Rammel Club #49 -- Sat 25 MayINNERCITY & YOUNGHERR SLOOW / MODULATOR ESP / REMI FOX-NOVÁK

Poster by the guy down the road

RAMMEL CLUB presents... a SLOOW TAPES showcase.

► INNERCITY & YOUNGHERR SLOOW (b)

http://innercitydiscography.blogspot.co.uk/

http://innercity.bandcamp.com/album/return-of-the-solar-falcons

http://sloowtapes.blogspot.co.uk/

Innercity is the prolific synth-driven project of Belgian superhero Hans Dens, joined on his first UK tour by Sylvester Anfang II guitarist and SLOOW TAPES label boss Bart Sloow. Though associated with the ambient / synth underground, eschews the prevailing escapist vibes of that scene in favour of a more visceral, rough-hewn and disorientating soundworld, characterised by sleep-deprived hysteria and bad-trip paranoia. His prolific output resulted in sought-after releases on Sloow Tapes, Not Not Fun, Further Records, NNA Tapes, Aguirre Records...

A word of warning: Father Sloow's previous passings in the city of caves turned the Chamelon into a zero gravity zone. Please keep the top of your bottle covered at all times and don't float into the speakers. ta.

► MODULATOR ESP

http://www.modulator-esp.co.uk/music.htm

Modulator ESP is Nottingham's finest synth aficionado Jez Creek’s vehicle for improvised electronica. While most obviously indebted to Kosmische pioneers Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze, Creek’s long-form, mercurial and intensely psychedelic explorations veer unpredictably between noise, drone and new age. Modulator ESP's “New Horizons” C-60 tape on SLOOW TAPES sold out in 0.037645 light years.

► REMI FOX-NOVÁK

https://soundcloud.com/remi-fox-novak/remi-fox-nov-k-mindfield-demo04-2010

Remi Fox-Novák (key member of bands Surfacing and Gelada) will bring his twisted brand of emotional pop to proceeding

+ A REALLY GOOD DEEJAY in the bar(n). Watch this space!

SATURDAY 25th MAY 2013

The CHAMELEON Arts Cafe, Nottingham  [MAP]

(Old Market sq / alleyway in between CARDZONE and Gamestation, 1st door at the left and then straight up the stairs)

8.00pm doors, 9.00pm START -- £5 waged / £4 unwaged / £2 pets (free entry for hamsters under 200gr)

Rammel Club #48 -- Mon 29 April 2013ASMUS TIETCHENS / SHELLY KNOTTS / ADAM JAMES DAVIS / DJ ZIPO (aufabwegen)

Poster by Daniel Ward <link>

ASMUS TIETCHENS (d)
http://www.tietchens.de/
Asmus Tietchens is a German electronic musician who has pursued "absolute music" through an almost mathematical process of rigid formal exercises. His music is heavily influenced by atonal kraut-rockers Cluster and Faust and has strong ties to Karlheinz Stockhausen's early electronic work: Tietchens specializes in irregular patterns of sonic abstractions that are suspended in gray drones to create cold textural voids from external references. (--> you guessed it right... but he does sound like that in letters)
His music is often inspired by and refers to the texts of the philosopher Emil Cioran. Over the past 4 decades Tietchens collaborated with Peter Baumann (Tangerine Dream), Nurse with Wound, Thomas Köner, Vidna Obmana, Jon Mueller, Richard Chartier, Otto Bekker... and also released music under a few aliases (e.g. Hematic Sunsets).

SHELLY KNOTTS
https://soundcloud.com/shelly-knotts
Shelly Knotts is a composer and performer of live electronic music and works from Birmingham and somewhere in Germany (ehhh my mind has gone blank and the next coffee break is 10 mins away).
Unlike the laptop musicians from the nineties she will be live coding (programming her laptop in real time / call it improv on a laptop) with her screen being projected on the fly.
Shelly Knotts has engaged in various collaborations experimenting with diverse musical practices/styles including experimental, electroacoustic, jazz, punk and dance music. Her composition work has been presented across the UK and Europe and was published on the Chordpunch label and in the Leonardo Music Journal. Shelly Knotts is also a member of the laptop band BiLE (Birmingham Laptop Ensemble).

