[Jandek] UK August 2008

[krakow]

Nice sounding line up. If they managed to confirm Vanishing Voice, Mick
Flowers and Magik Markers it might end up enough to tempt me southwards.

On Dec 14, 2007 6:49 PM, <Darrellhowarth at aol.com> wrote:

>  i'm not sure if this has been mentioned here but i'll post it anyway....
>
> *ROWF! ROWF! ROWF!
>
> Sat 23rd & Sun 24th August 2008, Islington Mill, Salford, £25 weekend
> tickets, 3pm starts
>
> ROWF! ROWF! ROWF! 4 STARRING
>
> JANDEK
>
> We are honoured and thrilled to bring you a rare appearance from the
> reclusive Texan hero of chilling, solitary heartbreak, free from the chains
> of confinement since 2004 and set to jam with some of Manchester's most
> notable experimental musicians. His bands have, in the past, included such
> luminaries as Chris Corsano, Richard Youngs, Alex Neilson and Phil Todd. The
> R!R!R! set will be recorded for possible release by Corwood Industries.
> Quite clearly a pant-wetting thrill for one and all.
>
> RICHARD YOUNGS
>
> Since the late 1980s, Richard Youngs has imposed his flurry of vibrant
> sound experimentation on the choiceless few that were fortunate enough to
> become addicted to it. And, over the past 20 years, that experimentation has
> tested the limits of songwriting as equally as it has of noise, drone and
> improvised rock. His latest opus Summer's Edge, for example, sees him
> singing an epic, 23-minute a cappella, repetitively phrased beyond the point
> of irritation, forcing the listener into a passivity that soothes and
> caresses the soul. He almost never plays live.
>
> DIRECTING HAND
>
> Directing Hand from Glasgow is the brainchild of free-drummer
> extraordinaire Alex Neilson. Skilled in the black-art of ecstatic
> improvisation, Neilson and his crew of sound-searching souls journey into
> verdant fields of free-psych-drone, delicate-bubbling-noise and traditional
> UK folk.
>
> CHARALAMBIDES
>
> Texan duo comprised of Tom Carter and Christina Carter. One of the most
> important improvisational units in the world today. As Marcus Boon wrote in
> The Wire; "...here is a truly 21st century experimental ethnic music that
> explores quietness and stasis... in the same way that musicians in the
> second half of the 20th century discovered amplification, noise and speed."
>
> MV&EE
>
> MV&EE is a group of musicians focused around Matt Valentine (formerly of
> neo-psych heroes The Tower Rercordings) and his partner Erika Elder. Their
> style is self-described as "lunar ragas", with many of the lyrics dealing
> with celestial imagery. They combine beautiful Indian raga style composition
> with Appalachian folk and post-psychedelic electrical experimentalism. Get
> gone!
>
> TIGHT MEAT DUO
>
> A duo of the fantastic free drummer Alex Neilson and the fiery sax of
> David Keenan. A powerful onslaught of free jazz with David providing some
> high energy saxophone screams alongside Alex's plethora of rhythmic energy.
> "Like all the great visionary thinkers of our time, from Iggy Stooge to
> Arthur Doyle, David Keenan and Alex Neilson are autodidactic polymaths
> devolving advanced thought back to punk-primitive motion." (Tony Herrington)
>
>
> THE HUNTER GRACCHUS
>
> Named after the title and protagonist of a short story by Kafka, Sheffield
> drone druids The Hunter Gracchus provide a soundtrack to the story as eerie
> and aimless as the Hunter himself. Wonderful tripped-out, monotonal,
> fragmentory bliss courtesy of the people that brought you Peril Hill and the
> man who brought you Ross Parfitt, Ross Parfitt.
>
> JAKOB OLAUSSON
>
> If Skip Spence were somehow, instead of finding his white-frocked self
> stuck in the rat-infested hole that was Bellvue, transplanted to the pine
> forests north of Malmo, Sweden, in a sonic nest of gimbri, bells, shakers
> and clothed in Tibetan silk, one would come slightly closer to the reality
> of Jakob Olausson's migratory whims. To be sure, that foggy and only
> slightly inland empire of synapse-twisters like Ben Chasny offers a step on
> the trodden trail, but this isn't the same road we've traveled before.
> Olausson's compositions slowly fade down the walls of four-track bedroom
> artistry into atemporal suites that shrink huge expanses and are a bellows
> to the microcosmic.
>
> SERFS
>
> Where many of today's rock musicians turn to an eastern aesthetic in
> pursuit of a sprituality not found in the rock with which they honed their
> chops, Serfs simply take that rock back to its primordial state by stripping
> away everthing until the tones of the electric guitar are all that's left.
> Gone are melody, structure and rhythm; in their place are incredible soaring
> half-solos and a western drone that dazzles the spirit and warmw the heart.
> If Manchester's musical history is laughable, then Serfs put furrows in the
> brows of all such detractors.
>
> ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS
>
> English psychedelic noise project centered upon Phil Todd, active since
> 1991. Releases through labels such as Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers,
> Siltbreeze, Jewelled Antler, American Tapes, Menlo Park, E.F. Tapes and
> Freedom From incorporate extended droning and atonal extrapolations. Critic
> James Blackshaw described the Ashtray Navigations sound as "sub-aquatic
> synth bubble, busted-up cassette-tape hiss and distorted electric guitar
> hover that sounds like a mythical god banished from the realm of light and
> trying desperately to clamber his/her way out of a dark bottomless void
> where time itself stands still." The Wire's David Keenan has described Phil
> Todd/Ashtray Navigations as "a trashcan antidote to LaMonte Young."
>
> BEACH FUZZ
>
> Duo of Serfs' guitar hero Tom Settle and EYE HAI member Nick Mitchell,
> occasionally featuring the mind-bending horn of EYE HAI's Andrew Stavely.
> The keyboard/guitar/French horn combo pursues the same astral trail as
> Sun-Ra with stabilisers. Untrained, unkempt and unutterably good. Pop yrself
> into a trance and bliss one off.
>
> BIRDS OF DELAY
>
> Birds of Delay is the duo of Steven Warwick and Luke Younger. The Birds
> have blossomed into one of the best offerings from the UK noise scene, with
> a prolific outpouring of material, through a never ending list of labels,
> including Chocolate Monk and American Tapes, and their continually evolving
> live performances. While their sound is underpinned by some almighty drones,
> the pair bring out an ever-changing array of instruments and electronic
> trickery to create some of the most intrciately rendered "noise" around.
>
> THE PISS SUPERSTITION
>
> Ex-VibraCathedral Orchestra member Julian Bradley brings us one-man noise
> and drone heroics on guitar, mics, tapes and electronics. This
> hypnotic-endless-universal-intercourse induces waves of tepid despair as it
> trawls noise's gravelly bottom for sub-Thurston tones, drones and
> half-licks. Feet are stomped on a digital keyboard, riffs are ditched
> mid-flow. This is the stuff of one's best nightmares.
>
> and TO BE CONFIRMED...
>
> THE VANISHING VOICE
>
> MICHAEL FLOWER BAND
>
> ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB
>
> MAGIK MARKERS
>
> and much more.
> *
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