Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Bär + Ninni Morgia Control Unit + Sharon Gal + Chora
FRIDAY 15 April 2011
Door Times : 8pm
Tickets : £5 / £4 concs - tickets on the door only
Haimenfeldman presents an evening of untold weirdness with the debut London performance from dadaesque Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Bär, the psych guitar deconstructions of Ninni Morgia Control Unit, improvising vocalist Sharon Gal and South London via Sheffield's junk gamelan ensemble Chora.
KOMMISSAR HJULER & MAMA BÄR
Intimate, absurd, feral and aggressive in its homemade weirdness, Hjuler & Bär have self-published their dadaesque sound poetry experiments on small-edition lathe-cut LPs, tapes, and CDRs for years, usually adorning them with elaborate junk sculptures and profane paintings. The husband and wife duo uses deceptively simple means - typically just their voices, a cassette-tape recorder and a microphone - to create astonishing suburban dramas that are somehow both sweetly charming and staggeringly psychotic, sometimes simultaneously. In their recordings join Kommissar Hjuler and Mama Baer as they perform acts of banal heroics, like exploring the basement... taking their son for a bicycle ride... walking with a red shirt into a field of cattle... or pondering reforms made to the Danish police system…In performance they may mangle an 80’s pop hit, or molest a nursery rhyme ’pushing repetition and subverted cultural modes way past the point of a joke and into the realms of personal revelation’ – David Keenan…
Ninni Morgia is a Brooklyn based Italian guitar player with noise rock roots but whose recent explorations into free-jazz, psychedelia and improv deconstruction are garnering much critical praise.
Taking part in several projects on the Brooklyn experimental scene, such as: Death.Pool, La Otracina, and the open collective QUIVERS, Morgia's guitar playing has been compared to that of great guitarists like Keiji Haino, Sonny Sharrock and Hendrix.
A lot of good things have been said about ‘Prism’ his recent duo collaboration with William Parker, his playing being described as ‘a conversation between 2 old dial-up modems’ or closer to a theremin than a guitar.
‘Parker’s plucking is emotionally weighty, and Morgia’s guitar work, even at its most abstract and non-guitarish, has real beauty. You won’t hear anything else like this anytime soon’. – Phil Freeman, The Wire
He will be joined on tour by Ultramarine Records boss and frequent collaborator Silvia Kastel.
Sharon Gal is a cross-disciplinary artist, performer & Musician. She has developed a sweeping language of powerful vocal expression and technique through years of musical exploration, free improvisation & performance. Besides organising concerts & performing solo regularly she also performs in duos with pianist Steve Beresford & double bass player John Edwards. She is a firm part of London’s Improvising scene and has strong connections to the Nyoukis/Chocolate Monk school of feral performace. She has released an album (Mouthcrazy - Open/openwide) through Thurston Moore & Byron Coley's American label Ecstatic Yod, and 2 CD's of her previous trio VOLTAGE.
Sharon has also been involved in setting up London's Resonance Fm radio station - and presents a weekly show with Wire magazine's writer Edwin (savage pencil) Pouncy.
London based group working collaboratively but with a mainstay presence of Ben Morris, Rob Lye, and more recently Ben Nash. Sketching a ‘violent pointillist’ aesthetic, their junkyard gamelan jams inhabit a future primitive ritual zone, which can lift to tonal elation in one movement or fall into a stark, submerged scrape in the next. Tonight they will be joined by Sayed Kamran Ali of Harrapian Night Recordings and The Hunter Gracchus.
