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Connan Mockasin

ALT J
Green Door Store
Friday 30 September 2011
Trafalgar Arches Lower Goods Yard Brighton BN1 4FQ

£8.50

Welcome, folks, to the delightful, slanted and enchanted world of CONNAN MOCKASIN. Like David Lynch’s wilfully surrealist take on American suburbia, or Richard Prince’s paintings investigating modern cultural tropes, the New Zealand born, current London resident Mockasin makes beautiful, off-kilter music which subverts as it compels, challenges as it mesmerists, startles as it seduces, even drawing fans as diverse as Johnny Marr and Radiohead to Ed Banger chief and ex Daft Punk manager Pedro Winter into its wide-eyed, childlike exploration into the final frontiers of pop music. It is all too rare, in this current climate of manufactured pop acts, grey over produced ‘alternative’ guitar music and press-fuelled mania for the next-big-thing, to hear something truly striking and original, but a strong case can most certainly be made for Connan to be a true pop auteur, taking his rightful place in a proud lineage which includes past mavericks such as Joe Meek and Brian Wilson, right through to current cult heroes like Ariel Pink, Sufjan Stevens and John Maus.

Written from start to finish one hot summer, while camped outside his parent’s church-like house in a tent, “Forever Dolphin Love” is an LP which brims with the beauty and solitude of summer evenings, a miasma of psychedelic tangents, jazz interludes and echoing guitars which hum with a distant, haunting resonance. Somehow, a peripatetic past – which includes a decamping from his native Te Awanga to London to form Connan And The Mockasins in 2006, before repeating the trip again a few years later to restart as Connan Mockasin – has conspired to produce an album so unique a first-time listener may have to listen to it again just to take it all in, so powerful is the spell it casts. It exists in its very own, free-floating parallel universe; a world where lush psychedelia morphs unpredictably into Spanish salsa (“Faking Jazz Together”), breathtaking, short interludes (“Grandpa Moff”) nestle alongside languidly unravelling epics (the title track) and above it all, Connan’s feather-light, alien vocals gently hover – not always in English, by the way, but sometimes in their own, made-up language – tantalisingly, beguilingly out of reach.

It was this brilliantly ingenious approach to invention, and his masterfully unique charm that caught the attention of Erol Alkan, who signed Connan to his label Phantasy after hearing initial demos for the record. On first seeing Connan play live at DURRR in London: “He was completely out of step with everything else out there, performing some of the most beautiful songs I had heard in years, to hundreds of people in a crowded nightclub, and being able to silence them to the low volume of his music. Having that power is rare.’

SUPPORTING ACT:

Alt J

http://soundcloud.com/alt-j


Connan Mockasin

Chilly Gonzales

Soho Theatre
Thursday 29 September 2011
Sold Out

Wednesday 28 September 2011
21 Dean Street London W1D 3NE

£10 ADV
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Virtuoso pianist, rapper and all-round relentless entertainer Chilly Gonzales comes to Soho Theatre’s brand new Downstairs space this Autumn to perform a series of unique shows in an intimate setting. The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales celebrates the latest genre-defining release from the musical genius – the first-ever all-orchestral rap album.

‘Unlike anyone else… hugely entertaining’
★★★★ Guardian

Chilly Gonzales is Grammy nominated as a producer, the Guinness World Record holder for the longest piano solo concert with 27 hours of piano, the mastermind behind the Locarno Film Festival prize-winning feature film Ivory Tower and accompanying album. Gonzales’ recent efforts include the single @Never Stop, as chose by Apple for their international iPad promo campaign and the inter-planetary hit ‘You can Dance’ with its near one million You Tube views.


Chilly Gonzales

Connan Mockasin

SPECIAL GUESTS
Start The Bus
Thursday 29 September 2011
7-9 Baldwin Street Bristol Avon BS1 1RU

FREE
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Welcome, folks, to the delightful, slanted and enchanted world of CONNAN MOCKASIN. Like David Lynch’s wilfully surrealist take on American suburbia, or Richard Prince’s paintings investigating modern cultural tropes, the New Zealand born, current London resident Mockasin makes beautiful, off-kilter music which subverts as it compels, challenges as it mesmerists, startles as it seduces, even drawing fans as diverse as Johnny Marr and Radiohead to Ed Banger chief and ex Daft Punk manager Pedro Winter into its wide-eyed, childlike exploration into the final frontiers of pop music. It is all too rare, in this current climate of manufactured pop acts, grey over produced ‘alternative’ guitar music and press-fuelled mania for the next-big-thing, to hear something truly striking and original, but a strong case can most certainly be made for Connan to be a true pop auteur, taking his rightful place in a proud lineage which includes past mavericks such as Joe Meek and Brian Wilson, right through to current cult heroes like Ariel Pink, Sufjan Stevens and John Maus.

