Flower-Corsano Duo

with support from
E+S=B
Boys Of Summer

Date: 18th July
Time: 8pm
Tax: €10
Twisted Pepper
54 Middle Abbey St.
Dublin 1.


 



This duo is an acutely musical collaboration between kinetic drummer Chris Corsano and Vibracathedral Orchestra's Mick Flower on shaahi baaja (Japanese banjo). As a two-piece they conjure, sweat and divine a music that elevates through rhythm and ecstatic harmonics. It's a sound that's intimate and epic, raw and tender. The dynamic is great. Eastern harmonics laced with a thrilling sense of discordance and melody. An explosive sight/sound that shudders the body and colours the mind.

Both Mick and Chris have vibrant solo, group and improvised projects but when the two men come together it's something else. The Duo's new 'Four Aims' album on VHF is something else like their album 'Radiant Mirror' album on Textile (2007) it is a beautifully expansive elemental sound pulling the listener into their detailed world.

Live it can be quiet and medative, then lift into a tribal, raw but acutely musical interplay between two musicians at peak power. As a duo these pair are dynamic (in a post-hardcore, improv sense) and heavenly in their mix of Chris Corsano's rhythm patterns, hand-claps and drums morphing into Mick Flower's eternal drone and ecstatic wall of amped pickings. They gel as duo to a startling degree, and are able to enrapture audiences of all persuasions. Chris Corsano is a kinetic DIY drummer (one of the world's most exciting) who uses this project to inject some punk tabla-type rolls into the audio world; Mick Flower is an incendiary guitar player who plays the 'shaahi baaja' or Japan banjo from India in a rocking, transcendent manner.

Michael Flower is best known as a member of Leed's Vibracathedral Orchestra, a lynch pin of the improvising rock/noise/drone world. He has also played and released with artists such as Tony Conrad, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, MV&EE and his own Michael Flower Band. In this guise Mick picks up his electric shaahi baaja. Discussing his use of the instrument Michael says, "I suppose I'm just jamming my own versions of ragas. Hopefully there's a similar purity there, although a more naive/ham-fisted one in the music I play. When I was a teenager we used to listen to the Velvet Underground, Indian classical, flute music of Papua New Guinea, primitive blues. I guess all the music I make is vaguely informed by that period." His playing can be overloaded and pins you to the ground or blissfully graceful even holy, his expansive sound lifting you to higher levels.

Chris Corsano's drumming has to be seen to be fully appreciated. An 'into the void' musician who collaborates with a huge range of artists and can still pull off mad solo shit. It is a rare drummer that can hold his own with his customized kit, clatter practice and circular breathing drone exhortations but retain a dynamic and structure that works. He also self-releases a CD of distorted and spiked keyboard pieces on the Hot Cars Warp label to confuse those who try to pin him down. Loose-limbed, intense, even melodic, he exposes the audience to sounds and rhythms that defy normality. He moves light footed around the world sparking off into all kinds of collaborations playing with/alongside Jim O'Rouke, the Dimension X project, Sonic Youth, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Bjork, Mick Beck, Okkyung Lee, Evan Parker and Bill Nace among many.

Here is a recent interview: http://www.fragil.org/focus/1029

www.myspace.com/chriscorsano
www.myspace.com/themichaelflowerband
www.myspace.com/electronicsensoriaband
www.myspace.com/munitionsfamily

Latest edition of Radio-Inactivity, starring Emmet, is available to download here.

Lazybird has come out of semi-retirement to present:

MELODICA DEATHSHIP
Featuring Exile Eye and Troubled Soul

Monday, 25th August 2008. Anseo. 5EURO.

Support from Devon Drounz.

Live music will start about 9pm, but Lazybird DJs and a guest or two, will be spinning tunes downstairs from 7pm.

The Black Tea Bubbling Tour is travelling across Ireland promoting the pre- release of Melodica Deathship Volume One ep. The tour features Melodica Deathship and Devon Drounz, projects of true school Irish hip hop vets Exile Eye and Troubled Soul.


The melodica deathship is a combination of rugged beats, ghostly melodica, and salty lyrical themes Inspired by a dark fascination with the sea. Imagine the pogues, augustus Pablo and king tubby and el p making a dubbed out racket in the hull of a galleon bound for hell.


Melodica deathship Volume one will be released in the next months with a pre- release version available at gigs Featuring exclusive artwork and tracks.


www.myspacecom/melodicadeathship
www.myspace.com/theexileeye
www.myspace.com/thesoundequilibrium
www.myspace.com/devondrounz

Follow the link for the playlist and to download the lastest Lazybird Radio-Inactivity web cast:
Radio-Inactivity Playlist August 10th 2008 

LAZYBIRD
Saturday, 26 April in the Boom Boom Room, 8:30pm
Murray's (basement), 34/35 Upper O'Connell St, Dublin 2
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This is the third in our recent spate of Saturday night gigs in the new Boom Boom Room, and we're pretty damn thrilled to present

THE FLOWER-CORSANO DUO
with
THREAD PULLS
8:30pm, 13 euro

THE FLOWER-CORSANO DUO
One of Lazybird's favourite people ever, Chris Corsano, is back in Dublin this Saturday, taking a quick detour from his day job as the touring drummer for a certain Ms Gudmundsdottir. This time, he's bringing Mick Flower, ex- of the Vibracathedral Orchestra, with him. Mick's also played with us before, as part of Sunroof!, but this is the first time he and Chris will be doing their duo thing together in Ireland.

