Saturday 28 September 2013, 8pm
AUN return to Cafe OTO, following the release of new album 'Alpha Heaven' on Denovali. The Candian duo have built on the hazy electronic framework of their acclaimed 2011 release 'Phantom Ghost' with an even more expansive sound utilising creaky acoustics and more prominent vocals, all filtered through their evocative tape-saturated sound. Also playing will be Karen Gwyer, who creates digital psychedelia, toying with kosmische repetition, manipulated vocals, drone and expansive electro pop, as well as a set from London's Petrels, who crafts expansive sound structures from synths and strings.
AUN
The Montreal duo's dark, rhythmic, kosmiche synthscapes sail close to chaotic noise without carrying out the threat. For those who'd prefer a more epic Oneohtrix Point Never or Panabrite that have fully embraced the gloom. New album on Denovali.
“The musical body of Phantom Ghost has about it a compelling elusive quality, as if evaporating when its solidity feels graspable; it seems to float, as if levitating, just above ground, attended by plumes of fog enveloping proceedings, mirroring the spectral figure and blur of the cover; both of the aether and of the earth in its metal-machine music" Alan Lockett, igloo magazine (on 'Phantom Ghost')
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KAREN GWYER
On releases for No Pain in Pop and Opal Tapes Karen creates digital psychedelia, toying with kosmische repetition, manipulated vocals, drone and expansive electro pop. She's been compared to OPN and Julianna Barwick, and her latest work brings to mind Prurient's recent dabbling in dark techno.
“Gwyer parents a frosty ambience that chills the ear whilst skeletal percussion – influenced by her love of Malian music – ripples like pebble-struck water." DIY (on 'Needs Contimuum')
"Onrushing, buoyant, coursing and at times dense and abrasive. It’s a record that excavates, and extrapolates outwards from, a particular and resonant historical undertaking and in its jubilant expansiveness grants it mythic, numinous life." Matt Poacher, The Liminal (on 'Haeligwielle')
