The guys at Slowfoot are organising a little bash to celebrate the launch of Robert Logan's rather wonderful new album 'Cognessence'.
Rob will be playing a live set accompained by live drums and support will come from Slowfoot DJ's. Once again its at The Adelaide pub in Camden.
Upstairs at The Adelaide,
143 Adelaide Rd, Chalk Farm,
London NW3 3NL
Tickets £5
Doors 7.30pm
Info: 0207 722 3777
www.helmshine.co.uk
Tickets: www.wegottickets.com
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The Leaf Label are delighted to announce their first ever UK tour this spring, featuring Colleen (also embarking on her first full UK tour) and Triosk (their second visit to Europe and first since 2005).
Triosk will be touring their second album The Headlight Serenade in Europe for the first time. In a live setting, Triosk fluctuate between the atmospheric soundscapes of their recorded work, and high energy improvisations dedicated to the exploration of musical possibilities and limits.
Colleen (aka Cécile Schott) has finished her third full-length, entitled Les Ondes Silencieuses, which will be released shortly after this tour. On this tour Cécile will be playing the rare viola da gamba (the seven-string ancestor of the cello), classical guitar, clarinet, music boxes and wind chimes.
One of the shows on this tour will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction show. With a line-up that is unlikely to be repeated, the tour will provide an intimate experience like no other.
Sunday 29 April 2007
LIVERPOOL Picture House
Doors 8.30pm / £7 (£5.50 conc/members)
Tel: 0870 758 3217
http://www.thehivecollective.co.uk
Monday 30 April 2007
NORWICH Arts Centre
Doors 8pm / £7 (£6 adv)
Tel: 01603 660352
http://www.norwichartscentre.co.uk
Tuesday 1 May 2007
COLCHESTER Arts Centre
Doors TBC / £6 (£5 concessions)
Tel: 01206 500900
http://www.colchesterartscentre.com
Wednesday 2 May 2007
LONDON Luminaire
with Phelan Sheppard (DJs) & Dave Miller (live)
Doors 7.30pm / £9 (£8 adv)
http://www.wegottickets.com
http://www.theluminaire.co.uk
Friday 4 May 2007
LEEDS Holy Trinity Church with Bracken (live)
Doors 7.30pm / £8 (£7 adv)
Tel: 0113 245 5570
http://www.myspace.com/forestofsound
Saturday 5 May 2007
BRISTOL Cube Cinema
Doors 8pm / £7 (£6 adv)
Tel: 0870 444 4400
http://www.cubecinema.com
Colleen
Triosk
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The Low Lows start a 3-week tour of mainland Europe and the UK this week. There will be a gorgeous new 2-track single, Elizabeth Pier, out at the end of March. Below is a list of their tour dates. Unfortunately, the Newcastle show has just been cancelled, so please don't turn up at the venue if you were hoping to see them there.
The wonderfully talented French filmmaker Vincent Moon, who made Barzin's 'Leaving Time' video, (and also worked with the National and Jamie Liddell) is also becoming very well-known for his 'takeaway shows', in which he films bands who are visiting Paris, often in unusual and unconventional settings around the city. The results are posted on his Blogtheque website. In November, during the last Low Lows Tour, he filmed two segments by The Low Lows, one in which they stroll into an elegant old Parisian bar and perform a new song, 'Black Bees', and another in which they spontaneously invade a city bus with an acoustic rendition of 'Dear Flies, Love Spider' that even has the passengers getting in on the act!. The results are captivating. If you look carefully you will se a small cameo by Barzin, who held the mic for them. If you go to the website quickly enough, you can even download the videos to play offline until the end of tomorrow.
The Low Lows tour dates:
February
23rd: Music In Mind Festival, Concertgebouw, Bruges (Belgium)
24th: Emporium Galorium, Rouen (France)
25th: Duyster Radio Program, Studio Brussel, Brussels (Belgium)
26th: private party, Paris (France)
27th: Le Tryptique, Paris (France)
28th: d:qliq, Luxembourg City (Luxembourg)
March
3rd: Hühnermanhattan, Halle/Saale (Germany)
5th: Amsterdam (Netherlands) VPRO Radio session recording
7th: London, The Luminaire (UK)
8th: Voodoo Lounge, Plymouth (UK)
9th: Yorkshire House, Lancaster (UK)
11th: Tunnels, Aberdeen (UK)
12th: Henry's Cellar Bar , Edinburgh (UK)
14th: City Screen Basement Bar, York (UK)
15th: The Adelphi, Hull (UK)
16th: The Albert, Brighton (UK)
We will have more news very soon about the absolutely stunning new single (Don't Go Down To Sorrow), album (The Destruction Of Small Ideas) and tour dates for 65daysofstatic, who are currently preparing for their debut US performances at SXSW next month.
Best wishes from Monotreme Records!
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The Leaf Label's website is getting a little long in the tooth, and it's time for a major overhaul. They are looking for talented, creative web designers who are up for a challenge. The new website will be simpler and more manageable than the current one, but should retain the flair and originality that makes the label what it is. If you're interested in either the visual design of the site, and/or the technical aspests of building it, please get in touch. They want to hear from you.
