Jamie Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 Triptych 06: Arab Strap/Kieran Hebden (Fourtet) & Steve Reid: Bill Wells &Tape/My Latest Novel/Aidan John Moffat Sunday 30 AprilThe Lemon TreeTickets 14 + 1.50 b/fee Box Office: 01224 642230Doors 7pmCafe7pm - 40pm: DJ Nudge7.40pm - 8.20pm: MY LATEST NOVEL9pm - 10pm: KEIREN HEBDEN & STEVE REID11pm - 12am: ARAB STRAPStudio8pm: doors8.25pm - 8.55pm: AIDAN JOHN MOFFAT10.10pm - 10.55pm: TAPE WITH BILL WELLSArab StrapFalkirk'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 year's Triptych: they'll 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 Middleton's 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 ReidIn electronic music's Olympian dominion, Kieran Hebden vaulted the highest bar; raised it above the stars; cleared it again. London's 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 2003's Rounds album, and last year's follow up, Everything Ecstatic (Domino). It's his work with legendary drummer Steve Reid, however, which is currently rousing startled remark: their 2005 Spirit Jazz collaboration (Soul Jazz), and this year's Exchange Sessions Vol. 1 (Domino) testifies to a vital collaborative effort, and it's Reid with whom Hebden - a long-term Triptych comrade - is set to perform this year.Bill WellsA brilliant local jazz-agitator variously described as "Stirling's 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. He's 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.TapeEvoking 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 - Stockholm's 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. Tape's second and most recent album, Milieu (Hapna), forages and forges this organic and electronic integration - it's an experimental, gentle treatise whose impressive, impressionistic, gauzy melodies are at once human and mechanical; measured and spontaneous; dark and light.My Latest NovelA soaring, melodious Greenock troupe, My Latest Novel's beat-infused,string-enthused erudite pop fayre is refined and arousing in equalmeasure.Signed to stellar collective Bella Union, (the label presided by theCocteau Twins' Simon Raymonde, which charts the Dirty Three and LauraVeirs across its glittering sky), My Latest Novel are a gloriousrabble whose literary designate underpins a bookish predilection forerudite lines and rascally wordplay.With a debut album, Wolves, fresh from the press, MLN's sing-a-long,string-drawn happy cantatas swirl like lullabies, sleigh-rides,indie-pop paradise.Live, they peddle giddy, sweet chorales: they're a boho assemblagewith bountiful charmshttp://www.lemontree.org/Music/event.cfm?eventid=2844&tempmonth=4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartmaxwell Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 hopefully be able tyo make thisschneider tm on satnot the biggest arab strap fan, but four tet was ace in glasgow last year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossP Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 aha, i might go to this too then. Was thinking about it, but was not looking forward to starting my first day teaching at Aberdeen Grammar hungover. But...... i'll find out tomorrow if they have the monday may day holiday, if so, i'll be there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 Grammar is off on Monday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossP Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 Dancer!! Phoning Grammar tomorrow to say hi, and sort everything out. Beware Business Education pupils, post rock nonsense while you work ahoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 First day at work and it's a bloody holiday! You just can't get teachers nowadays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Owl PhD Posted April 30, 2006 Report Share Posted April 30, 2006 Fantastic night tonight - everything top notch. Thanks to all involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trippinoneastereggs Posted April 30, 2006 Report Share Posted April 30, 2006 Was indeed an excellent night, ever part of it.Although I've already posted in another thread moaning about folk fucking chatting at the tops of their voices during the quiet bits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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