You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion, Halleloo': An Exhibition of New Work by Crow Versus Crow

'You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion, Halleloo'

An Exhibition of New Works from Crow Versus Crow

27th March - 30th April 2015

Preview: Thursday 26th April 6 - 8pm

The Elsie Whiteley Innovation Centre

Halifax

HX1 5ER

Adapting its title from American folk musician Lead Belly’s interpretation of a Gospel vocal traditional, ‘You’re Gonna Need That Pure Religion, Halleloo’, is a new body of work by Crow Versus Crow.

The collection of ten digital photocollages and a mixed media triptych builds upon a dense network of appropriated cross-cultural references, from the work of 16th Century esoteric philosopher Robert Fludd, through Islamic geometric pattern to the cut-up methodologies of Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs, to consider existential questions of ‘meaning’ beyond specific religious or spiritual orthodoxies.

Compiling photographs taken over a period of four years, which are layered with minimal digital manipulation or alteration, along with hand-drawn and found imagery, the photocollages are presented as stills from a continuous (imaginary) reel of film. Non-linear and cyclical, a narrative stretches across the ten frames.

The triptych was created alongside and in relation to the photocollages, focussing and expanding upon specific themes from within, through repeated motifs and iconography.

Please visit Creative Calderdale for more information on the Elsie Whiteley Innovation Centre and it's opening times.

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #86

The 86th episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show.

Recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone. Stitched together using outdated software. Please listen to this on headphones. 

 If you are at all interested in the work of the artists featured in this episode, please support the artists and labels through purchasing their records and attending their shows where possible.

This episode originally aired in a far inferior mono form on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 15th March 2015 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Velimir Khlebnikov – The Radio of the Future (Baku: Symphony of Sirens – Sound Experiments In The Russian Avant-Garde / ReR Megacorp, 2009)
2. Group Fanfare – C2 (Primal Intuition / Farfare, 2015)

3. Bat and Her Quartet – Will You Guide Me? (Field Recordings Vol.14: 1934 – 1950 / Document Records, 1999)
4. Grapefruits – Live at OTO (20 Ways to Depict Demis Roussus / Not On Label, 2015)

5. Bunun People of Taiwan – Bisitaita (Voices of Forgotten Worlds: Music of Indigenous People / Ellipsis Arts, 1993)
6. Liturgy – Follow (The Ark Work / Thrill Jockey, 2015)
7. The Master Musicians of Joujouka – Memories of My Father (Apocalypse Across The Sky / Axiom, 1992)

8. Innercity Trio – Faza Życia (Stara Rzeka / Innercity Trio / ARRM Split / Wounded Knife, 2014)
9. Caught In The Wake Forever – Sun Downing (The Places Where I Worship You / Dronarivm, 2015)
10. Edwards Luling Dixie Singers – How Did You Feel When You Came Out Of The Wilderness? (Field Recordings Vol.14: 1934 – 1950 / Document Records, 2009)
11. Yol & Posset – Sit Down and Shut Up (A Watched Pot Never / Not On Label, 2015)
12. Mikhail Larionov – Ozz… (Baku: Symphony of Sirens – Sound Experiments In The Russian Avant-Garde / ReR Megacorp, 2009)

13. Ashiq Hasan Trio – Koroghlu (Voices of Forgotten Worlds: Music of Indigenous People / Ellipsis Arts, 1993)
14. Stara Rzeka - W szopie, gdzie były oczy (Stara Rzeka / Innercity Trio / ARRM Split / Wounded Knife, 2014)

15. Reverend Pearly Brown – Pure Religion (It’s A Mean Old World To Try To Live In / Rounder Records, 1975)
16. School House – The Enemy Of My Angels (Soft Focus / Tombed Visions, 2014)
17. Gondang Sabangunan Ensemble – Bataru Guru (Voices of Forgotten Worlds: Music of Indigenous People / Ellipsis Arts, 1993)

18. Nina Simone – Be My Husband (Pastel Blues / Philips, 1965) 
19. Andreae/Birchall/Cheetham - Post Nasal Space (I Didn't Mind You Improvising, I Just Wish You'd Done It Better / Tombed Visions, 2015)
20. Tegh and Kamyar Tavakoli - Disappeared Stratum (Through The Winter Woods / Hibernate Recordings, 2015)

21. Grey Hairs – The Fatberg (Colossal Downer / Gringo Records, 2015)
22. The Jesus Lizard – Gladiator (Liar / Touch & Go Records, 1993)

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #86 by Crow Versus Crow on Mixcloud

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