Ikue Mori - Master Of Deception

Ikue Mori, a formative influence in the No Wave act DNA in the 70s and influential character in contemporary avant-garde, is streaming this wonderful piece of audible art via Sound And Music’s Soundcloud page, the same London-based, Arts Council-funded organisation who are currently co-promoting her short UK tour. As this post goes out, two dates remain, the first at London’s Ashwin Street Resonance-affiliated venue Cafe Oto (details), and tomorrow at Belfast’s Black Box (details). 

Ikue Mori Website.

Jamie Isaac - Wash / Can See (Housewarming Records)

Last Friday, I played a show with my band Kinnie The Explorer at Cafe Oto in Dalston. Not only was the show a secret warm-up gig for Irish psychedelic folk band Dr Strangely Strange (playing under the pseudonym Mountains Of The Mind), but it was also the debut show for London’s rising talent Jamie Isaac. The seventeen-year old is a solo artist with an accomplished young band behind him, allowing his reverb-soaked piano songs to float in amongst the subtleties of distanced guitar sounds and the contributions of their percussive and mood-creating laptop accompaniment Amané Suganami (who has a fantastic project of his own).

The musician in me gazed in wondrous awe at just how Isaac managed to keep in time with such a slow tempo, and sparse percussion, demonstrating implicitly some well-rehearsed inner rhythm. Dynamically, the set was very careful, every move considered; the climax was huge, the swirling noise on Intro/Drowning Roots a sharp, spectacular breach of convention.

There’s a common ancestor in the James Blake-esque classical piano which underpins ‘Can See’ (below), one of his most direct pieces, archaic in sound and cut so painfully short. Also below is ‘Wash’, a link to visit Housewarming Records (also home to IVVVO), and means by which to hear the rest of Jamie Isaac’s discography at his band camp page.

London / Brighton Live (Oct. 24 - Oct. 31)

• Zun Zun Egui - Fandango Fresh (MP3) (Tuesday - Shacklewell Arms)
• Waskerley Way - Storm Song (MP3) (Saturday - Mother Live)
• Fire Island Pines - Bratislava (MP3) (Saturday - The Brunswick, Hove)
• Tinariwen - Assouf (MP3) (Wednesday - KOKO)

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Monday

• Bon Iver + Kathleen Edwards @ Hammersmith Apollo, London (SOLD OUT)
• Why? + Acoustic Grand Piano Show + Serengeti @ Union Chapel, London (Tickets)
• Lo-Fi-Fnk + Sun Airway @ The Shacklewell Arms, London (Tickets)

Tuesday

• Twin Sister + Real Estate + Trailer Trash Tracys @ The Garage, London (Tickets)
• Lo-Fi-Fnk + BattleKat + Line Of Best Fit DJs @ Madame Jojos, London (Tickets)
• AJ Holmes and The Hackney Empire + Zun Zun Egui + SJ Esau @ The Shacklewell Arms, London (Tickets)

Wednesday

• Tinariwen + Eliza Carthy @ KOKO, London (Tickets)
• Three Trapped Tigers + Nedry + Seams @ The Garage, London (Tickets)
• WU LYF @ O2 Shephards Bush Empire, London (Tickets)

Thursday

• Kinnie The Explorer @ Proud Camden, London (Tickets)
• Veronica Falls @ Camden Barfly, London (Tickets)

Friday

• The History Of Apple Pie + Cymbals @ Under The Bridge, Fulham (Tickets)
• Kinnie The Explorer + Dr. Strangely Strange + Jamie Isaac @ Cafe Oto, London (Tickets)

Saturday

• Art Is Hard Records Presents.. Kinnie The Explorer + Fire Island Pines + Safari Park @ The Brunswick, Hove (Tickets)
• Bad Guys + Waskerley Way @ Mother Live, London (Tickets)

Sunday

• Ringo Deathstarr + Xeno + Oaklander @ The Lexington, London (Tickets)
• PJ Harvey @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Tickets)

What have I missed? @thismusicwins or email me.

London / Brighton Live (Oct. 10 - Oct. 16)

Dirty Beaches + Ela Orleans @ Bush Hall, London (Monday)

A rare live date for brazened post-punk star Alexander Zhang Hungtai, but surely one of many more to come. I championed his track ‘Lone Runner’ back in August for its influence ‘squeezed from modern lo-fi, a smattering of 40s and 50s swing and pop…[and] bleak colourless imagery’. Support comes from Ela Orleans, purveyor of the other half of Dirty Beaches’ split 12” ‘Double Feature’.

Nadja + Petrels @ Cafe Oto, London (Wednesday)

Nadja are an experimental drone/noise metal act going strong since 2003. In support comes Petrels, a fascinating ritualistic choir act whose most recent album ‘Haeligewielle’, came out on Tartaruga Records in June.

Binnacle Festival 2011 @ The Old Blue Last, London (Sat + Sun)

A self-proclaimed ‘micro-festival’ at The Old Blue Last pub in Shoreditch, which might be practically very small-scale but is packed full back-to-back with new, electronic talent. For many of the artists playing, this will be their first show. Favourites on these pages who will be in attendance include Acid Glasses (making their UK debut), Seams (who just released his Binnacle 2011 mix) and Conifers. You can read the full line-up over at Safe Concerts. Not to be missed for any London-based fans of experimental electronics and blissful lo-fi dance music. Grab MP3s from international debut-makers Sun Glitters and MOTHS below. Tickets here.

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Monday

• Still Corners @ Cafe Oto, London (Tickets)
• Dirty Beaches + Ela Orleans @ Bush Hall, London (Tickets)
• Mother Mother, Younghusband, Birdy Hunt @ The Lexington, London (Tickets)
• Iron & Wine + Fujiya & Miyagi @ Shephard’s Bush Empire, London (Tickets)

Tuesday

• Spiritualized @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Tickets)
• Fanzine @ Madame Jojo’s, London (Tickets)
• Still Corners @ Rough Trade East, London (In-store)

Wednesday

• Cloud Control + Born Blonde @ Scala, London (Tickets)
• Nadja + Petrels + The Plurals @ Cafe Oto, London (Tickets)

Thursday

• Mazes + Milk Maid @ The Lexington, London (Tickets)

Friday

• Mazes + Fear Of Men @ The Hope, Brighton (Tickets)
• The Kills @ Concorde 2, Brighton (Tickets)

Saturday

• James Vincent McMorrow + The Staves @ St. Bartholemew’s Church, Brighton (Tickets)
• Binnacle 2011 Festival (Day 1) @ The Old Blue Last, London (Tickets)
• Joy Orbison + Julio Bashmore @ Digital, Brighton (Tickets)
• Drums Of Death, Solar Bears + More @ The Macbeth, London (Tickets)

Sunday

• Apparat @ The Haunt, Brighton (Tickets)
• Binnacle Festival 2011 (Day 2) @ The Old Blue Last, London (Tickets)

What have I missed? Contact me via @thismusicwins / the comment box below, or on peter@thismusicwins.com