Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Autumn News

GREETINGS!


GERMAN TOUR
THIS IS THE KIT, ROZI PLAIN, JAMIE HARRISON (UK, Brassland, Talitres)

21.09.2012 DE - Hamburg - Hasenschaukel @ Reeperbahnfestival
22.09.2012 DE - Magdeburg - Volksbad Buckau
23.09.2012 DE - Berlin - Bei Heiner
24.09.2012 DE - Göttingen - Apex
25.09.2012 DE - Dresden - Societätstheater
26.09.2012 DE - Wiesbaden - Walhalla
27.09.2012 DE - Reutlingen - franz.K
28.09.2012 CH - Geneva - Bibarium
29.09.2012 FR - Colmar - Le Grillen
01.10.2012 DE - Munich - Südstadt
03.10.2012 DE - Nürnberg - MUZ
04.10.2012 DE - Hannover - Feinkostlampe
05.10.2012 DE - Erfurt - Franz Mehlhose
06.10.2012 DE - Saarbrücken - Sparte 4
























AND IN THE UK
07.10.2012 UK - Cambridge - junction - SUPPORTING SHARON VAN ETTEN
10.10.2012 UK - Sheffield - Queens socila club - SUPPORTING SHARON VAN ETTEN

















photo by stef moschops

more dates to come in december including All Tomorrow's parties (curated by The National), and more gigs with the excellent sharon van etten.
PLUS the new album is taking shape and should be ready by 2013!
AND the Legendary Moonflowers, featuring this is the kit's jesse D Vernon, are back in action with a compilation CD newly released. "OUT TO SPACE"













go well!
this is the kit
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Monday, September 3, 2012

excellent gigs alert:Jason Lescalleet; Amalgam #8; John Cage...





super excited to welcome long-time /shieldshaped/ obsession JASON LESCALLEET to these parts. A towering presence in the US underground for the past decade or so, JL has built a reputation as an utterly unique noise artist with a true and singular vision.
Lescalleet is a master of magnetism: he works primarily with tape – both audio cassettes and open reels – and the medium burns into red-hot life in his hands. Despite operating at the fringe of a genre noted for its coldness and impenetrability, Jason's music is both deep and poignant. In his hands, the qualities and imperfections of both the tapes and the obsolete machinery that play them serve to evoke human frailty and tenderness. His self-released 2006 LP, The Pilgrim – part audio-memorial to his late father/part self-healing catharsis – is possibly one of the most haunting and haunted works ever committed to vinyl. Or check his pair of collaborative albums – The Breadwinner and Air Supply – made with The Shadow Ring's Graham Lambkin, for a ghostly, Beckettian exploration of the mundanities of everyday household living.
Much of Jason;s work is concerned with capturing both the sound and the feeling of decay; he operates between the poles of both composition and decomposition

"he works degraded formats as abstract metaphor for human relations, not as cynical commentary, but as an aid to revelation and remembrance, the warm glow of analoge and the physicality of tape loops and editing obsessively reiterating the human touch at the centre of this music" - Jon Dale, The Wire

Recent months have seen a flurry of recorded activity from Jason, with cassettes on Chrondritic Sound and Hanson, a double album onErstwhile, and a collaborative LP with Aaron Dilloway (Wolf Eyes) upcoming on the consistently awesome Pan imprint. But JL's rep is built as much on his live shows – where he highlights the fragile/tactile natures of his music, with tape reels spooling around the space. His performances are gestural, visceral and able to navigate great leaps in scale - from the subatomic to the universal... Jason has only performed solo a couple of times previous on these shores, so this is a rare opportunity to witness this master at work.

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Stephen Cornford is an artist whose work blurs lines between sculpture and music. He uses sound and noise to investigate the physical qualities of the material world, and has a process-based approach to performance, where the material, as much as the performer, determines the outcome
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Aigon DAAC is a promising new trio comprising Dan Bennett(skjølbrot, ex-Hunting Lodge), Dominic Lash (bassist collaborator with Chris Corsano/Evan Parker/Tony Conrad/Joe Morris/etc) andStuart Chalmers (cassette mangler)
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Also on the night, Kurt from Infinite Limits will be manning a pop-up record shop. IL is one of the UKs premier outlets for limited and hard-to-obtain underground music-objects: cassettes, vinyl, CDs, lathe-cuts, art editions... bring pocket money for this rare real-life browsing opportunity

All this at Café Kino, Stokes Croft, Bristol.
October 9th, 8pm
Tickets £7 adv


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ALSO, CHOICE GIG UPCOMING THIS WEEKEND

Amalgam # 8 1/2 Tony Orrell+Tom Bugs+Andy Keep+Jake Wittlin+Stuart Chalmers

Amalgam # 8 1/2 Tony Orrell+Tom Bugs+Andy Keep+Jake Wittlin+Stuart Chalmers image
Image by: used with permission: copyright shannon Badiee
20:00 09/09/2012


Sunday 9th September / 8pm /£6 advance/ £7 on the door

Amalgam brings together five local musicians of different backgrounds for a live collaboration/improvisation. In various combinations throughout the night the musicians may create sounds that cross through free jazz, noise, ambient electronics, musique concrete, electro-acoustic and more. Or they may not. Be a part of this unique experience.

Tony Orrell (Birdman of alkijazz) plays drums/percussion and has been active in Bristol since 1973. He is a responsive and accomplished improviser who has played in a variety of contexts that have included Adrian Utley, Keith Tippett and Goldfrapp.http://soundcloud.com/birdman-of-alkijazz
Tom Bugs (Knowledge of bugs) is an instrument builder and the man behind Bugbrand. Using modular synths he creates wonderful analogue improvisations and has played live and run workshops all over Europe.
http://soundcloud.com/bugbrand
Andy Keep (Behaviour ensemble) is a multi-instrumentalist and lecturer at Bath Spa.He uses pedals/contact mic/feedback to shape and explore electronic sounds. During the last 20 years he has played alongside John Butcher, David Byrne and has been part of Bristol groups Code Red and Earthling.
Jake Wittlin (Lund Quartet) is a turntablist, composer and producer. He is part of the group Lund Quartet where he skilfully scratches and manipulates samples.http://www.lundquartet.com/
Stuart Chalmers (Skarabee, tusk) uses old cassette tape technology and pedals. Under various names he has released albums on ZamZam, Fbox and the Lows and the Highs
records.http://soundcloud.com/skarabee

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PLUS, THIS WED, AT THE COLLEGE PROJECT, Marksbury Road, Knowle BS3 5JJ...

PictureJoin us for a Celebration of the life and work of John Cage at 8pm on Wednesday 5th September 2012, One Hundred Years since his birth.
This event is free

Bristol based musicians, composers, and artists will perform and exhibit works by Cage, works inspired by Cage and new adaptations of Cage.... not to be missed...

The evening includes - Cage’s Songbooks, a Radio Orchestra, A Micro Opera conducted by card games, Cactus Chess, Amplified I Ching divining, a period of silence, and prepared piano installations.

Line up includes - Richard Barnard, Tom Bugs, Seth Cooke, Matt Davies, Kathy Hinde, Andy Keep, Dominic Lash, Sarah Moody, Phil Owen, Shirley Pegna, Liz Purnell and James Saunders.

http://www.artspacecollege.com/index.html