Nocturne Folks: The Cesarians + Graan

Kaparte Promotions present:

Nocturne Folks with THE CESARIANS, Graan, Alex Monk

Friday 27 November
The Half Moon
10 Half Moon Lane, SE 24 9HU
020 7274 2733

Doors 8.00pm, music starts at 8.30pm, until 1am
Tickets £5 in advance from See Ticket and WeGotTickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/63507
£7 on the door

The Cesarians, the most talked band in town will play an outstanding set for the exclusive club Nocturne Folks, in the decadent settings of the glourious Half Moon in Herne Hill, on Friday 27 November.
Featuring ex members of Penthouse, Monkey Island and Baadar Meinhoff, it’s not since The Birthday Party crashed and burned in Berlin, that  the twisted sounds of old style decadence has been pumped so intensely through distorted amplifiers. London scenesters looking for a scene free of recycled rock, have found expression in The Cesarians cabaret world.
Had rock and roll been born in 1930’s urban Europe, and not 1930’s rural America, it would have been like this; part Kurt Weil, part Jacques Brel, part Ernst Kirchner, part klezma. Looking like a band formed in the mind of George Grosz, The Cesarians capture the urban zeitgeist via the junk shop instruments of old Europe . In their hands, a clarinet, trombone, piano, and drums beaten in waltz time, make raw and raucous rock and roll. Over this beautiful chaos Charlie Finke preaches his own intense message.
“As far as alt.rock oompah bands go, this lot are in a class of their own.” – David Sinclair, The Times Online
” It is classic, dirty rock and roll at it’s best, a sound missing for at least twenty-five years we’re damn happy it’s back.” – Bearded Magazine
www.myspace.com/thecesarians
http://thecesarians.com/

Graan formed spontaneously following a successful appearance under the Platform Five (Funf) at the Avantgarde festival in Schiphorst, Germany, in July 2008.
Graan make Avant-Enochian doom and science-fiction drone bringing heavy bass guitar frequencies into the electronic mix alongside gutteral  utterances, mordant guitar riffs and dystopian spoken word. Graan is approximately half the members of Stëllä Märïs Drönë Örchësträ and one of Drift of Signifieds, creating soundscapes where new weird electronica meets deep-listening Lovecraftian Delerium.
“If Aleister Crowley, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe and John Dee formed a band then this would be the result.  London’s Graan will crush your spirit with deafening static, claustrophobic low end, blasphemous ranting and monomaniacal pursuit of The Riff.” – Bang the Bore
www.graan.org.uk
www.myspace.com/graanulaar

Alex Monk is a musician and producer based in London and is fond of experimentation and improvisation, combining acoustic and digitally processed elements. Subjecting the guitar and found sounds to a variety of analogue and digital processes, Monk’s live improvised performances exhibit past, present and future sonic events. A creation of timeless artefacts akin to the apex of Post-Punk inventiveness, as well as today’s ecclesiastical drone rock.
www.myspace.com/alexmonk

Ship of Fools: SonVer + Human Greed

Ship of Fools: SonVer + Human Greed

Sunday 15 November
Bar & Co, Temple Pier
Victoria Embankment

Kaparte Promotions and Tursa exclusive club on the boat returns in November
with two other outstanding guests.

SonVer formed in November 2003, when Joanna Quail [cello] and Ben McLees [guitar] wrote and recorded ‘Until The Stones Melt’, a 9-minute track which would form the template for SonVer’s cinematic. post-rock soundscapes. During the summer of 2007. SonVer expanded to a 4-piece, with the addition of guitarist/bassist Ruban Byrne and drummer Alistair Richardson. In November 2008, SonVer release their second album ‘Luz del Abyss’, supported by a live show in Leige [Belgium] and a third appearance at The Union Chapel in London.

