Upcoming gigs and events

Some of the most striking voices in today’s classical composition are not coming out of the West but from far-flung outposts on the other side of the world. Such a voice is that of Dmitri Yanov Yanovsky. Chicago Tribune 2010

A new series of contemporary music and arts events, ‘Sounds of the Silk Road organised by the Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS), will be launched this April as part of the Drogheda Arts Festival.

The first performance of the series will feature work specially commissioned by the LCMS by Dmitri Yanov Yanovsky a composer from Uzbekistan a country at the cross-roads of the rich oriental and Islamic traditions of Central Asia. The work has been has written for world renowned Hilliard ensemble, Ivan Monighetti one of the world’s most accomplished cellists who stunned audiences with his performance at the Drogheda Arts Festival 2010 and of the foremost Irish musicians in the newly formed EQ Ensemble which includes Cliona Doris,harp, Malachy Robinson,bass, Elizabeth Cooney,violin, Cian O'Duill,viola, Maria McGarry,piano, Deirdre O'Leary, clarinet, Susan Doyle, flute, Chris Stynes and Maeve O'Hara, percussion.

The concert will take place in St Peter’s Church of Ireland Drogheda on the 29 April 2011 at 8pm.

This is the first time the Hilliard ensemble, have been involved with an Irish based commission and it is also Dmitri's first Irish commission. Dimitri Yanov-Yanovsky was born in 1963 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. As the musicologist Gerard McBurney says “His remarkable surroundings are vividly reflected in his music. What is most impressive is the skill with which he weaves the colourful threads of contradictory influences into a musical fabric always refined, beautifully patterned and absolutely personal”

The piece ‘Morning’ based on text from Robert Lax's poem ‘Morning’, from his book called Circus of the Sun described by the New York Times as one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. Lax was also a friend of the writer, monk and mystic Thomas Merton.
The performance will also include another of Dmitri's works called Nightmusic - Voices in the Leaves which was written for Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble.

World renowned Lydia Kavina will open the concert with a contemporary piece called Kitezh 19. Lydia plays music on a theremin, an electronic instrument which makes music without touching. Lydia has become an icon for performances with the Theramin and will be giving a workshop on the instrument for both beginners and advanced players whilst she is in Ireland.

The concert and events are the latest of several high profile art music events organised by the Louth Contemporary Music Society which have brought world renowned composers to Ireland, previously having successfully featured, Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Valentyn Silvestov and to the 2010 Drogheda Arts Festival, the Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina.

Sounds of the Silk Road is presented by Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS) in association with Create Louth. The event is funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and financially supported by Create Louth.

Tickets for the performance priced €15 are available from www.centralticketbureau.com and Droichead Online Booking Service http://www.droicheadartscentre.com/booking.

Cork New Music Ensemble

Saturday, 21st of May
8:00 p.m.
Curtis Auditoriom
Cork School of Music.

Admissiom: 5 euro




The Cork New Music Ensemble is a recently formed group dedicated to performing newly composed works and other contemporary music.

For its debut performance the ensemble will perform nine new works by Irish composers.


Pieces to be performed (not necessarily in order of performance)

Sam Barker - Two Sonnets for Violin, Vibraphone and Double Bass
Sam Perkin - Prelude and Fugue For Marimba and Violin
Brendan O'Connor - Droplets on Staves for Chamber Ensemble
Siona Mahon - As the Leaf Withers for Chamber Ensemble
Patrick O'Connor - Evocation and King's Seranade for Soprano and Ensemble
Stephen Lane - Making Time for Piano and Vibraphone
Stephen Parker - Lullabies for an Estuary of Sculptures: Phillip Jackson, for Soprano and Ensemble
Pierre O'Reilly - Yello for two Pianos
David O'Regan - Sleepwalk for Flute and Vibraphone


The list of performers includes Aoife O'Donnovan (flute), Eoin Ducrot (violin), Alex Petcu (percussion), Shane Ladden (piano), Aoife Sadlier (cello), Kelley Lonergan (soprano), Conor Palliser (conducting some pieces) and many more.

The 8 Cellos of Celli Monighetti with special guest Franghiz Ali Zadeh.

