Abrasive Productions: Aranos + Colin Potter + Stimulus
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Sat 6 August 2005 // 20:00
with Colin Potter + Stimulus
(Sat 6th Aug / 8pm / £6)
Abrasive Productions bring on an evening of avant garde folk and noise surrealism.
Bohemian-born artist Aranos has music in his blood, performing local traditional Eastern European songs from the age of eight. Subsequent years have seen this maverick multi-instrumentalist spread his creative wings to cover folk material from other countries and cultures, and his live performances have provoked comparisons with the world-weary grit and boozy melancholia of Tom Waits. Having collaborated with avant-garde legends like Current 93 and Nurse with Wound, this is by turns bewitching and bewildering, powerful and poignant.
Colin Potter is a respected veteran of the electronic and industrial scene, contributing as both producer and performer to such leading experimentalists as Current 93 and Nurse with Wound, as well as his principal project Monos. Potter’s talent defies categorisation just as it demands attention, and he dislikes the vague ‘Industrial’ tag for his explorations into the no-man’s-land where noise and music mix and merge, to mesmeric, and sometimes menacing effect.
Local electronica trio Stimulus are at the forefront of the UK’s current crop of avant-garde artists who’ve taken the dark ambient blueprint as a starting point for their own subtly unsettling soundscapes. Stimulus add many of their own obsessions to the mix, not least the classic Krautrock of bands like Can and legendary prog-rock pioneers Tangerine Dream - particularly acute ears can even pick out influences from British heavy metal bands like Iron Maiden. Sometimes spacey, at times melodic, always absorbing, the Stimulus sound both lulls and inspires.
(Sat 6th Aug / 8pm / £6)
Abrasive Productions bring on an evening of avant garde folk and noise surrealism.
Bohemian-born artist Aranos has music in his blood, performing local traditional Eastern European songs from the age of eight. Subsequent years have seen this maverick multi-instrumentalist spread his creative wings to cover folk material from other countries and cultures, and his live performances have provoked comparisons with the world-weary grit and boozy melancholia of Tom Waits. Having collaborated with avant-garde legends like Current 93 and Nurse with Wound, this is by turns bewitching and bewildering, powerful and poignant.
Colin Potter is a respected veteran of the electronic and industrial scene, contributing as both producer and performer to such leading experimentalists as Current 93 and Nurse with Wound, as well as his principal project Monos. Potter’s talent defies categorisation just as it demands attention, and he dislikes the vague ‘Industrial’ tag for his explorations into the no-man’s-land where noise and music mix and merge, to mesmeric, and sometimes menacing effect.
Local electronica trio Stimulus are at the forefront of the UK’s current crop of avant-garde artists who’ve taken the dark ambient blueprint as a starting point for their own subtly unsettling soundscapes. Stimulus add many of their own obsessions to the mix, not least the classic Krautrock of bands like Can and legendary prog-rock pioneers Tangerine Dream - particularly acute ears can even pick out influences from British heavy metal bands like Iron Maiden. Sometimes spacey, at times melodic, always absorbing, the Stimulus sound both lulls and inspires.