We are delighted to welcome back the iconic experimentalists and jokers Bohman Brothers. This time as part of Ischio Romantico a quartet with Roger Boulding and Leonard Aspen + support from Hag Landscape and a couple more specials guests. Truth is we aren’t entirely sure what is going to go down but we trust it will excellent as usual and always entertaining. Written below is the only info we have provided by them – see if YOU can work out what will happen on this night? For lovers of absurdity and noise, and those who are into the adventures of sound and everyday objects:
No, the lights haven’t fused, it’s candle light ! Now what would you like to drink ? I’ve started on champagne. Do sit down. No, not over there. Come over here. It’s .. closer to everything. Here’s to a pleasant evening. And a few surprises. Now, where shall we begin ?
What can be said about Ischio Romantico that hasn’t been said before? Well, as it turns out quite a lot – because nothing has been said before about this band – or very little. It’s all to play for. So let me introduce you to them one by one.
Leonard Aspen studied Early Music with the iconoclastic icon L.Voag, then turned to upholstery. So far so good, you may say. But now he’s back with a 4/4 beat under his arm and a curious gleam in his eye.
It is said that Roger Boulding worshipped the ground that Lepke B trod on – the ground mind you, he hated Lepke B himself. An old joke, but true nonetheless. So here he is, in a last ditchling attempt to to be the new Peter Noone.
The other two members of Ischio are the Bohmam Brothers: John Bonham of Led Zeppelin and Alain Botton – in no particular order a philosopher, an avant-garde theologian and a number fan of Song Dynasty brush pots.
Their music, if you can call it that, is a sort of space skiffle and this evening at The Rose Hill they’ll be tethering their zero gravity tea chests to the apron, tieing their aprons in the pit and it will be for you to judge.
The Bohman Brothers
‘.. are steep’, ‘.. andrail’, ‘too much’, ‘..nearly there’
Just some of things that have been said about The Bohman Brothers, Adam and Jonathan. Their brand of circus music has enervated audiences across eight or nine continents. They are certainly never at sea when it comes to it.
‘The keynote is professionalism’ says Jonathan.
Xentos Fray Bentos
It is thought that experimental music can rarely be this intimate. However, the recipe is simple. Simply take three voices, two of them sisters and add a small arsenal of unmodified technology. From creative manipulation of pairs of nylons to Gaelic percussion by way of the Roland 808, Xentos Fray Bentos and the Butterworth Sisters (Doris and Mavis) create sensory installations from nothing. A hallowed ground where digital technology is excluded and a purely human, essentially primal creativity is foregrounded. The exciting part is that Doris and Mavis may or may not show up depending on the weather.
Lepke B
Lepke B is hard to find.
Lepke B is an idea derived from science-fiction.
Lepke B is the missing dimension in the world of matter and anti-matter.
His brain is a neuronic web spreading out over melodies and words that have been transmitted since the beginning of times…
Hag Landscape
Squelching into the domestic abyss through sound, objects, ritual, performance…