The second concert in Louth Contemporary Music Society’s ‘Sounds of the Silk Road” series will take place on 22 October 2011 in St.Peter’s Church of Ireland Drogheda. The concert entitled Metamorphoses features the amazing Russian cellist Ivan Monighetti’s 8 cello ensemble Celli Monighetti with special guest Azerbaijani composer and pianist Franghiz Ali-Zadeh.

Metamorphoses also features the first poster design by Reza Abedini, a world renowned Iranian designer and a professor of graphic design and visual culture at Tehran University. www.rezaabedini.com

Metamorphoses is presented by Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS). Metamorphoses is funded by a private Swiss foundation, and financially supported by the Arts Council and Create Louth. The concert is dedicated to Sofia Gubaidulina who celebrates her 80th birthday on 24 October 2011.

Tickets for the performance priced €15 are available from www.centralticketbureau.com (0818 205 205 ) or at the door.

Youtube Videos
Kian Soltani performing Franghiz Ali-Zade’s Habil sajaji ( Habil Style)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPJO6ce7o4I&feature=related

The Music of Dmitri Yanov Yanovsky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgmBzxDT4GU&feature=related

Ivan Monighetti performing Sofia Gubaidulina’s Canticle of the Sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1ut6OyRWq4

couldn't edit previous post so here's the poster with full details ...



tomorrow night, 8pm, plugd records. suggested donation €7

full line-up:

crank sturgeon
i'd m theftable
wölflinge & first blood part II


dublin show is tonight in the joinery

Whelanslive.com present the live Irish debut of the enigmatic & completely wonderful

Natural Snow Buildings (France)
with support from
Be Honest (Ian Maleney – Ginola/Quarter Inch Collective)
Sunday 11th March
Upstairs At Whelan’s
Tickets €12

Live appearances by Natural Snow Buildings are an even more rare jewel than their records, which seem to briefly appear in limited numbers and instantly be devoured. The Vitré-based duo of Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte began creating music together after meeting at university in the late 90s, armed with little more than cello, guitar and voice. They began issuing tapes and CDRs in miniscule quantities, word slowly spreading through the exclamations of such devoted advocates as Digitalis and Time Lag.

Despite their minimal means, Natural Snow Buildings music is never less than all-consuming, be it in their ethereal and windswept epics or their moments of close-mic'd vocal-and-guitar tenderness. Their releases always materialize on a grand scale, usually of two discs or more, always adorned by Mehdi and Solange's quasi-mystical artwork – like the tracks inside, each one seems like a fully realized dream.

2006's The Dance Of The Moon And The Sun was perhaps a watershed, the duo finding their work hyperbolised online as a "monumental masterpiece", "the history of all things" and "perfection defined". Popol Vuh, Flying Saucer Attack, Vashti Bunyan – comparisons abound and uniformly fail to do them justice. Soon began their relationship with Sheffield's Blackest Rainbow label and a series of releases that continue to sell out almost before the label takes delivery.

This is the first proper tour by Natural Snow Buildings and this truly is not to be missed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUm3LpLAMiY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELILsuB4LvU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faEsz0XLMbQ

Support on the night comes from Be Honest, the new experimental guitar project from Quarter Inch Collective’s Ian Maleney. You can check out a live set from Be Honest here -- http://soundcloud.com/behonest/be-ho...-joinery-25-11

Whelanslive.com presents

Talibam! & Sam Kulik (US)
+ No Spill Blood (Irl) (members of Adebisi Shank/Elk/Magic Pockets/Hands Up Who Wants To Die)
Upstairs At Whelan’s
Friday 23rd March
Doors 8pm
Tickets €11 including booking fee available to buy online now from WAV Tickets or call the Box Office [1890 200 078]

