Wednesday 10 July 2019, 7.30pm
Don the Tiger is the solo project of Adrián de Alfonso, an ubiquitous presence in Barcelona's underground of the 00s, and the nomadic guitarist who has played with the likes of Lydia Lunch, Mark Cunningham (Mars), Robert Forster (Go-Betweens) and Carla Bozulich.
Having relocated to Berlin in 2011, he now takes inspiration from everything he misses in that city -be it bolero, rumba, MPB, baroque fantasy, guabina, flamenco or Fania Records- and mixes it with musique concrète and elaborate sampling techniques, delivering it all in a way that owes more to avant-rock than to anything else.
"Matanzas", his second album to date, was mixed and produced with the help of Lucrecia Dalt, and mastered by Rashad Becker.
Live he's accompanied by Andi Stecher, who plays Latin percussion, synths and tape delay.
Harrga is a band formed in Bristol in 2017 by Miguel Prado (Nzʉmbe) and Dali de Saint Paul (EP/64, Viridian Ensemble, The Sound Cupboard,DSC).
In May 2019, they released Héroïques Animaux de la Misère, on Avon Terror Corps, in honour of those who burn the borders & keep indelible marks, glossolalia and xenoglossia. Diaspora of the future. Harrga means A Burn in the Moroccan Darija dialect, and also recalls the term harragas, which refers to migrants who burn their ID papers and seek asylum in Europe. The album is explicitly framed as a tribute to these asylum seekers, bearing a frenzied urgency which refuses the listener a comfortable position, with an intensity to match the similar combination of political and sonic radicalism of Moor Mother, who makes a brief contribution to the final track “À Vif”.
In May 2020, they published “Femmes d’Intérieur” on Takuroku, (Café Oto digital label) considering this time domestic abuse and exploring tropes of femininity.
Far Rainbow is an improvising duo from London formed in 2015 by Emily Mary Barnett and Bobby Barry. Barnett is a painter and percussionist whose work has been exhibited at several London galleries. Barry is a writer and composer who has collaborated with visual artists, film-makers and choreographers. They have released albums on labels including Fractal Meat Cuts, Linear Obsessional, Slightly Off Kilter and their own Zero Wave imprint, including collaborations with Cath Roberts, John Doran, and Colin Webster. Their latest, The Blue Hugeness, was released in 2023 by Metaphysical Powers.
"a spooky and hypnotic zone, one where machines seem to live in ghostly spaces" – Daryl Worthington, Spools Out, The Quietus
