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Elsenstr. 52/ 2.Hinterhaus Etage 2 12059 Berlin Neukölln 0049(0)17620626386 Wednesday May 22 2013 22:00 VOLCANO THE BEAR / HARMONY MOLINA VOLCANO THE BEAR (Volucan / Beta-Lactam Ring, New York / Glasgow) http://www.facebook.com/volcanothebear http://volcanothebear.bandcamp.com/ Excerpt from the new album GOLDEN RHYTHM / INK MUSIC on RUNE GRAMMOFON: http://soundcloud.com/rune-grammofon/volcano-the-bear-buffalo Volcano The Bear have, in the words of The Wire magazine, “produced some of the finest, wildest British music of the last 10 years on record and on stage…”. Or, as Losing Today puts it, “No one sounds, has sounded, or will ever sound quite like Volcano the Bear.” They are one of experimental music’s best kept secrets. A calculatedly hysterical melting pot of This Heat, Robert Wyatt, Faust and The Residents, musique concrète and ethno-folk, all seen through a prism of occasionally theatrical improvisations and unhinged set pieces. Formed in 1995, and after several self-released tapes & cdrs, VTB so excited Nurse With Wound’s Steven Stapleton that he brought his United Dairies label out of cold storage to release their first album proper, ‘The Inhazer Decline’, in 2000. Since then, they’ve released music on such labels as Misra, Beta-Lactam Ring, Textile, Digitalis, Pickled Egg, Alt Vinyl, and No-Fi as well as their own imprints Volucan & Volfurten. On record, Volcano The Bear offer stark and stunning absurdities, in the most bizarrely beautiful way. VTB live is the duo of Daniel Padden & Aaron Moore (third member, the rarely seen but often heard Clarence Manuelo no longer performs live, but his inimitable sounds and influence are still very much a part of a VTB performance). In their unique, often chaotic live shows, the adrenalin and invention drips from their earlobes as they thrust spectacular oddities in the faces of their audiences, always aided by their sublime multi-instrumentalism. Live collaborations have included performances with Canadian film maker & improvisor Michael Snow and Swedish free jazz legend Mats Gustafsson. Aside from their work in Volcano The Bear the members are constantly busy with other projects. Padden’s much-heralded group ‘The One Ensemble’ explores an experimental chamber-folk soundworld, and he regularly creates music for film and theatre. He has recorded several solo albums, and has performed with Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, Bill Wells, Fred Lonberg-Holm and NY poet Bob Holman. Moore’s other projects are wide and varied including Parisian based improv group ‘Textile Orchestra’, primal punk/folk outfit ‘Amolvacy’ (with members of NNCK) and long distance collaborations with Argentinian improvisor Alan Courtis, LAFMS founder Tom Recchion and Thierry Muller (Ilitch). He has also performed many times with Japan’s ‘Boredoms’ as well as Paul Dunmall, Jeremy Barnes, Steve Mackay and C Spencer Yeh. Once seen, never forgotten, or as this review from 2007′s Avanto festival puts it: “Volcano The Bear…combines improvisation and playful experimentation with a conception of music that borders on the anthropological. Their extensive knowledge of the traditions of both experimental and folk music, combined with their other influences, makes the band a difficult one to categorise. Absurd humour and eclectic ways of producing sounds are characteristic of VTB’s live performances. Familiar themes can be introduced as milestones on a journey towards a result which remains unknown. The band records everything they play, and uses these recordings as raw material for their albums. For Volcano The Bear, post-processing is part of composing; their records are reminiscent of how This Heat and Faust used collage methods in rock music…The surprise element of their performances is further emphasized by the fact that their records – combinations of disciplined studio work and recorded improvisation – often sound nothing like the music played by the band on stage.” HARMONY MOLINA http://harmonymolina.bandcamp.com/ ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
