SATURDAY 28th August 2010
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £5 adv. / £6
An exploration of innovative approaches to song, improvisation and the crossover between the two.
Songscapes and soundscapes from Clang Sayne; A Capella orchestrations from Spanish artist, Jorge R Escudero, aka 'Hyperpotamus'; Solo improvisation on prepared electric guitar from James O Sullivan.
CLANG SAYNE
Directed by songwriter/improvisor Laura Hyland, Clang Sayne explore the boundaries between traditional song and free improvisation. The group began as a song-based collaboration between Laura, and guitarist, James O Sullivan in 2007, and later expanded to include bassist, Peter Marsh and percussionist, Paul May.
Their debut album, 'Winterlands', released in September 2009, has been described as
"exhillarating and modest, yet perverse in its refusal to conform"
(Clive Bell, The Wire)
"showcasing an uncategorisable approach to song craft that brings to mind the music of Tim Buckley, Jandek and David Sylvian's collaborations with Derek Bailey."
(Boomkat)
"Sandy Denny at her most fervent joining the sessions for Mark Hollis’ solo record"
(Baked Goods)
"an explicit and compelling example of music that interrogates traditional forms but explodes them due to some unnameable creative imperative”
(Scott McMillian, Mapsidaisical)
Both the album and their initial live performances focused on improvised interpretations of Laura's songs, however recently they have begun taking a more spontaneous approach to song craft, whereby they improvise melodies, rhythms and textures around lyrics and texts, and vice versa.
LINK
http://www.myspace.com/clangsayne
James O' Sullivan is a London-based electric guitar player and cellist. He has performed in numerous groupings of musicians, many of whom he met through Eddie Prevost's weekly improvisational workshop, as well as with Clang Sayne (see above), songwriter, David Hurn, and sound improvisation group, Tetras.
He is the founder, alongside David Hurn, of Four Seasons Television, which explores the relationship between improvisation, composition, recording and performance. His activities span the two poles from free improvisation to more 'composed' song forms, and he has collaborated with songwriters, improvisors, improvising songwriters and other permutations of these elements in an attempt to unpack ideas of terms such as 'free', 'composed', 'technique', 'melody', 'noise', 'rhythm' and 'improvise'.
Hyperpotamus is a one-man-band a cappella wunderkind from Spain, who with just four microphones, a loop station pedal and a litre of water creates beautiful multi-layered vocal compositions. Starting from scratch, he makes his music through repetitive layers of live recorded vocals, till he completes what has been described as "pocket vocal orchestrations". Free from the codes of cool, his volcanic music unashamedly mixes African-inspired arrangements with beatboxing, yoddling and classical counterpoint.
In March 2009, he self-released his debut album "Largo Bailón", a sonic-artisan craft in which the only instrument he uses is his own voice.
Following this, it's been non stop for this quirky human being. In just under a year, as well as touring California and playing festivals such as SXSW (Austin), CMJ (NY) or CMW (Toronto), Hyperpotamus has sung on the banks of the Danube River in Bratislava, under a staircase in Amsterdam, at a squathouse in Berlin, a macro-discotheque in Lisbon, a saloon in Texas, a civic centre in Tijuana, a bookstore in San Francisco, in front of a pipe organ in Belfast, surrounded by skyscrapers in Los Angeles, at a retirement home in Bilbao, in a prehistoric cave in Andalusia and in New York City's oldest bar.
www.youtube.com/hyperpotamusic
www.myspace.com/hyperpotamus
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