A
gig
held at The Ill Repute
on Friday 26th September. The event starts at 21:00.
Celebrating the digital release of single 'Jumper', as featured on Radio 6 Riley & Coe and The Wire magazine Office Ambient playlist.
Sliders are an exciting new instrumental band taking in elements of jazz, psych, motorik, dance music and skronk.
With an emphasis on improvisation, influences range from Tortoise & MMW to Sonic Youth & Can.
Featuring a bunch of top Bristol musicians, they recently completed an album recorded straight to reel to reel tape by Drezz Dressler and released on local label Pig Records.
Neil Smith - guitar ( This is the Kit, The Brackish )
Chris Langton - drums ( Snazzback )
Harry Stoneham - bass ( Waldo's Gift )
Dan Moore - keys ( Will Gregory Moog Ensemble, Modulus 3 )
Review of 'Sliders' album in 'Louder Than War' by Elfyn Griffith-
'Smith's other band Sliders' debut album (just called Sliders), on pigrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sliders , sees him again doing wonderful things, from the acid-house/jazz/ambient soundscape of Jumper, to the heady, minimalistic, Kraftwerky complexity of Kraut Crouch, the tongue-in-cheek surreal homage to the Hulk, Rhumba for Mr Hogan (just as it says on the tin), the out-there innovations of Improv#z and finally a novel, paired-down, bluesey becoming-ecstatically-menacing-and-dreamy, version of The Fall’s Hip Priest …'