{"id":15453,"date":"2011-11-25T13:14:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T13:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejoycollective.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15453"},"modified":"2011-12-03T00:29:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T00:29:57","slug":"qu-junktions-presents-group-inerane-flower-corsano-duo-the-croft-bristol-29-11-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/preview\/qu-junktions-presents-group-inerane-flower-corsano-duo-the-croft-bristol-29-11-11\/","title":{"rendered":"QU Junktions presents… Group Inerane \/ Flower-Corsano Duo : The Croft, Bristol : 29.11.11"},"content":{"rendered":"
Beautiful bliss out action TIMES TWO. This really is a fantastic pairing of two bands who go OUT THERE, and make you WRITE IN CAPITALS. Group Inerane<\/strong> inevitably get lumped in with Omar Suleiman and Group Doueh in that they’ve been released on Sublime Frequencies before\u00a0being put\u00a0in the tour van and\u00a0pointed towards Europe, but that’s fine really: SF being quite brilliant at releasing batshit ace music from around the globe,\u00a0a more water-tight compliment would be hard to find. From Agadez, Niger, this Group play fantasticly\u00a0fuzzy, mantric rock and roll that luxuriates\u00a0in\u00a0dusty, sideways beauty. Also going to be a total treat is Flower-Corsano Duo<\/strong>,\u00a0the meeting of Mick’s transcendent, Godlike Japanese\u00a0banjo\u00a0and Chris’s bonkers, junkshop, uberGodlike drumming skills. They’ll take your brain to another galaxy. This will be the closest you can get to ATP’s killer spirit without sleeping in Butlins, and easily the gig of the month. We should send QU Junktions a badge or something.<\/div>\n
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\nGroup Inerane<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Flower-Corsano Duo<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Tuesday 29 November 2011<\/div>\n
The Croft<\/div>\n
117-119 Stokes Croft, Bristol<\/div>\n
8.00pm – 12.00am | \u00a310 adv | Buy Tickets<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A dream pairing of two of the most ecstatic and transcendental rock units imaginable. Simmering up from the rebel heart of the Tuareg guitar scene, Group Inerane<\/a> are a rough-hewn, tranced-out juggernaut from Niger with two white-hot albums on Sublime Frequencies<\/a> to their name; Flower-Corsano Duo<\/a> is the thrilling collaboration between kinetic free drummer Chris Corsano<\/strong> and Vibracathedral Orchestra\u2019s Mick Flower<\/strong> (shaahi baaja or Japanese banjo). Whether channelling West African guitar practice or free noise dynamics, both bands are capable of extended jams that reach for altered zones. A one-off and profoundly psychedelic double bill. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Group Inerane<\/strong> are the latest band to make the transition from the rich catalogue of Sublime Frequencies recordings to the live stages of Europe. This\u00a0is perhaps the most anticipated of them all, the one we have been waiting for since Guitars From Agadez Vol. 1<\/strong><\/em> first stormed from the speakers and sold out in record time four years ago.<\/p>\n

Centred around band leader and six-string god Bibi Ahmed<\/strong>, Inerane hail from Agadez, Niger, one of the most volatile zones in West Africa. Out of this vast, arid land long beset by political unrest comes the Inerane sound, fit to bring tumultuous joy to any party on the globe: ecstatic and electrified Saharan guitar modes entangle\/disentangle themselves around mantric vocals and propulsive trap kit drum attack. Genuinely rocking and raw as hell, at points the fuzz descends and Inerane seem to bore their way to the mainline of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll itself.<\/p>\n

A second Inerane album, Vol. 3 of the Guitars From Agadez<\/strong><\/em> series, came out last year with a repress due for this tour, and gives further call to rejoice. There will also be a scorching tour-only 7\u2033.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis music is plain wonderful, life-affirming, and celebratory any way you look at it, and if you consider its origins, even more so\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Tiny Mix Tapes<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGroup Inerane \u2026 encompasses the most exciting aspects of the Tuareg guitar style \u2026 a new form of Saharan psychedelia<\/em>\u201d \u2013 Dusted<\/strong><\/p>\n


\nFlower-Corsano Duo<\/strong> is a mystical, rocking jazz journey like no other from two underground music makers who have a special chemistry. A dynamic and heavenly combination of Chris Corsano<\/strong>\u2018s freeform rhythm patterns and Mick Flower<\/strong>\u2018s ecstatic wall of noise, this really is a trip into a ZONE. 2 albums on VHF\/Textile and an incendiary live show have spread the word.<\/p>\n

Michael Flower<\/strong> is known as a member of Leed\u2019s Vibracathedral Orchestra<\/strong>, a lynchpin of the improvising rock\/noise\/drone world. He has also played and released with artists such as Tony Conrad<\/strong>, Sunburned Hand Of The Man<\/strong>, MV&EE<\/strong> and his own Michael Flower Band<\/strong>. His playing can be overloaded and pin you to the ground or blissfully graceful, even holy, his expansive sound lifting you to higher levels.<\/p>\n

Chris Corsano<\/strong>\u2018s drumming has to be seen to be fully appreciated. An \u2018into the void\u2019 musician who collaborates with a huge range of artists and can still pull off mad solo shit. It is a rare drummer that can hold his own with his customized kit, clatter practice and circular breathing drone exhortations but retain a dynamic and structure that works. Loose-limbed, intense, even melodic, he exposes the audience to sounds and rhythms that defy normality. He moves light-footed around the world sparking off into all kinds of collaborations with the likes of Jim O\u2019Rourke<\/strong>, Joe Mcphee<\/strong>, John Edwards<\/strong>, Whitehouse<\/strong>, Bjork<\/strong>, Thurston Moore <\/strong>and Bill Nace <\/strong>among many.<\/p>\n

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Beautiful bliss out action TIMES TWO. This really is a fantastic pairing of two bands who go OUT THERE, and make you WRITE IN CAPITALS. Group Inerane inevitably get lumped in with Omar Suleiman and Group Doueh in that they’ve been released on Sublime Frequencies before\u00a0being put\u00a0in the tour van and\u00a0pointed towards Europe, but that’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[458],"tags":[476,2222,2221,477,2039,475],"class_list":["post-15453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-preview","tag-bristol","tag-flower-corsano-duo","tag-group-inerane","tag-qu-junktions","tag-rambling","tag-the-croft"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}