Their album "Radiant Mirror" on the Textile label was one of the The Wire magazine's top 50 releases of 2007, and rightly so: it's an amazing work of improvisational psychedelia, and hits you both in the gut and in the brain.

Anyone who's seen Chris or Mick before will know that they're both great live performers, but check out a couple of clips of them together:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5BPErQ3DqE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xzztbpvqes

Mindblowing and awesome.

http://www.myspace.com/chriscorsano

THREAD PULLS
It's been a long time since Thread Pulls played with Lazybird, and a lot has happened with them in the meantime: they became the first (and so far, only) Irish band to be invited to play at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, they've stripped down to the duo of Gavin Duffy and Peter Maybury, and they've moved away from their original noise-rock/no wave-inspired beginnings toward a more upbeat post-punk sound.

Their record label Ninepoint has also been quite busy, releasing not only their own material, but also that by multimedia artist Garrett Phelan and longtime fixture on the Irish and international electronica scene, David Donohoe.

http://www.myspace.com/threadpulls
http://www.9-pt.com/

Two great and unique duo performances in the spanking new Boom Boom Room, plus some laptop DJing courtesy of the Lazybird Disco Assault Sound System in between the live stuff. All for 13 euro, doors at 8:30pm and we hope to see you down there.

~lazybird~

http://www.lazybird.org/
http://www.myspace.com/lazybirdclubnight/
http://www.myspace.com/lazybirdlabel/

UPCOMING SHOWS
Sunday, May 11th in CrawDaddy: Lazybird and POD Concerts present A HAWK AND A HACKSAW, WILDBIRDS & PEACEDRUMS and CHEQUERBOARD. (8pm, 15 euro.)

(And Chequerboard's also supporting Ulrich Schnauss in the Button Factory on Friday, May 2nd. 7:30pm, 17 euro.)

LAZYBIRD RADIO
Every Sunday, our Radio-Inactivity webcast comes zoomin' atcha between 6pm and 7:30pm. It can be found at http://www.powerfm.com, and Neilio Iglesias will be your host this week. To hear the type of stuff he (and the rest of us) might play, check out a few past shows at http://lazybirdie.blogspot.com/. Tune in, turn up, drone on.


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To visit the site, go here: www.lazybird.org

Dublin guitarist, producer & graphic artist, Chequerboard (John Lambert) releases his first full-length album on Lazybird in February – a much anticipated release from one of Ireland's premier sound sculptors.

Penny Black is Chequerboard's third release following on from his debut album Gothica (Reverb) and 2005 EP Dictaphone Showreels (Lazybird). Chequerboard's profile has grown rapidly over the last year due to extensive touring as well as his work with Donal Dineen. In 2007, John received a music fellowship from the Model Arts & Niland Gallery in Sligo where he spent a year writing and producing Penny Black. The cover and artwork for Penny Black is comprised of shots of actual art pieces produced by John, all of which were sold at a recent exhibition.

Background
Chequerboard is Dublin guitarist / producer and visual artist John Lambert who creates rich, melodic, evocative guitar soundscapes. This new offering Penny Black takes up where the haunting 2005 EP 'Dictaphone Showreels' left off bringing us on a fascinating and emotional journey through a series of stark guitar pieces intercut with textured samples and found sound. Chequerboard's sound has found endorsements and radio-play from the likes of John Kelly and Donal Dineen. The track 'Konichiwa' has already found its way onto two separate Irish electronica compilations including R na G's Cian O Ciabhain's acclaimed 'An Taobh Tuathail: Vol. I '.

In 2007 Chequerboard re-released his acclaimed EP 'Dictaphone Showreels' captivativating many more listeners. Something of a diamond in the rough, it has gradually found a dedicated, discerning and passionate audience. The Chequerboard live show is simply Lambert, his guitar and a series of guitar pedals building lush, textured, soundscapes that paint an evocative world of their own. Chequerboard was invited to play at an early Electric Picnic and has since been asked back each year, performing last year at the Garden Party boutique festival too.

TRACKLISTING:Penny Black / Ornithopter / Konichiwa / Quotidian Debris / The Winter Arcade / Skating Couple / 20th Century Artillery / Prince August / Toy Winds

Penny Black
Release date: 29th Feb '08

Tour dates:
Fri 29th Feb – Stress @ De Burgos, Galway
Sun 2nd March – The Sitting Room, Whelans, Dublin (album launch)
Fri 2nd May – The Button Factory w/Ulrich Shnauss
Sun 11 th May – The Boom Boom Room w/ Hawk & a Hacksaw

HI,
Long time no update. The big news is that Dry County's 'Unexpected Falls', on our own Lazybird label, has been nominated for the Choice Music Prize. You can read more about that here on our new blog at http://www.lazybird.org/.

