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ESPERS + SPECIAL GUESTS
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BUSH HALL,
310 UXBRIDGE ROAD, LONDON W6 0BE
TIME / 7.30PMTUBE / SHEPHERDS BUSH TUBETEL / 020 8222 6955URL /
WWW.ESPERS.ORG, WWW.MYSPACE.COM/ESPERS
ESPERS started just a few short years ago as a trio
from Philadelphia featuring singer/songwriter Greg Weeks, Meg Baird and
Brooke Sietinsons. Their infectious sound quickly brought them
increased attention and stints performing with legends like Brigitte
St. John, The Incredible String Band and Michael Hurley.
Tonight they deliver a live set of psyche-folk-drone and hypnotic
sounds, caustic lead guitars, cellos, doumbeks (Middle Eastern drums)
and dholaks (north Indian hand drums) that reinforce and contradict
each other in ways that are almost physically intoxicating. Where an
acoustic guitar twinkles, its electric counterpart gets frazzled. The
predictable warm afterglow of one song is matched by the slippery
squeaks, bleeps and Wicker Man weirdness of another....
Philadelphia's Espers, a truly remarkable band. The trio mix altered
state guitars and pastoral unease with far more grace and originality.
In their hands, folk music is a living organism, droning and plucked,
unsettled and unsettling. The Guardian
