Wildbirds And Peacedrums
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Sat 13 September 2008 // 20:00
+ Peter Broderick + Silver Pyre
Brought to you by Qu Junktions
(Sat 13th / 8pm / £6 adv)
Such a lot from the bare essentials. These two are the forbidden fruit laid bare for us to admire....too good to believe. Wildbirds & Peacedrums create hot, exotic songs with a haunting sense of the blues, freeform soul and a
loose-limbed percussive edge that seers them way clear of the bland. The pair's stripped down, tantalising primal show left audience agog at Venn 08 and are on real roll. They are duo from Sweden, who got signed to Leaf and now traverse the world singing sweet and raw. The songs are imbued with a sense of scatter-jazz, Scandinavian pop and widescreen dynamics. They look good in technicolour.
Like..."Nina Simone's In Concert; where Simone used tactful playing and sly phrasing to redress Gershwin or a song about pirates, W&P build murder ballads with tinny, metronomic percussion and tense rock'n'roll with handclaps and double-tracked wails"
Peter Broderick is a young and gifted multi-instrumentalist from Portland who plays in the Dutch ensemble Efterklang. Solo he captivates with hush hush instrumentals and cinematic lushness.
Recently relocating to Bristol, Silver Pyre forges a sound from the depths of his native rural Somerset. Blending richly crackling textures with yearning vocals all pinned firmly down with minimal swinging rhythms. Strolling equally in the gardens of the electronic and the fundamental sounds of garage rock 'n' roll, the music echoes the rugged coastline, its legendary free parties, the oppressive pulse of the nuclear power station and the twisting lanes and ancient orchards.
www.wildbirdsandpeacedrums.com
www.myspace.com/peterbroderick
www.silverpyre.com
Brought to you by Qu Junktions
(Sat 13th / 8pm / £6 adv)
Such a lot from the bare essentials. These two are the forbidden fruit laid bare for us to admire....too good to believe. Wildbirds & Peacedrums create hot, exotic songs with a haunting sense of the blues, freeform soul and a
loose-limbed percussive edge that seers them way clear of the bland. The pair's stripped down, tantalising primal show left audience agog at Venn 08 and are on real roll. They are duo from Sweden, who got signed to Leaf and now traverse the world singing sweet and raw. The songs are imbued with a sense of scatter-jazz, Scandinavian pop and widescreen dynamics. They look good in technicolour.
Like..."Nina Simone's In Concert; where Simone used tactful playing and sly phrasing to redress Gershwin or a song about pirates, W&P build murder ballads with tinny, metronomic percussion and tense rock'n'roll with handclaps and double-tracked wails"
Peter Broderick is a young and gifted multi-instrumentalist from Portland who plays in the Dutch ensemble Efterklang. Solo he captivates with hush hush instrumentals and cinematic lushness.
Recently relocating to Bristol, Silver Pyre forges a sound from the depths of his native rural Somerset. Blending richly crackling textures with yearning vocals all pinned firmly down with minimal swinging rhythms. Strolling equally in the gardens of the electronic and the fundamental sounds of garage rock 'n' roll, the music echoes the rugged coastline, its legendary free parties, the oppressive pulse of the nuclear power station and the twisting lanes and ancient orchards.
www.wildbirdsandpeacedrums.com
www.myspace.com/peterbroderick
www.silverpyre.com