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Foggy Notions Presents…
SJ ESAU (Anticon)
+ At Last an Atlas
+ Northstation
Upstairs @ Whelan’s, Aug 01
Tickets €10 plus booking fee from WAV Box-Office (Lo-Call 1890 200 078), City Discs, Tickets.ie, Ticketmaster outlets nationwide
“If he continues this killer streak of his, the next SJ Esau album could very well be a masterpiece.” – Popmatters
“A crucial and very brave signing for those folks over at Anticon.” – Boomkat
“A dense album of quiet finger-picking, off-kilter vocal arrangements and scattered amounts of revelatory beauty.” – Filter Magazine
SJ ESAU is a master manipulator of organic sounds, a singer with a sense of humor, an ear for the beautifully bizarre, and a maker of expansive and explosive ventures into unexplored musical back alleys.
At the age of ten Samuel Wisternoff, as he’s known to his mother, was halfway through a four-year rap career in the burgeoning late 80s Bristol scene. He has freestyled with 3D from Massive Attack, Tricky turned him onto the great adventures of Slick Rick, and under the name TFP, Sam (still ten years old) and his older brother were signed to Smith & Mighty’s prestigious Three Stripe Records.
Before retiring from the rap game at twelve, Sam battled his way to second place in the cutthroat DMC emceeing championships. While his brother Jody went off to pursue dreams of becoming a world-renowned deep house DJ/producer SJ Esau was busy carving out the most unique of existences for himself. Through a number of band incarnations, various solo explorations and ongoing collaborative projects, SJ has developed his own carefully constructed brand of chaos which neither repeats itself nor spins wild beyond the realm of comprehension.
With three and a half SJ Esau LPs under his belt (plus Stop Touching My Cat, a compilation of reworked SJ originals featuring WHY? among others), Wisternoff brought his impressive body of work to Anticon in 2007, releasing the internationally ballyhooed Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse. In 2008, he returned with Small Vessel, and in May this year he released covers record The Gist which promises to “ruin” the works of They Might Be Giants, Broadcast, Deerhoof and more.
Of course, some constants have remained throughout: Sam Wisternoff still lives in Bristol, and is surrounded by a still under-publicized community of hard-working artists poised to start a revolution in sound. He has two cats (who occasionally provide backing vocals), admires the works of Kurt Vonnegut, and is usually confused, which seems to work out just fine for the rest of us.
www.anticon.com
www.myspace.com/sjesau
www.sjesau.co.uk
NORTHSTATION
www.myspace.com/iamnorthstation
Northstation is Dublin musician Steve Fanagan. Steve began recording as Northstation in 1999, when he provided the soundtrack for a collection of short films. 2001 saw the release of the first Northstation album, plink.plonk, a collection of songs originally compiled for the Din sound exhibition. This was followed by some live performances. In 2003 Steve began work on the Bears album, which was released in July 2004, on Risc Records. Since releasing Bears, Northstation has gigged extensively playing alongside many and varied musicians. 2006 saw the release of the third Northstation album, called Wagtail.
In February 2007 Northstation released an ep of remixes of music by bands such as Hood, Halfset, Herv and others. Of late he has also remixed The Declining Winter (Richard Adams of Hood). He is currently putting the finishing touches on a new Northstation album, due for release this autumn. Steve currently works as a recording/mixing/mastering engineer for music and in sound post production for film and television. He releases music under several different names and co-runs a small independent label called Slow Loris.
AT LAST AN ATLAS
www.myspace.com/atlastanatlas
At Last An Atlas is the music of Greg O'Brien, who is also one half of Dublin band The Hollows. Greg was born and lives in Dublin. Currently he writes and records music in the house where he grew up. He uses organs, live electronics, samplers, nylon string guitar, vocals, noises and field recordings to create warm, dreamy sounding pop songs. At Last An Atlas released a split album called Ships Leaving earlier this year with Paul O’Reilly. The album has been well received to date:
“At Last An Atlas stumps up five tracks of ambient pop beauty. Predominantly organ and drum machine based compositions are accompanied by fragile vocal melodies of drunken wrongness padded out with noise and field recorded sounds. The drum machines sound amazing and I’m a getting a Thee More Shallow vibe mixed with a little early Mogwai. Warm and fuzzy stuff.” - Norman Records
At Last An Atlas has just put the finishing touches to his new album due for release in early autumn on Slow Loris Records.
