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JAMES CHANCE & LES CONTORTIONS
CAP PAS CAP
& Maximum Joy DJ's
THE SUGAR CLUB, LEESON STREET, D2
€20 // Sat Oct 6th // Doors at 8pm
JAMES CHANCE & LES CONTORTIONS
James Chance, a legend: the free form playing of Ornette Coleman with the solid funk rhythm of James Brown, though filtered through a punk rock lens.
From forming seminal punk outfit Teenage Jesus and the Jerks in 1977 with Lydia Lunch through to the pure funk and free jazz workouts as James Chance The Blacks, James Chance blazed an idiosyncratic path in the New York music scene until the mid 80’s.
It is his work with The Contortions for which he is probably best known. Their sound was a complex fusion of horn-spiked jerky funk, heady free jazz sax playing and wild punk stylings. Given the confrontational nature of their live performances (pushing contests, fist fights with the audience) the Contortions burned out quickly, releasing only one album, Buy the Contortions, along with the four songs they contributed to Brian Eno's legendary No New York compilation.
Chance soon resurfaced as James White (in honour of James Brown) with a new band called The Whites which actually featured almost the same personnel as The Contortions. Part parody, part homage, part smirking catastrophe in action, James White and the Blacks moved away from the punk that had defined their earlier incarnation, and towards a fusion of the soul, funk, and free jazz with disco that ranks as one of the weirdest and most compelling musical hybrids of its era.
After more than a decade of relative inactivity James Chance reunited with the original Contortions for a limited number of shows (including the ATP festival), he also performs with Les Contortions, a group of French musicians who have been his backing band since 2006.
The Sugar Club performance will be the first time James Chance has played in Ireland.
CAP PAS CAP
'This is not the raw sound of punk, it's more dispassionate... The spark of something more literate and experimental.'
A history
1978-2004: Inspired by late seventies/early eighties no-wave punk sounds and with a fascination with all things psychedelic and krautrock their early attempts at creating the 'song' proved difficult. With a new definition of the 'song', the 'band' was happening. All of the group had aspirations to break out a new modern sound and taking the sheer raw energy of their influences, matching it with their noise-damaged shifting guitars, dynamic multi-percussion and accidental vocal bursts, CAP PAS CAPwas an infant.
Then it was 2005. CAP PAS CAP began playing live with a truly catastrophic show in March. This was their first show which featured a lot of whiskey. From this point onward they embraced their unorthodox efforts at making pop music and decided to carry on as they had originally started - with a complete disregard for any conventional standards. That June they played a show with new friends Les Georges Leningrad who reinforced to them that the disorder was okay, once you add keyboard. They were okay now and anxiously went forward with a new motto 'the opposite is operative'.
Hello 2007: CAP PAS CAP have played numerous critically acclaimed shows in Ireland and the UK with Numbers, Erase Errata, The Presets, Crystal Castles, The Go! Team, Gossip, A Certain Ratio and an appearance at the legendary Reading Festival.
CAP PAS CAP
& Maximum Joy DJ's
THE SUGAR CLUB, LEESON STREET, D2
€20 // Sat Oct 6th // Doors at 8pm
JAMES CHANCE & LES CONTORTIONS
James Chance, a legend: the free form playing of Ornette Coleman with the solid funk rhythm of James Brown, though filtered through a punk rock lens.
From forming seminal punk outfit Teenage Jesus and the Jerks in 1977 with Lydia Lunch through to the pure funk and free jazz workouts as James Chance The Blacks, James Chance blazed an idiosyncratic path in the New York music scene until the mid 80’s.
It is his work with The Contortions for which he is probably best known. Their sound was a complex fusion of horn-spiked jerky funk, heady free jazz sax playing and wild punk stylings. Given the confrontational nature of their live performances (pushing contests, fist fights with the audience) the Contortions burned out quickly, releasing only one album, Buy the Contortions, along with the four songs they contributed to Brian Eno's legendary No New York compilation.
Chance soon resurfaced as James White (in honour of James Brown) with a new band called The Whites which actually featured almost the same personnel as The Contortions. Part parody, part homage, part smirking catastrophe in action, James White and the Blacks moved away from the punk that had defined their earlier incarnation, and towards a fusion of the soul, funk, and free jazz with disco that ranks as one of the weirdest and most compelling musical hybrids of its era.
After more than a decade of relative inactivity James Chance reunited with the original Contortions for a limited number of shows (including the ATP festival), he also performs with Les Contortions, a group of French musicians who have been his backing band since 2006.
The Sugar Club performance will be the first time James Chance has played in Ireland.
CAP PAS CAP
'This is not the raw sound of punk, it's more dispassionate... The spark of something more literate and experimental.'
A history
1978-2004: Inspired by late seventies/early eighties no-wave punk sounds and with a fascination with all things psychedelic and krautrock their early attempts at creating the 'song' proved difficult. With a new definition of the 'song', the 'band' was happening. All of the group had aspirations to break out a new modern sound and taking the sheer raw energy of their influences, matching it with their noise-damaged shifting guitars, dynamic multi-percussion and accidental vocal bursts, CAP PAS CAPwas an infant.
Then it was 2005. CAP PAS CAP began playing live with a truly catastrophic show in March. This was their first show which featured a lot of whiskey. From this point onward they embraced their unorthodox efforts at making pop music and decided to carry on as they had originally started - with a complete disregard for any conventional standards. That June they played a show with new friends Les Georges Leningrad who reinforced to them that the disorder was okay, once you add keyboard. They were okay now and anxiously went forward with a new motto 'the opposite is operative'.
Hello 2007: CAP PAS CAP have played numerous critically acclaimed shows in Ireland and the UK with Numbers, Erase Errata, The Presets, Crystal Castles, The Go! Team, Gossip, A Certain Ratio and an appearance at the legendary Reading Festival.
- Second pressing of 'Not Not Is Fine' 12" on Skinny Wolves Records
- 'Not Not is Fine' Japanese cd release through the Rallye/Klee label (home to Klaxons, Au Revoir Simone, Damn Arms, Junior Boys).
- Album to follow later in the year.
- Remixes by Hot Chip, Martin Rev (Suicide), Crystal Castles and These Are Powers (ex- Liars / Knife Skills)
