Harvest Time's November Season of Free Folk Sounds
Show No 2
15th November
A Hawk & A Hacksaw (Leaf)
Chunk Wilson (of Hot Chip) (Moshi Moshi)
Lionshare (Harvest Time)
The Portland Arms
8PM
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After seeing A Hawk And A Hacksaw early this year at the Colchester Arts Centre, Harvest Time decided their mission for 2005 was to get them to Cambridge. A unique show which is totally mesmerising and musically outstanding.
BIOGRAPHY
A Hawk And A Hacksaw is the latest in a long line of incarnations for
Jeremy Barnes, who may be best known as the drummer for Neutral Milk Hotel, but who has also carried the idea of avant-garde percussion and improvisation to new amicable highs with Bablicon, and has worked with numerous artists including: Bright Eyes, Guignol, The Gerbils, and most recently, Broadcast.
Musically, A Hawk And A Hacksaw is, if anything, difficult to pin down.
Incorporating accordions, harps, ouds, Turkish cumbus, and jaw harps
Barnes drops an impassioned bomb on traditional structures, mines
feverishly through the wreckage and reassembles pieces with the attentive care given to holy relics. Drawing on influences as diverse as Eastern European folk music to Pierre Schaeffer to Spike Jones & his City Slickers, there.s a healthy disregard for boundaries at play. Importantly, everything retains harmonic balance; AHAAH doesn.t break from musical history as much as sing its essential values in wholly new forms. With such a heady mix of styles on display in the music, it is of little surprise that A Hawk And A Hacksaw.s live show is a force to be reckoned with. The show displays Barnes. multi-instrumentalist virtuosity in all it glory, with him playing accordion, vocals and percussion (simultaneously!) accompanied by Heather Trost on violin, glockenspiel and melodica. It's a musical journey across the most varied of terrain, that dips in and out of modern composition and American and Eastern European folk traditions in Barnes. own inimitable style.
What The Press Say:
"A bold, brave and beautiful record.bizarre, startling and quite
inspired."
DJ Magazine, ****
"Playful and timeless, .Darkness At Noon. is defiantly strange and
vibrantly alive."
Rocksound, 8/10
"Utterly overwhelming.listening to Darkness at Noon is a rich experience
and worth investing time in. When Barnes gets the mixture right, his
awesome talent becomes shatteringly apparent."
Music News, ****
"Superb..Darkness at Noon. displays an astonishingly diverse array of
musical voices. Barnes's project boldly proposes a new art music for the
21st century."
The Irish Times
"A small and perfectly formed masterpiece".
Plan B magazine
More info http://www.ahawkandahacksaw.co.uk
Chunk Wilson
After being blown away by Chunks appearance supporting Fourtet last week, we needed to get him to play this show, so here he is!
Chunk Wilson is the frontman of Hot Chip however, he will performing on his own, his take on folk song armed with only a harmonium and Casio keyoard.
Lionshare
After a successful performance at Palimpsest Festival, Lionshare return to Cambridge to unfold more sinister folk sounds.
'Beautiful, mood-swung, post-psych folk'
The Wire
More info http://www.lionshare.org.uk
Harvest Time's November Season of Free Folk Sounds
Show Nos 1 & 3
7th November
Taurpis Tula (Eclipse / Volcanic Tongue)
Directing Hand (Chocolate Monk)
Haeti (Harvest Time)
Cb2 Basement
8PM
£5 / 4.50 advance
28th November
Fursaxa (ATP)
Alec Redfern (Cuneiform)
Sharon Krausse (Camera Obscura)
Dan Merrill
CB2 Basement
8PM
£5 / 4.50 advance
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― Harvest Time, Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)