Bad Timing: Volcano the Bear + Sculpture + UM
Monday 30th November 2009
Venue: The Portland Arms
Category: Gigs & Live Music
One Liner: Tapes/Tapes/Tapes
Price Info: 6.50 adv/7.50 door
Time Info: 8:30-11pm
Volcano the Bear
VTB create an English take on free psych improv (think Sunburned Hand of the Man, No-neck Blues Band) combining influences from the English underground (Robert Wyatt, This Heat, Nurse With Wound) with the rhythms of Can, the trickery of Faust and a Residents-like surrealist tendency.
'Volcano the Bear was formed in May 1995, in Leicester, England, by Daniel Padden, Laurence Coleman, Nick Mott and Aaron Moore. These four musicians encountered frustrations with the limitations of traditional musical endeavors and sought an outlet that could defy convention. Volcano the Bear quickly became the platform for their total artistic freedom and personal expression, where they could explore collective ideas and interests in a new and inventive manner.
The music that came forth from this collective ideology was a beautiful cross-section of the English underground of years past (Robert Wyatt, This Heat, Nurse With Wound) alongside the rhythms of Can, the trickery of Faust and a Residents-like surrealist bent. Volcano the Bear adapt these lofty inspirations into a sound that is distinctly their own creation, one that blurs the lines between songs, composition, noise and improvisation.'
Pickled Egg
The current tour features VtB as the duo of Daniel Padden (previously seen in Cambridge in The One Ensemble) and drummer Aaron Moore, who also recently appeared as a drum leader in Boredoms' 88 Boadrum event in LA.
http://www.brainwashed.com/vtb/
http://www.myspace.com/volcanothebear
Sculpture
Sculpture creates lofi beauty, playing on vintage domestic tape machines with a tangle of tapeloops in his hands, creating a sound with similarities to Philip Jeck's old vinyl loops. Previously seen at the Bad Timing/Kosmische event in Cambridge. Now a duo featuring Reuben Sutherland on record player zoetrope and other visual projection devices
http://www.myspace.com/danhayhurst
UM
(Gagarin, Tripel, Strange Lights)
'like a one-man boombox version of The Residents ...
like a quiet idea-storm: a procession of thoughts, camera-angles, memories, rambles, rumbles, micro-anthems, marching songs, drinking games, broken raps, Pop-monologues, miniatures, chamberwerks, salon songs, an orchestra of shed.' kidshirt.blogspot.com
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/62787
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