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THE MEMORY BAND perform music from The Wicker Man + Jack Cheshire + Klak Tik

Wed 2nd Jun 2010

Pull Up The Roots presents

THE MEMORY BAND perform the music from The Wicker Man

+ Jack Cheshire
+ Klak Tik

Doors 7.30
£6 at WeGotTickets, SeeTickets (0870 264 3333) and TicketWeb

"Mix arrangements and bastardizations of traditional pieces, to make an album both modern and timeless, completely unconstrained by most people's ideas of "folk music."' - Thrill Jockey

Stephen Cracknell's ever-mutating and multi-talented modern day folk supergroup - The Memory Band - is renowned for its balearic mix of folk, dance and psychedelia. A rotating cast of new and established players has previously included Adem, Polly Paulusma and members of Hot Chip, Simian and Tunng, while more recent performances have featured new folk talent including John Smith, Sam Carter, Nancy Wallace, double bass supremo Jon Thorne, harpist Serafina Steer and Cracknell's friends and associates from The Accidental - Liam Bailey and Hanna Caughlin. After co-founding Trunk Records, the label that re-issued the soundtrack to British cult classic, The Wicker Man, Cracknell assembled the players to bring back to life the songs and music from film for acclaimed performances at last year's Glastonury and Green Man festivals.

"Once the brainchild of Stephen Cracknell of English folk-electronica outfit Gorodischj, now a fully collaborative unit - draw from traditional British folk dating back more than a century. Cracknell envisions the Memory Band in the tradition of folk supergroups of the 1960s and '70s, and he has certainly corralled an impressive line-up... capably captures the joy of collaboration." - Pitchfork

Jack Cheshire would like it to be known he is watching you right now through the eye of your phone. You will receive a special prize if you walk backwards, wrapped up in the vacuum. Jack Cheshire will appear in person, through the magical powers of the cyber-web, if you close your eyes. He passes on his love, via this keyboard, through to your keyboard, and hopes it is returned.

"Hugely beguiling. A talent in urgent need of discovery." - **** The Sunday Telegraph

"Speak Klak Tik", the rain said, and I understood.

Creating genre-dodging alternative/orchestral/experimental folk, Klak Tik is the brainchild of Soren Bonke, a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist hailing from the outskirts of Copenhagen. Working together with a former band-mate and a stray kiwi from their instrument-laden home in East London, and being joined by various talented cohorts to form their 8-piece live act, they expand upon sparse and tender folk tunes to produce multi-layered, pseudo-orchestral pieces of music.

Taking full advantage of their entirely independent approach to recording, and Bonke's ability to play brass, strings and extract music from nigh anything he touches, the band spent the summer in their home/studio exploring the freedoms of a multi-tracking environment by writing and recording their debut album 'Must We Find a Winner', which is due for release in the middle of the year.

Melodies writing rhythms, with harmonies disobediently following suit and intersecting instrumental lines cascading atop. Lyrical imagery and inquisition, the beating of chests (of a predominantly wooden variety) and sounds of mixed heritage being caressed and coerced into place. This is the language of Klak Tik.

Intricate layers of kaleidoscopic finger-picking and sweetly-slurred melodies form main support Jack Cheshire's mind-bending musicbox psychedlia - imagine Syd Barrett serenading the sunrise in the Cafe Del Mar, Bez of Happy Mondays discovering a knack for acid-folk, or Arthur Lee and Beck sharing a studio.

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