Eggstock! Pickled Egg Records 10th Anniversary Allday showcase

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Pickled Egg Records present

Eggstock 2007

Pickled Egg Records 10th anniversary showcase, featuring:

Fulborn Teversham, Nalle, The Big Eyes Family Players, Suzy Mangion (George), Zukanican, aPAtT, Now, Oddfellows Casino (performing live soundtrack to The Séance), Dragon or Emperor, The Family Elan, Black Carrot and The Doozer.

The Phoenix Arts Theatre, Leicester
Sat 10th November, 2pm – 11pm
£15/£13 concs
£9/£7 evening only (after 6:30pm)
Tickets available from The Phoenix box office – 0116 255 4854

http://www.phoenix.org.uk
http://www.pickled-egg.co.uk

Leicester-based Pickled Egg Records is one of the most sharp-eyed, adventurous independent labels around, releasing some of the best music of any label, anywhere. Eclectic to a fault, and firmly out of step with current trends, since it's inception in 1997/8, it has dedicated itself to redressing the world’s musical balance in favour of quirky genius, bent tunefulness, noisy playfulness, jazz turmoil, inventive retro-futurism and downright emotional heart-on-sleeve belief, hope and passion. In a world in which the musical balance is already, irretrievably, weighted down on the side of corporate flatulence, labels like Pickled Egg are so a priori unnecessary, and yet so a posteriori essential.

FULBORN TEVERSHAM is the mindblowing new group of Seb Rochford, the extraordinarily in-demand and prolific drummer/composer, two-times Mercury Music prize nominee (with Basquiat Strings in 2007, and Polar Bear in 2005), and winner of BBC Jazz award for Rising Star 2004. The group pursues a more eclectic, less overtly jazz direction than Polar Bear, or indeed Rochford and Pete Warham’s other acclaimed group, Acoustic Ladyland, incorporating elements of electronica, Henry Cow-style prog and post punk.
http://www.pickled-egg.co.uk/fulbornteversham.htm
http://www.myspace.com/fulbornteversham

NALLE is a Glasgow-based psyche/folk trio, formed in 2004, by Hanna Tuulikki (vocals, kantele, flutes), Aby Vulliamy (viola) and Chris Hladowski (bouzouki, clarinet). Nalle makes primitivist psychedelia that resonates with African, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and Northern European folk traditions. The group’s naïf music is almost pre-modern in its sensibility - an off-kilter hybrid of the Incredible String Band and The Wicker Man soundtrack, wrought with an array of string and wind instruments. Hanna Tuulikki's idiosyncratic, strangely phrased vocals give the impression that words are novel to her (think of Björk as an idiot savant); these fragile, eccentric songs, which evoke music's earliest ritual and communal functions, likewise captivatingly childlike.
http://www.pickled-egg.co.uk/nalle
http://www.myspace.com/nallemusic

SUZY MANGION began her public music-making as one half of school boy-girl band GEORGE in 1994. George released a number of acclaimed secret pop records on vinyl collector labels Earworm & Bad Jazz in the late 90s, and eventually released their debut album ‘The Magic Lantern’ on Pickled Egg in 2003. An EP, ‘All Good Things’, was released in Spain on Lejos Discos, and the 2005 George album ‘A Week of Kindnes’s was jointly released on both labels. Suzy also appeared on the Piano Magic album ‘Writers Without Homes’ (4AD), and has recorded 2 albums with Arbol - an eponymous debut (Indus Sonica), and ‘Dreams Made of Paper’ (Lejos Discos). Her first solo album, ‘The Other Side Of The Mountain’ will be released in late 2007 on Pickled Egg.
http://www.pickled-egg.co.uk/george.htm
http://www.myspace.com/suzymangion

BIG EYES was started by James Green in 1999 as an experiment in playing classical music with little knowledge of the genre or classical theory. Big Eyes released four albums on Pickled Egg between 2000 and 2004, highlighting the group’s love for eastern-European traditional music, folk and modern classical. After the last Big Eyes album, James and co-pilot David Jaycock decided to call it a day with the 'group' dynamic, and plough their interests into experimenting with classical/folk arrangements and collaborating with artists they admire. THE BIG EYES FAMILY PLAYERS came to fruition with the release of the 2006 album, Do The Musiking’ featuring contributions from such luminaries as James Yorkston, Jeremy Barnes (A Hawk and A Hacksaw, Bablicon), Rachel Grimes (The Rachel's), James William Hindle and Suzy Mangion (George). The album is a heady orchestral spin through klezmer, drone, balladry, folk and modern composition. This show will be the first live appearance from TBEFP.
http://www.pickled-egg.co.uk/bigeyes.htm
http://www.myspace.com/bigeyesmusic

a.P.A.t.T. officially began with the completion of a full c90 minute cassette tape back in 1998. It was decided from the off-set that the way the music was formed on this tape (disjointed, non- specific, omni-style) was to influence the revolving multi- instrumentalist approach and dictate the 'anti- hierarchical' line-up of the act. If you listen to Frank Zappa, Mr Bungle, Need New Body, Cardiacs , The Residents, Henry Cow, Prince, The White Noise or Slayer, then chances are you may like a.P.A.t.T.
http://www.apatt.com
http://www.myspace.com/apatt