ADAM JAMES DAVIS
https://vimeo.com/13737797
Adam is passionate about waves in all forms; sound waves, light waves, radio waves, brainwaves, wavewaves...and is very fond of the term "vibrations artist". He will be expressing his love for oscillations at the Rammel using light-sensitive synthesizers, radios and other gubbins.

+ DJ ZIPO (aufabwegen) ambient/field recording/noise collages
DJ Zipo is Till Kniola, he is based in Cologne and runs the aufabwegen label/mailorder and curates sound events.

MONDAY 29th APRIL 2013
The CHAMELEON Arts Cafe, Nottingham [MAP]
(Old Market sq / enter alleyway in between CARDZONE and Gamestation, then 1st door at the left and up the stairs)
8.00pm doors / 8.30pm START (!!!) -- £5 door / £4 for High Society card.

Link to Facebook event

Rammel Club #47 -- Fri 26 April 2013JAAP BLONK / THE BONGOLEEROS / ... (various wildcards)

Poster by Alan Smithee

Working with Trade, Rammel Club presents an evening of improvised vocal performances and performance wildcards.

JAAP BLONK is a Dutch avant-garde composer. Blonk is known for a large vocal vocabulary in which words and sounds are twisted and amalgamated into an array of surprising noises. There is also considerable humour in the work, mimicking nature and improvising with the unique audio and social situation of each performance. Blonk is also a leading performer of Kurt Schwitters’s sound works, recently performing 'Ursonate' at Late Tate at Tate Britain.
http://www.jaapblonk.com/

THE BONGOLEEROS deliver animated vocal performances that take the experimental nature of Blonk's performance in a different direction, positioning different qualities of sounds against each other, a upbeat Jazz riff with coarse vocals? sure thing. Before it all comes to familiar they throw other things into the mix, an offbeat dance or strike of a floor tom, to create a whirling, churning, buoyant experience.
https://www.facebook.com/TheBongoleeros
http://www.myspace.com/bongoleeros

The event also includes additional performances by 'WILDCARDS', untested or unfamiliar performers (Artists TBC).

Note: There is no licensed bar, BYOB (and behave)
Event is free but booking is essential: http://jaapblonk.eventbrite.co.uk/
Donations kindly accepted on the night.

FRIDAY 26 APRIL 2013 Doors 8pm, 9pm start
TRADE, 1 Thoresby Street, Nottingham, NG1 1AJ
<exhaustive directions to 1 Thoresby>

Link to Facebook event

Rammel Club #46 -- Sat 09 March 2013CONSUMER ELECTRONICS + SLEAFORD MODS + CREMATION LILY

Poster by Daniel Ward, link

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
https://www.facebook.com/groups/363987140332798/
http://www.myspace.com/dirtywordspecialist
Since the demise of Whitehouse, Philip Best's Consumer Electronics has become a wriggling sex machine, his frothing mania bursting forth over an electronic scree with a fervid tumescence that is frightening to behold.
It's the first visit to Nottingham for almost a decade from this "dirty word specialist" so slip into something fancy and make a real night of it. On this occasion Consumer Electronics will be the duo of Sarah Froelich and Philip Best. Don't expect a sympathetic ear.

SLEAFORD MODS
https://soundcloud.com/sleafordmods
Over skeletal beats the Mods unleash an airborne stream of anger so virulent it'd have the ebola virus cowering in the corner given half a chance. Upcoming LP, Austerity Dogs, on Harbinger Sound promises to be a stone classic already and deserves to be dropped on major population centres in the UK in much the same way as other explosive payloads.

CREMATION LILY
http://www.strangerules.com/
http://strangerules.tumblr.com/
The paucity of Internet yak on this unit should give you a clue as to how rare a live outing this is. Limited communiques from his own Strange Rules label go straight to the dedicated and are highly-sought after by the desperate. Dark and fractured electronics.

