[Event Chat] Bad Timing: C Joynes & Dead Rat Orchestra + Laura Cannell, J2 - 28/07/15

An evening of folk explorations beyond musical, instrumental, historical and geographical boundaries. Bad Timing presents music and collaborations from some of the most innovative and internationally recognised musicians currently working across East Anglia.

An evening of musical explorations talking folk beyond instrumental, sonic and geographical boundaries. Cambridge's longest-standing experimental and underground events organisers Bad Timing presents a showcase of some of the most innovative internationally recognised musicians currently based across East Anglia.

The show centres on a new collaboration between C Joynes & Dead Rat Orchestra.

Using field recordings and local cassettes gathered during his travels throughout the developing world, Cambridge-based guitarist Joynes has teamed up with DRO to draw on source materials from a range of diverse and eclectic traditions. However, rather than a formal piece of ethnology, expect crude, untutored and purely enthusiastic engagement with music from across sub-Saharan Africa, the Horn of Africa, South and South-East Asia.

Dead Rat Orchestra have been performing internationally for over a decade, gaining a reputation as one of the most innovative ensembles on the UK music scene. Raw, elemental and poignant and with a love of adventure, their performances have featured flailing axes, salt and sawdust, throbbing harmonium, grinding fiddle and two-thousand shards of micro-tuned steel. Activities include 2015's 'Tyburnia' project in collaboration with filmmaker James Holcolmbe and The Cut (2014), a site-specific musical tour undertaken by canal boat along 273 miles of waterway as well as headlining a stage at Roskilde 2013 and tours and collaborations with Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Pere Ubu and Baby Dee.

http://deadratorchestra.co.uk/

As well as several contrasting sets and collaborative performances by C Joynes and Dead Rat Orchestra There is a rare chance to see Laura Cannell in Cambridge. Cannell's unique musical approach using 'over-bowed' fiddle and double-barrelled recorders combines early and medieval traditions with contemporary and improvised music. Laura also performs as part of Oscilanz, alongside Charles Hayward (This Heat, About Group) and Ralph Cumbers (Bass Clef).

http://www.lauracannell.co.uk/

Tickets/info: http://www.junction.co.uk/bad-timing-presents-c-joynes-dead-rat-orches...