UNspellable #4 ASUNA Minoru Sato Caravan Comedown

2019 last concert by ame

UNspellable #4
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with

ASUNA + Minoru Sato
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Caravan Comedown

Celebrating their new 7inch vinyl TOTTERING STEPS on Belgium label Meeuw Muzak, Sato and ASUNA is back to Huddersfield with their original DIY gadget, air column resonator and keyboards. The evening starts with Caravan Comedown, the trio of Adam Davenport, Sophie Cooper and Neil Campbell, delivering new music of song and improvisation.

@ Small Seeds
Castlegate Huddersfield HD1 2UD
open 19:30 - / starts 20:00 - / definitely finished by 23:00 for the trains!
All concerts £5 - Students £3/Unwaged £1

minoru sato -m/s + ASUNA

The collaboration works by them were began from 2004. The pieces have been mainly making by connecting two difference kinds of system as referenced by each other. One system is using air de-pressured organs by ASUNA and the other is using resonances by several glass tubes by Minoru. Their interest is focus on acoustic phenomena as sound waves - i.e. vibrations, reflections, resonances and fluctuations, they compose and perform those phenomena as audible experiences. In 2008, they invited artist Keisuke Oki to new project which was named Valve/Membrance. At Valve/Membrance,The whole system had been extended through a connecting air pressured route. That project was chosen one of finalists of Transmediale. After that, the collaboration have returned to working by minoru sato -m/s + ASUNA. Recently they have been working on new approach which is include a point of view of combination tones depending on any site-specific characters. “Giuseppe Tartini Entangled Sleng Teng”, on 7” released from Meeuw Muzak in 2019, may be regarded as a practice of that approach. The featuring of their collaboration is that is on reflecting any environmental character which a performed site has, and is in composition of acoustic present to be returned into the site itself as feedback system.

released pieces
2019 7”, “tottering steps” (Meeuw Muzak)
2012 CD, "measure in nature" (autumn recordes)
2010 LP, "One as Two" (senufo editions)
2007 CD, “Texture in glass tubes and reed organ” (Spekk)

CARAVAN COMEDOWN
(Julian Bradley, Neil Campbell, Sophie Cooper, Adam Davenport)

A new formation that could be The Slowest Lift with an extra two Vibracathedrals, could be 3/5 of Vibracathedral Orchestra with added Sophie Cooper, or could be something completely different - it's just too early to tell. Whatever, Adam Davenport, Sophie Cooper, Neil Campbell and Julian Bradley will be assembling to play some bright new music to lift your soul and blur the lines between song and improvisation.

Sophie Cooper is a West Yorkshire based trombone, guitar player and vocalist. In addition to performing widely as a solo artist, she is a member of The Slowest Lift alongside Julian Bradley of Vibracathedral Orchestra and regularly collaborates with French composer Delphine Dora. Byron Coley, writing for The Wire, described her as "a wonderful British musician who plays lightly deranged guitar and/or keys while singing like she sees bats everywhere".

Julian Bradley, Adam Davenport and Neil Campbell are 3/5 of Vibracathedral Orchestra, who have been plying their singular mode of lonf-form free-floating improvised blare for over 20 years. Julian Cope described them thus:

"Although this lot have been called everything from a punk band (smart arsed bollocks) to a hippy freakout collective (careless bollocks), the most striking element in the work of Vibracathedral Orchestra is their extraordinary focus. It’s as though they have one riff and they’re gonna play it till they all die. The musicians swap instruments all the time, and still the groove continues, however much the shades and tones of the music change."
https://caravancomedown.bandcamp.com/releases

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