desertedvillage
Well-Known Member
Saturday May 3rd
Murray's, O'Connell st (formerly Frazers & New Boom Boom Room)
Doors: 9 PM
8 Euro
Pumice
The work of Stefan Neville as Pumice, throughout its ten year plus existence, remains as one of the most relevant and prolific in the New Zealand music scene, and undeniably significant in the psych/outsider/free folk (or any other dull labeling) scenario. Altough abiding extreme lo-fi aesthetics and sonic noise explorations, his work has shifted into different sonorities and styles since the mid nineties to the present time.
Last Visible Dog's Raft, released two years later, is a true masterpiece. The opener 'Pumiceraft' is an ambient-surfmusic lullaby, followed by a minute-long acoustic pop-punk track. The next two songs could well be obscure recordings from the Mutantes that were too harsh to be released. 'Ridge' is an epic organ hymn, while 'Awe of Oar' could well be a drunken mantra. 'Pudding Stone' is the reflex of the interaction between him and the Jewelled Antler Collective (Society of Dogs split with Armpit), matching Glenn Donaldson's Birdtree/Ivytree songs. Raft is undoubtly one of the most creative albums in recent years, obviously underrated before its geniality.
Neville's work since the mid nineties until 2000 show him in more free improvisational moments, as seen on I'll Take No Chance Near a Volcano (Stabbies, etc, Cassete - Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, CDR), Poin and Ones. Still folk oriented, Pumice resembles much of Clayton Noone's CJA during that period: ultra-lo-fi rock'and'roll / punk soundscapes, dirty cacophonic acoustic outbursts and old samples manipulations. Sexual, released byPseudoarcana, definitely gathers all these elements in a destructive no-wave noise-rock live presentation. This will be his second trip to Ireland. The last time he stayed for a week and formed the band Lost Roman Legions with us.
www.myspace.com/pumarse
United Bible Studies....
UBS are playing few gigs nowadays because they're concentrating on recording. They have 2 new albums out later this year: "The Arboreal Observatory" a mostly instrumental lathe LP on Humbug and "The Jonah" a CD on Camera Obscura which will be mostly songs. They're off to tour America's east coast for 3 weeks in June then they'll make more albums out of their recorded sets............
www.desertedvillage.com
www.myspace.com/unitedbiblestudies
Jane Austen R.I.P.
Jane Austen makes quiet laptop music. She recontextualises recordings of domestic sounds in a performance environment, creating sound narratives from a range of sources including immobile, out-of-tune-pianos and small pets. Jane Austen has contributed to Australasian festivals like Liquid Architecture, Alt.music and Cinema Ascension. While she has worked by herself under this name for two and a half years, she also very much enjoys collaborating with other musicians, and has been involved with making queer noises for bands like the truly outrageous P.U.S.H and the short lived Evidence X. As well as having releases on
cLaudia she also co-runs the label gest with Nigel Wright.
A new version of Jane Austen with Party Weirdo drummer Emily on accordian will debut at this concert.
Murray's, O'Connell st (formerly Frazers & New Boom Boom Room)
Doors: 9 PM
8 Euro
Pumice
The work of Stefan Neville as Pumice, throughout its ten year plus existence, remains as one of the most relevant and prolific in the New Zealand music scene, and undeniably significant in the psych/outsider/free folk (or any other dull labeling) scenario. Altough abiding extreme lo-fi aesthetics and sonic noise explorations, his work has shifted into different sonorities and styles since the mid nineties to the present time.
Last Visible Dog's Raft, released two years later, is a true masterpiece. The opener 'Pumiceraft' is an ambient-surfmusic lullaby, followed by a minute-long acoustic pop-punk track. The next two songs could well be obscure recordings from the Mutantes that were too harsh to be released. 'Ridge' is an epic organ hymn, while 'Awe of Oar' could well be a drunken mantra. 'Pudding Stone' is the reflex of the interaction between him and the Jewelled Antler Collective (Society of Dogs split with Armpit), matching Glenn Donaldson's Birdtree/Ivytree songs. Raft is undoubtly one of the most creative albums in recent years, obviously underrated before its geniality.
Neville's work since the mid nineties until 2000 show him in more free improvisational moments, as seen on I'll Take No Chance Near a Volcano (Stabbies, etc, Cassete - Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, CDR), Poin and Ones. Still folk oriented, Pumice resembles much of Clayton Noone's CJA during that period: ultra-lo-fi rock'and'roll / punk soundscapes, dirty cacophonic acoustic outbursts and old samples manipulations. Sexual, released byPseudoarcana, definitely gathers all these elements in a destructive no-wave noise-rock live presentation. This will be his second trip to Ireland. The last time he stayed for a week and formed the band Lost Roman Legions with us.
www.myspace.com/pumarse
United Bible Studies....
UBS are playing few gigs nowadays because they're concentrating on recording. They have 2 new albums out later this year: "The Arboreal Observatory" a mostly instrumental lathe LP on Humbug and "The Jonah" a CD on Camera Obscura which will be mostly songs. They're off to tour America's east coast for 3 weeks in June then they'll make more albums out of their recorded sets............
www.desertedvillage.com
www.myspace.com/unitedbiblestudies
Jane Austen R.I.P.
Jane Austen makes quiet laptop music. She recontextualises recordings of domestic sounds in a performance environment, creating sound narratives from a range of sources including immobile, out-of-tune-pianos and small pets. Jane Austen has contributed to Australasian festivals like Liquid Architecture, Alt.music and Cinema Ascension. While she has worked by herself under this name for two and a half years, she also very much enjoys collaborating with other musicians, and has been involved with making queer noises for bands like the truly outrageous P.U.S.H and the short lived Evidence X. As well as having releases on
cLaudia she also co-runs the label gest with Nigel Wright.
A new version of Jane Austen with Party Weirdo drummer Emily on accordian will debut at this concert.
