Monday 27 July 2015, 8pm
Rare live performance from defiantly uncaterisable improvising collective Liberez, launching new album All Tense Now Lax on Night School Records. Support comes from Glaswegian DIY protagonist Michael Kasparis, aka Apostille.
“Hermetically sealed and reveling in tumult, All Tense Now Lax is the most significant and developed work yet forged by Liberez. Based in main orchestrator John Hannonʼs remote studio No Recordings in Rayleigh, England, Liberez have expanded their palette from previous outings on Alter to produce a perfectly engineered machine that consumes the beholder.
A tense, gut-wrenching listen wrought with carefully considered space, the range of techniques and the depth of atmosphere is staggering. All Tense Now Lax never settles on a simple depiction of dread, foreboding or anxiety but layers textures upon rhythms to produce towering minarets of conflicting emotion.”
Based in main orchestrator John Hannonʼs remote studio No Recordings in Rayleigh, England, Liberez are an ever-evolving collective of improvisors and sound artists. With a heavy emphasis on noise-infected ethnographic détournement, percussive experimentation and warped loop-based composition, Liberez' live excursions are rare. Expanding into an A/V experience that can involve visual accompaniment and light experiments, Liberez performances often transform and transmogrify the space.
APOSTILLE is a man who's torn through enough soundsystems to know the difference between gesture and meaning. Alongside running his own DIY record label Night School Records, Glasgow native Michael Kasparis has previously made forays into the realm of hardcore punk with his groups Anxiety and The Lowest Form. Throughout all this, his solo electronic venture Apostille has continued to evolve with each twist and turn of the world. What started off as a quest to whip up a mood and force that into a song has steadily become more of a mission in communication. The third Apostille album, ‘Prisoners Of Love And Hate’, was released on Night School last September.
Carrageenan is Brussels based parisian Matthieu Levet (Vermisst Susi, Pizza Noise Mafia) solo project, in which he explores the simplicity of an analog drum machine. His live performance often turns the venue to a black hole of abstract percussions, bubbling, scraping, drowning the audience in a splurge of electronic tonal and atonal dribble. After a debut on Golden Lab, he released « The Golden Beast » on french Tanzprocesz (Opera Mort, Smegma, Ghedalia Tazartes…) and «At the Corner» on belgian Honneur De La Police.
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Carrageenan
https://soundcloud.com/carrageenan
