ARCHIVE 2003 |
POCKET
Pocket are a two guitar, bass and drums instrumental quartet whose eponymous first CD has caused something of a stir, with
The Wire proclaiming that of it's not a hit "there's no justice in this rotten world". The record pits urgent, noisy and clever
playing against bright bouncing pop melodies to create music which is like electrified sunshine- just perfect for January,
eh?
Pocket are a janglin', twangin' ball of joyous energy that will rejuvinate all but the most jaded of us.
SIMON FISHER
TURNER
Possibly the most debonair man in experimental music, SFT is responsible for many notable film scores (perhap's most famously
Derek Jarman's "Blue") as well as a colourful pop history under a variety of pseudonyms. For tonight Simon presents a new
work, a sound piece entitled "You Weren't There" a collage/musique concret piece recorded in Bonn, Kyoto, Tokyo, Granada,
Carboneras, Jerusalem, Lisbon and Athens.
Anna Homler
The Los Angeles based Astro-Chanteuse pays another welcome return to Baggage Reclaim. Anna Homler is a vocalist and performer
who has invented her own language, and whose music is by turns charming, playful, weird and enchanting. A great BagRec favourite.
Tom Chant, Paul May, Ben Drew, Richard Sanderson
Improvised music from an unusual quartet of (respectively) Soprano Sax, Laptop, Drums and Accordion. The performers come from
a variety of backgrounds including electronic music, free jazz, groove based pop and song-form, but all share a long interest
and involvement in the world of non-idiomatic free improvisation. This is their debut as a quartet.
Alexandre Bellenger(France)
Only his second performance in the UK (his last was also promoted by us at The Club Room in 1999), the Paris based guitarist
and electronics player is one of the most energetic and imaginative young players from a new generation of French improvisors.
A regular performer at Paris' famous Instants Chavires club, Bellenger is a gripping and dynamic performer.
Richard Sanderson
A few songs from the host- on accordion and electronics...
Plus Video Loops and Interval Music from Timeslice
Sunday 26th November 2003
Starts 8pm Admission £6(£5 with a flyer)
12 Bar Club,
Denmark Place,
London,
SUNDAY 16TH FEBRUARY 2003
Illuminati meets Disco
Operating System
Two acts from the burgeoning Manchester avant-electronica scene based around the Planet Sounds and RSI labels which have (contrary
to the ever diverging UK scene) recently come together to form "Lotta Continua". In the spirit of convergence the labels'
two leading acts perform together in a set that starts as Illuminati and ends as Disco Operating System! A mixture of mutating
pulses and cryto-drones this promises to be a one-off audio spectacular.
Vanishing Breed
A miniature rock opera (almost)! Vanishing Breed provide an extraordinary audio-visual feast, with a unique puppet
theatre performance backed by electronic music (often using children's toys as source) which is by turns charming, disturbing
and beautiful.
Tonic Train
Knut Aufermann and Sarah Washington's duo project mixes intricate home-built "circuit bending" electronics with a subtle use
of feedback in performances that are as organic in structure as they are challenging in sound.
GPUD
Hannah and Steve's lo-fi electronic project pits ancient scientific sound producing equipment against an enthusiastic and
explorative imagination.
Richard Sanderson
Songs accompanied by sampling rhythm box.
Plus- video loops and interval music from Timeslice
Sunday 16th February,
12 Bar Club,
Denmark St,
London WC2
8PM admission £6
Sunday February 23rd 2003
An Ochre Records evening
featuring-
Longstone
Cheltenham based crypto electro duo Longstone make a triumphant return to Baggage Reclaim, bringing their slippery brand of
motorik-clicky electronica.
Land of Nod
The somnambulant Land of Nod play a music which is almost stationary, and they are not ashamed of attempting to induce
a dream-like state. However their new album "Inducing the Sleep Sphere" also includes a few moments of noisy activity that
suggests a collision of krautrock and garage psychedelia. No we don't know what to expect either!
90 Degrees South
90 Degrees South is the project of Kev Fox, here unveiling a brand new extended piece that builds from skeletal electric piano
tones to a propulsive workout with clipped Tom Verlaine'esque guitar.
..bucolic and often beguiling... David Shepherd- Q.
plus a performance from
IMAO
IMAO is Martin Hackett, analogue synthesizer; Olivier Benoit, electric guitar; Yanick Miossec, objects /electronics. Based
in Lille they are one of the groups who have come together thanks to Le Crime - Centre Regional
d'Improvisation et Musiques Experimentales, a "collective" of about 30 musicians which puts on regular concerts/events in
the area.
A near legendary figure on the London experimental scene until his move to France, Martin Hackett's approach to the synthesizer
is revelatory, taking it far beyond the weird keyboard instrument of the past he produces a sound which simultaneously suggests
50's electronic music and completely new textures and approaches. This is the first UK appearance for many years for this
ever explorative musician.
Host- Richard Sanderson
Interval Music and Video Loops from Timeslice
Sunday 23rd February 2003
12 Bar Club,
Denmark St,
London
WC2
7pm Admission £6
30th March 2003
THOMAS TRUAX
Return appearance from the talk of Wowtown, New Yorker Thomas Truax’s last appearance was a barnstorming success. He
merges a fevered imagination, stolid songwriting abilities and a groovy showbiz attitude with a mad scientist’s brain for weird
gadgets.
You get darkly witty songs accompanied by weird Harry Partch-esque home made instruments. Very groovy indeed.
NTSHUKS BONGA TRIO
First BagRec appearance for the fiery South African sax player. Coming from that country’s venerated free jazz tradition
the volcanic Ntshuks has been playing in some top drawer big bands lately– but here returns with the snappiest off-kilter
funk rhythm section in town;- the polyrhythmic Robin Musgrove- Drums, and the elastic Jerry Bird– Bass.
THE HEADY VAPOURS
Young, sarcastic and irrepressibly propulsive, the Heady Vapours are a duo who have soaked up lessons from the early works
of Wire and the Fall to produce an intelligently exploratory minimalist rock. Debut performance.
RHODRI DAVIES
"Master of the timbral tinderbox" (©...er..me) Rhodri Davies plays the harp, and wrings the most incredible array of
sounds from it with a dizzying collection of additions and oddments. One of our leading free improvisers, his music and choice of
instrument make his live performances, engrossing, unique occasions.
RICHARD SANDERSON
Your host for the evening. Richard plays the usual opening set of songs- this time, in tribute to the 12 Bar Club, with guitar accompaniment in the company of Mark Braby.
INTERVAL MUSIC - TIMESLICE
VISUALS- SOUL GRANDPRIX
Sunday 30th March 2003 ,7pm
Admission £6 (£5 with this flyer)
The 12 Bar Club,
Denmark Place, London WC2
Tel. 020 7916 6989.
PLEASE NOTE-
THIS IS THE FINAL BAGGAGE RECLAIM EVENT.
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Sunday 17th December 2000
KEV HOPPER–
Tunes, Compositions and Carols from England’s Saw virtuoso. Kev’s album “Whispering Foils” is available
now on Duophonic
Records.
RICHARD SANDERSON–
Songs and stories with micro-accompaniment on electric organ. Richard and Kev are members of “Ticklish” whose debut
album
is out now on GROB records.
