BONG From the icy wastes of the north come these ‘psychedelic doom drone warriors’ to crush all that oppose them beneath the weight of their monolithic riffs and sitar soaked dirges. For fans of Sunn 0)), Sleep and Om. New albums out now on Blackest Rainbow Recordings. - RH http://www.myspace.com/landbong
MOLTEN GODS
Leaving a trail of smouldering and ruptured amplification in their wake, the Gods return to Rammel Club. Their improvised take on HEAVY will be so loud as to leave your eyeballs liquefied and your guts a damp and distant memory. - RH http://www.myspace.com/moltengods
NACHT UND NEBEL
Henry Davies' (Army of Flying Robots / Dead in the Woods) cassette driven doom project, tunneling into your inner most fears of disappearing into the fog of the night. At times it calls to mind the murky depths of Burial Hex or Culver. - JS
It’s the first Rammel Club of 2010 but we’ve decided to forgo the warm up period and hit you with a gig that’ll blow all those miserable, sun deprived days out of your arse.
U.S.GIRLS (Siltbreeze Records/USA)
U.S. Girls is Megan Remy and she creates pop songs that are buried in warm feedback and fuzzy guitar loops. For this jaunt she’s bringing some added visuals to disorientate and immerse you in her blurred world. I’d say more but I’ve always been a big admirer of Siltbreeze boss Tom Lax’s way with words and he hits the nail on the head with this description of her upcoming album ‘Go Grey’ (On Siltbreeze, duhhh);
“Megan Remy is a chanteuse from (perhaps) the future, guiding all who choose to sail an evocative trip through her unique aural hallucinogenic landscapes. It's a journey of lush vistas, warm currents, and complex beauties. 23nd-Century-style, of course. So come aboard and see why U.S. Girls is being hailed the Eno of the '50s--the 2250s! Can you imagine? Let's hope so.”
"'Go Grey' is the second outing from hypnotic space face Megan Remy, a.k.a U.S Girls. Recently hailed as the new Eno by press folk and people who should know better, U.S Girls are a serious proposition in the new world of hauntological, hypnogogic space rock and pop with 'Go Grey' sounding not unlike something beamed down from outer space. Merging the worlds of noise and psychedelia with the practical methods applied in lo-fi home recording M. Remy creates and truly unique, if slightly unsettled sound and sees her using anything and everything at her disposal to achieve the appropriate sound. Tracks are primarily made up of basic, sometime drum less rhythms, vocals and reverb saturated guitars but this doesn't seem to be too significant, it's the atmosphere of the recording and the tension created within these pieces that is of most significance. 'Go Grey' is full of strange improvisations and odd ideas that will no doubt confuse and delight in equal measures." Norman Records.
SWALLOWS
Hailing from the industrial wastes of Wolverhampton, Swallows weave seemingly simple spells with beautiful formless vocals and abstract instrumentation to create a sound that’ll enchant fans of Fursaxa and Linda Perhacs.
BURD & SCARR
These two gentlemen create a hissing, oddly beautiful ambient sound that reminds me of decaying factories on the edge of desolate moorlands, but then again I always have been a fanciful fucker.
The last time I saw Joke Lanz play was as part of Runzelstirn & Gurglestock at The Old Angel a few years ago. It was simultaneously one of the most hilarious and nauseating gigs I’ve been to. I still don’t think I could explain why exactly- the trussed up mutant deep-breathing onstage, Joke stalking the audience in a melted bollock face mask with a music box that seeped disquieting ambience and occasionally blossomed into roars of noise, it’s left a powerful aftertaste all these years later. Sudden Infant is his solo project...
"Joke Lanz aka Sudden Infant creates an unique blend of physical sound-poetry and dadaistic vocals, using contact microphones, prerecorded soundloops and noises.The result is abrupt Musique Concrète juxtapositions of spasmodic gibbering and a battery of disorienting electronics. It's a fragmented field of sound that comes to its own autonomy!
Born in Switzerland, now based in Berlin, Joke Lanz is presenting his work since more than 20 years all over the world.Music for contemporary dance, theatre, sound-installations and films.
Innumerable releases on international labels e.g. Schimpfluch, Entr'acte, RRR, Tochnit Aleph, Blossoming Noise, SSSM, Artware, Klanggalerie, MSBR, Some Bizarre, iDeal Recordings."
