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Wrexfest – Group Listening | Slate
August 23 @ 6:00 pm - 11:30 pm
This show is part of Wrexfest 2024 – a two day festival featuring over 100 acts performing at venues across Wrexham city centre.
Tŷ Pawb & Wrexfest 2024 Presents
PERFORMANCE SPACE
Group Listening
Meilir
Liminal Project
OORYA
Strange Remedies
FLEXI SPACE
Slate
Wrkhouse
Fleece
Y Dial
Mandela FX
Doors: 6:00pm
Tickets £12
Entry with Wrexfest Wristband
Group Listening
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.
Diva Harris, November 2023
“Exquisite neo-classical work” Electronic Sound Review
“Supremely serene” Uncut
“Hazy, bright and sleepy – a dreamtime soundscape” Elizabeth Alker, BBC R3
“Inspired…brimming with life” Aquarium Drunkard
“These are the artists and artworks the world needs….they have produced something golden” Louder Than War
“Canonical ambient works sublimely re-arranged” **** MOJO
“It’s too easy to talk about how immersive ambient music is, but experiencing Group Listening live is an immersive experience….. the music is practically otherworldly” Metronome
“Absolutely beautiful’ Tom Ravenscroft, BBC Radio 6 Music
Support Comes From:
Meilir
Meilir is one of contemporary music’s most audacious artists, melding expert songcraft with a fearless lyrical approach and wildly eclectic sonic sensibility.
Creating innovative soundscapes with an idiosyncratic blend of piano, guitar, and assorted synthesizers with such unlikely instrumentation as a thumb piano, an antique typewriter, wine glasses, even a tray full of gravel.
Details
- Date:
- August 23
- Time:
-
6:00 pm - 11:30 pm
- Event Category:
- Events
- Website:
- https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/group-listening-slate-ty-pawb-wrexfest-2024-tickets-925352593517
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