Leeds! Tonight! Not Sold Out!

Gizeh Records & Crow Versus Crow present...

AIDAN BAKER | A-SUN AMISSA | DEAN MCPHEE

Monday 18th February 2013

Wharf Chambers

Leeds

8pm

£5 adv

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Gizeh Records & Crow Versus Crow present... AIDAN BAKER | A-SUN AMISSA | DEAN MCPHEE

Gizeh Records and Crow Versus Crow present...

AIDAN BAKER | A-SUN AMISSA | DEAN MCPHEE

Monday 18th February 2013

Wharf Chambers, Leeds

8pm

£5adv

(Tickets available from the Gizeh Webstore)

Wharf Chambers is a members' club and you need to be a member, or guest of a member, in order to attend. To join, please visit wharfchambers.org. Membership costs £1 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.

AIDAN BAKER
http://www.brokenspineprods.com/

As a solo artist Aidan Baker creates music ranging from experimental/drone to ambient post-rock to contemporary classical using the electric guitar as his primary sound source. Baker has toured around the world and released numerous albums both solo and with various projects (Nadja, Whisper Room, Infinite Light Ltd.) on such labels as Alien8 Recordings, Robotic Empire, Important Records, and Beta-Lactam Ring Records.





A-SUN AMISSA
http://www.slowsecret.com/

A-Sun Amissa is a project formed out of Leeds, UK by members of Glissando and The Rustle of the Stars. Built on the foundations of the unknown, a project that encompasses minimalist drones, modern-classical movements and avant-garde tendencies. Richard Knox (Glissando / 'The Rustle of the Stars' / Of Thread & Mist) & Angela Chan (Glissando / 'The Rustle of the Stars' / Ten / Tomorrow We Sail) began forming initial ideas in the Autumn of 2011, moving away from the piano-led ambience of previous outputs. Long-time friend Owen Pegg was soon invited to join the project as the pieces developed to enable the songs the depth and intensity they require and more recently Gareth Davis joined, providing bass clarinet. The quartet produce a dense, drone-like atmosphere accompanying evocative, melodic string sections and intertwining guitars. The live show features sections of the recorded output combined with improvisation to unlock new movements and progressions in the music. The subtle, considered textures and the hypnotic interaction between players and instruments provide an intense live performance.




DEAN MCPHEE
http://www.deanmcphee.com/

Dean McPhee is a Lancastrian finger-picking electric guitarist now based in West Yorkshire, whose gorgeously liquid, pure-toned playing is supremely evocative of the small splendours and grand transitions of the natural environment. His magnificent debut album proper ‘Son of the Black Peace’ has cemented the reputation won by debut EP Brown Bear.

“The hallmark of McPhee’s style is a picked bassline and free-ranging variations on melodic ideas via a mesmerising progression of harmonics, cleanly picked notes, full chords and string-bending arab-esques… Son of the Black Peace is a 37 minute gem of an album” (The Wire Magazine)

Crow Versus Crow presents...A-Sun Amissa | TEN | Trouble With Books

Crow Versus Crow presents...

A-Sun Amissa | TEN | Trouble With Books

Friday 23rd March 2012

Bar Up, Halifax

Doors 8pm

£4 otd / £3 concs/adv

We're very pleased to have been asked to set up a gig in Halifax for A-Sun-Amissa, ahead of the release of their Desperate In Her Heavy Sleep record on Gizeh Records. They will be joined by fellow Leedsers TEN, whom we've been unsuccessfully trying to set up a gig for, for what is now far, far too long. Trouble With Books, who came to our attention via the brilliant Don't Drop The Dumbells project, will complete the line-up.

Sonically, the night is at the opposite end of the noise-scale to the previous night we held at Bar Up, but that sits just nicely with us...sound is sound after all, and all... and as lovers of live music and residents of Halifax(ish) we're incredibly excited about seeing music of this kind and quality in our home town.

There will be an A5 zine/3"CDr made specially for, and available only at, this gig, featuring Crow Versus Crow visual art work, an illustration by Sean Wars of Trouble With Books, a live recording by Trouble With Books and A-Sun Amissa and Ten remixing a track of each others. It has been printed by Footprints of Leeds, and is being sold at cost price. (Photographs to follow...)

This gig is set up on the same principle, and for the same reasons, as all previous Crow Versus Crow events at Bar Up - entry fee is as little as possible (£4 on the door, unless you are unemployed or can't afford the full amount for socio-economic reasons in which case it is £3...unless that's too much, then just come along and ask us and we'll work something out. £3 advance e-tickets are available here). All money taken on the door will be split between the bands, without Crow Versus Crow taking anything.

A-Sun Amissa

TEN

Winter Light by Ten LIVE from Boo Said the Goose on Vimeo.

Trouble With Books

FFO: A Silver Mt. Zion, Constellation Records, Keith Fullerton-Whitman, Avro Part, Hibernate Records, field recordings, quiet things, heavy things, sad things, pretty things, melancholy and punk rock...