HarvestTime

FREE ALBUM LAUNCH SHOW> C Joynes, UM, The Doozer

22nd APRIL......
The Portland Arms
Cambridge
8PM
FREE

A celebration of 3 albums released by labels Bo'Weavil, Pickled Egg & Gagarin Records for C Joynes, The Doozer and Um respectively.

Each will perform a set as well as DJing tunes, in a night of hallucinatory guitar movings and pop inflicted experimentalism. They’ve been in their furrow, come join them.

http://www.myspace.com/cjoynes
http://www.myspace.com/peteum
http://www.myspace.com/thedoozerman

C JOYNES see’s highly respected London based label Bo’Weavil recordings release his 2nd album (previously privately pressed on limited edition cdr) ‘God Feeds the Ravens’. Joynes plays guitar music in the post-Takoma tradition. He always maintains a distinct Englishness to his sound, as shown by his self-penned footnote ‘Anglo-Naïve And Contemporary Parlour Guitar’.

THE DOOZER see’s his debut album released by Pickled Egg Records (home to Daniel Johnston, Scatter etc). He recently toured the UK for 2 weeks with MV&EE (Ecstatic Peace) and formed part of The Golden Road. He write folk tales and hallucinations from the Mill Road area with wider eyes on gathering grounds.

UM needs no introduction round these parts, a singular entity who produces the most sublime experimental, unique and in some cases down right ‘pop’ classics. He see’s some of his 4000 odd songs released on Felix Kubin’s label Gagarin.

HT: Sonny Simmons with Tight Meat: HISTORIC!

Harvest Time Presents
21st November 2007

Tight Meat Quartet with SONNY SIMMONS
(Featuring Sonny Simmons, David Keenan, Alex Neilson and John Edwards) (on Bo' Weavil/No-Fi)

Jooklo Duo (Qbico Records)

C Joynes(Leith Hill)

The Portland
Cambridge

£7/6.50 adv
Onsale 22/10/07 from http://www.harvesttime.co.uk exclusively.

After a blinding performance at this years Palimpsest as a 2 piece, Tight Meat return but this time with 2 added members including the legendary free jazz saxophonist Sonny Simmons. FIRST EVER UK TOUR... THIS IS A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THE MAN IN ACTION.

Tight Meat with Sonny Simmons.
Sonny Simmons – saxophone
David Keenan – saxophone
Alex Neilson – drums
George Lyle - bass
Huey ‘Sonny’ Simmons is one of the key figures to come out of the 1960s free jazz scene and his CV locates him at all the major epicentres, with recording sessions alongside John Coltrane’s rhythm section, Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison, as well as players like Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Anthony Braxton, Frank Lowe, Sunny Murray, Don Cherry and Prince Lasha. More significantly, in 1966 he led his own group through two absolutely flattening LPs for the legendary ESP-Disk label, then home to Albert Ayler, Frank Wright, Patty Waters and Sun Ra. Since the 60s he has fallen off the map several times, but since being briefly picked up by the Reprise label in the early-90s he has been considerably more visible, especially with his new group The Cosmosamatics. This historic hook-up with Tight Meat sees him connecting with a whole new generation of musicians who have accelerated the advanced modes of 1960s fire music as laid down by Simmons, Ayler et al by applying a punk-primitive post-noise mindset to their instant compositions for saxophone and drums. Unbelievably enough, this is Sonny’s first ever UK tour.
Tight Meat were formed by saxophonist David Keenan and drummer Alex Neilson in 2006 and since then have established themselves as “the most extreme free jazz group in the UK”. Their music operates at the kind of energy apex where force spontaneously gives birth to form. In early 2007 they released their debut album, Vanishing Fist, to widespread acclaim and later this year sees the follow-up album, Children Of Tomorrow And Tomorrow released by No-Fi. For this tour they will be joined by long-term bass partner George Lyle, who has been playing improvised music since the 1960s in the company of thinkers like Keith Rowe, Keith Tippett, Maggie Nicols, Lol Coxhill, Fred Frith and more. Alex Neilson has also worked with figures as diverse as Will Oldham, Jandek, Ali Roberts, Richard Youngs, Alistair Galbraith and The Red Krayola while David Keenan has worked with everyone from Heather Leigh Murray and Matthew Valentine through Paul Flaherty, Chris Corsano, Paul Hession (who he currently has a working duo with), Acid Mothers Temple, John Olson (Wolf Eyes), Andrew Chalk and Christoph Heemann. Keenan is also well known as a writer on avant garde and experimental music for The Wire and as the author of England’s Hidden Reverse, a secret history of the esoteric English underground, as well as for running the underground mailorder and record label Volcanic Tongue. Both David and Alex also play together in the psychedelic rock band Taurpis Tula alongside Heather Leigh Murray.

The Jooklo Duo In in 2004 with Virginia Genta on tenor sax and David Vanzan on drums, the duo had toured all Europe during the last year, and will see the first LP "Free Serpents" out on Qbico Records, September 2007.

During this time the way of live music has taken a higly defined shape: it became something which completely absorbs souls and bodies of who is living it, as a sort of mission written somewhere in the cosmic order. This asks lot of concentration and energies but give back the true birth of spirit.
The duo takes his main inspiration from the great black music (freejazz, funk, ethnic) of the past and today, and from the wild and primitive sounds that lives before and after human being. So the sounds' result is one of the possible ways of exploration into jazz lands.

