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Inkonst och Malmö besök av Volcano the Bear från Leicester i England, Erik de Vahl från Kramfors (bosatt i Göteborg) och Library Tapes från Stockholm och Gävle. Det blir experimentmusik, folktronica och postrock. Kom tidigt!
24 mars, 21:00. 18 år. 90 kr. Förköp på
Rundgång.
Volcano the Bear (UK)
http://www.brainwashed.com/vtb/http://www.blrrecords.com/
Det som låter udda kan ofta vara lätt och tilltalande. Så är det med Volcano the Bear. Många har försökt beskriva dem med stora och svåra ord, vi väljer att kalla det experimentell musik som kan tilltala de flesta.
Andra röster om bandet:
"Volcano the Bear have crafted a strange geometry in their musique concrete between celestial duck honks and what sounds like a flood in the living room… Record one births gently into something that even might win over the Devendra Banhart crowd, if the Devendra crowd had ingested just a little too much mushroom tea on that day and left their ironic trucker hats at the door. Song becomes fever dream and then pitches into a barren place of low estate and low chanting. With typical minimalist pageantry, Volcano the Bear mutate from piece to piece, punctuating along the way with surprise sounds… The band spins some very melodious tales, which are subliminally hooky, after a fashion. Spiritual and surreal are sisters. Quiet ritualism queues with dadaistic and with progressive harmonies, together on the same fractured, out world, sing-along journey. And that's just record one. Record two crawls slowly from the echoey ooze, grows legs and then presents as a different and, in many ways, more dramatic creature. A long, shifting organ drone becomes a deeply psychedelic statement that bleats loud and strong like an acid bleached Spiral Insana or a sneaky This Heat."
- Beta-lactam Ring Records.
"Freedom, flux, spontaneity. This is the anti-manifesto of English quartet Volcano The Bear. They aim for a no-style style where anything can, and does happen. The four, Clarence Manuelo, Nick Mott, Aaron Moore and Daniel Padden, have a unique take on the DIY punk approach; they are anti-virtuoistic, but also anti-genre and interested in the very fundamentals of sound. So what can happen in this non-space that is created? The surprising answer is: anti-chaos. In Volcano The Bear’s hour-long improvisations, there is no plan, but there is structure; threads are pulled together through the four member’s intuitive reactions to each other, the audience and their own recorded past material – Faust-like, VTB recycle their own sounds - an engaging piece of musical cannibalism.
Filled with complexity, their live performances are fresh and funny. Humour is an important element in the VTB philosophy. Says Daniel Padden: "We don't take ourselves too seriously, and we know that music can be very funny." Aaron Moore adds: "A lot of "experimental" music is played so deadpan that an audience can have difficulty engaging with the music and the musicians on stage, staring at their shoes. This isn't a problem with The Bear. To make an audience smile and laugh with you is very special…"
VTB use conventional instruments in their music making, guitars are played with pliers and electric razors, clarinets are blown for texture rather than tone, they also use an enormous range of non-instruments: vacuum cleaners, balloons, straws and an assortment of home-made electronics. Voice is another important element, with chanting, shouting and poetry reading all coming into play through characters invented and affected for the occasion.
Together since 1995, each member is also simultaneously involved in various side and solo projects. VTB have an impressive back catalogue spun across several labels including the CD-R imprint Volucan, Nurse With Wound’s United Diaries and the French Textile Records, making them label-mates with Jackie O Motherfucker and Vibracathederal Orchestra. Many of the albums are live recordings and have limited edition, hand-painted covers."
- Club Transmediale
Erik de Vahl (Kramfors/GBG)
http://www.erikdevahl.com/http://www.srvice.com/http://www.famousfor15mb.com
Erik de Vahls musik gör inte nödvändigtvis så mycket väsen av sig. Ibland handlar det bara om brottsstycken till låtar som kryper nära och tätt inpå. Vackra visor som bäddas in i sprakande knaster. Musik som skulle kunna placeras i bakgrunden om det inte vore för att den snart fångar hela uppmärksamheten.
