English Heretic (UK) + Matthew Shaw (UK)

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Doors open at 8 pm. Concert starts around 9 pm. CC: 100,-

ENGLISH HERETIC is the moniker of multimedia artist Andy Sharp, in operation since 2003. Over 10 years, English Heretic has set out to explore a new approach to ceremonial magic and archetypal psychology inspired by the outre work of Kenneth Grant, James Hillman, situationism and pop culture signifiers.

English Heretic attempts to manifest a deliciously troubled soul of our world, through ludic and heuristic engagement with horror film, pulp fiction and the esoteric arts. They have released and reported their findings via numerous books, CDs and events.

Musically diverse, drawing inspiration from psychedelic folk, ritual ethnographic recordings, electronica, TV documentaries, field recordings and other mashup genres, English Heretic’s sound moves from the sinister to the absurd with the troubling ease. In 2013 they released their tenth album “Anti-Heroes” to wide plaudits.
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englishheretic.bandcamp.com
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MATTHEW SHAW is one of the most fascinating figures on the UK drone underground, His music delves deep in Hidden Reverse traditions, incorporating specific environmental soundings of occult landscapes into beautiful drone works that advance the oracular/hallucinogenic English underground tradition of Coil, Richard Youngs, Andrew Chalk et al. A form of stripped down extended/smeared devotional song work that unites Shaw’s interest in site/time specific field recordings with the lunar cycles of Coil, Alpha Centauri Tangerine Dream and Aguirre-era Popol Vuh.

Shaw conjures the ghostly afterimage of ritual songforms and reassembles them as lucid, revenant forms animating particular landscapes, as if performing some kind of historico-cultural sleight of hand, resulting in Shaw’s most beautifully puzzling evocations of a phantom ritual England.

Through his work as Tex La Homa and in collaborations with Scottish sound artists Brian Lavelle (as Fougou) and Andrew Paine (as The Blue Tree), Shaw has refined an approach that is distinctive and powerful, sifting found sounds and field recordings with finely traced details and mounting swells of treated strings, guitar, synth and a broader uncatalogued sonic apparatus.

This has resulted in the perfection of an idiom which, though wholly Shaw’s own, unites the organic resonances found in Richard Skelton’s fellwalker’s symphonies with the fiery, silver-hued crop-circle afterburners of Flying Saucer Attack.
www.texlahoma.com
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