A gig held at Friendly Records on Saturday 17th September. The event starts at 16:00.
We’re very excited to welcome our good friends PRAH Recordings to Friendly Records.
Celebrated signings Group Listening & Orbury Common will be presenting live sets alongside PRAH DJs before, between & after. It is free & begins at 4pm though the shop will be open from mid- afternoon.
Group Listening is a joint project by clarinetist Stephen Black and pianist Paul Jones. Black and Jones first met at music college before reconnecting years later and channeling their shared love of Moondog, Artie Shaw, Arthur Russell & Brian Eno into a chamber ambient presentation & reimagining of some of their favourite works.
The debut album saw them recast and arrange works by Arthur Russell, Robert Wyatt, Roedelius & Brian Eno. Their celebrated second album, released in the beginning of 2022, reached further out with favourites by Beverley Glenn-Copeland, Robbie Basho & Neu!
Stephen Black is perhaps best known under his moniker Sweet Baboo alongside his work with Cate Le Bon. Paul Jones is an acclaimed jazz & experimental pianist. He has performed with Keith Tippett, founded the Jones O’ Connor Group and composed a number of orchestral & chamber works.
Electro-acoustic music in the tradition of Virginia Astley & Simon Jeffes work in Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
Orbury Common will be no strangers to the Bristol scene though despite the excited conversations & attention that surrounds them there remains an enigmatic aura that shrouds their work. Orbury Common is the musical conception of duo Josh Day- Jones & Emlyn Bainbridge, a site of folkloric cultures, customs, landmarks & landscapes charged by their collective imagination. Of their debut EP, released in April of this year, they reflected that the record was a sequence of songs to accompany ‘ecstatic ceremonies and strange, fire-side customs’ of their imagined common. The record is a ‘bleary stumble through the nightlife of Orbury Common and aims to draw parallels between ancient rituals and raves, between holy temples and the dancefloor’.
The intimate, sitting room style backroom of Friendly Records will play an early evening host to their pastoral, landscaped, beat-driven explorations as they chart their next moves.
Beginning 4pm
Group Listening 5pm
Orbury Common 6:30pm
PRAH DJs 730pm onwards
Free Entry
Entry requirements:
Celebrated signings Group Listening & Orbury Common will be presenting live sets alongside PRAH DJs before, between & after. It is free & begins at 4pm though the shop will be open from mid- afternoon.
Group Listening is a joint project by clarinetist Stephen Black and pianist Paul Jones. Black and Jones first met at music college before reconnecting years later and channeling their shared love of Moondog, Artie Shaw, Arthur Russell & Brian Eno into a chamber ambient presentation & reimagining of some of their favourite works.
The debut album saw them recast and arrange works by Arthur Russell, Robert Wyatt, Roedelius & Brian Eno. Their celebrated second album, released in the beginning of 2022, reached further out with favourites by Beverley Glenn-Copeland, Robbie Basho & Neu!
Stephen Black is perhaps best known under his moniker Sweet Baboo alongside his work with Cate Le Bon. Paul Jones is an acclaimed jazz & experimental pianist. He has performed with Keith Tippett, founded the Jones O’ Connor Group and composed a number of orchestral & chamber works.
Electro-acoustic music in the tradition of Virginia Astley & Simon Jeffes work in Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
Orbury Common will be no strangers to the Bristol scene though despite the excited conversations & attention that surrounds them there remains an enigmatic aura that shrouds their work. Orbury Common is the musical conception of duo Josh Day- Jones & Emlyn Bainbridge, a site of folkloric cultures, customs, landmarks & landscapes charged by their collective imagination. Of their debut EP, released in April of this year, they reflected that the record was a sequence of songs to accompany ‘ecstatic ceremonies and strange, fire-side customs’ of their imagined common. The record is a ‘bleary stumble through the nightlife of Orbury Common and aims to draw parallels between ancient rituals and raves, between holy temples and the dancefloor’.
The intimate, sitting room style backroom of Friendly Records will play an early evening host to their pastoral, landscaped, beat-driven explorations as they chart their next moves.
Beginning 4pm
Group Listening 5pm
Orbury Common 6:30pm
PRAH DJs 730pm onwards
Free Entry
Entry requirements:
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