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Sun 2nd *NOTE! THIS SHOW IS NOT BEING HELD AT LUMINAIRE*
Live at Corsica Studios Directions here
Doors 8.00 Not content with organising the music event of the year starring Murcof and his 'Cosmos' album on The Leaf Label, we're bringing him back to London to perform live at Corsica Studios, Elephant Castle, London, in a one-off audio-visual spectacular. Supporting will be one of our favourite acts, Rothko, and all the way from Bristol, V.i. Murcof was founded early 2001 by only member Fernando Corona in Tijuana, México. This event will feature special film work made in collaboration with Italian visual artists xx+xy. Corona’s swift return to London will allow more fans to experience his music as it was meant to be heard. The performance will benefit from Corsica Studios’ spectacular sound system, and we are guaranteed a genuinely overwhelming sonic experience. Corona's current album, 'Cosmos' been hailed as a masterpiece taking his work further into the realm of contemporary composition, a process which Corona describes as ”expanding the possibilities of acoustic instruments through electronics”. The result is perfectly balanced: haunting and deeply atmospheric, like peering into a vast and unspeakable darkness. The recent Planetarium show was the first music event to take place at the venue and coincided with the 50th anniversary of the launch of the first Soviet satellite, Sputnik 1. The performance, which sold out within days, made use of truly mindblowing visuals (some of which had never been seen in public before) to complement the monumental sound of the new album, rendering members of the audience literally speechless. Reviews of ‘Cosmos’: “Murcof attains a meditative, monumental grandeur” [The Sunday Times] “The most thrillingly out-there, transcendentally bewitching and metaphysically mind-warping trip” [Time Out] “The album’s consistency is startling: this is Murcof’s masterpiece” 9/10, Album of the Month, [Future Music] “Understated majesty, limitless beauty and creative genius. Beg, borrow or steal a copy today” 4.5/5 [DJ ] “Mindblowing, like Sunn 0))) playing Ligeti in a galaxy far, far away. Sublime” 4/5 [Uncut] “A singular, near-inestimable talent” [NME] “supremely dark and cinematic... Majestic black metal without the metal” [Metal Hammer] “a remarkable work which defies classification and challenges the mind” [themilkfactory.co.uk] Main support, we're very, very pleased to announce, are Rothko. "Rothko share a similar taste for the dark and the surreal, and frame it in a beautiful mist of graceful, measured restraint. Hauntingly beautiful. Recommended!" [Boomkat] "'Eleven Stages Of Intervention’ - the band's eleventh full-length release - adds much to Rothko's already innovative and impressive catalogue." [SecondLayer.co.uk] Opening support, V.i., is a future primitivist for whom machine static and buzz are integral. Within his music there is a sense of a minimalist's dedicated vision, Kraftwerk's dis/utopia and Pan Sonic's harnessing of a powerful analogue instrument. Deeply pure and emotive. Like Pauline Oliveros discovering Dub Step. V.i. produces pummeling noise-scapes, pulsing broken envelopes of pure electric carnage and tonal machinic mayhem. Supplying visual accompaniment are xx+xy; the visual and media arts project founded by Sladzana Bogeska and Giuseppe Pradella, based in Rome. Their project take on multiple forms such as video screenings, installation, live performances, video production. Experiments and research are both concepts and creative methods that best define their visual production. DJing will be Thorsten Sideb0ard of Highpoint Lowlife Records. All enquiries about this show here, please.
Corsica Studios
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