JACK ROSE + Ignatz + Silvester Anfang

Sun 3rd Jun 2007

Upset The Rhythm presents
JACK ROSE
+ Ignatz
+ Silvester Anfang

Postponed from January - all tickets previously bought via We Got Tickets are valid.

Doors 8.00
£8 via WeGotTickets

Postponed from January - all tickets previously bought via We Got Tickets are valid.

With each successive record, Jack Rose has stepped further from the Mount Rushmore-sized shadows cast by John Fahey, Robbie Basho and Bert Jansch. Sure, you can hear their influence in his choices of instrument and material. And like them, he plays steel-stringed acoustic guitar and blends American blues and folk styles with Eastern and Western elements. But Rose, unlike the rest, came to finger-picking fairly late in his personal musical evolution. He grew up listening to classic rock and graduated to punk without ever cutting ties with his old school.

Pelt, the band in which he came of age as a player, used punk's anything-goes ethic as permission to employ Indian instruments, as well as minimalist forms, without going through any lengthy dues-paying process. Now a solo performer, Rose is perhaps the sublimest blender of Raag and Ragtime around.

Ignatz is the one man band of a young guy called Bram Devens from Brussels, whose futuristic folk / blues inspired chanting and rambling might fit in the "New Weird Belgium" or freak folk movement. Stunning rootsfolk, but played by a lost and unworldly creature, his sound is a mix of fingerpicked guitar music in a cloud of effects, electronic noises and scarce lyrics - a mixture of broken English and unintelligible mantra-like repetitions. Check Devens' two albums on Kraak for more.

SILVESTER ANFANG Silvester Anfangis a Ghent-based funeral folk / droneband collective. The line-up depends on who's available to record or perform, the compositions are mostly non-musical offertories to worship their almighty overlord Brohll, but every now and then things work out as free psychedelic improvisations.

The countryside of East Flanders, where the band has its recording space, is essential for the atmosphere they want to create in their music. Near the canals where Canadian soldiers once fought the Germans, there lies a sort of mystical feeling of returned calmness. Silvester Anfang also breaths that tension between quietness and restlessness - a sort of post-satanic krautfolk, residing somewhere between No Neck Blues Band and Träd, Gräs och Stenar.

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