After spending a year up in Manchester putting on huge amount of eclectic shows from Group Doueh and the Rhys Chatham Guitar Trio to The Thing and Part Chimp, MIE Music has now moved back down to London to carry on the good work done up north.

Their first show back is an evening of experimental ambient bliss featuring Trouble Books (who embark on a small UK tour after selling out a collabrative LP with Emeralds Guitarist, Mark McGuire), Outshine Family and Petrels (Bleeding Heart Narrative).

TROUBLE BOOKS

Trouble Books is husband-and-wife Keith Freund and Linda Lejsovka from Akron, Ohio who use synthesizer and guitar to bury pop songs in ambient noise. Their sounds can go from delicate folk finger-picking to deep drones to sequencer-driven loops rather quickly and often overlap several zones simultaneously. The duo does not tend to tour often and instead stays at home recording with friends and neighbors including members of synth-drone heroes Emeralds.

Song for Reinier Lucassen's Sphinx by TrblBks

Some words about Trouble Books' LPs:

"An album awash in fuzz and atmosphere while retaining a low-key pop sensibility... this LP is the beginning of a rapid ascent in Trouble Books' trajectory." - Skyscraper Magazine

"It falls from the speakers like swirling orange leaves...enduring and nigh-on perfect." - Drowned in Sound



OUTSHINE FAMILY

Outshine Family (formerly Function & Function Ensemble) is the ever-evolving musical moniker of Matt Nicholson. Over the course of fifteen years and three lps, Nicholson has worked with an extensive band of collaborators all over the world to create a genre-defying and critically acclaimed sound that doesn't conform to simple labels or descriptors.

Taking in avant-rock, psych-folk, minimal, orchestral/classical, electro-acoustic, experimental and ambient musics, without ever wearing any particular hat, or staying in any one place for too long, the music of Outshine Family is unified only by what The Wire called Nicholson's ´clear authorial voice´ and a transcendental sensibility that ´borrows more from Emerson than indie rock´ (Ampcamp).

Live and on record, Outshine Family's music blurs the lines between composition and improvisation moving from resonant drone to ecstatic pop.



PETRELS

Petrels is London-based musician Oliver Barrett (Bleeding Heart Narrative/Grapefruits). Debut album 'Haeligewielle' was released on Tartaruga Records in April, combining bowed strings, discarded electronics, sporadic percussion and occasional vocals; "frighteningly claustrophobic but exultant in a beautifully understated way... monstrous arvo part-isms and peter wright destructo-drones. and with similar tropes can come across like richard skelton on steroids." (cowsarejustfood).

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