SIMON FISHER TURNER–
Soundtrack composer (Derek Jarman etc), electronicist, Pop musician and international collaborator of choice. His performances
are always warm and inclusive.
PAUL HOOD-
Turntables and Test Records. A brand new piece exploring the intangible concept of “hi-fi“. Paul is the organiser
of the excellent
“Instant Music Meeting”
events at the Spitz. Solo performances are hypnotic and witty.
SIMON VINCENT– Computer
GRAHAM HALLIWELL– Saxophone
Captivating duo working with high tech and low volume. Simon and Graham are members of the trio VHF (with Simon H Fell) whose
first CD on Erstwhile was widely praised. The music is intense and involving.
28th January 2001
LOL COXHILL & KNUT AUFERMANN
The extraordinary and inimitable soprano sax of National Treasure Coxhill meets the sample and hold pyrotechnics of cyber-boffin
Aufermann.
THE SINGING LUCHEDORS
Through the distorting fog of 70’s nostalgia comes this easy listening tribute to the heroes of “World of Sport”
Saturday
afternoons. In masks.
STEVE BERESFORD & ALAN TOMLINSON
Gadgets, machines and devices from the ever explorative Beresford interact with the utterly compulsive maelstrom that is the
trombonist Tomlinson. Look out front row!
MARK BRABY
Solo set from the front man of quirkmeisters “Joes Comforters”- vocals, electric guitar and effects collide in songs
to make
your foot tap and your brain resonate.
RICHARD SANDERSON
Master of Ceremonies, with songs, chat, electronics and a cynical mis-use of punk nostalgia
February 25th 2001
MINNOW
A special appearance from Kelsey Michael’s widescreen explorative pop group, highly original songs with exquisite and
daring
arrangements.
Kelsey Michael– Voice/Composer
Dean Broderick– Accordion/Electronics
John Edwards– Double Bass
Richard Sanderson– Organ/Electronics
John Telfer– Saxophones/Flute
Mark Sanders– Drums
ED BAXTER
Textual provocations with a biting wit and a truculent adventurousness. Ed Baxter writes for “Resonance”, “The
Wire” and many
other publications.
PETER CUSACK
Peter combines extraordinary field recordings with acoustic instruments and cutting edge technology to create beautiful sonic
constructions which also carry a subtly disturbing socio-political message.
FAIRLESS MASTERMAN
Performs “I used to be a pigeon, but now I’m a duck” an exploration of morphogenic/transfigaritive crisis.
RICHARD SANDERSON
Host, electronics and voice. Avant Garde explorer continues his return journey into the warm embrace of pop music.
KEV HOPPER-
Haunting tunes played on the musical saw...
25th March 2001
ANNA HOMLER WITH STEVE BERESFORD & RICHARD SANDERSON
Los Angeles based vocalist and toy player reconvenes her trio last seen at the finale of LMC’s International Festival
of Experimental
Music. Beresford and Sanderson assist with more toys and electronics and create a magical world of tiny events, and sci-fi
conundrums. Homler’s unique voice and amazing toy collection entice you into her enchanting, strange and humorous world.
PHIL DURRANT
Solo set from this genius of the British electronica scene. Durrant’s music continually confounds expectations whilst
creating
new textures which seduce and fascinate.
DILDANO
Martin A Smith and Tim Hooper’s electronica project works in an area of dirty, unsettling drones and expanding filmic
vistas.Darkly
compelling.
RICHARD SANDERSON
MC and Host. Electronics and voice. More new songs and glitch ‘n’ sigh moments from the post-improv crooner.
April 29th 2001
THE ORIGINAL BEEKEEPERS
Representing “the awkward line between serious and silly” The Beekeepers (essentially Ash, Tom and Steve) write
and perform
songs which charm and amuse. Simultaneously cuddly and strange, these multi-instrumentalists are as peculiar, oddly comforting
and as quintessentially English as the skin on a rice pudding.
LIVE BATTS!
Composer John White’s battery operated keyboard group (John White, Jiggs Coldiron and Andrea Rocca) produce a unique
brand
of electronic music which celebrates the presets of early budget electronics. As part of the 60’s generation of the British
avant garde, John White has been the hardest to assimilate. Concert Pianist, composer of more symphonies than Haydn and (as
here) playful electronics pioneer. A true gentleman of the cutting edge.
TRANSMISSIONS OF NOT
Sean Cundy– texts, Chris Cundy– Bass Clarinet, Fyfe Hutchens– Keyboards. “Transmissions of Not” present
a spell-binding performance
of cabalistic spoken word and other self-defence mechanisms, meeting micro-minimalist low register instrumentation.
LEGO play COTNER
The London Electric Guitar Orchestra perform the World Premiere of “BAGGAGE” written by the American composer, artist
and
cyber-collator David Cotner especially for “Baggage Reclaim”. Cotner’s encyclopaedic website hertz-lion.com
is a window into the amazingly broad church of experimental music. LEGO is one of the counties leading ensembles for the playing
of new and innovative music. The composer hopes to be present for this performance.
RICHARD SANDERSON
Your MC and Host. Electronics and voice. More new songs and new words, new samples and new rants, glitch ‘n’ sigh
moments
from the post-improv crooner.
May 20th 2001
CHARLES HAYWARD
Solo performance from the South London drummer/vocalist/instrumentalist and iconoclastic powerhouse. His songs explore a revolution
in everyday life, with a clarity and precision rarely seen in English experimental music, combined with a devastating technique.
Whether solo or with his previous bands “This Heat” and “The Camberwell Now” or his recent trio with Bill
Laswell and Fred
Frith, Charles Hayward is always an exhilarating and magnetic presence, his music a flow of powerfully expressed ideas.
THE UNSEEMLY TRIO
Sax/Accordion/Percussion group “The Unseemly Trio” take an unusually thoughtful and analytical approach to improvised
music
which despite it’s intellectual rigour has a warm and involving feel which may have something to do with the unusual
instrumentation.
This group have been turning heads with their compelling and luminously spacious aesthetic.
BEN WATSON
He’s written an enormous book about Frank Zappa and a tantalisingly abstruse and even bigger book about everything else.
“Wire”
journalist Ben Watson here presents a lecture on “The politics of sampling and the revolutionary role of acoustic specificity
versus capitalist repetition syndrome”. And it will rock.
THOMAS KUMLEHN
Scintillating visiting German musician Thomas Kumlehn performs “2 Monologues” for soprano sax, flute, voice and
sampler, in
an interplay with some ideas he absorbed whilst working with musicians in India.
SCOPAC
Video meddler from Ticklish, scopac (Rob Flint) always has a radical approach to video presentation. Here in a very rare solo
performance, he presents “Able was I”- a live video montage and remix.
RICHARD SANDERSON
Your Host and MC, also performing songs with sampler accompaniment.
24th June 2001
KAFFE MATTHEWS
Kaffe Matthews’ unique brand of PowerBook electronica has taken her all over the world. She takes tiny sounds from the
performance
area and feeds it back through the extraordinary sampling technology LiSa. (Developed for Kaffe at the famous STEIM laboratories
in Amsterdam) to create astounding textural music which can range from the delicate to the monumental. Kaffe’s scintillating
approach to electronica can be heard on her latest release “CD DD”.
