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Hidden Orchestra announce new album + London launch show
Hidden Orchestra’s eagerly anticipated third album, ‘Dawn Chorus’ (out 16th June) is a highly personal, intricate and unique work from producer and composer Joe Acheson. The album is built around an expansive collection of birdsong and other field recordings, carefully captured across many years in diverse locations around the UK and abroad. Rich in detail and character, these sonic snapshots intertwine with layers of bass, drums, percussion and eclectic instruments – including piano, electro-harp, glockenspiel, Turkish mey and cello – for an emotive and transporting listen.
The first taste of this LP came in late 2016 with the “Wingbeats EP”, which captivated fans and tastemakers alike, the beautiful lead piece being strongly championed by Mary Anne Hobbs and picked for the BBC 6Music Recommends Playlist. Daytime and specialist airplay across BBC 6Music added to other high profile support from the likes of Jamie Cullum (BBC Radio 2), Late Junction (BBC Radio 3), BBC Radio Scotland and The Arts Desk, while the track was accompanied by a video featuring drone footage of breathtaking Icelandic scenery and birdlife.
The “Still” single, now streaming upfront ahead of its official May release, delivers the next exciting glimpse of this LP with a dramatic and dynamic, beat-laden soundscape built around a sonic sketch from Czech group Clarinet Factory layered with drums, strings, brass, piano and field recordings.
The ‘Dawn Chorus’ album will be launched with a gig at London’s Islington Assembly Hall on 29th June; revered around the world for their compelling shows, the live incarnation of Hidden Orchestra combines the duelling beats of two full drum kits (care of Jamie Graham and Tim Lane) with piano and violin from Poppy Ackroyd, and Acheson’s bass and electronics. Their recent performance at The Royal Albert Hall alongside The Pharcyde, Submotion Orchestra, Andreya Triana and Henry Wu was a milestone event building on a dizzying run of gigs this decade, from sellout AV shows at London’s Union Chapel and St John at Hackney to hundreds of headlines and festivals at home and around the world.
‘Dawn Chorus’ follows the ‘Night Walks’ (2010) and ‘Archipelago’ (2012) albums, which established Hidden Orchestra’s beat-heavy and multi-layered sound as a favourite with music fans of all stripes, gaining praise everywhere from The Independent, Clash and XLR8R to BBC 6Music and KCRW. With releases remixed by top producers including submerse, Mungo’s Hi Fi and Floex, Hidden Orchestra’s reworks of other artists include a notable commission for Bryan Ferry’s ‘Avonmore (The Remix Album)’. Anticipation for the new album has also been stoked in recent years by hugely popular mixtapes (which have gained hundreds of thousands of streams), side-projects, and those incendiary live shows.
A sonic experimenter and nature enthusiast, Joe Acheson has always captured field recordings and found sounds to incorporate in his Hidden Orchestra music, as well as using them in his award-winning work as a radio producer and soundtrack composer. Last year saw him developing this with “Marconi & The Lizard” – an EP born of an artist residency at Cornwall’s Lizard Point, commissioned by The National Trust and British Library. Released under the Joe Acheson solo name, this project was greeted with features in The Guardian and The Independent and radio support from Tom Ravenscroft (BBC 6Music) and Late Junction (BBC R3), creating even more interest in Acheson’s exciting musical explorations as the new Hidden Orchestra album continued to take shape in his studio.
Press/promo enquiries: Rosie@tru-thoughts.co.uk +44 (0) 1273 694617 | hiddenorchestra.com / tru-thoughts.co.uk
65daysofstatic exclusive live performance of No Man’s Sky’s soundtrack
For their first video game soundtrack project, noisy instrumental band 65daysofstatic certainly picked a blinder. Exploring the uncharted universe of No Man’s Sky needed a suitably sci-fi audio accompaniment and 65daysofstatic rose to the challenge of creating a soundtrack that included procedural elements to match the many and varied choices the player would make in the game.
For the first time, Laced Records, 65daysofstatic and Hello Games are excited to unveil the first live video recording of three tracks from the No Man’s Sky soundtrack. The live video was recorded at 2fly Studios in the band’s native city, Sheffield in the UK, and includes live performances of Red Parallax, Monolith and Asimov.
