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Multi-piano mash-up

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#Pianodrome with The Landing Festival 2016 present

Multi-piano mash-up

Sink will hook five pianos up to the electronic augmentation devices of the very excellent Mr. Dave House aka. The Reverse Engineer and invite a couple of killer collaborators to join us namely the leader of Lipsync for a Lullaby and much more besides – Atzi Muramatsu, and the genius pianist currently resident and winning prizes at Summerhall – Will Pickvance. The Landing Festival at Edinburgh’s Biscuit Factory is really just a front for the artisanal quadrophonic sound amplifier of Chapel Perilous and it’s creator Hector has given us the keys!

What is going to happen?

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Pay a piffling £5 on the door and have change for a few beers while you find out.
8-11pm Wednesday 23 November
The Biscuit Factory, 4 – 6 Anderson Place, Edinburgh EH6 5NP
Share this post and your name will be put into a hat for the prize draw on the night to win the piano of your choice.

Magic Lantern & Alabaster dePlume

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Strange Attractor is back! The incredible acoustic of Saint Stephens in Stockbridge will be brought alive with three musical acts of subtlety, skill and beauty. Edinburgh’s own acoustic improvisatory conjurers will be joined by The Magic Lantern and Alabaster dePlume for a night of auditory exploration and communication beyond words.

St Stephen’s Stockbridge
5 November
7:30 pm

Tickets:
£8 advance / £10 on the door

We’re on a spectral adventure, folded 3 ways, and we want to bring you our souls.

THE MAGIC LANTERN

An artist dedicated to remedying the anxiety and fear present in everyone, his voice both lifts and calms the senses equally, as he applies jazz technique to a direct and open presentation of original songs.
Most recently joining Jamie Cullens choir at the Proms, the singer and composer Jamie Doe is a rising star of Londons diverse music scene, who never settles without a challenge, and lives to spread love, calm and sincerity.
Jamie has an immediately arresting voice that has been compared to Chet Baker and Jeff Buckley and a unique guitar style that takes elements of folk fingerpicking, Flamenco and West African music

“Very, very special” – Lauren Laverne, BBC 6 Music

“Intriguing, compelling and exceptional. A man to watch” – The Guardian

ALABASTER DEPLUME

Alabaster DePlume (Gus Fairbairn), is a performer, writer and musician. What he makes is jazz/folk with theatrical performance in it, that reassures with behaviour and sound while it challenges with thoughts and words. With a tenor saxophone influenced by 70s-era Ethiopian music and humour akin to Ivor Cutler, Alabaster has toured internationally and locally presenting instrumentals, songs and theatrical scripts that evolve, adapt and interact with the musicians, the audience and the occasion, for all present to know and enjoy the effect of their own presence

Since 2011 he has produced three albums on Manchester label Debt Records, toured Europe as a solo performer, produced short films, and written/performed a play with circus-aerial in Dublin. He has also presented a series of combined-arts events celebrating his work, and the work of others.
His latest LP ‘Peach’ was produced by Paddy Steer, and accompanies short film ‘I Feel Good’ directed by Melodie Roulaud.

You can see the film ‘I Feel Good’ here
You can hear Alabaster’s latest album ‘Peach’ here:

“Cheerfully uneasy” – Max Reinhardt, BBC Radio 3

“The best artistic event I have ever experienced in my life” – Manchester Jazz Festival website

 

The Adventures Prince Achmed

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With live score by Sink

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Widely considered to be the first full-length animated feature in the history of cinema, The Adventures of Prince Achmed is a beautifully crafted piece of storytelling based loosely on the Arabian Nights. The film is an exciting tale of sword fights, genies and adventure told using a silhouette animation technique pioneered by director Lotte Reiniger.

Filmhouse Edinburgh have commissioned Sink to bring our live sounds to this very special animated feature as part of a Scotland-wide tour.

Reaching beyond our usual instrumentation of violin, accordion and saxophone we will create a score that is in part composed and in part conjured; improvising and experimenting as Lotte Reininger did with shape and colour 90 years ago.

Tour Dates:

Mon 29 August   –   Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow   –   6:30 pm   –   Tickets

Fri 2 September   –   SEALL at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Skye   –   8 pm   –   Tickets

Mon 5 September   –   Aros Centre, Portree, Skye    –   7:30 pm   –   Tickets

Tue 6 September   –    An Lanntair, Stornoway, Lewis   –   8 pm   –   Tickets

Thu 8 September   –    Eden Court, Inverness   –   7:15 pm   –   Tickets

Fri 9 September   –   Belmont Filmhouse, Aberdeen   –   7:30 pm   –   Tickets

Sat 10 September   –   Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee   –   1 pm   –   Tickets

Sun 11 September   –   Filmhouse, Edinburgh   –   4 pm   –   Tickets

Sat 1 October   –   Hippodrome, Bo’ness   –   7:30 pm   –   Tickets

More info can be found HERE….

