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By Julian Cowley David Sylvian 2. The Samachsond proprietor ‘el ita Kop abot hsltetsongcoltcSon ic fetus mp fom Impose ale Prvst Kath Rone and moe Epiphanies 28 Novelist Matt Thome onViking Mosee and othere who performon awing anda prayerThe Masthead ips Urban okie proposes that no oe persons more ‘han sic people anny from anyone else on Earth, This carta holds te forthe min features this month, where thematic and personal eonections spark seross the pages thek and fast. You'd have to be afar nore enthusiastic natworkor than |, homer, to trace ‘he degrees of separation trailing rom 20 year old Bristolian redcer and DJ Joker (osge 12) tothe acid burlesque of San Franciscan veterans Caroiner (page 414), whol be appearing at The Wire's Adventures In Moora Music festival at Cieago’s The Empty Bottle (oe Out There). Oxidising tapoleasly binds September's invisible. Jukeboxeancieate Willan Basinci(pag0 20) whose magnificent Noeleo EL: 3549 mache canbe ined byo-tec fetishists on ‘he Charts page (48), and Aki Onds (page 24), whose preferences for thehumbler cassettes making up the Inemory banks through which he vst the childhood ‘aus of growing up ae an outsider in Japan Onds’s refreshingly outspoken remarks about enkyo, among ‘ther subjects might not endear hi this clleagues st the Improvised Music From Japan website but the ‘connectonis made ta Otano Yoshihide, Sachiko M, “oshimaru Wakanura, ftw Akiyama and the others whe constitute the onkyo unit contributing tothe art ong/lnprov experiments of Monofen, the new abun ‘Sethe eat the discussion with his month's cover star David yan Distribution By now it's easy as shootin fish na bare. Syian reveals tht is earist serious Inprov session ‘ates back to 1900 andi involved Mark Sanders on percussion and Keith Tippett on piano For the record, ho judged it fale, ecaling, "Keith didafantastie job butin the end found wth that atrial hat was Jet too dane forme to werkwth melodica. Far toa complex." Tippet, of course the most direct ink to Julie Tipptts (page 30) with whom he has been ‘married since 1970; but there are others, notably Derek Bailey Both Sian and Tipptts cite tho late uitast's importance as an encouraging catalyst Inthedovelopment of ther respective practices. For Syvian, working withinprvisorshae radically ‘overhauled the compositional methods of his art songs butts dificut toimagine thatthe control freakin him would everave allonedhim to accept. an Invtation to partepatein one of the Gonpany Improv summits which Bailey had bon convening annually since 1976, Tippetts revealed no such quaims whon she tok part inthe 1962 week documented on the Incus Souble 0 Epiphany alongside Tippett, Bailey, Fred Frith, Ako Suzukl, Ursula Oppens, George Lens Motohars Yoshizawa, Ane LeBaron and Phil Waehsmann (ho also took part in Syian’'s Manafon sessions though he dda make the final cu) nhs characteristeally scerbie sleevenates, Bailey wrote, “By 1982 [tho procodure) had come to fol just a lit cosy. Perhaps this was something we picked up fromthe stagnant condition ofmusic goeraly where almost all ares, then as now, share an increasingly ‘enthusiastic commitment to ttal predictability In ‘any event, by this time | had begun to find usaf toimite people who were nt primarily, sometines rotat al voledin improvisation... for Company Week in £982 we were ten musicians, most of whom had never previously met and some of wham had not previously improvised tturned out tobe a weok of fine music-making.” Everything to win, then, by letting go; but don’t expect to 90 Sylianitehingin at London's Cate Oto anytime coon Chie Bome Subscriptions ipa seit Issue 307 September 2009 Dept or Spectr Untngetataitoe Euroa one si ‘en ter Sdn Neh Spt Pe Se tyr ya rienced oy Sangeetthewire.co.uk . 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Compiled by Nick Richardson Amercan choreorashr Merce ‘Cunningham ioson26uy at honoin Now Yor He was 90-BarninSeate In2040,unnagham was ready an stablsed dancer by he a-184D8 when andthe msl doctor of The ace ‘Coming Daten Compan Tgeter the fairworkede reshape ne eistoneno atwean mise andaance, proposing tat ‘thetworenain independent of eachother, ‘rene sharing the same space Cited as Sintec by David Todor wo became ‘he musical deta of Cnninghans onmpary afte Cage's death in 192.2 aston ster scape by Tania osu, enllasvcalanets Grice aman sad abet Rauschenberg who used to dasgn is ets), Cuninghanabardorednayatve » calltive ranby Sta Sou Lace. t ‘emai asl, fle guetta operation at canrevency ting the BC's icarce-for endo lak ms’ eation ta