Friday, 8 October, 2010
| Friday, 8 October, 2010 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 11:30 pm |
Featuring:
Nadja
Jim Denley
Emily Morandini
Nadja is a Canadian duo made up of Aidan Baker (guitar, vocals, drum machines) and Leah Buckareff (bass, accordion, vocals) alternately based in Toronto and Berlin. Nadja has toured extensively in Europe and North America and appeared at such international festivals as Roadburn, SXSW, Unsound, and FIMAV.
Originally began as a solo project by Baker in 2003, Buckareff joined Nadja in 2005 to bring the project out of the studio and into live settings. Together, the duo creates music which has variously been described as ‘ambient doom,’ ‘dreamsludge,’ and ‘metal-gaze,’ combining the atmospheric textures and elements of shoegaze and experimental/ambient music with the heaviness and volume of metal and noise.
Nadja has released numerous recordings on such labels as Alien8 Recordings, Hydrahead Records, Beta-Lactam Ring Records, Robotic Empire, and their own fledgling label, Broken Spine Productions.
“[Nadja] play deep droning Ambient Metal where vague, indistinct sounds evolve or mutate into something altogether more solid, if not monolithic…It is crude but also oddly dreamlike. Baker and Buckareff work with this contradiction, producing a sound that takes brutal, ponderous mono-riffs and turns them into spectral abstractions…Nadja’s alchemical process seamlessly transforms ponderous Metal into abstract grandeur and finally a kind of blissful disintegration.”
— Tom Ridge, The Wire
Jim Denley - an emphasis on spontaneity, site-specific work and collaboration has been central to Jim’s work. He sees no need for distinctions between his instrumentalism, improvising and composing. This year he has performed in Tasmania, France, Norway, Texas, Perth, Canada, and Melbourne. In mid October he tours the West Coast of America and November to Scandinavia.
Emily Morandini - homemade electronics, cable, alligator clips, copper, razor blade, sound.
High Reflections is a monthly series of experimental music produced by Caleb Kelly and Alex White. For more information about these artists or the High Reflections Series please contact Alex White.
alexewhiteATgmailDOTcom
www.highreflections.org
@ El Rocco Room
154 Brougham St, Kings Cross
starts 8pm