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Mon 26th Upset The Rhythm presents WHITE MAGIC + Sian Alice Group + Felix
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS RESCHEDULED FROM THE ORIGINAL DATE IN APRIL - ALL TICKETS FROM APRIL 26TH WILL BE VALID FOR THIS SHOW.
Doors 8.00 Based around the core duo of Mira Billote (Quix*O*Tic) and "Sleepy" Doug Shaw, NYC's White Magic take so-called freak-folk to a rather more peculiar, jazzier and gothic place, Mira's emphatic piano chord shapes and soaring vocal leading the way. Following a rapturously received debut EP and a split with American Analogue Set, last year saw their first full length 'Dat Rosa Mei Apibus' and a second EP 'Dark Stars' - both for Drag City - move their minimal aesthetic into a newer, untamed musical landscape, exploring the African and the tropical, riding into dark ragas and devotional dub. The duo are set to return with 'New Egypt' on Southern's rather good Latitudes series in early April. Formed by multi-instrumentalists Rupert Clervaux and Ben Crook and singer Sian Ahern, London's Sian Alice Group have since gone on to incorporate musicians like John Coxon of Spiritualized and Spring Heel Jack and Gang Gang Dance's Brian DeGraw. Pinning down the band's sound is elusive to say the least - their debut album '59:59' on Social Registry charts transformations from psychedelic rock, pastoral folk, and piano-lounge balladry into analog-synthtronica, free-jazz breakdowns, pounding Afro-tech grooves, and avant-classical composition. The beauty of Sian Alice Group is that the band is capable of creating highly effective music even when they stray far from traditional torch-song territory. Start with the sound in the brain of one Lucinda Chua - piano, cello, vocals sung in hushed tones, stories heard whispered in the back of the cinema and messages scribbled in biro on scraps of paper - add delicate guitar from Christopher Summerlin to make your spine tingle and you have Felix. It's a mesmeric formula which would ideally be consumed in liquid form, piped into the ear in the half-awake-half-asleep state. |
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