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Note Productions in association with Metro Café are delighted to announce a new club night for jazz, electronic, and experimental music. The Curator’s Club will take place on the first Thursday of every month at the Odessa Club in Dublin. Our first season will run until April of next year. Each event will see a guest curator invite an eclectic array of musical talent to perform. The first event takes place on October 3rd and will be programmed by one of Ireland’s most talented musicians, Adrian Crowley. The second event, on November 7th, will see Dublin based music and visual art collective, Fractal, take the curatorial reins. A very special Christmas show will bring Young Hearts Run Free and the wonderful Siobhan Kane to take us on a beautiful journey into the new year.
The first night features the supremely talented Pumajaw from Scotland and the sublime Serafina Steer from England. If you require any further information about the event please contact Matthew Nolan / [email protected]
Check www.note.ie / www.odessa.ie /http://entertainment.ticketsolve.com/shows/873503475/events for ticket info.
About the artists…
SERAFINA STEER
Born and raised, in Peckham, London Serafina Steer is a hugely talented and original harp playing multi instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter. In 2007 Serafina released a 7" single and an album entitled Cheap Demo Bad Science on Static Caravan records. Some tracks were recorded and produced in collaboration with Mike Lindsay of folktronica band Tunng, some tracks were recorded with Kristian Robinson aka Capitol K. The album opens with a cover version of Brian Eno's "By This River" but all other songs are her own.
In 2010 'change is good change is good' was released, again on Static Caravan. Described by Jarvis Cockeras one of his favourite albums of the year and and MOJO awarding it 5/5 . The album struggled into existence as Serafina's harp was stolen whilst having been left, irresponsibly, in her clapped out old Toyota overnight. With some recordings made before the theft, Benge aka 'the synth king', offered up his unique collection of analogue synthesizers to fill in the harp shaped holes. Patrick Wolf described the album in Guardian.co.uk as if 'Stereolab and Shirley Collins made an album together about the trials of 21st-century romance.'
In 2011, Serafina recorded 'Bloody Hell' EP with Paul Jones of Stolen Recordings. The EP featured two songs from 'Change is Good, Change is Good' and includes the art work of Polly Huggett and RWM Hunt. These totally exposed 'live' harp and voice recordings were intended as a watermark, after months without an instrument and then with a new make of harp. In January 2013, Serafina Steer released her third album, the Jarvis Cocker produced ‘The Moths Are Real’. Serafina is accompanied on the new album by amongst others, Steve Mackey, Jarvis Cocker, The Boxettes, Polar Bear’s Seb Roachford and The Flying Lizards’ wizard David Cunningham. Recording took place at The Way Studios, Old Street, The Square in East London, Konk, Fish Factory and St.Leonards Church variously between December 2011 and June 2012.
PUMAJAW
PUMAJAW are producer/multi-instrumentalist John Wills and songwriter/singer Pinkie Maclure. Pinkie Maclure has released two solo albums and collaborated with many artists, including PJ Harvey and The Real Tuesday Weld. John was a long term member of Loop - working as drummer, remixer and producer - and the Hair and Skin Trading Company, both Beggar's Banquet. He continues to work as a producer and remixer for a variety of artists and will be drumming with the newly-reformed Loop in 2014. The duo have recorded six albums together, releasing them on their own label, Bedevil. The first 5 were re-released digitally by Fire Records in 2009.
Pumajaw have just completed a three week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, performing an audiovisual show called 'Song Noir', inspired by 'film noir' music. In 'Song Noir', the duo rescue old songs and reinvent them, using samples, synths, 'found sounds' and a variety of instruments including concertina, electric guitar and autoharp. Songs include 'Bang Bang, my Baby Shot me Down' (sung by Nancy Sinatra and featured in 'Kill Bill'), 'I'd Rather have the Blues than What I've Got' , by Nat King Cole, from sci-fi noir 'Kiss Me Deadly',and 'Sycamore Trees' from Twin Peaks.
The album 'Song Noir' will be released in 2014.
PRESS -
'…..You wonder if the neighbours know about Maclure's extraordinary voice– parts Juliette Greco and Ella Fitzgerald – a voice that would, in a better world, deliver the greatest Bond theme ever. You wonder if they realise that Wills is possessed of an uncanny knack for bewitching atmospheres and ritualistic beats. Or that the duo’s alliance has won them fans from Radio 3's Verity Sharp to Kevin Le Gendre, editor of Jazzwise, who decreed Pumajaw “disarmingly beautiful”). THE SUNDAY HERALD
'Behind Wills's various instruments and Maclure's small accordion, Maclure's voice rings out deep but sweet, in a style that draws upon a range of European chansonniers - Sandy Denny, Cohen and Cave .' THE SCOTSMAN
‘Pumajaw links Loop’s hypnotics with trance-like beats, held together by Maclure's disarmingly seductive voice.' UNCUT ****
' Pumajaw raised the bar for the rest of the festival. Sometimes growling, other times hauntingly angelic, Maclure's voice was always utterly engaging. Wills is a highly accomplished player and his use of loops and samples created a wall of sound that a full-blown band might struggle to craft. Maclure is quite an enigma and Pumajaw's effect was heightened by the theatricality of her performance, pacing the mini-proscenium and, witch-like, seducing her audience into a weird and even scary world. And the way she handles the concertina would make the knees of grown men tremble.’ THE GLASGOW HERALD****
The first night features the supremely talented Pumajaw from Scotland and the sublime Serafina Steer from England. If you require any further information about the event please contact Matthew Nolan / [email protected]
Check www.note.ie / www.odessa.ie /http://entertainment.ticketsolve.com/shows/873503475/events for ticket info.
