Nothing Ever Happens Here – Summerhall August Festival 2016

NEHH: Awesome Tapes from Africa

Box Office — 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

Box Office — 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

Box Office — 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

richardx — 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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Soulsville & NEHH present…. Soulsville “Especial”

richardx — 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)

Box Office — 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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NEHH: Kevin Morby + Support

richardx — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 02:06:36 +0000

At the age of 28, Texan singer-songwriter Kevin Morby has crammed a lot in. For a time he was the bassist in Brooklynite indie-rock group Woods and then for half a decade the driving force, alongside Cassie Ramone of Vivian Girls, of The Babies. Putting that group on hiatus to concentrate on their solo careers, this year has seen Morby release ‘Singing Saw’, his third album of thoughtful and delicately anthemic indie-rock introspections.

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NEHH: Grandaddy + Support

richardx — Tue, 31 May 2016 10:05:17 +0000

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Grandaddy formed in Modesto, CA in 1992, and consisted of Jason Lytle, Aaron Burtch, Tim Dryden, Jim Fairchild and Kevin Garcia. The band initially broke through with 1997’s Under the Western Freeway and the NME-praised single “Summer Here Kids.” The band’s sound,” atmospheric electronics meet warped Americana”, crystallized on 2000’s Sophtware Slump, which was met with breathless hype and earned the band “Next Big Thing” status. Tireless rounds of international touring and mountains of fawning press led to 2003’s Sumday, increasing album sales, more touring, more press ,T.V.show appearances, and a slot on the main stage at the Glastonbury festival. The band produced another EP and an album entitled Just Like the Fambly Cat, before disbanding in 2006.

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NEHH: Willis Earl Beal + Support

Dave — Mon, 09 May 2016 03:05:18 +0000

“I turned myself into a myth as a survival mechanism,” enigmatic bluesman Willis Earl Beal once told the Guardian. It’s no pose; eschewing fame, he grew up in Chicago, was court-martialled out of the army, became homeless, went on X-Factor in the US, bounced himself out of it fairly quickly, and hates the machinery of being ‘famous’. As evidenced by last year’s most recent album ‘Nocturnes’, his rich, open-hearted blues and soul is sometimes born of hard times, but never less than unfailingly honest. Dublin’s Myles Manley plays arch indie-pop in support.

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NEHH: Withered Hand + Chris T-T

Dave — Mon, 09 May 2016 03:05:18 +0000

Withered Hand is the musical output of Edinburgh based Dan Willson, a feature of the city’s DIY music scene for many years. Dan came late to singing and songwriting at age 30, at a time of change and crisis in his life. The resultant material, much of which went on to become his first album Good News, was praised for its depth and startling honesty, and won him unexpected accolades from the likes of Rolling Stone magazine.

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