Cube Summer Garden Summer Garden Party With Shiu-yeung Hui (maher Shalal Hash Baz)
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Fri 15 August 2008 // 19:30
Cube Summer Garden Summer Garden Party with Shiu-Yeung Hui (Maher Shalal Hash Baz), Fringes, I Know I Have No Collar and Rozi Plain
Friday 15th august/ £5 / 7.30pm
Tonight, in celebration of our upcoming Summer Garden Cinema and workshop season (see the rest of the August programme for more details), the Cube reawakes from it's two week slumber to bring you a summer garden party to swoon for...
Shiu-Yeung Hui has mastered a beguiling sophisticated-naive style overflowing with humanity and beauty and that's what makes this Chinese musician so special. He is a member of the rather splendid cult errant pop group Maher Shalal Hash Baz, and like the Japanese collective his songs pick apart conventional ideas of musicality by embracing fragments, happy accidents and the spirit of amateurism. The artist's simple victory is his ability to revive the idea of the simple redemptive power of song; that what can seem like trite over-sentimentality in popular music, can in the right hands be transformed into the source for an achingly beautiful lament or celebration.
Attached to all, but in lovely little bits his jigsaw music can recall Daniel Johnson, The Pastels, Ekkehard Ehlers, Tiny Tim, Rachels or even Arthur Lee.
"Possessed of a quiet dynamism which can turn on a sixpence like a
firework; a type of person not found among Japanese; like an airplane
painting pictures on a cloud, Shiu will join the ranks of great modern Chinese artists." Tori Kudo, Maher Shalal Hash Baz
http://www.myspace.com/londonhasletmedown
Support tonight comes from Fringes, reflecting post-rock fragments into a tight, jagged, direct and uncluttered new space. A quartet formed from members of Soeza, Line, Headfall and ex-Scarecrows and ex-Murder of Rosa Luxemburg.
http://www.myspace.com/fringesband
With I Know I Have No Collar, have broadened their sound and numbers from the sparse ethereal melodies and various keyboard instruments underpinned by propulsive drumming and percussion recalling a more lo-fi Mum. New tracks include clarinet, bass and guitar, and has seem them grow into a processional band not to dissimilar to the music of Maher Halal Hash Baz themselves through the reflective lens of Bristol’s own Movietone, and with songs about characters from TV shows, they have the lyrical delivery of a young David Berman grown reading Drawn & Quarterly.
www.iknowihavenocollar.co.uk/
And Rozi Plain, shimmering guitar and a voice that somehow sounds like it's singing just for you. Her songs shine in your eyes and on your cheekbones like permanent summer sun. Perfect.
Rozi's new album Inside Over Here will be released on Fence Records in October.
http://www.myspace.com/roziplain
In the bar, expect new sounds from Teresa Dillon (Polar Produce, Offload, Venn)..
In the garden, do barbecue, chat, gesticulate.
Friday 15th august/ £5 / 7.30pm
Tonight, in celebration of our upcoming Summer Garden Cinema and workshop season (see the rest of the August programme for more details), the Cube reawakes from it's two week slumber to bring you a summer garden party to swoon for...
Shiu-Yeung Hui has mastered a beguiling sophisticated-naive style overflowing with humanity and beauty and that's what makes this Chinese musician so special. He is a member of the rather splendid cult errant pop group Maher Shalal Hash Baz, and like the Japanese collective his songs pick apart conventional ideas of musicality by embracing fragments, happy accidents and the spirit of amateurism. The artist's simple victory is his ability to revive the idea of the simple redemptive power of song; that what can seem like trite over-sentimentality in popular music, can in the right hands be transformed into the source for an achingly beautiful lament or celebration.
Attached to all, but in lovely little bits his jigsaw music can recall Daniel Johnson, The Pastels, Ekkehard Ehlers, Tiny Tim, Rachels or even Arthur Lee.
"Possessed of a quiet dynamism which can turn on a sixpence like a
firework; a type of person not found among Japanese; like an airplane
painting pictures on a cloud, Shiu will join the ranks of great modern Chinese artists." Tori Kudo, Maher Shalal Hash Baz
http://www.myspace.com/londonhasletmedown
Support tonight comes from Fringes, reflecting post-rock fragments into a tight, jagged, direct and uncluttered new space. A quartet formed from members of Soeza, Line, Headfall and ex-Scarecrows and ex-Murder of Rosa Luxemburg.
http://www.myspace.com/fringesband
With I Know I Have No Collar, have broadened their sound and numbers from the sparse ethereal melodies and various keyboard instruments underpinned by propulsive drumming and percussion recalling a more lo-fi Mum. New tracks include clarinet, bass and guitar, and has seem them grow into a processional band not to dissimilar to the music of Maher Halal Hash Baz themselves through the reflective lens of Bristol’s own Movietone, and with songs about characters from TV shows, they have the lyrical delivery of a young David Berman grown reading Drawn & Quarterly.
www.iknowihavenocollar.co.uk/
And Rozi Plain, shimmering guitar and a voice that somehow sounds like it's singing just for you. Her songs shine in your eyes and on your cheekbones like permanent summer sun. Perfect.
Rozi's new album Inside Over Here will be released on Fence Records in October.
http://www.myspace.com/roziplain
In the bar, expect new sounds from Teresa Dillon (Polar Produce, Offload, Venn)..
In the garden, do barbecue, chat, gesticulate.