A Ritual for Elephant & Castle
performed by Chrome Hoof + Marcus Coates
with Wildbirds & Peacedrums Drum Circle + Septic Heart + DJs
(Fri 5th Jun 2009 / 7pm / £6 adv)
Nomad and Qu Junktions present 'A Ritual for Elephant & Castle' featuring Marcus Coates performing live with Chrome Hoof plus a separate performance by Wildbirds and Peacedrums and a 20-piece live drum circle, plus special guests and DJs.
A highly delectable one-off event that deploys specially conceived music (via riveting bands playing in extended formats), artistic practices, shamanistic rituals and visuals to raise the roof. Theatrical, cinematic, spectacular and climatic... this ritual for Elephant & Castle will harness the cathartic emotions and crazed notions that make for a live music show and channel them to make a socially and culturally powerful piece of merrymaking.
The highly anticipated collusion of artist/shape shifter Marcus Coates and the thunder, rock and disco of the mighty Chrome Hoof is a fanciful and fantastic proposition. Add to this cauldron the raw sexual energy of Wildbirds and Peacedrums, backed up by a 20 piece drum circle and it is an explosive evening of infinite possibilities and happenings. The subversive visual prowess of Rod Maclachlan will light the way.
A Ritual for Elephant & Castle is a multi-dimensional live musical performance ritual inspired by the current changes taking place in the London neighbourhood of Elephant & Castle. The ritual will be performed in the historic Coronet Theatre, a key venue for an area currently undergoing extensive social and architectural transformation.
This is the main event in an ongoing residency Nomad, Coates and Chrome Hoof have established in Elephant & Castle over the last 9 months. This ritual for Elephant & Castle is both music event, exorcism and rite of passage, with culture catching multi-media screenings, real life dream state, performance ceremony and one hell of a rock’n’roll disco show.
Le Gun will be producing a new series of new illustrations to accompany the creative collisions that is A Ritual for Elephant & Castle. This new series of graphic will adorn the streets of Elephant & Castle leading up to the live event at the coronet Theatre on the 5th of June.
Marcus Coates is both shaman and showman, entering other worlds to find extraordinary answers for modern life. Coates’ collaboration with a band as dazzling and powerful as the mighty Chrome Hoof is a new but not unsurprising development for Coates. This is part of his worldwide ritual tour that includes Norway, Israel, Japan and the US. Films of Coates’ performances have been screened internationally, most recently Coates has been featured as part of Altermodern, Tate Britain’s 2009 Triennial.
Marcus Coates' compelling brand of shamanic showmanship combines a beguiling repertoire of unhuman vocals and possessed physical movement.
“The point of my work has been to explore the degrees to which you can test that boundary and entertain the possibility of becoming something else”.
Through performance and film Marcus Coates takes his audiences on a dark and humorous journey in an attempt to explore the full potential of imagination, while simultaneously questioning the artists role within society. Coates has an extensive knowledge and understanding of British birds and mammals and continually draws parallels to examine how we perceive human-ness through imagined non-human realities. These ornithological observations have led Coates to develop a unique method of interpreting the natural world and its evolving relationship with society.
Chrome Hoof, the huge ever-growing otherworldly mutant metal/disco/intergalactic sonic space band, seems to have been invented for such an event. They bring their own party and it is like no other. Formed by Cathedral’s bassist Leo Smee and drummer/programmer Milo Smee in 2000. Over the years Chrome Hoof (Southern Lord) have grown in numbers, building an army of improvisatory multi-instrumentalists and generating a devoted cult following with their legendary live performances.
London is multi-faceted and contradictory. It is chaotic, magical, glamorous, cold, terrifying, apocalyptic, exciting, mundane, ordered and unhinged all at the same time. Chrome Hoof is a band that captures this un-reality. A combination of primal feeling, virtuosity, theatre, brooding menace and glamour. Chrome Hoof have somewhere between 10 and 14 members, depending on who turns up. Singer Lola Olafisoye is reminiscent of both Grace Jones at her stylish best and a New Orleans witch queen. Brothers Leo and Milo Smee have opposing musical backgrounds — doom metal and acid house respectively — but rather than compromise and meet in the middle. The whole, huge band dress Sun Ra style, but more metallic, ecstatic. Their mission is to make music to move the spirit. This time they come with a Marcus Coates on board.
