News
28th March 2010
UnicaZürn
at the Schiphorst Avant-Garde Festival 2010
Stephen Thrower and David Knight will be perfoming as UnicaZurn at the upcoming Schiphorst Avant-Garde Festival near Hamburg, between the 2nd and 4th of July 2010. This festival is organized and curated by Jean Hervé Peron from FAUST who will also be performing. For more information please visit the festivals website here:
http://art-errorist.de/avantgardefestival2010/
8th January 2010
OSSIAN BROWN
at the Viktor Wynd gallery
An original artwork by Ossian Brown
will be shown at the Viktor Wynd gallery in East London as a part of an
exhibition curated by Mark Pilkington of Strange Attractor. This first
'Strange Attractor Salon' will also be showing works by:
Phil Baker * Joel Biroco * Richard Brown * John Coulthart * Rod
Dickinson * Disinformation * English Heretic * Tessa Farmer * Blue
Firth * Alison Gill * Doug Harvey * Josephine Harvatt * Ken Hollings *
Stewart Home * Julian House * Ali Hutchinson * Alyssa Joye * Maud
Larsson * Gary Lachman * Xtina Lamb * John Lundberg * Man From Uranus *
Eleanor Morgan * Frances Morgan * Drew Mulholland * Bridget Nicholls *
Oscillatorial Binnage * Katie Owens * Edwin Pouncey * Arik Roper *
Gavin Semple * Martin Sexton * USURP * Robert Wallis * Catharyne Ward *
Eric Wright *
The exhibition runs from the 7th to the 31st of January 2010 and is
located at 11 Mare Street, London, UK, E8 4RP.
For more information please follow this link
17th November 2009
CYCLOBE
'The Woods are Alive With the Smell of
His Coming'
Premiere at 'The Dark Monarch' exhibition
Tate St Ives
Owl by David Noonan
A new composition by Cyclobe, 'The Woods are Alive with the Smell of His Coming' will be premiered at the Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, on the 21st of November as part of an exhibition entitled 'The Dark Monarch - Magic and Modernity in British Art'. The exhibition comprises work by a wide variety of artists; Paul Nash, Barbara Hepworth, Austin Osman Spare, Ithell Colquhoun, David Noonan, Richard Dadd, Derek Jarman, Samuel Palmer and Damien Hirst to name but a few. Cyclobe's audio presentation is a twenty minute pre-recorded piece, which is due to be released on their forthcoming album early in the new year. The event, a specially created symposium in conjunction with the exhibition, includes a variety of discussions and lectures from exhibition curators Martin Clark, Michael Bracewell and Alun Rowlands. Chris Stephens, Curator (Modern British Art) & Head of Displays at Tate Britain will also be present, as well as exhibiting artists Jeremy Millar, Mark Titchner and Clare Woods. There will be a screening of the excellent Incredible String Band's 'Be Glad For The Song Has No Ending' with director Peter Neal in attendance, and a short film by Angela Cockayne and Philip Hoare (author of 'England's Lost Eden'). From his own collection, Ossian Brown has contributed the 1955 painting 'The Qliphoth' by Austin Osman Spare, part of the 'Contexture of Being' series, for the exhibition's beautiful catalogue. Unfortunately, having only just confirmed our involvement we've not been able to share information about this sooner. We will be present at the event and look forward to seeing anyone who's able to attend. Tickets are limited so please check with the gallery for availability.
For ticket and schedule information please click here
29 October 2009
CYCLOBE - audio players activated
To hear extracts from previous Cyclobe albums as well as premonitions of future releases, click on the links to audio players that can be found running along the bottom of each page. These selections are not permanent and will change at various dates. Our intention is to share glimpses of our back catalogue, to reveal current works in progress, and to make extracts available from forthcoming releases.
20th October 2009
UnicaZürn
Temporal Lapse special edition news
Come Samhain, the 31st of October, UnicaZürn's bonus CD 'Temporal Lapse' will no longer be available with copies of the album 'Temporal Bends'. 'Temporal Lapse' was available at the album launch party and subsequently through this website only, so anyone wishing to obtain a copy should order here before the end of the month.
14 October 2009
DOWN TERRACE
wins Raindance best film award
Stephen Thrower recently recorded several electronic music cues for the soundtrack of Down Terrace, a bleakly funny crime drama directed by Ben Wheatley. It's a pleasure to announce that the film has recently won two festival prizes. On the 4th of October it won the US-based Fantastic Fest's Next Wave Award for best feature and best screenplay, and on the 11th of October it took Best UK Feature at the Raindance Festival in London. Congratulations are due to director Ben, producer Andy Starke, and the brilliant ensemble cast, particularly Robin Hill who also co-wrote./p>
"Surreal and sinister, this is a splendid exercise in anti-social realism that deserves to reach a wider audience." - Empire online
07 October 2009
Geoff Cox
ANNA AND THE WITCH'S BOTTLE
Our dear friend and collaborator Geoff Cox has written a very beautiful, magical and unique children's book called 'Anna & The Witch's Bottle' (published by Black Maps Press). The book has also been illustrated with some excellent pen and ink drawings by the artist Rohan Daniel Eason. Please visit the Black Maps Limited website for further details and ordering.
