Category: Ollie Bown

Second Summer

Great times had at Elektronisk Jazzjuice in Aarhus, consistently one of the most diverse and brilliant festivals! Devil Man, DJ Scotch Bonnet, Paradox, Radioactive Man, Mugstar, Ceephax Acid Crew, Dead Fader … epic! Check this mix by Badun for a taste of the eclecticism:

Also looking forward to a ‘Second Summer’ of last European festival appearances coming up, starting in Amsterdam with Lothar Ohlmeier / Isambard Khroustaliov:

Lothar Ohlmeier / Isambard Khroustaliov

16 September 2012, 20.15h

Festival Zinderend Laag, Bethanienklooster, Amsterdam, Barndesteeg 6b, 1012 BV Amsterdam.

with:

Tobias Klein & Oguz Büyükberber

… and continuing with Fiium Shaarrk in Switzerland, Austria and Germany:

Fiium Shaarrk

September 21st 2012 KV Koma, Ottensheim, Austria

September 22nd 2012 Moozak Festival, Rinderhalle St. Marx, Wien, Austria

September 23rd 2012 Cave 12 – Geneva, Switzerland

September 24th 2012 Naherholung Sternchen – Berlin, Germany ( + Karsten Pflum Live Set !!! )

& for you antipodeans, Ollie has been racking up some performances with the likes of Peter Hollo, Shoeb Ahmad and Evan Dorrian in Sydney, @olliebown seems to get you on the ticket …

Hope to catch you out there!

New Release – Fake Fish Distribution

The new Icarus album ‘Fake Fish Distribution‘ is now available to purchase via their microsite: http://www.icarus.nu/FFD/

Icarus will also be playing a final London show in support of Matthew Bourne at Cafe OTO on February 15th – details here: http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/matthew-bourne/

Finally, we head off to STEIM for a week to put the finishing touches on some new performance tools we’ve been developing for our performance at Sonic Acts in Amsterdam on the 25th February.

Many thanks to everyone who has come out to the shows so far and to everyone who has put us on … Enjoy!

‘3 4 01 2012’ or ‘Three for January 2012’

Here’s wishing everyone a very happy 2012 ! To celebrate we’re excited to be able to offer up an invitation to join us for 3 concerts of note in London (in reverse chronological order):

Lothar Ohlmeier, Tom Arthurs, Ollie Bown and Isambard Khroustaliov will be performing their suite for autonomous electronics and improvisors; Long Division at Kings Place on the 30th January.

Icarus will be performing what looks set to be their only UK date this year at Cafe OTO in Dalston on the 20th January to promote their new album ‘Fake Fish Distribution’ (which comes in 1000 unique variations), released on the 6th February.

Finally, January also introduces Leverton Fox, a trio of Alex Bonney, Tim Giles and Isambard Khroustaliov (pictured above (less Khroustaliov)) whose second LP should be appearing on Not Applicable in the Spring.You can catch them supporting Sons of Kemet; a new project from reedsman Shabaka Hutchings, featuring the double drums of Seb Rochford and Tom Skinner with erstwhile Not Applicable collaborator Oren Marshall on tuba.

Hope to see you out there !

Leverton Fox

Thursday 5th January, 8:30pm @ The Vortex, Dalston, London N16 8AZ
with
Sons of Kemet

£9 adv / on the door

Icarus

Friday 20th January, 8:30pm @ Cafe OTO, Dalston, London E8 3DL
with
BABs
Inch-Time (DJ)

£7 adv / £8 on the door

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

Monday 30th January, 8:00pm @ Kings Place, Kings Cross, London N1 9AG
with
Tom Arthurs / Simon Vincent

£9.50 adv / £12.50 on the door

Reunited

Our suite for autonomous electronics; Long Division, which was premiered at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2010 and performed again at NK in Berlin as part of the NA Festival receives an airing in London at Kings Place on the 30th January 2012.

To celebrate, we are releasing a compilation of recordings of Long Division from NSJ and NK on December 12th. This will be a free download, available to subscribers of the NA mailing list (which is, incidentally also the best place to find about everything else Not Applicable).

Tom will also be performing with Simon Vincent on the same evening and you can pick up a free copy of their duo record Three Improvisations right now by subscribing to the NA list … seriously, it’s a no brainer.

Tom Arthurs / Simon Vincent – Improvisations

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

@ Kings Place, London – Monday, 30 January 2012, 8:00pm