Live music listings: May 2007

Doors 7.30
£10 via WeGotTickets

"Overall it makes for a weirdly evocative concoction that charms and chills in equal measure" [The Observer]

Many people would tell you that Mira Calix makes electronic music. What she really does is make music, electronically. Her art is music that breathes like an orchestra breathes; cutting edge soundscapes with emotional dirt-under-the-fingernails. Ambient but never dull.

"Partly recorded in woods near suffolk, this is strong on atmosphere and ideas." [Q]

'Eyes Set Against The Sun' is Warp's beautiful first release of 2007. A whirling, hypnotic, creaking, unsettling, uplifting, lo-fi-hi-fi of a record, Chantal Passamonte has kept back her most intimate and personal music for this long player. The Luminaire will see her first, typically intimate public expression of this latest work as well some never heard before exclusives, just for a treat. Equally at home DJing, banging it out on a busted old 606 or hunched down amongst the trees, fiddling with gear, smoking like a chimney, Mira Calix makes folk music fashioned from broken beats and field recordings. You might call it avant-garde, but it's meant to make you smile; it's heart-warm. Laptronica built using knackered bits of wood, it's organic, electronic and totally involving.

"Click, whirr, sproing. Mira returns from playing with insects at the National History Museum for this outing of unsettling, oddly beautiful and unapologetically experimental chimera of folk and electronica, incorporating uncanny violin and spectral children's choir. Not unlike Autechre re-scoring the Wicker Man." [Dazed and Confused]

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