 | Homelife, Alice Gun, Franz Kirmann, The Blowpipes + Kristin McClement Daylight Music
FREE ENTRY (as part of Open House Weekend) 2.00 - 6.30pm Daylight music is a dazzling idea presented by the Union Chapel to open up their amazing gothic venue to a shiny new daytime crowd and provide a rather exciting platform for artists.
Encouraging experimentation and profiling new music as well promoting a free music ethos. Join us!
On Homelife:
Paddy Steer & Tony Burnside have now amassed a sizable back catalogue of releases under the moniker Homelife. It's almost a home recording experiment that grew into an orchestra, gathering in some of MCR's finest musicians, one by one, to create the work with a craftsman’s care. Then with equal attention to detail to recreate the music and take it on tour: a labor of love which continued for several years. Then at some point this" red giant” exploded into a "white dwarf"
Paddy, it seems, decided that he would play all the instruments at once. 'Madness!' I hear you say except; that this is what appears to be happening as he sits at the drum kit plays, bass with his feet and wields dozens of homemade instruments into some strange kinetic sculpture. Now a duo, Tony's song-writing has come to the fore, nicely balanced by the DIY approach to the instrumentation that keeps it more akin to outsider music than traditional song forms.
On Alice Gun:
Alice Gun records in her North London drinks cabinet and down a Lakeland mineshaft, distilling brutal/beautiful songs from guitars, glockenspiel, double bass, cello, E-bow, accordion and a lopsided upright.
On The Blowpipes:
Founded in London in 1993, The Blowpipes are The Global Village Band. This improvising/composing trio plays traditional music, classical pieces, and all kinds of jazz.
On Franz Kirmann:
Franz Kirmann is a French man with a German sounding name with a weakness for fragile melodies and dreamy walls of sound. With a background as a film editor, Franz applies the same principles and technique, treating sounds and melodies like celluloid, making a collage of sounds and textures whose juxtaposition creates a sense of melancholy and spleen.
On Kristin McClement:
An enchanting wonderer with a nylon guitar at the heart of her songs, Kristin McClement sings of folklore and the curiosities of a wild and yearning world. Accompanied by pastoral violin and cello, rattling drums and ethereal electric guitar. Daylight is a regular Saturday event, but has on this occassion been moved to Sunday. Presented by Union Chapel
Produced by Arctic Circle
& supported by Arctic Circle Radio
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