chilli Posted April 3, 2004 Report Share Posted April 3, 2004 The detail:-Interesting Music Promotions are delighted to announce:-Sunday 18th April 04Dr DrakesDoors 8pm Door tax 5Black Forest Black Sea (from Providence RI USA) are former members of of Idiitarod gtr, cello, electronics, 50/50 written/improv. Collaborators: Glenn Donaldson (Jewelled Antler),Christina Carter (Charalambides) & Fursaxa. They have been best described "glitchy improv - chamber - folk" & "new weird America psych folk". December's WIRE magazine described them as "genuinely strange". This is the UK leg of a three month European Tourwww.secreteye.org/bfbs/Kitchen CynicsIs local musician, wordsmith & all round good guy Alan Davidson & is currently a permanent fixture on WMFU's playlist . Known in many countries outwith the UK, he's relatively unknown in his home city, apart from those in the know. He's appeared on many compilations & has well in excess of a dozen CD'sAlan is also inspiriation to a new generation to pick up an instrument & get playing. He's also friends with NY explorers Sonic Youth, ask him.......... 67Are an enterprising new group, who are not afraid to experiment. They comprises the Guitar, Keyboard and Programming noises of Dave Falconer, the words and vocals of Kirsten Murray and the sounds of Flautist, Kat Parkin. The band's 4 track ep, I am as big as my hand was released in February of this year and the band are currently working on an album to follow. "We endeavour to make an audio pick'n mix of gummy bear beats, flying saucer synthesis, acoustic aniseed balls, mellow marshmallows and vanilla fudge vocals".Interesting Music diary datesSat 15th MaySun 30th MayWed 2nd JuneFrid 4th JuneLook out for the newsletter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost Posted April 5, 2004 Report Share Posted April 5, 2004 Kitchen Cynics definitely helped inspired me to pick up a guitar and get recording, sad that I had to go to Italy to get any of his stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ForbiddenFruitcake Posted April 5, 2004 Report Share Posted April 5, 2004 jeez, i never thought id see this line-up in drakes in a million years! i hope i can go.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragudave Posted April 5, 2004 Report Share Posted April 5, 2004 A decent if wordy review in Pitchfork of the new album by BFBsea...Review of Black F B Sea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted April 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2004 Originally posted by ForbiddenFruitcake:jeez, i never thought id see this line-up in drakes in a million years! i hope i can go.. We aim to please, so u wil have to pull out all the stops & make it down to Dr Drakes....tell your pals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ForbiddenFruitcake Posted April 5, 2004 Report Share Posted April 5, 2004 i'll try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted April 14, 2004 Report Share Posted April 14, 2004 An ideal chill out Sunday evening prior to a holiday Monday I would say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted April 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Originally posted by Graeme:An ideal chill out Sunday evening prior to a holiday Monday I would say. Bring your own cushions & joss sticks, we'll supply the candle lighttalking of chill out anybody seen the Big Chill line up this year?(pretty damn fantastic) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydoll Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Fantastic lineup for the Big Chill I tell thee! Coldcut! Bent! Lemon Jelly! ADFSS! To name but a few. I'd like to go but I'm over-festivalling as it is methinks.Sadly missed Black Forest/Black Sea as I couldn't get away from work early enough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted April 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Originally posted by psydoll:Fantastic lineup for the Big Chill I tell thee! Coldcut! Bent! Lemon Jelly! ADFSS! To name but a few. I'd like to go but I'm over-festivalling as it is methinks.Sadly missed Black Forest/Black Sea as I couldn't get away from work early enough no u haven't its this sunday night, the 18th April, see u there, we can discuss the merits of the Big Chill further? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydoll Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Hoorah! Thanks to work mind I probably still won't make it but at least there's a glimmer of hope! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted April 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 and is our EE reporter going to be attending this Intertesting Music eventwhat say u Del?ps ta vm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 i really really want to go.... depends how much of my dissertation i get done over the weekend.but yes there is a good chance i shall make an appearance!don't hold your breath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted April 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 Pitchfork Reviewand here is the Pitchfork reviewBlack Forest/Black SeaForcefields and Constellations[blueSanct; 2004]Rating: 8.4Kathy Acker wrote, "At night in every city I live in I walk down the streets to look for something that will mean something to me." At times, you can locate an inevitability by staying in one spot. To aid in the quest, Black Forest/Black Sea are making music for the roof and fire escape, helping you detail your view of the neighbor's tacky kitchen and your own obstructed portion of any already obstructed sky.Forcefields and Constellations, the Rhode Island duo's second dose of interstellar gazing, sets adrift with the dreamy "Orion", a milky moon-drop instrumental featuring the guitarwork of guest performer Christina Carter (Charalambides). Here, Carter's guitar lobs tremolo darts at the nighttime, too busy to notice the melancholic swarm of voices that flit around her. Despite lasting under four minutes, the song creates an air of languid eternity. This protracted time/space collusion is a constant on Jeffrey Alexander and Miriam Goldberg's follow-up to last year's eponymous (and now out-of-print) debut as Black Forest/Black Sea, and by patiently dismantling the chamber-folk that made that record such a treat, they've initiated a whirlybird gale that blows compositional constraints wide open.Chilly abstraction is an assured move for a sophomore record, but Alexander and Goldberg are seasoned psych-folk players: Alongside lyricist and multi-instrumentalist Carin Wagner, Alexander comprised the slowcore renaissance duo The Iditarod. Goldberg, though not a core member of that band, toured with them, and contributed cello, piano, and guitar to a number of their studio recordings. Packing this pedigree and collaborative dynamic into 13 tracks, Forcefields and Constellations creates a steely, diaphanous and fragile mass of delicate and complex instrumentation. Using voice sparingly, the focus falls on improvisation (or at least, something that sounds like