***Note: This set does not include the full line up of SonVer. Joanna Quail will be opening presenting some new ’solo’ material. She then will be joined by Ben McLees and special guest Will Connor (Vultures) for the rest of the performance.
http://www.myspace.com/sonver
http://www.sonver.co.uk

Human Greed was established in 2000 by Scottish writer Michael Begg and painter/illustrator, Deryk Thomas. The pair have, over 8 years and 3 full length recordings developed and refined a technique encompassing abstract electronica, field recordings, manipulated samples, and, increasingly – and most noticeably in their most recent album, Black Hill: Midnight at the Blighted Star – acoustic instrumentation.
http://www.myspace.com/humangreed
http://http://www.omnempathy.com

Tickets £6 in advance: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/54953
or £8 on the door.

More info:
http://www.kaparte.info
http://www.tursa.com

Hugo Race + Madam @ The Cross Kings

Kaparte Promotions present:

HUGO RACE (True Spirit, ex -Bad Seeds)

EXCLUSIVE UK DATE!

with support from
Madam
DJ set by Johnny Clash MBE and a very special secret guest…

The Cross Kings, 126 York Way London N1 OAX 0207 278 83 18

HUGO RACE
Melbourne-born multi-instrumentalist, performer and songwriter Hugo Race is an eclectic and prolific artist who has worked and lives in US, UK, France, Germany and Italy since 1988. He was a founding member of Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds (1983) with whom he also worked in the final stages of the Birthday Party. He appears on five CDs of the Bad Seeds catalogue. Through the 90’s he released a series of nine records under his own name with the Berlin-based musical collective The True Spirit for the Normal and Glitterhouse label, culminating in ‘The Long Time Ago’ double Cd retrospective released in 2001. In 1999 Hugo set up his own production base Helidex. Recording in different situations and locations from Brussels to Bologna, The True Spirit have followed a personal musical vision in a series of mutating line-ups that fuse the boundaries between blues and electronica, described by London Sounds as ‘night music for the soul’ and by Melody Maker as ‘industrial-trance-blues’. This is an exclusive solo London gig for Hugo Race and the last date of an extensive European and Australian tour. He is going to present fresh material from his acclaimed album ‘Between Hemispheres’.

Cult artist, eclectic visionary, whatever the label, Hugo Race has followed a relentlessly uncompromising artistic path since his teenage years as a founding member of the Bad Seeds (in 1983 he started playing in the terminal stages of the legendary Birthday Party and wound up appearing on five cds of the Bad Seed’s catalogue) – and as leader of underground 80s postpunk rockers The Wreckery he doesn’t just know music, he lives it. – Spooky Records
http://www.myspace.com/hugoraceandthetruespirit

MADAM
Madam is the project of singer/songwriter/producer Sukie Smith, whose abum ‘In Case of Emergency’ received outstanding reviews on the national press, and single ‘Calling for Love’ has accompanied us through the major radio stations for the past year.

‘Sukie Smith, better known as Madam, has a rare ability to combine the smoky, nocturnal atmospherics conjured by PJ Harvey or Portishead or the Velvet Underground with a pop sensibility’ – The Independent, One to Watch (April 2008)
‘Beautiful vocals set against a backdrop of acoustic guitars show great promise and give the track a distinct Portishead feel’ – Artrocker
http://www.myspace.com/madammusic

Special set by DJ JOHNNY CLASH MBE
Country, Bluegrass, Blues, Soul, Rock, Raggae/Ska/Bluebeat, Rockabilly/Rock and Roll, Rhythm and Blues, Folk, Southern/Northern Soul, Country Rock, Southern Rock, Doo-Wop, Garage, Psychedelic, Punk, Heavy Rock, Blues Rock, Progressive, etc.
http://www.myspace.com/clashjohnny

Tickets: £6 adv/£8 on the door
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/60947
and See Tickets

Naevus, David E. Williams, Tony Wakeford, Jerome Deppe

Wooden Lung in association with Kaparte Promotions present:

Naevus,  David E. Williams plus acoustic sets by Tony Wakeford and Jerome Deppe

‘an alternative post-Halloween showcase of experienced artists and musicians, who have often collaborated with each other giving life to multiple side projects’

Sunday 1 November

The Enterprise
2 Haverstock Hill
Camden, NW3 2BL
020 7485 2659

Doors 7.30pm until midnight
Tickets £5 on the door only
email: events@kaparte.info

