Music – Summerhall August Festival 2016

Brent Arnold

Wed, 10 Aug 2016 03:08:10 +0000

BRENT ARNOLD is a founding member of Ghost Quartet. In his solo show takes the cello into new realms, incorporating electronics and virtuosic instrumental technique to create vivid sonic worlds. His latest solo album, Night, Exquisite, was called “a journey” and “a beautiful record” by Vice magazine. He created the cello music for the hit show Louie (Louie CK). He has worked with The Antlers, Reggie Watts, Modest Mouse, Sleater-Kinney, Jherek Bischoff, Filastine, Death in Vegas, and Eyvind Kang. He has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Japan. This one off show is not to be missed.

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Tongue Fu

Fri, 15 Jul 2016 09:30:24 +0000

The UK’s sharpest poets, storytellers, rappers and comedians perform with jaw-dropping improvised soundtracks from the Tongue Fu Band (Nostalgia 77, Jamie Cullum, Beardyman).

Created and hosted by poet Chris Redmond (Scroobius Pip’s Beatdown – XFM; Pick Of The Week – BBC R4), it is one of the UK’s liveliest and largest spoken word shows: a riotous experiment in live literature, music and improvisation. With special guests from across the fringe.

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NEHH: Awesome Tapes from Africa

Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:01:01 +0000

Since 2006, Brian Shimkovitz’s Awesome Tapes From Africa blog has been shedding light on obscure and wonderful sounds from across the continent. As a DJ he bring the blog to life with 2-3 hour sets blending folkloric pop, left-field dancefloor gems and hip-hop bangers he’s collection on African marketplace finds. Travelling from club to festival to DIY space, Awesome Tapes From Africa DJ sets celebrate the music and musicians whose cassettes Shimkovitz has collected over the years.

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Firecracker Records: Closing Party

Thu, 30 Jun 2016 15:30:40 +0000

One-off night curated by Firecracker Recordings, the Edinburgh label with international reach and acclaim, specialising in oddball house, techno and electronics. Their handmade collectable editions, produced since 2004, regularly top the ’Best Of’ lists. Celebrate another festival season with outer-national dance music present and past from a full Firecracker crew all night long plus special guests via New York and Paris, Les Graciés.

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Rhythm Machine

Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:06:03 +0000

Rhythm Machine is your weekly Late Night Utopian Getaway featuring Kakashi Miyamoto + DJ Yves’s Fourth World soundscapes alongside conceptual art, music & performance work from the citizens of the Sleeping City. For the month of August Mr Miyamoto & Dr. Yves are joined on the decks by the universal healing forces of Cleoslaptra & 12th Isle’s Fergus Clark & Ruaidhri McGhee

Musical Policy – Tom Tom Heavy Synth Boogie & Smoke Hazed New Wave Disco

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NEHH: Billy Bragg & Joe Henry

Tue, 14 Jun 2016 09:06:47 +0000

In March 2016 Billy Bragg and Joe Henry, guitars in hand, boarded a Los Angeles-bound train at Chicago’s Union Station looking to reconnect with the culture of railroad travel and the music it inspired. Winding along 2,728 miles of track over four days, the pair recorded classic railroad songs in waiting rooms and at trackside while the train paused to pick up passengers. On the Shine A Light tour, they’ll be playing songs from the journey, along with favourites from their own back catalogues.

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Counting Sheep: A Guerrilla Folk Opera

Wed, 08 Jun 2016 10:06:22 +0000

A rousing call to arms, created by Mark and Marichka Marczyk and led by guerrilla-folk party-punks Lemon Bucket Orkestra. Based on the creators’ first hand experiences during the 2014 Kiev uprising, Counting Sheep invites you to lose yourself in the events that changed the course of Ukraine’s history forever. Sing, march, protest, dance, eat, help, recoil, fight, laugh, cry – this is immersive theatre at its most gripping. Entirely sung in traditional Ukrainian polyphony, Counting Sheep is an electrifying exploration of human resilience.

Extra dates added! 29th August @ 20:00 via Ed Fringe Tickets

#countingsheeprevolution

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Soulsville & NEHH present…. Soulsville “Especial”

Tue, 07 Jun 2016 04:06:18 +0000

Est. 2010, Soulsville is Edinburgh’s home of deep funk, latin rhythms and rugged blues, a one-stop-shop for those who have an ear for a groove and a desire to dance into the wee hours. With a special guest appearance at Summerhall, the Soulsville crew gets heavily into the festival spirit with tropical cuts of afro, cumbia, latin disco and boogie for a night that brings the heat of the tropics to the Edinburgh Fringe. Body movement essential…partner optional. Intercontinental Tropical vibrations incoming!

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Mark Fell, Okkyung Lee, Carl Michael von Hausswolff + Rian Treanor (DJ Set)

Mon, 06 Jun 2016 04:06:15 +0000

Summerhall Curated, Braw Gigs and NEHH Present…

To mark sound artist and producer Mark Fell’s exhibition in Summerhall’s Machine Shop, Fell curates an evening of sound and music performance – dense, austere and laconic – perfectly suited to the ambience of the Dissection Room. The evening features Fell’s own productions, and solos from composer Carl Michael von Hausswolff and cellist Okkyung Lee and added to the line-up to see us late into the night is a DJ set from Rian Treanor.

Mark Fell is an artist and producer based in South Yorkshire and is half of the duo SND. Okkyung lee is a South Korean cellist/composer/improviser based in New York, who developed her unique language by pushing and blurring the boundaries of contemporary cello and improvisation. Carl Michael von Hausswolff is an artist and composer, using recording technology as his main instrument.

Rian Treanor, signals from the North of England, he re-imagines the intersection of club culture, experimental art and computer music, presenting an insightful and compelling musical world of interlocking and fractured components. Having left a vivid impression in 2015 with his debut 12″ A Rational Tangle, he’s just delivered a scintillating 2nd EP Pattern Damage on The Death of Rave, landing with a resounding 10/10 and album of the month merit in Mixmag and Boomkat. Pattern Damage is a marked step from last year’s debut, hybridizing idiosyncratic footwork and garage hybrids with noisier, pointillist hooks and innovative arrangements owing as much to disco as oblique futurist computer music.

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Two Man Show

Thu, 02 Jun 2016 05:06:47 +0000

Men have all the power. John and John keep hearing people say that men have all the power, but it doesn’t feel like that to them. Abbi and Helen are making a show about Man and men. Because we all need to pull together now. We want to talk about masculinity and patriarchy but the words that exist aren’t good enough. So there’s music and dance too. Fringe First winners 2010 and 2011 return with a playful new show about gender and language. Two women play two women playing two men.

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