Written from start to finish one hot summer, while camped outside his parent’s church-like house in a tent, “Forever Dolphin Love” is an LP which brims with the beauty and solitude of summer evenings, a miasma of psychedelic tangents, jazz interludes and echoing guitars which hum with a distant, haunting resonance. Somehow, a peripatetic past – which includes a decamping from his native Te Awanga to London to form Connan And The Mockasins in 2006, before repeating the trip again a few years later to restart as Connan Mockasin – has conspired to produce an album so unique a first-time listener may have to listen to it again just to take it all in, so powerful is the spell it casts. It exists in its very own, free-floating parallel universe; a world where lush psychedelia morphs unpredictably into Spanish salsa (“Faking Jazz Together”), breathtaking, short interludes (“Grandpa Moff”) nestle alongside languidly unravelling epics (the title track) and above it all, Connan’s feather-light, alien vocals gently hover – not always in English, by the way, but sometimes in their own, made-up language – tantalisingly, beguilingly out of reach.

It was this brilliantly ingenious approach to invention, and his masterfully unique charm that caught the attention of Erol Alkan, who signed Connan to his label Phantasy after hearing initial demos for the record. On first seeing Connan play live at DURRR in London: “He was completely out of step with everything else out there, performing some of the most beautiful songs I had heard in years, to hundreds of people in a crowded nightclub, and being able to silence them to the low volume of his music. Having that power is rare.’

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ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER

PLATFORM Cafe
Thursday 29 September 2011
Bar Terrace 2nd Floor Netil House 1-7 Westgate Street London

£8.50 ADVANCE
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One part of the brother-sister duo The Fiery Furnaces ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER plays an intimate show at London’s most vital arts space Platform Bar on the 29th of September.

Miss Friedberger is taking a break from her duties with her band to focus on solo recordings over the coming months. She has just released her first solo record ‘Last Summer’ on Merge/City Slang at the end of last month, earning her a much deserved Rough Trade record of the week slot.

Plus special guests

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0870 264 3333


ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER

When Saints Go Machine

DUOLOGUE
CAMP Basement
Wednesday 28 September 2011

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Scandinavia has an impressive track record of bands treading a clever line between dance and pop. Danish four-piece WHEN SAINTS GO MACHINE – are the latest. Their new mini album is an avant-garde pop gem that sounds like Fever Ray meets ‘Missing’ by Everything But The Girl. Lead track ‘Fail Forever’ pitches lyrics that ache with existential angst against a gorgeous backdrop of electronics and mournful cellos. It sounds like a cooler Empire Of The Sun.

 

SUPPORTING ACT:

DUOLOGUE

London quintet Duologue have already earned a word-of-mouth in the underground scene, thanks to their unique sound in between grungy guitar power chords, traditional blues solos and the most avant-guarde dubstep.

They’ve only released a self-titled EP so far, but the single “Get While You Can” (free download from their webiste http://www.duologuemusic.co.uk/) shows off their ability to catch both indie kids and ravers of the city.


When Saints Go Machine

Connan Mockasin

FAMY
Bush Hall
Wednesday 28 September 2011
310 Uxbridge Road London W12 7LJ

£10
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Please note, this is a 16+ event.

Welcome, folks, to the delightful, slanted and enchanted world of CONNAN MOCKASIN. Like David Lynch’s wilfully surrealist take on American suburbia, or Richard Prince’s paintings investigating modern cultural tropes, the New Zealand born, current London resident Mockasin makes beautiful, off-kilter music which subverts as it compels, challenges as it mesmerists, startles as it seduces, even drawing fans as diverse as Johnny Marr and Radiohead to Ed Banger chief and ex Daft Punk manager Pedro Winter into its wide-eyed, childlike exploration into the final frontiers of pop music. It is all too rare, in this current climate of manufactured pop acts, grey over produced ‘alternative’ guitar music and press-fuelled mania for the next-big-thing, to hear something truly striking and original, but a strong case can most certainly be made for Connan to be a true pop auteur, taking his rightful place in a proud lineage which includes past mavericks such as Joe Meek and Brian Wilson, right through to current cult heroes like Ariel Pink, Sufjan Stevens and John Maus.