"Building elegant landscapes of organic drone and tape static, Berlin-based Preslav Literary
School has performed throughout Europe, taking with him a small army of cassette and
dictaphone players that lend a remarkably human sound to his process-led investigations of
decay, erasure and memory."
"Like William Basinski's Disintegration Loops, Preslav Literary School focuses on creating
something new and personal out of found sounds and dull, everyday happenings... wonder and
amazement is conveyed through the sounds and a sense of otherworldly significance is given to
the simplest of actions." (Sputnik Music)
POLDR
"Since visual artist and experimental musician Poldr (Benjamin Laurent Aman) relocated from
France to Berlin, he has become one of the rising stars of the capital's established underground
scene, marking himself out as a performer who deals with texture, frequency and field recordings
with a distinct and unafraid ear. Founder of the cult Razzle Dazzle label, Poldr has collaborated
with Michael Northam and Shitty Listener."
"Drawing equally from a contemporary droned madness and a hypnotizing minimalism.... A dense
and harrowing musical experience" (Tomentosa Records)
Monday 14th December
The Chameleon
(Old Market sq / alleyway next to the Bell Inn, above Clinton Cards)
Nottingham
8.30pm start
£6 on the door / mail your name to tickets@rammelclub.org to get on the £5 cheaplist !!!
The Chameleon (Old Market sq. / alleyway next to the Bell Inn, above Clinton Cards) Nottingham[MAP]
8.00pm doors, 8.30pm start! (£6 door / £5 adv. (check this space)
The Rammel Club and Wandrin' Tsar present a night of guitar wrangling
Steffen Basho-Junghans (Berlin in Germany)
The blurb says he’s a master of the six and twelve string guitar and I’m in no way going to dispute that, the last time I saw him play was at an Instal fest in Glasgow a few years ago and he had the audience eating out of his hand. When he stopped playing it was one of those rapt could-hear-a-pin-drop moments, which he duly then defused by telling us about going to see Tangerine Dream when he was a kid. This fellow has absorbed the usual Takoma influences and come out the other side with a personal style that manages to beguile and challenge in equal measures. We’re really looking forward to seeing this guy.
" Reverberant open-string/no-string improvisation for acoustic guitar." Hell, I’m not even quite sure what that means but it’s got my mid-section a-tingle already. You may recognise Stuart from such bands as Smear Campaign, Stuckometer, Barbarians and his label Total Vermin.
When I first met Ali, I knew him firstly to be an extraordinary illustrator. When he popped round for a cup of tea and informed us he was going to do some music I didn’t think much of it but then he turned out to be brilliant as that as well. What a cunt eh? They say “somnambulist folk, guttural blues and comedic ramblings” and I’d probably agree.
"Ok so he’s worked with Sunn 0)), Bastard Noise, Dead Machines, Sissy Spacek, Evan Parker, Burning Star Core and probably a hundred other chaps I haven’t even heard of but the thing I like best about Wiese’s solo stuff is that once you’ve gotten over the raw sonic terror that he unleashes then you spend hours, days even, marvelling at just how diamond precise everything is, just how much time he’s spent chiselling that sonic mayhem into crystal perfect shards that lock and unlock with uncanny precision. New LP out now on No Fun Productions. It’ll be loud, bring earplugs." - RH
Ross Parfitt (Sheffield)
http://www.myspace.com/rossparfitt
"is a Sheffield based musician, sometime Hunter Gracchus and Tirath Singh-Nirmala collaborator, and dedicated to exploring minimal compositional devices to maximal conclusions." - (Lotus Birth) "Utterly compelling stuff, ever shifting and tidal in its mysterious ambiguity." - (Foxy Digialis) and for tonight’s show he’s promised;
“contact mics and restring lumb bank slow retune laurence crane's guitar prelude.”
+ FOCO (Nottingham)
Three choices-
Being a 1/3 of Molten Gods doesn't mean a 1/3 of the volume. Watch mathamatics crumble. or Splitting the signal into bits as the springs and wires begin to buckle... or I'm not one for blurb. Make of it what you will.
