Henry Dagg/Evan Parker album launch at Faversham's Hot Tin
The event will include a live improvised performance
The new Henry Dagg/Evan Parker musical project - Then Through Now - will launch at Faversham’s Hot Tin on 20th November.
The album launch will include a live improvised performance as well as support from Filter Feeder.
This event is a benefit gig to support The Hot Tin as a grassroots venue and all ticket sales go to the venue - with a ‘pay what you feel’ ticket price guide of £10-£25.
Henry and Evan improvised together for the first time as part of the Free Range series in Canterbury, Kent, on December 2, 2021. For the performance, Evan played soprano saxophone, and Henry developed a new electronic instrument called the Stage Cage, to both process Evan’s live sound as well as generate its own sounds.
The Stage Cage includes four valve test-oscillators, a pair of ring modulators, frequency shifter, chromatic zither, and a variable tape delay system (consisting of two quarter-inch tape machines, eight feet apart – the first machine records, and the tape runs past moveable playback heads to the second machine, allowing several replays).
Towards the end of the performance, the tape machines were stopped, their reels reversed and set to play: the improvisation from then on was overlaid by a reverse reproduction of what Henry and Evan had already been performing, with the reverse recording itself also being subjected to various treatments.
Filter Feeder
Filter Feeder is the ongoing musical project, started in 2004, of Julian Doyle - electronic composer, percussionist and dj.
The project has encompassed experiments with analogue electronics, home made electro-acoustic devices, political sample/field recording sound collages, a kind of driving abstract dub (once described as 1950's techno!) and dj mixes blending traditional music from around the world with contemporary electronic tracks.
In current live practice the sounds and motifs that form the basic structure are inspired by African and Asian traditions which are at times underpinned by a minimal techno pulse. These sounds are then processed and manipulated, looped and filtered to create a rhythmic soundscape heavily informed by the space and abstraction of dub. Often this soundscape is interwoven with found sounds and diverse field recordings.