ar spectacular falcon ton." you ge te thor funding Peau, co o> renthouph we're lobal nove are abot staying ntosch mth what prope whore Shrouayittheemuse here are doing ‘Show host Scrat, Working slo and nveraltng deve bo cowraie te ng ‘eat chee NSW and toe message ane {ewhlbanerng on the mi wth stars ‘api Hater ol, asthe ronssted tse, taking nevorthing rom Uptown Topaning” oT g's Sheng’ Pay Gocarters hanpagos Dans" to dubstep Bite | ThoJoker By Lisa Blanning "Aro you woaring ei shoes?" asks amiechievous voice on my mobi. ts obvious why 20yar ols Liam and he has IDed me answeringhis callin crowd of ‘hubbers gathered outside «Croydon dubstep event Boom boom ‘As achild, Joker was delighted by the video game inusicto Sane Phe Hedgehog, which tended to got nachos up with his mothers oul records playing Inthe background - afin coralary to he cn ‘nati 1 yoars ator. Sythetie oun ie cll from Grine and video games, uphlstered witha plush RES sensibility and cushioned by sub-bas. "My nin ‘musical interest was Garage or Grima, or whatever youwant to cali,” he says. "Butt was hard to ome across tapes, Tore used tobe a guy in town wha veed to walk around with his trolley Full of tapes very Wednesday. You ould see himin town, walking round, and he's have al exclusive rine shi People used to buy em and copy 'em ad they'd go around sateonager in Bristol, Joker as general too shy to gt invlved inthe iy’ ight, despite his mushrooming status asa producer and DJ. But thie young man wth the tough, slighty impesing countenance and deadpan sense ofhumour which barely hide arather sweet and shyly modest demeanour ~ can make thedancefacr heave wth base and sinuous funk, Joker's debut Kepsize EP energed in 2007, but Iwas 2008's “Gully Brook Lane" (fom the Top OF The Game EF) that realy oused UK dances Tho rack’s strident, buzzing synth melody over burly bottom end acted as aharbinger of dubstep armageddon. dust when the genre had cakified “igor morte, m= would aim - Joker's baldness continuum fering the musical current to change course.On the face oft, “Gully Brook Lane” fused the oct rutlees aepocts of British Bass with puro G-funk-ynth swagger, but, by his enn admission, there are other forces at play. “I do ke hiphop, but dow trealiyisten toa ot of t,"he corrects, Vm more Into my R&B. Pharrell [Wllans, of The Neptunes ana NERO} s the nont™ With the success of "Gully Brock Lane” the similar ynth-stutting Yliow-up “Hall Brook Park” andthe cinematic heaviness of “Snake Eater”, lus publicendorsenents from thellkes of Skream Sind Kode on Rinse FM and Rai 1 respectively, iteertainy seemed lst year that Joker was being Anointed as clown prince of thisnew breed of dubetep. Appropriately, then, he hae made purple symbolic of royalty ~ his signature color: is latest single (acllaboration with Gina) is called Purple City": he often sports purple clething; and hie Myspace sitarefers repeatedly tothe concept of “purple wow", coded aesthetic he shares with is closest contemporaries Genmy and Guide, “You know synausthesia?” ho ase, “Whon hear musi, kind of makeup colours in my head of what colour tinkit sounds lke And just kindof feeling the purple. k's aways slightly boon ther, but right about now, nn ‘his purpeting Purplo, with its velvety sensuous assecations, de ndood fea right for certain aepect of Joker's Inuse, especialy the snaking jazz/oul-iflctes keyboards he plays on sides suchas Retro Racer” ad "20's. "play keyboards,” he lain demure, ut cant play to save ny if" though not femally ‘rained apart froma fom lessons in schol ~ All ‘remenberishew play he theme fron] James Bona nelaughs~ hie subsequent move away fom ‘theweightiness of half-step stagger towards his current seductive digital soul has everything todo sith is technique of layering melodies, which have ‘row increasingly complexwitheach subsequent felease andrequire co resi shyt, The sassy bounce of "Digldesign’, the phased chords and urgent vocoder on “De it and the glassy tones oft B ide “Peyehedelie Ray” ~ froma recent 12" on his om Kapsize label ~ al serveto showcase Joker's talents onaninstrument he plays lost ently by fel Kapsize was set up onthe suggestion of elon Bistlian Pinch, who run Tectonic Recordings and ‘takes care of he abel logistical ede, “tie totally his own ereatve platform as fr as ABR goes, Pinch agsures me, "He does al the boring shit agrees Joker. The collaboration i typical of Brietls teatonalytght-kit, cooperative music scene Joker's entre toit began as a teenager, whan he ‘used to frequent Rooted Records, the shop run by another established Bristol dubstop artist, Peverlct used to make himlook after my lite brother when was gtting record,” Jker reals" There were afew underground things he might not now about ~'d be Ike, "You need to get this, you need to get that!” And srnhourbe would get ther" Forsomsone with such longstanding engsgemant with lub and dance miso, ts Interesting to note that Jokerhingef dogsn'tdo meh elubbing. “I've been to few rave, but leon really go out "he shrugs. "I woulda’ dance, | nou jst listen to musle | gould be very tiff and stan thera ike a dickebd ve got better things todo," e sms. “Joker? Fuck kon who that." 