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Mon 26th Upset The Rhythm presents WHITE MAGIC + Guests
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A RESCHEDULED DATE - ALL TICKETS FROM APRIL 26TH WILL BE VALID.
Doors 8.00 Based around the core duo of Mira Billote (Quix*O*Tic) and "Sleepy" Doug Shaw, NYC's White Magic take so-called freak-folk to a rather more peculiar, jazzier and gothic place, Mira's emphatic piano chord shapes and soaring vocal leading the way. Following a rapturously received debut EP and a split with American Analogue Set, last year saw their first full length 'Dat Rosa Mei Apibus' and a second EP 'Dark Stars' - both for Drag City - move their minimal aesthetic into a newer, untamed musical landscape, exploring the African and the tropical, riding into dark ragas and devotional dub. The duo are set to return with 'New Egypt' on Southern's rather good Latitudes series in early April. The Owl Service was formed by Steven Collins on 6th June 2006 as a vehicle to explore his love of British films and television of the 1960s and 70s, the great outdoors and the sound of the English folk revival. New album 'A Garland Of Song' was recorded and mixed almost entirely at home, with a group of like-minded collaborators, between December 2006 and June 2007; it fuses traditional British folk ballads with elements of psychedelic rock, occasionally bordering on a doom-laden garage sound, and is interspersed with Steven's original instrumental compositions. It recalls the great acid-folk bands of the late '60s/early '70s but never once sounds contrived or overtly retro - nobody has approached spooked folk quite like this for over 30 years. Start with the sound in the brain of one Lucinda Chua - piano, cello, vocals sung in hushed tones, stories heard whispered in the back of the cinema and messages scribbled in biro on scraps of paper - add delicate guitar from Christopher Summerlin to make your spine tingle and you have Felix. It's a mesmeric formula which would ideally be consumed in liquid form, piped into the ear in the half-awake-half-asleep state. |
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