About the artists…
SERAFINA STEER
Born and raised, in Peckham, London Serafina Steer is a hugely talented and original harp playing multi instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter. In 2007 Serafina released a 7" single and an album entitled Cheap Demo Bad Science on Static Caravan records. Some tracks were recorded and produced in collaboration with Mike Lindsay of folktronica band Tunng, some tracks were recorded with Kristian Robinson aka Capitol K. The album opens with a cover version of Brian Eno's "By This River" but all other songs are her own.
In 2010 'change is good change is good' was released, again on Static Caravan. Described by Jarvis Cockeras one of his favourite albums of the year and and MOJO awarding it 5/5 . The album struggled into existence as Serafina's harp was stolen whilst having been left, irresponsibly, in her clapped out old Toyota overnight. With some recordings made before the theft, Benge aka 'the synth king', offered up his unique collection of analogue synthesizers to fill in the harp shaped holes. Patrick Wolf described the album in Guardian.co.uk as if 'Stereolab and Shirley Collins made an album together about the trials of 21st-century romance.'
In 2011, Serafina recorded 'Bloody Hell' EP with Paul Jones of Stolen Recordings. The EP featured two songs from 'Change is Good, Change is Good' and includes the art work of Polly Huggett and RWM Hunt. These totally exposed 'live' harp and voice recordings were intended as a watermark, after months without an instrument and then with a new make of harp. In January 2013, Serafina Steer released her third album, the Jarvis Cocker produced ‘The Moths Are Real’. Serafina is accompanied on the new album by amongst others, Steve Mackey, Jarvis Cocker, The Boxettes, Polar Bear’s Seb Roachford and The Flying Lizards’ wizard David Cunningham. Recording took place at The Way Studios, Old Street, The Square in East London, Konk, Fish Factory and St.Leonards Church variously between December 2011 and June 2012.
PUMAJAW
PUMAJAW are producer/multi-instrumentalist John Wills and songwriter/singer Pinkie Maclure. Pinkie Maclure has released two solo albums and collaborated with many artists, including PJ Harvey and The Real Tuesday Weld. John was a long term member of Loop - working as drummer, remixer and producer - and the Hair and Skin Trading Company, both Beggar's Banquet. He continues to work as a producer and remixer for a variety of artists and will be drumming with the newly-reformed Loop in 2014. The duo have recorded six albums together, releasing them on their own label, Bedevil. The first 5 were re-released digitally by Fire Records in 2009.
Pumajaw have just completed a three week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, performing an audiovisual show called 'Song Noir', inspired by 'film noir' music. In 'Song Noir', the duo rescue old songs and reinvent them, using samples, synths, 'found sounds' and a variety of instruments including concertina, electric guitar and autoharp. Songs include 'Bang Bang, my Baby Shot me Down' (sung by Nancy Sinatra and featured in 'Kill Bill'), 'I'd Rather have the Blues than What I've Got' , by Nat King Cole, from sci-fi noir 'Kiss Me Deadly',and 'Sycamore Trees' from Twin Peaks.
The album 'Song Noir' will be released in 2014.
PRESS -
'…..You wonder if the neighbours know about Maclure's extraordinary voice– parts Juliette Greco and Ella Fitzgerald – a voice that would, in a better world, deliver the greatest Bond theme ever. You wonder if they realise that Wills is possessed of an uncanny knack for bewitching atmospheres and ritualistic beats. Or that the duo’s alliance has won them fans from Radio 3's Verity Sharp to Kevin Le Gendre, editor of Jazzwise, who decreed Pumajaw “disarmingly beautiful”). THE SUNDAY HERALD
'Behind Wills's various instruments and Maclure's small accordion, Maclure's voice rings out deep but sweet, in a style that draws upon a range of European chansonniers - Sandy Denny, Cohen and Cave .' THE SCOTSMAN
‘Pumajaw links Loop’s hypnotics with trance-like beats, held together by Maclure's disarmingly seductive voice.' UNCUT ****
' Pumajaw raised the bar for the rest of the festival. Sometimes growling, other times hauntingly angelic, Maclure's voice was always utterly engaging. Wills is a highly accomplished player and his use of loops and samples created a wall of sound that a full-blown band might struggle to craft. Maclure is quite an enigma and Pumajaw's effect was heightened by the theatricality of her performance, pacing the mini-proscenium and, witch-like, seducing her audience into a weird and even scary world. And the way she handles the concertina would make the knees of grown men tremble.’ THE GLASGOW HERALD****
