Benbecula Showcase - update

Benbecula Records Showcase with special guest Robin Guthrie
with
Reverbaphon, Christ., Prhizzm and Genaro
24th October, The Arches, 1845 - 2300

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Showcase features recently published in
Daily Record
Scotland on Sunday
The Metro
The List

Reverbaphon plays live, to promote his album released November 2004

"Concise, beautifully arranged songs, each successive track a small
surprise as Smith incorporates folk, jazz and electronic elements into
spacious melodies with varying textures. It's modernist folk, protean
but with its own unique character, playfully eclectic but with a
consistency of focus that lends it the overall weight it thoroughly
deserves"
The Wire

FIRST ACT ON AT 1900 SHARP
YOU ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO ARRIVE EARLY TO HEAR GENARO PLAY A
SPECIAL ACOUSTIC SET ALONG WITH VISUALS FROM BLAIR YOUNG.
Blair recently filmed the Barrowlands performance by Franz Ferdinand and
has directed videos for Belle and Sebastian, Sons and Daughters and
Camera Obscura.

PLUS

Premiere screening of "Views"
DIRECTED BY BEN EWART-DEAN

New live peformances from Benbecula artists Christ., Prhizzm and
Reverbaphon. Reverbaphon debuts his new tracks from the forthcoming
album "Our Heart Beats with Joy", released November 2004. Christ. plays
tracks from his new EP next year and Prhizzm flies direct from Toronto
for his debut European gig, promoting his new EP out on Benbecula soon.

Lumiere is a 40 minute long animated film created as a backdrop to a
sublime collection of sensual and atmospheric, guitar only,
instrumentals of truly hypnotic beauty performed live by Robin Guthrie.

As the founder member of the seminal Cocteau Twins, Robin Guthrie has
created some of the most beautiful music of recent times and is widely
regarded as a musical visionary. The distinctive sonic landscapes that
have become his trademark are again on display throughout the Lumière
performance and at time touches upon his, thus far, only instrumental
album Imperial and his legions of admirers will find much that they
recognize and love.

Yet what marks this performance out from his recorded work is the
spaciousness of the music. Robin employs an astonishingly down-tempo
pace throughout the performance to mesmerizing effect. This is music to
drift away to...music in which you can lose yourself...

The film itself has been made with the same craft and techniques which
Robin has used in the sonic world for years, an interweaving and
layering of images, creating distinct moods which are reflected my the
music being played. The music is 'improvised within the framework
dictated by the visuals' and used no fixed rhythm or 'beats' but more
relies on layers of treated guitars and cyclic melodies.

Robin Guthrie has recently scored, with Harold Budd, the new Gregg Araki
movie, Mysterious Skin. The Movie will be featured at The London Film
Festival <http://www.lff.org.uk/films_details.php?FilmID=503> on
October 25th and 26th 2004