Go to www.theleaflabel.com for contact details. Please do not email PostEverything.
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A Hawk And A Hacksaw have announced new European dates, the first of which
are in Italy in March and will be the duo of Jeremy Barnes and Heather
Trost.
The band are relocating to Budapest, Hungary, in advance of their tour and
EP with The Hun Hangár Ensemble. In addition to the UK dates already
confirmed for this collaboration, the band are pleased to announce shows in Spain and Portugal.
Check out the latest forthcoming Leaf events for more information.
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The video for the new Akatombo track - "Cypher" - will be shown @ the Heaven Gallery in Chicago on February 17th, 2007, as part of their 3rd annual "Winter Screening"; A Film/Video Show w/ a Winter Theme.
"Cypher" will be part of a Video Installation which begins @ 5pm & runs in a loop until 8pm.
For more information please go to;
www.heavengallery.com
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We now have Nancy Wallace's 'Young Hearts' EP back in stock. Released back in 2005 this was the first release from The Memory Band vocalist.
The guy and gal from Psapp have sent us over a bundle of stock. As a result the Buttons And War EP is available again and we have a couple of new Psapp goodies for you. First is the Rear Moth EP. This is a great slice of orange vinyl housed in a custom made sleeve and a must for any Psapp completist! Second, we're lucky enough to get our paws on the Psapp Hessian bag which is currently out of stock on Psapp's very own website!!
Spend £10 (not including p&p) or more on Puss Puss releases and we'll throw in a set of Psapp postcards and a badge aswell.
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The first of Slowfoot Records monthly residencies takes place at the start of March in Camden. Ninja Tune bad boys Pest, will be performing new album material, and in support is experimental electronic scene’s bright new spark, Robert Logan.
March 2nd 2007
Tickets £7 /£5 Concs
Doors 7pm Acts 8pm
The Adelaide, 143 Adelaide Rd, Chalk Farm, London NW3 3NL
www.helmshine.co.uk
Info/bookings: 0207 722 3777
Web: viewtickets.com
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February 2007
Hello
Another month of adventures, at a time when usually the pace is a little slower and eases you gently into the New Year. Still waiting for that chance to recharge my batteries!
Some of the oddest events have occurred too. A fine example of this was the discovery that a Vietnamese pop artist mistakenly used my work to win a coveted award from the Danish Embassy in Hanoi, only for the story to explode in the press there, the telephone ringing at 02.00 a.m with journalists, and downloads and statistics suddenly going wild on the website, such that for over a week scannerdot.com was receiving around 35,000 visitors a day, downloading on average around 20,000 MP3s! Extraordinary. With a reasonably happy end to the story I'm glad to report that that's now calmed down.
Speaking of MP3s I've completely updated the free download section of my website, with many new additions, including:
(Special Treatment for the) Family Man - a cover of the classic Tuxedomoon song, featuring my singing abilities, or as best they can be
City-Zen - a soundtrack for Hong Kong choreographer Mui Cheuk-yin & Shobana Jeyasingh
Night Email - excerpts from BBC radio 4 production for 60th anniversary of Night Mail, the outstanding black and white documentary with a libretto by W.H. Auden and music by Benjamin Britten.
Night Haunts- excerpts from Sukhdev Sandhu's nocturnal writings for our collaborative project for Artangel Interaction 2006-2007
Glittery Plastic - a 1980s tribute song
And more...many are unreleased pieces, soundtracks. etc.
Faultline, the new project from choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh, finally came to life in London at the Arts Depot this month. Having been through numerous changes now it will tour around the UK over the next couple of months. With Indian soprano Patricia Rosario taking lead throughout the score, the work is an atmospheric, rich and hybrid exploration of movement, sound, light and film, that was inspired by Gautam Malkani's book 'Londonstani'.
Much of the month has been spent focusing intensely on work which unfortunately, rather like Fight Club ("First Rule of Fight Club - you cannot speak about Fight Club") or the FBI, I am unable to write of, but suffice it to say it will be heard around the globe very soon. And no, I have not become a secret spy! Agent Scanner reporting in…beep…beep…
There's another chance to tune in to Occasional Offices, my recent collaboration with producer Roger Elsgood, celebrating the words of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer on BBC Radio 3 on Saturday February 17 at approximately 21.45 GMT. Following the broadcast you can listen back for up to seven days at the BBC website.
Occasional Offices is a celebration of Thomas Cranmer's words for the Occasional Offices in the 1662 Book Of Common Prayer, some of the most beautiful passages of 17th-century English. The programme features a succession of passages from the Occasional Offices: the Thanksgiving of Women after Childbirth, the Solemnisation of Matrimony, the Visitation of the Sick, the Burial of The Dead and the Baptism of Infants. Ideal listening for anyone interested in life, death and marriage!
