Ed Askew + Way Through + Witches
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Sun 8 December 2013 // 18:00
Sunday 8 December, 6pm. £7 advance
**A Qu Junktions Special Extended Version**
Three sets from vastly different, fantastic and iconoclastic acts: from the weird and wonderful heart of the sixties comes the American underground singer-songwriter legend Ed Askew; escaping the London Underground comes the psycho-geographical punkish pop of Way Through; and from deepest Nigeria via Somerset comes a special screening of Witches, a re-edited, re-scored slice of psychotronic Nigerian horror from arch culture-jackers Hacker Farm / Libbe Matz Gang + + + Bar music from ShieldShape + Qu DJs.
ED ASKEW is here to play old songs and new from his lauded For The World album on Tin Angel. If you've yet to hear of Ed and are a fan of Bill Fay, Tom Waits, Michael Hurley or Mark Kozelek, step right in. People have been talking about, re-releasing and championing Ed's world of song for a while now so it is wonderful to have him pass this way.
In 1967 Ed moved to New York and recorded for ESP Disk (Pearls Before Swine, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler). Ask the Unicorn was released (on Parlophone in the UK), and it quickly disappeared into folk-psych obscurity. He then recorded his second solo album for ESP, Little Eyes... but it sat in the vaults for almost 40 years, finally seeing limited release in 2007.
In summer 2011, Ed embarked on his first US tour at the age of 71. As a result of the tour, people got together to help him form a band and record the album including members of The Black Swans (Tyler Evans on banjo, tiple, electric guitar, now a permanent member of Ed's entourage), Canaan Faulkner (bass) and Eve Searls (backing vocals), along with Mary Lattimore (Meg Baird, Thurston Moore) on harp. Electric guitar was added by Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) and super fan Sharon Van Etten added backing vocals on 3 songs. Hear Ed and his band play the piano, sing and involve you in his remarkable journey.
WAY THROUGH are Claire Titley and Christopher Tipton, a pastoral punk duo who write songs with wrong-footing repetition, rapid interplay and free-looping happenstance, creating a ragged yet intuitive tapestry of sound populated by field recordings, traditional folk modes and subtle vocal narratives. They submerge their work fully in the places they find potent, resulting in their new album (of the year!!) Clapper Is Still, an itinerant album of 13 songs located in the particular places each was written.
"Way Through blend jagged fast 'n' bulbous lo-fi post-punk with field
recordings, poems and songs of a folkish hue... folding non-instrumental elements into the mix which lends the album a spacious outdoor quality," say The Wire in their review of Clapper Is Still.
WITCHES is an unlikely collaboration between Hacker Farm (who last created the Salvage field trip as part of Qu and Arnolfini's Out Of Place series) and their enigmatic ePunk pals Libbe Matz Gang. Instead of releasing a split vinyl or cassette, the two groups decided to randomly divvy up their favourite sequences from a found video of a Nigerian witchcraft film and re-soundtrack them. The result is a deranged, deliriously bonkers mash-up that ping-pongs back and forth between the disturbing and the ridiculous: a fun must-see for fans of African Psychotropic Cinema.
ED THRU WITCHES
**A Qu Junktions Special Extended Version**
Three sets from vastly different, fantastic and iconoclastic acts: from the weird and wonderful heart of the sixties comes the American underground singer-songwriter legend Ed Askew; escaping the London Underground comes the psycho-geographical punkish pop of Way Through; and from deepest Nigeria via Somerset comes a special screening of Witches, a re-edited, re-scored slice of psychotronic Nigerian horror from arch culture-jackers Hacker Farm / Libbe Matz Gang + + + Bar music from ShieldShape + Qu DJs.
ED ASKEW is here to play old songs and new from his lauded For The World album on Tin Angel. If you've yet to hear of Ed and are a fan of Bill Fay, Tom Waits, Michael Hurley or Mark Kozelek, step right in. People have been talking about, re-releasing and championing Ed's world of song for a while now so it is wonderful to have him pass this way.
In 1967 Ed moved to New York and recorded for ESP Disk (Pearls Before Swine, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler). Ask the Unicorn was released (on Parlophone in the UK), and it quickly disappeared into folk-psych obscurity. He then recorded his second solo album for ESP, Little Eyes... but it sat in the vaults for almost 40 years, finally seeing limited release in 2007.
In summer 2011, Ed embarked on his first US tour at the age of 71. As a result of the tour, people got together to help him form a band and record the album including members of The Black Swans (Tyler Evans on banjo, tiple, electric guitar, now a permanent member of Ed's entourage), Canaan Faulkner (bass) and Eve Searls (backing vocals), along with Mary Lattimore (Meg Baird, Thurston Moore) on harp. Electric guitar was added by Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) and super fan Sharon Van Etten added backing vocals on 3 songs. Hear Ed and his band play the piano, sing and involve you in his remarkable journey.
WAY THROUGH are Claire Titley and Christopher Tipton, a pastoral punk duo who write songs with wrong-footing repetition, rapid interplay and free-looping happenstance, creating a ragged yet intuitive tapestry of sound populated by field recordings, traditional folk modes and subtle vocal narratives. They submerge their work fully in the places they find potent, resulting in their new album (of the year!!) Clapper Is Still, an itinerant album of 13 songs located in the particular places each was written.
"Way Through blend jagged fast 'n' bulbous lo-fi post-punk with field
recordings, poems and songs of a folkish hue... folding non-instrumental elements into the mix which lends the album a spacious outdoor quality," say The Wire in their review of Clapper Is Still.
WITCHES is an unlikely collaboration between Hacker Farm (who last created the Salvage field trip as part of Qu and Arnolfini's Out Of Place series) and their enigmatic ePunk pals Libbe Matz Gang. Instead of releasing a split vinyl or cassette, the two groups decided to randomly divvy up their favourite sequences from a found video of a Nigerian witchcraft film and re-soundtrack them. The result is a deranged, deliriously bonkers mash-up that ping-pongs back and forth between the disturbing and the ridiculous: a fun must-see for fans of African Psychotropic Cinema.
ED THRU WITCHES