DESCRIPTION:
For the first time outside of Sheffield the Singing Knives storm will gather at the Bristol Cube on Saturday 12th June 2010. Described as 'that wonderful thing, a personal aid, searching the planet for essential noises' by Foxy Digitalis magazine', featured in a six page article in a recent issue of The Wire magazine which described the label as a rallying point for musicians with a similar commitment to what they see as a radical tradition of Northern English folk art. Essentially this is a label exploring and challenging all notions and accepted conventions on what improvised electro-acoustic music is supposed to be and do.

BRISTOL TICKET SHOP (telephone/internet bookings)
BG29 The Galleries
Bristol, BS1 3XB
0870 4444 400
0117 929 9008
www.bristolticketshop.co.uk

Prime Cuts (located in Re-Psycho)
85 Gloucester Road
Bishopston
Bristol
BS7 8AS
0117 983 0007

HERE SHOP
108 Stokes Croft, Bristol
0117 942 2222
www.thingsfromhere.co.uk

It is advisable to book your tickets in advance from the above outlets. A small number of tickets are usually available first-come-first-served at the door on the night. Early arrival is recommended.



Featuring all of the UK based artists associated with this great label this will be an event not to be missed.



The day will start with Ross Parfitt, a Sheffield based musician, dedicated to exploring minimal compositional devices to maximal conclusions.

Next will be The Hunter Gracchus, a Sheffield trio playing what has been described as 'fourth world trance music using percussion, strings, small instruments and crude folk melodies with the kind of abstruse post-punk strategies of ensembles like The No-Neck Blues Band.

They will be followed by London-based Chora, who began their career as freeform, instrument-swapping sound hunters in Sheffield since when they have expanded with amongst others the addition of Ben Nash and developed the kind of nerve and telepathic interplay of true non-academic improvisers.

Next up will be the critically acclaimed Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides of Lyon and Manchester, a flute and drums duo that is 'jazz in terms of the organisational hierarchy that its filtered through, psychedelic in that its keyed to an unusual feel for time and space, and punk in that it refuses any previous mode of getting there.'

To end the night many, if not all, of the above players will be collaborating for a rare performance by Le Drapeau Noir, 'a dream collaboration project comprised from members of UKs Hunter Gracchus & Chora as well as French duo Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides, they seem to have inspired a sound of a displaced Europe fighting to escape the banality of recycled postmodernism, with a fantasic lp on Chironex, the French label responsible for last year's Hunter Gracchus and Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides lps and this year's Chora lp, carrying the European improvisation-on-wax torch high and filling a gaping chasm left by the departure of Italys Qbico Records.'

Between each set will be the films of Syed Kamran Alis much lauded Harappian Night Recordings project and also the fantastic modern day ethnomusicologist and visual archivist Architects of Harmonic Rooms of Leeds. There will be exclusive films for the event from both.