TUESDAY 30th September 2008
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £6
SOFTEST VOICE PRESENTS....
SKATERS
Skaters -the California duo of James Ferraro and Spencer Clark - exploded into the consciousness in early 2004 unflinchingly transforming spontaneous yelps and blasts of percussion into hazardous swamps of sound, joyously overflowing whatever dimly lit space they chose to perform in. The main instrument used by both is voice - ecstatic chants looped live through archaic delay units and played through old and broken amplifiers. Skaters say that the substance of their music is defined by the interplay of ideas and the transformation of themselves while playing.
AXOLOTL
Karl Bauer spent time playing with Black Dice, Mouthus and Double Leopards before creating Axolotl in 2004, deriving the name from both the Aztec God of death and an aquatic Mexican salamander. Though at times an ensemble, Axolotl is more often than not his own deeply dream-like explorations. A classically trained musician Bauer uses his voice and a violin sent through a web of electronics creating transcendent drones and melodies that are both frighteningly beautiful and seductively eerie.
FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE
Firmly established through a punishing touring schedule and a staggering back catalogue of releases on European and American labels, Family Battle Snake (aka Greek native Bill Kouligas) conjures up a hazy psychedelic mayhem - from lulling numbness, dark starfields and fierce noice outbreaks.
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