Written from start to finish one hot summer, while camped outside his parent’s church-like house in a tent, “Forever Dolphin Love” is an LP which brims with the beauty and solitude of summer evenings, a miasma of psychedelic tangents, jazz interludes and echoing guitars which hum with a distant, haunting resonance. Somehow, a peripatetic past – which includes a decamping from his native Te Awanga to London to form Connan And The Mockasins in 2006, before repeating the trip again a few years later to restart as Connan Mockasin – has conspired to produce an album so unique a first-time listener may have to listen to it again just to take it all in, so powerful is the spell it casts. It exists in its very own, free-floating parallel universe; a world where lush psychedelia morphs unpredictably into Spanish salsa (“Faking Jazz Together”), breathtaking, short interludes (“Grandpa Moff”) nestle alongside languidly unravelling epics (the title track) and above it all, Connan’s feather-light, alien vocals gently hover – not always in English, by the way, but sometimes in their own, made-up language – tantalisingly, beguilingly out of reach.

It was this brilliantly ingenious approach to invention, and his masterfully unique charm that caught the attention of Erol Alkan, who signed Connan to his label Phantasy after hearing initial demos for the record. On first seeing Connan play live at DURRR in London: “He was completely out of step with everything else out there, performing some of the most beautiful songs I had heard in years, to hundreds of people in a crowded nightclub, and being able to silence them to the low volume of his music. Having that power is rare.’

Tickets from:

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0844 477 1000

www.seetickets.com

0870 264 3333

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WALLS

LUKE ABBOTT (LIVE)
ANDY HUNG DJ (FUCK BUTTONS) ATP
Shacklewell Arms
Tuesday 27 September 2011
Sold Out
71 Shacklewell Lane London E8 2EB

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WALLS play a headline show in celebration of their album release. The eagerly awaited full length will be out on cult label KOMPAKT on the 26th of September. Check out their single being streamed here:

FREE ticket available from Ticketweb

WALLS are a band from London made up of members Sam Willis (of ALLEZ-ALLEZ) and Alessio Natalizia (of BANJO OR FREAKOUT).

“We take our inspiration by the sense of discovery, curiosity and playful nature of our approach to making music. We have a pastoral take on the natural world, music that has a natural, unique and personal feel – utilising the best that old / modern technology has to offer.”

Kompakt continue to embrace fusion of the rock / dance divide paved on the label by the likes of THE FIELD with one of the most exciting new bands to emerge in the past year – WALLS. Having met in 2009 while ALLEZ-ALLEZ were remixing BANJO OR FREAKOUT’s “Mr. No”, they quickly realized that the natural combination of Alessio’s and guitar play and haunting vocals (dubbed by Kompakt’s Michael Mayer as being “drugged out rodents”) together with Willis’ emotive synth lines and sample manipulation magic was a match made in heaven.

An immediately natural pairing, the duo started swapping sound files, and very quickly with very little effort beautiful songs started to emerge. With Willis being co-ring leader of leading London electronic music blog/event curators/DJ team ALLEZ-ALLEZ, he leaked the tune “Burnt Sienna” (which appears as a different variation on the album) onto the internet in October of 2009. A true autumn anthem of depth and scope that NME were fast (and right) to call “what ‘Kid A’ would sound like if it was released by Kompakt and had softened its edges”. It was one of our easiest signings ever and within a remarkably short time the label received the self titled album you have before you now.

“We’re particularly influenced by artists such as Neu! and Harmonia – Michael Rother’s guitar work, and Mobius and Rodelius’s synth work really pushes boundaries yet remains melodic and euphoric. It’s easy to make noisy and difficult music, what’s harder, and feels natural to us is to make music that skates along the edges – melodic, but with a sense of sadness, hope and euphoria at the same time. Kompakt feels like such a perfect home for us as a label – emotion, personality, individuality, quality of sound etc. – these are all things we feel about the music coming from the label.”

WALLS tightrope this fine line to remarkable lengths. Take “Hang Four” where the slo-mo techno rhythm finds an easy bond with Allessio’s lush guitar picking. “Cylopean Remains” immediately conjure the potentials of a jam between Animal Collective and Boards Of Canada – rolling beauty combined with epic strangeness to the most cerebral degree. Destined to be one of Kompakt’s most unparalleled releases in their history, WALLS has a lack of concern for the boundaries of genre distinction, but easily fit uniquely between the classic “sound of Kompakt” and the bliss of Pop Ambient.

SUPPORTING ACTS:

Luke Abbott (Live) – Border Community

Andy Hung DJ (Fuck Buttons) – ATP

TICKETS SOLD OUT – Limited tickets may be available on the door.


