Dead Rat Orchestra / Umbrella Spokes SAT 13th

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This is going to be amazing....

dead rat orchestra (Colchester, UK) + Umbrella Spokes (UK) Live


The Boom Boom Room Saturday November 13th 2004



“Their first song was on 6 wine glasses, a violin, a tuning fork, and some Dansette locked scratch grooves…..last piece ended in explosive laughter, Eskimo Style....one of the best bands I have ever heard”

Noel Lobley aka Umbrella Spokes



Who are the dead rat orchestra?

Three players. Broken melodies, fragments of noise, sounds found in stones and at the back of our throats. For every event a new set is crafted, worked and sculpted through the physicality of feet stomping, metal beating, instruments breaking and voices cracking and laughing.

Creating with anything we can draw a sound from, our tools are many: guitar, Rhodes keyboard, violin, accordion, wine glasses, balloons, organ pipes, cattle grids, harmoniums, Dansette record players, bowed saws, sine waves, feedback, Celeste, tubular bells, singing bowls, music boxes, toy birds and copper-plated granddad speech. The exploration of these instruments has created music of constantly varying form.

Aggressiveness is often found in the most sonically delicate moments. We seek to make music with resonance: joyous, beautiful, and sad. Improvisation is key and no matter what structure we may create, every time we perform we are free to stray. Our music could be described as free folk Improv electronica, depending on what we have done, used or listened to.

To give some sonic references: AMM, Japanese improv, Set Fire to Flames, The Dream Syndicate, The Boxhead Ensemble, Vibracathedral Orchestra and folk players tuning up. In our quest to create joyous new music we have found ourselves deeply inspired by the sounds of Umbrella Spokes (Noel Lobley) and his impressive collection of music’s from around the world.

the dead rat orchestra are:-

Robin Alderton: currently studying fine art at Byam Shaw College in London, Robin is a hoarder, harmonium player and record manipulator. His background is outside of a traditional musical education.

Nathan Mann: possibly the most accomplished multi-instrumentalist of the rats.

Daniel Merrill: With backgrounds in both folk and classical violin, graduated from a degree in music in 2002, in which he specialised in electro-acoustic music.



Umbrella Spokes

Presents Smithsonian Folkways Live & Archive Field Recordings from around the world

“Mor ‘04 was not without its curveballs……Umbrella Spokes” HOTPRESS

Who is Umbrella Spokes?

Umbrella Spokes was established to broadcast acoustic field recordings, drawing from the entire history of recording. It also aims to discover the references and links to other forms of composed music and sound, especially electronic. Umbrella Spokes aims to broadcast and re-socialise' these sounds by placing them back in public social spaces: galleries, clubs, bars, churches, festivals, workshops, the backs of Lorries, children’s' parties and on radio. Work has previously been performed in venues and radio in Scotland, England, Ireland and Serbia. Forthcoming outlets include a radio show on London's Resonance FM, and work in venues in London, Glasgow, Spain, and Belgrade and on Serbia's radio station B92.

A field recording is a photograph of musical processes that are and will be continuing whether or not they are being recorded. Sets consisting of Kenyan vinyl found abandoned in homes and in a Nairobi attic with each recording played acoustically. South African Shepard manages to create the sound of a 303 acid generator clogged with glue using little more that his mouth, stick, a vulture feather and some sinew. A lifetime of talent…

Dead Rat Orchestra + Umbrella Spokes Live!

Saturday November 13th 2004 @ 9pm

The Boom Boom Room is located above Patrick Conway’s Pub,

70 Parnell Street, Dublin 1.

Admission €10 / €8 (flyer)