The last time QU Junktions put on a massive collaborative gig it was the devastating Whale Watching tour, a stunning night of fused music. I could shoehorn in a horrible topical metaphor about working in a coalition here, but you don’t want that do you? You want a man who fills pianos with ping pong balls, sellotape and bells, a woman who plays icily ace folk oldness and a man who is possibly the world’s best 12-string guitarist, the sickeningly talented bastard. Such is Hauschka, Nancy Elizabeth and James Blackshaw respectively, and such is this gig, worth any amount of your dirty cash.
Kept Impulses
Hauschka, James Blackshaw & Nancy Elizabeth
at St George’s
(Thu 13th May 2010 / 7.30pm / £13 adv)
Prepared piano player Hauschka, 12-string guitarist James Blackshaw, and singer/songwriter Nancy Elizabeth perform their beautifully matched music together for the first time in a contoured programme of solo performances and collaborations. As composers and performers all three effortlessly weave traditional folk, contemporary classical and modern song into magical and transfixing musical suites. This Kept Impulses Tour quietly explores the waking dreams, hidden emotions and sense of other that these acts draw upon.
