Sunday 3 May 2009, 8pm
Music for One:For the last number of years, Sherry Ostapovitch has been known for reducing her guitar playing to rubble and pulling tunes out of the wreckage. She has gigged extensively, playing concerts with the likes of Christina Carter, Daniel Higgs, and Stars of the Lid. Of late she has replaced her electric with an acoustic resonator guitar. Her playing on this new instrument makes some references to decades gone by but the notes she leaves hanging actually seem to stretch time in the here and now. Elusive melodies mix with considered improvisations that give the listener room to feel their own heart beat. Add acoustic drones and home-made tape loops recorded on the fly and you've got some magical sounds, indeed.
Her new album,the Red Thumb(Perennial Sounds), was released at the end of 2008. In the Wire magazine, Chris Sharp describes the album."Throughout, the exquisite longueurs and contemplative silences are as expressive as the plucked, evanescent chords - they open up connections to the fraught spaces of Morton Feldman and to the introspective calligraphy of Taku Sugimoto. These airy, ascetic tendencies provide a graceful counterbalance to the dobro's rough-hewn overtones."
www.musicforone.com
Bela Emerson is a pioneering electric cellist who performs passionate, evocative and spontaneously-composed solo pieces using live processing. Her music harnesses many different genres whilst creating noiseworlds which are all her own. Bela’s performances are the stuff of legend: intense and exhilarating; her command of her instrument and ability to attune to the uniqueness of the moment combine to produce music that is remarkably different and always spellbinding.
Her fourth solo release, Hespera (BiP_HOp), was released in October 2008 www.cellobela.comwww.myspace.com/belaemerson
Nathan Octavia:Upon midnight's hour the moon beckons our hearts to unfold their desires, while in the corner of the room, sounds and silence coalesce from a guitar. Then someone begins to sing or wail, no-one is quite sure and words are difficult to decipher, but lines of some strange form of folk music from a different age are heard. And the songs play regardless. Singing songs based on thethree main passions of life; sex, death and depression, Nathan Octavia's ethereal music is haunted by thevoices of Skip Jamesand John Jacob Niles in equal measures.
A7" EP is soon to be released on Tome records.