SATURDAY 9th MARCH 2013
The CHAMELEON Arts Cafe, Nottingham [MAP]
(Old Market sq / alleyway 23 steps away from the Bell Inn, above the gift card shop that used to be Clinton Cards and next to Gamestation)
8.00pm doors -- £6 door / £5 advanced / £5 High Society card and OAP's

Link to Facebook event

Rammel Club Fringe Event -- Thu 28 Feb 2013RICHARD DAWSON + RATTLE + RED TREES

Damn You!, Gringo Records and Rammel Club present

RICHARD DAWSON

RATTLE

RED TREES

From Newcastle upon Tyne, RICHARD DAWSON is one of the UK's finest singer songwriters. His unique brand of jaw dropping non-revisionist folk led us to finding we "had something in our eyes" at last year's Supersonic Festival. http://www.richarddawson.net/

Support comes from Sherwood drum duo RATTLE and the mysterious RED TREES collective.

This is happening on THURSDAY 28th FEBRUARY from 8.30pm at THE MAZE.
Tickets are priced £5 from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/204039 (10% booking fee) or The Music Exchange (no booking fee). The price will be £6 on the door.

Rammel Club #45 -- Tuesday 8th January 2013WILL GUTHRIE + YEARS AFTER YOUR DEATH + MAURICE'S HOTEL DEATH

It's January 2013... we all suffer from ASDA (aka Seasonal Affective Disorder), we're all skint and getting rained on plus there is nothing going on. Tarraaa, RAMMEL CLUB to the rescue: we have some top quality aural treats for you at a discount price (like it's 1999):

Poster by Daniel Ward, link

WILL GUTHRIE (Australia)
http://www.will-guthrie.com/
Australian drummer/percussionist Will Guthrie uses home-made instruments, amplified sound and junk, microphones & electronics alongside more conventional drums and cymbals. He has worked in many different settings: live performance, improvisation, studio composition. In Nottingham he will present his new album "Sticks Stones & Breaking Bones" with a solo drum kit performance. Expect a highly energetic, rhythmic, repetitive, intense, tribal, nasty solo drum performance.

YEARS AFTER YOUR DEATH
http://yearsafteryourdeath.com/
https://soundcloud.com/yearsafteryourdeath
After hard graft and too many sleepless nights Kingsley Ravencroft (half of Formication, currently on hiatus after over a dozen releases) presents his solo release "The Unlit and Unlovely".
File under melancholic, introspective, icily stark, monolithic, impenetrable, trance inducing stuff - born of isolation and scratched into the surface of what came before to pull apart the old wounds and hopefully inflict some new ones...

MAURICE'S HOTEL DEATH
http://lcpmusic.bandcamp.com/
Collected field recordings, samples and synth loops worked into internal sensations and derelict tracks, like being followed though there's nobody about. She's knocked us down before with DJ sets so we're delighted to discover a fledgling artist - recently signed to Rano & with upcoming self-release tape "hoping fear will create good".

TUESDAY 8th JANUARY 2013
The CHAMELEON Arts Cafe, Nottingham [MAP]
(Old Market sq / alleyway 27 steps away from the Bell Inn, above the gift card shop that used to be Clinton Cards and next to Gamestation)
8.30pm doors -- £4 door / £3 High Society card and OAP's

Rammel Club #44 -- Monday 8th OctoberPAIN JERK w/ RUSSELL HASWELL :: SPOILS & RELICS :: PHIL JULIAN :: NACHT UND NEBEL

Poster by Daniel Ward

Harbinger Sound drags the mouldering corpse of Rammel Club from its grave, denying us our dearly earned slumber as another unmissable opportunity to wreak havoc upon the eardrums of the nation is at hand.

► PAIN JERK (Japan) with special guest RUSSELL HASWELL
Extreme sonic assault from one of Japan’s finest. UK shows are as rare as they are intense (ie very) and if that weren’t enough the UK’s dark lord, Russell Haswell will be joining Gomi onstage to add to the chaos. We spoil you, we really do.
http://painjerk.blogspot.com/
http://haswellstudio.com/latest/

► SPOILS & RELICS
Three reprobates create the kind of unearthly gurgles and chittering that one would normally associate with a particularly nasty episode in a Thomas Ligotti short story. Whatever’s happening in the basement (or, in this case, upstairs at Chameleon) is sure to be unpleasant and potentially life threatening.
http://spoilsandrelics.bandcamp.com/

► PHIL JULIAN
Phil’s set as Cheapmachines was one of the highlights of the Rammel Weekender so it is with great delight we are able to report that he has taken time out from his playboy lifestyle to return to The Chameleon. Equally at home with intricate electronics as feral blasts of raw noise, it’ll be interesting to hear the results.
http://cmx.org.uk/
http://philjulian.bandcamp.com/

