GROUP LISTENING + MEMOTONE at Dareshack
Headfirst Editor's Pick

"Sublime electric elegance for clarinet and keys - casting a pastoral net of aching beauty and melancholy over your weary existence. Transportative field notes for the soul, vital FFO: Mort Garson, Virginia Astley, Ghostbox Recs, ECM, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Colleen. "

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A gig held at Dareshack on Wednesday 26th June. The event starts at 19:30.


GROUP LISTENING • www.grouplistening.bandcamp.com
MEMOTONE • www.instagram.com/will_memotone
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Musical collaborators for the past decade, Paul Jones and Stephen Black are together known as the woodwind-and-key-wielding, sculptural-papier-mâché-hat wearing Group Listening.

Following renegade reinterpretation records Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works Vol. 1 (2018) and Vol. 2 (2022), which pulled apart, pondered, and re-shaped cult ambient classics by the likes of Robert Wyatt, Arthur Russell and Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Walks (2024) — a shining modernist monolith buried deep in the woods — is their first volume of completely original compositions.

Walks draws from the field recordings of Ernest Hood; the abstraction of Harold Budd; the saxophone of Sam Gendel; the “heightened naturalism” of a Martin Parr photograph; the clarity and site-specificity of Japanese ambient, environmental & new age music of the 80s and 90s, and, prominently, Robert Walser’s pseudo biographical novella The Walk — an appreciation of the philosophical space gifted by walks to walkers.

An ode to the gently psychedelic potential of wandering around in some place, any place, every place: the places in one’s own mind, Walks invites you to listen and think; to slip through the fabric of time a little or a lot, depending on how long you’ve got. Over all, to paraphrase Walser, it invites you to glow and flower yourself in the glowing, flowering present.
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18+ event.
Presented by Gravy Train.
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Gravy Train events • www.gravytrainbristol.co.uk

Entry requirements: 18+

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