Gravid Hands presents.....

Library Tapes
Wild Dogs in Winter
The Clocks Sometime, Soft

Friday 8th April

Cafe OTO
18-22 Ashwin Street
Dalston
London
E8 3DL

£6 advance; £8 on the door

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/112824

Library Tapes

Library Tapes was formed in 2004 in gävle, sweden by David Wenngren. His music consists of plaintive piano and guitar melodies, arranged over field recordings and pastel drones to create deeply private, pastoral soundscapes which are often stripped back to the point of austerity. Rather than seeking to repel the listener, this minimal aesthetic draws one in to a soundworld of startling poignancy where the slightest touch or gesture carries huge emotional weight. The album 'A Summer Beneath the Trees (2008, Make Mine) was described by Pitchfork as
"neither a stereotypically sad record nor a happy one-- it's just human, highlighting emotional extremes to imply the whole range between them".
In October 2010 Wenngren returned with his 5th album, 'Like Green Grass Against a Blue Sky', which also features the haunting cello arrangements of longtime collaborator Danny Norbury. The album is haunting and beautiful, and represents Library Tapes' most fully-realised foray to date into modern classical territory.

www.librarytapes.bandcamp.com

Wild Dogs in Winter

Taking cues from UK indie heroes such as Hood and Crescent, Wild Dogs in Winter infuse tragically beautiful vocal and guitar melodies with the sort of crumbling, lo-fi electronica which sits comfortably with the more experimental facets of Anticon's output, creating gorgeous clouds of sound which are underpinned by deft touches from a continually inventive and sensitive live rhythm section. Add a sprinkling of the less generic aspects of Post-Rock's chiming guitar tendencies, and a large helping of the brooding melancholy of Low, and you'll have some idea of this band's sound and gravitas.

"Mixing the gritty urbane sounds of subdued electronica, with an ambient structure, and restrained vocals muffled behind, the Maidstone band's slow-burning, elegiac tones are something their predecessors would be proud of."

(Subbacultcha review)

http://www.myspace.com/wilddogsinwinter

The Clocks Sometime, Soft

Ellis Gardiner takes Swirling Wurlitzer loops reprocesses them through all manner of dusty modular contraptions, reminiscent in appearance of the console at some far-flung Eastern Bloc control centre. Muted tones form eerie, repetitive melodies which interlock and cycle to create delicate, contemplative music of a deeply melancholy persuasion.

Come down, should be a belter.
GH