Here’s 65daysofstatic’s Paul Wolinski providing a behind the scenes perspective on what went into the live performance session:
“This was one of the first attempts at rethinking how to approach performing music that was written to be non-linear and lend itself to generative, infinite soundscapes rather than fixed compositions.
“The first song is ‘live coded’ using open source software TidalCycles,” he explains. “Code is typed, executed and instantly transformed into musical patterns. These are fed out to modular synths and hacked electronic magnets. The magnets rest on guitar strings, making them resonate. Each subsequent song smashes more live instruments back into the mix.”
Wolinski saw the studio setting as a chance to create a unique performance – and a unique arrangement – that’d be different from the band’s other live shows.
“We ultimately took different versions of these songs on tour. In the context of a usual 65 show it made more sense than to lock them into more predictable arrangements. However, we are in a studio environment in this video. Everything wired up to play just these specific songs. This provided an opportunity to create a system where every performance of a track would be unique.
“This is something that takes a bit of getting used to: unique doesn’t necessarily mean good. There is a future we want to explore in writing songs as recipes rather than as pre-packaged TV dinners. With recipes, both the person who wrote it and the person following it play a part in the outcome. Applying this to music feels like a step toward wiping out the ‘composerarchy’. The listener is as vital as the musician in making music matter. Like musical socialism.
Wolinski pauses mid-flow. “It’s all just noise though, isn’t it? There’s nothing wrong with wanting your music ready-made, so perhaps the TV dinner is a bad analogy,” he continues after a beat. “Maybe broccoli is a better one. Human engineered. A technological product hewn from nature, its origins forgotten. Though raw broccoli is a niche meal.
“Ultimately, though, this video is more content for the churning internet. More digital froth. We tried to make it interesting. These songs will never be performed this way again.”
In conjunction with the video Laced Records are offering a 15% sale on the vinyl and CD versions of the soundtrack exclusively via their store:
US: http://www.lacedrecords.com
ROW: http://www.lacedrecords.coThe soundtrack is available on deluxe double CD, 10 track double vinyl and a deluxe vinyl collector’s edition featuring all 16 tracks spread across 4 LPs in a hard-case sleeve.
Hidden Orchestra remixes Max Cooper
A symmetrical remix of Max Cooper’s track Symmetry (feat. Tom Hodge), released on his Emergence Remixed album back in March.
Clark announces new album and live show Death Peak
CLARK
DEATH PEAK
RELEASED 7TH APRIL 2017“I’ve had the title Death Peak since August 2016. It felt so right, I would repeat it to myself like a mantra. Death Peak Death Peak Death Peak. It starts gently, all meadows and butterflies and ends with you on top of this gnarly fearsome mountain peak, surveying a shattered landscape below”
Beauty through destruction…
Clark returns this spring with Death Peak. The album deftly weaves together the various threads of his extensive work, intertwining euphoric melodies and visceral rhythms of warehouse rave with newer vocal and choral elements.
Death Peak exposes the tension in Clark’s musical vocabulary “I love finding the fulcrum between opposites – I want my tracks to have sharp teeth, but you want to stroke them too. They sound ancient, but beamed in from the future, soft, corrosive”.
Album track ‘Peak Magnetic’ is a club-ready 4am affair – vigorous, singular, hard to define. As Clark explains “I wanted the kick to sound like some massive natural event, barely controlled, a boulder bouncing down a hill with birds tweeting around it. A complete mud-ball of a pulse that anchors everything to it through sheer mass. It makes me think of outdoor spring time raving”.
‘Catastrophe Anthem’ features the voices of a children’s choir eerily chanting the mantra, “We are your ancestors”. Clark has rarely used vocals before, but here every song has an element of human voice.
“Nearly all the tracks have some form of vocal recording on them. I only realised this late in the recording process. I get hypnotised by the human voice – the most perfect synth.
Vocals can be a bit of an awkward hat, that producers wear to try and get attention. Death Peak voices are the opposite of that. The vocal elements are just another instrument in the mix. It’s taken me awhile to get to this level of confidence with it.”
Recently he released a split 12-inch with label mates Mark Pritchard & Bibio and worked remixes with the likes of Nils Frahm and Max Richter. Significantly, Clark has turned his hand to scoring. He released the foreboding cinematic soundtrack to the 2016 BAFTA nominated Sky Atlantic series ‘The Last Panthers’ and composed a score for Macbeth at the Young Vic theatre. Late in 2016 he composed ‘Enter The Void’ especially for The Echo Society orchestra, conducted by Joe Trapanese (M83 & Daft Punk collaborator) and performed at the historic Ace Theatre, LA.
