Humcrush & Leverton Fox

Sound/Music

Thu 15 Apr, 8pm

£7.00/£5.00 concs

Humcrush is a collaborative project featuring percussionist Thomas Strønen and keyboard player Ståle Storløkken, both stalwarts of the Norwegian label Rune Grammofon, and perhaps best known for their work with Food and Supersilent respectively. The duo's live performances represent a thorough deconstruction of free jazz, improv, and electronic idioms, executed with mesmerising precision, inventiveness, and an astounding connection between the two performers. There appears to be a vast vocabulary at their disposal: at times the effect is glacial, austere and hypnotic, like a rawer Pansonic; elsewhere the sheer percussive maelstrom rivals the nervous complexity of Autechre, or the rhythmic density of Don Caballero.

www.myspace.com/humcrush
www.youtube.com/watch?v=idkKtQtwpXo&feature=related

"...a wonderful stimulus to the imagination, provoking all sorts of exotic images. Humcrush are open to the resonances of sound. As such, they're sonic as well as musical explorers." BBC Music

Leverton Fox's music is by turns meditative, abrasive and enigmatic. Plaintive melodies and subtle timbres are buried beneath layers of chugging electronics and skittering percussion. Alex Bonney (electronics, trumpet) also plays in Plummer’s World Sanguine Report. Tim Giles (drums)’s other projects include the award-winning Fraud, Golden Age of Steam, and Koby Israelite (signed to Tzadik). Sam Britton (electronics), of electronic duo Icarus, has recently joined Leverton Fox . His input has been evident in recent live shows, lending a new intensity and richness to the overall texture. The group's debut recording 'Country Dances' has met with considerable critical acclaim.

www.myspace.com/levertonfox

“meatgrinder magicians” The Wire

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