improvisation). The duo also employs guest musicians-- including the aforementioned, freaked-out guitarwork of Christina Carter, and bouzouki from Jewelled Antler impresario Glenn Donaldson-- and samples the work of drone artists Frsaxa, as well as Black Forest/Black Sea's own past performances, which turns this album into something of a large-scale, open-door collaboration.As with most successful recordings in this genre, it might seem dodgy to remove individual tracks from their context within the album-- after all, the shifts in gradation are half the fun-- but here, it makes sense, because a few numbers do stand out. "...with a dead man I've never met" is, like the album's opener, a heady instrumental featuring modulated cello and plucked banjo. But where "Orion" coasts on a gentle wave, this track takes a darker turn halfway through, becoming a churning noise squall (though it does retain the banjo's soft undertow). "These Things" follows a less dramatic pace: Goldberg's wonderfully raw and ethereal voice-- backed by tone delays, ringing chimes, and buzzing flourishes-- creates a lo-fi, 4AD-esque transition into the reverberations of "Kyy Plays Perpetual Change", which swings along a snippet of Finnish psych-rocker Kemialliset Ystvt's song, "Lammikko", evoking a dewy forest populated by tiny glitches and sine waves. Violin, staccato cello, a malfunctioning player piano, and distorted bells drive "Hung Far Lowish", with strings keeping pace beneath. It ends with a drizzle of moody machines, a lone green kite amid the subtle deterioration of weather.Per psych's prescription, Forcefields and Constellations signs off with an even lengthier freakout, "Jamestown", which serves as a slow-built run-through of the band's strengths: Here, notes climb and shake and sustain themselves admirably, and Carter returns to add layers to the song's drift. Discordant air pockets and dyadic tone rings appear on occasion, but throughout its nine-minute run, the piece never commits to any one direction, ultimately flitting away as unprocessed as it arrived.Black Forest/Black Sea take their time telling a story, and they avoid definitive conclusions; rather, this album's strengths lie in its fragmented, molasses trajectory and overall expansiveness. But there's much more here for patient listeners-- those who allow the connections to emerge or build tiny bridges themselves. If you're into song-based atmospherics and fractured folk, Forcefields and Constellations should prove a gratifying jigsaw. Just sit still a while.-Brandon Stosuy, April 2nd, 2004 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threeornothing Posted April 17, 2004 Report Share Posted April 17, 2004 Did kitchen cynics release a flexi disc many years ago?? name rings a bell.....a song with the chords A to C to E with distorted vocals?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Jack Posted April 17, 2004 Report Share Posted April 17, 2004 Alan (Kitchen Cynics) can sometimes be seen at the Open Mic Nights in Drakes on Tuesday nights. Great stuff.Dunno about a flexidisc, but take a look Here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted April 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2004 also can't find any flexidiscs on his compilations, of which there are 20+ contributions including the wonderful Tribute to Tom Rapp, with contribtions from Thurston Moore,Bardo Pond, Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers), Fursaxa, BF/BS, Bevel amongst many luminaries. As you can see Kitchen Cynics is held in the highest esteem by open minded people abroad. His profile in his home city should be higher.......... best wishes & hopefully see some new faces tomorrow night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragudave Posted April 20, 2004 Report Share Posted April 20, 2004 Couldnt make the gig which was a bugger - as I had a bug all weekend. How were BFBS and Mr Cynic ?Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted April 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2004 Originally posted by ragudave:Couldnt make the gig which was a bugger - as I had a bug all weekend. How were BFBS and Mr Cynic ?Dave I hope you are wearing a sugical mask (abit like Clinic) on thursday night. Kitchen Cynics was in very fine form & his in between banter was excellent. 67 were charming & david's visuals were ace. Black Forest Black Sea were very improvised, very strange in places & astonishingly good. I applaud all those that really listened intently.A very good night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHAWN THE OX Posted April 20, 2004 Report Share Posted April 20, 2004 Anyone who knows me will be aware of my huge admiration and dare I say it love for the music and work of Alan Davidson aka the Kitchen Cynics,Alans song writing and tale telling in his music is truly wonderful he makes you laugh & cry takes you to another place which maybe a very dark place.my last band VINYL BILL covered two kitchen cynics songs and then we had the honour to work with Alan on a project where we co-wrote a tune called Chinese Whispers which is still my favourite tune iv ever been involved in.If your into singer songwriter music or folk or lo-fi or psych type stuff check out the kitchen cynicsAlan Davidson a true local hero! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted April 20, 2004 Report Share Posted April 20, 2004 Kitchen Cynics. The World's first exponent of Great Anti-Folk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted April 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 Originally posted by Graeme:Kitchen Cynics. The World's first exponent of Great Anti-Folk! by his own admission as well, depends which way you say the the anti, ante oraunty......................i suggest anybody tries WMFU playlist the Irene Trudel show. Here you will find Kitchen Cynics almost permanently on the play list, even more so than his esteemed & mightly paid peers. They have some superb downloads of live sets includingKitchen Cynics, Espers, the mighty Low etc etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted April 21, 2004 Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 This is all very kind!!!!A plain brown envelope with 50 in used notes is on its way to Shawn right now.(scuttles back under cover) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragudave Posted April 22, 2004 Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 Originally posted by chilli:I hope you are wearing a sugical mask (abit like Clinic) on thursday night. Why, - is Chilli eating raw garlic again ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belladonnaleaves Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 i've seen 67 a few times (less perhaps than i should have) and have great admiration for them. Dave is a talented bloke and kirsten has a luminous voice. Sounds like they should be doing well for themselves soon. Word up the local bands! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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