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Review
of Club Ifor Bach gig, posted by 'Woodenrobot' on everything2.com:
I had
the luck of seeing this one-man band last night, who was one of,
if not the first, acts of the night. Opening acts, for obvious reasons
usually suck, but this guy certainly didn't. He was probably the
best band of the night. It was very quiet in the club, with few
people in the audience - mostly the usual bearded hipsters. Mole
Harness was some lone guy, James Brewster, armed with nothing but
a guitar and a little box of sampling gubbins in front of him.
Sounding
like a cross between Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Fridge, Brian
Eno and the output of the arty electronic indie record label Leaf,
he produces a sound of layered guitar, cut up and backwards sounding
pianos, found sounds and little bits of drum machines here and there.
Rather fittingly, a projectionist friend of his shone pictures of
dandelions, beaches, walls, woodland and other images behind him.
Mole
Harness began as a project of James in 2001 in the town of Bristol.
Three months after acquiring and experimenting with a sampler, he
performed his debut gig at an event '"Don't Tell Me To Chill
Out" - An Evening Of Uptight Music'.
He has
released a sole EP, 'Problems With Perspective', on the small but
interesting indie label Silent Age Records which seems to specialise
in unique sounding bands exemplified by the like of Mole Harness.
He's had radio airplay on BBC Radio 3's program "Mixing It",
and has also got a track, "The Nights Are Drawing Blood"
on a label compilation on Bristol's Clean Cut Records.
If you
like atmospheric and hypnotically emotive music, then I really recommend
this guy's work. The EP is well worth getting, and each is individually
hand made from black cloth painted with bleach, and using real leaves
for the cover. It's this kind of attention to detail that is a sign
of quality.
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