Groundburst / Wereju / Tongue Bundle play Thomas House this Saturday June 13th (1 Viewer)

[Groundburst]

Groundburst (prog/film music) play Thomas House this Saturday with support from Wereju (drone/ambient/soundscapes) and Tongue Bundle (avant-rock/jazz/noise)

€5 in

Doors at 20.30; curfew at 00.30

 

[Groundburst]

 

[Groundburst]

Groundburst:

"Groundburst are a three piece from Dublin determined to forge a path for their highly singular take on instrumental rock. At times intense and emotionally charged, at others dense and mysterious, their music drifts through many sonic landscapes.

Formed in 2005, Groundburst have gone through numerous line-up changes and played many gigs on the Dublin live scene, all the while fighting to bring their uncompromising yet highly lyrical material to the Irish listening public. The rhythmic bedrock for the music is provided by Simon Dunne’s driving bass and minimalist keyboards and the jazz-inflected grooves of Cathal O’Leary’s urgent drumming, allowing for Phil Dunne’s guitars to soar and cascade above in walls of ethereal cacophony. The resulting blend stands in stark contrast to the often insipid and lustreless qualities of much of today’s instrumental music.

After spending the beginning of 2009 in hibernation recording their new EP “Everything I didn’t Say and All the Things I wanted to”, Groundburst will be exploding onto the stage again this Summer. "

Wereju:

"Cathal's blurry, eerie drones have a lot in common with Aidan Baker's solo guitarscapes and the massive string tones of Fear Falls Burning, but this is darker stuff than either of those artists. Heavily processed feedback swells in tide-like form, deep and sonorous, and underneath the warbling ambience is a dark soundworld enveloped in shadow. Muted melancholy melodies appear and disappear, soft whorls of sound and far-off klaxon blasts carry over vast expanses of blackness, and reverberating strings hum suspended in the air. Every once in awhile, the sound will begin to overload and distort, and form into a heavy blackened Sunn O))) like drone, but mostly Wereju inhabits a realm of mysterious, drifting, meditative dark ambience.
Crucial Blast Records


It wasn't massive or heavy or sludgey, instead it was dreamy and mysterious, the low end more soothing than corrosive. There were definitely some intense moments, but for the most part, the sound of Wereju was a gorgeous blackened late night shimmer.
Aquarius Records "