Canopy New Music

We're very excited to be able to bring you an exclusive new CD release, the latest album by renowned Sardinian prepared guitarist Paolo Angeli. If you haven't seen his crazy modified guitar, get over to his site and check it out now. There's nothing else like it in the world (well, actually, Pat Metheny requested one too after seeing Paolo perform!). The freely improvised album, 'Da Nessuna Parte', was recorded in 2008 and, after a year of post-production, it is ready for your good ears. Get the digipack HERE for just £10! You won't find it anywhere else.

In the meantime, check out Big Eye Network an excellent resource for all creative things in the North East.

It seems too long ago since the last AV Festival, the North East's ultimate festival of Electronic Arts and Media. This time around the theme is 'energy', exploring it from scientific, technological, environmental and spiritual perspectives throughout venues in Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough. Here are some highlights that you really shouldn't miss!!

CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE: SCHLINGEN BLANGEN

Sat 6 March, Church of St Thomas the Martyr, Newcastle, 4-10pm, £6/£5. Tickets available from www.avfestival.co.uk  

Immersive and powerful solo organ performance that transforms the organ into a giant synthesiser, using all its pipes to play hundreds of tones at once, which magically vibrate and combine in the air. The visionary American musician and artist, Charlemagne Palestine is one of the greatest living musicians still innovating with the organ. This is an unmissable event, you can stay for some or all of this six hour performance. See an interview Charlemagne in Newcastle last week here: http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/10/events/schlingen-blangen

CLOSING NIGHT GALA: ENGLISH JOURNEY REVISITED

ALAN MOORE, IAIN SINCLAIR, STEPHEN O'MALLEY, FM EINHEIT, SUSAN STENGER, GRAHAM DOLPHIN

Sun 14 March, The Sage Gateshead, £12/£10. Tickets available from www.thesagegateshead.org or 0191 443 4661

Award-winning authors and psycho-geographers IAIN SINCLAIR and ALAN MOORE (Watchmen, V for Vendetta) undertake a new journey across England. This special North East world premiere draws on influences including ghosts on Lindisfarne, Morden Tower poets, the paintings of John Martin and Jimi Hendrix busking in Newcastle - invoking and re-animating these spirits and memories. It is underscored by a specially commissioned soundscape performed by musicians: FM Einheit (from influential 1980s German band Einstürzende Neubauten), Stephen O’Malley (founder of leading drone doom bands Sunn O))), KTL, Gravetemple) and Susan Stenger (leading performer of music by John Cage and Christian Wolff and co-founder of Band of Susans). 

SILENT SOUND (FEATURING J. SPACEMAN)

Sun 7 March, Middlesbrough Town Hall, 6.30-7.30pm (doors 6pm). £8/£6. Tickets available from www.avfestival.co.uk

Visual artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard team up with J. Spaceman from the band Spiritualized, for an unmissable live music experiment into the use of subliminal mind-control. Part live concert, part séance including personal appearances from J. Spaceman and Dr. Ciarán O’Keeffe from Living TV’s Most Haunted. Admission includes a FREE limited CD of the event, recorded and produced on the night. To book a place on the free coach from Newcastle email: reservations@avfestival.co.uk

 

RIVERS: KAFFE MATTHEWS, JANA WINDEREN, LEE PATTERSON

Sun 14 March, The Sage Gateshead, 3pm, £8/£6. Tickets available from www.thesagegateshead.org or 0191 443 4661

According to leading electro-acoustic composer Kaffe Matthews, a salmon remembers the taste of the River Tyne and uses that memory to find its way back from Greenland. Performing alongside fellow musicians Jana Winderen and Lee Patterson, Rivers presents the majestic musical roar and unheard underwater sounds of rivers across Northumberland. Three world premiere performances by leading experimental musicians. Followed by a Q&A with Mike Harding (Touch).

 

CLUSTER AND :ZOVIET*FRANCE:

Wed 10 March, Sunderland Aquatic Centre, 7.30-10.30pm, £5. Tickets available for in the pool or seated from www.avfestival.co.uk

Leading electronic musicians Cluster and :zoviet*france: present an evening of music to swim or float to. Different mixes of the performances can be heard underwater and poolside. Cluster are pioneers of krautrock and have influenced artists including Brian Eno and David Bowie, in 1979 they released the album Grosses Wasser. :zoviet*france: is a prolific music group based in Newcastle. 

 

NOTHING IS NEW, EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED

FELIX KUBIN, PEOPLE LIKE US, GWILLY EDMONDEZ, THE GLUTS (GINA BIRCH, KAFFE MATTHEWS, HAYLEY NEWMAN)

Sat 13 March, Star and Shadow Cinema, 9pm-1am, £6/£5. Tickets available from www.avfestival.co.uk

Including a rare UK performance by Hamburg-based Felix Kubin, whirlwind wizard of the ivories and founder of futuristic Psycho Sci-Fi Pop record label Gagarin Records. Plus the new live audio-visual set by People Like Us, live improviser Gwilly Edmondez and debut performance by The Gluts (Gina Birch, Kaffe Matthews, Hayley Newman).

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