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Parastatic, Kontakte & Thomas Ragsdale
We have a very special,night lined up for you, as we are delighted to welcome back Parastatic!
Parastatic
Released earlier this year, 'Recall Fade Return' marks a welcome return from Tyneside krautedelic spacerockers Parastatic. Retaining the hypnotic repetitive elements of debut album Lost Highway, Recall Fade Return has a more more propulsive and at times urgent dimension, aided by the addition of Rachel Casey on live drums, shifting the band's sound into a space somewhere between post-rock, shoegaze and kosmische. As Drowned in Sound remarked of Lost Highway, "You can very easily find yourself lost in its spacey groove".
Formed in dank basement in Newcastle at the end of 2011, parastatic was the coming together of long time collaborators Neil Caffery and Jon Garrard with electronica maestro Rich Telford. The combination of their various musical heritage resulted in their debut album in 2012 Lost Highway, which nodded towards krautrock and early 80s synth-pop and drew critical praise in the UK and beyond with Mark Radcliffe proclaiming them "Prog on the Tyne".
The band toured the album until mid 2013 when Rich left the group to devote more time to his new-born. Neil took on synth duties and the band fortuitously recruited multi-instrumentalist Rachel Casey on live drums taking the band's sound into a more direct, propulsive dimension.
2014 saw parastatic complete their second full length Recall Fade Return, due to be released on March 9th 2015 on 104 Records. This record is less indebted to straight up krautrock and hints at more complex influences locating the band on an oscillating line between kosmische, shoegaze and post-rock.
Over the last couple of years parastatic have played across the UK alongside some of their favourite artists Damo Suzuki, Moon Duo, Warm Digits, Eat Lights;Become Lights, The Early Years, Baltic Fleet and many more.
'You can very easily find yourself lost in its spacey groove' Drowned in Sound
''GlaxoChem', the kind of space-drone that Jason Pierce was messing around with in the early 90s, with a repetitive guitar loop that recalls 'Electric Mainline'. Soon to be joined by another insistent beat, it quickly resembles the type of sonic textures Neu! were exploring twenty years previously and it works fabulously." Sound of Confusion
"The kind of propulsive, joyous, trancelike music that bundles up the likes of Neu! The Orb and Spiritualized into one pulsating wholea cloud-scraping slab of motorik bliss which feels like the band have managed to bottle the essence of the sun coming up in the morning." The Crack
"With pulsating bass lines and sweeping synthesiser melodies throughout this LP is a revelation in looping, much like Tall Ship's debut 'Everything Touching', this album is a definite testament to the fact that it does not take structural complexity and mind-numbingly deep lyrics to create a perfect song." Shout4music
'Each track is hypnotic.. You can't help but be lulled into some kind of musical trance' Narc
Kontakte
We are delighted to welcome back Kontakte, who released what was for us the best album of 2014 with 'These Machines'.
Conceived in 2005 from a string of old 4-track demos and further realised via a labyrinth of digital workstations and computer software, Kontakte emerged in early 2006. The concept was to blend organic instrumentation within an electronic and hypnotic framework of programmed beats and pulsing synths. Inspired by the walls of sound of bands like Godspeed You Black Emperor and Mogwai, Kontakte's other main passions were the ambient sounds of Brian Eno, mid-late 70's German electronica and the early 90's shoegaze scene. Taking elements from all of these things, Kontakte have endeavoured to create a sound that is uniquely and deservedly their own.
The Kontakte live experience is a blistering wall of intense guitar noise bonded by shimmering electronics and ethereal melodies. The emphasis always on constantly pushing boundaries and continuously stretching both the scale and the limits of their music. The band have toured both the UK and Germany sharing stages along the way with M83, Fuck Buttons, Vessels, A Place To Bury Strangers, Teeth Of The Sea, UpCDownC, Port-Royal, Damo Suzuki, The Telescopes, The Lost Rivers...
Releases to date include three albums - 'These Machines' (2014), 'We Move Through Negative Spaces' (2011) & 'Soundtracks To Lost Road Movies' (2008).
Various EP releases include 'Fear Of Music' (2014) and 'Superbug' (2010), plus the 'Deconstructed/Reconstructed' and 'Snowflake' Remix EP's (2011/2012), both from the 'Negative Spaces' period.
Two early 7" vinyl singles 'Motorik' and 'Sterile World' show Kontakte's clear inception and the birth of their initial promise to continuously deliver their own brand of 'hypnotic, textural, cinematic noise'.
Kontakte have been remixed by such luminaries as Tim Holmes of Death In Vegas, Chris Olley of Six. By Seven, Clem Leek, Winterlight, A Dancing Beggar, Russell.M.Harmon and labelmates Oppressed By The Line & Matt Bartram.
Thomas Ragsdale
This film composer from Manchester is best known as half of Ghosting Season and worriedaboutsatan, as well as solo project Winter Son.
He released his new album 'Bait' at the end of August via This Is It Forever, to coincide with the screening of Dominic Brunt's film of the same name at Film4 Frightfest.
The album started life as a film score to the UK thriller, but rather than just release the various background drones and atmospheres, Ragsdale re-opened the files he'd given Brunt and started to re-imagine the whole thing as one complete album, as opposed to merely a soundtrack.
On the night we'll see the fruits of his labours in a multi-media performance.
http://thomasragsdalemusic.com/
"...an effectively sequenced travelogue of shifting moods." - Textura
With a Goodsoul DJ set to add to the night, this is simply not to be missed.
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LocationThe Sebright Arms (View)
31-35 Coate Street
London E2 9AG
United Kingdom
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| Minimum Age: 18 |
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