Andra röster om Erik de Vahl:
"Erik de Vahl har ett väldigt nyfiket och lekfullt sätt att närma sig sitt skapande. Allt låter nyfött. Men ändå med livserfarenhet. Tillsammans bildar ljuden en mosaik som i sin tur ritar ett mönster, som ingår i ett större mönster."
- Kal Ström,
dagensskiva.com"Erik de Vahl från Kramfors är inte lika medial och lättillänglig som bolagets andra artister, The Tough Alliance, The Embassy och Jens Lekman. Men följer man skivbolagets märkliga uppmaning - "Play twice before listening" - upptäcker man en artist som utgår från Brian Enos idé om bakgrundsmusik men vänder den ut in. Erik de Vahl gör ambient som vill förändra världen.
Det brusar, knäpper och sprakar. Det låter också väldigt vackert med akustisk gitarr och, osannolikt nog, blockflöjt."
- Jan Gradvall,
Dagens Industri"Albumet smyger sig på, långsamt och stillsamt. Utan att jag riktigt vet hur det har gått till sitter jag bara fångad. Bitvis är detta det vackraste som trängt igenom mina hörlurar 2005. Särskilt 'She is Calling me', som påminner om de bästa stunderna på Sigur Rós nya skiva."
- Sverker Brundin,
metica.se"Erik de Vahl kombinerar Tapes organiska folktronica med melodier och stämningar som närmast kan liknas med det Khonnor utforskade på "Handwriting". Men där Khonnors musik ibland känns som att dra djupa andetag i ett kylskåp, är "Friendly Fire" snarare en varm snuttefilt att slutas in i, en varm tekopp en kylig höstdag eller ett brev från någon du saknar."
- Niklas Sörensen,
revolver.nuLibrary Tapes (Sthlm/Gävle)
http://www.librarytapes.tkhttp://www.myspace.com/librarytapeshttp://www.resonantlabel.com/Library Tapes bildades 2004 och består av David och Per. Debutskivan "Alone in the bright ligths of a shattered life" spelades in i november 2004 och släpptes på skivbolaget Resonant i augusti 2005.
Några omdömen om skivan:
"This is a work of staggering genius and easily tops some of the more blistering pieces by the likes of Mono, Eluvium and Explosions in the Sky for severe pathos (god knows why I just named three Temporary Residence bands, but they work). Imagine you found that lost Godspeed You Black Emperor tape, the first one that no one has and there are only 33 copies… this is it. Imagine they somehow wrote it during the period that A Silver Mt Zion was starting, and you would get even closer to the idea of what this beautiful and stunningly lovely record has accomplished. Some will use the terms bleak and desolate to describe this glacial work, with its woody creaks and groans, and hanging clouds of reverb, but I prefer to see the piano as only half broken… this is a reason for celebration and a cause for confidence in the state of music today."
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indieworkshop.com"Absolutely superb from beginning to end."
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smallfish.co.uk"Not unlike a William Basinski piece, 'In a safe place...' takes an emotionally wrought piano and allows it to languidly meander over a stirring landscape of half-glimpsed sonic sturctures and soundscapes that can't help but make an emotional impact on this listener. Gorgeous."
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boomkat.com"Preppered with feedback and various discreet noise samples, Library Tapes gradually build up a gnawing feeling of dread and despond that, as the disc progresses, grows even bleaker."
- The Wire
Det som låter udda kan ofta vara lätt och tilltalande. Så är det med Volcano the Bear. Många har försökt beskriva dem med stora och svåra ord, vi väljer att kalla det experimentell musik som kan tilltala de flesta.
Erik de Vahls musik gör inte nödvändigtvis så mycket väsen av sig. Ibland handlar det bara om brottsstycken till låtar som kryper nära och tätt inpå. Vackra visor som bäddas in i sprakande knaster. Musik som skulle kunna placeras i bakgrunden om det inte vore för att den snart fångar hela uppmärksamheten.
