FRANKFURTER AHNUNG
SONIC ARTS INVITED BEN WATSON - CRITIC IN HIS OWN LUNCHTIME (OPINIONS CURRENTLY TOO CRISP AND MIRTH-INDUCING FOR THE ACTUALLY-EXISTING MUSIC PRESS) - TO CURATE A CD. ASKED TO JUSTIFY HIS SELECTIONS, O.T. LUNCHEON SWILLED A GLASS OF 1789 PORT, REARRANGED HISLANKY LIMBS IN ANOUTSIZE LEATHER ARMCHAIR, YAWNED GRANDILOQUENTLY AND SHOT BACK: "MY FINELY-PRESSED GANG OF MUSICAL IRRITANTS - A.K.A THE ESEMPLASM - TAKE ISSUE WITH THE NEO-KANTIAN, POSTMODERN PRECEPTS UNDERLYING CULTURAL CONDITIONING TODAY. FRANKFURTER AHNUNG ACTIVELY INKLES THAT THE OH-SO-KNOWING CIRCUITS OF DEFUSION AND CONFUSION WHICH DEGALVANISE THE FROG-LEG SALAD OF THE CONTEMPORARY FARCE ARE NOT THE LIMITLESS GAMBITS OF SIR BRAIN END. HISTORICAL MATERIALISM WILL RISE AGAIN TO EMBALM YOU IN YOUR SLEEP, RUNNING SORES OF THE FESTOONED MARKET SYSTEM!"
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FRANKFURTER AHNUNG ARTISTS:
Marc Guillermont, hidden Rock God from Nice, France; Evil Dick & the Banned Members, Derogatory-Prog Randomised Beat Group from Leicester (who put all the current London art-rock poseurs to shame); Kenny Process Team, the Thelonious Rollins of surf/post-Replica pop; Jaworzyn/Wilkinson/Fell's infamous Art, Class & Cleavage session (16-ii-1996), a tenth anniversary escape from the archive; Winifred Atwell and her "other" piano plus "improv" guitar; Paul Minotto and his controversial Prime Time Sublime Community Orchestra; Marie-Angélique Bueler's Dust Parade performed by the Ensamble Rosario under the direction of Marisol Gentile; Ian Stonehouse & Sebastian Lexer improvising in a New Cross basement on electric guitar and computer; the indescribable Diary; two spoken-word tracks by the late Derek Bailey (permission secured before his demise); a Pinky-style razor-job on Tony Blair's 2003 war speech by Sean Bonney; T.H.F. Drenching's "Ian Howard"; Brendon Burton's anthem for the disability generation, "It Depends How I Feel On The Day"; Out To Lunch's "Mouth Poem"; Lendormin from Rome; Lol Coxhill; Gamma and Didier Mervelet in conversation at the Martian Embassy; plus subliminal appearances by Dallas Boner, Paul Sutton, Sharon Borthwick, Thomas Mann, Faust's poodle & Jürgen Gispert engineered by Ian Stonehouse at the Electronic Music Studio at Goldsmiths College
LAUNCH (together with Esther Leslie's Synthetic Worlds)
7.00pm-9.30pm Tuesday 24 January 2006
Purple Turtle, Crowndale Road (nearest tube Mornington Crescent).
