Live music listings: October 2007

Doors 7.30
£8 via WeGotTickets | £9 door

Baby Dee was born in Cleveland Ohio. Her father was a fire chief. She loved to play the piano as a child and began her "professional career" as a bear in Central Park playing the harp.

She travelled to Paris where she met the wonderful people who called themselves The Shanghai Bureau and played the harp with them in very beautiful places. She then came back to New York.

Having recovered her senses some fifteen years later she picked up the accordion. She worked at the Coney Island Sideshow and toured with the Bindlestif Circus. She met Antony of "Antony and the Johnsons" and did shows and recorded the harp parts on his first album. Then she went back to Europe and traveled to Scotland where she met John Kamikaze - The Prince of Pain and benevolent despot of The Kamikaze Freak Show.

After a time she returned to the States, to Cleveland Ohio, where she wrote songs and recorded two albums 'Little Window' and 'Loves Small Song'. David Tibet befriended her and released them on his Durtro label. Her latest full length studio work 'A Book of Songs for Anne Marie' has been presented not as an album but as a book which comes with a CD.

Baby Dee is also a member of the Current 93 live band and she has ongoing collaborations with the experimental band Larsen as well as Marc Almond.

Pantaleimon supports. Sometimes with friends, but mostly alone, Andria Degens creates haunting, beautiful music from her base on the south coast of England. The music is simplistic by nature and summons a meditative grace and stillness.

Pantaleimon have also contributed to projects by Current 93, Susan Stenger, Dirty Three (Andria appears on 'Horse Stories'), Hobotalk, and her music was featured in the soundtrack to Cam Archer's film 'Wild Tigers I Have Known'. Pantaleimon have, in the recent past, been honoured to play with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Antony & the Johnsons and Six Organs of Admittance. Earlier this year she released the much praised EP 'Cloudburst'.

"Andria Degens is based in Hastings, southern England, but the sparse clarity of her music as Pantaleimon seems to exist in it's own unique, indefinable space. Three of these four tracks are crystalline instrumentals played on Appalachian dulcimer and bouzouki with a brittle, graceful sense of mood and spatial atmosphere. This is a kind of minimalist instrumental folk with spiritual undertones. The forth track, 'Numinosum', is sung by Degens with a quietly centred intensity, somewhere between love song and devotional mantra, with a sedate, droning backing. Its vivid simplicity is, in its own quiet way, quite stunning." [The Wire]
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