April 9th 2011

Long+Wrong and Tracer Trails present

Eli Keszler / Usurper / Aileen Campbell & Neil Davidson / Helhesten / Iain Campbell / Boom Edan / Fordell Research Unit / Guanoman / King Rib / Noma / Opaque

1pm-4pm: Nice N Sleazy
4pm-6pm: The Griffin
6pm-11pm: CCA 5

Tickets £4 (afternoon) / £4 (evening) / £7 (everything) from WeGotTickets.com, Monorail Music, or on the door.

Improv at Sleazy’s: 1pm-4pm: £4

Sketchy noises in a basement all afternoon, featuring awesome international special guest Eli Keszler (www.espdisk.com): fierce, high-energy free percussion and invented instruments from Providence, Rhode Island. Plus the debut performance of a new collaboration between local champion improvisers Usurper, Neil Davidson and Aileen Campell. Further plus Helhesten!

Weird dinner at The Griffin: 4pm-6pm: unticketed & free

Notorious local performance artist / musician Iain Campbell will disrupt our buffet at The Griffin. Note: Diners will need to pay a couple of pounds to eat.

Film premiere at CCA: 6pm-7pm: unticketed & free

Premier of a new documentary film exploring Scotland’s underground experimental music scene. In spring 2010 three friends were loaned a video camera and seized the opportunity to explore contemporary fringe musics in Scotland. Part documentary, part character study, the film develops into an insightful meditation on the roots of creativity, collaboration and the artistic process.

Four hours of noise at CCA: 7pm-11pm: £4

Could you listen to four hours of noise? What effect would it have on you? What if you found it more exciting and more boring than anything you had ever experienced? An overloaded performance of overloaded music, with separate and overlapping sets from Boom Edan, Fordell Research Unit, Guanoman, King Rib, Noma and Opaque.

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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.