Temperatures return to Cafe Oto to host another night of psy-unk aktion including Manchester’s wayward deviants, Klaus Kinski, an animation by Mu plus more to be confirmed.

 

TEMPERATURES:

“Given that Noise as a movement was predicated on a desire to break free of straightjacket musical structures, it’s ironic that some of the more stimulating groups working in that zone have retained elements of rock. Units such as Mathew Bower’s Skullflower, the transatlantic trio PeeEssEye and Edinburgh’s Muscletusk have blended guitars and drums into the hum and roar of Noise to create a visceral, hybrid free rock. Temperatures are a London based duo of bassist/vocalist Peter Blundell and drummer James Dunn, who strip the form back to the bone, relying on the natural properties of their instruments, a handful of pedals and a synth wired up to the drums to create unruly, improvised Noise rock.” - Daniel Spicer, Wire Magazine.

 

“Favorite New Band

That’s like reaching into a grab-bag because there’s so many at every given time or day that I’m hearing. There’s always bands popping up that are doing something I really like. There’s this duo from the UK that I really like: Temperatures. I don’t know too much about them but I think they’re just two guys from the UK. I sort of, well it’s one of those things where you get your information through this underground network of noise and avant-garde, weird music that’s happening all the time now. And I saw their name a couple of times, and then I saw the Temperatures album, the one on Heat Retention, at Hospital Records in New York. On the wall, it’s like, Temperatures LP, limited edition, 100 copies, and the cover is kind of this rough paper and really homemade with silkscreen on it. Very little information. Just "Temperatures". It’s the kind of thing that makes me buy records-- all of those aspects. Like, an intriguing name, only making enough records that they know that they can sell in a couple of months and not having any lying around in their basement in boxes, and the most minimal of information-- just play the fucking record and that’s all the information you need. They did two 7"s themselves, where the sleeves where very homemade. I knew it would be something really extreme, noise-duo kind of stuff. We were playing it the other day and it was pretty cool. It’s really this dark-hole of noise-playing. It’s actually really distinctive in a way amongst that genre, because there’s a lot of standardized tropes in the noise genre that people fall into-- which I don’t mind, I like the idea that this is traditional way of playing in that world, but it’s always cool to hear something like this where you can’t really slot it into those things.” - Thurston Moore, Pitchfork website.

 

LINK

http://www.myspace.com/temperaturestheband

 

 

KLAUS KINSKI:

“Klaus Kinski somehow manages to include vintage German film, stomach cramps, incarceration, Nick Cave and church burnings into their demented press notes. If that doesn't get your interest levels up, then I can tell you that this quartet are nasty, ridiculously lo-fi and completely in your face.” - Michael Hannegan, Angry Ape.

“I'm pretty much a sucker for any Welsh groups that display significant Birthday Party damage, so Klaus Kinski are pretty hard to resist. They're much more scrabbled and trebly than their models, but then that's just the tenor of the times, eh? Primal raunch vom” - Byron Coley, Wire magazine.

 

LINK

http://www.myspace.com/klausruddykinski

 

 

BOLIDE:

Bolide is an electro-acoustic improvising sextet, formed in Brighton, UK, in 2007.

"Gonzo free music and guerrilla jazz from this drug and ale gorged Brighton sextet. A lot of reeds, tapes, percussion, vocal hollerin' and the likes all captured in mysterious crud-fidelity. Come and enjoy this unseasoned brew."

"Bolide Awkwardstra are either an acquired taste or a psilocybin victims' self-help group with a penchant for Free Jazz and novelty ethnic instruments ... or possibly both. They deliver ... flow-of-consciousness musical blather that sounds like six drunk tramps wrestling in the instrument storage room of a folk all-dayer." - www.rock-metal-music-reviews.com

"As a launching pad to tomorrow, free jazz remains one of the most potent, if hermetic, of conceptual formulas due to its foregrounding of the spontaneous, its focus on exploration as opposed to mere tourism. In recent years players from the more traditionally omnivorous disciplines of drone, psychedelia and noise music have combined to broker a rapprochement with the form, mostly focussed on its harnessing of energy as a structural solvent - groups like Michigan's Graveyards, New York's Owl Xounds, Brighton's Bolide Awkwardstra."
David Keenan, The Wire, November 2008.

http://www.myspace.com/bolideawkwardstra