NAEVUS
Naevus was formed in London in 1998 by Lloyd James and Joanne Owen. With their first two albums (Truffles of Love in 1999 and Soil in 2001), Naevus found themselves welcomed into the heart of the burgeoning post-industrial scene, while their third album, Behaviour (2002), marked a turning point in the band’s sound and paved the way for the classic albums which followed it (2004’s Perfection is a Process and 2007’s Silent Life). The group’s most recent album, Relatively Close to the Sea, was released by Hau Ruck! In 2008.
The group’s sound has been described as “the Wire of the dark folk scene” and “what Swans would sound like if they were English”, but there is much more to the group than this; their distinctive lyrics and modernist approach set Naevus clearly apart from their contemporaries. Fresh from performing at a sell-out festival in Rome, this gig will see the four-piece version of Naevus performing live favourites like ‘Hasty Bastard’ and ‘The Body Speaks in Tongues’, alongside new tracks from the forthcoming ‘Days That Go’ EP.
www.myspace.com/naevus

DAVID E.WILLIAMS
Though he’s dabbled in neo-Weimar cabaret, abrasive electronics and even film scores, David E. Williams is best known for electro-symphonic pop and a lyrical humor so dark that it’s not really funny. Some might call it gallows humor, but “gas chamber humor” is a bit more accurate for his love songs rife with murder, abuse and obscure references to eating. Williams has been described as “Barry Manilow’s evil twin” (Jim Knipfel, NY Press), “Liberace with a brain tumor” (Michael Moynihan, Blood Axis) and “Andrew Lloyd Webber in the final stages of cerebral cancer” (Headpress, U.K.).
www.myspace.com/davidewilliams

TONY WAKEFORD
Co-founder of Crisis and Death in June in the late 70s and early 80s Wakeford has always been the primary force in Sol Invictus. He has also composedd Classical music whilst recording outside the framework of Sol Invictus. He has subsequently brought transformative concepts into the familiar terrain of his principle group. He formed L’Orchestre Noir in the mid-1990s to explore classical and soundtrack composition. He also played bass, guitar and keyboards on a number of studio albums by Current 93 as well as playing with them live.
www.myspace.com/solinvictushq

JEROME DEPPE
Jerome Deppe is a painter, photographer and songwriter residing in Baltimore Maryland. Well traveled and no stranger to controversy, Jerome has been a fixture on the avant-garde music scene since the early 1980s. An alumnus of the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC Jerome has been involved in the proliferation of cutting edge imagery and is a vociferous proponent of free speech and free cultural expression. With the creation of his multi media creation of pathos and despair “Showtunes for the Damned”, Jerome has again crossed over boundaries and forged a new method of artistic expression.
www.myspace.com/gentlemenobscura

Lilies on Mars + Chicken Legs Weaver + Man Eat Man Eat Man

Friday 25 September

Kaparte Promotions presents: Nocturne Folks

Lilies on Mars
Chicken Legs Weaver
Man Eat Man Eat Man
Dj: Alien Jazz Party

Friday 25 September
8pm-1am
Tickets: £6 on the door only

The Half Moon
10 Half Moon Lane
London SE24 9HU
Closest tube: Brixton
Railways: Herne Hill
Info Line: 07870 832505
www.kaparte.info

Lilies On Mars is a London based female duo originally from Italy. They seems to already have caught the attention of several renowned people. So they met David Lynch in 2007 and composed a special tribute show following his conference in Palermo. Last summer they toured Europe with Italian experimental composer Battiato and collaborated to his new album. Their work can be described as experimental-dreamy-choral-noise-rock.
- ‘Otherwordly. Remarkable. Terribly sweet’ – Ben Hell (Club Hell)
- ‘Created from an abundance of musical experiences, Lilies On Mars have elaborated and expanded into a cosmos of the unknown, with tripped out melodies and droning distortion.’ – Altsound
www.myspace.com/liliesonmars

