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