An evening with three radical deconstructions of the organ. Dom Garwood aka San Moritzz spins his keyboard into joyous shapes of cut-up pop riffage and disjointed rhythm whilst the Organ Octet stack reed on reed for an overwhelming overtone experience. The evening will begin with a one-off duo set by Matthew Nicholson and John Chantler combining Nicholson's knack for ecstatic harmony with John Chantler's unpredictable analog electronics.

SAN MORITZZ



San Mortizz on Myspace

ORGAN OCTET

The organ octet is a loose assemblage of musicians kicking life and form into the humble reed organs of the 70s taking them out of the living room corner and onto the stage, sharing wave space with their fellows to create a shimmering, glowing halo of overtones...

Organ Octet - Live At David Roberts Art Foundation 20.01.10 by cafeOTO

MATTHEW NICHOLSON

Over the course of fifteen years and three lps, Nicholson has worked with an extensive band of collaborators all over the world to create a genre-defying and critically acclaimed sound that, like the mysterious, gassy mass in which it was created, doesn't conform to simple labels or descriptors.

Under the monikers Outshine Family and Function Ensemble, Nicholson's music has run through avant-rock, psych-folk, minimal, orchestral/classical, electro-acoustic, experimental and ambient musics, without ever wearing any particular hat, or staying in any one place for too long, unified only by what The Wire called Nicholson's ´clear authorial voice´ and a transcendental sensibility that ´borrows more from Emerson than indie rock´ (Ampcamp).

Outshine Family website

JOHN CHANTLER

John Chantler is an omnivorous recording artist/musician based in London. Starting out as a drummer, John still keeps loose time in various contexts whilst exploring his own solo synthesizer works and occasionally convening the Organ Octet - a massed organ ensemble of eight reed/chord organs. He also plays synth in a trio with Tujiko Noriko and Lawrence English and as Holy Family - a duo with Lawrence English. His most recent LP 'The Luminous Ground' was released via ROOM40 in 2011.

"Hearing this music for the first time has a similar impact to the first exposure to Oval’s Systemisch from 1994, or the early Sähkö recordings like Ø’s Metri, in that it has a beauty partly derived from having travelled beyond the reach of human influence" Rob Young, THE WIRE

John Chantler website