Sunday 30 April 2023, 8pm
Label and Resonance FM show Dig That Treasure celebrates 10 years with a program of four gigs across London. Ambient duo Group Listening headline the third night, with support from the Dialect and Max Syedtollan.
Group Listening is a project by Stephen Black and Paul Jones. Their albums feature arrangements of ambient works - from the likes of Brian Eno, Arthur Russell, Laraaji and Robert Wyatt - arranged for clarinet and piano. Having met at music college, Black and Jones went separate ways creatively. Black delved into pop, recording albums and touring extensively under the guise of Sweet Baboo, as well as working with Cate Le Bon, H. Hawkline and others. Paul leaned into the piano and pursued a career as a jazz pianist and experimental musician. He played with Keith Tippett, formed The Jones O'Connor Group, performed with noise improv bands and composed orchestral and chamber music.
Reconnecting years later, the pair discovered that their musical tastes, bizarrely, met in the middle. They have a shared love of The Beach Boys, Ghost Box Records, Messiaen and Angela Morley. They both like ambient and new age music, bubblegum pop, Artie Shaw, Moondog and the Songs in the Key of Z.
Dialect is the long-standing project of British composer and musician Andrew PM Hunt. His album Advanced Myths was recently reissued by seminal New York label RVNG Intl. An enchanted exploration of unusual source synthesis, electro-acoustic arrangements, and found sound, Advanced Myth is its own cosmos expanding in real time.
Max Syedtollan is an artist/composer/researcher based in Glasgow.
Max’s pieces frequently combine music with text, video and performance. Besides this he also writes non-conceptual instrumental music and songs, working across idioms and short-circuiting composition with improvisational techniques. Max has been heard on BBC Radios 3, 4 and 6; at Britten Pears’s Festival of New, and while on residency at Rotterdam’s WORM. Since 2016 he has released a string of tapes on Glasgow’s GLARC label including 2021’s Four Assignments (and other pieces), a collaboration with Plus-Minus Ensemble. In 2023 he released a new album on 33-33, Disposables, exploring poetics of refusal. He is currently undertaking a PhD focusing on the history and practice of radiophonic composition. is an artist/composer/researcher based in Glasgow.
Max’s pieces frequently combine music with text, video and performance. Besides this he also writes non-conceptual instrumental music and songs, working across idioms and short-circuiting composition with improvisational techniques. Max has been heard on BBC Radios 3, 4 and 6; at Britten Pears’s Festival of New, and while on residency at Rotterdam’s WORM. Since 2016 he has released a string of tapes on Glasgow’s GLARC label including 2021’s Four Assignments (and other pieces), a collaboration with Plus-Minus Ensemble. In 2023 he released a new album on 33-33, Disposables, exploring poetics of refusal. He is currently undertaking a PhD focusing on the history and practice of radiophonic composition.
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http://www.maxsyedtollan.net
