'Mind-boggingly brilliant bonkers electronica' - Huw Stephens, 1FM
“Like a score written by Kraftwerk and Looney Tunes…slightly maddening and totally compelling…this lurchy, lovely…thing" – NME
'superb' - BBC Music
Gyratory System is a live/electronica project started by Andrew Blick (production, trumpet, sound treatments).
Featuring a range of musicians including live instrumentalists Robin Blick (reeds, brass) and James Weaver (bass, synthesiser) Gyratory System have released two critically acclaimed albums; 'The Sound-Board Breathes' in 2009 and 'New Harmony' in 2011.
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If… (+ Black Plastic & The Quietus DJs)
LONDON: The Lexington
FRIDAY 21ST OCTOBER, 2011 8.00pm (If.. on at 8.30pm)
Tickets £5 Advance From We Got Tickets: http://bit.ly/rarebreedpresents1
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=199407750127589
Rare Breed Discs make and release limited edition hand packaged mini 3 CDs and limited release albums. A rare breed indeed.
The Vichy Government: Loathed by the six budgerigars who have heard them, these synthpop troublemakers are jetting in from their Petropavlovsk palazzo to promote latest opus ‘Coventry’.”
Gyratory System is a live/electronica project started by Dr Andrew Blick processing trumpet through effects with live wind instruments and synth backing .
In the wake of their second critically acclaimed album, ‘New Harmony’ (released through the Angular Recording Corporation), Gyratory System play old tracks and preview unheard new material, all in their unique avant-electronica-jazz-f-punk style.’
If… make cut-and-paste neo-romo-po-mo-art-punk-glam-pop in the various veins of The Fall, Suede, One More Grain, The Yummy Fur and Josef K. But, like, with a girl singing.
DJs on the night will be Luke from The Quietus and Jo Cliche from Black Plastic.
Gyratory System playing the Rough Trade East vs 93 Feet East Party. On at midnight.
It is free entry, and will probably be a road block (look at this line up).
To make sure you get in grab a wristband during the day from Rough Trade East when you are buying your records.
You’ll be able to get the album New Harmony from record stores on 16 April 2011 in advance of online retailers distributing it on Monday 18 April 2011.
Last night on Radio One Huw Stephens had a go at making a Gyratory System track. It is not an exact science, but a pretty close approximation.
Listen to the results here http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00zlf1h (about 8 minutes in).
Join us on www.facebook.com/gyratorysystem for details of all upcoming live shows.
Next is tomorrow (Friday 1 April 2011) at the Nest in Dalston.