WALLS

Connan Mockasin

SPECIAL GUESTS
Bungalows & Bears
Tuesday 27 September 2011
Old Fire Station 50 Division Street City Centre Sheffield S1 4GF

FREE
WWW.MYSPACE.COM/CONNANMOCKASIN

Welcome, folks, to the delightful, slanted and enchanted world of CONNAN MOCKASIN. Like David Lynch’s wilfully surrealist take on American suburbia, or Richard Prince’s paintings investigating modern cultural tropes, the New Zealand born, current London resident Mockasin makes beautiful, off-kilter music which subverts as it compels, challenges as it mesmerists, startles as it seduces, even drawing fans as diverse as Johnny Marr and Radiohead to Ed Banger chief and ex Daft Punk manager Pedro Winter into its wide-eyed, childlike exploration into the final frontiers of pop music. It is all too rare, in this current climate of manufactured pop acts, grey over produced ‘alternative’ guitar music and press-fuelled mania for the next-big-thing, to hear something truly striking and original, but a strong case can most certainly be made for Connan to be a true pop auteur, taking his rightful place in a proud lineage which includes past mavericks such as Joe Meek and Brian Wilson, right through to current cult heroes like Ariel Pink, Sufjan Stevens and John Maus.

Written from start to finish one hot summer, while camped outside his parent’s church-like house in a tent, “Forever Dolphin Love” is an LP which brims with the beauty and solitude of summer evenings, a miasma of psychedelic tangents, jazz interludes and echoing guitars which hum with a distant, haunting resonance. Somehow, a peripatetic past – which includes a decamping from his native Te Awanga to London to form Connan And The Mockasins in 2006, before repeating the trip again a few years later to restart as Connan Mockasin – has conspired to produce an album so unique a first-time listener may have to listen to it again just to take it all in, so powerful is the spell it casts. It exists in its very own, free-floating parallel universe; a world where lush psychedelia morphs unpredictably into Spanish salsa (“Faking Jazz Together”), breathtaking, short interludes (“Grandpa Moff”) nestle alongside languidly unravelling epics (the title track) and above it all, Connan’s feather-light, alien vocals gently hover – not always in English, by the way, but sometimes in their own, made-up language – tantalisingly, beguilingly out of reach.

It was this brilliantly ingenious approach to invention, and his masterfully unique charm that caught the attention of Erol Alkan, who signed Connan to his label Phantasy after hearing initial demos for the record. On first seeing Connan play live at DURRR in London: “He was completely out of step with everything else out there, performing some of the most beautiful songs I had heard in years, to hundreds of people in a crowded nightclub, and being able to silence them to the low volume of his music. Having that power is rare.’

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Boom Bip

Connan Mockasin

SPECIAL GUESTS
Manchester Deaf Institute
Monday 26 September 2011
135 Grosvenor Street Manchester M1 7HE

£8
WWW.MYSPACE.COM/CONNANMOCKASIN

Welcome, folks, to the delightful, slanted and enchanted world of CONNAN MOCKASIN. Like David Lynch’s wilfully surrealist take on American suburbia, or Richard Prince’s paintings investigating modern cultural tropes, the New Zealand born, current London resident Mockasin makes beautiful, off-kilter music which subverts as it compels, challenges as it mesmerists, startles as it seduces, even drawing fans as diverse as Johnny Marr and Radiohead to Ed Banger chief and ex Daft Punk manager Pedro Winter into its wide-eyed, childlike exploration into the final frontiers of pop music. It is all too rare, in this current climate of manufactured pop acts, grey over produced ‘alternative’ guitar music and press-fuelled mania for the next-big-thing, to hear something truly striking and original, but a strong case can most certainly be made for Connan to be a true pop auteur, taking his rightful place in a proud lineage which includes past mavericks such as Joe Meek and Brian Wilson, right through to current cult heroes like Ariel Pink, Sufjan Stevens and John Maus.

Written from start to finish one hot summer, while camped outside his parent’s church-like house in a tent, “Forever Dolphin Love” is an LP which brims with the beauty and solitude of summer evenings, a miasma of psychedelic tangents, jazz interludes and echoing guitars which hum with a distant, haunting resonance. Somehow, a peripatetic past – which includes a decamping from his native Te Awanga to London to form Connan And The Mockasins in 2006, before repeating the trip again a few years later to restart as Connan Mockasin – has conspired to produce an album so unique a first-time listener may have to listen to it again just to take it all in, so powerful is the spell it casts. It exists in its very own, free-floating parallel universe; a world where lush psychedelia morphs unpredictably into Spanish salsa (“Faking Jazz Together”), breathtaking, short interludes (“Grandpa Moff”) nestle alongside languidly unravelling epics (the title track) and above it all, Connan’s feather-light, alien vocals gently hover – not always in English, by the way, but sometimes in their own, made-up language – tantalisingly, beguilingly out of reach.