GOEM
Flying in from Holland, GOEM (Frans de Waard/Roel Meelkop/Peter Duimelinks) are (like Kaffe) part of the international electronica
community and have played at many festivals and events. This activity has brought them into contact with people as diverse
as Ash International (who release their next CD) and Super Furry Animals (who they’ve remixed). They describe their sound
as “Minimal pulse music” which shows techno in it’s purest form. Baggage Reclaim is delighted to present their
London debut.
CHRIS GOODE
Chris Goode is the director of the controversial theatre group “Signal to Noise” whose appearance at the last Edinburgh
Festival
caught amazing reviews for their highly original take on “the classics”. Also active as a musician in “Coat”
and “Ideal Starfighter”,
in this instance Chris will be performing some prose pieces. His writing is perceptive, energetic and infused with a witheringly
droll humour.
FIBRE LIQUOR
Doug Keeley (guitar), Gethyn Jordan (drums), Surain Lokuge (bass) and invisible 4th member Richard Geduld, create a minimalist
rock music which combines the melodic melancholy of Brazilian pop with a low down rhythmic drive. The music taps into an area
between sorrow and celebration/fragility and force with a classic “less is more” aesthetic.
RICHARD SANDERSON
Your Host and MC, also singing a few of his songs with sampling groovebox accompaniment.
July 25th 2001
MINDLOBSTER
Mindlobster take as their source material the most soulless, manufactured music of all time, (“Adult Orientated Rock”)
and
delight in producing something sparkling, melodic, crystalline and still utterly devoid of soul! In other’s hands, this
would
be an exercise in the electronic manipulation of downloadable Midi-files, but when grabbed by the monstrous claws of the MindLobster
the result is a witty dissection of pop, and how it can seep into your unwilling consciousness. Manipulated? You will be.
VIC TWENTY
Electrostalinist Vic Twenty has a vision of a pre-digital electro-pop universe where the horrors of ballearic beats and techno
are eradicated and we are transported to a shiny optimistic world of retro-modernism. Vic Twenty knows that nothing dates
like the future, but in his “Jetsons” world, the pure, perfect pop of 1981 reigns supreme. “Baggage Reclaim”
is old enough
to remember the future too, and applauds his chimerical prescience.
JULIEN OTTAVI
Julien Ottavi (Laptop and Voice) works with real-time treatment of his own voice with a computer. He is influenced by sound
poets such as Jaap Blonk and Henri Chopin, musique concrete and contemporaries like Bernard Gunter
and Merzbow. Hailing from Nantes, France– Julien is a regular collaborator with AMM’s Keith Rowe and luminaries
of the French
experimental scene. Baggage Reclaim is delighted to present his UK debut.
DOG HEADS
The duo of Paul Chauncy and Matt Petch unveil their new joint project of scattershot weirdness and arcane dogtronica. Dog
Heads are galvanising, fun and funky, and (apparently) perform with enough frequencies to keep a canine audience baying at
the moon. This is their debut performance.
RICHARD SANDERSON
Your Host and MC, also singing a few of his songs with sampling groovebox accompaniment. A member of South London electronic
group “Ticklish”, Richard’s solo appearances have been steadily moving from the extremes of non-idiomatic improvisation,
back
into the sticky embrace of pop.
August 26th 2001
DEAD VOICES ON AIR
DVOA is Mark Spybey, an ex member of Zoviet-France and Download. He has released eight albums under the guise of DVOA and
has collaborated on over 60 releases. He is a member of Can guitarist, Michael Karoli's band, Sofortkontakt! And he regularly
appears with Damo Suzuki, ex-Can vocalist. In addition, Spybey has worked with Faust, Mick Harris, James Plotkin, Genesis.P.Orridge
and members of Neu!, Swans and Kraftwerk. Spybey originally started in legendary North East experimental band “Solaris”
in
1975 alongside
Richard Sanderson! His music has moved from unsettling droning soundscapes into more recent flirtations with harmony and complex
structures. “Spybey is a genius, but a maddening one at that”-Real Detroit Weekly, 2000. Visit www.dvoa.com
TOSHI MAKIHARA & STEVE BERESFORD
Toshi Makihara is one of the major voices in Philadelphia's New Music Experimental Free Improvisation scene today. He has
worked with musicians including, Peter Brotzmann, John Zorn, Eugene Chadbourne, John Butcher and Thurston Moore. His style
combines his masterful percussion technique with vaudeville humour, and a Zen-influenced use of silence and gesture. This
is his first meeting with Brit eclectitian and synapse snapping electro-maestro Steve Beresford in what promises to be a spell-binding
collision.
LYNDSEY COCKWELL
The fact that Lyndsey’s work is almost impossible to categorise makes her a perfect Baggage Reclaim guest. A singer songwriter
with a great voice who blends in elements of musique-concrete , field recordings, sampling and a skewed take on spoken word,
her music could be modern folk, experimental music, pop or documentary. But it’s always a beguiling experience.
THE NOBLE FELL
An unusual duo featuring the dream rhythm section of the British avant garde. Steve Noble is a percussionist who cuts up time
like an early Godard movie, double bassist Simon H Fell is a one man musical renaissance who infects everything he does with
a maniacal intensity. Minimal, brainy and pulse-quickeningly real-time.
RICHARD SANDERSON
Your Host and MC, also singing a few of his songs with sampling groovebox accompaniment. A member of South London electronic
group “Ticklish”, Richard’s solo appearances have been steadily moving from the extremes of non-idiomatic improvisation,
back
into the sticky embrace of pop.
September 30th 2001
POCKET
Pocket are an exhilarating twin guitar, bass and drums neo-pop quartet featuring Alex Ward (Derek Bailey, 13 Ghosts etc) andJohn
Bisset (LEGO, Brush and Strings etc) on guitars with Olivier Picard on drums and Svena on bass. Using rumbustious tuneswhich
split off into unexpected directions, Pocket are a janglin’, twangin’ ball of joyous energy. Don’t miss!
ED BENNET & STEVE HALFYARD
Presenting “Theatrical Pieces for Voice, Electronics and Tape”, Bennet and Halfyard produce a simultaneously mystifying
and
engrossing sound of crackling electronics, bursts of noise and washes of harmony over which floats the singular voice of Steve
Halfyard pushing and prodding the music into new environments. Think of Berio’s work with Cathy Berberian colliding with
modern electronic music and you’re getting closer… This is their UK debut.
NOISE GATE
“Noise Gate” is an excellent printed journal which explores sound with a scientific precision, and often from oblique
angles.
Topics they have delved into in the past include sound mirrors and the peculiar qualities of “whispering galleries”.
Tonight
they give us an illustrated presentation/talk about a particular acoustic phenomena.
THE STRING MACHENE
The String Machene never appeared.
RICHARD SANDERSON
Your Host and MC, also singing a few of his songs with sampling groovebox accompaniment. A member of South London electronic
group “Ticklish”, Richard’s solo appearances have been steadily moving from the extremes of non-idiomatic improvisation,
back
into the sticky embrace of pop.
October 28th 2001
DUAL
Colin Bradley, George Richardson and Alice Kemp use electric guitars treated by laptops to create a stately music of gradual
development. A slow motion explosion- the music emerges from silence to envelop you in a dense and compelling world of intricate
detail and captivating beauty. Dual unveil their latest CD “Keimar Sty” on Coombe Records.
