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Sat 25 February
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Theatre Development Centre
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9.30pm
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€8/6
PAPER DOLLHOUSE (Finders Keepers UK)
Support from: School Tour
Paper Dollhouse is the work of Astrud Steehouder; dark minimal gothic folk which comprises haunting vocals, acoustic guitar, effects pedals, found sounds, slide projector and minimal electronic atmospherics. Her debut album 'A Box Painted Black' is set for release this winter on Bird Records, the femme-folk off shoot of the Finders Keepers family.
Inspired by early 60s electronic pioneers Delia Derbyshire and Eliane Radigue, bleak British television soundtracks, minimal dark electronica, Arthur Russell, Christine Harwood and France Galle, the music combines simple folk songs with environmental and electronic textural sounds and visuals to create a pared down, beautiful experience.
Named after the 1988 cult horror film Paperhouse "I watched the film when I was about 10 and was really drawn in by it. Something about the quality and tone of it, the psychology and aesthetic has stayed with me ever since. I'm into actual dollhouses and models of things as well. I used to make these little viewfinder boxes containing little scenes in them as a child for fun, I found them magical."
Steehouder has created a new kind of (black) magic on her debut release. 'A Box Painted Black' was recorded entirely in the kitchen and garden of her London home amongst the incidental sounds of trains passing, children playing, door slams and running water. The songs retain the ambience of the place they were recorded. Often first takes and recorded as soon as the songs had been penned, they combine an immediacy and raw quality which fills the work with a naivety and emotive dark tonality.
Dense in simplicity and thick with silence the songs are restrained, intense, lingering and decorated with white noise. Steehouder names "bewildering post-nuclear landscapes, bleak fields, forests, thunderstorms and archaic industrial objects in the middle of nowhere" as influences, rather than the listing the much and over cited normal singer-songwriter fare. The songs possess a folk pop sensibility rich in mysterious hooks that creep up on you from around a dark alleyway, following you all the way home at night.
Steehouder has recently been working with photographer and writer Nina Bosnic in a live capacity using a variety of sonic and visual techniques including an old slide projector, a dictaphone and prismatic imagery, to create a live show which is as haunting as it is bare.
There is a raw completeness to the work, the body of which is clearly a deep and evolving spectrum. Hypnotic, meditative and a midnight look through the keyhole of Paper Dollhouse’s secret garden "the album's like a Pandora's box of messages. It was kind of a dark solace for me, the slight way the album happened. Almost hidden."
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Wed 7 March
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Triskel Christchurch
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8pm
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€18/16
Improvised Music Company Presents
Song Cycle
NormaWinstone and Tommy Halferty
And The Bill Carrothers Trio
Song traditions of different complexions come under the scrutiny of five exceptional musicians in this concert that features duo and trio performance with a memorable quintet finale.
Certainly England’s and arguably Europe’s finest jazz singer, Norma Winstone has saved the very best work of a four-decade career until now. Recent recordings for ECM have drawn forth something special and here she reunites with guitarist Tommy Halferty, a perfect foil for her lissome voice and forthright delivery. It’s a style all the more affecting for its absence of histrionics and melodrama, attesting to the power of time, experience and musical refinement.
With a brace of cds together, drummer Kevin Brady here reconvenes his acclaimed trio with Dublin bassist David Redmond and Michigan pianist Bill Carrothers. One of the most lyrical and individual voices in jazz today, Carrothers is a pianist who stands apart from the crowd, and his impressive back catalogue includes the elegiac Armistice and Civil War Diaries, CDs that stand as powerful statements on the human dimension in all conflicts. Distilled over many nights as rhythm section of choice for Dublin's leading pianists, Brady and Redmond play with all the nuance and dynamics that the idiom demands, alive to the invention and sophistication of one of the finest pianists in the US today.
€18/16
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Fri 16 March
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Triskel Christchurch
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8pm
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€16/12
In association with Note Productions and Goethe Institute
Arguably Europe’s leading young jazz pianist performs his debut solo shows in Ireland. With his trio [em], Wollny has been identified by Jazzwise as “ a major talent in European jazz”. Following a successful tour here with [em], these solo concerts will be greeting with much anticipation by those interested in new European jazz.
The classically trained Michael Wollny discovered jazz upon receiving a present of Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert. He leapt to international attention with the jarring, edgy, [em] who Stuart Nicholson described as "probably the leading piano trio in European jazz" The Guardian. He also released acclaimed duo albums on acclaimed label ACT with arguably Europe's with sax innovator Heinz Sauer and pianist Joachim Kuhn
Wollny is a natural jazz pianist. He improvises and affirms his musical roots while constantly discovering new ground at the same time. Yet his musical origin is, without a doubt, European with a clear focus on the venerable western European music history. Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert, German romanticism and the French composer Olivier Messiaen have all influenced him just as much as the music from the other side of the Atlantic and new influences abound.
Wollny creates his own musical universe, a language of a kind that only a musician who grew up with Björk, Jarrett and Ligeti can create.
"Wollny is the spearhead of a new generation of European jazz musicians Jazz Magazine (France)
"Using jazz sensibilities in the most creative ways." John Fordham, The Guardian, UK
"The is the future sound of jazz The Observer
€16/12
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