Clark signed to Warp in his late-teens. His studio sound has evolved and matured over two decades; although he would say he’s only just starting. His amorphous industrial noise has ever-grown and influenced producers, dancefloors and festivals around the world.
This year he will continue to tour, combining the contemporary dance choreography of frequent collaborator Melanie Lane with his customised rave bangers. This includes Clark’s biggest UK show to date at Brixton Electric.
Clark
Death Peak
WARP28201. Spring But Dark
02. Butterfly Prowler
03. Peak Magnetic
04. Hoova
05. Slap Drones
06. Aftermath
07. Catastrophe Anthem
08. Living Fantasy
09. Un U.K.Clark will play the following shows – with more to be announced:
24/02/2017 : Melbourne, The Night Cat Tickets
18/03/2017 : Southport, Bang Face Tickets
25/03/2017 : Istanbul, Sonar Tickets
01/04/2017 : Hong Kong, Sonar Tickets
15/04/2017 : Bruges, More Music Festival Tickets
21/04/2017 : Berlin, Funkhaus Tickets
22/04/2017 : London, Electric Brixton Tickets
16/06/2017 : Barcelona, Sonar Festival TicketsWelcome to LittleBig Hidden Orchestra
We’re delighted to announce the signing of Hidden Orchestra to LB.
Hidden Orchestra is the solo studio project of multi-instrumentalist composer/producer Joe Acheson, currently based in Brighton (UK).
The sound of Hidden Orchestra on record is an intense and varied sonic journey, and the live experience is no different. The innovative set-up, with two drummers as the ‘front man’, has caused excitement and amazement from their very earliest gigs, from fans and critics alike.
Since the release of ‘Night Walks’ in 2010, the band has toured in over 30 countries, building a devoted audience in many territories, selling out venues from Edinburgh and London through to Prague, Moscow, Athens and Istanbul.
The band has been continually developing several different spectacular live audiovisual setups in collaboration with Bristol-based artist Tom Lumen. Depending on the event, this can be a simple screen-based setup (for flying shows and festivals), through to installations of multiple screens, filled with bespoke visuals and live on-stage camera footage.
There have also been site-specific shows which feature extensive projection-mapping of the buildings’ architecture – this show can potentially be done anywhere.
Contact Debbie for bookings
Nathan Fake announces new album, Providence
Nathan Fake will release his fourth album “Providence” – his most personal and profoundly emotional work to date – via Ninja Tune on 10th March 2017. Crafted in the wake of a crippling two year spell of writer’s block during which he was unable to compose any music at all, the esteemed British producer describes the record “as a massive step up both in my career and in my life in general… it felt like I’d come alive again”.
“Providence” sees the British producer collaborate with vocalists for the first time, joining forces with Prurient (aka Vatican Shadow / founder of Hospital Productions) and Raphaelle Standell-Preston from Braids. Both arose from chance meetings in Geneva and Osaka as their tour schedules crossed. Prurient contributed the heavily distorted vocal to ’DEGREELESSNESS’ – “I was a huge fan of Dominic’s [Prurient] music before we met and I love the way he situates his vocals in his productions. I really like how you can’t make out what he’s saying at all…” – whilst Raphaelle, who lends her voice to ‘RVK’, was introduced to Nathan by their mutual friend Jon Hopkins. “I deliberately kept the first half of the track instrumental and I love the way her vocal lands,” he says. “It’s quite unexpected when she starts singing.”
“It’s the quickest album I’ve written and because of that it’s got a close thread running throughout,” says Nathan of his creative process. It also has a distinct sonic signature as a result of the producer refreshing his set-up. “I was feeling nostalgic and bought a cheap Korg Prophecy on a whim and it ended up being the backbone of the album,” he explains. “I remember reading an article in Sound On Sound back in 1995-96 and I didn’t really know much about music production then, but I remember thinking that it must be AMAZING. As it turns out, it’s actually quite crap really… It’s very hard to program, looks unimpressive, doesn’t sound great [laughs], but I recorded it through loads of different pre-amps and tape and mixers and roughed it up. I’m always intrigued by low-end gear, I like the challenge and the limitations it poses.”