Wildbirds and Peacedrums... such a lot from the bare essentials, drums/voice and autoharp. This Swedish duo create hot, exotic songs with a haunting sense of the blues, freeform soul and a loose-limbed percussive edge that seers them into beautiful uncharted territory. The pair's stripped down, tantalising primal show have been leaving audiences agog...they can do it 'Pop' or they can go 'Freeform'. Tonight they are joined by 20 drummers from all over the world with one mission to make out Wildbirds and Peacedrums style. Percussion overload with a soaring soulful siren singing on top. More details of who will be in the Wildbirds And Peacedrums Drum Circle will be made available.
Since signing to the Leaf Label they traverse the world singing sweet and raw. The songs are imbued with a sense of scatter-jazz, Scandinavian pop and widescreen dynamics. Nina Simone certainly gets channelled, as does the energy of jazz gospel, some one-man marching band dynamics and some good tunes and they look good in technicolour.
Just added to the bill is another one off. The UK debut of Septic Heart, the new project of Shackleton, one of the artists behind the pivotal Skull Disco label (known for their moody/tribal dubstep not dubstep) and the vocals of Berlin based Vengeance Tenfold. The two have already teamed up when they recorded 'Death Is Not Final' and 'The Rope Tightens' to great acclaim.
In their own words Septic Heart explore “the lullabies of the last days brought to you in the form of the heavy sonic hypnosis of Shackleton and the lyrical cut-up monstrosity of Vengeance Tenfold. Heavy music and words for heavy times. Lovers of drones, bass, heavy electronic sounds, and the Book of Revelations will feel right at home.”
Highly anticipated for fans of Skull Disco and the exciting paths of dubstep, electronicia minimal and spoken word. Arrive early for this special set.
Rod Maclachlan is a master of projected light. His installations and live performances are playful, elegant and mesmeric. Maclachlan draws on archaic, arcane and electronic devices to explore the complementary relationships between observation and imagination, the physical and the ethereal and now rock and ritual.
He has shown work at, Late at Tate Britain, The Arnolfini and Flatpack Festival and recently concocted the visual magic for the Murcof /BCN 216 Oceano tour. He is one third of Blackout Arts.
A highly delectable one-off event that deploys specially conceived music (via riveting bands playing in extended formats), artistic practices, shamanistic rituals and visuals to raise the roof. Theatrical, cinematic, spectacular and climatic... this ritual for Elephant & Castle will harness the cathartic emotions and crazed notions that make for a live music show and channel them to make a socially and culturally powerful piece of merrymaking.
The highly anticipated collusion of artist/shape shifter Marcus Coates and the thunder, rock and disco of the mighty Chrome Hoof is a fanciful and fantastic proposition. Add to this cauldron the raw sexual energy of Wildbirds and Peacedrums, backed up by a 20 piece drum circle and it is an explosive evening of infinite possibilities and happenings. The subversive visual prowess of Rod Maclachlan will light the way.
A Ritual for Elephant & Castle is a multi-dimensional live musical performance ritual inspired by the current changes taking place in the London neighbourhood of Elephant & Castle. The ritual will be performed in the historic Coronet Theatre, a key venue for an area currently undergoing extensive social and architectural transformation.
This is the main event in an ongoing residency Nomad, Coates and Chrome Hoof have established in Elephant & Castle over the last 9 months. This ritual for Elephant & Castle is both music event, exorcism and rite of passage, with culture catching multi-media screenings, real life dream state, performance ceremony and one hell of a rock’n’roll disco show.
Le Gun will be producing a new series of new illustrations to accompany the creative collisions that is A Ritual for Elephant & Castle. This new series of graphic will adorn the streets of Elephant & Castle leading up to the live event at the coronet Theatre on the 5th of June.
Marcus Coates is both shaman and showman, entering other worlds to find extraordinary answers for modern life. Coates’ collaboration with a band as dazzling and powerful as the mighty Chrome Hoof is a new but not unsurprising development for Coates. This is part of his worldwide ritual tour that includes Norway, Israel, Japan and the US. Films of Coates’ performances have been screened internationally, most recently Coates has been featured as part of Altermodern, Tate Britain’s 2009 Triennial.