TALIBAM! and SAM KULIK DISCOVER ATLANTIS
Talibam! Goes To Bed with Sam Kulik and Discovers Atlantis is a hyper-reflective and humorous take on current events, ecological disaster, pubescent sexual experience, and corporate/political domination. It’s an avant-garde buddy movie for the ears: a 21st Century Weimar cabaret of reggae/disco/freejazz/avant-rock/poetry with impassioned soliloquies often transforming into deadpan self-reflective humor.
A 13 year old boy named Franklin is brought to the bottom of the ocean to ‘Atlantis’ by a bohemian ‘jazz fish’ named Stinge. Atlantis is flooded with a toxic oil spill that is leaking beyond control, killing all of the free minded fish of Atlantis. Meanwhile, the politicians of Atlantis use the oil for their own sexual self gratification and show little concern that Atlantis is turning into an ecological disaster of epic proportion. Stinge brings Franklin to Atlantis because Franklin has in his possession a ‘magic pillow’, built by his father and Stinge hopes that Franklin can ‘stuff the hole’ with his pillow and save Atlantis for good. In order for Franklin to comprehend this scenario, Stinge leads Franklin on a tour of Atlantis cultural hotspots; jazz spots, poetry slams and art centers in order for him to see the scope of devastation that the oil leak is causing Atlantis. Franklin feels compelled to help Stinge and the bohemain fish of Atlantis, and with some other key characters they meet along the way, make a valiant attempt to save Atlantis for good!

TALIBAM! ENTERTAINS
Hailing from New York, Talibam! Is one of the most potent and fascinating bands in contemporary music. With 17 European tours since ’06, and 20 album releases since ’05, the eight + years of interplay between Matt Mottel and Kevin Shea has created one of the most unique and exciting live shows and some of the most powerfully recorded documents of any era.


Talibam! founded in 2003 by Kevin Shea and Matt Mottel have been consistently lauded for their creative output in features from Vice Magazine, The Wire, Pitchfork, The Village Voice, Blow Up, Drowned in Sound,Tinymixtapes and many more.
They have twenty records on a variety of internationally respected vanguard labels; ESP DISK, Bo Weavil, Azul Discografica, Blackest Rainbow, Pendu, Gaffer, Holidays, Wallace and more.
Since 2006, Talibam! have been one of the most active underground American bands on the European scene, completing 17 tours since 2006, playing at the Wire Festival (2007) Dot to Dot (2007),Kraak Festival (2008),ZXZW (2008), Night of the Unexpected (2009), Ultra Hang (2010), Dis-Patch (2010).
They have collaborated across genre, and medium performing for artist Peter Coffin, at Deitch Projects in 2008, and in 2009 started an ongoing collaboration with acclaimed choreographer Karole Armitage, performing with her at the Kitchen in 2009, Torino Italy, 2009, and Abrons Arts Center in 2010 and at Milano Dance Festival in Milan and at Dance Umbrella Festival at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in 2011.
In 2011, they spent the greater half of the year in residency at LMCC Swing Space, where they have developed many projects for presentation, including this one.


Sam Kulik
Sam Kulik (b. 1982) grew up in Massachusetts and moved to New York in 2004 after studying trombone with Robin Eubanks at the Oberlin Conservatory. He is known as much in the world of improvised music as he is in the world of indie rock and he has worked extensively with dance and theater companies that lie somewhere in between. He has toured to over a dozen countries with Nervous Cabaret, Talibam!, Starring, Skeletons, Amanda Palmer, Gloria Deluxe, Capillary Action, and the Mettawee River Theater Company, and has performed locally with Buckwheat Zydeco, John Zorn, Peter Evans, Walter Thompson, Ibrahim Maalouf, and a crazy old guy he met in Hoboken once. In the past year he has performed at Roulette, The Music Hall of Williamsburg, The Stone, The Kitchen, The Whitney Museum, Death By Audio, and Issue Project Room in New York City.

No Spill Blood are a fun new musical combination featuring members of Adebisi Shank, Elk & Magic Pockets. Expect a super entertainment music wish-party via the medium of raging vocals, scorching synths and pulverizing kraut rhythms from one of the most brilliantly exciting new bands in Dublin.

KENNETH DAHL KNUDSEN
SHANE LATIMER
DENNIS CASSIDY
PATRICK KIERNAN
SHANE HOLLY

Block T 1-6 Haymarket, Smithfield Sq., Dublin 7
THU 15 MAR 8:00pm €5/7 BYOB

Knudsen/Latimer Quartet
Kenneth Dahl Knudsen is double bass player based in Aalborg, Denmark. He performs with his own international band ‘Kenneth Dahl Knudsen Group feat. Gilad Hekselman’ and the Aalborg based group ‘Crash ‘n’ Burn’. Shane Latimer is a guitarist based in Dublin. He performs with funk scientists ‘OKO’ and co-curates the annual Bottlenote festival, an annual festival of improvised music in Dublin, Ireland. The pair met when performing at Den Blaa Festival 2011. After performing an off-the-cuff concert at the festival they organised a tour of Ireland and Denmark for March 2012. For this collaboration they will be joined by Galway-based Matthew Berrill on sax and Oslo-based Kristian Thor Helboe on drums. This tour was made possible with the generous support of Culture Ireland and Improvised Music Company.

