Fri Aug 15th 2008. 8pm
Bar Abbey. Sheffield. S7 1FS. UK
£5 - tickets
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/34104

A night of of free-minded avant/psych/improv combos: Texans via Vienna Primordial Undermind on tour with Thought forms from Bath, Sheffield's select improvisers The Other Orchestra and Shaman soloist Rob Tarana.

Fully supported by ANTIMONY's hi-end projected improvised eye-candy.

Thought forms

Thought forms came together early 2004 starting from a freeform electric miasma of buzzing circuits and colourful sunsets. The band gathers up sparking shards of sound into tuneful bliss, only to abandon it into gloriously spastic directions. Gnarly feedback, screams and effects-eaten riffs become hypnoticaly interwoven constructions. They effortlessly reference Slowdive and Loop as gracefully as they evoke the modern spacerock crowd. Thought forms are veterans of ATP (12/2007, curated by Portishead), and of Terrastock 6. For fans of Bardo Pond, Mogwai and early Sonic Youth.
"Thoughtforms conjure an all-instrumental post-rock like crepuscular fogged x-rays, teasing graceful drones from two guitars and a loose-limbed drummer. They've got the quiet/loud thing nailed and sections of their set have great delicacy, like the faint squalling signals from dying stars". - Venue Magazine

Deej Dhariwal - guitar, Charlie Romijn - guitar, vocal, Guy Metcalfe - drums

The Other Orchestra

A giant in contemporary jazz and improv, Mick Beck (tenor sax, bassoon, whistles) has been working since 1980 in jazz, free music and as a composer and club/ festival organiser. As a composer he looks for structures that can diversify and strengthen the impact of improvisation; as an improvisor his aim is to mix compelling rhythms, zaney melodies, changes of mood and flexibility in playing techniques to explore new musical possibilities." Charlie Collins (waterphone, gongs, cymbals, metal, snare drum, frame drums, mbiras, cajon and balafon) has backgrounds in performance/improvisation and poetry/jazz led to his involvement in the nascent '70s Industrial movement. He was a founder member of ClockDVA and The Box, recording for cult labels Industrial, Fetish and Doublevision as well as Go Discs, and has worked with vocalist Peter Hope as both The Bone Orchestra and Flex 13. Since the 1980s he has played with numerous musicians, including Derek Bailey, Mick Beck, Gino Robair.. He remains one of a handful of musicians to have played both Company Week and Top of the Pops (with Moloko). Beatrix Ward-Fernandez (electric violin / fx) "I play a wide variety of music mainly concentrating on improvising.. The theremin is an important part of my musical expression, using it on its own but also expanding the range with the use of electronic effects.. I want to explore the outer limits for the use of music, sound and words. All my pieces are unique creations born of the space around me at the time. They are one with their environment seducing the listener to a world not visited by others. I transmit their voices through my playing giving them the freedom of that time and place.music. Glynn Heppenstall (electronics) is from the Sheffield tradition of electro-industrialists and an original member of Clock DVA (visual artist) and The Anti Group Conspiracy, who took Berlin's famous Atonal Festival by storm in 1985. Also previously known as 'Oskar M'. Presently Glynn is instrumental in the forming of various new collaborations (The Tajalli Vortex, Sunshine Panic and TOO, as well as working solo. Jonny Drury - (guitar & fx, vocals) is an experimental musician and visual artist from Sheffield, England. Collaborations with Charlie Collins, Mick Beck, Martin Archer, Genesis P-Orridge, Damo Suzuki, John Hackett and others. Founder of Freenoise and co-founder of Black Serama, The Tajalli Vortex, Sunshine Panic, Sub-Merged

www.myspace.com/theotherorchestra

Exciting five piece clash of extreme free improv with cutting edge electronics and unique acoustics featuring circular breathing crazy giant of the tenor sax Mick Beck and percussionist Charlie Collins (ex-Clock DVA / Moloko / Left Hand Right Hand).

Charlie Collins (percussion), Beatrix Ward-Fernandez (electric violin / fx) , Mick Beck (tenor sax / bassoon / whisltes), Glynn Heppenstall (electronics) and Jonny Drury (percussion / vocals).

Primodial Undermind
(Strange Attractors, Emperor Jones, Camera Obscura)
(gUITARMAN Eric Arn played with The Tajalli Vortex and Damo Suzuki in Sheffield 2006)

Primordial Undermind is led by ex-Crystalized Movements guitarist Eric Arn. Active for more than a decade in different forms and in different cities, they're currently based in Vienna, Austria.
Touring this time as a trio following Eric's mind-blowing solo outing last year, they cut loose spaced out psychedelia with the patience of sludge-rock and the skronky soul of free jazz.

"A blur of indefinite energy, invisible not for transparency but for speed. An ecstatic dance dissolving the corrupted fabric of causality, invoking singularity, bleeding at the edges. Radiant spectral photon flux irradiating primal metabolism; resonant vibration within the primitive emotions inducing moiré visions of coherent light via sympathetic stimulation of the optic nerve. Labyrinthine mirrored corridors of abstraction sporadically lighted by fires of irrationality. Amplified homeostatic hum transmuted into an oscillating neurochemical ouroboros feeding a crescendo of standing wave drone through each molecular bond in the corporeal manifestation of collected nonconscious reality."

"Reverberating with primitive hallucinogenic drones, garage rock grinds and improvisations that slowly build from half-formed blowouts to cosmic Stockhausen-style epics... PU have crawled out of the psychedelic undergrowth and evolved into something special" - Edwin Pouncey (Savage Pencil), the Wire
"underworldy free-rock music... The Undermind is a kind of direct descendant of the big late ‘60s electronics-powered post-psychedelic ensembles such as Fifty Foot Hose, but much much better " - Julian Cope, Headheritage
"Words like trippy and psychedelic were invented for this kind of music, but they seem inadequate here… try “revelatory” instead" - Jennifer Kelly, PopMatters
"from streams of molten electric guitar sputtering geysers of flui..oplasm into the air, to high desert country influenced elements left to blister and bleach in the sun... so utterly gorgeous in places it's like a long view of paradise" - George Parsons, Dream Magazine
"Primordial Undermind attempt to bend their music away from plotted psychedelic explosions and towards free music" - John Mulvey, the Wire
"Unbelievably authentic psychedelia: put more reverb on the guitar and it's Blue Cheer meeting Vanilla Fudge after a month in the desert." - John Darnielle, Last Plane to Jakarta
"Chunky, sprawling jazz-psych splatter that somehow congeals into a 4-headed dragon of tidal doom and breaks apart into a thousand shards of glistening starlight and reforms, back and forth all over again " - Lee Jackson, Womblife
"A fool’s game to categorize them, Primordial Undermind continue as ever to do what they feel in terms of musical output, the collection of styles and sub-genres applied turning the album into a tempting pick and mix for any devotee of avant-garde music." - Michael Byrne, Left Hip
"This is psychedelia with the patience of sludge-rock and the skronky soul of free jazz.

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