Also nominated is the self-titled Super Extra Bonus Party debut album released by our good friends at the Alphabet Set.

Lazybird's Mossy and Paul are helping curate a manga/anime weekender in the Chester Beatty library on the 1st through 3rd of February. There will be screenings, workshops and talks. Paul will be giving a talk on ' The Surreal Art of Anime' on the Sunday. More info can be found here. (Note that space for each day is limited, so you're advised to e-mail educationservices@cbl.ie to reserve a spot.)

The first Radio-Inactivity of 2008 will be webcast (we hope!) on Sunday Jan 20th at 18.00GMT on PowerFM. Your selectors for the evening will be Neil and Paul. (Show archives can be found here.)

We are currently organising some Lazybird shows at the moment. Confirmed so far: Thread Pulls and Friends on the April 27th, in Anseo.

Finally, 2008 will see new releases on the Lazybird Label from Chequerboard and Rollers/Sparkers. More info to follow very soon.

Happy new year,
~lazybird~

Lakker
Ruido
LABEL: Lazybird
RELEASE DATE: Oct 5th
FORMATS: CD
CAT. NO. LAZYB12

Lazybird releases the debut album from celebrated Dublin duo Lakker. 'Ruido'

LAKKER are Dara Smith and Eomac, who make everything from abstract
glitchiness to rampaging gabba using only a couple of laptops, the
occasional microphone and their considerable musical smarts. Since they emerged from the late, great band (.undermine.), the two have been
mainstays on the Irish music scene, playing at festivals like DEAF and
Mor, and at clubs like the Remote Viewing Workshop and Neuromantek

Their music is a mash up of various different styles and influences- anything from Miles Davis to Mike Paradinas.
In the past Lakker have played alongside Andrew Weatherall, Kid 606, Andrea Parker ,exile ,chevron and Decal , among others.

TRACKLISTING
01.PanShelac
02.Dusk-Eyes
03.Distances
04.Shards
05.Sleep's Daughter
06.Foundation Noise
07.Btok
08.Melting Lacquer
09.Hardfield
10.New Sounds for Wind and Metal
11.Pyre

DRY COUNTY

Press Release / Bio

Dry County release their debut album 'Unexpected Falls' (LAZYB10) after three years of blood, sweat and tears, May 4th 2007 will see the album hit the shops. It is the band's second release following on from the Nothing Stays In Place ep (LAZYB8), May 2004 which has continued to sell over the intervening period. After recording the best part of an album, the band jettisoned most of the material due to a rapid progression in their sound and dynamic, the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth continued with still no record to release and a growing fan base wondering why. May 2007 sees the album reaching the light of day and sounding like the record the band always knew they were meant to release. The band and their label are delighted and relieved to finally have a record that should prove one of the most interesting Irish releases in 2007.

'Unexpected Falls' crossbreeds a love of songs and a passion for electronic and dance music, the natural and the mechanical mixed and combined. The fabric of the album is constructed from guitars, Nord Lead 2, Microkorg, Piano, Auto Harp, Mellotron, live drums (some built from buckets and boxes), various other computers and machinery and of course the lead vocals of lyricist Kevin Littlewood, backed mainly by Phil Porter, Stuart Flood and Joanne Parle but with the help of quite a few other voices along the way. The lead single 'Attention' (LAZYB11), physical and digital, released March 30th 2007 has a chorus featuring twelve of the band's closest disciples. Both the single and album were recorded in a number of locations according to the required sounds and appropriate atmosphere and were mastered by Guy at the Exchange. The bands' influences range from Nine Inch Nails to Boards of Canada or on the guitar side, Ride to Deus, with an inherent drive to create a sound that is far more than imitation or tribute. The album title refers to the setbacks and accidents of living life and of making music. The songs and their lyrics look both up and down; a streak of melancholy runs through what is ultimately a celebration of life and of sound. The struggle serves to make stronger, achievement is nothing without effort and pain. Like the song says 'it is what you make it not what it made you'.

The band have been regular players in Irish venues and over the two years, doing a number of their own tours and playing with and supporting the likes of God Is An Astronaut, Whipping Boy, Jape, Messiah J & The Expert, James Yorkston and Jimmy Edgar. They have also featured at events and festivals such as Hard Working Class Heroes, Bud Rising, Electric Picnic, IMRO showcase tour and Pop Komm.

Their music has been played across the national airwaves by Donal Dineen, Dan Hegarty, Tom Dunne, Alison Curtis, Donna Legg, Leagues O'Toole and the Lazybird favourite Cian O'Ciobhain.

Friction PR will be managing media PR and promo. Distribution is through Cavallerro, orders to RMG Chart.

A national tour and series of instore appearances will be announced in March.