Sunday 25 May 2008, 8pm
Miles of Smiles presents...
White/Lichens
White/Lichens is the collaboration between Matt Clark and Jeremy Lemos' heavy guitar drone group White/Light and Robert Lowe's Lichens, who adds his voice, guitar and piano. While White/Light's name was inspired by the Velvets' feedback-drenched "White Light/White Heat," they also claim as influences Earth 2, Fripp and Eno, and the guitar solo on the title track from Maggot Brain. White/Lichen's debut album was released in 2007 on the Holy Mountain label; the album's five tracks are named after demons from the Goetia, evoked and compelled into obedience by King Solomon, contained in a bronze vessel that was sealed with magic symbols.
John Clyde-Evans
Astral Social Club/ Richard Youngs collaborator perhaps better know as Tirath Singh Nirmala recently resumed life under his birth name since returning from the Punjab region of India where he lived for a year. A recent John Clyde-Evan's output 'Apetal Thunderfall' (Digitalis) was recorded entirely during his stay in Jalandhar in 2007 using found software and audio sources. The resulting recordings feel almost primitive. Evans uses his uncanny ability to blend and mix multitudes of tones into sprawling thickets of sound.
