PENULTIMATE PRESS AND KYE PRESENT: ASTOR / VICKY LANGAN / GRAHAM LAMBKIN

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Two days from two great labels Penultimate Press (UK) and Kye (USA) who've put out some fantastic releases from the likes of Graham Lambkin, Henning Christian, Stefan Jaworzyn, Jacques Brodier and Matthew P. Hopkins in recent years.

On the Saturday, NY-based multidisciplinary artist and KYE label curator Graham Lambkin returns to OTO, alongside Irish artist Vicky Lanagan - whose vulnerable, emotionally charged performances envelop audiences in an often troublingly intense aura of dark intimacy, and Mark Harwood's project Astor - whose works encompass a wide variety of sources and techniques as a means of exploring audio that rubs shoulders with narrative, the visual and the hallucinogenic.

ASTOR

Mark Harwood is a writer, publisher and musician recording as Astor. His works encompass a wide variety of sources and techniques as a means of exploring audio that rubs shoulders with narrative, the visual and the hallucinogenic. Astor has two LP’s out, ‘Alcor’ and ‘Inland’ on Kye records (USA). He also runs Penultimate Press which has released Dennis Johnson’s ‘lost’ minimalist masterpiece ‘November’ alongside four books by Graham Lambkin and records by Henning Christiansen, Jacques Brodier, Matthew P.Hopkins and others.

VICKY LANGAN

Vicky Langan is an Irish artist whose vulnerable, emotionally charged performances envelop audiences in an often troublingly intense aura of dark intimacy. Her performance practice operates across several often overlapping fields, chiefly performance, sound, and film. She has performed widely, both solo and in collaboration with experimental filmmaker Maximilian Le Cain, Paul Hegarty (La Société des Amis du Crime), Meitheal (with David Colohan and Pelt’s Mike Gangloff), United Bible Studies, the Quiet Club, and many more. As a curator & promoter she is best known for Black Sun, her regular weirdo/outer limits music night, through which she invited renowned makers of strange sounds from around the world to play for the first time in Ireland. Langan co-organises the Avant, an annual festival for Contemporary Arts in Cork, Ireland.

GRAHAM LAMBKIN

Graham Lambkin is a multidisciplinary artist, currently based in Upstate New York, who first came to prominence in the early 90′s through the formation of his music group The Shadow Ring. Combining a D.I.Y. post-punk ethic with folk music, cracked electronics, and surreal wordplay, The Shadow Ring created a unique hybrid sound that set them apart from their peers and continues to show as an influence today.

Following the dissolution of The Shadow Ring Lambkin embarked on a series of striking and highly original solo releases, including ‘Salmon Run’ (2007) and ‘Amateur Doubles’ (2012), a critically acclaimed trilogy with experimental tape music artist Jason Lescalleet:’The Breadwinner’ (2007), ‘Air Supply’ (2010) and ‘Photographs’ (2013), and ‘Making A’ (2013) a collaboration with legendary table-top guitarist and founding member of AMM, Keith Rowe.

Since 2001 Lambkin has also curated the Kye label, releasing work by contemporary sound artists such as Vanessa Rossetto, Rushford & Talia, and Astor, as well as archival collections from the likes of Henning Christiansen, Moniek Darge and Anton Heyboer.