Thursday 23 April 2015, 8pm
Colin Potter started making unusual music in the early 1980s. He was part of the ‘DIY or tape underground’ which flourished at the time as an alternative to mainstream music. In 1981 he set up the ICR label and IC Studio which are both still thriving after over thirty-five years. He developed a reputation for innovative mixing, sound processing and production and has worked with artists such as Current 93, Fovea Hex, Ora, Organum, Andrew Chalk, Jonathan Coleclough, Sol Invictus, Monos and many more, most notably with Steven Stapleton on numerous albums by Nurse With Wound.
In 1999 he started to perform live and since then he has been playing solo shows all overEurope and the US. He was also instrumental in persuading Nurse With Wound to return to playing live shows in 2005 and since then he has played with them at many venues and festivals all over the world. His performances feature live remixing of a multitrack recording along with sampling, electronic and acoustic devices with intense sound processing and propagation. A recent series of reissues of his early work (on Deep Distance and Sacred Summits) has led to an upsurge of interest in his music by a largely new audience. New material and several more early works are being released on vinyl and CD over the coming months.
Harmonious Thelonious is a solo-project focusing on rough and dense beats and textures inspired by American minimalist music and African rhythm patterns.
Sad City is Northern Irish producer Gary Caruth's Glasgow-based electronic music project. Repetition is key here. Subtly transforming percussive loops and field recordings work together to build dense new sound environments within which Caruth's melodic pieces formulate and intertwine with often disfigured spoken extracts.
His debut LP 'Shapes In Formation' released in July via Emotional Response and Meda Fury has been met with widespread acclaim, garnering support from the likes of Andrew Weatherhall and Gilles Peterson.
"This is deep, subtly deconstructed house music, with its feet in a classic tradition and its head lost in reverie." - Resident Advisor
Alessio Natalizia is an Italian electronic musician currently living in London. He releases music through the minimal synth/post punk Not Waving moniker and is one half of the Kompakt techno ambient duo Walls whose self-titled debut album picked up Mojo's Electronic Album Of The Year. He debuted Not Waving's live show at 2014's Meltdown Festival at the Southbank in London. He was the curator of 'Mutazione - Italian Electronic & New Wave Underground 1980-1988' compilation (Strut Records, 2014). He worked as composer for Tate Modern's Oil Tanks Project, Independent American movie 'Wildlife', 'The House Of Peroni', BBC TV Drama 'Good Cop' and multi-sensorial installation 'The Waldorf Project'.
Guido Zen is an Italian electronic musician and producer based in Rome and London. His path started as a sound engineer in West London in the mid nineties while his own projects were beginning to take shape. His first releases date back to 1997. In 1999 he founded the Gamers In Exile duo and their own Unbearable Recordings label that released a long series of seven inches of their music and other artists. He performed at Art Basel and Venice Biennale and has collaborated with Goodiepal, V/Vm, Kevin Blechdom and Seahawks. He is also a member of the cosmic band Brain Machine. He worked on interactive sound installations for MAXXI museum in Rome, Burberry stores and Pitti fashion show and his soundtracks include the music for the film “Biutiful Cauntri”, that won several prizes including Nastro D’Argento as Best Documentary in Italy. Guido is self-taught and his constant research for a new sound palette made him build his own pieces of software and analog synthesizers and modules that he uses extensively on his work.