Kaparte is also proud to host an exclusive Chicken Legs Weaver solo set, with his exciting blend of primitive Rn’B and beat folk, glinding guitar and raucos grating voice, Andy truly nails the dark side of human nature.
www.myspace.com/andychickenlegsweaver

Debut gig for superband Man Eat Man Eat Man, a collaboration between members of Naevus and Knifeladder (Lloyd James, Hunter Barr) and instrumental post-rock SonVer (Ben Mc Lees). A journey into experimentation, think of Wire, The Birthday Party and PiL get into a fight whilst on a corporate away-day…
www.myspace.com/maneatmaneatman

Special Dj set from good friend, fellow promoter and overall ’star’ Alien Jazz Party
www.alienjazzparty.com

Ship of Fools: Rose McDowall + Eva Eden

Sunday September 13, 2009 at 8:00pm

Bar & Co Temple Pier

Victoria Embankment
London, England WC2R 2PN Get Directions

After the well attended first series, Ship of Fools returns in autumn with an outstanding new programme featuring a special Christmas Party. Ship of Fools supports and promotes the best of experimental, neo-classical, folk and electronica, through a careful selection of both established and up and coming acts.

Tursa & Kaparte Promotions present:

Sunday 13 September

ROSE MCDOWALL + EVA EDEN

Rose McDowall
Rose McDowall needs little introduction.
Scottish musician, and former member of pop-punk duo Strawberry Switchblade, she has collaborated over the years with backing and main vocals for a number of high profile acts such as: Coil, Current 93, Death in June, Felt, Alex Ferguson, Nurse with Wound and Psychic TV. She formed the band Sorrow in 1993, releasing two albums and one EP, and touring the U.S and Europe extensively. Rose is best known as a vocalist, but also plays guitar, keyboards, melodica and drums.
This is a rare chance to see Rose and her band perform in London.
www.myspace.com/rosemcdowall

Eva Eden
Born in Czech Paradise, Eva Eden grew up with a fondness of artefacts from forgotten times, the weird & wonderful world of tall tales & rhymes and she started to make music from an early age. She is at the vanguard of London’s popular music scene, Patrick Wolf’s single ‘Accident and Emergency’ features a cover of her track ‘Underworld’ as a B-side. She’s also taken the stage at London’s Scala, ICA and Luminaire, Tate Britain, Islington Academy and the radio waves, care of Steve Lamacq (Radio One).
www.myspace.com/evaeden

Doors 8pm, Music starts at 9pm

Ticket Info: £8 on the door/£6 in advance

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Website: http://www.kaparte.info

Gina Birch (The Raincoats) @ Bardens Boudoir, 8 July

Kaparte Promotions present an evening of music and art with Gina Birch, supported by talented women musicians from UK and US Christy & Emily, Helen McCookerybook and Alana Sveta, plus artist Keira Rathbone most famously known for her amazing typewriter art!

8 July flyer

Wednesday 8 July
BARDENS BOUDOIR
36/44 Stoke Newington Rd, London N16
Doors 7.30pm

Adv tickets £6
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/51634
£8 on the door

Info line: 07870832505
www.kaparte.info
www.bardensboudoir.co.uk

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Gina Birch
Gina Birch is a founding member of post-punk legend The Raincoats.
‘Embraced by the dying punk movement, adopted by the fledgling Riot Grrrl scene and resurrected by Kurt Cobain at the height of his powers, the Raincoats were the proto-feminist girl group with great timing.’ – Betty Clarke, The Guardian
She then formed The Hangovers, and was asked to do the music for The Handsome Foundation’s show, The Fear Show. She composed a few tracks that then became the basis for the album Slow Dirty Tears, which was released on Kill Rock Stars in the US and on her own label in the UK.
In 2002 and 2007 she performed live at Ladyfest and continues to play solo and recently again with The Raicoats in UK and Europe.
Gina is also an artist and filmaker who directed videoclips for New Order, Beth Orton, The Libertines, The Pogues just to mention a few.
At present she is working on the documentary ‘The Raincoats, Fairytale: A Work in Progress. The first part of the film was presented with great success a NFT1earlier this year.

