Sunday 23 October 2016, 8pm
Super heavy-hitting double bill featuring Oakland, California's Black Spirituals, and Dutch sax/drums duo Dead Neanderthals performing with special guest, Sten Ove Toft.
Black Spirituals is a collaboration between two soloists who have found a new platform for the intersection of tone-generating electronic technology and the heart-thumping technology of acoustic percussion. This duet features a new tradition in conversant, duo vernacular dynamics that sparked a revolution in our conceptions of space, stage, ritual, performance, geography, praxis, brotherhood, relationships, rockin’ out, and more.
Multi-Aesthetic percussionist Marshall Trammell’s STTRCRFT platform articulates his commitment to the study of the worlds’ percussive arts in his multi-limbed Improvisation system. Utilizing super bananas electronic and guitar sounds, live processing, and heavy-heavy percussion Mr Watkins “weaves…undulating dronescape(s), of deep sonic swells and muted electronic buzz, utilizing analog synths, guitars, drums and percussion, cassette, Casio, bass, and of course electricity(!)“
The Dutch sax/drums duo Dead Neanderthals scorches its way through free jazz, metal, drone and minimal music, leaving nothing but cinders in its wake. Their self proclaimed New Wave Of Dutch Heavy Jazz is played at Intensity-level 12 and annihilation-level 15.
Norwegian veteran Sten Ove Toft is known for his ear-piercing and brain-shattering noise and metal outings. He toured all over the world to spread the gospel of noise, gaining a cult following of disciples of sonic destruction.
Both acts started their collaboration, to much critical acclaim, in 2015 with performances at the Utech Records Music Festival in Milwaukee, USA, and the Incubate Festival in Tilburg, NL.
Mag is a London-based DJ and sometime promoter, running experimental-leaning gig/club nights as Testing the Water. Behind the decks she works with off-centre rhythm, piecing together sound in a way that favours tension, negative space and the edges of club form.