Norfolk born and bred, Nathan’s first encounters with electronic music came via the radio (hearing the likes of Aphex Twin and Orbital) and reading about the equipment that they used in magazines. This was the stimulus for him to buy some gear and begin his own sonic experiments and, linking with James Holden in 2003, Nathan’s early output came via his fledgling Border Community label. His debut album “Drowning In A Sea Of Love” (2006) was a triumphant record, drawing a rapturous reception from the likes of Pitchfork, The Guardian and Mixmag (who hailed it among the best of the year). Recording two further albums for Border Community, “Hard Islands” (2009) and “Steam Days” (2012), Nathan found himself in frantic touring mode for two years and, in this nomadic state, found it impossible to write any new music. On his return, events in his personal life intertwined with, and exacerbated, this creative block. “I didn’t write any music at all for about two years,” Nathan explains. “Overall there was roughly a three year break from writing.”
Emerging from this extended period of inactivity with renewed vigour and lust for life, “Providence” was recorded during the first six months of 2016 in Nathan’s home studio / living room. The meaning behind the title is two-pronged: on the one hand it’s a nod to the aforementioned Korg Prophecy synth that features so heavily on the record. But on a deeper level it means “guidance or divine guidance” – not necessarily in a religious sense but more to be guided by a higher power – or more specifically to Nathan, music as therapy and a path out of a dark period in his life.
Nathan steps out on tour taking in Australia, Europe and Japan through March and April 2017 with a brand new solo live show featuring visuals by the esteemed Matt Bateman (Flat e) who has previously worked with Jon Hopkins and LFO. The London album launch is 7th April at ICA.
Oscars 2017: Mica Levi’s Jackie nominated for Best Original Score
Mica Levi, aka Micachu, has been nominated for an Oscar. She’s up for Best Original Score at the 2017 Academy Awards for her work on Jackie, the biopic about former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Directed by Pablo Larraín (No, The Club), the film stars Natalie Portman in the leading role. Also nominated for Best Original Score are Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka (Lion), Justin Hurwitz (La La Land), Nicholas Britell (Moonlight), and Thomas Newman (Passengers). Find more 2017 Oscar nominations here.
Back in 2014, Levi scored Jonathan Glazer’s sci-fi horror film Under the Skin, which earned her a BAFTA nomination. Revisit our 2014 interview with Levi and Glazer.
The 89th Annual Academy Awards will air February 26 on ABC from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith 2016 album accolades
We are immensely proud and excited to share just some of the end of year accolades Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith received for her 2016 album, EARS, and her collaborative album with Suzanne Ciani, Sunergy, also in 2016.
Pitchfork, 50 Best Albums of 2016 #29 EARS
Pitchfork, 20 Best Experimental Albums of 2016 EARS & Sunergy
Pitchfork, 100 Best Song #70 Existence In The Unfurling
Rolling Stone, 20 Best Avant Albums of 2016 #12 EARS
Rolling Stone, 45 Best Albums of 2016 so far, #45 EARS
Redbull, 5 Best Experimental Albums of 2016 #1 EARS
NTS Top 50 albums of 2016, #30 EARS
Resident Advisor, 20 Best Albums #14 EARS
NPR Music, Best 50 Albums of 2016, #30 EARS
Norman Records, Album of the Year, EARS
Crack Magazine, Top 100 Albums of the Year, #94 Sunergy, #10 EARS
FACT, Best Album 2016, #41 Sunergy
The Quietus, Top 100 Albums of the first half of 2016, #36 EARS
Spin, The 50 Best Albums of 2016 so far, #28 EARS
Fractured Air, Albums of the Year 2016, #2 EARS
Double J, The 50 best albums of 2016, #33 EARS
Aphex Twin to headline Field Day & Primavera Sound
Aphex Twin has confirmed headline festival performances for 2017 at Field Day, London and Primavera Sound, Barcelona.
Clark announces biggest ever London show + free tracks
Off the back of another extremely busy year, Warp Records’ Clark returns to London for his biggest UK headline to show to date, which will herald new music from the man himself and more ‘human special effects’ from dancers Melanie Lane and Kianí del Valle. 2016 has shown the Berlin-based producer’s incredible diversity, including the release of the soundtrack to the critically-acclaimed Sky Atlantic series The Last Panthers, writing three new scores for contemporary dance choreographers Antony Hamilton and Melanie Lane, on top of collaborations with label mates Mark Pritchard and Bibio and contributing to the Save Fabric campaign.