‘When I listen to The Raincoats I feel as if I’m a stowaway in an attic, violating and in the dark. Rather than listening to them I feel like I’m listening in on them. We’re together in the same old house and I have to be completely still or they will hear me spying from above and, if I get caught – everything will be ruined because it’s their thing.’
Kurt Cobain, 1993
www.ginabirch.net
www.myspace.com/ginabirch

Christy & Emily
The Brooklyn based duo made up of Christy Edwards and Emily Manzo creates beautiful, emotive, and rather weird folksongs for the digital age. While Emily is a conservatory-trained classical pianist who studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, the self-taught guitar player Christy moved from California to New York to join miscellaneous indie pop and punk groups (Lil’ Fighters, The Totallys, Brue Force). She then met her keyboard-playing affiliate in Brooklyn/NY, where Emily is a very sought-after interpreter of contemporary composers (especially John Cage’s piano music).
Together they’re able to develop lush vocal harmonies which could make stones melt.
www.christyandemily.com
www.myspace.com/ christyandemily

Helen McCookerybook
Helen was the bass guitar player and lead singer with Brighton-based punk rock band The Chefs during the late 1970s and early 1980s. She later formed Helen And The Horns before continuing her career as a solo artist, writer and lecturer. She released ‘Suburban Pastoral’ on Rough Trade Records in November 2006, followed by ‘Poetry and Rhyme’ on Barbaraville in October 2008. On 19th June she will be releasing another album, ‘Hamilton Square’ in conjunction with Martin Stephenson, lead singer with the Daintees.
Her first book (as Helen Reddington) The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era was published in July 2007. The book features interviews with the Slits, Gina Birch, The Mo-dettes, Enid Williams (Girlschool), Dolly Mixture, Gaye Black (Adverts), Vi Subversa (Poison Girls), Rhoda Dakar, Lucy O’Brien, Attila the Stockbroker, Caroline Coon, Geoff Travis and the late John Peel.
www.mccookerybook.com
www.myspace.com/ helenmccookerybook

Alana Sveta
Alana Sveta was born in New Mexico, and has been at this singing thing since early childhood.
Recording since age 12, she has had several years of jazz training behind her having been taught by Bay Area Jazz Great Gail Dobson, mother of New York singer Sasha Dobson, and wife of the late and legendary jazz pianist Smith Dobson. Alana’s high school band, Gogonasty played a few shows around San Jose, CA in 2003 and 2004. Their one and only single “Don’t Cough” became the second most downloaded indie song on soundclick.com for two weeks in December of 2003.
www.alanasveta.com
www.myspace.com/alanasveta

***Typewriter art performance by Keira Rathbone www.keirarathbone.com
***Dj Tegid Jones

Nocturne Folks: Machetes + Ed Blaney

Kaparte Promotions present

Nocturne Folks

Machetes (CA)

Ed Blaney (ex-The Fall, Smith& Blaney) & Girl Peculiar

The Cellar Door Sound
plus a special Dj set by Roger O’Donnell (ex-The Cure)

Machetes (CA)
The first London date for four piece all girl band from Toronto Machetes!
The integrity and glamour of Machetes comes out in both the music and their show- it’s the love child conceived by a massive orgy of music that includes Siouxsie Sioux, Love and Rockets, Iggy Pop and Black Sabbath- and that’s just for starters. Influences range from art-rock to brit-pop, punk/post-punk to glam, each member contributing equally to the overall look and sound. Playing weekly to overcrowded underground clubs and attracting a diverse crowd of dedicated followers, their shows are a delicate blend of mayhem, beauty and aggression driven by powerfully delivered songs.
www.myspace.com/machetesband

Ed Blaney (ex-The Fall, Smith & Blaney) & Girl Peculiar
Ed Blaney, sonically diverse singer/songwriter from Salford. Apart from having been a part of one of the UK’s most respected and prolific unsigned bands, Trigger Happy, Blaney managed and performed with The Fall between 1999-2004 in what is regarded by many as the group’s renaissance period. Blaney has recently been performing hugely acclaimed low-key gigs with Mark E Smith and will perform here with protegee Girl Peculiar. This is a rare chance to catch one of the UK’s more elusive talents in action.
www.myspace.com/edblaney
www.myspace.com/girlpeculiar

