Lichens, Paul Metzger and Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides

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MIE is hugely excited to announce this excellent triple bill at the Sacred Trinity Church in Manchester.

Lichens

Lichens creates a transfixing experience which loops wordless and mutating vocals into huge curtains of drone. Lowe adds acoustic and electric guitars, percussion and other effects to create alternately thick and delicate works. A Lichens live performance is utterly mesmeric and completely unforgettable.

Spontaneous improvisational composition by form and function is the basis for Lichens. Injecting evolution and natural process into the art form is key. Reflection of internalized experience illuminates symbiosis, serendipity and synchronicity ultimately opening the door. Mistakeisms prevail, time only tells and future past is the next window.

Lichens live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfMjJ2oMXI8

Paul Metzger

In 1979, Paul Metzger drilled a few innocent holes into a Yamaha acoustic guitar. A self taught musician with 5 years of playing behind him, Metzger was growing tired of the conventions of the instrument. This lobotomy was the first of many surgeries that would follow in years to come. Strings were added, subtracted, added again; the frets of the neck were disemboweled and retrofitted with a sarod like metal fingerboard plate; paint was splattered over it, a rejigged music box was affixed to the guitar's belly, a crash cymbal mounted to its bottom. On the face of it, the instrument took on the look of a piece of tramp art.

Thirty years on, Metzger plays the same guitar in rotation with a heavily modified 23 string banjo in a tireless - often isolated - search for a musical style of his own which he finally took public for the first time in 2002. His sonic vocabulary ranges from deeply satisfying & impulsive outer cosmos ragadelia to clangorous, rapidly punctuated percussive workouts. Metzger has been described as a virtuoso and a visionary whose live performances are vital, deeply visceral and simply breathtaking.

www.paulmetzger.net
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKDF6uebles

Part Wild Horse Manes On Both Sides

Avant-primitivism of immense beauty on flute, voice and raw and clattering percussion courtesy of Kelly Jones and Pascal Nichols. Hypnotic and floating.

"It's jazz in terms of the organisational hierarchy that it's filtered through, it's psychedelic in that it's keyed to an unusual feel for time and space, and it's punk in that it refuses any previous mode of getting there. So is it punk jazz? This time, just maybe." David Keenan - The Wire

http://www.myspace.com/partwildhorsesmaneonbothsides