June 2nd 2011

Tracer Trails present
Charles Hayward (This Heat)
The One Ensemble
Capillary Action
+ RM Hubbert
at CCA 5
(Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow)
7PM

Tickets £6 from www.wegottickets.com, Monorail Music (soon!) or on the door.

Drummer, singer, conceptualist and composer CHARLES HAYWARD has a long and illustrious career spanning progressive rock, industrial, heavy fusion, minimalism, and the current British experimental and Avant Garde scenes.

For more than 30 years he’s played and recorded solo and with bands like THIS HEAT, CAMBERWELL NOW and the later incarnation of MASSACRE with Bill Laswell and Fred Frith, among countless others.

Committed to song ‘but the shapes have to change’, his current one-man show is an intoxicating mix of percussive attack, swirling electronics and lyrical fragment collage.

Support from…

THE ONE ENSEMBLE: a curious and strident brew of Eastern European folk, chamber music, a pinch of Robert Wyatt and some kind of earthy psychedelic primitivism.

CAPILLARY ACTION: an American all-acoustic avant-pop quintet, once described in The Wire as “Prokofiev re-arranging the Red Krayola.”

RM HUBBERT: ex-El Hombre Trajeado guitarist doing an instrumental acoustic sketch based around flamenco / samba rhythms and structures.

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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.