TONY CONRAD + LICHENS + JOHN CHANTLER

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* * * Advance tickets bought here qualify puchasers for concessionary rate for Six Organs of Admittance at Cecil Sharp House on Saturday 4th June (see www.milesofsmiles.co.uk for details), but there will be ample Tony Conrad tickets available on the door if sales are taken down before you manage to buy. See you at Corsica Studios! * * *

New York film-maker, composer and violinist TONY CONRAD plays his only solo UK show in advance of his ATP performance the following weekend. Conrad developed the distinctive third eye-opening howl of his violin alongside LaMonte Young, John Cale, Angus Maclise and Marian Zazeela in the Theatre of Eternal Music; he has remained a central figure in the contemporary avant-garde ever since, and his prolific output has included numerous astonishing collaborations with performers such as Keiji Haino, Gastr Del Sol and The Dead C.

Chicago-based musician Rob Lowe (90 Day Men, Om, Singer, Matteah Baim) demonstrates the startling, spectral grip of his mesmerising solo vehicle, LICHENS. Across two acclaimed LPs for Kranky, equally stunning collaborations with the likes of Cloudland Canyon and White/Light and a plethora of other entaglements and limited releases, Rob's combination of intricate, insistent finger-picking and intense, otherwordly keening has seen him elevated to a position alongside both titans of minimalist, metal-inflected drone and the rich tradition of shamanistic, singular American experimental primitivists.

This bill will be opened by Room 40 label boss JOHN CHANTLER, showcasing detailed, intelligent and immersive compositions for modular synth that have brought favourable comparisons to Keith Fullerton Whitman and Leyland Kirby for recent LP The Luminous Ground.

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