Wolf eyes Solo Sets/Wild Rani/Orphax

//Nate Young (solo set, Wolf Eyes) // John R Spykes (solo set, Wolf Eyes) // Wild Rani // Orphax // Simon Paton // Yellow6//NATE YOUNG is a founding member of seminal Detroit noise band Wolf Eyes. More recently he's been honing an equally distinctive solo sound that blends myriad sources from musique concrète, vintage film atmospherics, layered synths and archive library recordings into something thrillingly intense. Summoning up crushingly ominous crepuscular soundscapes and synth-washed phantasmagoria, Young undercuts the brutalism of Wolf Eyes with the kind of ambient dread that conjures images of lost horror soundtracks from the 70's. Minimal analogue synth violence is punctuated by thunder cracks of metal percussion ala the early Akita/Null Merzbow duets, massively doomy beat hypnotics and an atmosphere that's somewhere between the most apocalyptic Throbbing Gristle recordings. This February sees the release of ‘Dilemmas of Identity’, volume one in a new multi-part series of solo releases from Young for Lower Floor Music. These songs were commonly made as a distraction from grief, seasonal depression and isolation. Sometimes severely ridiculous and unrelenting, other times slow, sparse and strange.
https://soundcloud.com/nate-young

//JOHN R. SPYKES aka Inzane Johnny of Wolf Eyes and American Tapes will be treating us to a solo slice from his mind platter, featuring damaged rippers and modulations galore. As a part of Wolf Eyes, John Olson is responsible for augmenting the USA's longest-running homemade, primitive, electronic, poetry & radical vibes trio. They don't just release albums they launch scotched, taped nuclear audio fronts on humanity. Spykes is a project Olson has visited many times since its inception in 1999, constantly unearthing new sounds from the same old grey feelings of Midwestern winters inside. Absolute free jams promised, firing on all cylinders, a warped madness of atomised sonics.
https://soundcloud.com/john-olson-14/john-r-spykes-january-hangs-onto-nothing-one 

//WILD RANI (Rebecca Mahay)
Rebecca Mahay is a visual artist and performer from Birmingham, UK. Her work with husband Heath Moerland (aka Sick Llama) as MIRROR II RORRIM has seen them perform across Europe and US.They have releases on the Detroit-based Fagtapes label ("Housewife Hibernation", "Noom", "Live WCBN FM Ann Arbor, MI") and their latest "Womensware" was released on All Gone records:
"Duo of Heath Dawg aka sick llama meow & Becky Mahay. recorded in various spots through out Europe this married couple honeymoon seems to never end, but the sounds on this tape don't evoke a honeymoon kind of vibe, but a more anxiety ridden uncertainty, jet lagged & cold, cold like sleeping on a couch during a winter night with out a blanket. A vocal ritualistic atmosphere is created by Becky Mahay bringing to mind Vox Populi "half dead ganja music" or the earliest coil live outings. Heath brings the brain fart electronics that cut thru like COUM Transmissions & the outcome seems impossible like melting at the bottom of a Icelandic ocean." Chris Durham, All Gone Records, Detroit, MI.

//Orphax is a musical project with the focus on minimal ambient and drone music. 
In the music there is a development towards microtonal sounds, where time and spatiality are important factors. 
In this form of working the eventual result can be a static form of sound where development in the music becomes subordinate to the listener losing any sense of time. 

//Birmingham based composer/improviser/academic Simon Paton, “Despite the influence of groups such as Extreme Noise Terror, Naked City and The Locust marking their fingerprints all over the work, the music also pinches elements of twelve tone composition, post-metal and skronky free improv.”(hundredyearsgallery)

//Yellow6 is the solo project of British guitarist Jon Attwood. Yellow6 has at times been described as post-rock, minimalist, electronica, ambient… the reality is that Yellow6 has some similarity with each of those genres but is not so easily definable, using aspects of drone, repetition, melody, harmony, noise and silence to create absorbing soundscapes to drift off into

£6 advance , £8 on the Door
7pm doors 
7.30 start