Category: NEWS

2011

To all of you who have found your way here courtesy of The Liminal – a hearty welcome! To those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about – an equally hearty welcome and a recommendation to partake in the pleasures of London’s latest, er ‘liminal’ music blog, where you can currently find an interview with Icarus and a mix featuring a collection of new music coming out on Not Applicable this year.


01 Not Applicable Mix – Icarus by The Liminal on Mixcloud

We’re very excited about the fact that 2011 appears to be shaping up to be a bumper year for Not Applicable releases. Following on from ‘In Thunder Rise‘ and ‘Three Improvisations‘, both released in the winter of 2010, we have an extremely optimistic schedule of one release per month for the next four months.

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Upcoming in 2011:

NOT016 – Tom Arthurs / Miles Perkin / Yorgos Dimitriadis – Glue

NOT017 – Isambard Khroustaliov / Philippe Pannier – Chaleur

NOT018 – Ollie Bown / Brigid Burke – Erase

NOT019 – Tom Arthurs / Ollie Bown / Isambard Khroustaliov / Lothar Ohlmeier – Long Division

Isambard Khroustaliov @ City Arts and Music Project

JAILBREAK (Chris Corsano & Heather Leigh Murray),
COLLIDER,
ISAMBARD KHROUSTALIOV

@

City Arts & Music Project,
70-74 City Road,
Old Street,
London,
EC1Y 2BJ.

Doors: 20:00
£5 adv (via wegottickets) / £8 door

JAILBREAK is the duo of pedal steel/vocalist Heather Leigh Murray and drummer Chris Corsano. The name foregrounds the kind of outlaw violence with which the two reformulate rock/roll instants by bringing free jazz fire power to the equation, resulting in new-found catharsis. Jailbreak play improvised music that dispenses with traditional notions of call and response or dialogue in favour of a simultaneity that takes instant forms from the application of high energy strategies.

COLLIDER is the unconventionally noisy quartet from Leeds Improvised Music Association stalwarts; Matthew Bourne (keys), Dave Kane (electric and double bass), Chris Sharkey (guitar) & Chris Bussey (drums). Whilst Jailbreak reject the traditions of free improvisation, Collider apply their profound understanding of improvisatory practice in rendering a sonic maelsrom that values inimical volume over all else.

ISAMBARD KHROUSTALIOV is the solo alias of Sam Britton, also of electronic group Icarus and live improv trio Leverton Fox. Since 1997 he has recorded and released music for a number of independent electronic music labels in the UK and the US (Output Recordings, Temporary Residence, Domino and The Leaf Label) and continues to perform all over Europe. Utilising generative software environments, Sam creates immersive textural narratives which are immediately abrasive, and simultaneously indicative of longer, more graceful structures.