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The Local + Sleepsound Agency presents:
The Dalston Residency
Saturday 14 April @ Various Dalston Venues, London
Join the Local and Sleepsound in Dalston for a weekend of modern musical adventures.
The Local have teamed up with Sleepsound Agency to present a weekend of innovative modern electronic and acoustic music from England’s shores and a little bit further abroad. The result: The Dalston Residency, a multi-venue musical showcase spread over a weekend.
The weekend starts off with a full length performance of Richard Knox and Frederic D Oberland’s “The Rustle of the Stars” at The Vortex Jazz Bar, where they will be joined by Angela Chan & Lidwine de Royer. 450 km from the arctic circle, ’The Rustle of the Stars’ is a phenomenon of austere beauty, a barely audible noise that occurs when the draught from human breath causes multiple collisions among the ice micro-crystals in the air. Also joining them for the evening will be the wonderful Clem Leek.
On Sunday night, we have Jasper TX performing for us at Café Oto. Jasper TX is the musical moniker of Sweden’s Dag Rosenqvist. Using electric and acoustic guitar, piano, pump organ, melodica, glockenspiel, voice and various other instruments as a foundation for his compositions, Dag has managed to create his own musical universe. Elements of post rock, drone, improvisation, noise and lo-fi aesthetics are all filtered through a skewed melodic pop sensibility, often resulting in something quite unique. Also joining him will be Matthew Collings, and Ten.
Tickets for the whole weekend are £12 in advance.
Tickets for individual shows are £7 in advance / or £10 on the door.
LISTEN
The Rustle of the Stars: http://www.gizehrecords.com/gzh36.html
Clem Leek: http://soundcloud.com/driftingfalling/sets/clem-leek-lifenotes
Jasper TX: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnoPNwjsZZE
Matthew Collings: http://soundcloud.com/mattcollbadger/flags-of-a-dead-ship-live-at
Ten: http://tenthegreat.bandcamp.com/album/lowlands-ep
We met on tour when performing in Europe with our respective bands Glissando and FareWell Poetry. We had beautiful times, drinking and talking our common grounds whilst some simple ideas formed in our minds: to compose an album together. To imagine a musical passage through the North Pole explorer diaries. To ask some people and some friends to participate. To record the project in a church. To act quickly.
We began to work at our homes in November 2010, In Paris (FR) and in Leeds (UK), with electric guitars, a bunch of pedals, piano, dulcimer, organ, crystal glasses, bows and field recordings, sending and adding ideas together to the tracks, trying to find a global organic sound.
We met in Leeds two months later at the beginning of 2011 to record in the St Margaret of Antioch Church, using a ‘wall of sound’ process in some of the tracks and arranging / recording the string parts you will hear in the music.
We would like to think of this album as a polar journey to the ends of the earth through the arctic sea. We kept in mind the first polar expeditions, Edgar Allan Poe’s Dream-Land, the ships trapped or crushed by ice, the point of no-return, the minds sinking, the attempt on the Pole ending in disaster, the quest of the Northwest Passage, Erebus & Terror, the Mercy Bay, Mangazeya, Charles Francis Hall, Beechey Island, the Midnight sun and the Polar night.
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"In order to see this beauty, one must risk everything and perhaps be a little mad. Stunningly enunciated by Richard Knox & Frédéric D. Oberland’s nuanced approach to songwriting." THE SILENT BALLET 8/10
"An album that’s elegiac, achingly beautiful and every bit as stark as the polar landscape that inspired the recording." WHISPERIN & HOLLERIN 9/10
"Sometimes bleak, sometimes discordant, but always powerful." FLUID RADIO
"An accomplished, evocative musical voyage through the vast arctic seas and beyond." ROCK-A-ROLLA
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