Thursday 12 May 2016, 8pm
"The nine tracks lean in and spell out grim stories of darkrooms and amplified environments with a compelling, time-served authenticity, describing sensations of brokenness and inter-club anxiety in stereo-strafing drones and collapsing, sisyphean rhythms that never quite resolve their excited state of melancholy" – Boomkat on Ron Morelli's ‘A Gathering Together’ LP
Records head and Hospital Productions recording artist Ron Morelli debuting his UK live PA.
Not so far removed from his 2015 LP "A Gathering Together" the live show will be an amalgamation of Morelli's rugged deconstructed electronic soundscapes culled from the fringes. Primarily a beatless experience, this will not be dancefloor fodder, but rather an immersive sound experience with a punk attitude and tense edge evoking an uncertainty as to what sonic experience is around the next corner.
“In Fernow, you sense Morelli has found a true bedfellow, one who shares his aesthetic of misanthropy, gutter eroticism, and sonic abrasion.” – Pitchfork
“A Gathering Together displays a far greater breadth of texture than Morelli's previous records, balancing vaporous abjection with moments of incisive aggression.” – The Wire
In Conversation with Wolf Eyes
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.
http://dfa-records.tumblr.com/eric-copeland#artist
Not Waving is the moniker of London based Italian musician Alessio Natalizia, known for his bold and immersive soundscapes that blend electronic, experimental, and ambient elements.
He is a NTS Radio resident DJ and the owner of Ecstatic Recordings, the London based record label formed in 2013.
With a deep-rooted love for exploratory sonic journeys, Not Waving's music can be described as a sonic kaleidoscope, filled with intricate layers, unexpected twists, and a constant search for new avenues of sonic expression.
https://notwavingmusic.bandcamp.com