The announcement of his live show will coincide with the giveaway of two tracks from the Clark archives. The savage, rave-destined hip hop bootlegs of Bone Thugs and Trina highlight his diverse production skills, especially in light of their contrast to his recent scores. Now back in the studio and working on new material, who knows what this man will do next?
‘one of his best albums yet’ – Mixmag on The Last Panthers
‘A truly essential artist’ – Drowned In Sound
‘The end of the world is coming and Chris Clark is writing its soundtrack’ – PitchforkNathan Fake Announces DEGREELESSNESS 12″
Debut 12″ on Ninja Tune from Nathan Fake – the British electronic ace who has previously released on James Holden’s Border Community label, Traum and most recently his own Cambria Instruments imprint.
‘DEGREELESSNESS’, the first music to be released from his forthcoming new album, is a collaboration with NYC resident Prurient aka Vatican Shadow (founder of the excellent Hospital Productions label) that truly lives up to the weight of expectation that a clash between these two heavyweights intimate.
Nathan met Prurient in Brooklyn where the seed for a collaboration was sown. “Although our music probably seems pretty different from each others on the surface, I felt there was a strong link from a rhythmic and melodic standpoint, and I admired his vocal performances in his Prurient material which were both charismatic and masculine but not tiresomely so”.
DEGREELESSNESS feat. Prurient / Now We Know released 2nd December – Ninjashop / Stream / Download
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65daysofstatic reissue second album, One Time For All Time
65daysofstatic have made plans to reissue their second album, 2005’s ‘One Time For All Time’ on 18th November via Monotreme Records. It’ll be available on 1000 deluxe LPs, with half the run on black vinyl, and the other half on cream vinyl with sepia splatter.
“We have never worked with a record label as great as Monotreme Records and they never do vinyl half heartedly,” say the band. “It’s cool to finally have all that hyper-treble and scratchy confusion we recorded back in 2006 pressed onto heavy plastic to warm it up a bit.
“Plus this reissue gave us a chance to revisit our Radio Protector Polaroid project — a thousand 7 inch singles, each with a unique cover. We made a special booklet for this vinyl with images and titles for all 1000, finally bringing them together in the same place for the first time. Pretty happy with that.”
Each vinyl will come with a twelve-page colour booklet containing the images and titles of all 1000 individual Polaroid photos taken by the band for the ‘Radio Protector’ single, plus a copy of the album CD and a colour-printed inner sleeve.
The reissue follows 65daysofstatic’s most recent album, the soundtrack to No Man’s Sky.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith shares animated video for Riparian
Analog synth virtuoso Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has had a major year. Following up her Western Vinyl album EARS, she collaborated with her forbear and Bulcha disciple Suzanne Ciani on their album Sunergy – but EARS is still keeping Smith’s attention.She has now released an endearing video for the unreleased track ‘Riparian’. Directed by Andrew Benson, aka Pixlpa, the clip features the adventures of an anonymous (but adorable!) animated character as he encounters the world around him.
Thought Forms release Woolf Music video
The band jams out single ‘Woolf Music’ in a haunted woodland.
With its accompanying video, which you can check out above, shot in the low light of Wiltshire’s supposedly haunted woodlands, Thought Forms’ new single ‘Woolf Music’ is a loose psychedelic jam of scatty drum fills and crunchy guitar tones.
This song features on their third album release, Songs About Drowning, and shows them adopt a tighter, more sophisticated approach to songwriting than on their two previous full works. It also sees them move away from the drawn-out, shoegaze-influenced reverb that those albums somewhat featured more of. This single plays counterpart to first single, the equally heavy and atmospheric ‘Forget My Name’, which is also available on Soundcloud.
Thought Forms are currently on tour with the instrumental/math rock band 65daysofstatic, playing at the UK venues of Islington Assembly Hall in London, Marble Factory in Bristol, Plug in Sheffield, the University of Newcastle and the Glasgow School of Art. Tickets and full listings are available for this tour via Thought Forms’ website here. Songs About Drowning is out on November 4.