SJ ESAU (Anticon)
+ At Last an Atlas
+ Northstation
Upstairs @ Whelan’s, Aug 01
Tickets €10 plus booking fee from WAV Box-Office (Lo-Call 1890 200 078), City Discs, Tickets.ie, Ticketmaster outlets nationwide
“If he continues this killer streak of his, the next SJ Esau album could very well be a masterpiece.” – Popmatters
“A crucial and very brave signing for those folks over at Anticon.” – Boomkat
“A dense album of quiet finger-picking, off-kilter vocal arrangements and scattered amounts of revelatory beauty.” – Filter Magazine
SJ ESAU is a master manipulator of organic sounds, a singer with a sense of humor, an ear for the beautifully bizarre, and a maker of expansive and explosive ventures into unexplored musical back alleys.
At the age of ten Samuel Wisternoff, as he’s known to his mother, was halfway through a four-year rap career in the burgeoning late 80s Bristol scene. He has freestyled with 3D from Massive Attack, Tricky turned him onto the great adventures of Slick Rick, and under the name TFP, Sam (still ten years old) and his older brother were signed to Smith & Mighty’s prestigious Three Stripe Records.
Before retiring from the rap game at twelve, Sam battled his way to second place in the cutthroat DMC emceeing championships. While his brother Jody went off to pursue dreams of becoming a world-renowned deep house DJ/producer SJ Esau was busy carving out the most unique of existences for himself. Through a number of band incarnations, various solo explorations and ongoing collaborative projects, SJ has developed his own carefully constructed brand of chaos which neither repeats itself nor spins wild beyond the realm of comprehension.
With three and a half SJ Esau LPs under his belt (plus Stop Touching My Cat, a compilation of reworked SJ originals featuring WHY? among others), Wisternoff brought his impressive body of work to Anticon in 2007, releasing the internationally ballyhooed Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse. In 2008, he returned with Small Vessel, and in May this year he released covers record The Gist which promises to “ruin” the works of They Might Be Giants, Broadcast, Deerhoof and more.
Of course, some constants have remained throughout: Sam Wisternoff still lives in Bristol, and is surrounded by a still under-publicized community of hard-working artists poised to start a revolution in sound. He has two cats (who occasionally provide backing vocals), admires the works of Kurt Vonnegut, and is usually confused, which seems to work out just fine for the rest of us.
www.anticon.com
www.myspace.com/sjesau
www.sjesau.co.uk
NORTHSTATION
www.myspace.com/iamnorthstation
Northstation is Dublin musician Steve Fanagan. Steve began recording as Northstation in 1999, when he provided the soundtrack for a collection of short films. 2001 saw the release of the first Northstation album, plink.plonk, a collection of songs originally compiled for the Din sound exhibition. This was followed by some live performances. In 2003 Steve began work on the Bears album, which was released in July 2004, on Risc Records. Since releasing Bears, Northstation has gigged extensively playing alongside many and varied musicians. 2006 saw the release of the third Northstation album, called Wagtail.
In February 2007 Northstation released an ep of remixes of music by bands such as Hood, Halfset, Herv and others. Of late he has also remixed The Declining Winter (Richard Adams of Hood). He is currently putting the finishing touches on a new Northstation album, due for release this autumn. Steve currently works as a recording/mixing/mastering engineer for music and in sound post production for film and television. He releases music under several different names and co-runs a small independent label called Slow Loris.
AT LAST AN ATLAS
www.myspace.com/atlastanatlas
At Last An Atlas is the music of Greg O'Brien, who is also one half of Dublin band The Hollows. Greg was born and lives in Dublin. Currently he writes and records music in the house where he grew up. He uses organs, live electronics, samplers, nylon string guitar, vocals, noises and field recordings to create warm, dreamy sounding pop songs. At Last An Atlas released a split album called Ships Leaving earlier this year with Paul O’Reilly. The album has been well received to date:
“At Last An Atlas stumps up five tracks of ambient pop beauty. Predominantly organ and drum machine based compositions are accompanied by fragile vocal melodies of drunken wrongness padded out with noise and field recorded sounds. The drum machines sound amazing and I’m a getting a Thee More Shallow vibe mixed with a little early Mogwai. Warm and fuzzy stuff.” - Norman Records
At Last An Atlas has just put the finishing touches to his new album due for release in early autumn on Slow Loris Records.
