An otherworldly evening of song and noise, visuals and costume, cake and mystery, to celebrate the début release by Yama Warashi. Also featuring cosmic storytelling from Dubi Dolczek and apocalypse boogie band, Cloudshoes.

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Yama Warashi is Bristol-based Japanese artist Yoshino Shigihara's solo project. Her music has a dreamy evocative sound with a shadow of moon cake, inspired by Japanese folk dance music, Bon Odori(盆踊り), free jazz and African music with a slice of electric psychedelia. Accompanied by saxophone, guitar and bass, Yoshino plays keyboard, percussions and sings songs in her mother tongue about mycelium, nuclear power and broken O.Yama Warashi (山童) means a small child-like spirit which lives in the mountains.

CLOUDSHOES is a musical project formulated by Conrad Singh (guitarist of the Evil Usses), combining whimsical folksong freakout, heavy lunar improvisation and lysergic moments of sub-continental confusion. This performance will feature a greasy rocket band of Bristaliens on liquorice sticks and drummy badgers.

Dubi Dolczek and his band bring you fifties sci-fi and mangrove swamp music, or in the words of Dubi himself:

"A couple of Aeons ago I was just plain old Graeme Smith, Sure, I had already explored vocal harmony by canoe with the Graetones, even written and performed for bands such as The Duckworths, The Mandibles, Count Bobo (and the Bullion)...

Then one sultry morning I was engulfed in an orange cloud of gamma-rays in the kitchen. I lay down and found myself in my old dream-canoe, idling down weird waters under the eaves of a verdant forest. Strange glimmers in the orange fog along the banks of the Lagoon, and beguiling voices raised in song....
I knew in that instant that I must bring the music back to King George, that it would surely aid the Empire. (...)"     

Stuart Chalmers –using cassette tapes and fx, Stuart creates incantations of whirr and scree that is part Musique concrete, Art Brut and Shaman trance. Old and broken audio technology and instruments are brought back to life. His improvisations play with tape machine controls and cassette samples, as well as bodily gestures.
He has been releasing albums at a prolific rate on labels such as Must Die, Ono and Zamzam records. His sound has been compared to Ghedalia Tazartes, William Basinski and Aaron Dilloway.
http://soundcloud.com/skarabee

Plus DJ E-Jam [The Cube} afterwards in the bar spinning weird world, spiritual jazz, groovy psych and electronic oddities.