Headline UK Tour
10/02/2017 Fri UK OXFORD The Cellar
11/02/2017 Sat UK GUILDFORD Boileroom
12/02/2017 Sun UK COLCHESTER Arts Centre
13/02/2017 Mon UK BRIGHTON The Hope
14/02/2017 Tue UK CARDIFF The Moon Club
15/02/2017 Wed UK BRISTOL Exchange
16/02/2017 Thu UK SWINDON Level III
17/02/2017 Fri UK LONDON Shacklewell Arms
18/02/2017 Sat UK HULL Adelphi
19/02/2017 Sun UK LEEDS Headrow House
21/02/2017 Tue UK NEWCASTLE Cluny
22/02/2017 Wed UK MANCHESTER Soup Kitchen
23/02/2017 Thu UK STOURBRIDGE Scary Canary
24/02/2017 Fri UK LEICESTER FirebugKaitlyn Aurelia Smith announces first Australian shows
Thought Forms announce 2017 UK tour
Thought Forms have announced a UK tour, which kicks off in February 2017. The band will release its 3rd studio album on Invada Records, November 2016.
Thought Forms confirm Bob Mould UK tour
Thought Forms will support the legendary Bob Mould on his forthcoming UK tour.
Thought Forms announce album + reveal teaser track
Thought Forms announce third record Songs About Drowning and share lead single Forget My Name.
For this latest outing, the Wiltshire trio have expanded to a quartet, with producer and Portishead bassist Jim Barr joining the ranks.
The record is built upon improvisations and explores new instruments – it’s a marked change from what’s come before, but arguably their most direct and streamlined release to date. Forget My Name certainly teases a quietly vicious side to Thought Forms, with silvery layers of noise weaving between gorgeous vocal harmonies.
Songs About Drowning is released via Invada Records on 4 November.
Thought Forms are set to extensively across the UK and Europe this autumn with 65daysofstatic.
Listen to Forget My Name below.
Tracklist:
Forget My Name
Woolf Music
The Bridge
Aeaea
Inland
Missouri
By The Stars
Drawn
The LakeAphex Twin to play Day for Night Festival
Aphex Twin is confirmed to perform at Houston’s Day For Night festival, which takes place on December 17 and 18, 2016.
The artist’s last US performance was 8 years ago, at Coachella 2008.
— Aphex Twin (@AphexTwin) September 13, 2016
65daysofstatic release No Man’s Sky : Music For An Infinite Universe
Stream the full album here
• Released by Laced Records.
• 4 x heavyweight 180g vinyl.
• ‘Music for an Infinite Universe’ album across 2 x vinyl.
• ‘Music for an Infinite Universe: Soundscapes’ second album across 2 x vinyl.
• Thick, embossed boxset sleeve.
• Digital download of all audio.
Available direct from Laced Records from HERE.
Available direct from 65daysofstatic standalone or as part of ticket bundles, signed or unsigned, from HERE.
Live :
7/10/2016 Mon NETHERLANDS TILBURG O13
18/10/2016 Tue FRANCE DUNKERQUE Les 4 Ecluses
19/10/2016 Wed FRANCE PARIS Badaboum
20/10/2016 Thu FRANCE BESANCON La Rodia
21/10/2016 Fri SWITZERLAND GENEVA Usine (PTR)
22/10/2016 Sat SWITZERLAND ZURICH Bergmal Festival
24/10/2016 Mon SPAIN BARCELONA Razzmatazz 2
25/10/2016 Tue SPAIN MADRID But
26/10/2016 Wed PORTUGAL PORTO Hard Club
27/10/2016 Thu PORTUGAL LISBON Musicbox
28/10/2016 Fri SPAIN MALAGA La Trinchera
29/10/2016 Sat SPAIN ZARAGOZA Las Armas
01/11/2016 Tue FRANCE CANNES MJC Picaud
02/11/2016 Wed ITALY BOLOGNA Locomotiv
03/11/2016 Thu ITALY ROME Monk
04/11/2016 Fri ITALY MILAN Magnolia
05/11/2016 Sat ITALY PADOVA Mame
06/11/2016 Sun GERMANY MÜNCHEN Kranhalle
07/11/2016 Mon AUSTRIA VIENNA WUK
08/11/2016 Tue CZECH REPUBLIC PRAGUE MeetFactory
