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Sun 15th Lo Alternative Frequencies presents A Feast of Trumpets, with VINCENT OLIVER & THE CUMONTITS ORCHESTRA + Gable + Barbed + Felix
Doors 4.00 LOAF or Lo Alternative Frequencies is a new off-shot from Lo Recordings, one of the most consistently innovative labels around (home of Susumu Yokota, The Chap, Black Devil Disco Club and many more). LOAF is a label dedicated to developing new talents and since its launch last year, has gained critical acclaim for its musical diversity and unique take on CD packaging. Vincent Oliver & The Cumontits Orchestra is a contender for the title 'Poster Boy of Electronica'. Vincent has worked with the likes of Nathan Fake, MFA and The Chap but his own music has a quirkier edge to it; a mix between Arab Strap’s dark lyrics, My Bloody Valentine’s soaked guitars and R. Stevie Moore’s pop sensibility. Vincent has just released his second EP on LOAF. Gable must be the most eccentric band in a long line of eccentric French bands. Their songs are really short, really silly and really energetic, reminiscent of early Deus, Daniel Johnston and The Moldy Peaches. This will be their live UK debut with a mini album scheduled for a late summer release. Veterans of the English experimental scene, Alex & Alex, have been members of an embryonic Add N to X and released music on the legendary Recommended label. Their music as Barbed is a sprawling journey through bouncy pop, brooding jazz, eastern scales, '50s lounge music, bhangra, philly soul, contemporary folk and classical music. Yet each song lives and breathes in its own little world. As far as Felix is concerned, start with the sound in the brain of one Lucinda Chua; piano, cello, vocals sung in hushed tones, stories heard whispered in the back of the cinema and messages scribbled in biro on scraps of paper, add delicate guitar from Christopher Summerlin to make your spine tingle and you have Felix, a mesmeric formula which would ideally be consumed in liquid form piped into the ear in the half-awake-half-asleep state.
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On the third Sunday of the month, from 4.00pm to 9.00pm we hand over The Luminaire to the UK's best independent labels and inviting them to curate the bill, to give their artists space to perform in a way they might not ordinarily, to collaborate together, for electric acts to play acoustically, or vice versa, to invite friends down to play... In short, to do whatever they like.
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