http://kennethdahlknudsen.com/
http://soundcloud.com/shanelatimer

Dennis Cassidy is a graduate of the Newpark Music Center in Dublin, where he studied jazz performance under Conor Guilfoyle. He is a much sought after performer both live and in studio and has played extensively throughout Ireland, Europe and the US. He is also a highly regarded educator and composer, and has written for both ensemble and film. Current projects include Mixtapes From The Underground, Tryst, The Holy Roman Army and solo pieces for turntables, cassette tape and electronics.

http://soundcloud.com/dencassidy

Patrick Kiernan is a musician and composer from Dublin. For the past year, he has been experimenting with solo electric bass performance, using electronics and preparations to create improvised spontaneous compositions.

http://soundcloud.com/patrickkiernan

Shane Holly is a guitarist/drummer/composer residing in Dublin City. For the past number of years he has been exploring large-scale composition more akin to abstract song. The music draws influence from a variety of genres to create rhythmically and harmonically dense, but accessible soundscapes laden with hooks and shifts in meter and dynamics. The music is instrumental in approach featuring densely layered solo guitar by Shane accompanied by the sympathetic drumming of Brian Walsh.

http://soundcloud.com/shaneholly

Tomorrow night! It's gonna be epic

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Whelanslive.com presents

Talibam! & Sam Kulik (US)
+ No Spill Blood (Irl) (members of Adebisi Shank/Elk/Magic Pockets/Hands Up Who Wants To Die)
Upstairs At Whelan’s
Friday 23rd March
Doors 8pm
Tickets €11 including booking fee available to buy online now from WAV Tickets or call the Box Office [1890 200 078]

TALIBAM! and SAM KULIK DISCOVER ATLANTIS
Talibam! Goes To Bed with Sam Kulik and Discovers Atlantis is a hyper-reflective and humorous take on current events, ecological disaster, pubescent sexual experience, and corporate/political domination. It’s an avant-garde buddy movie for the ears: a 21st Century Weimar cabaret of reggae/disco/freejazz/avant-rock/poetry with impassioned soliloquies often transforming into deadpan self-reflective humor.
A 13 year old boy named Franklin is brought to the bottom of the ocean to ‘Atlantis’ by a bohemian ‘jazz fish’ named Stinge. Atlantis is flooded with a toxic oil spill that is leaking beyond control, killing all of the free minded fish of Atlantis. Meanwhile, the politicians of Atlantis use the oil for their own sexual self gratification and show little concern that Atlantis is turning into an ecological disaster of epic proportion. Stinge brings Franklin to Atlantis because Franklin has in his possession a ‘magic pillow’, built by his father and Stinge hopes that Franklin can ‘stuff the hole’ with his pillow and save Atlantis for good. In order for Franklin to comprehend this scenario, Stinge leads Franklin on a tour of Atlantis cultural hotspots; jazz spots, poetry slams and art centers in order for him to see the scope of devastation that the oil leak is causing Atlantis. Franklin feels compelled to help Stinge and the bohemain fish of Atlantis, and with some other key characters they meet along the way, make a valiant attempt to save Atlantis for good!

TALIBAM! ENTERTAINS
Hailing from New York, Talibam! Is one of the most potent and fascinating bands in contemporary music. With 17 European tours since ’06, and 20 album releases since ’05, the eight + years of interplay between Matt Mottel and Kevin Shea has created one of the most unique and exciting live shows and some of the most powerfully recorded documents of any era.


