UNITE is an exploration, through music, of exile, emigration and movement in space and time across Europe, mixing traditional music from the British Isles and Eastern Europe with electronic beats. Familiar traditional songs and forgotten popular songs are given a new and radical twist with breakbeat and dubstep influences. Expect and eclectic array of artists; inclucing Tim and Hamid from TGU, singer-songwriter Jim Moray, Martin Furey, the Perunika trio, visuals and more surprises!
Saxophonists Andy Schofield and Jo McCallum have created a dynamic new 17 piece jazz orchestra. The line-up unites established artists with the finest of the region's young emerging talent, as they storm through a selection of original works by North West composers and arrangers.
Their new project for 2010, supported by Arts Council England profiles two national guitar greats, Mike Walker (Jacqui Dankworth, Mike Gibbs, etc.) and Stuart McCallum (Cinematic Orchestra, Don Weller, etc.). The music of these artists has been arranged for the jazz orchestra with guest appearances from these incredible musicians.
This collaboration between the great French jazz trumpeter Erik Truffaz and the extraordinary funk/soul/blues beatbox stylings of Simple Spirit's vocalist Sly Johnson has thrilled audiences across the world.
Erik Truffaz mines the world to create his unique form of jazz - the so-called 'European sounds' are really the sounds of the global village in the digital age. Fusing these world, electronic and ambient influences with an ongoing love for the music of Miles Davis and an incredible minimalist style, has led to a sound that is all his own and exemplified beautifully in this wonderful partnership with Sly Johnson (aka The Mic Buddah/The Beatboxologist) - a member of the acclaimed French rap collective Saian Supa Crew.
Band on the Wall is now delighted to bring this sensational duo to its Manchester stage.
"Truffaz plays less like Miles than a jazz-rock [Brian] Eno, making rapturous atmospheres from a minimum of notes ... a jazz with brawn, soul and plenty of wide open space." - David Fricke
The launch of a brand new Manchester-based record label Caserta Red.
Formed in and run from Manchester the label have their own inhouse PR team and have already established themselves as a home for quality music whose artist portfolio includes some of the regions's most loved artists including acclaimed Failsworth rock band Puressence.
This evening features a live performance by James Mudriczki & Lowell Killen followed by Caserta's latest signing - young guitar band Glass who will showcase their debut album Teenage Galaxies.
The band features Paul Baird on vocals/guitar, Martin Cowan on bass and Chris Norwood on drums.
£10 admission includes a copy of Glass' album (to be collected upon arrival).
Performing collaboratively for the first time, prepared piano player Hauschka, 12-string guitarist James Blackshaw, and singer/songwriter Nancy Elizabeth play their beautifully matched music together in a contoured programme of solo and ensemble performances.
The Kept Impulses tour brings together three gifted young music makers who weave traditional folk, contemporary classical and modern song into textured, emotional and transfixing songs and musical suites. The prepared piano player Hauschka (FatCat) from Germany, singer/multi-instrumentalist Nancy Elizabeth (Leaf Label) from Manchester, and the 12-string guitarist James Blackshaw (Young God) from Hastings, Kent are brought together for this special tour to entice concert halls with their beautifully matched music. All three have the endearing talent of being able to harness wild impulses into measured and musical journeys that run deep.
Each artist will perform their own material each night, with the other two musicians guesting on selected tracks. The ensemble will also perform material devised collaboratively together for the very first time. The acts are distinct but musically complimentary and these collaborations are an exciting prospect, combining Hauschka's percussive piano interventions with James Blackshaw's cascading acoustic guitar and Nancy Elizabeth's pure and emotive vocals.
The internationally-acclaimed collaboration featuring two of the world's greatest blues slide guitarists performing together on our Manchester stage. A sensational night of pure and blissful music in the company of two major forces in the history of the blues.
Louisiana Red was born in Alabama in 1932, and is one of the last great bluesmen still performing, who earned his place in the blues via the harsh realities of life and who learned his craft from the fathers and grandfathers of the blues; Son House, Elmore James, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Arthur Crudup, Robert Nighthawk, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker.
When Louisiana Red performs, the songs are often only a launch pad for expressing his immediate feelings, in the almost lost tradition of spontaneous composition that goes back to the original Delta Blues artists and even further to the West-African griots. From the old acoustic Delta sounds of Robert Johnson, all the way to the urban electric Chicago style of his mentor Muddy Waters, Louisiana Red’s great versatility shines.
Michael Messer was born in Middlesex in 1956, and is recognised as one of the leading slide guitarists and blues innovators around the world. His playing encompasses the entire history of the blues, but is uniquely contemporary and highly individual. Being an English bluesman with an international reputation for slide guitar is a rarity in itself and Messer’s obsessive appetite for knowledge of his art is virtually unrivalled. The American magazine, Spirit listed Michael as one of the greatest slide guitarists ever alongside Duane Allman and Ry Cooder.
Band on the Wall is delighted to host The Virginmarys Cast The First Stone album launch show
In an era where they say that less is definitely more,The Virginmarys are the real deal. Never being a band to do things by halves the young Macclesfield power trio have built a reputation for themselves with a three pointy attack: Explosive live performances, killer songs that will have you hanging from the edge of your seat and an unbelieveable belief and sheer passion that's poured into everything they do.
Drawing on influences that range from the early blues to heavy rock by the way of psychedelica of the late 60s & 70s, The Virginmarys continue to wow both critics and fans alike with their powerful & unique sound.
2009 saw The Virginmarys playing to strong audiences in their local area & have now started to spread their magic further afield. Having just recorded their debut alhum Cast The First Stone with GUN singer Toby Jepson in the producer's chair & legendary Mike 'Aerosmith/Ac/Dc/Metallica/Cult' Fraser clearing his desk to get involved by mixing the album.
This hotly tipped awaited debut is released at The Band On The Wall and has been preceded by Classic Rock magazine tipping them as one of their top bands to watch out for in 2010.
With support tours with GUN , New Model Army and Medina Lake already confirmed The Virginmarys are off & running!
Tickets for the show include a copy of the brand new album which can be collected upon entry of the show.
Brighton has always been a breeding ground for new bands and exploratory music. This tour features the foremost representatives of the city's most exciting and critically acclaimed musical export of recent times, the Willkommen Collective - a loose-knit community of musicians and bands sharing lo-fi, nu-folk and alt-country roots.
Beloved of Brian Eno, Guy Garvey and Bob Harris, The Leisure Society made national headlines last year with an Ivor Novello nomination and will be joined by Sons of Noel and Adrian - The Willkommen's post-folk orchestra recently seen touring with Mumford & Sons and playing alongside Laura Marling.
Jesca Hoop was born in Southern California to strict Mormon parents. She grew up singing traditional folk tunes in four-part harmony, but soon broke away from this background, becoming a homesteader and working with children. As a nanny for Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan’s three children, Hoop gained both musical experience and notoriety; Waits said of Jesca, 'Her music is like going swimming in a lake at night'. Following exposure through radio station KCRW, Jesca toured with Polyphonic Spree, Mark Knopfler, Andrew Bird and Elbow – with Guy Garvey also dueting with Hoop on her latest acclaimed album Hunting My Dress.
‘One of alternative folk-pop’s most arresting recent arrivals, singing like an outcast angel and writing like a restless explorer’ - The Sunday Times
‘There’s a thin line between genuine eccentricity and precious affectation of weirdness, but Jesca Hoop walks it well’ - The Guardian
‘Exudes oodles of charisma and originality, thanks mostly to Hoop’s delightfully freaky take on traditional folk convention‘ - BBC Music
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