Founded in the early ‘90s, Sister Iodine spurt out savage gouts of fiery, primal guitar drizzle that could be taken as no wave, free rock, or JUST VERY FUCKIN LOUD depending on how you woke up this morning. They were invited to open Sonic Youth’s "Sentational Fix" exhibition last year which might give you some idea of the primal pounding you’re gonna get from them. New recorded bumpf out on such labels as Editions Mego and Premier Sang.
From Providence, USA. Keszler uses drums, along with crotales, bells, bowed metal, strings, and amplification to create a unique whirlwind of sound that balances sparse droning harmonics with intense, fast, free rhythms. He’s played with artists such as Jandek, Phill Niblock, Roscoe Mitchell and Loren Connors to mention a few. You ain’t likely to get a second chance to see this guy.
Great, skronking wasteland jams from Edinburgh. They’ve worked with Dylan Nyoukis (Blood Stereo) which only hints at the gibbering insanity that you can expect from them.
"She and Her made a pact over roaring flames early this year. It was from then on that Tuesday evenings were never the same again. And to date is the addition of the Wizzie rhythm. Together we distill."
From the US of A and with records out on Siltbreeze and Holy Mountain. “…a weird amalgam of glitzy new age glam, keyboard minimalism and devotional Kraut float, with distant saxophones occasionally illuminating simple, primitive keyboard patterns. Early tracks have a late-Popol Vuh feel which eventually gives way to a zoned Neu! beat complete with endless ripples of synth.”- Volcanic Tongue
From Portugal. “Utilizing various electronics (keyboards, assorted rhythm generators, processing tools) and employing supremely fucked guitar voicings, theirs is an improvised music, of its own school & therefore of complete danger.”
“…thick corrosive drones, long tracks of thick coruscating low end, like Niblock on steroids, a lo-fi industrial drone symphony, noise music, but rendered warm and thick and prickly, but somehow still soothing and intense, the various tones intertwining into soaring sheets of sound, eventually transforming into high end shimmer, some serious Sunroof! style effulgence, heart of the sun ur-drones, glimmering and glistening, a brilliant sky full of sonic supernovas.”- Aquarius Records
A night of celestial ambience and drone in Nottingham. Bring yer own flotation tanks. From Belgium...
:::: DOLPHINS INTO THE FUTURE(Kingdom of Belgium)
"A casual interweb cruiser could be forgiven for confusing Dolphins Into The Future the “band” (aka the one-man tape-loop blue-age ambient project executed by Belgian Cetacean Nation ambassador Lieven Martens) with Dolphins Into The Future the book (written by dimensional traveler Joan Ocean concerning her 20-year-long real life spirit quest to commune with a school of 200 wild Hawaiian Spinner dolphins). And, to be fair, they’re a LOT alike. Both deal heavily in trippy, drifting logics, vibrational holograms, and an overdose of psychedelic pastel artwork. But Ms. Ocean’s books are out of print so instead we have ...On Sea-Faring Isolation, Mr. Dolphin Martens’ vinyl debut under the DITF banner, after a 2-year string of increasingly blissed tapes and CDRs. Composed of three interwoven pieces per side, Isolation is one of those baffling magic eye LPs that seems to dissolve yr memory of it during the very act of listening. Turquoise webs of billowing synth smoke curl and dissipate into grey horizons of open sea field recordings. The wooden mast of a ship creaks quietly while astral bells toll away in morning fog. You are alone. This record could make a sailor homesick, and Joan Ocean weep. Beautifully composed and sequenced, with just the right amount of wobbly porpoise sonar prisms bubbling up from the deep, this LP exceeded all our expectations (and they were high). A fantastic voyage into the pan-dolphinic dawn." -- Not Not Fun.
Dolphins into the Future gets a mention in the article on hypnagogic pop in this months issue of The Wire (pick a copy up or read here) and on the Vice magazine blog. And here's an MP3 excerpt of the amazing On Seafaring Isolation LP.
"Member of the legendary Belgian experimental collective R.O.T., young filmmaker and occasional curator of filmthings (and as I’ve noticed also into workshops), doing it all analogue with a big tapedelay-deck, a filterbank of Whitehouse-design and a couple of tapes: damned good sound that has it all: deep basses, couple of drones, psyched-out wave-parts and some really chopped-up noise-rhythms (woehee)" -- Mangenerated.