09/11/2016 Wed GERMANY BERLIN C-Theatre
10/11/2016 Thu GERMANY HAMBURG Uebel & Gefährlich
11/11/2016 Fri NETHERLANDS AMSTERDAM Q-Factory
12/11/2016 Sat NETHERLANDS MAASTRICHT Muziekgieterij
13/11/2016 Sun BELGIUM BRUSSELS Botanique
14/11/2016 Mon UK LONDON Islington Assembly Hall
15/11/2016 Tue UK BRISTOL Marble Factory
16/11/2016 Wed UK SHEFFIELD Plug
17/11/2016 Thu UK NEWCASTLE University
18/11/2016 Fri UK GLASGOW Art School
23/11/2016 Wed TAIWAN TAIPEI Legacy
26/11/2016 Sat HONG KONG HONG KONG Clockenflap Festival at Central Harbourfront
27/11/2016 Sun SINGAPORE SINGAPORE Neon Lights Festival at Fort Canning Park
29/11/2016 Tue JAPAN OSAKA Shangrila
30/11/2016 Wed JAPAN TOKYO DuoTickets and more information can be found here
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith shares “When I Try, I’m Full” video
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has shared a new video for “When I Try, I’m Full,” from her recent LP EARS. The spare, cellular animation was hand-drawn by animator Jules Guérin. “An organic cell is born,” he said of the video. “Its birth drives us through a shamanic vision where it will evolve with music, becoming more complex while mineral, organic, and cosmic elements orbit around it to transform it to its final state. This is the source of endless possibilities.”
Read Pitchfork’s “Rising” feature, “Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s Existential Synthesizer Music.”
Thought Forms confirmed for 65daysofstatic European tour
Bristol-based noise champions, Thought Forms, will hit the road with 65daysofstatic this autumn, coinciding with the release of the band’s latest magnificent album.
17/10/2016 Mon NETHERLANDS TILBURG O13
18/10/2016 Tue FRANCE DUNKERQUE Les 4 Ecluses
19/10/2016 Wed FRANCE PARIS Badaboum
20/10/2016 Thu FRANCE BESANCON La Rodia
21/10/2016 Fri SWITZERLAND GENEVA Usine (PTR)
22/10/2016 Sat SWITZERLAND NYON La Parenthèse
24/10/2016 Mon SPAIN BARCELONA Razzmatazz 2
25/10/2016 Tue SPAIN MADRID But
26/10/2016 Wed PORTUGAL PORTO Hard Club
27/10/2016 Thu PORTUGAL LISBON Musicbox
28/10/2016Fri SPAIN VIGO MARCO (Museo de Arte Contemporánea)
29/10/2016 Sat SPAIN ZARAGOZA Las Armas
01/11/2016 Tue FRANCE CANNES MJC Picaud
02/11/2016 Wed ITALY BOLOGNA Locomotiv
03/11/2016 Thu ITALY ROME Monk
04/11/2016 Fri ITALY MILAN Magnolia
05/11/2016 Sat ITALY VENICE Spazio Aereo
06/11/2016 Sun GERMANY MÜNCHEN Kranhalle
07/11/2016 Mon AUSTRIA VIENNA WUK
08/11/2016 Tue CZECH REPUBLIC PRAGUE MeetFactory
09/11/2016 Wed GERMANY BERLIN C-Theatre
10/11/2016 Thu GERMANY HAMBURG Uebel & Gefährlich
11/11/2016 Fri NETHERLANDS AMSTERDAM Q-Factory
12/11/2016 Sat NETHERLANDS MAASTRICHT Muziekgieterij
13/11/2016 Sun BELGIUM BRUSSELS Botanique
14/11/2016 Mon UK LONDON Islington Assembly Hall
15/11/2016 Tue UK BRISTOL Marble Factory
16/11/2016 Wed UK SHEFFIELD Plug
17/11/2016 Thu UK NEWCASTLE University
18/11/2016 Fri UK GLASGOW Art SchoolDaniel Lanois announces album Goodbye to Language
Daniel Lanois is a name that deserves to be mentioned alongside the finest sonic experimenters of the 20th century – and the 21st century too. Whatever you’re listening to – whether it be acoustic or electronic, roots or futurist, underground or pop – if you listen closely you’ll hear traces of the sonic signatures of Daniel Lanois. And what’s more he’s still experimenting as eagerly as he ever has, creating music as beautiful and new as ever before.
