NOTTINGHAM: The Chameleon Arts Cafe

Monday 24th February, 2014

8:00pm

Event information

Rammel Club & Harbinger Sound present:

PAIN JERK (Japan, AMP records)
HELM (UK, PAN / Alter records)
DAMIEN DUBROVNIK (Denmark, Posh Isolation / Alter records)

► PAIN JERK (JP - ペイン・ジャーク)
http://painjerk.blogspot.com/
https://soundcloud.com/painjerk

PAIN JERK is a noise music unit run by Japanese musician Kohei Gomi (五味浩平 in Japanese). He started home-recording in the 1980s and under the PAIN JERK moniker he became one of the most prolific and influential noise artists of the 1990s. Gomi is one of the leading figures in the "dynamic" style of Japanese noise or Japanoise and is also the owner of the noise label AMP, and a member (along with T. Mikawa and F. Kosakai of Incapacitants) of the noise supergroup Gomikawa Fumio.
We're thrilled we managed to book this show in Nottingharm: this show is one of the just 2 UK PAIN JERK dates in 2014 :-)

► HELM
http://www.pan-act.com/pages/releases/pan27.html
https://soundcloud.com/pan_recs/helm-analogues-pan-50
https://soundcloud.com/pan_recs/helm-silencer-edit-12-pan-43

HELM is Luke Younger, a sound artist and experimental musician based in London, working with a vast array of revolving instrumentation and abstract sound sources. Younger’s compositions build a dense aural landscape which touches on aspects of musique concrete, uncomfortable sound poetry, industrial, and hallucinatory drones.
To this date, he has produced three full length albums; debut To An End, self released on his own ALTER imprint in 2010, was a complex network of intricate layers and mixed sounds, described by John Elliott (Emeralds / Spectrum Spools) as “a haunting composition of field recordings, tape loops, percussion, and electronics (among other things), creating an extremely tense and daunting audio tapestry which leaves the listener pondering the intense meaning of the sounds chosen”.
Its follow up Cryptography was released a year later on Graham Lambkin’s (The Shadow Ring) acclaimed KYE label, consisting of a five part suite of expertly rendered electroacoustic study using processed piano, Casio MT-40, cymbal and broken guitar strings. The album received enough acclaim within the underground to sell out its pressing and even made it into The Wire Magazines top 50 albums of 2011, with gigs alongside Mark McGuire, Oneohtrix Point Never and an extensive tour of Europe with Élg and Tomutonttu.
For his third album, 2012′s Impossible Symmetry, Younger made the move to the PAN label which is where he currently calls home. The album saw Younger moving forward and refining his sound further whilst also marking a new chapter in the HELM canon as being the first to be informed by live performance. Recorded over a year in London with some technical assistance from John Hannon (Liberez), most of the compositions were created out of ideas / improvisations that were conceived in a live context and then turned into finished works in the studios. Whilst being an electronic record primarily, it contained acoustic sound sources used in a similar methodology to Cryptography, and incorporated a more extensive use of electronic elements with moments of rhythmic dar ambience recalling early Coil and Cabaret Voltaire to Traversable Wormhole’s industrial minimalism.
Younger creates a world where his instruments morph into spectral rust, a shimmering klang swims alongside passive noise and the relationship between acoustic and electronic derived sounds forms a solid foundation.

► DAMIEN DUBROVNIK (DK)
http://damiendubrovnik.bandcamp.com/album/selected-songs

Emerging from the same close-knit Copenhagen scene as Iceage, Damien Dubrovnik create coruscating vistas of provocative synth-noise, as raw as a fresh stab wound. Formed in 2009, Damien Dubrovnik is the Danish electronic duo of Christian Stadsgaard (Sarah’s Charity) and Loke Rahbek (Sexdrome, Var, Lust For Youth), founders of the Copenhagen based record label Posh Isolation. In their day job as label managers, Stadsgaard and Rahbek have been instrumental in establishing the city’s prolific and exciting noise / punk community and outgrowing their humble beginnings in noise / industrial culture by attracting a cult / fanatical worldwide following of obsessive record hoarders, hipster bloggers, depressive punks and industrial maniacs. Working together as Damien Dubrovnik, they have published work across 4 LPs, a handful of sought after cassette releases, compilations and notched up numerous performances throughout Europe and Scandinavia.
Their third LP ‘First Burning Attraction’ was released on the Alter label in 2013 and draws explicitly from DIY minimal synth traditions and the canon of European Industrial music, resulting in the strongest manifestation of their sound so far. Consisting of 6 powerful and varied tracks, the album features more of the brooding synth parts and ominous bass throbs that dominated the highlights of previous LP ‘Europa Dagbog – Europa Diary’, yet it feels tenser and more atmospheric due to the application of new acoustic-based sound sources, primitive bass pulses and more disciplined dynamics. Rahbek’s vocals, which were previously guttural and wild, appear more restrained here giving the tracks an alluring air of ambiguity and suggestiveness – no undirected aggression, but something more thoughtful and introspective instead.

MONDAY 24th FEBRUARY 2014

The CHAMELEON Arts Cafe, Nottingham
(Old Market sq / alleyway in between Cardzone and Gamestation, 1st double door at the left and then straight up the stairs)

8.00pm doors, 8.30pm START -- £5 adv / £6 on the door