18/04/2012
18.04.12
It's been a busy week and a half in the ten camp but thank you again to all the promoters, venues, people who put us up for the night and all the other bands and people we met on tour! big shout our to our driver James for clocking a massive 1700+ miles around the country. Also thank you again to Tim Hay for his help recording our new extended player.
also, special thank you to Jasper TX and Matthew Collings for helping make the show at Cafe Oto so special.
The new Ten extended player ‘East of the Elm’ is now available to buy here http://www.tenband.co.uk and you can listen here http://tenthegreat.bandcamp.com/album/east-of-the-elm-ep.
It’s also been a busy time for Door, with a new release out soon and new recordings with one half of Spoils and Relics [http://spoilsandrelics.bandcamp.com], Kieron Piercy. There will be some more information on this soon so be sure to check back. We are also pleased to announce Door have been selected as the support for Sudden Infant’s Leeds show in November.
Joke Lanz is one of the most prolific and profound artists working in the border zones where performance and body art meet Improvisation and Noise.
In his Sudden Infant guise, Lanz creates a unique blend of physical sound poetry and epileptic noise bursts, using contact microphones, loops, tapes etc. The result is an extreme form of musique concrète that juxtaposes spasmodic gibbering with a battery of disorienting electronics.
Progress is being made on the solo release [as yet untitled] and follow up to Mediation Suite, with collaborator Adam Coney [Morvicous/Noon]. The recordings so far are sounding very encouraging. There’s still a lot of work to do but it’s progressing well and should be released by the end of the summer on Trestle Records. [Click Here]. Preview tracks from this album will be posted as and when they become available.
I also had the opportunity to contribute to friend and artist David Steans new project ‘Unkindness’ which will be showing at the Hyde Park Picture House in May. It’s a honour to appear alongside other great performers on this project including Iona Smith, Bryan Smith and Joseph Lewes.
forthcoming documentary video by artist David Steans. Currently being taped on location in Harrogate and Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England, 'The Unkindness of Igraine Hustwitt Skelton' concerns one of Northern England's most valuable unofficial tourist attractions. Knightess Igraine is Her Majesty's Keeper of the Knaresborough Castle ravens and devotes both her time and energies to the care and display of these fascinating birds, as well as to the education and enlightenment of the general public in all matters Corvid.
Steans:
"As an artist, I admire Igraine's creative and passionate public persona; on a personal level I admire her selfless devotion to the upkeep and image of ravens.
In embarking on this project I intended to firstly record for posterity Igraine and the birds and secondly to examine and perhaps contribute to the ongoing formation of a living, breathing piece of folklore. Exchange is no robbery!"
For further information please see:
www.knareboroughcastleravens.com
www.davidsteans.com
More news and updates to follow soon
04/04/2012
Ten Videos and Tour
So the Ten tour begins on Saturday 07 April with our first show in Edinburgh. The two videos below were recorded last year in Leeds at the Trading Post. They haven't been posted here before, so here they are. Enjoy. We're excited about our forthcoming tour of England. We have some extra people on board this time and a whole bunch of new tracks, including material from our latest EP East of the Elm, recorded Spring 2012 in Leeds by the fantastic Tim Hay et al. It's a new sound and we hope you enjoy it. The promo will be available on tour in the form of a limited edition 3" CDr with printed postcard. Snap one up while you can.
NTS Radio
Ross Downes will be talking about our new label Trestle Records (www.trestlerec.com) and playing music from the roster on the 24th April at 12 noon. Check it out here http://ntslive.co.uk/
02/04/2012
TEN // 'Kami' (A-Sun Amissa Remix) [DL]
TEN // 'Kami' (A-Sun Amissa Remix) [DL]
[Instant 320kpbs MP3 download]
Full length remix by A-Sun Amissa of 'Kami' by Ten. The original edit of this track was released on limited edition CD as part of the Crow Versus Crow 'zine on March 26th, sold at a show that A-Sun Amissa and Ten played together in Halifax. Each band was invited to remix each other to accompany the 'zine.
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www.slowsecret.com
www.tenband.co.uk Listen to the edited version: www.soundcloud.com/aslowsecret Listen to Ten remix A-Sun Amissa: www.soundcloud.com/tenthegreatMK Gallery 12 April 2012
Live Music
Ten + Now Owl
Thursday 12 April / 6.45pm, first performance 7.15pm / Free
Ten's sound combines piano, acoustic and electric instruments, sparse percussion, which is then moulded around a backdrop of tape hiss, ambient field recordings, and super8 footage to create a beautiful soundscape that moves from slow, eerie and melancholic to pulsating and optimistic.
Now Owl is the solo recording project of William Edmonds (Vest For Tysso). Experiments with bedroom recording, borrowed instruments and reverb and delay.
http://www.mkgallery.org/events/2012_04_12/ten_now_owl/
02.04.2012
This week sees the start of our first UK Tour of 2012. Starting in Edinburgh and finishing at Cafe Oto in London. Please check below for full details on venues, times and dates. We look forward to seeing you. In other news Tout played our first show at MK Gallery. It was a lovely evening, thanks to all who came down, Simon and the rest of the people at MK Gallery. We should be announcing more shows in the near future. Work continues on the new solo album to be released later this year. Ten's new EP 'East of the Elm' is also due for release this month as a limited run. You'll be able to pick a copy up from the shows.
Tout are continuing to write for the follow-up to first, which should hopefully be released later on in the year. There are also several Trestle Record shows coming up including Morvicous' record launch at Servant Jazz Quarter. Well worth checking out.
I'll be posting updates and photographs of the Ten tour. Really looking forward to getting back out there. Please come down and show your support.
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