Crushing Death & Grief: Last Harbour + The Doomed Bird Of Providence + Violet Woods
Sunday 25th March 2012
Venue: The Portland Arms
Category: Gigs & Live Music
One Liner: darkest folk musicks
Price Info: £5 adv / £6 door
Time Info: 7:30pm
LAST HARBOUR + THE DOOMED BIRD OF PROVIDENCE + VIOLET WOODS
Sunday 25th March @ The Portland Arms
Doors 8pm, £5 from https://www.wegottickets.com/event/147886
LAST HARBOUR
Based in Manchester, Last Harbour are an expansive collective playing “swooning dustbowl baroque†(Plan B) that is “rich and foreboding†(Drowned in Sound) . From dusty laments to doom- filled rock, from starkly beautiful duets to drifting clouds of looped noise, the only claims they make for their music are that it is honest and heartfelt.
Their new album ’ Your Heart, It Carries The Sound ’ was written in isolation in a small Northumbrian cottage in October 2010 and recorded in April 2011 in St Margaret’s Church, Manchester. The songs are recorded almost entirely live, with producer Sam Lench employing the church as a soundstage. His approach carefully uses the architecture of the building to sculpt and shape the music, creating a sense of the band within the space.
This new album sees a different approach from their previous album ’ Volo ’ (2010) , a dense, textured album co-produced by Richard Formby (best known for his recent work with Wild Beasts). For ’ Your Heart, It Carries The Sound ‘ , the band stripped back the arrangements and placed a mature, more direct concentration at the core of each song. The confident, intimate vocal of K Craig is at the centre, the instrumentation is sparser, and the band’s line-up has changed with piano, tenor guitar, heavily-processed guitar effects and organ to the fore. The addition of vintage analogue synths and waves of natural reverb give ’ Your Heart, It Carries The Sound ‘ a timeless, ephemeral aspect.
www.lastharbour.com/
THE DOOMED BIRD OF PROVIDENCE
Aggressive and disturbing tales of the early years of the country of Australia, drawn from texts recounting colonial degeneracy. All set to music heavily indebted to Jacques Brel, Scott Walker and the English Folk Revival, with terrifying results.
www.doomedbird.com
VIOLET WOODS
12-string twang, Moe Tucker beats and echoplex vocals from Cambridge folks otherwise seen in The Puncture Repair Kit, Bouvier, Fuzzy Lights, etc.
http://violetwoods.tumblr.com
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