It was this brilliantly ingenious approach to invention, and his masterfully unique charm that caught the attention of Erol Alkan, who signed Connan to his label Phantasy after hearing initial demos for the record. On first seeing Connan play live at DURRR in London: “He was completely out of step with everything else out there, performing some of the most beautiful songs I had heard in years, to hundreds of people in a crowded nightclub, and being able to silence them to the low volume of his music. Having that power is rare.’

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0870 264 3333

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0844 477 1000

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SLOW CLUB

SPECTOR
TOM WILLIAMS & THE BOAT
SWEET BABOO
O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
Monday 26 September 2011
Shepherds Bush Green London W12 8TT

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Unfortunately due to the album release date being pushed back, we have had to postpone the show until 26th September. All tickets from the May date are still valid for the new date.

After selling out a The Union Chapel, SLOW CLUB have announced a show at Londons’s Shepherds Bush Empire.

Slow Club are defined by their own distinct and powerful partnership. They are more than just charming anti-folk troubadours, or the lo-fi acoustic end of the Sheffield scene; they are the real thing. Everything, from their cheery optimism to their crestfallen lovesickness is life-sized and lived-in, resulting in a crop of tiny, good-natured tunes that invite the intense identification of young romantics. Charles sings with a bruised vocal, and plays rasping guitar with a disarming lightness of touch; Rebecca, with her dash of Northern Soul and sharp wit, plays stand up drums amid an array of percussive apparatus – wooden chairs, glass bottles and spoons.

PRAISE FROM THE PRESS

“From the outset there is something immediately familiar and yet vitally inventive about Slow Club” – Rough Trade

“Slow Club are a funny, winning combination of playful poetry and punchy, happy pop-folk.” – Londonist

“Slow Club’s brilliance lies in their charm and sincerity, which simply pours from their music” – Clash Music

 

Supporting Acts:

SPECTOR

TOM WILLIAMS AND THE BOAT

SWEET BABOO

 

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Zola Jesus

BRETON
Toynbee Studios
Monday 26 September 2011
Sold Out
28 Commercial Street London E1 6AB

£14.50 ADVANCE
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ZOLA JESUS has confirmed a one-off London show, at Toynbee Hall on September 26th. The show coincides with the release of the spectacular new album, Conatus, released on Souterrain Transmissions that same day.

About Zola Jesus and the album, Conatus:

In the last three years, Nika Roza Danilova has gone from being an outsider experimental teenage noise-maker to a full fledged, internationally celebrated electronic pop musician. It was a huge feat to accomplish, and despite her age (young), her geography (mid-western, desolate), her accelerated scholastic requirements (high school and college were completed in three years each) and her diminutive physical size (4”11, 90 lbs), she has triumphed. She has emerged as a figurehead – a self-produced, self-designed, self-taught independent woman.

Zola Jesus is not a band; it is a solo project. Zola Jesus is not a singer; she is a musician. It has always been so. That is not to say the people who have helped her along the way were not deeply important. Her irreplaceable live band, whose drummer Nick Johnson lends a hand on several tracks here, and her friend Brian Foote who co-produced this album in addition to the live string players (Sean McCann, Ryan York) who contribute here were all crucial in the process. Nika, however, is a woman who can command a room – any room – without needing a band, a stage, or even a microphone. Her voice is unmistakable; it cuts right to the core.

Conatus is a huge leap forward in production, instrumentation and song structure. It says it all in the definition of the title: the will to keep on, to move forward. From thumping ballads to electronic glitch, no sound goes unexplored on her new record. It is an icy exploration in refined chaos and controlled madness, an effort to break through capability and access a sonic world that crumbles as it shines.

Plus support from BRETON

Tickets SOLD OUT


Zola Jesus

Novella

FAMY (FAMILY) + CLOUT!
Rich Mix
Saturday 24 September 2011
35-47 Bethnal Green Road London E1 6LA

FREE
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Rich Mix have invited Eat Your Own Ears to present a night of music as part of it’s SNAPSHOTS series.

As well as the brilliant live music we’re presenting in the form of bands NOVELLA, FAMY (previously FAMILY) and CLOUT! Rich Mix will host debate, film, food, exhibitions, workshops and performances as part of the day long festival timed to coincide with London Fashion Week.