Tuesday 29 May 2012
Door Times : 8pm
Fractal Waves present Clorinde + Orchestra Elastique + Daichi Yoshikawa for a night of beautiful instrumental music, free form experimentations & various permutations in between.
Orchestra Elastique is a London-based music improvisation collective. Formed during a residency at the Shunt Vaults, London, in April 2010, Orchestra Elastique comprises a group of performers and multi-instrumentalists which can vary in number depending on the venue and performance in question. Within its two-years existence the Orchestra has already played some major venues in London and across Europe.
The on-going motif of this encounter is to face music as a playground. Hailing from countries such as France, Portugal, Holland, England and Mexico, Orchestra Elastique fill this playground with instruments such as accordion, trumpet, harmonium, piano, harp, theremin, drums, cello, violin, percussion and voices. The result of these improvisations is a form of music that takes influences from Minimalist Music, Free Jazz, Middle Eastern, Krautrock, and various folkloric traditions with often psychedelic results.
We’re playing with these awsome people:
Tanya Auclair
“Gobsmacking!” Tom Robinson, BBC Radio 6 Music
“..Big discovery for me..” Gilles Peterson, BBC Radio 1
“..so damn unique..” Okayplayer
Tanya Auclair’s lo-fi adventures in experimental pop are a beguiling mix of playful DIY drums, layers of voice, intricate uke and guitar melodies and touches of electronica. Citing influences as wide-ranging as “Bongo Joe” Coleman, Fever Ray, Matthew Herbert, Juana Molina and E.S.G, her open instinctive approach shows in the territory she covers from the 60s doowop, delicate folk, to feverish rhythms and oscillating synths. An excitement for music made from ‘minimal means’ has given rise to her distinctive sound and compelling one-woman-band show. She builds her songs live, sampling her voice with a loop pedal and playing ukulele, guitar, keys and percussion. The multi-instrumentalist has worked with the likes of Matthew Herbert’s Big Band Ensemble, Charlie Dark and Yult, featured on Brownswood Bubblers 7 and done live film score commissions for Birds Eye View and Vision Sound Music.
Her latest EP ‘Origami’ is out now: www.tanyaauclair.com
Glockenspiel
‘Mesmerising guitar/loop/feedback playing/processing with jaw dropping drums. A duo that transcend the minimal forces with layers & layers of bloody sublime music’.
Onedeafear.com
Currently their debut album ‘Enspiel’ is available on cd through Krayon Recordings, Rough Trade and various independent outlets. A combination of the aesthetic of Adrian’s earlier work and the sound they have honed as a duo, this collection of pieces displays a more electronic feel against expansive yet minimal compositions. Where glistening arpeggios rise and fall over gurgling analogue electronics, waves of processed cymbal and rich layered drones. ‘Enspiel (Krayon Recordings) is hypnotic & entrancing & manages to be so with a ‘less is more’ aesthetic. Intensely meditative & ambient textures build swirling melodies that orbit your head until you finally give in to the sonic splendor. Rich emotional depths, adding so much contrast it’s heartbreaking, highlight the more insular drones. The whole album is very dream like & fascinating. Similar to being in the middle of a fog bank having totally lost your sense of direction’. Mats Gustafson.
There will be food and cheap drink to please the body too.
Come to Fractal Waves’ event for a night of three-dimensional pleasure.
Entrance is 5 pounds at the door////
4 pounds if you join this event on FB////////
We’re going to be playing with:
>>>>> Isnaj Dui
Standing somewhere between neo-impressionism and electronica, Isnaj Dui, aka Katie English, conveys a minimal yet capturing sound using electronically manipulated flutes and homemade instruments. Katie has released several critically acclaimed albums including 2007’s Amacrine (2007) and Unstable Equilibrium (Home Normal, 2009). She has appeared at venues such as the National Portrait Gallery and Union Chapel in London and has received extensive play on Radio 3′s Late Junction and BBC 6 Music.
http://isnajdui.bandcamp.com/
>>>>> Karina ESP
Karina ESP is the ambient recording project of Chris Gowers, who also
runs the Trome Records label, and is active with the bands Signals and Rome Pays Off.
Output centres around slowly formed melancholic ambience, minimal
guitar drones and blurred melodies. A new album, ‘Detachment’, will be released on the Belgian label Morc Records in the coming months.
“Karina ESP sets in slow motion a series of tonal drifts from attack
suppressed guitar resonance and carefully controlled amplifier
feedback,
resulting in a barren and vaguely hostile environment”.
- The Wire
http://www.morctapes.com/karinaesp/index.html
All this in the beautiful location of Trangallan
http://www.trangallan.com/
a Gastro-Cultural Space where you can enjoy of great food and relaxed atmosphere while drinking a glass of superb wine.
Entrance is 5 pounds at the door
4 pounds if you join this event on FB
Grumbling Fur~ On stage at 10:15pm
Borne from a day long improvisation in deep dark south London… A
smattering of Fins and Englishmen chatter, chant and chime as rail lines
whistle and hashclouds billow. Swamped cavernous modes unravel into
vistas of blissed kraut mantra and stilted metal drifts.
Alexander Tucker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Tucker_%28musician%29
Daniel O’Sullivan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_O%27Sullivan
Clorinde~On stage at 9:15pm
Clorinde is an instrumental avant-folk project composed by multi
instrumentalist Andrea Salvatici, Simone Salvatici and David Harris.
Clorinde have been producing music based on a minimalist approach
towards repetition, melodies, rhythm and sounds, resulting in beautiful
fragile balance between tight cyclic structures and free form
improvisation.
Jack Shirt: On Stage at 8:15pm
‘Mr Shirt is
a skilled player, weaving rich harmonic arrangements, befuddling time
signatures and quirky atmospheres into his string of aural gems. His
music is extremely varied, ranging from strange folky numbers, more
progressive rockish outings, atmospheric space explorations and various
lurching pieces that evoke an almost carnivalesque quality.’ Heathen
Harvest
Dear Friends,
As some of you are waiting for the new Clorinde album (you might have to wait a little longer than we expected as good things have to take time) and some of you might have forgotten about us completely… I decided that given the current times it would be appropriate doing a little Christmas promotion deal so you can have the opportunity to grab both our releases for £2.50 each!
Visit our shop and go for it! And don’t forget to leave comments and stuff we really appreciate your messages.
warm hugs,
Clorinde
Hello my friends, if you’re wondering what we might be up to I can tell you… A lot of practicing!!!!
So at the next gig we’ll be playing better than this:
Love
A
As the winter kicks in we’re taking a little break from playing to finally complete our new album which will hopefully be released by nice a caring record label… anyone interested?
Glasgow was a lot of fun by the way, Remember Remember are a bomb.