► NACHT UND NEBEL
Rusty loops of cello spliced and licked firmly into a fuzzy cacophony. If you purchase only one cassette recording this evening then make sure it contains some of this home wrought distress.
http://nachtundnebel.bandcamp.com/

MONDAY 8th OCTOBER 2012
The CHAMELEON Arts Cafe, Nottingham [MAP]
(Old Market sq / alleyway 27 steps away from the Bell Inn, above the gift card shop that used to be Clinton Cards and next to Gamestation)
8.30pm doors -- tickets £5 adv. (of High Society card) £6 on the door

Facebook link for this event: https://www.facebook.com/events/417952081597618/

Rammel Club #43 -- SATURDAY 24th MARCHSudden Infant / H / BBBLood / Aqua Dentata / Jenna Finch / Lauren Marie

Poster by Daniel Ward

>> RAMMEL CLUB RESENTS :
>> an evening with

SUDDEN INFANT (Switzerland/Germany)
http://www.suddeninfant.com/
Sudden Infant harnesses childish glee into surrealist sounds and a performance that disturbs as much as it amuses. Joke Lanz is a member of the Schlimpfuch-Gruppe, the notorious Swiss aktionist group and was involved in traumatising a captive audience in Nottingham a few years back. This is his only UK date.

H (France)
http://www.zamzamrec.org/H.html
It’s a little known fact that after the breakup of Steps, H moved to Bristol and started to produce convulsive electronics. At least this is the information I’ve been given, apart from the bio which says "Pyramid Power and Drone Zone Hymns for a Battle Bliss H, Nerd Kundalini, practices mesmeric audio gestures to make U go 3D B'aaouuuwh"

BBBLood
http://bbblood.blogspot.com/
A notoriously violent and abusive London noise thug. Was last seen onstage carving his initials into rodents using a rusty contact mic that had ceased to work in 1998. The Sun calls him a “vile and unpleasant human being” and we’re only too pleased to welcome him to the Rammel Club stage.

AQUA DENTATA
http://www.aquadentata.org/
Pure crystalline drone from London, whose last piece reminded me of Charlemagne Palestine’s work which in reality meant I sat transfixed in my comfy chair with the cat for an hour or so. We’ll be providing neither chair nor cat accompaniment for this engagement.

>> and performances by

JENNA FINCH
http://jennafinch.com/
"Jenna Finch is a performance artist based in Nottingham. She rejects the market-driven art world and instead favours obscure happenings that money can't buy. Jenna tries to blur art and life by translating her banal everyday politics into "visual feedback". She uses her childish wit and eccentric props to communicate her ideas."

LAUREN MARIE
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lauren-Marie/101079629983287
"Lauren Marie is a sexually frantic and brutally honest poet and performance artist. Grief is a piece about freedom for emotive expression translated through the face of a Geisha."

SATURDAY 24th MARCH 2012 -- 8.30pm doors
The CHAMELEON Arts Cafe, Nottingham [MAP]
(Old Market sq / alleyway next to the Bell Inn, above Clinton Cards)

TICKETS
-- on the door: £6 / £5 for holders of a wristband for http://rammelclub-weekender.tumblr.com/ so keep that wristband!
-- advanced £5 (+booking fee) on http://www.wegottickets.com/event/160142

9-11 March 2012THE RAMMEL WEEKENDER

Graphic Design by Daniel Ward

UPDATE: Day Tickets available <here>

Visit the RAMMEL WEEKENDER micro site on

http://rammelclub-weekender.tumblr.com/

Harbinger Sound and Rammel Club present a weekend of deranged sound blah. Pummeling riffs, abstract sound art, heavy electronics, late license, dancefloor action, punk legends, free jazz and improv we gots it all. Confirmed artists are:

Belied Gunaiko
Zoned flute and vocal explorations, from one half of Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides, that will disorientate and illuminate in equal measure.
www.singingknivesrecords.co.uk

Bill Kouligas
The artist formally known as Family Battle Snake, Bill heads the well renowned PAN record label of which several of this weekend’s acts call home. Moving from throbbing synth drones to more careful sound manipulation his absorbing live appearances prove that he’s certainly no slouch in the knob twiddling business himself.
http://www.pan-act.com/