CALCITE Z
Ian R Watson (trumpet) Debra Scacco (flute) Chris Cundy (Bass Clarinet) Pete Flood (Accordion) and Richard Sanderson (organ)
play an improvised music informed by structures and intense listening.
MOTHERLODE
London based audio-visual collective present a short set of experimental sound and film.
BREAD AND SHED
(ANNA HOMLER & SYLVIA HALLETT)
This duo of Los Angeles toy player and vocalist Anna Homler and British improvisor and soundtrack composer Sylvia Hallett
(violin/electronics/voice bicycle wheel etc) play a mixture of enchanting songs and playful improvisations. An ecstatic and
sometimes hilarious combination of the arcane, the haunting and the charmingly ludicrous. Don’t miss this extraordinary
Baggage Reclaim exclusive!
A GIRL CALLED GEM
Gem’s songs have an unnerving edgy quality which is perfectly complimented by her extraordinary voice. Conveying a cracked
intimacy and impulsive passion, she is accompanied by her own acoustic guitar and friends on cello, flute and sax.
RICHARD SANDERSON
Your host and MC, Richard also sings songs with a sneaky minimalist backing which get under your skin...
25 November 2001
SWITCH
Switch (KJ Grant & Richard Gallon) are a thrilling crypto-soul outfit combining mangled and transmutated samples and a soulful
pop voice. KJ and Richard have a background in Chemical Plant, an offshoot of Transglobal Underground, Richard has released
2 CDs of soundtrack eclectica as Funkturm and KJ has collaborated with artists as diverse as DJ Tasha Killer Pussy and Soul
Coughing. Don’t miss this catchy and innovate radical pop proposition.
ROSY PARLANE & ROHAN THOMAS
Laptop duo from the international experimental fringe of technology. Australian Parlane has recorded in a duo with Fennesz,
Thomas lived in Rotterdam for 2 years and worked with Roel Meelkop of Goem. Producing music of sometimes shocking intensity,
this duo present a vision of music’s futuristic possibilities...
JO THOMAS
Astonishing electronic compositions from Jo Thomas;- “Red Games” for trumpet and tape (featuring Tom Arthurs–
trumpet) and
“Dark Noise”. The music is a shifting, luminous bed of sound with fizzing and crackling interruptions, in which
the familiar
and the alien become indistinguishable in a exceptional and beautiful panorama.
KELSEY MICHAEL & DEAN BRODERICK
Kelsey Michael is the vocalist/composer of Minnow (Appearing at the Ist Birthday BagRec next month). This is an opportunity
to hear some of her evocative and haunting songs stripped down to their essence, with backing provided by the restless invention
of Dean Broderick playing Accordion and Organ.
RICHARD SANDERSON
Your host and MC, Richard also sings songs with a sneaky minimalist backing which get under your skin...
16TH December 2001
FIRST BIRTHDAY SPECIAL! FEATURING…
MINNOW
Minnow is the vehicle for Kelsey Michael’s extraordinary songwriting, using an expansive line-up of double bass, electronics,
drums, accordion, keyboards, sax and flute, the music ranges from haunting otherworldliness to driving experimentalism with
a filmic edge. Minnow are about to release their second mini-album “Out of the Woods” on Stereolab’s “Duophonic”
imprint.
VIV CORRINGHAM & PETER CUSACK
“Operet” is Peter Cusack and Viv Corringham’s amazing CD on No Man’s Land records– it’s a collection
of songs, often with
folky origins, colliding with an uncommonly sensitive use of electronics and sampling. Viv’s evocative voice uses techniques
from eastern European folk traditions while Peter uses an an electronically enhanced bouzouki and acoustic guitar. Utterly
unique and very beautiful.
GOMMORRAhh
Part of Manchester’s aLECTRO eCOUSTIC network (with an obvious fondness for unusual upper-case use) the enigmatic GOMMORRAhh
describe their sound as “electronic music from instruments made of wood” The result is a clattering lop-sided experimental
funk. They have a brand new single out on RSI recordings. This is their London debut.
STEVE NOBLE
Justifiably praised as a drummer of great ability and flair, Steve Noble applies the same virtuosity and precision to the
turntables for this set. Already heard in the context of the awesome trio “AND” with Derek Bailey and Pat Thomas,
In this
solo performance Noble presents a jump-cutting world of flashing nostalgia, comic timing and crashing din.
RICHARD SANDERSON
Your host and MC, Richard also sings songs with a sneaky minimalist backing which get under your skin…
+ VIRTUAL DJ– NECK DOPPLER (CONSUME, GLASGOW)
+ GUERRILLA VISUALS– SOUL GRAND PRIX
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January 27TH 2002
This month- (a UK experimental club summit)- featuring-
VHF
(Graham Halliwell- alto saxophone/ Simon Vincent- Computer & percussion/ Simon H. Fell- Double Bass) This trio has the line
up of a classic free-jazz power trio, but use their resources to achieve very different ends- producing a quiet introspective
music which nevertheless crackles with circumvented energy. They are actively expounding a new vocabulary for these instruments
in an intense, involving experience. Graham Halliwell runs the highly adventurous “Other Sounds” events in Norwich.
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A "generative/ibook set" from the glitch/dub maestro, and the man behind the impressive “Sprawl” imprint. The music
is a compelling
and accessible concoction of hypnotic sub-bass, screwed up beats and bursts of pure noise.
NECK DOPPLER
From Glasgow, Neck Doppler inhabits a sonic environment long since abandoned by experimentalists seeking a hi-fi paradise;
He prefers an urgent grubby soundworld more reminiscent of 70's pioneers like Robert Rental and early Cabaret Voltaire- mesmerically
upsetting. Neck Doppler’s new single is “Sit Down”. Neck Doppler is part of Glasgow’s frenetic “Consume”
empire.
DANIEL WEAVER
Solo set of Midi Cello from Manchester’s Daniel Weaver. Using a laptop to create live manipulations from his own cello
improvisations,
Weaver creates little vignettes of electro acoustic music bristling with nervous beauty and raw urgency. Daniel Weaver is
brought to us by Manchester’s eclectic “aLECTRO eCoustic” outfit.
RICHARD SANDERSON
Accompanying himself with a reprogrammed sampling drum machine, Richard croons a set of songs over block chords, bleeps and
beats, songs of dry humour and restrained anger he’s staking a place for the avant garde re-embracing pop.
Richard is also the host and MC of Baggage Reclaim.
Interval Music from DJ Timeslice
Visual Disturbances from Soul Grand Prix
February 24TH 2002
WILLIAM D DRAKE
Keyboard player, vocalist and composer William D Drake writes strange songs with an unmistakable English quality where gorgeous
pop melodies twist and turn into something gently sinister. Reflecting the often aquatically themed songs in the mainly unexplored
“Nautical Lounge” genre, his backing group is the Barnacles;- Mark Braby- bass/drum/melodica, Terry Pitt- trumpet
and backing
vocals and Bernie Holden- bass clarinet.
JOHN BUTCHER
More than any other musician in the last 10 years, John Butcher has taken the saxophone from its jazz roots and worked on
an entirely new vocabulary. Using an array of extended techniques he at times approaches the qualities of electronic music.
