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Sat 14th The Luminaire presents A Rump Recordings showcase
ICARUS
Doors 7.30 Headliners, and the only UK artist on Rump Recordings' bill this evening are Icarus, who've been interpreting electronic music since 1995 via jungle, drum'n'bass, no-wave and free jazz, psychedelic rock, minimal techno and avant-garde classical music. During releases on Hydrogen Jukebox and Output they moved away from the fading limelight of drum 'n' bass and looked deeper into sound-design, music concrete and rhythmic experimentation, with forays into film. The Leaf Label-released album 'I Tweet the Birdy Electric' in 2004 made album of the year charts in The Wire and BBC Online. Their new album on Rump Recordings this year will be an adaptation of a 30 minute live sketch into a studio-buffed precision product, an approach that has caused the duo to record all their very improvisational livesets ever since. There is no doubt that Jens Berents Christiansen, aka Rumpistol, is a musician well in the premier league of electronica. Jens began his musical career in the art-rock band Magtværk, but quit the band in 2000 to focus on his solo enterprise, Rumpistol and single-handedly establishing Rump Recordings – the standard-bearer of uncompromising electronica in Denmark. Rumpistol’s crackling and dubbed downbeat sound is located in the more pensive part of the electronic hemisphere, and it shares a kinship with artists like Four Tet, Murcof and Telefon Tel Aviv. On his latest album, glockenspiels, melodicas, saxophones and especially guitars are woven into the sonic fabric, and the pace is raised by more distinctive beats, while the musical layers have expanded. The press wrote:
“An excellent new album from Rumpistol.” (Angry Ape, UK) Inspired equally by '80s synth pop, Detroit techno and Nordic folk-music, Karsten Pflum began playing around with old synths and sequencers in the middle of the '90s using the name of Slaphead Faun. In 2003 he released his first album “Tracks” on the English label Worm Interface (who also released Tom Jenkinson & Solar X), soon followed by two EPs and a second full album on the two Danish labels Tender Productions and Jenka Music. In October 2006 he released his 3rd album 'Idhax' on Rump, showing a darker and more soulful side, and his most “electronic” release to date, with twisted yet melodic tracks with an epic quality, exploring the borderland between repetition and rhythmic intricacy. ”Wonderful and essential!” (Cuemix Magazine). Bjørn Svin (Bjørn Christiansen) started making music in 1992, and has produced several albums and 12-inches as well as music for films under different monikers like Prinz Ezo, El Far and Cygnett Committee. In the late nineties he became the first Danish techno-star with 'Mer Strøm #2, and soon reached cult-status among Scandinavia´s club-scene. His charismatic live performances move from minimal ambient pieces to post-industrial techno, and is often signified by a passion for low frequenies. His is a 'strictly hardware' approach to music-making and performing, where he prefers hardware sequencers and synthesizers to computers. |
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