INDIAN JEWELRY + Gentle Friendly

Wed 15th Oct 2008

ATP Concerts presents
INDIAN JEWELRY
+ Gentle Friendly

Doors 8.00
£7 via WeGotTickets

Like their website says, their name is legion. Indian Jewelry, ostensibly a small gang from Houston TX, have a revolving door policy when it comes to band members, and have involved around 30 different people over the course of their existence so far.

At the core Indian Jewelry are a threesome (Tex Kerschen, Erika Thrasher, Rodney Rodriguez), but on tour they are known to shape-shift and add new band members in various cities to alter the sound and context of the band. "INVASIVE EXOTICS" is a caption of both the founding fathers and the adjoining companions, the structure and the free form, the tidy and the messy.

Renegades to traditional song structure, Indian Jewelry mix drum machine, noise, percussion, loops, dance beats, guitar, keyboards, scraps of metal, and other sounds into an unpredictable mash of aural delights, drones, and melody. Already amassing a swarm of devotees, Indian Jewelry are expanding our concept of song, and the way it is constructed and heard.

Indian Jewelry are the secret that no one gives away.

Supporting are Gentle Friendly. The music of Gentle Friendly is the mighty gallop of the fabled Scandinavian Wild Hunt hurling itself forward across woods crystallised with snow, not to terrorise and maim the pale peasants staring wide-eyed from the side of the road (although there is some carnage in the fiery explosions of noise that populate their music) but searching for a gleaming reservoir of power which lies hidden in the depths of the wilderness.

If you have seen them live you will realise that Gentle Friendly, or this sequence of creatures which are, were, could have been and might possibly be do not just stride past you with a pop glint on their eyes that would have made the Unicorns or good ole' Yo la Tengo proud, no, they grab you in the slipstream of their exalted assault, smiling as the rhythms crash around you like thunder, and bristling shards of distortion illuminate the night, accelerating towards a place you might have visited before by the hand of like-minded explorers such as the Animal Collective, Silver Apples or Dan Deacon, the wall of a radiant horizon only 2 minutes away through which you crash in a collision that jolts you furious and gloriously alive.

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