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Hey all barbeheads,
This might be spam this might also be a great way to catch up with some of your that I ain't seen in ages.
I've managed a bit of coup and have some pretty unmissable acts performing at the next gig of my Band Belle Atmos.
Most notably: peak period members of The Fall and Lou Reed's band. Should be very very interesting. Not to mention Ghosthandfister who are frankly amazing!
Come one and bring all! Spead the word and I hope to see you at the gig.
Facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=49675465901
Belle Atmos Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=37769677585&ref=ts
Performing:
Belle Atmos
Eugene Martynec and Dave Tucker (The Fall, Lou Reed)
Ghosthandfister
+Special guests.
Band: Belle Atmos
Event type: Music, Performance
Venue: The FleaPit. 49 Columbia Road, E2 7RG.
Date: 19:00, March 6th
Entry: £5
http://www.thefleapit.com
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Belle Atmos is an electronic based audiovisual group, who play industrially tinged world music. Using visual samples of expired copyright last century ephemera they collectively improvise around a series of tense motifs mixing elements of opera, musique concrete, post-rock noise, jazz breaks and synth pop.
Live, Belle Atmos is more of an audience encompassing theatrical performance than a standard us-them gig, multilayered visuals revolve around the spectator taking cues from Tarkovsky’s Stalker, Lynch’s Eraserhead, Bill Viola’s video installations and advertising propaganda to create a completely active experience.
Musically challenging and emotionally diverse Belle Atmos has started to carve a place amongst the most eclectic live acts in London and for the performance at The FleaPit they promise to push things even further.
Belle Atmos are: Kailas Elmer, Bridge Fazio, Alex May and Martin A Smith.
‘Emile Durkheim’ is available now through Decadent Records on Amazon, Itunes, Rhapsody and Napster
Links:
http://www.belleatmos.com
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Also Performing are Ghosthandfister
Ghosthandfister are a four-piece experimental electronic band based in London.
Alex Deacon plays keyboards/modular synth. Previously he was a member of death indie band The Tedious and Wiltshire synth art-rockers The Lucas Patrol.
Gilda Maurice sings and writes lyrics, and occasionally plays the theremin.
Paul Charlton plays effects and homebrew console instruments. He is a member of the Milton Park Orchestra.
Sue Ann Harkey plays 12-string guitar and inhabits a musical world of her own. She is the founder of Cityzens for Non-Linear Futures.
http://www.last.fm/label/Cityzens+for+Non-Linear+Futures
http://www.last.fm/music/Milton+Park+Orchestra
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Tedious
http://www.last.fm/music/Ghosthandfister
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Dave Tucker and Eugene Martynec
Dave Tucker started performing in the Punk movement of the late 70’s in Manchester. His first recorded release was 1978 with Mellatron.
In the early 80’s he was a member of "The Fall" touring as well as recording "Slates" and a John Peel sessions with the group.
After this time he experimented with other music’s and recorded film music. After moving to London in the mid - 80’s he studied & performed with Phillip Wachsmann as well as playing with members of the London scene including Dudu Pukwana, Andy Sheppard, Nick Evans, Johnny Dyani & John Stevens as well as others. Was and still is a member of the Alan Tomlinson Trio from 1992 which toured Germany, Switzerland and Scandinavia. The trio also performed at many leading festivals at this time.
Around this time he also performed with many leading International musicians including Keith Tippett, Otomo Yoshide, Charles Hayward, Barre Phillips, Dietmar Diesner & Lol Coxhill.
Recently he toured California from which the PAX release is from. As well as a duo performance with Bill Roper at SIMF festivail in Seattle February 2004 and performances in New York City with Lukas Ligeti. He is a member of Pat Thomas’ group Scatter (Phil Minton, Roger Turner) with whom he has performed at the Uncool 99 festival in Switzerland as well as recorded radio sessions for the BBC. A Cd called “Another Kind of Beauty” was released on FMR in 2007
He currently Performs in a Trio with Louis Moholo & Francine Luce., a duo with John Butcher , leads his own Quartet "School of Velocity" featuring, Evan Parker, John Edwards & Steve Noble and plays Guitar and conducts with the London Improvisers Orchestra & Winkhaus with LA performance artist Anna Homler & Adrian Northover and also has performed tours in the Czech Republic with the Czech avant rock group "Earthieves"
He also produces dance music & soundtracks. Most recently commissioned to produce music for Channel four news
"It was also clear that the resourceful guitarist Tucker was as likely to slip in bluesy chord patterns, bottle neck effects or gallumphing Munsters-rhythms as the abstract, Derek Bailey-like approach to melody he also favours." --The Guardian
He has had his first piece of written Contemporary Classical music performed at the 8th London New Wind festival in 2006
Most recently toured Germany with Willi Kellers & Johannes Bauer.
Selected Listening.
"Hunters from Beyond" Mellatron. TJM records 1978
"Slates" The Fall Rough trade/castle communications. 1981
"Perverted by language & live at leeds" DVD" The Fall 1981 & 2004
"Peel sessions" The Fall. strange fruit.1997
"Proceedings" London Improvisers Orchestra. Emanem. 1999
"The Hearing Continues" London Improvisers Orchestra. Emanem. 2000
"Freedom of the city; Large Groups" London Improvisers Orchestra. Emanem 2002
"Responses, Repoduction & Reality" London Improvisers Orchestra. Emanem 2005
"Homework" School of Velocity. Grob. 2001
"Dave Tucker west coast project" Pax Recordings 2004
"Take the word of a Madman" DaveTucker Pax recordings 2005
"Some thoughts about Shkrang !" - Skrang ! Discus music 2006
"Blisters" Dave Tucker & John Butcher Slam Records 2007
“Another Kind of Beauty” Scatter FMR 2007
“Separately & Together” London Improvisers Orchestra & Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra Emanem 2007
“Improvisations for George Riste” London Improvisers Orchestra Emanem 2008
Eugene Martynec
Canadian musician/composer Eugene Martynec (born 28 March 1947 in Germany) first came to prominence as a guitarist in Toronto group Bobby Kris & The Imperials in August 1965. He left the group in May 1967 to form Kensington Market with singer/songwriter Keith McKie, bass player Alex Darou and drummer Jimmy Watson.
Martynec was also a noted record producer; he won the Juno Award for Producer of the Year in 1981 for his work on Bruce Cockburn's "Tokyo" and Rough Trade's "High School Confidential".
Eugene Martynec has performed, composed or recorded with pop groups, pit orchestras, and created music for visual media and live theatre. He studied electronic music, composition and orchestration with Dr. Samuel Dolin at the Royal Conservatory of Music where he received 2 scholarships to study electronic music and composition (1970-1975).
His interest in record production resulted in Juno Awards (Canadian Grammy) in 1981 and 1973 for his work with Bruce Cockburn, pop groups Rough Trade and Edward Bear. He has produced over 50 recordings from 1969 to the present.
On Lou Reed's Berlin album of 1973, he played acoustic guitar, synthsizer as well as the vocal arranging on "The Bed," bass playing on "Lady Day".
He has been awarded Canada Council for the Arts and Toronto Arts Council grants for music composition. He taught signal processing, principals of digital audio, Midi, studio production, synthesis, and studio orchestration at the Harris and Trebas institutes in Toronto. His current interest is in improvised new music, performing and composing live interactive electro-acoustic music using alternate controllers and interactive music software. Recently he has added a video component to his improvisational performances. From 2000 to 2004 he curated Eugene's Sunday Series, an exploration of new music and other art forms at Artword Theatre in Toronto.
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