However, far from being an ascetic experience, Butcher’s solo music is compelling and exciting, played with a sense of
structure
and intelligence that makes it sparkle.
BROWN SIERRA
In the squeaky clean world of “groove based” electronica, Brown Sierra (Paddy Collins and Pia Gambardella) are the
hoodlum
scientists who create music using arcane pieces of laboratory test equipment and self soldered circuits. As a result, their
rigorous and intelligent music rises above the world of presets and programmes, and becomes delightfully unpredictable. Paddyand
Pia are also responsible for “Noisegate” a magazine that looks into all aspects of sound.
MIKE ADCOCK AND CLIVE BELL
Baggage Reclaim has an undisguised fondness for accordions; without doubt THE instrument for the 21st Century- portable, chordal
and
adaptable. Mike Adcock and Clive Bell are former members of the much cherished “Accordions Go Crazy” and play music
which
mixes tunes with improvisation in a whirl of free reeds and wit.
RICHARD SANDERSON
Accompanying himself with a reprogrammed sampling drum machine, Richard croons a set of songs over block chords, bleeps and
beats, with songs of dry humour and restrained anger he’s attempting to make a case for the avant garde re-embracing
pop.
Richard is also the host and MC of Baggage Reclaim.
Sunday 24th March 2002
GRADUAL
A slow motion, de-focussed chamber music played by Charles Hayward,J ohn Edwards, Ashleigh Marsh and Jacqueline
Grant. This is a music of stillness and development to ease you gently into the night with hieghtened awareness.
LOL COXHILL, JOHN EDWARDS & ROBIN MUSGROVE
The great soprano saxophonist of the British underground, constantly inventive- always exploratory, in a lithe trio with bass
virtuoso Edwards and the unique polyrhythms of Robin Musgrove.
MATTIN
Laptop generated feedback meets a perceptive use of silence and blasts of (punk inspired) noise. In an already crowded (and
rapidly congealing) genre Mattin is mapping out a completely unique niche for himself. Exhilararing. All star trio features
Rosy Parlane and computer and Eddie Prevost (AMM).
BREAD AND SHED
This duo of Los Angeles vocalist Anna Homler and British improvisor and soundtrack composer Sylvia Hallett (violin/accordion/voice
bicycle wheel etc) play a mixture of enchanting songs and playful improvisations. An ecstatic and sometimes hilarious combination
of the arcane, the haunting and the charmingly ludicrous.
RICHARD SANDERSON
Your host and MC, also performing a few songs with electronics and accordion.
DJ- Timeslice
Visuals- Soul Grandprix
28th April 2002
THE HIDEOUS REPLICAS
"The singer is a neurotic drinker, the band little more than a crashing beat, instruments collide and we all get drunk"- Baggage
Reclaim presents a tribute to the early years of The Fall, featuring members and ex-members of The Mystery Bruises,
Fibre Liquor, Joe’s Comforters, The Charles Napiers and Ticklish. Eat this grenade!
TRANSMISSIONS OF NOT
Formed in 2001 to present improvisations with reference to hip-hop culture and dance music, TON conclude their Jazz Services
UK tour with a triumphant return to Baggage Reclaim. Brilliant, funky and explorative the group are injecting a youthful vigour
and savvy wit into the avant garde. Chris Cundy– bass clarinet, Fyfe Hutchins– glockenspeil & electronics, John
Edwards– double
bass, Sean De Conde– human beatbox.
FUNKTURM
Funkturm's mesh of skewed tunes, hypnotic electronic rhythms and free-flowing structures makes a rare public appearance. Featuring
sample-manipulator Richard Gallon and dj Tim Evans, Funkturm will be performing an improvised sound piece built around downloaded
(found) 'non-music' MP3s, distorted and re-configured using audio compression technologies, turntables and samples. The performance
will include selections from the forthcoming CD for D.O.R, 'Bon Tempi'.
GILES PERRING presents "THE EXCHANGE"
Exceptional guitarist from "The Unmen" and “Echo City” plucks voices and sounds from the ether in a real time improvisation
with distant friends. An unmissable, mysterious, unique and fascinating experiment which (for reasons that will become obvious)
starts at 9.00pm sharp. Don’t miss this genuinely experimental event.
RICHARD SANDERSON
Singing a few songs and accompanying himself on accordion and reprogrammed sampling drum machine.Richard is also the host
of Baggage Reclaim. ”He may have changed the course of music forever!” -Kev Hopper
DJ– TIMESLICE + GUERILLA VISUALS FROM SOUL GRAND PRIX
26th May 2002
LONGSTONE
Excellent electronica ensemble from Cheltenham.(Mike Cross - electronics, Mike Ward - electronics + toys, Chris Cundy –
amplified
bass clarinet, Steve Moody - elecro double bass) Their music can build from a clicking, humming microminimalism to hypnotic
motorik rhythms that have earned them comparisons with the best of the 70’s German experimental bands. Their recordings
for
the excellent Ochre label have garnered praise for their precision and intelligence.
GRACE CONNOR (With Martin Delaney)
Grace plays computer music with attitude, wit and a combative intellectual rigour. This is the unveiling of a brand new project;-
"Petslayer" based around the loss of some well-loved pets which have expired in tragic/amusing circumstances. It is an audio
visual presentation performed with Martin Delany.
ETHANIA
From Anglesey, the mysterious and strangely romantic Ethania (the name appears to be a place) play a showcase of their slithery
electronic music. The first group to get a gig at Baggage Reclaim through the “Badge Bribes” scheme set up for young
acts
(see “Badges” above). Exciting, and decidedly different- even for us! Instrumentation includes light activated theremin
and
metal detector.
ALAN TOMLINSON (with STEVE BERESFORD & STEVE NOBLE)
A British trombonist who is one of finest (if underused) improvising musicians, playing, dismantling and reconfiguring the
trombone, and utilising a variety of extended techniques to take this uniquely eloquent and comical instrument into wild new
territory.Alan’s last appearance at Baggage Reclaim blew the roof off and the audience away. Here is joined by two idiosyncratic
stars of the London improvising scene, (and Baggage Reclaim regulars)- low tech electronics guru Beresford and master of timekeeping
Noble. A robust and exhilarating experience.
RICHARD SANDERSON
Accordion, Voice and Electronics- performing a set of songs.
Richard is also the host of Baggage Reclaim.
Plus DJ- Timeslice
Guerilla Visuals from Soul Grandprix.
30th June 2002
LOB
London based astro-jazz collective, Lob have just released their sublime new album “Geography”- welding shimmering
noise,plaintive
trumpet, restless sax and exotic flute to a tremendous rhythm section of bass, drums and samples. Lob’s music takes on
the
baton of Miles’ early seventies workouts, with a post-punk appreciation of space that brings to mind the newly fashionable
ACR.
From The Guardian, Friday 24th May-
"As live players, Lob are also a different breed to many of their stylistic relatives. Saxophonist Ralph Littlejohn explores
the impulsive, arrhythmically phrased sax improvising style of Ornette coleman via Steve Coleman and Tim Berne, while drummer
Andy Cato plays machine beats like a human being. Gurgly, squirty bass sounds mix with distant Banshee hoots and noises like
people trying to start cars with dodgy batteries, drum'n'bass beats clatter under long synthesizer sighs, while edgy alto-sax
improv whirls over bumpy funk. In fact the whole group occaisionally suggests an expanded "Spontaneous Music Ensemble" with
an ambient undertow"
- John Fordham.