Blood Stereo
Twisted tape and vocal murk from the murky and twisted heads of the Chocolate Monk label. Sound collage has rarely been encrusted with as much grime and phlegm, and the dribbling, gibbering voices and body creaks that emerge from their recordings are all enveloping in a live environment. They’ll make you feel odd but you’ll thank them for it all the same.
http://www.chocalatemonk.co.uk/

Bong
From the icy tundra of the north come four snow-bitten warriors dragging with them a rusted war sleigh brimming with unholy riffs and lysergic sitar. Their crushing take on doom leads to mammoth sessions of narcotic, droning throb that rival Sleep in their bleary splendour.

Cheapmachines
Experimental analogue electronics that can contain “analogue synthesizer, feedback, contact microphones, objects and surfaces”. Phil Julian has been working under the name Cheapmachines since the late ‘90s and collaborated with such artists as The A Band, Nihilist Assault Group and The New Blockaders to name a few.
http://cmx.org.uk/

Con-Dom
Brutal power electronics from a long running (active since 1983) purveyor of turmoil and coruscating walls of feedback. A string of releases for such labels as Broken Flag, Tesco Organisation and Control Domination have cemented his infamy.

Design a Wave
Pulsing synth wave from London, with the only hint that this glacial disco isn’t being created by blue-veined, plastic faced androids coming from the slurred vocals that slurp uneasily in and out of focus. Tom Hirst is the real human behind this project and a new LP is imminent on Alter Records.
http://www.designawave.co.uk/

Dieter Muh
Murky sound sculptures that verge on aural surrealism from a project rarely glimpsed in the wild.
http://www.muhmur.blogspot.com/

Ekoplekz
Bristol’s Ekoplekz’ bass heavy synth attack brings to mind visions of the twitching corpses of Cabaret Voltaire and King Tubby nodding and snapping across the dance-floor. His analogue thob has been documented on a steady stream of releases from such labels as Mordant Music, Perc Trax and Punch Drunk Records. Stand next to the speakers.
http://ekoplekznews.wordpress.com/

Sophie Cooper
One half of Cooper Jones (we'll let you guess which half) Sophie weaves lo-fi songs of considerable charm and poise.
http://www.soundcloud.com/sophie-cooper

Heatsick
One half of Birds of Delay moves to Berlin, meets aging Casio and creates pumping dance music that entrances just as many spotty music nerds as it does sweaty hedonists. His ‘Intersex’ LP on the PAN label was one of the highlights of 2011 and we can’t wait to hit the floor and start jacking.
http://www.perpendicularrain.blogspot.com/

John Wall & Mark Durgan
London based electro-acoustic composer Wall teams up with Mark Durgan (aka Putrefier) to create a live electronic improvisation of minute detail and scouring intensity.
http://www.utterpsalm.blogspot.com/
http://www.markdurgan.blogspot.com/

John Wiese
Whether he’s creating hyper-speed grind with Sissy Spacek or ultra complex shards of noise under his own name, Wiese’s work is never less than fascinating. The compositions that make up his new LP ‘Seven of Wands’ are relatively tranquil compared to his past work which makes the prospect of his live set all the more tantalising.
http://www.john-wiese.com/

Kogumaza
Nottingham trance rockers whose boundless riffs and cyclical percussion recently hypnotised Julian Cope into pronouncing their debut album “a masterful display of Glenn Branca-meets-Television stackable dynamics.”
http://www.honeyisfunny.com/kogumaza

Makakarooma
A troupe of glottal dream warriors whose sensitive handling of rock and roll tropes and deeply intuitive audience arousal techniques proved to be one of the highlights of the Rammel Club’s spotted career when they supported Ramleh a year or two back. We are proud to welcome them back and await their silky caress with mounting glee.
http://filthyfilthyturd.blogspot.com/

Modulator ESP
Rammel regulars will need no introduction to the Modulator, but for the uninitiated his collection of obscure synths has opened a variety of inter-dimensional portals in his support slots for Emeralds and many more over the years and we expect similar space-time anomalies to occur this weekend.
http://modulator-esp.co.uk/home.htm

