reverence presents live sample strewn.. instrumentronica!!
Thursday 25th September
ORIGAMI BIRO
+ the declining winter
+ denis jones
Dulcimer, 567 Wilbraham Rd, Chorlton, Manchester
Doors 8pm. £5 on the door.
Origami Biro is one half of acclaimed electronica duo Wauvenfold. In an engrossing live act they sculpt interlacing classical guitar-part harmonies and textural samples - including creaks of chairs and all the knocks, scrapes and bumps that come with playing a wooden instrument. The result is an intimate and delicate, broken, organic sound that is both hauntingly vivid and atmospheric, whilst managing to retain some of those glitchy electronic characteristics that earned Wauvenfold its reputation among the likes of Björk, Super Furry Animals and John Peel.
'This is a truly beautiful blend of the glitchy electronic soundscapes of the likes of Fennesz with some stunning Spanish and classical acoustic guitar over the top, at times the album has that kind of desert feeling of Ry Cooder’s Paris,Texas soundtrack, a really really beautiful meeting of electronic trickery and live acoustic sounds.' www.roadrecs.com
'Gone are the more angular beat contortions of Wauvenfold, favouring a sound centred on nylon-strung acoustic guitar and some finely spun, computer-aided audio treatments... A thoroughly beautiful listen which you’d do well to investigate without delay.' www.boomkat.com
The Declining Winter is a new musical project, led by Richard Adams, co-founder of Domino Records group Hood. Influenced by the music of Low, The Durutti Column and Songs of Green Pheasant this is rustic folk-dub explorations, via abstract hip-hop, shoegaze, and post rock explorations. They recently toured with ambient legends, Stars of the Lid.
'..extends Hood's late-period move into gentle electronica, warping and glitching minimal folk-pop melodies... autumnal and graceful.' Uncut
'abstract hip hop mingling with weird plug-in experiments and a kind of primitive, unplugged approach to shoegaze.' www.boomkat.com
Denis Jones previews tracks from the greatly anticipated follow up to his sublime Humdrum Virtue LP on Humble Soul.
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Monday 29th September
TALL FIRS
+ easter
Dulcimer, 567 Wilbraham Rd, Chorlton, Manchester
Doors 8pm. £6 adv.
Tall Firs inhabit the same crisis plane as Creedence, Band Of Gypsies, New Order, Mudhoney or Kiln-House era Fleetwood Mac.
There’s an off-the-cuff epicness to their bittersweet love songs which mix a doleful lyrical style with pocket-orchestra balladry. Drifting melodic guitars echo modern day Sonic Youth but laced with the high, lonesome shiver of an old Townes Van Zandt record.
The band’s 2006 debut drew accolades from Rolling Stone, Vice, NME, Q, and Harp amongst others, and new album Too Old To Die Young comes after the band criss-crossed North America, performed at All Tomorrow's Parties in the UK, and opened dates in Europe for Shellac. Regular apparations at Brooklyn and Manhattan hotspots find the band on bills with Celebration, Effi Briest, Dragons of Zynth, The Thurston Moore Groop, and Awesome Color.
Gently uplifting...a psychedelic-folk tangle of spider-leg-guitar arpeggios and hazy, bong-room singalong harmonies'Frick’s Picks, Rolling Stone
'A muscularity that recalls Neil Young in one of his more ornery moods, or a beefed-up Galaxie 500' Guardian
Support comes in the shape of the brooding, slacker pop of Manchester’s Easter.
(Dulcimer is reached by the number 86 bus from Piccadilly to ‘Four banks/Wilbraham Rd’)