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Mon 9th The Luminaire presents BARBAROSSA + HALF COUSIN + Player Piano
Doors 7.30 A double bill of warm, twitchy / squewed, distorted folk with Barbarossa', whose 'Chemical Campfires' album featured as Rough Trade's 'Album of the Week' and Half Cousin whose new album 'Iodine' is out now on Gronland. Of Barbarossa it has been said... "Fresh as the winter months when it was concieved." [Uncut], "An immaculately constructed album of forward facing folk, without blemish." [The Word], "Lovely laptop folk.' [Q Magazine - 'Aeroplanes' was no.66 in their top 100 undiscovered tracks of 2006], "Conjures up drizzle, a log fire, single malt and dusting off the old acoustic guitar." [The Telegraph], "Chemical Campfires perches on the cusp of folk and pop with fiery metaphors, mellifluous harmonies and a genial groove." [The Independent] And, of Half Cousin, it has been said... "This eclectic blend makes for a joyous, fun-filled ride and it's organic beauty acts as an ideal brochure for the Orkney Islands tourist board." [Time Out] Half Cousin hail from Orkney and combine junk percussion, cheap electronics and family heirlooms to make distorted junkyard pop that is beguiling, detailed and euphoric. "Half Cousin are a metaphysical revolution playing junked-up pastoral music for the psychiatric set. Which is a good thing, trust us." [NME] Opening are good frieds of Luminaire, Player Piano and we're very pleased to have them here on this most excellent bill. Player Piano is a musical outfit helmed by self-admitted American, Jeremy Radway. The music is an amalgamation of the various guises Radway has worn throughout the ages (if Sly Stone and David Bowie co-hosted a daytime chat show, Player Piano would be the house band). Radway claims the purpose of the music is to "excite the alpha particles in the brains of those who hear, helping them to 'open their inner wormhole." A 2-song, 7-inch vinyl disc is due for a mid-July release on Analogue Catalogue Records.
"However he dresses his tunes, Radway’s innate pop sensibilities and deadpan showmanship make for hugely entertaining viewing, like Eels or Ben Folds, only with better tunes." [The List] |
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