Friday 17 December 2021, 8pm
Great triple bill from London based experimental music collective and label Sagome, who promote DIY gigs and sound projects across the borders.
Since 2018, four private-press volumes of previously-unheard music from subterranean Swedish project Civilistjävel! have been released. Civilistjävel!'s M.O. ranges from intimate, melodic minimal synth nocturnes through to deep, droning, Chain Reaction-esque techno ice-scapes, all of it austere but full of nameless, 30-days-of-night yearning.
https://www.discogs.com/it/artist/6761631-Civilistj%C3%A4vel
Komare is Dominic Goodman and Peter Blundell who also make up two-thirds of Mosquitoes. Somewhat of an estranged cousin to Mosquitoes take on re-ruffled rock, Komare resides more as a dub-influenced exploration of the outer fringes, creating a thick vibrational delusion. Somehow like Zweistein mixing a Robert Ashley record, Komare is an exceptional space and time stretching disorientator. In the process of rendering reality, redundant Komare gleefully lead the listener into a netherworld of holographic, hallucinatory audio. Shades of Monoton and Pyrolator may also be detected as can the impression of intoxicants wafting around the mixing console. This is a state where humans and machines, though present, are smeared of all traceable attributes. The depths of the journey move further into a netherworld as the sound progresses/disintegrates. Not necessarily one for the beauty seekers, Komare is an extremely deep trip concocted by two unbridled creative crusaders.
https://www.penultimatepress.com/product/komare-the-sense-of-hearing-lp/
https://soundcloud.com/quockenzocker/a5-komare-pp46-master
Little Skull is Dean Brown's long running solo project. He plays all instruments, even if it sounds like he is barely touching them and yet his obscure personal fingerprints are all over the place. His instinctive spontaneous playing finds ways to make them glow and fizz and ripple.
Dean Brown is a New Zealander from Hamilton. A joke city to much of the rest of New Zealand, but its feral mongrel out-of-it-ness is well known to those that have lived there. Dean coped with Hamilton through his bands Negative Eh and Nova Scotia and then buggered off to other cities and other countries. He is currently living in the UK.
There have been three Little Skull releases on Horn of Plenty so far, and a Nova Scotia LP is due to be released in November.
