ARANOS
Bohemian-born artist Aranos has music in his blood, performing local
traditional Eastern European songs from the age of eight. Subsequent years
have seen this maverick multi-instrumentalist spread his creative wings to
cover folk material from other countries and cultures, and his live
performances have provoked positive comparisons with the world-weary grit
and the boozy melancholia of Tom Waits. Further strings were added to his
bow via collaborations with admirers from avant-garde legends like Current
93 and Nurse with Wound, encouraging a more experimental side to Aranos,
who now weaves free-form jazz and electronica into some of his more
ambitious and challenging work, held together with his acute ear for
rhythm and melody. By turns bewitching and bewildering, powerful and
poignant, this is a rare opportunity to see a unique musical talent
perform.
COLIN POTTER
Colin Potter is a respected veteran of the electronic and industrial
scene, contributing as both producer and performer to such leading
experimentalists as Current 93 and Nurse with Wound, as well as his
principal project Monos. Potter's talent defies categorisation just as it
demands attention, and he dislikes the vague 'Industrial' tag for his
explorations into the no-man's-land where noise and music mix and merge,
to mesmeric, and sometimes menacing effect. Perhaps the best description
is the one applied to Nurse with Wound by collaborator Steven Stapleton:
'Surrealist music. It's the displacement of something ordinary into an
extraordinary setting. I take ordinary things - instruments, solos, what
have you, and place them in unusual settings, giving a completely
different angle on the way instruments and composition are looked at.'
STIMULUS
Local electronica trio Stimulus are at the forefront of the UK's current
crop of avant-garde artists who've taken the dark ambient blueprint drawn
by British bands like Nurse with Wound as a starting point for their own
subtly unsettling soundscapes. Stimulus add many of their own obsessions
to the mix, not least the classic Krautrock of bands like Can and
legendary prog-rock pioneers Tangerine Dream - particularly acute ears can
even pick out influences from British heavy metal bands like Iron Maiden.
Sometimes spacey, at times melodic, always absorbing, the Stimulus sound
both lulls and inspires.
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