Wednesday 8th December | 7pm | £8.14 ADV Ticket
A NIGHT OF IMPROVISED OUTSIDER MUSIC
“ Sound art veterans The Bohman Brothers invest random words with unearned meanings via the eloquent juxtapositions of their elegantly neutral voices. After three decades of experimentation, these alchemists of banality, these banalchemists, turn everyday leaden language into poetic gold.” - Stewart Lee
Adam and Jonathan have been recording together from their early teens and playing live since 1984. Regular concerts started in the mid-90s in London at places like the Club Room in Penton Street, The Red Rose on Seven Sisters Road and Hugh Metcalfe's The Klinker. From 2000 to 2005 they had their own concert series upstairs at The Bonnington Café in Vauxhall, London.
Working together they are in the following groups : The Bohman Family, Ischio Romantico, Apricot My Lady, 90° Street Elbow, Secluded Bronte and Gneiss. They have also worked with film director Peter Strickland on various projects.
They have performed at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Roundhouse, Royal Albert Hall, South Bank and numerous smaller venues around the UK, Europe and America. Their duo recordings include 'A Twist For All Pockets' (Rossbin, 2001), 'Purely Practical' (Peripheral Conserve, 2002), ‘Back On The Streets' (Peripheral Conserve, 2012), ‘Library Music’ (Des Astres D’Or, 2019) and ‘In Their 70s’ (Fort Evil Fruit, 2021).
Their concerts tend to be a combination of sounds created in the moment by unconventional instruments and various objects, dislocated text from found, literary and commercial sources and collaged layers of recording.
Electronic Sound Pictures
Brighton based duo Electronic Sound Pictures are a concept band. Mark and Adam play sound effect records through effects, creating a haunting collage of noise which is often left to chance.
The duo have been making electronic music separately since the mid 1990s including collaborations with the Vitamin B12 and Ceremonial Laptop. Since birthing the idea in 2017 ESP have been performing at Spirit of Gravity, Splitting the Atom. Created a live soundtrack to Segundo de Chomóns fantastical silent movie Le Voyage sur Jupiter (1909) for Colliding Lines Reanimation:Phantasmagoria.
Xentos Fray Bentos and Ted Barrow
showcase tracks from their forthcoming 12" release on Tarnished Goat Records - ‘The Happy Hunting of the Cardboard Clapometer’. The performance will feature pitch-bend piano, insect/birdsong manipulations, recitations and dip into Barrow’s haunting collection of un-ambient samples and circuit-derived sub-industrial grade materiel.
This video features Ted as Bruno Ganz as Hitler and Xentos as a sort of phantastical Kaffe Matthews.