Talibam! founded in 2003 by Kevin Shea and Matt Mottel have been consistently lauded for their creative output in features from Vice Magazine, The Wire, Pitchfork, The Village Voice, Blow Up, Drowned in Sound,Tinymixtapes and many more.
They have twenty records on a variety of internationally respected vanguard labels; ESP DISK, Bo Weavil, Azul Discografica, Blackest Rainbow, Pendu, Gaffer, Holidays, Wallace and more.
Since 2006, Talibam! have been one of the most active underground American bands on the European scene, completing 17 tours since 2006, playing at the Wire Festival (2007) Dot to Dot (2007),Kraak Festival (2008),ZXZW (2008), Night of the Unexpected (2009), Ultra Hang (2010), Dis-Patch (2010).
They have collaborated across genre, and medium performing for artist Peter Coffin, at Deitch Projects in 2008, and in 2009 started an ongoing collaboration with acclaimed choreographer Karole Armitage, performing with her at the Kitchen in 2009, Torino Italy, 2009, and Abrons Arts Center in 2010 and at Milano Dance Festival in Milan and at Dance Umbrella Festival at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in 2011.
In 2011, they spent the greater half of the year in residency at LMCC Swing Space, where they have developed many projects for presentation, including this one.


Sam Kulik
Sam Kulik (b. 1982) grew up in Massachusetts and moved to New York in 2004 after studying trombone with Robin Eubanks at the Oberlin Conservatory. He is known as much in the world of improvised music as he is in the world of indie rock and he has worked extensively with dance and theater companies that lie somewhere in between. He has toured to over a dozen countries with Nervous Cabaret, Talibam!, Starring, Skeletons, Amanda Palmer, Gloria Deluxe, Capillary Action, and the Mettawee River Theater Company, and has performed locally with Buckwheat Zydeco, John Zorn, Peter Evans, Walter Thompson, Ibrahim Maalouf, and a crazy old guy he met in Hoboken once. In the past year he has performed at Roulette, The Music Hall of Williamsburg, The Stone, The Kitchen, The Whitney Museum, Death By Audio, and Issue Project Room in New York City.

No Spill Blood are a fun new musical combination featuring members of Adebisi Shank, Elk & Magic Pockets. Expect a super entertainment music wish-party via the medium of raging vocals, scorching synths and pulverizing kraut rhythms from one of the most brilliantly exciting new bands in Dublin.

Whelanslive & Quarter Inch Collective present

TIM HECKER
+Guests
The Unitarian Church, Stephen’s Green
Friday 18th May
Tickets €16.50 (including booking fee) available to buy online from www.wavtickets.ie or call the WAV Box Office [Lo-call 1890 200 078]. Tickets also available from www.tickets.ie

For fans of Fennesz, Ben Frost, Stars Of The Lid, My Bloody Valentine, Henryk Górecki, Phillip Glass




"So whatever grand plan Hecker may or may not have had in mind here, letʼs just say that much of Ravedeath, 1972 will put you in the position of a slack-jawed medieval peasant, floored by hearing the power and beauty of that organ for the first time.” - Drowned in Sound

"We can't think of another producer in the field who's had such an unstoppable winning streak over the past ten years." - Altered Zones

"As the world spirals into hell these are the lullabies to dull the pain." - Fact Magazine

Sometimes a show comes along that you already know will quickly fall into the realm of legendary status in the Dublin cultural canon and the extraordinary Tim Hecker playing the Unitarian Church is one such show. Hecker is a Canadian-based and ultra-prolific producer & composer who has been pushing the margins of electro-acoustic composition since 2001 on legendary labels such as Kranky, Fat Cat, Alien8 & Mille Plateaux. His work has variously described as "structured ambient", "tectonic color plates" and "cathedral electronic music" but what we can confidently assert is that they are some of the most powerful recordings of the 21st century, equal parts beautiful and terrifying and there could be no more appropriate a setting in Dublin to witness Hecker’s reverberant masterpieces than the Unitarian Church on Stephen’s Green.

Ravedeath 1972, Hecker’s 2011 opus which was engineered by Ben Frost featured at the business end of many 2011 end-of-year polls and won the the Polaris Prize for best Canadian electronic album.

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Kirkos Ensemble Launch

An interview with three of the composers - Robert Coleman, Sebastian Adams, and Bill McGrath - is on Lyric FM's Culture File, tonight at 6.40pm.

Mr. Zorn is a towering pillar of a new-music universe he has worked tirelessly to foster and enrich. The New York Times
Louth Contemporary Music Society celebrates the first Irish visit of New York based iconic composer and instrumentalist John Zorn in a mini-festival entitled John Zorn The Holy Visions on 4 and 5 October 2012. The Holy Visions features three performances including two world premieres of Zorn’s music.

