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Wed 5th The Luminaire presents A very special two day event Day 2 of 2 A HAWK AND A HACKSAW + Directing Hand + Benjamin Wetherill
Doors 7.30
Following the overwhelming success of their UK Spring tour with the Hungarian virtuoso group, The Hun Hangár Ensemble, A Hawk And A Hacksaw return to the UK in September for a two night residency at Luminaire. These very special shows will be recorded for future release. “Playful and timeless, “Darkness At Noon” is defiantly strange and vibrantly alive” [Rocksound, 8/10] AHAAH's Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost will be joined by the undoubted star of the tour, Cimbalom maestro Unger Balázs, for two nights of frenzied celebration of the music of Eastern Europe. “Utterly overwhelming…listening to Darkness at Noon is a rich experience and worth investing time in. When Barnes gets the mixture right, his awesome talent becomes shatteringly apparent.” [Music News, ****] 'God Bless The Ottoman Empire', taken from AHAAH's third album, The Way The Wind Blows, will be released as a digital download only single in mid-September, and the group will be recording sessions for Rob Da Bank's BBC Radio 1 show and Stuart Maconie's FreakZone on BBC 6 Music. With rings on their fingers and bells on their toes they skip before the whooping audience with multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Barnes - best known as the drummer for Neutral Milk Hotel - on accordion, vocals and percussion (simultaneously!) accompanied by Heather Trost on violin, glockenspiel and melodica. They make joyous gypsy song cycles that reel effortlessly across the most varied of terrain, dipping in and out of modern composition and American and Eastern European folk traditions.
“A kind of wandering minstrel for the digital age…absorbing, exuberant (and) sensitive” [Q Magazine] “A tense, atmospheric album (that) blends mariachi, folk and a dozen other global influences…Barnes has a masterly knack of reining in such a myriad range of music.” [Music Week] “Although it absorbs characteristics from various traditions, Barnes’s music retains an otherworldly quality that gives his compositions a markedly strange hue. 'Darkness At Noon' works because it doggedly pursues its convictions through to a satisfying conclusion and in doing so creates its own kind of offbeat logic.” [The Wire] Supporting is Directing Hand. Extraordinarily varied and spellbindingly intense sound projections from this vocals/harp/drums duo, soaring to spontaneous, scorching highs one moment and then plunging into heartbeat rhythms and drones the next. Vinnie Blackwall’s background in early music alongside her willingness to drift into the primitive wail is a stunning combination, while drummer Alex Neilson (Tight Meat Duo / Bonnie 'Prince' Billy / Motor Ghost) seems to be on the eternal quest for the rainbow synthesis of free jazz with folk traditions and with this project has given himself the freedom to glow all colours.
Opening is Benjamin Wetherill, an enchanting national treasure from Leeds. A measured songwriter who has an otherworldly delivery, a gentle guitar player who also plays a fine ukulele. There is a hint of romantic musical hall and pastoral folk blues about him, his songs sounding innocent and old at the same time. |
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