IKLECTIK presents,
The Annual Club Integral Resonance FM Benefit
Thursday 23 February 2023 | Doors: 8pm | First Act: 8:30pm
Our Kiosk open 1 hour before doors.
Tickets: £7.50 Advance / £10 OTD https://link.dice.fm/B4f9af05809f
An evening dedicated to fundraising for the London-based experimental music radio station Resonance FM. With performance by Art Terry, Atsuko Kamura, Digital Roses and Eugene Coyne.
Art Terry
Art Terry is a conceptual Black artist from Los Angeles. His primary practice is as a composer/musician. His songs explore Black politics, sexuality and religion, through a lyrical fusion [gumbo] of African American folklore and hauntological funk. A singer and pianist, Art underpins deeply personal lyrics with dense melodic textures to create conceptual Black music. Brought up in the gospel tradition, Art evokes the sacred figure of the robed and commanding preacher alongside the profane swagger and bravado of the street-hustling savant in his live performances. Whether playing solo or with his ensemble of talented musicians, The Black Bohemians, Art’s live performances are theatrical and compelling. Art collaborates with Stew, who created the musical Passing Strange, exploring his and Art’s youthful experiences on the seamy streets of downtown Los Angeles and in Europe, living in squats and art collectives and surviving on a diet of shoplifted food, hashish and freaky music. Passing Strange was made into a film by Spike Lee. Art has been a keyboardist with Stew & the Negro Problem at the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC, Redcat in Los Angeles, the Harlem Stage and many other venues. The New York Times described Art’s playing as ‘terrific’.
Atsuko Kamura
One of Tokyo’s most emotive and inventive singers, part of Japan’s 80s women’s liberation movement, Atsuko Kamura founded the first Japanese feminist rock band, Mizutama Shobodan, also known as Polkadot Fire Brigade. As agitprop feminist pioneers. Mizutama Shobodan toured Japan extensively and released two albums, the second of which, Manten ni Akai Hanabira (Red Petals in the Sky) was produced by Fred Frith.
She also performed with Tenko at the International Women’s Music Festival in Montreal in 1988 as the female vocal duo Honeymoons, which went on to tour the US. The Honeymoons also performed with seminal New York improvisers, Tom Cora and John Zorn. Their album “Laughing Myth”, produced by Kenichi Takeda, was released in 1982. As a member of the improvisation group, “Uzo Muzo”, she performed at Strasbourg’s Musica Festival in 1987. Atsuko joined Kazuko Hohki’s UK based Japanese pop group Frank Chickens in 1988 and toured Europe, the US, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, USSR and Japan. In 2002 she began working with Robert Storey and a new ensemble called I am A Kamura. Alongside this project, she performed with Anglo-Japanese jazz progressive rock band, Setsubun Bean Unit at the Sonar festival in Barcelona in 2007.Her latest project, Kamura Obscura, released the albums Melt, Socrates’ Garden and Speleology. Kamura Obscura’s latest album “4 AM Diary” came out in December 2021. Atsuko performed as a traditional Benshi narrator alongside a live score by Sinestro Home Video at the Flat Pack Film Festival in 2019. Kamura Obscura also supported the Nightingales’ sold-out UK tour in autumn 2021.
Eugene Coyne
South London-based singer-songwriter Eugene Coyne offers up a witchy mix of hard rock glyphs and acid folk hallucination, pastoral but with an underlying threat of pug rock ultra-violence.
Digital Roses
Digital Roses are hyper soul audiovisual sonic witches making experimental art pop music and ambient noise.The Digital Roses are Trudi Veremu and Joanna Ramsay Patel.
www.instagram.com/digitalrosesmusic
www.digitalrosesmusic.com
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