John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Drawing on his experience in a variety of genres including jazz, rock, classical, klezmer, film, cartoon, popular and improvised music, John Zorn has created an influential body of work that defies academic categories.

"My musical world is like a little prism. You look through it and it goes off in a million different directions. Since every genre is the same, all musicians should be equally respected. It doesn't matter if it's jazz, blues, or classical. They're all the same." John Zorn.

Zorn’s long time collaborator, the world-renowned Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista and his group Banquet of the Spirits, will perform music from their latest cd Caym: The Book of Angels which interprets Zorn’s sublime Masada songbook dedicated to the Jewish diaspora with a Brazilian and middle eastern twist. Banquet of the Spirits’ concert takes place on Thursday 4 October 2012 at 8pm in An Tain Theatre Dundalk.

The following evening, Friday 5 October 2012, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart will perform an astonishingly beautiful new Zorn vocal work The Holy Visions —a mystery play in eleven strophes — concerning the life, work and philosophy of Hildegard von Bingen for five female voices (2012) in St.Nicholas’ Church of Ireland Dundalk. The EQ Ensemble conducted by Gavin Moloney will open Friday’s concert with a world premiere performance of Zorn’s work Missa Sine Voces (2012),a beautiful instrumental miniature for five players written in the form of a Requiem Mass.

Performed as an encore to the Holy Visions concert earlier in the evening ( Friday 5 October 2012), Zorn returns to his first instrument for a very rare event—his first solo organ concert in Ireland when he will bring his compositional mind and improvisation skills to the beautiful Willis organ at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dundalk. The organ recital will take place in St. Patrick’s Cathedral Dundalk at 10.00 pm on Friday 5 October 2012. The organ recital is FREE to those who have purchased tickets for either the 4 or 5 October 2012 concerts.

John Zorn The Holy Visions is presented by Louth Contemporary Music Society. Louth Contemporary Music Society is financially supported by the Arts Council and Create Louth.

LISTINGS INFORMATION

Cyro Baptista’s Banquet of the Spirits plays John Zorn’s Book of Angels
8pm on Thursday 4 October 2012
An Tain Theatre, The Town Hall, Dundalk
Tickets: €20/Concessions €15
Tel: 00 353 42 939 2919.
Email: antaintheatre@dundalktown.ie

The Holy Visions
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
EQ Ensemble
8pm on Friday 5 October 2012
St. Nicholas Church of Ireland Dundalk
Tickets €20/Concessions €15
www.centralticketbureau.com
ROI: 0818 205 205

UK: 0870 850 2896
Also available from An Tain Theatre Box Office: 00 353 42 9392919

Solo Organ Recital
John Zorn
10pm on Friday 5 October 2012
St. Patrick’s Cathedral Dundalk
The organ recital is FREE to those who have purchased tickets for either of the previous Zorn concerts on 4 or 5 October 2012. Tickets for the organ recital are only available by emailing eamonn@louthcms.org


Cyro Baptista will also give a percussion workshop for Music Generation Louth on Friday 5 October 2012. Details of Cyro Baptista’s workshop are available soon from www.musicgenerationlouth.ie

Hilltown New Music Festival
This is on this weekend - if anyone's around they should go see Kirkos Ensemble play on Friday night (John Cage works) and on Saturday afternoon (concert of music by young Irish composers).

Not that I have any vested interest or anything!

This Thursday! For fans of Goblin and scary things. Only 7 bucks in. Do come!

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Ensemble Economique
+ Guests
Thursday 26th July
Upstairs At Whelan's
Doors 8pm
Admission €7

Ensemble Economique is Brian Pyle from Starving Weirdos and the last EE record (Crossing The Pass, By Torchlight) would be right up the street of any Morricone/Carpenter/Frizzi fans in particular but anyone into their brooding soundtrack/electronic stuff should definitely check EE out too.Does our subject still wear pink socks?

Ensemble Economique - To Feel The Night As It Realy Is - YouTube

Ensemble Economique - Sparks Exploding, Splintering Blackness - YouTube


Bio
Over the past few years Brian Pyle's (Starving Weirdos) solo project has begun to blossom into a force of atmospheric synth propulsion. Evolving from early sound sketches into fully formed soundtracks filled with longing, paranoia and encroaching darkness; his songs have come to exemplify the current synth resurgence while also rising above it to achieve a larger vision.