The Cellar Door Sound
In the shape of 20 year old Daniel Cross who, along with various collaborators, inhabit a world of their own; echoing the vocal intensity of Robert Smith, the musical simplicity of Tyrannosaurus Rex, and the lyrical honesty of Syd Barrett. Recent BBC London Calling artist of the week they have been described as “more black treacle than pop by numbers”.
www.myspace.com/thecellardoorsound

The Half Moon, 10 Half Moon Lane SE24

Tickets in adv here:
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/49769

www.kaparte.info
www.halfmoonpub.co.uk

Ship of Fools 10 May: Sieben + glassglue

Ship of Fools 10 May: Sieben + glassglue

Tursa & Kaparte Promotions present
Ship of Fools Club

Sieben + glassglue
and a music selection by Dj Hornpipe

Bar & Co, Temple Pier
Victoria Embankment

Sieben is vocalist and violinist Matt Howden’s one-man show.
One voice, one violin, one simple loop-pedal. The songs are made live, layer upon layer of looped violin, beaten, plucked, bowed and thrashed! Matt has produced studio albums for various artists including The Mystery School and Sol Invictus; done string arrangements for artists such as The Walkabouts, Faith and the Muse, and L’Ame Immortelle; remixes for Emilie Autumn, Dope Stars and many more; music for film, television, dance companies, and art exhibitions; over 1,000 live appearances.
www.myspace.com/matthowden7
www.matthowden.com

Support comes from glassglue.
London-Manchester based glassglue formed in 2004 and have regularly performed in venues in London, South-east England, Spain and Portugal and have played at the Subscuta festival in Barcelos, Portugal in 2006.
They have released a five-track demo cd in 2006 which received enthusiastic reviews, and launched their first official single ’spiral stair / if i were the sky right now’ independently on Kaparte Records last year.
www.myspace.com/glassglue
www.glassglue.info

Doors 7.30pm – Music starts at 8pm
Tickets £7 on the door or £5 adv

Ship of Fools Club, a collaboration between Tursa and Kaparte Promotions.
Music on a boat in a central London location, only one minute from Temple tube station and right behind Somerset House.

Nocturne Folks 27 March

Flyer 27 March

Friday March 27, 2009 at 8:00pm

The Half Moon (Herne Hill)

10 Half Moon Lane
London, England SE24 Get Directions

Kaparte Promotions present: Nocturne Folks
Friday 27 March @ The Half Moon (Herne Hill)
Madam
The New Verb
Alex Monk
Doors 8 pm, music starts at 9pm

Info email: events@kaparte.info
Tel: 07870 832505

Madam
Madam is a project of singer/songwriter/producer Sukie Smith, whose abum ‘In Case of Emergency’ received outstanding reviews on the national press, and single ‘Calling for Love’ has accompanied us through the major radio stations for the past year.
‘Sukie Smith, better known as Madam, has a rare ability to combine the smoky, nocturnal atmospherics conjured by PJ Harvey or Portishead or the Velvet Underground with a pop sensibility…’ – The Indipendent, One to Watch (April 2008)
‘Beautiful vocals set against a backdrop of acoustic guitars show great promise and give the track a distinct Portishead feel’ – Artrocker
www.myspace.com/madammusic

The New Verb
Powerful words matching minimal electro acoustic sound from female duo The New Verb. A breath of fresh air sweeping through the alternative music scene
www.myspace.com/thenewverb

Alex Monk
Alex Monk is a musician and producer based in London and fond of experimentation and improvisation with vocals and digital and analogue sources and field recordings. His new simultaneous debut ‘double release’ on the Belgian Smeraldina-Rima label is limited to 60 copies each and out now. The release has received great reviews and Monk is a regular on the London live circuit.
www.myspace.com/alexmonk

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