Liverpool-based ZUKANICAN have been likened to an unholy hardcore collision between Can, The Soft Machine and Art Ensemble of Chicago. Theremin battery, skippy keys, s-bending bass, drill pattern drums, siren organ in continuum, other pulses muscling in on the action, a diversion into free-funk with sci-fi white noise cutting across. Their free-flowing improvisations, Krautrock grooves and jazz flourishes, paint a huge aural canvas with thick layers of colours inspired by such luminaries as John Coltrane, Sun Ra and Bablicon. Zukanican's debut full-length album, 'Horse Republic', was released on Pickled Egg in 2006.
http://www.pickled-egg.co.uk/zukanican.htm
http://www.myspace.com/zukanican

NOW are a London based ensemble, who fuse elements of krautrock, free jazz, lo-fi, synth pop and music from various ethnic sources, to create their own unique, highly inventive sound. If art-pop is a term with any currency, Now would be somewhere between Pollock and Kandinsky – free-flowing yet structured, vivid yet soothing, bold yet with numerous untold hidden depths. They manage to steer clear of sounding like a mere mesh of disparate influences badly thrust together – because they not only have a great understanding of the rhythmical heart in everything, but have the ability to apply it to their own restless, driving sound. Now could be described as catchy, contemporary, inventive, exotic, melodious and harmonious 21st century pop music. The group released their debut album, ‘Frisbee Hot Pot’ on Pickled Egg in June 2006.
http://www.pickled-egg.co.uk/now.htm
http://www.myspace.com/nowtheband

"DRAGON OR EMPEROR are a bass and drums punk/jazz/metal powerhouse, with a spontaneous feel that frequently threatens to spill over into hysteria. This is partly down to Stewart Brackley’s monstrous distended fuzz bass riffs, but has more to do with his wild evocation of what it might sound like if Yamataka Eye found himself trapped inside the body of David Thomas" [The Wire]

"The James Brown-insired yeh-yeh groove of The Make Up, given a metal makeover. This enormous, near hallucinogenic duo remind me of prime '76 Pere Ubu. Seriously mighty" [Everett True, Plan B]
http://www.pickled-egg.co.uk/dragonoremperor.htm
http://www.myspace.com/dragonoremperor

ODDFELLOWS CASINO perform a live soundtrack to 'The Séance', a short film by Brighton filmmaker, Toby Amies. 'The Séance’ follows the demise of legendary Victorian freakshow host, Ambrose Oddfellow, as drink, tragedy and the advent of picture-houses force him to host phoney seances for the gullible aristocracy of Brighton. But who knows what can happen when dabbling with the forces of darkness... The cast includes former Salvador Dali model Drako Zarhazar (as Ambrose Oddfellow), Michael Attree (the world moustache championship holder), Dave Mounfield (portly comedian and nice chap) and the legendary Heidi Heels. Oddfellows Casino make some of the most swooningly melodic pop-as-art being recorded today: lush, intimate constructions made from a mixture of folk, jazz, avant garde pop, show tunes, bright acoustic and electronic textures, with classical flourishes, all employed with great empathy and tenderness. They’ve released two albums on Pickled Egg.
http://www.pickled-egg.co.uk/oddfellowscasino.htm
http://www.myspace.com/oddfellowscasino

BLACK CARROT As febrile and hostile as Van Der Graaf Generator, as pounding and grainy as Faust, as instinctive and mercurial as Can, this is one far-out combo. A crisp and sharp trio, comprising drums, both double and electric bass, electric piano and tenor sax and assorted woodwind instruments. Dedicated to the virtues of improvisation, it is hard to actually categorise them easily – which is to the good. This is music that has the rigour of improvisation done well but also is accessible via the jazzy rhythms, at times they reminiscent of a New York-style band like Defunct or James Chance and the Contortions from the punk jazz/loft side of the no-wave days.http://blackcarrot.net

THE DOOZER builds. He has previously built stone houses and wooden ships. He is currently building music. Raised around the Fenlands of Cambridgeshire, the city drew closer and closer, the lights brighter and the time shorter. The city informs his music. His music informs the city. Songs evolve around watching and talking, buying and borrowing. Characters pass by, situations are imagined, colours are added and the resultant is a forming song. His debut album, ‘Sheet Music’, was recorded mainly on Saturday mornings, bright and early. Pop music was the aim; pop music isn’t quite the result. Pop music is The Doozer’s music, only filtered through all of the colours and sounds you’ve imagined when walking through the street or down your lane or when your batteries died.
http://www.myspace.com/thedoozerman

From Glasgow come THE FAMILY ELAN, weavers of raw folk magic. The Family Elan is Chris Hladowski - bouzouki, vocals, guitar, baglamas, fiddle, gimbri, clarinet, thigh slapping, and an unknown Chinese Lute – and Hanna Tuulikki - metal flute, wooden flute, wooden recorder, plastic recorder, voice. Both players have been involved in critical UK groups such as Scatter, Nalle and One Ensemble, they release their debut album on Chicago’s Locust Records in late 2007.
http://www.myspace.com/familyelan