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The Dead Rat Orchestra
Presented by: The Dentist| 0 | LONDON: The Dentist |
|---|---|
| P | Saturday 13th April, 2013 |
| N | 7:00pm |
Hladowski & Joynes
"The best and certainly the most refreshing new recording of English traditional songs you’ll hear this year, as far away from the mass of safe and glossy production-line albums being made by the class of 2012 as you can get.” IAN ANDERSON, EDITOR, fROOTS MAGAZINE
The duo of singer Stephanie Hladowski and guitarist C Joynes was formed in 2011. Following a collaborative Late Junction Session broadcast on BBC Radio 3 they recorded ‘The Wild Wild Berry’ (Bo’Weavil Recordings), an album of traditional English songs and tunes arranged from field recordings selected from the library at Cecil Sharp House.
On its release in Sept 2012, ‘The Wild Wild Berry’ received extensive critical acclaim (MOJO: Top 5 Folk Albums 2012; FOLK ROOTS: Editor’s Choice Album Of The Year 2012; UNCUT: 8/10)
The Dead Rat Orchestra
Since forming in 2002, The Dead Rat Orchestra have played regularly throughout the UK and Internationally, always attempting to react or interact with their surroundings and the people and ideas that they come across - often crafting each performance for the particular space in which they find themselves (from former abattoirs to churches, concert halls to coppice woods).
“Acutely haunting and occasionally brutal”, their music is always focused on the freedom to play. It would not be fair to say that the music is totally improvised, yet neither would it be correct to class it composed. A framework of ideas or sounds is created, but the exact form of a piece is never derived from these.
A focus on performances rather than recording and the constant desire to experiment, expand and play has driven the music on - musical magpies to the last, any means of ringing some resonance out of sounds found either in trembling strings, stretched skins, cracked metal, scratched vinyl, blood, sweat and snow is allowable. Through this no limits approach a music of sometimes quiet beauty, dark brutality and even ecstatic joy has been carved. Often precarious, dancing on the edges of falling apart, their music has shuffled into existence.
