Wednesday 5 February 2020, 7.30pm
Get to know Eric Copeland if you haven't quite yet made the time. Copeland is an Brooklyn-based experimental musician and a core member of Black Dice. Eric is also one-half Terrestrial Tones duo, finding Animal Collective's Avey Tare on the other end of that project. Copeland released his first solo effort, Hermaphrodite, in 2007 on the Paw Tracks label, with his next full-length LP, Alien in a Garbage Dump, via the same imprint. For his next work, however, Mr. Copeland jumps on board the great ship DFA for a solo long player, Joke in the Hole (2013) and continues to record for both DFA and several other Cutting edge labels such as Escho, Underwater Peoples Records L.I.E.S. records to this day.
Copeland has continued on his path of deconstruction- forming tracks of of scrapped samples, damaged loops and controlled chaos. Certainly not easy listening music, somehow Copeland manages to pull through with his demented pop sensibilites crawling up from the muck and spawling out on the beach to catch a tan. Jesus Freak is as addictive as it is confusing with it's screwed vocal hooks and demented twang heard throughout. This is best demonstrated on the closing track Billy Goat, which can be summed up as mouth harping redneck psychedelia cruising down a polluted river to nowhere. Just when you think "Jesus Freak" resembles something you know seconds later it becomes foregin and unattainable, yet remains headscratchingly familiar.
Harrga (‘a burn’ in the Moroccan Darija dialect) is a duo formed by producer and philosopher Miguel Prado (Nzumbe) and experimental vocalist, composer and producer Dali de Saint Paul (Penumbra, Ondata Rossa, EP/64, Viridian Ensemble,Content Provider).
Harrga have been exploring new sonic territories with Dali de Saint Paul mixing poetics and politics, using multiple languages and Miguel Prado creating singular, amorphous noise-design, they conjure a thoroughly anomalous vision of contemporary industrial music.
Their first album 'Héroïques Animaux de la Misère' (2019, Avon Terror Corps) was a critically acclaimed meditation on the horror of that which crevasses borders, with Moor Mother as guest vocalist. Since this release, the 3 artists have collaborated again; Dali appearing on 'Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes' (2019) and Moor Mother releasing Harrga’s track 'Urban Blues' on her own label BlackMas5 Records (2022).
In the midst of the pandemic, Harrga were among the first artists released on Takuroku (Cafe Oto inhouse Label). Pushing boundaries to deliver an unusual cinematic musical drama exploring violence towards women, 'Femmes d’Intérieur' expresses the duo's fears for those trapped behind closed doors. Harrga appeared on several international compilations, the latest one being 'Future Chorus' (2023, Hypermedium) where human and non-human voices were mixed.
https://www.instagram.com/dalidesaintpaul/
https://www.instagram.com/miguelprad0/
https://harrga.bandcamp.com/album/h-ro-ques-animaux-de-la-mis-re
https://blkmas5.bandcamp.com/album/great-mas5-one
https://hypermedium.bandcamp.com/album/future-chorus#
https://avonterrorcorps.bandcamp.com/track/alkisah-ii-3
Yes Indeed are Laurie Tompkins & Otto Willberg. Live, they play keys, bouncy bass and sing over tactile, emotive samples. The music is fuggy and soaring, deliciously out of place.
On 2021’s ‘Exorcise’ EP, they let ratty violin, syrupy bass and foolish voices congeal over a backbone of co(s)mic spinnet and pit percussion. Boomkat rightly dubbed it “proper mad scones”. ‘Rotten Luck’ - a sodden, diaristic epic and YI’s first album proper – is out in September 2022.
Laurie is a composer, helps run the Slip label and has put out CDs on Entr’acte, 33-33 and Hyperdelia this year. Otto is a bassist, plays in groups with Ashley Paul & Charles Hayward and his great band Historically Fucked has an LP coming on Upset The Rhythm.
