Title: FLOWER CORSANO DUO ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO HELHESTEN ZUN ZUN EGUI CHORA
Location: Barden’s Boudoir 38-44 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 7XJ
Description: FLOWER CORSANO DUO is - as the name suggests - the mega-pairing of loose-limbed free-drum wunderkind Chris Corsano and incendiary guitarist and Vibracatherdal Orchestra linchpin Mick Flower. With Mick rocking the Shaahi Baaja (or Japan banjo), the result is an incredible mix of wide-eyed hardcore, ecstatic noise, Eastern drone and sweat and bone. They have two releases out to date - ‘The Radiant Mirror’ album for Textile, along with a limited 7″ on No-Fi’s ‘The Undisputed Dimension’ series.
www.myspace.com/flowercorsanoduo
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO is probably best known for his work fronting K Records’ infectious swamp-stomp trio Old Time Relijun. But Arrington is also a distinctive solo musician in his own right, performing with bass clarinet, jew’s harp and his own voice, with its unique multiphonic tone, inspired by Tuvan throatsinging and the ecclesiastics of Albert Ayler. Pushing the envelopse between musicality and pure energy, between shamanic ecstacy and lunacy, he enwraps rooms with resonant sound. Arrington’s second solo LP ‘I See Beyond The Black Sun’ is out now.
www.myspace.com/arringtondedionyso
HELHESTEN are a three-headed sonic blitz, featuring the talents of Hannah Ellul, Ben Knight and Greg Thomas. Two of them live in Deptford and one of them lives in the Essex countryside and you can hear the sunshine and the tower blocks in their music. Employing clarinet, beat-up guitar, effected-voice and a variety of percussion, Helhesten craft an aching flux of soaring sounds. Whether the band are in the throes of a frenzied onslaught or an equally ravaged accumulating pastoral jam, they never escape the tranced-out web, which pulls them together as much as it holds them apart. A plit 12″ with Chops is out now on Upset The Rhythm.
www.myspace.com/wearehelhesten
ZUN ZUN EGUI hail from Bristol, but are from everywhere. They make a hypnotic blare-out sound that is full of joyful noise. This is “tropicalism” with an influence of subterranean-shaped rock edges and quick edits, Japanese progressive epicness and a heavy dose of Fela Kuti inspired eternal groove. Political, inspirational and danceable.
www.myspace.com/zunzunegui
CHORA represent a fresh triangulation of the northern free music family. Now residing in Peckham they have begun to perform predominantly as a duo where Ben Morris and Rob Lye follow the rise and fall of their kaleidoscopic drone mantras that move through skeletal extended percussive techniques, wormhole found-sound manipulation, kitchen sink gamelan, and elephantine vocal swoops. Expect new releases soon on Chocolate Monk, and an LP on French label Sergent Massacre.
www.myspace.com/chora
Start Time: 20:00
Date: 2009-02-20
