SVARTE GREINER / SIMON SCOTT / MANDELBROT

9th March 2010, CB2 Cambridge
8:30 pm, £6
advance tickets available from:  http://www.wegottickets.com/event/72058

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=139590321704#!/event.php?eid=298292578710&ref=mf

Svarte Greiner / Miasmah, Type

Svarte Greiner is the one man project of Erik K. Skodvin (one half of the duo Deaf Center and the man behind the Miasmah label).

While the duo create dusty grey soundscapes in a surrealistic world of sounds not far from that of David Lynch/Angelo Badalamenti, Svarte Greiner is further exploration into a darker, more mysterious and disturbed universe. Drawing inspirations from artists such as Earth, Volcano The Bear, David Darling & Deathprod, the output is draped in lynchian mysticism and horror film cinematics.

Since his release of the debut album “knive” in 2006, he has released a series of 12″´s, cassettes and limited edition releases around, before the followup “kappe” came out in February 2009. Spring 2010 sees a new LP on digitalis, based around the earlier cassette release “Penpals Forver”, a split LP with Xela and Keith Fullerton Whiteman and some hidden 7″ releases. Erik also toured with Fever Ray as opening act during their first ever tour in 2009. (Sleepsound Agency)

http://www.myspace.com/svartegreiner

Listen to knive and kappe here:

http://soundcloud.com/_type/sets/svarte-greiner-knive

http://soundcloud.com/_type/sets/svarte-greiner-kappe

Simon Scott / Miasmah

Best known for being the drummer of the iconic Slowdive during the early nineties Simon Scott has been a prolific contributer to music over the past 20 years. Amongst numerous other projects, he has been involved in founding the bands Televise and Seavault and conrtibuted to the Seattle-based The Sight Below as well as set up his own experimental electronic label Keshhhhh.

Navigare, Simon’s solo debut released on Erik Skodvin’s Miasmah last year, is full of processed instruments, old tape samples and field recordings, creating wonderful drone-soaked soundscapes and incredible textures with a subtly melodic undertone.

“Scott is particularly adept at layering coolly shimmering guitars and dark churning currents of noise into something vast”. “A haunting aspect of ‘Navigare’ is how it seems to contain traces of tunes that stand out like half-forgotten relics of the past” (The Wire, Dec 2009)

http://myspace.com/o3o3o

http://soundcloud.com/simon-scott

http://soundcloud.com/miasmah/sets/simon-scott-navigare

Mandelbrot / Highpoint Lowlife

Mandelbrot is the solo project of Keung from Mandelbrot Set and focuses more on the experimental side of guitar manipulation, utilizing the effects pedals and samplers to a much greater degree and truly creating some mind-bending sounds. From a melodic base, the sound evolves in many directions, from digital crackle to white noise, from ebowed drones to subsonic lowends.

For musical sign-posts, think the musical crossroads of Aerial M, Spacemen3, and SunnO))) – HPLL

http://www.myspace.com/mandelbrotisasound

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