Alias
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Sun 18 December 2005 // 20:00
plus Tiger MCs
(Sun 18th / 8pm / £5)
Producer and rapper Alias has been central to the US independent music/art phenomenon that is Anticon from its inception. After debut raw-as-hell rap opus The Other Side Of The Looking Glass (2002) he has changed tack with new album Lillian, which draws on the ghostly ambience of Boards of Canada, and - like sometime labelmate Fog - live jazz instrumentation (flute, sax and clarinet played by brother Ehren). The result is a spacious, emotive brand of
instrumental hip hop that bangs as much as it bleeds. Neck brace required - this is head-nod shit of uppermost quality.
Sailing in from norwich, TIGER MCs is one man, an acoustic guitar on the edge of feedback and songs that occasionally swell, sometimes chug but more often *explode* into being - the Tiger MCs live experience is feral, awkward and vital.
(Sun 18th / 8pm / £5)
Producer and rapper Alias has been central to the US independent music/art phenomenon that is Anticon from its inception. After debut raw-as-hell rap opus The Other Side Of The Looking Glass (2002) he has changed tack with new album Lillian, which draws on the ghostly ambience of Boards of Canada, and - like sometime labelmate Fog - live jazz instrumentation (flute, sax and clarinet played by brother Ehren). The result is a spacious, emotive brand of
instrumental hip hop that bangs as much as it bleeds. Neck brace required - this is head-nod shit of uppermost quality.
Sailing in from norwich, TIGER MCs is one man, an acoustic guitar on the edge of feedback and songs that occasionally swell, sometimes chug but more often *explode* into being - the Tiger MCs live experience is feral, awkward and vital.