It is a refusal to sit still, a constant hunger for new ideas and techniques, that has defined both his work as a world renowned producer and his solo works. Most recently, he has hit a rich creative seam, so apparent on the gorgeous, weightless album Goodbye to Language, which comes out this September 9th.
On this new album, and its widely acclaimed predecessor Flesh and Machine, Lanois connects the most forward-looking instincts that constant contact with studio technology can develop with the natural rootedness that only a lifetime in music can give a person.
The work he did on Brian Eno’s ambient albums has entered into legend and would lead him onto working on some of the biggest selling records of the time. Working with Bob Dylan he brought out a roland TR-808 drum machine to use as a compositional tool – kickstarting the groove of the Oh Mercy album, and helping make it one of the most dramatic creative reinventions in Dylan’s career. A few years later, he and Eno helped bring the electronic music culture that they themselves had helped to inspire into U2’s Achtung Baby.
Goodbye to Language is the perfect joining of the dots, through the world-changing experiments of his early days with Eno, through his flights through the most rarefied atmospheres of the mainstream of music. Constructed entirely from the sounds of the pedal steel guitar, Daniel on the pedal steel and his mate Rocco Deluca on the lap steel with compositional rigour that recalls the 20th century dreamscapes of Ravel and Debussy, with a sense of sonic futurism and yet also with the naturalness that can only come from someone rooted in centuries of grassroots music.
And while fusions of influence can sometimes lead to homogenisation in the blending of source material, this record does precisely the opposite: it’s about highlighting the highest common factors from a lifetime of influences. Or as he succinctly puts it: “I operate under the banner of soul music – music that just feels right and comes from a truthful place.” When a musician with as much expertise and experience as Daniel tells their own personal truth, you should really listen closely.
Gazelle Twin: Kingdom Come : An audiovisual performance for 2 vocalists
Following on from Gazelle Twin’s widely acclaimed Unflesh LP and world tour, her latest project – audiovisual live show, Kingdom Come is inspired by J.G Ballard’s final novel, and explores tribalism, social conditioning and fascism in the contemporary suburban and consumer landscape.
Gazelle Twin – The Suburbs Dream Of Violence (Kingdom Come) from Gazelle Twin on Vimeo.
Originally commissioned by Future Everything Festival in 2016 (UK), the performance features two vocalists on treadmills, silhouetted against an episodic series of mesmerising and violent short films created by British filmmakers Chris Turner and Tash Tung. With rising acts of terrorism and the political far right across Europe, it makes an uncanny social commentary for the present day, and is a chilling reminder of Ballard’s prophetic writing.
‘not a word is uttered by the audience, as it is completely captivating’ Drowned In Sound at Sonar Festival, ES 2016
‘one of the weekend’s highlights’ Resident Advisor at Rewire Festival, NL 2016.
‘absolutely incredible. Thy will be done.’ The Quietus at Sonar Festival, ES 2016
‘even more strange and glorious than expected’ Louder Than War at Future Everything Festival, UK 2016CREDITS
Music and Concept by Gazelle Twin
Films by Chris Turner & Tash Tung
Performed by: Jez Bernholz, Natalie Sharp, Stuart WarwickOriginally commissioned by Future Everything Festival (UK) 2016.
Welcome to LittleBig : Gazelle Twin
We are delighted to welcome Gazelle Twin to the LittleBig family!
Gazelle Twin is the moniker for performance artist, composer and producer Elizabeth Bernholz. Her conceptual albums present dystopian themes through unconventional electronic production and extraordinary live performances which feature changing personas.
FutureEverything 2016: Gazelle Twin – Kingdom Come – An audiovisual performance for two vocalists from FutureEverything on Vimeo.
Her widely acclaimed second album ‘UNFLESH’ (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray/Last Gang, September 2014) was a personal yet visceral depiction of puberty, phobia, gender identity told through a spectrum of choral voices and spoken word, backed by unrelenting industrial-pop production. The accompanying live show toured internationally from 2013 – 2015 during a period which established her place as an innovator in contemporary electronic music.
Gazelle Twin’s latest project, live show, Kingdom Come is inspired by J.G Ballard’s final novel, and explores tribalism, social conditioning and fascism in the contemporary suburban and consumer landscape. Commissioned by Future Everything Festival 2016 (Manchester, UK), the audio-visual performance features two vocalists on treadmills, set against a series of films and animated text by regular collaborators Chris Turner and Tash Tung.