BRIGITTE MEYER & VIV CORRINGHAM
The Swiss cellist Brigitte Meyer makes a rare UK appearance with the British vocalist Viv Corringham, whose extraordinary
voice is never less than breathtaking, moving effortlessly through folk and ethnic styles to the startlingly abstract. Brigitte
Meyer is an improvising cellist who has worked with the great American composer Pauline Oliveros and is adept at “Deep
Listening”- a quality we could all benefit from!
STARS IN BATTLEDRESS
The duo of Richard and James Larcombe (guitar/keyboard/vocals/harmonium) write strange songs of an almost baroque complexity,
fusing a withering wit with melodies and arrangements that are oblique and unpredictable whilst retaining a recognisably cheery
pop aesthetic. This is music that relates to the topsy-turvy folk of the Incredible String Band and English organ music but
remains quite unique.
RACHEL BARNES plays music by BRIAN INGLIS
Hear the primary school staple as never before in recorder virtuoso Rachel Barnes’ unique performance of Brian Inglis’
extended
composition “Sailing to Byzantium”. She makes the instrument laugh, cry, speak, speak and sing as it evokes sounds
ranging
from birdsong to Buddhist chant, in a version specially edited for Baggage Reclaim.
Rachel Barnes was born in Sheffield in 1972 and has been playing the recorder since the age of six, beginning at school like
many other children. She studied at Langsett Music Centre in Sheffield, Newcastle University, Utrecht Conservatium and Goldsmiths
College. Rachel has always placed the promotion of the recorder as a contemporary instrument, and its contemporary repertoire
at the forefront of her work. She has worked with composers such as John Casken, Amanda Baker and Jacques Bank and commissioned
work from Maarten Helder and Donald Bousted. Rachel contributes to projects at the Centre for New Musical instruments at London
Guildhall University, which has created two Renaissance tenor recorders in 19 division equal temperament.
Brian Inglis was born in 1969. After a childhood spent in Scotland, Germany Iran and Reading, he studied music at Durham University.
His piece "Responsory", a setting of a poem by Hildegard of Bingen, was performed at the 1992 Huddersfield Festival. He studied
composition at City University and received an MA with distinction in 1993. Recent compositions have included "Visions of
Sorrow and Joy" for Bath Choral Society, "Concerto for Recorder and Ensemble". Brian's compossition "Jubilee Prayer" was performed
at the Millenium Service for Wales and on Welsh TV and Radio. In 2001 Brian studied with the American composer Stephen Montague.He
is currently working on a collaboration with sound sculpture artist Derek Shiel.
RICHARD SANDERSON
Performing a set of songs with accordion and electronics backing. Richard is the host of Baggage Reclaim.
21st July 2002
JACQUELINE GRANT & AKIRA TOYONAGA
British guitarist and melodionist Jacqueline Grant plays an improvised music which is informed by her work in folk and other
styles. The guitarist Akira Toyonaga is an improvisor from the incredibly fertile Japanese experimental scene, who has also
appeared on recordings by Charles Hayward. This is a unique duo- and the first oportunity to see them live.
Akira Toyonagabiography
>1965 born in japan
>1968~1973 lived in San Salvador
>1980 listened to "Don't Stand So Close to Me" by The Police
on the radio .
>1981 bought a cheap electric guitar .
wanted to lean how to play "Message in a Bottle"
But I couldn't play it in a standard way .
Started to make noise by guitar .
Heard King Crimson on the radio . very impressed .
Started interested in experimental music .
>1982 This Heat "DECEIT" exploded my brain .
>1984 entered junior art college in Kyoto .
joined the Film Department .
exposed to dadaism , surrealism ,American and European films .
created own 8mm films.
>1986 started to play improvisation on the street of downtown
>Kyoto .
>1990 formed the band called " pou-fou" .
> pou-fou were piano, violin, horn ,percussion and guitar .
>1991 feb. traveled to London . Met Charles Hayward and Charles
>Bullen .
> nov. pou-fou got the grand prize of Sony Music's New Artist
>Audition .
>1992 pou-fou's CD " the bird chase" was released .
>1993 formed the band called " romp" .
> Romp were drums , bass and guitar
>1994 August pou-fou's last gig . in kyoto .
>1995 Romp's CD " a moment on the air " was released from
> F.M.N Sound Factory .
>1996 played with Charles Hayward when he was on tour in Japan .
You can hear one track from that sessions called
creosote" on Hayward's "Escape from Europe" .
>1998 May played the Instant Music Meeting Vol.1 gig with
C.Hayward , John Edwards and Caroline Kraabel at the Centurion
>2000 April the Instant Music Meeting Vol.8 gig with
Paul Hood , Pete Flood , C.Hayward and Ashleigh
Marsh
>2001 April Out of Body Orchestra gig at the Centurion
autumn released solo CD-R " Cold and Clean and No
People"
THE ALICE IN WONDER BAND
British traditional folk music performed by a quartet of brilliant and adventurous musicians. They will be performing "Dramatic
and delightful new arrangements of British folk songs, on the themes of romance, longing and moral guidance". British traditional
music contains some of the most hauntingly beautiful and just plain weird sounds you’re likely to hear, and Baggage Reclaim
will continue to reflect this.
Evrah- Vocals, Mick Rodwell- Guitar, Kay Tierney- Mandolin, Gill Warnell- Concertina and Accordion.
MYSTERY DICK
Formally of the legendary improv/noise combo “Ultra Sonic Attack Wave Pestrepeller” Harley Richardson and Ed Pinsent's
vox
organ driven dronathon “Mystery Dick” is a block of teasing and rumbustious intensity where minimalism, improvisation
and
60’s garage band dynamics crunch in a slow motion sonic impact.
JAMES DUNN
Circuit bending composer James Dunn’s refreshingly lo-fi approach to electronic music creates a layered world of subtle
dynamics,
pressurised harmonic blasts and quickfire shifts. Produced on equipment as arcane as it is baffling, Dunn’s music is
a kaleidoscope
of rough-hewn complexity.
RICHARD SANDERSON
-songs with accordion and electronics from the host.
DJ- Timeslice and guest...
Visuals from- Soul Grandprix
28th July 2002
SPECIAL EVENT!
BAGGAGE RECLAIM
meets
TOTALLY BORED
Two of London's most adventurous clubs get together for one night of extraordinary music
BAGGAGE RECLAIM & TOTALLY BORED present
ONE KING POETS
Bassist Jerry Bird (now resident in the far North of Scotland) and drummer Robin Musgrove have evolved into one of the odder
partnerships on the left-field/improvised scene. Bird’s strange elastic funk loops lock with Musgrove’s loping,
unpredictable drum patterns in a way that can only come from decades of playing together. At a time when the most interesting
rhythm sections
are computerised, the Musgrove/Bird team achieve that tight but loose feel sought by the most disciplined of funk bands. The
third part of the equation is saxophonist Mike Walter whose muscular tenor playing is derived from the “fire music”
of free-jazz,
(preferring the plastic reed favoured by Albert Ayler) but adds a more explorative texture and tends to work with slowly evolving
repetitive themes. Adding “ear-splitting” soprano and slabs of organ clusters, Walter adds a shifting, occasionally
melancholy
top level to the earthy crypto-funk of the rhythm section. At their propulsive best The One King Poets are a scintillating
juddering juggernaut of sound.
