LONDON: The Fiddler's Elbow

Thursday 21st April, 2022

7:00pm

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London Prog Gigs present a pairing of two top eclectic bands where Art and Avant Rock meet Prog; BLANK MANUSKRIPT and A FORMAL HORSE.

The Salzburg-based BLANK MANUSKRIPT are an internationally successful chamber of musical wonder. Their uncompromisingly bizarre rock music has gained them a reputation for their originality. The music is characterized by its sophisticated symphonic arrangements as well as extensive psychedelic improvisations which will rock your musical senses. Socio-critical escapism unites with creative excellence, creating contemporary programmatic rock for both insiders and seekers, far beyond the banal inhumanity of the media-machine.

“The premise of A FORMAL HORSE is simple: four sharp, inventive musicians with backgrounds in technical music go completely against the grain of polish and control in favour of viscerality and animalistic vigour. They have the brains to pull off twisting, Robert Fripp-channelling reveries and can turn mathematical equations into convincing musical passages, but the Southampton quartet have plenty of brawn too.” – Phil Weller, PROG Magazine
“Hard hitting and musically fearless, combined with their signature warmth and humour, this dizzy whirlwind of joyous noise is utterly glorious from start to finish” – review of “Meat Mallet”, 2021 Album of the Year - Sid Smith, PROG Magazine