GYRATORY SYSTEM

Sat 13th Feb No Bones & British Wildlife present… Gyratory System (Angular Records) +Samuel & The Dragon +Quip Nation of Shopkeepers 8pm

Gyratory System, you can reasonably assume, are not a four-piece rock band based around a conventional guitar, bass, drums, vocals configuration. We’re not exactly sure who does what, or even if the members are who they say they are, suffice to say that the music they make is electronic, although it was created partly out of non-electronic instruments that may or may not include a trumpet. They say they like to use live instruments where you can’t tell what the instruments are, played over a groove comprising a series of processed sounds assembled from numerous fragments. “The idea is that we combine structural elements with random, freer elements,” says Blick, who is usually referred to as “Dr”, which makes sense because he talks the way you imagine a BBC Radiophonic Workshop boffin from the 60s might have. In the studio, Gyratory System’s collaborators – including Blick’s dad on a range of woodwind instruments – improvise over a fixed base. “Having created our backing tracks, we get people to play on top of them, but this has to come from improvising rather than a set arc.” We trust you’re getting this down.