Sunday 30 April 2023, 8pm
Label and Resonance FM show Dig That Treasure celebrates 10 years with a program of four gigs across London. Ambient duo Group Listening headline the third night, with support from the Dialect and Max Syedtollan.
Group Listening is a project by Stephen Black and Paul Jones. Their albums feature arrangements of ambient works - from the likes of Brian Eno, Arthur Russell, Laraaji and Robert Wyatt - arranged for clarinet and piano. Having met at music college, Black and Jones went separate ways creatively. Black delved into pop, recording albums and touring extensively under the guise of Sweet Baboo, as well as working with Cate Le Bon, H. Hawkline and others. Paul leaned into the piano and pursued a career as a jazz pianist and experimental musician. He played with Keith Tippett, formed The Jones O'Connor Group, performed with noise improv bands and composed orchestral and chamber music.
Reconnecting years later, the pair discovered that their musical tastes, bizarrely, met in the middle. They have a shared love of The Beach Boys, Ghost Box Records, Messiaen and Angela Morley. They both like ambient and new age music, bubblegum pop, Artie Shaw, Moondog and the Songs in the Key of Z.
Dialect is the long-standing project of British composer and musician Andrew PM Hunt. His album Advanced Myths was recently reissued by seminal New York label RVNG Intl. An enchanted exploration of unusual source synthesis, electro-acoustic arrangements, and found sound, Advanced Myth is its own cosmos expanding in real time.
Max Syedtollan - Through his first 3 releases on GLARC (GLARC 0000000000000002, GLARC 0000000000000008, GLARC 0000000000000011) Max developed a unique and thrillingly unpredictable audio carnivalesque which has continued to blossom at labels such as 33-33, Bison and his own World Service. Indeed, his latest compositions have been described as verging on evil, with works "calculated to cause maximum offence". He frequently combines music with text, video and performance and he showcased this most recently on Prynhawn Da!, a collaboration with basket-maker Lewis Prosser to soundtrack a mummer's procession through the streets of Swansea, Cardiff and Caernarfon.
https://www.maxsyedtollan.net/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002nbfm - in session with mermaid chunky