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Part of CineScore Live, a touring season of live music and film events supported by Film Hub Scotland.

Coming up in 2016…

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After a quiet January we’re getting revved up for an exciting year.

We’re planning more live shows, the release of a new EP, a Scottish tour with Kate Stables and a silent film project with Filmhouse, Edinburgh. Meanwhile, check out this video, recorded on December 9th last year at Sofar sounds!

Edinburgh album launch

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At long last, the Edinburgh release of our debut album ‘Ossicles’ is upon us

Taking over the top floor of the recently opened Biscuit Factory in Leith, SiNK will be playing music developed from improvisations on our new album, along with old favourites and some brand new songs.

We’ve also invited our good friends Kate Young, Graeme Miller, Sven Werner and Isaac Jackson to support.

Friday 27th November | 7.30pm
The Biscuit Factory 
4-6 Anderson Place
Leith
£5 on the door – CDs and vinyl sold at special launch price

Let us know you’re coming and invite friends on the Facebook event

More about the night

Combining virtuosic fiddle playing with electronics and haunting vocals, Kate Young takes traditional music and spins it into a universe entirely of her own making.

Graeme Miller (Cracks in the Concrete) and Sven Werner (Tales of Magical Realism) will create an experimental, ever-evolving, pulsing acoustic sound piece using a pyramid of piano harps, horsehair loops and beaters.

Isaac Jackson sees sounds. Responsible for the syn-aesthetic sound painting appearing on our poster, Isaac will be presenting work from his ongoing collaboration with SiNK. Translating sounds from the Ossicles album into his own visual language, a pilot animation will be premiered on the night.

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The Adventures of Prince Achmed

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This one is a gift.

In 1926 film making was akin to witchcraft and, as such, was ideally suited to illustrate the Arabian Nights upon which the story of this feature is loosely based. Lotte Reiniger and Carl Koch collaborated to create what is now widely believed to be the oldest surviving feature length animation and Sink are very excited to be creating a new live soundtrack for this exclusive performance. Tickets here.

Edinburgh Filmhouse Thursday 13th August 9pm

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Debut Album ‘Ossicles’ Tour Dates

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5 years in gestation, if you count from the fateful blind date that we first met, Sink are prouder than a three parent family with a miraculous first child to present their debut album ‘Ossicles’. Part crafted composition and part spontaneous improvisation it is a crystal grown from the seed of our live shows. In celebration of its manifestation in physical form (CD and MP3 – vinyl to follow) we will be touring visiting these choice venues:

Tue 2nd June –  The Prince Albert, Stroud – 8pm – Free
Rodborough Hill, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 3SS

Wed 3rd June –  The Albion Beatnik Bookshop, Oxford – £6
34 Walton Street, Oxford, OX2 6AA

Fri 5th June – Turning Earth, London – 8.30pm – £8/£10
Buy your tickets here
Turning Earth Ceramics studio, Railway Arches 361-362, Whiston Rd, London E2 8BW

Sat 6th June – Cafe Kino, Bristol – 8pm – £6
108 Stokes Croft, Bristol, Avon BS1 3RU

Sun 7th June – Earthworm Housing Co op, Leintwardine – 7.30pm – Free
Wheatstone House, High Street, Leintwardine, Craven Arms, Shropshire SY7 0LH

Listen to a sneak preview track from the album here

s i n k & Eugene Chadbourne :: Glasgow Art School :: Monday 16 March

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We’re joining this madcap punk mashup maestro for the final night of his weekend whirlwind in Glasgow.

Monday night, Glasgow Art School 7.30-10.30pm

£4 Each or £10 for all the weekend’s shows, if you happen to be a die-hard Chadbourne fan

If you’re not yet aware of Eddie Chaterbox, Doc Chad or any of his other guises then you can read more on the facebook event page:

 https://www.facebook.com/events/381218138724043/

Strange Attractor :: Sunday 1st March 7pm

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Singing Moondog are an open membership choir who meet weekly to share songs of all traditions. During the Sound Shape gallery residency they have kindly agreed to collaborate with me on a sonic exploration of consonance and dissonance, the results of which along with some Moondog, will be presented at this special Strange Attractor. Also Emma Snellgrove mover in all ways and no stranger to this event will present pinhole zoetrope work, Fiona Hermse, resident artist at St. Margaret’s house and currently exhibiting in Galleries 2 and 3 will give us some insight into her process, ringmasters Sven Werner and Graeme Miller will come through from Glasgow to play hypnotic music using horses tail hair woven into piano strings and naturally Sink will Sink throughout. This is going to be a good one.

The performance will take place in Gallery 1 on the third floor of St. Margaret’s House, 151 London Road, EH7 6AE on Sunday 1st of March 7pm.

Tickets are £7 on the door.

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The Strange Attractor event is the culmination of the Sound Shape gallery residency which will be running from now until the 1st March. I will be there most afternoons. Admission for the residency is free. Please come along and play.

Click here for more details.

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