September 2009
CYCLOBE - September 2009
Welcome to the newly designed Cyclobe website. Currently accessible are the main news and merchandise pages. Over the following six weeks brand new content will be added, such as a film of Cyclobe's only live performance (Krems, Austria in April 2007).
Most importantly, we have been busy focussing on new material which - despite many false dawns - is about to see the light of day. The production deadline for the first new album-length Cyclobe project in five years is October 31st 2009. New Cyclobe recordings will then become available for sale and download.
A number of exciting book projects and film scores have also been undertaken. More about these to follow.
We'll subsequently be making available some scarce CDs from other projects which Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown have worked on. These will appear for a limited period only.
We'd like to thank PrettyMannox for designing this website, Geoff Cox for his exquisite Cyclobe scrawl and Mark Pilkington for his beautiful bat photograph.
With our very best wishes
Ossian Brown & Stephen Thrower, 16.09.09
30 July 2009
UnicaZürn - debut album: Temporal Bends
Album Launch Event: Wednesday 16th September 2009 at The Horse Hospital.
30 Colonnade, London, WC1N 1JD
020 7833 3644
popculture@thehorsehospital.com
Doors open 7.30pm
Admission free to all.
UnicaZürn celebrate the release of their debut CD album Temporal Bends with a launch event at The Horse Hospital. Unicazürn will perform a short set and copies of Temporal Bends will be available for purchase.
Label: uZu Music
Catalogue Number: UZ01
Release date: 16th September 2009
UnicaZürn are:
Stephen Thrower (Cyclobe; Coil)
David Knight (Arkkon; Shock Headed Peters; Danielle Dax; Lydia Lunch)
Both are also members of the improvisation group The Amal Gamal Ensemble.
Composed from recordings and improvisations made between 2004-2009 by the banks of the Thames and the East Sussex coast, Temporal Bends is a journey through time, and a dive into the depths. UnicaZürn sessions have always been accompanied by the spectre of water; slow currents or lapping waves, windows of streaming rain, seashore horizons. Temporal Bends is aquatic, coastal music, connecting an experience of the rivers and seas of England with the micro-waterways of memory and the mind, through decompression and dehydration to full flood and saturation. The oceans and estuaries of late evenings past and yet to come.
UnicaZürn's core musical instrumentation is processed electric guitar, clarinet and saxophone. Knight is renowned for his pulverising fretwork in Shock Headed Peters, and his cavernous guitar treatments in Arkkon; Thrower's reed playing provided a distinctive 'free-melancholy' in Coil and emerges as electro-acoustic texture in Cyclobe. To this duophonic arrangement, UnicaZürn add copious analogue synthesizer, mellotron and piano, with influences echoing back through Tangerine Dream's early albums to the VCS3 days of Roxy Music.
Special guest vocals on the song 'Jack Sorrow' by Danielle Dax, who also contributed the front cover painting.
With Temporal Bends, UnicaZürn offer a deeply immersive music which hovers at the brink of abstraction, seeking to conjure at that threshold fantastical coastlines and subterranean narratives in the mind's eye.
MySpace URL: www.myspace.com/unicazurnofficial
30 July 2009
Current 93
'ALEPH AT HALLUCINATORY MOUNTAIN'
Ossian Brown can be heard on the new Current 93 album Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain, recently released by Coptic Cat. A vinyl double album version in gatefold sleeve has just been released in an edition of 2,500 copies, with the first 150 copies available from Durtro signed by David Tibet. The tracks from the Aleph CD are on sides 1-3, while side 4 is a previously unreleased 20-minute piece called Adam at Docetic Mountain, with voice by David Tibet, electronics by Andrew Liles and drums/percussion by Alex Neilson. This deluxe package also includes the subscriber poster and all lyrics to the album. Price is £20 plus postage and packing.
September 2009
AOS ABSINTHE WINS AWARD
Earlier this year Ossian Brown provided a haunting pastel work from his collection of Austin Osman Spare art ('Astral Body and Ghost', 1946) to adorn the label of a unique distillation of Absinthe entitled 'Absinthe Brevans A.O. Spare', prepared by Oliver Matter for the Swiss company Absinthe-Brevans. We're happy to announce that it has now won the 2009 'Best in Class' Gold Quality Award at The International Wine and Spirit Competition. See www.iwsc.net
