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Tŷ Pawb & Wrexfest 2024 Yn Cyflwyno
Group Listening
Mae Paul Jones a Stephen Black gyda'i gilydd wedi cydweitho yn gerddorol dros y degawd diwethaf, meant yn cael eu hadnabod fel y “woodwind-and-key-wielding, sculptural-papier-mâché-hat-wearing” Group Listening.
Yn dilyn Clarinét & Piano: Selected Works Vol. 1 (2018) a Vol. 2 (2022), a dynnodd ar wahân, synfyfyriodd, ac ail-luniodd clasuron amgylchynol cwlt gan pobl fel Robert Wyatt, Arthur Russell a Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Walks (2024) — monolith modernaidd wedi'i gladdu'n ddwfn yn y coed — yw eu cyfrol gyntaf o cyfansoddiadau gwreiddiol.
Mae Walks (2024) yn tynnu o recordiadau maes gan Ernest Hood; echdynnu Harold Budd; sacsoffon Sam Gendel; "naturioldeb uwch" ffotograff Martin Parr; y eglurder a phenodoldeb safle cerddoriaeth amgylchynol Japaneaidd, amgylcheddol ac oes newydd yr 80au a'r 90au, ac, yn amlwg, nofel ffug-fywgraffyddol Robert Walser The Walk — gwerthfawrogiad o'r gofod athronyddol a roddwyd gan deithiau cerdded i gerddwyr.
Awdl i'r potensial seicedelig ysgafn o grwydro o gwmpas mewn rhyw le, unrhyw le, pob lle: y llefydd yn eich meddwl eich hun, Mae Teithiau Cerdded yn eich gwahodd i wrando a meddwl; i lithro trwy ffabrig amser ychydig neu lawer, yn dibynnu ar ba mor hir sydd gennych. Ar y cyfan, er mwyn aralleirio Walser, mae'n eich gwahodd i aredig a blodeuo eich hun yn y tywynnu, blodeuo presennol.
Diva Harris, Tachwedd 2023
"Exquisite neo-classical work" Electronic Sound Review
“Supremely serene” Uncut
"Hazy, bright and sleepy - a dreamtime soundscape" Elizabeth Alker, BBC R3
“Inspired…brimming with life” Aquarium Drunkard
"These are the artists and artworks the world needs....they have produced something golden" Louder Than War
“Canonical ambient works sublimely re-arranged" **** MOJO
“It’s too easy to talk about how immersive ambient music is, but experiencing Group Listening live is an immersive experience….. the music is practically otherworldly” Metronome
“Absolutely beautiful’ Tom Ravenscroft, BBC Radio 6 Music
Drysau: 6:30pm
Tocynnau: £12
Mynediad gyd Band Wrexfest 2024
Cymorth Gan:
Meilir
Mae Meilir yn un o artistiaid mwyaf beiddgar cerddoriaeth gyfoes, mae o yn cyfuno crefft cerddorol arbenigol gydag ymagwedd delynegol ddi-ofn a synwyredd sonig hynod eclectig.
Creu seinluniau arloesol gyda chymysgedd idiosyncratig o biano, gitâr, a syntheseiswyr amrywiol gydag offeryniaeth mor annhebygol â phiano bawd, teipiadur hynafol, gwydrau gwin, hyd yn oed hambwrdd llawn cerrig.
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Tŷ Pawb & Wrexfest 2024 Presents
Group Listening Live
Musical collaborators for the past decade, Paul Jones and Stephen Black are together
known as the woodwind-and-key-wielding, sculptural-papier-mâché-hat-wearing Group
Listening.
Following renegade reinterpretation records Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works Vol. 1 (2018)
and Vol. 2 (2022), which pulled apart, pondered, and re-shaped cult ambient classics by
the likes of Robert Wyatt, Arthur Russell and Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Walks (2024) — a
shining modernist monolith buried deep in the woods — is their first volume of completely
original compositions.
Walks draws from the field recordings of Ernest Hood; the abstraction of Harold Budd; the
saxophone of Sam Gendel; the “heightened naturalism” of a Martin Parr photograph; the
clarity and site-specificity of Japanese ambient, environmental & new age music of the
80s and 90s, and, prominently, Robert Walser’s pseudo-biographical novella The Walk —
an appreciation of the philosophical space gifted by walks to walkers.
An ode to the gently psychedelic potential of wandering around in some place, any place,
every place: the places in one’s own mind, Walks invites you to listen and think; to slip
through the fabric of time a little or a lot, depending on how long you’ve got. Over all, to
paraphrase Walser, it invites you to glow and flower yourself in the glowing, flowering
present.
Diva Harris, November 2023
"Exquisite neo-classical work" Electronic Sound Review
“Supremely serene” Uncut
"Hazy, bright and sleepy - a dreamtime soundscape" Elizabeth Alker, BBC R3
“Inspired…brimming with life” Aquarium Drunkard
"These are the artists and artworks the world needs....they have produced something golden" Louder Than War
“Canonical ambient works sublimely re-arranged" **** MOJO
“It’s too easy to talk about how immersive ambient music is, but experiencing Group Listening live is an immersive experience….. the music is practically otherworldly” Metronome
“Absolutely beautiful’ Tom Ravenscroft, BBC Radio 6 Music
Doors: 6:30pm
Tickets £12
Entry with Wrexfest Wristband
Support Comes From:
Meilir
Meilir is one of contemporary music’s most audacious artists, melding expert songcraft with a fearless lyrical approach and wildly eclectic sonic sensibility.
Creating innovative soundscapes with an idiosyncratic blend of piano, guitar, and assorted synthesizers with such unlikely instrumentation as a thumb piano, an antique typewriter, wine glasses, even a tray full of gravel.
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Strange Remedies
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Tŷ Pawb, Market Street, Wrexham, United Kingdom
GBP 12.00
