AKRON/FAMILY + The Acorn + Hush Arbors

Mon 8th Sep 2008

The Luminaire presents
AKRON/FAMILY
+ The Acorn
+ Hush Arbors

Doors 7.30
SOLD OUT
Tickets and guest list only.
No door sales

Akron/Family are a six-year old band that in their various incarnations embrace hushed laptop folk, ecstatic chanting, wild improvisation, Beatles harmonies, West African grooves and fourth-wall detonating live performances.

Though each member of the band can be relegated to loosely defined roles (drummer, guitarist, bassist, vocalist), all of them in fact play several instruments and sing, as evidenced by their shows and recorded material. live, the band uses improvisation and vocal harmonies in prominence. On their self-titled debut record, field recordings of a creaking chair, thunderclaps and the white noise of a television find their way alongside psychedelic and electronic elements, guitars and a glockenspiel. Expect great things tonight.

The Acorn's lush, Canadian, indie-folk provides main support, with wistful guitar melodies, symphonic basslines and a whole glorious mess of banjos and percussion and songs of great beauty.

Openers Hush Arbors... "Playing as a trio, Hush Arbors expanded to burn a mile-wide hole through the still waters of Keith Wood's mumbling psychedelic folk solo gigs. With the addition of Alex Neilson on drums and the equally impressive Leon Dufficy on firelit guitar, Wood's soungs were utterly transformed. Peforming a set that grabbed the venue's attention like a downpour of flaming butterflies, the trio were an unexpectedly bright shining highlight. Like hearing My Bloody Valentine produce Neil Young's country songs during his feedback soloing Weld era, their performance was that good." - Scott McKeating, Rock-A-Rolla magazine 2007-10-01

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