Cath & Phil Tyler – May 7th
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May 7th 2010
Braw Trails present
Cath & Phil Tyler
The One Ensemble
& Neil Davidson
at the Roxy Room
doors at 8 // tickets £5
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http://www.myspace.com/cptyl
http://www.myspace.com/oneensemble
http://www.myspace.com/neildavidsonmusician
Braw Gigs & Tracer Trails present
CATH AND PHIL TYLER
New Jersey native Cath Tyler has a background in teaching Sacred Harp singing, and the phenomenal richness and rawness of that sound carries over powerfully into her work with husband Phil. 
The couple’s forthcoming second album, The Hind Wheels of Bad Luck (No Fi Recordings), sees them once again heading direct to the source, mining ancient seams such as the Anne & Frank Warner Collection and the Sacred Harp song book, re-interpreting or adding their own music, and surfacing with pure gold.
Feted by a bewilderingly multilateral mix of critics from The Wire to Mike Harding to Brainwashed to Bob Harris, Cath and Phil Tyler have performed in basement venues, folk clubs and the Royal Opera House. As Plan B Magazine wrote of their debut album, “Dumb Supper is one of those rare modern folk albums that will find a home in both the longstanding ‘traditional’ music community and among those attracted to the form’s more experimental and lo-fi possibilities… It’s a weird looking-glass effect many folk fans will be familiar with: the straighter you play it, the stranger it gets… Shirley Collins always understood this and so do Cath & Phil Tyler.”
This mixing up of traditional material with radical approach is what gets both Braw Gigs and Tracer Trails excited, which is why we’ve chosen to co-promote this show under the inspired pseudonym Braw Trails.
Praise for Cath & Phil Tyler’s debut album, Dumb Supper:
“Timelessly primitive and powerfully compelling, it gets through to you, so much so that the entire disc demands immediate repeated play.” – David Kidman, fRoots
“The twining harmonies… recall the heyday of English pastoral folk song.” – The Wire
“One of the most exciting and most moving albums I’ve heard in a long while.” – Fiona Talkington, ‘Late Junction’, BBC Radio 3
Support comes from…
THE ONE ENSEMBLE
Originally a solo project from Volcano the Bear member Daniel Padden, The One Ensemble is now a quartet comprising drummer Shane Connolly, cellist Peter Nicholson, and Aby Vulliamy of Nalle on viola and accordion. At times, the Ensemble come on like a mediaeval A Hawk And A Hacksaw, other times a chamber quartet ambushed by Balkan folk terrorists, but they always sound unquestionably themselves, channelling a thousand delicately unrefined, rough, raw and dreamlike voices.
NEIL DAVIDSON
Phenomenal Glasgow-based guitarist, collaborative composer and member of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra.
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