THE FUJII
The Fujii is the extraordinary collaboration between Japanese guitarist/vocalist Fuji and British improvisor and instrument
builder Paul Shearsmith. Fujii is a former welder who became fascinated by the blues of Fred McDowell, Son House and Bukka
White. He now travels the world playing his take on this music and accompanying himself on resonator guitar. Although he sings
almost exclusively in Japanese his feeling for this music is deep and obvious and the results are utterly transfixing. Shearsmith
adds to this already beautiful music melancholy pocket trumpet, and deep rooted drones from among other things plastic tubing
and “tuned gas main”. It would be wrong, however, to classify this music as a novelty item, it is gorgeous, deeply
felt and
moving.
“Questions of authenticity are redundant with music this faithful to the Delta blues spirit”- Mike Barnes,
The Wire, Feb 2002
“A true piece of Outsider Folk Art...one of my favourites of the year”- Mike Cooper,
Folk Roots Magazine Feb 2002.
REMOTE
From the Brighton-based Maphead/Spirit of Gravity collective,
electronica influenced by John Cage and Squarepusher, from abstract and
ambient industrial soundscapes to skewed dance floor fillas from mars.
featuring live guitar, sitar and dulcimer.
HUNGRY HAMILTON
The solo project of Eamonn Hamilton, former frontman for Brighter Lunch (monkeytennis recordings) and occasional contributer
to Careless Talk Cost Lives magazine. Eamonn has been dubbed 'anti-folk' by the sort of people that like to put things in
generic categories, and plays sweet, short and highly intimate acoustic pop songs.
MONSTER BOBBY
Your host for this evening, introducing the night and kicking it off with a few of his own pop-songs-in-the-process-of-their-own-destruction,
using samples from detroit techno, booty bass hip-hop, yemenite pop songs, iranian folk music, post-hardcore and gregorian
chanting.
plus djs mugwump and lady emma
visuals by skids and joe.
25th August 2002
JOE QUILLIN
A singer songwriter who's prepared to take chances, Joe Quillin has consistently battled against the constrictions of the
new acoustic movement- by taking in influences from a wide variety of left field sources. This is the launch event for his
brand new album which continues his powerful mix of strange evocative lyrics and creative instrumentation– and, on this
occasion,
he will be backed by a small group.
PAUL RESEARCH
First London solo appearance by Paul Research, whose acerbic, trebly, quasi-funk guitar sound was the centrepiece of the
legendary late 70’s Scottish band “The Scars” (whose “Adult/ery” bw “Horrorshow“”
single for Fast Product is a long time
Baggage Reclaim favourite). His newer material is more electronic in nature with odd, declaimed lyrics and exciting rhythmic
constructions– with that extraordinary guitar sound on top.
MICK BECK
Sheffield based improviser, Mick Beck presents a probing, exploratory solo performance on the bassoon, an instrument rarely
heard outside of a classical concert. Mick Beck has been at the heart of the Sheffield improvising community for many years,
and is mainly known as a saxophonist, over the years he has taken his bassoon explorations all over Britain and recently received
a profile in The Wire magazine.
CRYOGENIC
London based hyper-minimalist, super cooled trip-hop trio, merging skeletal loops and beats, acoustic guitar and mesmeric,
vocals. Cryogenic are taking a stripped-down approach to this music, which is explorative and affecting. Baggage Reclaim is
proud to present their debut performance.
HOMLER/BERESFORD/SANDERSON
A surprise visit by the astonishing Los Angeles based vocalist and toy-player Anna Homler gives us an opportunity to reform
the trio which headlined the 2000 LMC International Festival of Experimental Music. Playful, charming and bizarre, Anna is
accompanied by renowned English eclectician Steve Beresford, and Baggage Reclaim host Richard Sanderson.
+ dj- TIMESLICE + guerilla visuals from SOUL GRANDPRIX
29th September 2002
EVAN PARKER & JOHN RUSSELL
For over 35 years Evan Parker has been at the forefront of experimental and improvised saxophone playing, and he continues
to push ahead collaborating with musicians as diverse as Scott Walker, Jah Wobble and Thurston Moore as well as the giants
of acoustic and electronic improvised music. He has taken the saxophone into previously uncharted areas by virtue of his extraordinary
technique and questing sensitivity. Here he is partnered with the unique acoustic guitarist John Russell, whose synapse-snapping
playing has developed into an electrifying language of staccato chords, scraped strings, harmonics and (for an acoustic instrument)
a great use of volume and restrained violence.
THE JACOBIAN
Youthful and energetic MathRock trio (Guitar/vocal, bass and drums)who use unusual time signitures, odd chords and an off
kilter sense of melody to create some of the most exciting rock music we've heard for a while...think 1978 Scritti Politti
meets post grunge dynamics.
SATAN'S MAHOGANY LOG
The oddly named SML are centred around the galvanic guitar work of Chris Reed and the imaginative flair of the rhythm section
to create a music which is full of quick fire changes, a funky fluency and a soulful grace. With 197 influences, (exactly),
colliding simultaneously- the group's hyper-schizo tendencies, quickfire humour and appreciation of the maxim that "brevity
is the soul of wit" will ensure a memorable and entertaining performance..... Chris Reed (Guitar and Effects), Dave Howell
(Bass) and Matt Brown (Drums).
THE CONSTANT ARCADE
The debut musical performance from Baggage Reclaim's regular "guerilla visualist" Soul Grandprix (above) and his group.
A set of songs in which the new wave clashes with "old school", and observational lyrics meet a cut 'n'paste attitude.
All delivered with an edgy/nervy energy, a caustic tongue and deceptively robust arrangements.
RICHARD SANDERSON
Your host for the evening also performing songs with accordion and electronics.
Sunday October 27th 2002
NICOLAS COLLINS
First London performance for years from the modern master of conceptual electronic composition and star of STEIM and the "Lovely
Music" label. Nicolas Collins rethinks the possibilities of musical instruments to create brand new versions of the unfamiliar-
an old trombone becomes a particularly malleable sampler, guitars drive their strings through pick-ups, and drums are triggered
by voices. Collins studied with Alvin Lucier, before achieving widespread acclaim for his own works such as "The Devil's Music"
and "It Was A Dark and Stormy Night".
An accomplished improvisor with live electronics, Baggage Reclaim is delighted and excited to present this rare solo performance.
PHIL DURRANT AND MARK SANDERS
Electro-acoustic improvisation of the highest order performed my masters of their craft. Phil Durrant (Electronics) has been
working in improvised and experimental music since 1977 and is widely recognised as having forged a unique path which runs
from the aesthetics of non-idiomatic acoustic free improvisation to contemporary dance music. Mark Sanders (Percussion and
Electronics), is quite simply one of the UK's greatest drummers, whether in free jazz, out-rock or free improvisation. This
Baggage Reclaim performance gives both players an opportunity to spread into more funky, dance orientated territory.