Crossing The Pass, By Torchlight is undoubtedly Pyle's most complex and complete album to date. It unfolds as a narrative landscape that's as dense as the most poured over musical scores and equally as emotionally complex. The swelling single "To Feel The Night As It Really Is", which first appeared on its own, is now entwined in a album wrought with cracked glass emotions, wire wrapped tension and a bittersweet ebb of ennui. Though there is no companion script, it feels as if characters rise and fall, weep and sigh throughout the course of the album. Pyle has rendered a tensile world of feeling through his score and in the end you're left wondering what will happen to his and your own imaginary characters next.

""the greatest rock band on the planet... At this point in time I think it’s safe to say that no one else has so successfully and rigorously disinterred and interrogated the basic tenets of rock music as Fu****susha and to think that at 60 years old Haino is still making the most radical and searching rock music of anyone’s career is a tribute to his commitment to the specifics of vision and his belief in the potential of the form. From where I’m sitting it feels like the whole history of rock music has led up to this" - David Keenan

Whelanslive present

Fush(it)susha
Tuesday October 9th
The Village, Wexford St
Tickets €18.50 + booking fee available from www.wavtickets.ie and www.tickets.ie

Keiji Haino has been at the forefront of the Japanese avant-garde music scene for four decades. A captivating solo performer, he has played two sold out residencies at cafe oto that have demonstrated his versatility - from fleet fingered duo encounters with Peter Brötzmann and Steve Noble to the insane dynamic range of his solo vocal incantations. We've always wanted to work with Haino to present some of more adventurous rock-informed projects but needed a more expansive space to accommodate it. It was some sweet syncronicity that our discovery of Hackney's magnificent Round Chapel coincided with Haino's reinstigation of Fu****susha - his most potent realisation of rock music's primal energy and radical potential.

FU****SUSHA

Keiji Haino's extensive career has encompassed a dizzying range of approaches from wild, guitar-led ensemble rock and near-Neolithic drumming; live electronics, untutored explorations of lute and flute, to voice experiments and extended performances for gamelan and other percussion. He has also collaborated widely with the likes of Derek Bailey, Merzbow, Jim O'Rourke and Tony Conrad. Throughout, Haino has retained a visionary focus upon temporary suspension through noise (and silence) whilst refining a mercurial, highly distinctive method and an arrestingly dramatic on-stage presence. In Fu****susha he is joined by original Fu****susha/Kousokuya drummer Ikuro Takahashi and bassist Mitsuru Nasuno (who Haino also plays with in Seijaku). Their disc Hikari to Nazukeyo was one of the most hotly anticipating releases of 2012.

Fennesz [Touch / Editions Mego - Vienna]
+ Cian Nugent [VHF Records]
+ Withering Zithering [Acre Recordings]
+ visuals by Donal Dineen

Dublin Unitarian Church, St. Stephen’s Green West.
Saturday October 20th. 19.30 - 23.00.

Facebook Event

Con Artist Productions are proud to present an evening of the finest electronic and improv music from Withering Zithering, Cian Nugent and very special guest, Christian Fennesz. Visuals will be created by Mr. Donal Dineen and projected across the venue transforming this already stunning environment into another people place. Holding court in the evocative Gothic architecture of the Unitarian Church, the venue’s acoustics are sure to be a key participant in the evening’s performances.

Fennesz

Christian Fennesz uses guitar and computer to create a shimmering, swirling electronic sound of enormous range and complex musicality. “Imagine the electric guitar severed from cliché and all of its physical limitations, shaping a bold new musical language.” His lush and luminant compositions are anything but sterile computer experiments, they resemble sensitive, telescopic recordings of rainforest insect life or natural atmospheric occurrences, an inherent naturalism permeating each piece.

Fennesz has been a “must see” on the electronic music scene for several years, thanks both to his own particular musical world as well as his impeccable work in creating beautiful compositions for guitar. Somewhere between concrete music, classical and ambience sounds, he stretches musical resources and effects to create melodies and atmospheres that fuse classical and orchestral concepts with conceptual musical research and complex digital structures. His recordings such as Hotel Paral.lel , Endless Summer, Black Sea, Flumina and 7 Stars are key moments in contemporary electronic digital music.