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Arguably San Francisco's Carlier were the pioneers ofthis typeof presentation Formed in 1982 by the mysterious Grax (wh may or may nat be one of ‘the figures intevioned here, given his predilection {or adopting various personte) the group named ‘honzolvesin tribute toa singing bul from Wisconsin, and over the past tree decades they have seldom "traye from subject matter pertaining to the 16008, ‘This is hardly the fll extent of thirinnovatin, homever. The Californian outfit anticipated the now ‘amor intersection between radical Noe making snd traditional American music, peddling aheady concoction of bluegrass, hymns, pychedeli and pre-natal Noise. Their music, witht vertginous fctave leaps, creaking acoustics and dips in and ‘ute ecognisabe songforn,isstranger and more compelling than anything that has sprung up inits ‘Shadow. Caroline coatinaly adapt their colotive iaenety mth madsieations of nee name heir rumorous incarnations include Caroline Rainbow Hernia Mik Queen, Caroiner Rainbow Wire Thin Sheep Legs Baking Exhibit, Carlier Rainbow Costomary Relaxation Of The Shale, Carlier Rainbow Stand Stil r Fight Beans Ard Sunstroke and, current, Caroline Ralnbow Curled Odure From The Cake Box. But doos this obscurantiem identify ‘hem as preponent of whats pep and problomaticlly~ tered “outsider art’? The answer ‘cones shaded wth a deliberate obfuscation from which the ensembl's members appear to derive great entertainment, a wll they shoud 6 | Tht | Carainer “Most ofthe tines spontin the cabin," assorts ‘ogre Stickato, nho plays wooden instruments ‘fective hited logs, “An occasional rip to the voodshedis nt eneugh to make any onef us an {utsider Even in the summertie, our sonoites bond est fulyinan enelosed space, How cana prisoner reach outside, except though his bars?” “We spend most ofthe tine outsige that what youre asking." counters The Buttonup Skeleton, ‘edited with angled paivanolia, dnon anpifications, ‘quarter tympani vi strings” “Say there a one- tenth fraction of the day an average membor spent Indoors, thats probably the tine spent paying music, Weave tried to bring the band outdoors resulting ingome neighbours’ complain and quilt tne. There vas also amosquito swarm ona iver ratthat was United ta band’ worthiness, and showed ddan with ropes shrugging aay their use. Sono, to answer Your qusetion, we are fly an indoors band” Through thelr recording ~ they have released around 20 albuns to date ~ aclive performances, Caroline tur history inside out, surrounding thelistener nth avid simulation ofthe pioneer fexparince that reflects the full beauty and ugliness cf early America, Robbie Robertson and The Band polled similar trick bakin tho ate 2960s and erly 70s, albetin amore commercial format, but Carlier {ig deeper into the bioody heart ofthe past their ‘music simultaneously evoking and simulating the faith and uncertainty, hepe end disease that characterise that turbulent epoch, "Ifyou have stared at the sun all to often without fo, theres something much ike a pioneers ite right thorein front of your troubled brain” explains 1 Wane, vituoeo ofthe 'waxeebre lowering for finger or bow, tltiter, and farming instruments for music purposes". "Caraliner has cheated the tol of Inang your inner thought wth te physical hardship inliou. We give you pioneer fein the high starved caleur without the ten day recovery. The roar of ‘sound might be a Sugar Ax Smith taking you apart inthe switchgrass, o its jst Carolin up to olde tricks, aysteriously handing you a par of logs back at ‘the end of the concert when we wink with basket eyes and ay, You can leave for home quickly, and thank you tor coming’” ‘Caroline are famed for thal fllimmarcion in Wve spectacle, donning costumes that are consistent with tho period of history ovoked intr musi. ‘Where some group's adopt stylised outfits inorder to ‘emress a general interest inthe trappings of ritual, Caroline's theatricality serves adlstinct purpose “The costumes are supposed to represent