DESCRIPTION:
Recorded at The Komedia, Brighton, 15th November 2008, at the Woodland Recordings night. This is another systems music piece. Each performer has a copy of the same click track recording on cd or cassette, which they monitor on their own individual player with headphones. Each performer must try and keep in time with their own click track.



Woodland Recordings, Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton, Nov 15


Evening Argus Music Reviews
2:43pm Tuesday 18th November 2008
By Daniel Searle »


The expressions on the faces of the audience mid-way through The Vitamin B12s performance displayed a wonderful mix of amusement, confusion, horror and intrigue.

The band created a 20-minute long piece, improvised on percussion by individuals all listening to headphones and unaware of what the others were playing.

As one band member wandered slowly round the bar gently tapping a cymbal, and another began hitting the stage curtain with a drumstick, it was clear that whether those watching were enjoying the spectacle or not, they could not fail to have a reaction of some sort to the quiet anarchy going on around them.

The band were curating the evening, a showcase for local record label Woodland Recordings, and struck a happy medium with their choice of follow-up acts.

Cirque de Mort combined jazzy and melodic music with a spoken-word narrative to create a sound reminiscent of a stripped-down Captain Beefheart, while Waning Gibbous used heavily distorted vocals and guitar to make very beautiful, if barely penetrable, walls of music.

All three acts held the attention of those present and gave them plenty to discuss afterwards something not often achieved by many bands and made for an unconventional but thoroughly entertaining evening.