29 musicians, 25 vintage electric organs, two drum kits, two bass guitars and three projectors.

Himmel’s music spans the territory between drone minimalism, krautrock and cosmic jazz, creating a powerful live musical spectacle at the edges of the known.

Himmel’s music contains minimal landscapes of intense beauty contrasting with the elemental power of a rock band in full spate. The complexity and awe of this experience is magnified by the layered compositional strength of an orchestra of massed, vintage electric organs played through fuzzboxes. Two tolling Fender Rhodes, two bass guitars and two drummers lay the foundation for a mosaic of distorted shifting harmonic drones and submerged melodies.

Himmel-Music For Massed Fuzz Organs from Himmel on Vimeo.

Himmel was founded in 2008 by Andy Saunders and the experimental arts collective Lewes Arts Lab. Andy Saunders is a founding member of Towering Inferno, whose album ‘Kaddish’, released on Island 1995, fused chanting rabbis with heavy-metal guitar and hypnotic systems music.

Ian Owings is a multimedia artist whose work includes paintings, video, large scale installations and digital billboard imagery.

Focusing on the relationship between film and music, this is an exploration of the combined power of massed fuzz organs and minimal abstract visuals.

Featuring:

Chris Cutler (Henry Cow)
Richard Miles (Meshmass)
Glyn Perrin (Lost Jockey)
Jared Louche (Chemlab)
Kath Gifford (Stereolab)
Debbie Googe (My Bloody Valentine)
Andy Saunders (Towering Inferno)
Jake Rousham
Mick Hobbs (Half Japanese)
Tom Mugridge
Graham Carlow (David Devant)
Dave Tribe
Adam Bushell
Andrew Manson
Mike Barnes (Lemon Kittens)
Andrew Greaves (Broken Star)
Matt Brown (Brains Unchained)
David Benke
Jason Slade (1K Miles High)
Geoff Reader (Noteherder & McCloud)
Phil Ball
Al Strachan (Hamilton Yarns)
Sian Lucid
Dave Bernez (Stinky Winkles)
Chris Anderson (Crayola Lectern)
Bela Emerson
Ian Owings (live visuals)