MUSIC OF SEVILLE + Tender Forever + The Wolf Tracks + Squeeze Me I Squeak

Sun 12th Feb 2006

The Luminaire presents
MUSIC OF SEVILLE
+ Tender Forever
+ The Wolf Tracks
+ Squeeze Me I Squeak
- Doors 7.30, £5 via WeGotTickets
With a sound that embraces a range of influences, from contemporary avant rock, to film soundtracks and traditional european folk music, from Music Of Seville you'll hear chiming feedback set against haunting, fragile vocals. Black Ark style dubbed space echo against a cheap one string guitar. It's gorgeous and lyrical, beautifully melancholic and string Indeed, Rough Trade were moved to muse about "melancholic Morricone-esque alt.folk influenced balladeering and soundscapes."
We're not over-egging this, believe us.
It really is beguiling.
Tender Forever is a girl performing alone with DIY sounds, a cardboard laptop, a very personal body language, tears, cut-outs and spasms. Tender Forever means countless people, feelings and emotions living through her music. Tender Forever plays guitar and calls you into play. Tender Forever sings, dances, gets stirred, excited, worn-out, falls on the floor and affects us all.
Spin Magazine were moved to write; "Now that Ani DiFranco is pushing 40, angst-ridden, bi-curious teenage girls are hankering for a new, more relatable muse -- someone who understands their lovelorn diary entries and projects the same combination of surface vulnerability and core-strength to get them through their misfit adolescences. Welcome Tender Forever, children, as Ani-for-the-naughts. Tender, nee Melanie Valera, has a breathy, ethereal voice, which is well suited for the personal-essay-masquerading-as-low-fi-pop on her debut solo album, 'The Soft and the Hardcore'."
The Wolf Tracks sound like being alone on a mountain with a tape recorder, feeling wind in your hair, jumping into a river naked and just managing to get out alive before you realise the fish are bigger and sharkier than you thought. With quiet yet complex rhythms, calming guitars and subtle electronics.
"Anti-folk genuis" said Young and Lost Club. Squeeze Me I Squeak is what happens to young, French, country girls when they simultaneously run into a tape recorder and go do some research on women studies in Olympia, WA: they rush on every guitar they can see even though they cant play, and dramatically multiply in order to become a squeaky quartet.
"All the smartness that she winds together in that foreign noodle of her's comes squeezing out in the most delicious combinations. I'm telling you, it's really hot." [The Blow]

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