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Stano, in association with Temple Bar Cultural Trust, present
UNSPOKEN
World Premiere @ Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
8pm (with a second performance at 9.30pm)
October 18th, 2013
Tickets €10 available from Entertainment.ie
Students /Unwaged €5 available on the door
AS OUR WONDERFUL AND UNIQUE SUMMER OF 2013 BEGINS TO RECEDE, JOIN US IN MEETING HOUSE SQUARE FOR THE WORLD PREMIERE OF ‘UNSPOKEN’, MUSICIAN STANO'S STUNNING AND ELEGIAC TRIBUTE TO DUBLIN, HIS NATIVE CITY.
THIS IS STANO’S FIRST LIVE PERFORMANCE IN OVER 25 YEARS.
On Friday 18th October, Temple Bar Cultural Trust will present ‘UNSPOKEN’ a forty minute performance by experimental electronic musician, Stano.
Without any formal musical training, Stano has been producing innovative intuitive music since the late 1970s, and has been described as 'a harder edged Brian Eno'. His debut album ‘Content to Write in I Dine Weathercraft’ is considered by many to be a landmark recording in Irish music, which anticipated much of the postmodernist musical trends of the 1990s.
‘UNSPOKEN’ is a 40 minute collaborative performance between Stano and acclaimed guitarists, Sean Coleman (EELS, Mark Eitzel) and Dutch jazz player, Jeen Rabs (Ray Charles, Harry Connick), It begins hypnotically with a melodic guitar line stretched along a percussive bed of African and Jazz rhythms. These musical motifs evolve as the instrumental progresses with darker processed beats propelling the piece to a crashing finale. The changes in mood and tempo are reinforced by a stunning visual accompaniment (video, lights & lasers!), paying tribute to Dublin, its people and environs.
The video work produced for ‘UNSPOKEN’ is the culmination of a collaboration between Stano and late photographer/filmmaker Brendan Bourke, with help from rising animator Conor Trawinski and filmmaker Orla Casey (Cove Collective). Using additional footage shot by Brendan for his film ‘Dust,’ it depicts an abstract journey through the city via Dublin’s surrounding mountain landscape.
As Stano himself puts it,
“The performance will begin with slow, dreamy, atmospheric music, accompanied by expansive shots of Dublin. We drive through the night time city and head out to the Dublin mountains, the countryside is presented in abstract images as we speed by the heather and bog cotton in the early morning light. Our abstract journey through the mountains brings us crashing back to the city presented as a wild landscape as the lights and laser beams envelope the audience.”
Stano creates music where shards of melody are layered upon bursts of percussion and drifts of electronica; 'assemblies' of sound that result in utterly unique compositions. These are produced in collaboration with other musicians and engineer, William Blok. Ultimately, the studio is Stano’s instrument and he uses it to mediate or arrange musical building blocks into complete compositions.
Stano’s latest album ‘Unknown Distance’ will be released on the night and be available to purchase on CD. He is currently producing rising hip hop artist, Temper Mental MissElayneous’s latest EP.
www.stanoireland.com
www.facebook.com/TheStanoIreland
@stanoireland
WHAT THEY SAY
“Lyrically and philosophically if Sam Beckett was around today I’d say he’d fancy a spell in the studio doing spoken word with Stano.” Adrienne Murphy, HOT PRESS
“Stano's ‘Town’ draws on the Nile Rodgers-like guitar lines that Orange Juice were channeling in Glasgow, except here it's matched by punk vocal sneers that lend it a neat light/dark juxtaposition.” Nick Neyland, PITCHFORK
“The original Irish Indie experimentalist, Stano’s unorthodox avant garde approach set him apart from almost everyone else on the 1980’s Dublin scene but garnered huge respect and critical acclaim at the time.” Colm O’Hare, HOT PRESS
“A multi-talented operator, Stano’s contribution to Irish rock cannot in any way be ignored. He is the first Irish rock artist to play the studio like an instrument, the first to allow intuition with regard to electronics, sound and chance occurrences to govern his output”. Dave Segal, ALTERNATIVE+PRESS – USA
UNSPOKEN
World Premiere @ Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
8pm (with a second performance at 9.30pm)
October 18th, 2013
Tickets €10 available from Entertainment.ie
Students /Unwaged €5 available on the door
AS OUR WONDERFUL AND UNIQUE SUMMER OF 2013 BEGINS TO RECEDE, JOIN US IN MEETING HOUSE SQUARE FOR THE WORLD PREMIERE OF ‘UNSPOKEN’, MUSICIAN STANO'S STUNNING AND ELEGIAC TRIBUTE TO DUBLIN, HIS NATIVE CITY.
