classwar karaoke - 0007

Dear interested parties,

Two deeply-pleasant things in the offing during the next few days ...

classwar karaoke - 0007 survey to be published tomorrow, Friday 21st August 2009

This is titled as 12 DEAD HENS AT IPATIEV HOUSE, and features the film work, images and texts of twelve talented contributors, all of whom deserve your undivided attention:

Adrian Beentjes / David Cunliffe (UK) ... No Concept

Anthony Donovan / Jaan Patterson (UK/Germany) ... Ashes to Books [Fire to Words]

Autotistic (UK) ... F Mix 1-1

Fonik (UK) ... Faust Excerpt

Inferno Speedgown (Canada) ... Yearbook

Lezet (Serbia) ... Composition For Ten Hands

Murmurists (UK) ... Goya Moog For Ray Johnson

Pixyblink (USA) ... -1

Post Abortion Stress (USA) ... Bitten By a Spider

Ruela Pinho (Portugal) ... Dream For a Druid

Sean Reynard (UK) ... Humanman

Seesar (UK) ... Limited Sight Trailers

Please view images and texts via the classwar karaoke myspace - here; in the pics and blog sections, respectively; whilst the films can be viewed via the youtube page- here. This fine survey was curated and realised by Adrian Beentjes and myself. Thanks to Ad for all his hard work.

Vultures support Colin Potter (Nurse With Wound), Birmingham, UK, 22nd August 2009

Vultures is an improvising quartet based in London, UK; comprising: Dan Beattie (guitar/electronics), Matt Chilton (laptop/mics/electronics), Will Connor (percussion/objects), and Anthony Donovan (prepared zither/electronics/mics/objects). We're really pleased to get this fantastic gig! It's organised by Colin and others - under the auspices of Radio Black Forest - and also features lots of other fantastic acts. It promises to be even better for us personally, as we are joined by our great American friends, Post Abortion Stress - Robert Pepper and Amber Brien. This forms the first date in our shared European tour - which takes us onto Occii, Amsterdam, Netherlands (27th Aug); Avantgarde Festival, Schiphorst, Nr. Hamburg, Germany (supporting Faust) (30th Aug); Loophole, Berlin, Germany (1st Sept); Frik Film Festival, Skopje, Macedonia (3rd Sept); and Boat-Ting, London (7th Sept). Then, as Vultures alone, we play John Russell's Mopomoso night, at Vortex, London (supporting John Butcher et al) (20th September).

Here's what the organisers say:

Colin Potter (icr/nurse with wound) Colin Potter has been a key figure behind the scenes player in various scenes/bands and most famously in the shaping and production of steve stapletons brainchild, legendary uk avant garde act nurse with wound. Also a Frequent member and engineer on recordings by Ora, Current 93,Organum, Monos, Kiln. Paul Bradley, Jonathan Coleclough, Phil Mouldycliff, Bass Communion, Darren Tate. Colin runs the IC studio and runs icr distubution which has put out releases by the likes of andrew liles and far black furlong among others. His last lp, bad light(2009),a collaboration with johnathan coleclough is available through october music.. Lin Zhang. Lin Zhang has previously played at black forest before in the avant noise unit diva abrasiva. Lin, a particle physicist like other members of diva, he runs the grind sight open eye night in edinburgh. Expect abrasive drone attack! Psychedelic Desert. Hailing from osaka japan and invokers of drone landscapes...Their debut lp' keshiki ' is out now on Italys pharmafabrik records. Psychedelic desert play black forest as part of their uk tour. Colossloth (doom mantra records).Colossloth hails from leiscester and has just released his debut lp on doom mantra records, home of the also great blue sabbath black cheer. His style is unique, doom meets folk meets abrasive electronics meets what the fuck? Cities prepare for attack! Sci-fi stabs of sound coutesy of visceral guitar treated with fx..From minimalism to abrasive assault, cities.. is the project of Andrew , runner of birminghams 3rd program night which has been host to many prominent names in the noise/free jazz scene.. Dream dreams the dreamer. Matt snowden having played earlier this year with the dream dreams the dreamer orchestra is actively engaged with several projects. Improvisation which can go through the realms of folk, noise to doom and beyond... Vultures Having just recently collaborated with saranji master Sandeep Mishra and playing with nurse with wound the week after the event, vultures this time have recruited members of us band P.A.S. to broaden their sound. For fans of Z'ev and atonal based indust atmospherics.. Tusk Stuart Chalmers also known as skarabee and playing in the Ampersand trio(along with andrew and sam underwood aka glatze) has evolved TUSK, utilisng looping technology, rhythmic patterns are improvised utilising raw electronic tones. Like early spk on a day outing to alton towers? Maybe not... Hoofus Hoofus is the alter ego of Norfolk based musician Andre Bosman, and his music is a collision of bleeping blooping 8 bit melodies; sine wave frequencies twisting and rubbing against each other, oscillators humming and purring in an electro drone rock soup.Previous gigs include shows with Max Tundra, Knifehandchop, Why? and Subtle .Hoofus has featured on two split singles, both of were played on BBC Radio One, and has also performed a live session on Resonance FM. His debut album has just been released by Twitchy Eye Recordings, and has so far received airplay on Resonance FM and BBC Radio's On The Wire show. NoonMoos Alex and pez are the noonmoos.. Found objects are utilised with traditional percussion with a helping of garage rock bass in improvised madness... Iron Fist of the Sun Birmingham industrial music stalwart lee seafood has been gaining recognition in his latest guise, the sonic assault of iron fist of the sun.. Fonik The tireless purveyors of unpopular music, fonik ,return once more to black forest to inflict their aural psychedelic symphonics...There will be a special in-house guest band performing on the day too :) + maybe a couple of other surprises! :)

Unmissable! For more info go here.

Best wishes,

Anthony