Nacht Und Nebel
The cello is recorded onto mini-disc and then snipped, cut, lacerated and otherwise tampered with before somehow becoming a wave of melancholic noise that is as oddly beautiful as it is scouring.
http://nachtundnebel.bandcamp.com/

Nick Jonah Davis
A Nottingham based solo guitarist whose beautiful acoustic interpretations have justly earned him a place on New York label Tompkins Square, also home to Michael Chapman, James Blackshaw and Peter Walker amongst other luminaries.
http://www.myspace.com/nickdavisguitar

Patrik Fitzgerald
Armed only with an acoustic guitar and a scathing sense of wit, Fitzgerald cut an amazing string of 7”s for Small Wonder Records in the late 70s (Safety Pin Stuck in My Heart, The Backstreet Boys and The Paranoid Ward) before moving to Polydor and producing the classic ‘Grubby Stories’ LP in 1979.
http://www.patrikfitzgerald.co.uk/

Sleaford Mods
Might want to wrap your ego up safely and put it in your back pocket because Sleaford Mods might leave it lacerated with his stream of verbal jibes and juddering beats.
http://sleafordmods.bandcamp.com/

Spoils & Relics
A trio of ne’er-do-wells whose twisted configurations of field recordings and improvised sound clotting offers a labyrinth of unpleasant configurations to puzzle and unlock (whilst glugging your sixth bottle of Staroslav).
http://spoilsandrelics.bandcamp.com/
http://www.mantile.co.uk/

Storm Bugs
A very rare live appearance from these UK DIY/industrial legends whose early ‘80s cassette and vinyl transmissions (since reissued by Vinyl on Demand and Harbinger Sound) fused esoteric electronics with scratchy guitars, junkshop rhythms and bleary distant vocals to create a Ballardian take on suburban psychedelia. Their first ‘proper’ gig since 1980.
http://www.stormbugs.co.uk/

Surfacing
Fresh from performing a piece at Nottingham Contemporary’s Klaus Weber exhibition, Surfacing bring their dark ambient pulse to The Rammel Club. If only we had a dry ice machine!
http://fillingthedeadlysilences.tumblr.com/

Swallows
Electronic transmissions from the owl house, swathes of electronics hide submerged vocals and delicate melodies.
http://swllws.bandcamp.com/

These Feathers Have Plumes
The nocturnal rumblings of London town are made audible when glass meets guitar. Beautiful drones and soundscapes from this elusive artist.
http://thesefeathershaveplumes.com/

+ maybe a very special unannounced guest or two

 
D.J.s : Idwal Fisher, Steve Underwood, Feral Debris, etc.

Visit the RAMMEL WEEKENDER micro site on

http://rammelclub-weekender.tumblr.com/

The CHAMELEON Arts Cafe, Nottingham [MAP]
(Old Market sq / alleyway next to the Bell Inn, above Clinton Cards)

Rammel Club #41Tues 29th Nov Deas and Denton Duo + Sounding + Birchall Cheetham Duo

Poster by Sian Macfarlane

RAMMEL CLUB resents...

► CAM DEAS AND ADAM DENTON DUO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Deas

Cam Deas was last seen at The Rammel Club playing intricate acoustic guitar pieces. This time round he has joined with Adam Denton in praise of electricity and it's going to be a whole lot louder. Mind mushing guitar minimalism that may well bring to mind Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca or even LaMonte Young when they get their drone on.

► SOUNDING

Ben Moon's Forest Creature previously pummelled us with psychedelic rave similar to Fuck Buttons and Black Dice. This is Moon's solo project and it may well be a slightly more chilled affair.

► BIRCHALL CHEETHAM DUO

http://soundcloud.com/birchallcheethamduo

Speaking of Chatham these two met whilst playing in his G3 ensemble and continued playing in a mission to create some fucked up drum and guitar music. Full pelt skronk that can stop on a dime and curl right back again.

TUESDAY 29th NOVEMBER 2011

The CHAMELEON Arts Cafe, Nottingham

(Old Market sq / alleyway next to the Bell Inn, above Clinton Cards)

8.30pm doors -- £5 / £4 NUS

advanced tickets via http://www.wegottickets.com/event/143515

http://www.rammelclub.org/