New Spaces presents Somadrone

New spaces for Music presents Somadrone live in Sligo this November 8th (Sat)

The Space for this gig will be the newly-restored rooms of the old Knights of Columbanus club in Castle House, Castle Street Sligo.

Somadrone was last in Sligo for the Month of Sundays series with Donal Dineen at the Model Niland in 2006 and we’re delighted to have him back in these spectacular rooms, which were home to music and folk clubs in the 60’s and 70’s in Sligo.

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Incepted in 1995, Somadrone began as a project to document some home recordings from old tape machines and 4-track recorders. This was released in 1999 as a 10 ” single limited to 100 copies. The latter years involved playing, recording and touring in Europe and America with Redneck Manifesto, connect four orchestra, Goodtime John and Jape. Instruments such as Vibraphone, Harp, Theremin, Indian Drone Machines and Analogue Synths feature on 2005’s “Fuzzing Away To A Whisper” released Sept 05 on Trust Me I’m a Theif records.

These collections of recordings are 2 CDS from six years of producing. They range from electro-acoustic pieces to pop music and incorporate elements of early Kraftwerk, Broadcast, Brian Eno and Steve Reich. While pursuing a PhD in Music, he has currently finished work in the US with New York’s Bang On a Can. Somadrone’s third album Of Pattern And Purpose was assembled. The first to incorporate vocal accompaniment, it is composed mostly of miniature symphonies and electronic interludes.
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New Spaces for Music is an ongoing programme placing music in unusual spaces as part of model::offsite - the offsite programme of The Model Arts and Niland Gallery