ADRIAN SHAW
Enigmatic Northern artist, former computer games designer and leader of noisy pop group sensation "The Teenbeat" performs
"I Am A Robin"...
from performers notes-
"i am a robin
i am a musician
and a writer
performer
i am thinking about birdsong
i want to do something with bird sounds
i love robins
maybe call the piece 'i am a robin'
explore the concept of becoming-robin
becoming in the deleuzian sense
exploring the difference between a musician bird
and a non musician bird
exploring the biological mechanics of bird sound
it's mating calls
use spoken words through a digitally created robin
voice
vibrate my bones with the robin sounds
vibrate my jawbone
recall all my robin sightings over the last few years
(i can remember them all)
produce a digital flock
a digital swarm of robins
singing robins
they never swarm but i want to make them swarm
produce a swarm of robins
i want to experiment with sound to think through
a robin-becoming"
Visit Adrian's brilliant webpages for
a deeper insight into this one-off.
MONSTER BOBBY
Occasional Baggage Reclaim stand in MC, Monster Bobby rescues material from a varity of extra-curricular sources to create
a karaoke of decided oddness. Mr Bobby is responsible for the excellent "Totally Bored" club.
RICHARD SANDERSON
Your host and MC- also singing a few songs.
Sunday 24th November 2002
THE REMOTE VIEWERS
Complex, unique and beautiful...a saxophone trio playing the twisting, galvanising music of former "B Shops For The Poor"
composer Dave Petts, which augments itself with electronics and the haunting voice of Louise Petts.
The Remote Viewers are a stylish group of composers and improvisors who have have stood back from the vaguaries of modern
fads to forge something utterly beguiling, dynamic and original, a dark, literate neo-pop that simultaneously evokes 1930's
cabaret and 21st century modernism.
(...and being a staunch rationalist I can't let the name "Remote Viewers" get past me without recommending this
page from the excellent Skeptic's dictionary!)
Thomas Truax
"Among downtown New York's solo singer/songwriter set, Thomas Truax is a mad scientist. His carefully crafted songs range
from dark, romantic lullabies to lively rock melodramas". His songs are made even odder by the accompaniment of instruments
of his own devising such as the "Cadillac Beatspinner Wheel" and the "Hornicator" (which the spell-checker has a lot of fun
with..) A bit of a scoop!
Frank Key
A rare live appearance by the entertainingly odd Frank Key, gifted writer, illustrator and creator of the extraordinary "Hooting
Yard" website.His potted biography-
He was born in a lighthouse. When still tiny, he was attacked by a flock of demented bitterns. He had a troubled relationship
with his sister, who stank of camphor. On reaching adulthood, Frank decamped to Concrete, Texas, where he spent some years
as an undertaker's mute. He then moved to Splat in Cornwall, which can be found on most Ordnance Survey maps if you look carefully.
Following an injection carried out by his doctor - who was also one of the towering figures of post-war Bolivian water polo
- Frank became colour blind. He now lives on the upper floors of an abandoned hotel, where he is often visited by his sister,
still reeking of camphor, who entertains him with piccolo recitals and the chewing of brazil nuts. Frank lists his hobbies
as ponds, tin and badgers, but not necessarily in that order
Frank's website is new very old, but you can send an e-mail to a contemporary Frank Key here.
Keith John Adams
KJA's songs are touching and odd without being too whimsical. A former member of the the excellent Zumo Men, his solo work
continues an exploration of wierd song and incorporates instruments such as the toy piano to great effect. He has a new album
about to be released and already has a couple of highly acclaimed singles on the reliably indie "Flitwick" label. The Fanzine
Robots and Electronic Brains said this about him..."Keith John Adams is the only bloke ever to wrestle a psychedelic
folk tune around the words "keep my tiller even" and make it sound like it should be on Top of the Pops to boot."
46,000 Fibres
Finishing off the evening with a riot of psychedelic jazztronica, This long running band of noisemakers have recently
transformed from a clicky electro outfit to a hulking Sun-Ra inspired free-jazz meets synth-noise collective. In a wonderful
about
turn on prevailing fashions they have have spurned minimalism and embraced a crazed maximalism!
Richard Sanderson
Your host- also singing little songs with electronics and accordion accompaniment...
Plus interval music and video loops from Timeslice
Sunday 15th December 2002
2nd Birthday Spectacular-
with
Barry Andrews
Barry Andrews -(leading light of Shriekback, member of XTC, occasional keyboard spear-carrier with Robert Fripp, Iggy Pop
and Eno) has a new one-man piano-driven thing: crumbling Victoriana, fucked-up torch songs, lairy spoken-word soundscapes,
underwater mood-dirge. Andrews performs tunes from his new solo album: ‘Haunted Box of Switches’ and a few golden
oldies from the Shrieking years.
...and we're delighted to have him.
Komputer
The London based duo Komputer fuse a love of Germanic experimental music ( just look at their name!) with a very British
wit to create an unusually warm and imaginative brand of electronica. They've moved on from the earlier Kraftwerk homages
into a more minimal sound which uses sampled sounds found at variouslocations in Spitalfields Market. The resultant mix of
"micro house" sounds and musique concrete signify a leap into deeper currents. Signed to Mute Records, this is what their
record company say about the enthralling new album "Market Led"- Komputer's "Market Led" may just be the coolest
edge of dance record of the year. It has house music as sparse as an underground car park at midnight, acid robo disco like
it's coming from your subconscious, freaky percussive journeys, Zen loops and beautifully displaced piano mantras. The sound
of a kick drum banging on the door of post-structuralist philosophy, it's a full on celebration of the hyper-plasticity of
sound and the joy of rhythm". Righto!
Neck Doppler
From Glasgow, Neck Doppler is one of the strangest things to come out of an already pretty strange and beautiful city. He
describes himself as "singalong nu-mental anti-karaoke from the bollock man" which only goes halfway to describing his early-Residents
meets zonked-out Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich and Sheffield) anti-anthems. Always presented in an engagingly energetic,
visual and, well, funny manner.
Drop
Drop was an adventurous post-punk group formed in 1978 by Richard Sanderson and Neil Jones from the remains of the punk group
The Silencers (the Middlesbrough one). This time of year is tradionally one for self indulgence, so for one night only
Drop returns- re-uniting vocalist/guitarist Sanderson with keyboard player Neil Jones (biggest influence;- Barry Andrews)
for the first time since 1979. Ably assisted by a new rhythm section of BagRec friends Andy Coules (Bass) and Mark Braby (Drums).
Drop songs are short (average length 1 minute 10 seconds) and inventive variations on the punk blueprint, and have not been
heard in public for 23 years.... savour them.
Wayward Grace
Wayward Grace are an acapella vocal trio of Viv Corringham, Deanna Benedict and Evrah. They sing close harmony
folk songs from around the world, but particularly Georgia (Russia) where the extraordinary harmonies of the music have a
uniquely ear-buzzing, spine-tingling resonance. You will be enchanted.
Ed Baxter
Ed Baxter is a world expert on Thomas De Quincey, and a critic whose writings on music are published by The Wire and others.
This will be a brief but typically spiky and witty spoken word performance from a tireless campaigner against the mundane.
Richard Sanderson
Your host for the evening, also starting the evening off with a couple of his "neo-pop" songs- accompanied by electronics
and accordion...
Starts 8pm
Sunday 15th December 2002.
Admission £6 (£5 with a flyer)
The 12 Bar Club,
Denmark St,
London,
WC2
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