Wednesday 17 November 2021, 7.30pm
Glasgow's GLARC label returns to OTO with a scintillating quadruple bill, headed up Able Noise, an experimental baritone guitar and drum duo, based between The Hague, the Netherlands and Athens, Greece.
Alex and George are Able Noise, an experimental baritone guitar and drum duo, based between The Hague, the Netherlands and Athens, Greece.
They released their debut album ‘Recordings’ on GLARC in October 2020, following a smattering of songs put up on Bandcamp and Youtube.
The duo came to GLARC’s attention through label alumni Bamya & Horse Whisperer, after playing in Glasgow on a tour across the weirder DIY spaces of Europe. They share some ground with an assortment of younger musicians - including Tara Clerkin Trio, Still House Plants and Wendy Eisenberg – who take established instrumentational forms (guitar, drums), an interest in free improvisation, and a willingness to explore a palette of emotion, live ‘sampling’ and ‘pop’ melody within such frames. ‘Recordings’ marked Able Noise’s first attempt to put their sound into recorded form, having so far focused on the live performance, and this is the duo’s first chance to tour in Britain since the release of the album.
Sholto Dobie was born in Edinburgh and lives in Vilnius. He uses loose structures and an array of sound-sources including home-made organs and hurdy gurdy. His performances are personal and intuitive, often coming across as delicate, evocative, and absurd.
He has recorded and performed with artists and musicians including Rie Nakajima, Judith Hamann, Lia Mazzari, Shakeeb Abu Hamdan, Mark Harwood, Marja Ahti & Niko Mahti Ahti, Antonina Nowacka, Malvern Brume, Lucia Nimcova and in the group Lo Escucho Lo Pinto.
He has released solo and collaborative music with labels such as Mappa, All Night Flight, Kashual Plastik, Infant Tree, Takuroku, Penultimate Press and Thanet Tape Centre and has toured widely, presenting performances at Cafe Oto (London), Fylkingen (Stockholm), KM28 (Berlin), Himera Festival (Turku), Kraak Festival (Antwerp), Organ Sound Art Festival (Copenhagen), Les Atelier Claus (Brussels), C3 (Milan), Jauna Muzika Festival (Vilnius), Braille Satellite (Lithuania), Counterflows Festival (Glasgow) and Glasgow International.
soft tissue is a collaboration between Glasgow-based artists and musicians Feronia Wennborg and Simon Weins. Working with DIY electronics, domestic recordings and digital feedback, the duo plays within networks of lo-fi amplification, blurring the boundaries between initiated and environmental sounds. In December 2019 soft tissue released their self-titled debut on Penultimate Press, and new work is due to be released by Students of Decay and GLARC in early 2022.Listen: https://penultimatepress.bandcamp.com/album/soft-tissue
Dahlia (aka Gordon Bruce) is a producer attempting to explore the frantic and playful sides of dance music. An EP is forthcoming with Accidental subsidiary NX Records, featuring collaborations with Luki, Ailia Coila and others.
Listen : https://dahliaa.bandcamp.com/
