in the way they are as human beings and intheir songs. The music is austere, but simultaneously warm. Picture aglacier with a red ember glowing in its center. Heres something I wrote afew months ago about them: Mi and Lau met in Paris a few years back. Mi isFinnish and was working as a model to make ends meet and Lau (who's French)was working in the music industry (soundtracks, I think). They fell deeplyand immediately in love, and after a short period of moving from apartmentto apartment in Paris, they gave everything up and decided to move to thewoods in Finland, so they could be alone together in peace and to spendtheir time discovering each other and their music. They live in a smallcabin in complete isolation with the barest of essentials (except in thebrutal Finnish winter, when they move to Helsinki) and they spend virtuallyall their time making music together in solitude. They are pure and gentlesouls (Devendra's song, from oh me oh my "gentle soul" was written for Lau the two had met in Paris when Devendra was wandering there, and Lau took himin, and they also made music together). Their music is bare and austere,made with simple instrumentation - voice, acoustic guitars, and other verysparse orchestrations. I wouldn't say it compares at all to the current cropof neo hippy "weird folk" etc. It has the naked quality of certain earlyNico recordings, or Chet Baker (I don't mean there's a stylistic similarityby any means - just a sense of space)...soulful and elegant, without beingtouchy-feely or confessional. Their music reminds me of how one mightimagine a winter Finnish landscape - haunting and pure. I played a solo show in Tempere, Finland, and they drove up and played theshow too. I was immediately convinced that YGR needed to release theirmusic. Their songs and stage presence were utterly poised and compelling.With the simplest of means, they quietly occupied the stage and room withunderstated confidence - an almost theatrical, empty calm, similar to theway space is occupied in a Beckett play, minus the grimmer aspects.Seductive and captivating. Well get some sound samples up of them at this website soon. Othercontributors to this recording included the house band (!) of Akron/Family playing a variety of instruments as usual - as well as strings by JuliaKent and Paul Cantelon, and double bass by the esteemed Jerome OBrien. Itwas recorded at Seizures Palace by Jason LaFarge and Mixed by Bryce Gogginat Trout recording....http://www.younggodrecords.comTaurpis TulaTaurpis Tula are the frankly spectral duo of Heather Leigh x (Charalambides and Scorces) on petal steel/vocals and David Keenan x (ex Telstar Ponies) on guitar, They run Volcanic Tongue play with Matt Valentine, Chris Corsano and have released two albums. A duo who always push an audience beyond the norm They only play top notch shows ie MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / KEIJI HAINO / TAURPIS TULA / JANDEK (concert)CCA, GlasgowA collaborative night of experimental music featuring four artists with extraordinary approaches from avant garde composition, free improvisation, original folk modes, psychedelic rock, electronic noise and loner/DIY aesthetics. Mickel MassA coming together of the best local improvisors, who promise to leave their calling card for future fun. Expect the Unexpected, but you will recognise some well kent faces & a modicom of music related to the evening in general.Bring on the Robots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
french_disko Posted August 2, 2005 Report Share Posted August 2, 2005 Sounds good, I'll be there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Zeenat Aman Posted August 2, 2005 Report Share Posted August 2, 2005 Me too. I heard it's "free"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
french_disko Posted August 2, 2005 Report Share Posted August 2, 2005 Me too. I heard it's "free"?I heard it's folking great!I'll put some Lightning Bolt on CD-R for you as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted August 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 FACTJosephine Foster (USA)Mi & L'au (Finland)Taurpis Tula (Scotland/USA)play Caberet Voltaire Edinburgh, the night after they play our event @ The Tunnelswe are charging 5 the cheapest entrance fee in Edinburgh as part of Tinthefringe 8.65 Now ive heard the occasional moan about our entrance feeswe provide TOP eclectic entertainment that nobody else will put onat a very competative price of less than two pintsFACT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted August 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 FACTJosephine Foster (USA)Mi & L'au (Finland)Taurpis Tula (Scotland/USA)play Caberet Voltaire Edinburgh' date=' the night after they play our event @ The Tunnelswe are charging 5 the cheapest entrance fee in Edinburgh as part of Tinthefringe 8.65 Now ive heard the occasional moan about our entrance feeswe provide TOP eclectic entertainment that nobody else will put onat a very competative price of less than two pintsFACT[/quote']i thought i'd highlight this again in view of this being a fantastic line-up & its a bargain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmd040 Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 I'll be there but I must admit I may come along a wee bit later than usual as Taurpis Tula kinda did my heed in the last time they played. Just the kind of reaction Chilli loves eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 ...but since it's improvised you never know what it will be like this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmd040 Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 ...but since it's improvised you never know what it will be like this time.I know but......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 Yeah I know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 I'll be there but I must admit I may come along a wee bit later than usual as Taurpis Tula kinda did my heed in the last time they played. Just the kind of reaction Chilli loves eh?I'm confident Mickel Mass will out Taurpis Tula Tuarpis Tula in the heed-doing in stakes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted August 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 I'm confident Mickel Mass will out Taurpis Tula Tuarpis Tula in the heed-doing in stakes!we look forward to that in a big way.................Don't thing David Keenan will be happy with you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted August 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 well thats the extend biog up on the original 1st post, sorry its a lotbut I think this will be a fantastic show & Mi & L'au should not be missedby those into seriously non mainstream music.Yes that you, if you botheted to read this you must have an interest to go read the biog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hog Posted August 7, 2005 Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 Mi and L'au sound very interesting. I am definatly going.Young God Records has some amazing stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted August 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 Mi and L'au sound very interesting. I am definatly going.Young God Records has some amazing stuffyou are not wrong hog, its not every day that an artist from thatr label plays AberdeenPass the word................ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hog Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 Indeed, I should hopefully pop along with a few folk (padon the pun)That is Mi and L'au Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted August 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Indeed' date=' I should hopefully pop along with a few folk (padon the pun)[img']http://www.younggodrecords.com/uploads/images_categories/85.jpgThat is Mi and L'auyeh this picture was sent out with our press release, its very unusual me thinks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Zeenat Aman Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 yeh this picture was sent out with our press release' date=' its very unusual me thinks[/quote']Rather spooky, ghostly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threeornothing Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Looks like a bunch of miserable bastards in that pic....experimental folk...for folk sake....whatever happened to good old rock and/or roll!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Zeenat Aman Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Looks like a bunch of miserable bastards in that pic....experimental folk...for folk sake....whatever happened to good old rock and/or roll!!Different strokes for different folks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted August 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Looks like a bunch of miserable bastards in that pic....experimental folk...for folk sake....whatever happened to good old rock and/or roll!!sorry but if youve not got anything constructive to say, piss off back to your own part of aberdeen music & play your repetative unispired rock & roll with your 14year old friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 sorry but if youve not got anything constructive to say' date=' piss off back to your own part of aberdeen music & play your repetative unispired rock & roll with your 14year old friends.[/quote']He's never been the same since being turned down for that job with The Diplomatic Corp! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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