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The Noize Choir is a performance ensemble that was formed in 2011 by Newcastle based artists Lindsay Duncanson and Marek Gabrysch. It involves a loose collective of noise enthusiasts with a common desire to use the human voice free of the traditional restraints of typical choral settings, language or musical notation. Their work is based on a shared fascination with science, culture and landscape. They indulge in phenomenological explorations of museum collections, or imaginings of our geological past. Replicating and experimenting with the sound of machines or the natural world, Noize Choir continually find ways to push and pull the idea of what a choir can be. Noize Choir have composed and performed in French churches and on Austrian radio, at the Baltic Centre for contemporary arts, The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle Upon Tyne, and the Grade II listed Preston Bus station. 

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Oakland, CA outfit Lumerians are a prodigious force in the extra-terrestrial realms of modern psychedelia. Since forming in San Francisco back in 2006, Lumerians have traversed their way through multiple different genres - offering mind-bending adventures into everything from space rock, kraut and noise to zamrock, free jazz, drone and dub. Drawing from a range of influences, both familiar and esoteric, past and present, Lumerians conjure up sounds from far into the future. In their twelve years as a band they’ve toured with everyone from My Bloody Valentine to Killing Joke and Black Moth Super Rainbow, putting out a number of critically-acclaimed releases including two ‘official’ albums and two collections of improvised compositions called Transmission from Tellos III & IV. On June 22nd the band will be returning with their third album, Call of the Void, on London-label Fuzz Club after four years under the radar. The album is dedicated to the memory of Barrett Clark, Lumerians’ long-time friend, sound engineer and collaborator who passed away in the tragic Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland 2016.

It may have taken the band four long years to put their latest album together but it was definitely worth the wait, their mystical exploratory soundscapes at their finest. Eclectic and vastly multifaceted, the album is further proof - if you needed it - that Lumerians are a singular force in contemporary psychedelia. Talking about Call of the Void, vocalist Jason Miller explains: “If ‘Transmalinnia’ represented the exploration of an alien world and ‘The High Frontier’ a voyage through space, ‘Call of the Void’ is a penetrative exploration of Earth through an alien gaze gone native - the weight of gravity, the build-up of pollution and sediment, experiences of ecstatic revelry and tragedy.”

Working together since 2012 artists Toby Lloyd and Andrew Wilson build environments that encourage others to communicate and collaborate with one another in order to open up shared and conflicting experiences of everyday life.

These installations act as a platform to create work using a circular and reflective methodology of a) invitation, b) encounter and c) presentation. Each phase acts as a process to instigate the next where the artists and the presented artwork can be adapted to the specifics of the situation.

The social dynamics of the ‘Public House’, where once a man has bought or been bought his glass of beer, he has entered an environment where he is a participant rather than a spectator, has been a regular theme within their practice and often includes them brewing their own beer.


Idiot-broth slurp and muscled-thumbed twitching from Dictaphone's tweediest goof.  Voices within voices.  write me at sweetflagfour@blueyonder.co.uk 

Dictaphones are the main skinny using techniques handed down from the masters (cupping, hamfist, shingle etc). Check out the ruined myspace/iamposset.com for more.  Also some humps from Papal Bull on here.  Who PB?  Jon 'Roman Nose' Marshall & Posset.  Wax Mag.  Keep busy, mak show. 

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