Astralwerks

AdHoc.FM, Preservation & Rose Quartz pesent:

Deep Magic
(Los Angeles)
SunAraw
Preservation

Pimmon
Preservation
Stunned

Secret Birds
No Kings
Sonoptik

Angel Eyes
Melbourne
NotNotFun

Four Door
Naked On The Vague
+ Holy Balm

+ Guest Djs:
Tom Ellard (Severed Heads), Preservation, Ears Have Ears (FBi) & Spiral Sounds (2SER) til late

8pm til late
$18 Entry
Proceeds to AdHoc.fm

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On Saturday February 11th at Dirty Shirlows, Space is the Place, as Ad Hoc.Fm, Preservation Records and Rose Quartz present “ASTRALWERKS”, a night of cosmic and psychedelic music to send you straight into the stratosphere.

From the former editors of Pitchfork’s experimental blog Altered Zones, Ad Hoc (http://adhoc.fm/) is a Brooklyn-based, 100% independent, daily music and visual culture publication that brings together music bloggers, writers and active imaginations from all across our global grassroots community. It aims to expose pockets of DIY culture the world-over, strengthen ties across countries, and foster scenes that are working in the shadows cast by the gleam of traditional cultural focus. In line with this, Astralwerks compiles some of Australia - and the world’s – leading practitioners of mind-bending and forward-thinking music. All proceeds from the event go towards the Ad Hoc project.

Preservation Records (http://www.preservation.com.au/) is a boutique Sydney-based label that has been a lightning rod for exceptional experimental music since 2003. Preservation has released beautifully designed albums from some of the great practitioners of modern classical, free-jazz, psychedelic and electronic music both in Australia and around the world. Notable releases include Quiet Evenings (Nova Scotian Arms & Motion Sickness of Time Travel), Sun (Oren Ambarchi and Chris Townsend) and Justin Wright (Expo 70) – not to mention records from Deep Magic and Pimmon.


Rose Quartz (http://rosequartz.blogspot.com/) are five dudes from Australia and New Zealand. They started blogging about great new music at the start of 2007 and since have hit the publish button over 1500 times, put on gigs in New York, the UK, Australia and New Zealand and been one of the founding members of Pitchfork’s collaborative sister blog, Altered Zones.


Ad Hoc, Preservation and Rose Quartz Presents:

‘ASTRALWERKS’


xxxxx Deep Magic (Sun Araw, Preservation + Not Not Fun, Los Angeles) xxxxx

Deep Magic is the solo project of California native Alex Grey, who currently plays in psych raiders Sun Araw, and has contributed to works by Pocahaunted and Black Eagle Child. Having released his debut album Solar Meditations on infamous LA-based label Not Not Fun, 2011 saw Deep Magic release his second full-length on Preservation Records – the sublime Lucid Thought. Grey’s music is characterised by a masterful intuition for shimmering, delicate textures, which he creates using finger-picked guitar, synths, keyboards and percussion. Panoramic and expansive in scope, Deep Magic’s supine sounds will send you to the outer limits and right back again.
http://deeptapes.com/
http://alteredzones.com/posts/2125/deep-magic-untitled-ii/
http://alteredzones.com/posts/1119/deep-magic-minds-lucidity-i/


xxxx Pimmon (Preservation, Stunned) xxxx

For over a decade now, Paul Gough aka Pimmon, has been releasing some of the most sublime, challenging and unique electronic music one’s ears will ever have the pleasure of listening to. A bastion of the Sydney experimental music scene, Pimmon has previously worked with renowned sound artists like Fennesz, Oren Ambarchi and Peter Rehberg (Editions Mego). On records he has released for Preservation and cult Portland-based label Stunned Records (amongst others), Pimmon creates grand emotional gestures through subtle shifts in the musical landscape. With a bedrock of digital drones, blips and glitches, Pimmon chisels out over elongated works tactile and elevating forms of electronic bliss.
http://www.myspace.com/pimmon


xxx Angel Eyes (Not Not Fun, Melbourne) xxxx

Melbourne’s Angel Eyes is the one man loner-psych project of Andrew Cowie. Using guitar, keyboard and drum machine, he crafts pensive and elegiac songs that come from an intensely personal place, and strike the listener accordingly. The shimmering guitar parts, creeping, tranced out keyboards, and sparse drum lines recall artists like Sun Araw; but then Cowie’s deep, unhurried voice booms out through the haze, dragging you further into his thick, humid world. It’s hard to pin down his voice: maybe elements of John Maus, even Ian Curtis, combined with the personal confessions of a John Bender. But as Not Not Fun says about Cowie, the lack of any real comparison “is sort of ultimate compliment.”
http://www.myspace.com/andrewrcowie
http://www.internationaltapes.com/reviews/angel-eyes-untitled/
http://notnotfun.com/past250.html


xx Secret Birds (Sonoptik) xxx

Secret Birds is Sydney-via-Brisbane synthesist and guitarist, Damon Black. His work is equally touched by the Kosmische sounds of ‘70s Germany, West Coast pysch, and the smooth, lucid textures of early ‘90s acid-ambience. In 2011, Secret Birds minted the Moon Clouds Infinite EP on Los Angeles label, Sonoptik — a wide-eyed mind-trip into distant realms, but displaying a direction and focus of a musician truly in control of his craft. With a new release on Lee Noble’s No Kings label, and a full-length due on Sonoptik in 2012, this year is going to be a big one for one of Australia’s most exciting purveyors of psychedelic electronic music.
http://secretbirds.net/
http://alteredzones.com/posts/2129/secret-birds-part-ii/


xxx Four Door (Holy Balm & Naked on the Vague) xxx

Four Door is the new electronic dance collaboration of Matthew Hopkins (Naked on the Vague), and Jonathan Hochman (Holy Balm). Like all great collaborations, the project is shrouded in mystery, but based on the calibre of their respective bands, it seems reasonable to expect something as good as Cluster & Eno, Nurse With Wound & Stereolab, or Moroder & Bowie — but definitely better than Metallica & Lou Reed.