THIS IS STANO’S FIRST LIVE PERFORMANCE IN OVER 25 YEARS.
On Friday 18th October, Temple Bar Cultural Trust will present ‘UNSPOKEN’ a forty minute performance by experimental electronic musician, Stano.
Without any formal musical training, Stano has been producing innovative intuitive music since the late 1970s, and has been described as 'a harder edged Brian Eno'. His debut album ‘Content to Write in I Dine Weathercraft’ is considered by many to be a landmark recording in Irish music, which anticipated much of the postmodernist musical trends of the 1990s.
‘UNSPOKEN’ is a 40 minute collaborative performance between Stano and acclaimed guitarists, Sean Coleman (EELS, Mark Eitzel) and Dutch jazz player, Jeen Rabs (Ray Charles, Harry Connick), It begins hypnotically with a melodic guitar line stretched along a percussive bed of African and Jazz rhythms. These musical motifs evolve as the instrumental progresses with darker processed beats propelling the piece to a crashing finale. The changes in mood and tempo are reinforced by a stunning visual accompaniment (video, lights & lasers!), paying tribute to Dublin, its people and environs.
The video work produced for ‘UNSPOKEN’ is the culmination of a collaboration between Stano and late photographer/filmmaker Brendan Bourke, with help from rising animator Conor Trawinski and filmmaker Orla Casey (Cove Collective). Using additional footage shot by Brendan for his film ‘Dust,’ it depicts an abstract journey through the city via Dublin’s surrounding mountain landscape.
As Stano himself puts it,
“The performance will begin with slow, dreamy, atmospheric music, accompanied by expansive shots of Dublin. We drive through the night time city and head out to the Dublin mountains, the countryside is presented in abstract images as we speed by the heather and bog cotton in the early morning light. Our abstract journey through the mountains brings us crashing back to the city presented as a wild landscape as the lights and laser beams envelope the audience.”
Stano creates music where shards of melody are layered upon bursts of percussion and drifts of electronica; 'assemblies' of sound that result in utterly unique compositions. These are produced in collaboration with other musicians and engineer, William Blok. Ultimately, the studio is Stano’s instrument and he uses it to mediate or arrange musical building blocks into complete compositions.
Stano’s latest album ‘Unknown Distance’ will be released on the night and be available to purchase on CD. He is currently producing rising hip hop artist, Temper Mental MissElayneous’s latest EP.
www.stanoireland.com
www.facebook.com/TheStanoIreland
@stanoireland
WHAT THEY SAY
“Lyrically and philosophically if Sam Beckett was around today I’d say he’d fancy a spell in the studio doing spoken word with Stano.” Adrienne Murphy, HOT PRESS
“Stano's ‘Town’ draws on the Nile Rodgers-like guitar lines that Orange Juice were channeling in Glasgow, except here it's matched by punk vocal sneers that lend it a neat light/dark juxtaposition.” Nick Neyland, PITCHFORK
“The original Irish Indie experimentalist, Stano’s unorthodox avant garde approach set him apart from almost everyone else on the 1980’s Dublin scene but garnered huge respect and critical acclaim at the time.” Colm O’Hare, HOT PRESS
“A multi-talented operator, Stano’s contribution to Irish rock cannot in any way be ignored. He is the first Irish rock artist to play the studio like an instrument, the first to allow intuition with regard to electronics, sound and chance occurrences to govern his output”. Dave Segal, ALTERNATIVE+PRESS – USA