... Everything started in the far 1994, when Virginia's dad gave her for present a "chalumeau", a special little clarinet in C, which was the first reed experience of Virginia. After some years she found her first saxophone (a really really old and crap alto) in an old things market. The first contact with black music was really back in the time, David was also a lover of afro music since really young and bought his first drum at the age of 15, but for some strange reasons didn't start immediately to play it. The first jazz music listenings was when the two guys were 16: an old LP of Ornette Coleman, a cassette of Charlie Parker and another one of Thelonoius Monk. During all this time, both Virginia and David were having their first approaches to experimental music, through a friend of them who made them know the improvisation scene. Playing together since they were 17, the two young musicians were developing a series of researches, most of those were mainly life experiences... After a beginning series of listenings, ideas and reharsals, the first shape of “Jooklo” saw the light in 2003, as a solo project by Virginia Genta. Quickly during the winter of 2004 the project started to turn into a stabile duo with David Vanzan on the drums with a first series of rudimental recordings shot in the bedroom. In february 2005 Virginia bought her first tenor sax and from there started for both the two musicians a long series of personal and deep explorations of the music, and not only.

Genta and Vanzan are also running Troglosound, underground music corporation for the production of records and concerts, collaborating with many international musicians and expanding their credo toward the borders of universe.

From 2006, the project had a "son": the new formation Neokarma Jooklo Trio which even turn soon in a Sextet taking a different and parallel way from Jooklo Duo, exploring more psychedelic and meditative lands.

Resources:
http://www.sonnysimmons.org
http://www.boweavilrecordings.com/tightmeat.html
http://www.jooklo.tk/

Sunburned Hand of the Man + The Doozer (Pickled Egg) + UM (Tripel)

Harvest Time Presents
6th November 2007

Sunburned Hand of the Man
(Ecstatic Peace, Eclipse, ManHand)

The Doozer
(Pickled Egg)

Um
(Tripel, Strange Lights)

The Portland
£6/5.50 adv
Cambridge

Onsale 8/10/07 from http://www.harvesttime.co.uk exclusively.

Returning for the 3rd time to Cambridge, Sunburned Hand of the Man will blow your mind, ring your ears, pull your feet and burn your eyes. Lets make it so. Never quite sure who the band will include, what the journey will entail, but we can be sure it'll be singularly THE MAN. They've got a new album 'Fire Escape' just dropped on Small Town Super Sound produced by Fourtet. The full story is below.With an album dropping on Pickled Egg only a few days before the show, The Doozer will make kaleidescopic songs and feasts for the senses. It's been a while since Um has graced the HT stage and that's a sin, so we've repented and got him back.

SUNBURNED
"Sunburned Hand of the Man is a band in the loose sense of the word; it's better described as a banner under which a collective of musical freaks have gathered. Based in Boston, Sunburned Hand of the Man grew out of trio which called itself Shit Spangled Banner and featured John Molony and Rob Thomas who would later become anchors of the Sunburned coterie. According to Molony, Shit Spangled Banner was conceived as "a cross between the Melvins and Sonic Youth," but the group was fast picking up a host of like-minded dropouts and musical wanderers who would show up at their loft, and their sound soon began to incorporate everything from early American folk music to drone, free jazz, space rock, and funk. After one release, 1996's No Dolby No DBX (released as part of Ecstatic Yod's Ass Run series), the group changed it name to Sunburned Hand of the Man. A string of self-released CD-Rs followed, including Mind of a Brother (1997) and Piff's Clicks (1998). With 2001's Jaybird, Sunburned reached a new pinnacle, forging their disparate elements into a distinct (if not complete) sounding collection. By this time like-minded groups such as Jackie-O Motherfucker, Tower Recordings, and the No-Neck Blues Band (who are somewhat of a sister group to Sunburned) were also coming into their own and gaining critical applause. The term "free folk" started popping up in an attempt to describe these bands and Sunburned were seen as leaders (or at least co-leaders) in a musical movement of sorts, a movement which had its antecedents in Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music as much as in avant-jazz and noise groups. Sunburned Hand of the Man continued to refine and expand their sound on CD-R and vinyl-only releases such as 2001's Wild Animal, 2002's Headdress, and 2003's Trickle Down Theory of Lord Knows What. Each release was a rough but often brilliant indicator of where the band was headed, rather than finished statements of where they had been. In August of 2003 the profile of the band raised considerably when they were featured on the cover of the respected British music magazine Wire, appearing above the headline "New Weird America."

THE DOOZER
Third live outing for The Doozer and will be the first since the release of 'Sheet Music' dropping via Pickled Egg Records in November. A multi layered, multi coloured sound with stories of dog walking, locals stores and legends. A skewed version of pop music via classic psychedelia, garage and south east asian sounds.

UM

Songs within songs within songs within songs and all within 1 minute. Describe at your peril. Be glad to witness the live Um sound system. One night only.

Resources:
http://www.sunburnedhand.com
http://www.thedoozer.com
http://www.myspace.com/peteum