Since the 90s, Fennesz has played live, collaborated and recorded with the likes of Ryuichi Sakamoto (Yellow Magic Orchestra), British electroacoustic improvisation icon Keith Rowe and American pop group Sparklehorse. He has also worked alongside Peter Rehberg and Jim O'Rourke in the improvisional trio Fenn O'Berg, and with singers Mike Patton (Faith no More) and David Sylvian. Having a natural affinity to the world of cinema, Fennesz has provided soundtracks for several films including AUN: The Beginning and the End of All Things, Beyond the Ocean and Dusl’s Blue Moon.

Fennesz’s latest release is a reworking of ‘Fa’ from his debut album, Hotel Paral.lel, and is backed by a new mix by the ever productive Mark Fell, adding his unique beat structures, and even a MLK sample, which lends his contemporary rhythmic landscape a odd nostalgic twist. This 12” can be seen as a warm up for the new Fennesz album, which is currently scheduled for 2013 release.

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Cian Nugent

Cian Nugent is a guitar player and composer from Dublin, Ireland who combines personal passions, such as suburban/coastal blues, traditional musics, late 1960s & '70s singer-songwriters, jazz ambitions, 20th century composition and the Takoma school into a deeply personal style. His music boasts an orchestrated and fully instrumented sound that is playful and eerie at the same time.

Over the past 4 years he has toured with people such as Jack Rose, Glenn Jones, Micah Blue Smaldone, Ben Reynolds, Nalle, The Family Elan, George Stavis, Jozef van Wissem, C Joynes, Peter Delaney, Thinguma*jigSaw and James Blackshaw throughout Europe and the United States.

"Nugent's already mastered dynamics tone and articulation. He introduces each new melody or change of emotional tenor at precisely the right moment to keep you on the edge with him, and his tunes are sturdy and lovely things [...] Mighty good." The Wire

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Withering Zithering

Withering Zithering is the abstract and largely improvised side project of Ed Devane. Music made for low light conditions, contemplation, and induced visual stimulus: Withering Zithering is an experiment in restraint, live performance, the use of home-made instruments and non-standard playing techniques.

Whereas most of the music released under the name Ed Devane is relatively noisy, rhythmic, and machine-like, Withering Zithering is lush, ambient and organic. Using a home-made zither and hands, metal bars and sticks to manipulate this source, Devane shows a side to his music only hinted at on his official releases. An album is currently in pre-production and will be released on Forewind Records in the coming time units of your choice.

As Ed himself explains:

“Withering Zithering has only recently moved from the confines of my bedroom and personal listening to public performances. My aim with this project is to slowly hypnotise people rather than to bludgen; to mix a degree of musicality with liberal splashes of noise and abstract sound, to challenge and reward the listener. Mostly this music is the result of experimentation and lots of improvisation, sitting on comfortable chairs, with slippers, green tea and a full range monitoring system...and lots of homemade zithers!”

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Donal Dineen

Kerryman Donal Dineen is a pioneering DJ, Photographer and Filmmaker. He contributes to and curates a multitude of music/film and visual events. He had a much loved Radio Show on Today FM - The Small Hours - which came to a glorious end on Dec 1st 2011. Donal has a recording project, Parish, which features Niwel Tsumbu, Liam O Maonlai, Ronan O Snodaigh, Andre Antunes, Peter Erdei and Aminah Dastan. This evening will see Donal projecting visuals across the church, transforming it into another people place.

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http://smallhours.fm/

Tickets available from Elastic Witch, All City Records and online via PayPal (con.artistes@gmail.com) and tickets.ie priced €19.50 (includes booking fee)
and from the following retail outlets nationwide:

Cork: Plugd Records, Triskel Arts Centre, Caroline Street, Cork. 353 (0)21 427 6300
Donegal: Sweeney Todd's, Market Square Shopping Centre, Bundoran, Co. Donegal.
Dublin: Elastic Witch, Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1
Dublin: Spindizzy Records, 32 Market Arcade, Georges St, Dublin 2 353 (0)1 671 1711
Dublin: All City Records, 4 Crow Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. 353 (0)1 677 2994
Dublin: E2Music, Dame St., Dublin 2.
Limerick: The Scholar's Club, University of Limerick, Limerick. 353 (0)61 234378
Meath: E2Music, Unit 4 Kennedy Road, Navan, Co. Meath. 353 (0)46 902 3254