Marcus Coates' compelling brand of shamanic showmanship combines a beguiling repertoire of unhuman vocals and possessed physical movement.
“The point of my work has been to explore the degrees to which you can test that boundary and entertain the possibility of becoming something else”.
Through performance and film Marcus Coates takes his audiences on a dark and humorous journey in an attempt to explore the full potential of imagination, while simultaneously questioning the artists role within society. Coates has an extensive knowledge and understanding of British birds and mammals and continually draws parallels to examine how we perceive human-ness through imagined non-human realities. These ornithological observations have led Coates to develop a unique method of interpreting the natural world and its evolving relationship with society.
Chrome Hoof, the huge ever-growing otherworldly mutant metal/disco/intergalactic sonic space band, seems to have been invented for such an event. They bring their own party and it is like no other. Formed by Cathedral’s bassist Leo Smee and drummer/programmer Milo Smee in 2000. Over the years Chrome Hoof (Southern Lord) have grown in numbers, building an army of improvisatory multi-instrumentalists and generating a devoted cult following with their legendary live performances.
London is multi-faceted and contradictory. It is chaotic, magical, glamorous, cold, terrifying, apocalyptic, exciting, mundane, ordered and unhinged all at the same time. Chrome Hoof is a band that captures this un-reality. A combination of primal feeling, virtuosity, theatre, brooding menace and glamour. Chrome Hoof have somewhere between 10 and 14 members, depending on who turns up. Singer Lola Olafisoye is reminiscent of both Grace Jones at her stylish best and a New Orleans witch queen. Brothers Leo and Milo Smee have opposing musical backgrounds — doom metal and acid house respectively — but rather than compromise and meet in the middle. The whole, huge band dress Sun Ra style, but more metallic, ecstatic. Their mission is to make music to move the spirit. This time they come with a Marcus Coates on board.
Wildbirds and Peacedrums... such a lot from the bare essentials, drums/voice and autoharp. This Swedish duo create hot, exotic songs with a haunting sense of the blues, freeform soul and a loose-limbed percussive edge that seers them into beautiful uncharted territory. The pair's stripped down, tantalising primal show have been leaving audiences agog...they can do it 'Pop' or they can go 'Freeform'. Tonight they are joined by 20 drummers from all over the world with one mission to make out Wildbirds and Peacedrums style. Percussion overload with a soaring soulful siren singing on top. More details of who will be in the Wildbirds And Peacedrums Drum Circle will be made available.
Since signing to the Leaf Label they traverse the world singing sweet and raw. The songs are imbued with a sense of scatter-jazz, Scandinavian pop and widescreen dynamics. Nina Simone certainly gets channelled, as does the energy of jazz gospel, some one-man marching band dynamics and some good tunes and they look good in technicolour.
Just added to the bill is another one off. The UK debut of Septic Heart, the new project of Shackleton, one of the artists behind the pivotal Skull Disco label (known for their moody/tribal dubstep not dubstep) and the vocals of Berlin based Vengeance Tenfold. The two have already teamed up when they recorded 'Death Is Not Final' and 'The Rope Tightens' to great acclaim.
In their own words Septic Heart explore “the lullabies of the last days brought to you in the form of the heavy sonic hypnosis of Shackleton and the lyrical cut-up monstrosity of Vengeance Tenfold. Heavy music and words for heavy times. Lovers of drones, bass, heavy electronic sounds, and the Book of Revelations will feel right at home.”
Highly anticipated for fans of Skull Disco and the exciting paths of dubstep, electronicia minimal and spoken word. Arrive early for this special set.
Rod Maclachlan is a master of projected light. His installations and live performances are playful, elegant and mesmeric. Maclachlan draws on archaic, arcane and electronic devices to explore the complementary relationships between observation and imagination, the physical and the ethereal and now rock and ritual.
He has shown work at, Late at Tate Britain, The Arnolfini and Flatpack Festival and recently concocted the visual magic for the Murcof /BCN 216 Oceano tour. He is one third of Blackout Arts.