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Mon 22nd Don't You Wonder Sometimes presents LAUTREC with video-art by Kishida & Maione NEW TELEPATHICS with projections by The Research Agents
Doors 7.30 A brand new night playing host to bands with a taste for the visual and video-artists who’d love to be in a band. Taking its name from the classic Bowie track, Sound & Vision, Don’t You Wonder Sometimes brings together acts already working with VJs and photographers as well as specially commissioned sets by newly formed collaborations. Fresh from his UK-wide solotour of cinemas presenting his avant-electronica soundtrack to the classic horror flick Nosferatu, Darryn Harkness (also of Serafin fame) plays a rare London date as New Telepathics with a selection of fellow ‘researchers’ in all things Telepathic. The music? Cinematic Orchestra (on speed). Morphine (if their drummer had been born in West London, not the East Coast USA). Acoustic Ladyland (with the occasional Ornette Coleman solo thrown in). Fela Kuti (re-born as an agit-punk provocateur). The facts? ‘New Telepathics’ is the brainchild of Darryn Harkness, brought into being with the assistance of Sandy Mill (who has worked with the likes of Gary Numan, Placebo, Basement Jaxx, Dick Johnson and Lofty and Bob Jones's East West Connection) and Tom Fielding. Together they create a melting pot of afro-beat, punk, soul, jazz and funk with a decidedly alt.rock aesthetic. Their live set is never the same, with improvisation and rhythmic complexity the key. Slide and Super 8 projections, especially created by a team of their ‘research agents’, complete the picture. Don’t You Wonder Sometimes is the latest outlet of song-writer, producer and programmer Ed Simpson, who has previously put on cinema / band events for the likes of Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins), electronica pioneer Biosphere and artist extraordinaire Juana Molina (Domino). His band, Lautrec, released their debut single, 'Caught In Your Headlights featuring Julia Biel last summer on their own imprint, Urbancholica.
“Dark and broody yet always catchy, Lautrec deserve to be huge." [Metro] They’ve been described as being “steeped in foreboding, possessing a sound you’d expect to hear resonating from a Jeff Noon basement. Like discovering a deconstructed stripped back Xploding Plastix sprayed with a beatsy Four Tet rinse”. This summer saw them play various festivals, a highlight being their late night Latitude set, whilst Ed’s DJ-soundtrack to Wong Kar-Wai’s Days of Being Wild appeared at Big Chill, Green Man and Secret Garden amongst others.
”A dazzling live set.” [The Fly] Their five piece line up of drums, sax/flute, laptop, keys and vocals is augmented by the video-art of the Japanese and Italian artists Kishida and Maione plus their dancer in residence La Morenita.
”A heady electronica mix." [BBC Collective] |
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