February brings with it many opportunities to bond with my suitcase again - to Groningen in The Netherlands to present work at the Week of Europe, responding to ideas about European multiple choice identity in Education, around the UK for Faultline, over to Philadelphia to present The Order of Things, my installation and performance project at the Wagner Free Institute, and then to New York City to perform with David Rothenberg at Tonic at the end of the month, for a free improvisation around recordings of whales, insects and birds.
Time to fly away - see you next month!
Robin Rimbaud
::: listen :::
Underground Resistance: Interstellar Fugitives (Submerge)
Lawrence English: For Varying Degrees of Winter (Baskaru)
Various: From Brussels With Love (LTM)
Text of Light: Rotterdam.1 (::Room 40::)
::: read :::
John Peel: Autobiography (Corgi)
Tracey Emin: Strangeland (Sceptre)
Merlin Coverley: Psychogeography (Pocket Essentials)
Peter Dickinson: Cagetalk (Rochester Press)
::: film:::
Lemming, Dominik Moll, France
Don't Look Now, Nicolas Roeg, UK
Rize, David LaChapelle, USA
Regular Lovers, Philippe Garrel, France
2007
01 Feb-Faultline with Shobana Jeyasingh Brewhouse Taunton
01 Feb-Plexus/Praxis-Théâtre le Vanves Festival Art-Dan-Thé France
02 Feb-Europa 25+ Week of Europe Groningen
05 Feb- Faultline with Shobana Jeyasingh Royal Northern College Music Manchester
08 Feb-Future of Sound: Presentation Norwich Arts Centre Norwich
13 Feb-Faultline with Shobana Jeyasingh Hawth Crawley
21 Feb-Faultline with Shobana Jeyasingh South Hill Arts Park Bracknell
24-25 Feb-A Study at Wagner Free Institute Philadelphia
27 Feb-Live with David Rothenberg Tonic New York City
01 & 02 March-Faultline with Shobana Jeyasingh Mac Birmingham
06 & 07 March-Faultline with Shobana Jeyasingh QEH London
17 March -Présences electronique Salle Olivier Messiaen: Paris France
20 March-Faultline with Shobana Jeyasingh Sherman Cardiff Wales
22 March-Hipersônica Lounge Rio de Janeiro Brazil
24 March-Hipersônica Festival Rio de Janeiro Brazil
27 March-Plexus/Praxis-Les Ondines Changé France
30 March-Plexus/Praxis-Théâtre la Licorne Cannes France
07 April-Sugar Factory, Amsterdam, Holland
10 April-Cie Illico, soundtrack for dance, Roubaix France
12 April-Future of Sound Queen Mary’s College London
13 April-Live Lenz Teatro Parma Italy
28 April-Open Ears Festival, Kitchener Ontario Canada
05 May-Störung Festival Barcelona Spain
09-12 May-Blindscape at Elektra Festival Montreal Canada
19 May-Shots in the Dark with D-Fuse/Alter Ego, Wroclaw Poland
20 May-Light Turned Down with D-Fuse at Wroclaw Poland
24 May-Slomo:100 Minutes show Radiokulturhaus Wien Austria
02 June-Live Girona Spain
22 Aug-Duet with DJ Olive Chapelle des Brigittines Brussels
10 Nov-Williams S Burroughs event Paradiso Amsterdam
Exhibitions
Night Haunts
By Sukhdev Sandhu
Design Mind Unit
Sound Design Scanner
04 February 2006 – on-going
Artangel Interaction invited writer and historian Sukhdev Sandhu to write a nocturnal journal unfolding over the course of 2006. His postings will appear sequentially at this microsite specially designed by Mind Unit. Sandhu's forays see him prospecting in the London night with the people who drive its pulse, from the avian police to security guards, zookeepers and exorcists. Acclaimed artist and musician Scanner has collaborated with Sukhdev and Ian Budden of Mind Unit to compose the sound for the site. If you would like to be kept informed as each episode is posted, join artangel‘s mailing list by clicking here.
www.nighthaunts.org.uk
www.artangel.org.uk
Friendscan
Game On
Science Museum
London
21 October 2006 - 25 February 2007
From the PDP-1 of the 1960s to the latest must-have consoles Game On examines the technologies that have revolutionised the gaming world. Friendscan is an interactive installation, inspired by a handheld computer game from the early 1970s, Simon.
NightJam
Bittersweet Songs for the Sleepless City
Artangel Interaction
20 July 2006...on-going
NightJam is the latest project in Artangel Interaction’s Nights of London series of artist-led collaborations with people who have a special view on a hidden side of the nocturnal city. Scanner invited young people at New Horizon Youth Centre in King’s Cross to collaborate on a creative project that expresses how the city at night looks and sounds to their ears and eyes. Through music and voice workshops they explored the sense of freedom and fear, celebration and solitude of the concealing darkness. Meanwhile, they captured their nights on disposable cameras, taking images that are at times eerie, startling, contemplative and funny. NightJam presents two elusive visual and musical journeys through the city’s ‘quiet’ hours.
NightJam resents two music tracks, a film, photographs, that can be experienced and freely downloaded. A limited edition CD is also being distributed for free through the website. A series of remixes by other artists will be available over the forthcoming months.
www.nightjam.org.uk
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