Eat Your Own Ears presents
KIERAN HEBDEN (AKA FOUR TET) AND STEVE REID
GREEN GARTSIDE (Scritti Politti) & ALEXIS TAYLOR (Hot Chip)
DJ JAMES HOLDEN
Thursday 29 March
Doors 7.30pm
KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, Camden, London NW1 0870 432 5527
www.kieranhebdenandstevereid.com
www.steve-reid.com
www.hotchip.co.uk
www.myspace.com/scrittipolittiofficial
www.jamesholden.org
Tonight KIERAN HEBDEN (FOUR TET) and veteran jazz drummer STEVE REID promote their 3rd release Tongues on Domino Records.
Steve Reid is the legendary drummer who in 1964 at 19 years of age played on Martha Reeves & the Vandellas’ ‘Dancing In The Street’, and subsequently went on to play with Miles Davis, Fela Kuti and James Brown (think about that for a moment), not to mention Fats Domino, Sun Ra, Peggy Lee, Chaka Khan, Dexter Gordon, Dionne Warwick and many, many more. Their unique live show blends Kieran's electronic experimentation with Steve Reid's laid back yet complex driving polyrhythms.
GREEN GARTSIDE (Scritti Politti) & ALEXIS TAYLOR (Hot Chip)
Whilst discussing the various merits of Jodeci, Biz Markie and Paul McCartney's recorded works, Scritti Politti's Green Gartside and Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor decided they should take their newly-found fondness for song and sound beyond the pub, and into a smaller room where they could write and record together. They have set about doing this, and this will be their debut live outing. They will be competing for the 'highest voice' prize throughout the evening.
DJ JAMES HOLDEN has managed to carve out a niche for himself that is all his own – try and pigeonhole his sound at your peril. The boy wonder with a maths degree from Oxford University honed his production and DJing craft in his student digs, with a £500 computer and some free software, and took the dance music world by storm in 1999 with the powerfully emotive ‘Horizons’ on Silver Planet. Although he has since moved on from the progressive sound that made his name, the haunting melodies of the genre can still be found twisting eerily in and out of the warped soundscapes of his more recent productions.
Like his productions, James Holden’s DJ sets draw in elements of house, electro, breakbeat, techno and genres that probably haven’t even got a name. As far from ‘minimal’ as you could possible get, simply because there is so much to draw you into this weird and wonderful hazy musical world – James Holden is the man to get even the most jaded dance music aficionado excited about music again.