"For me the obvious comparison here is some of the earlier Stars of The Lid music before they went more classical. Throbbing low end droney bass with some lush sounding feedback combine to make a really thundering warm sound. Listening to it on headphones it's proper taking me somewhere else as well which I like.... It's one of those floating in space records which you shut your eyes and imagine you're off there floating about minding your own business. Though there is a certain ominous presence on there hence me saying it veered on the dark side of things. It's fantastic though and if you're into drone music this is one of the best things I've heard in ages. Excellent!!" -- Norman Records.
Adam James Davis is an artist from Nottinghamshire who is inspired by the symmetries, periodicity and harmonies of our world and the greater universe, as well as by the concept of "universe as music instrument" to be harnessed by technology and innovation. Adam likes to use music as a personal expression of the euphoria gained when contemplating such said harmonies, like self-similarity, interconnectedness and superunification, as well as a metaphor for such concepts. He also thinks harmony and rhythm are one and the same.
With new LP’s just out on Ecstatic Peace and Troubleman, Pocahaunted bring their swirling psychedelia to Nottingham. Hints of ‘80s pop, drone, tropical beats and guitar blur into a beautiful wall of sound.
“A cindering tapestry of guitar string propelled by other-worldly beats of oblivion.”
-- Weird Forest
“Nod-out acid rock rhythms with wordless choirs of abandon and power vocals extrapolated from hypnagogic 1980s pop.”
Burial Hex is Clay Ruby’s (also a member of free folk group Davenport and pagan doom unit Jex Thoth) solo project and melds the grim, frost bitten atmospherics of black metal to twisted electronica and caustic ambience. Records out on Aurora Borealis.
"OPPRESSIVE NECRO ELECTRONICS!"
“Ominous strings moan and drift, melodies abstract and spare, stretch out and sprawl like a graveyard fog. Slowly, other sounds enter the mix, percussion, rumbling drones, strange beastly growls, eventually, the tranquility is shattered by what sounds like a descent into hell, anguished wails, squalls of strings, screams and shrieks, more growling and grunting, which soon give way to an avalanche of crumbling distorted noise, feedback, and amp buzz, whirs and grinding glitch, a serious wall of intense blown out fury.“
Sun Araw blends the cosmic ambience of John Coltrane’s ‘Interstellar Space’ LP with the fuzzy drug riffs of Spacemen 3 into a blissful mass of ragged sound.
“A drugged out, bluesy blend of face melting drones, fuzzed out guitar riffs, and repetitive clangy rhythms. Ritualistic and somehow modern, Sun Araw walks the line between pop and drone.”
”Kogumaza are the re-united guitar section of former Nottingham band Wolves Of Greece. They combine the guitar density of Glenn Branca (whose orchestra they have both been a part of) with the heavy throb of Lungfish and the insistent rhythms of Mo Tucker, courtesy of Ms K.E.Brown on the drums, to create a swirling, spiritual murk.”
HARD ROCK CAFE(aka LAMBORGHINI CRYSTAL aka JAMES FERRARO / SKATERS)
P.A.R.A.
MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHERS(aka CHARLES BERLITZ aka SPENCER CLARK / SKATERS)
EXTENDED NETWORK
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The legendary SKATERS, the duo of James Ferraro & Spencer Clark return to these shores with their other-worldly disorientation strategies.
But- they’ve turned this into a bumper feast spectacle, a triple-headed hydra of otherness: HARD ROCK CAFE is JAMES FERRARO and this man and his music are sexier than Lionel Richie and his music.
You’ll also get a set of P.A.R.A. (Pre Atlantean Ritual Artefacts), which is the one-woman work of LABANNA BLY (in cahoots with voice/casio/synth) & has just been documented on her lovely ‘Mermalien’ LP on the Olde English Spelling Bee label.
And there’s the icing on the cake that is MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHERS, the solo action of Spencer Clark &, according to Volcanic Tongue, sounding like “helium-inflected gamelan sonorities create dancing chains of thudding African percussion somewhere between Whitehouse’s Racket, the endless rhythmic torrents of Frank Lowe’s Black Beings & Terry Riley’s all-night tape modulations”.
And that was it... until things even got better with the addition of EXTENDED NETWORK to the line-up. Hail http://www.myspace.com/extnddntwrk
Wednesday 6th May 2009
THE CHAMELEON (Old Market sq. / alleyway next to the Bell Inn, above Clinton Cards)
