~ basics
We now accept
paypal orders for all releases.
Please write to
sprawl@benfo.demon.co.uk for all your enquiries and
orders
[1] Sprawl is the London based underground playground and test tube for current sound. Our events provide incubation periods for new and infectious ideas. For 6 years this has included everything from serious turntable abuse, global internet link ups, virtual parties, minidisc doctoring and live music all rolled into splendid parties with big screen visuals. Please check [listings] for details
[2] The Sprawl Imprint is structured around the same fault lines and features releases by artists such as Scanner, Freeform, Osymyso and conceptual compilations such as Hmm, an album of international hymns and anthems and other investigations of childhood influences featuring David Toop, Kreidler, Kit Clayton, Vladislav Delay, Antye Greie-Fuchs (of Laub), Freeform, Wang Inc, Shenton Engine [of Add N to (x)], Benge, Opiate (current Björk collaborator ), Wiggle (Ken Ishii collaborators), Farben, Matrix, Carl Stone, Kaffe Matthews and more. For information on all releases, audio and the shop click here
[3] The vaults feature pre-2000 releases of Douglas Benford's Suburbs Of Hell label and Pantunes Music at ridiculously cheap clear-out-the stock-room prices. Your chance to get hold of some early Sarah Cracknell and - dare we say it - Momus ...
~ event listings
Sprawl, the experimental audio club, is back in action in London this autumn at its new venue, the Charterhouse bar. Presenting another selection of oddbeats, soundscapes & eclectic sounds - a packed night of groundbreaking guests, the un/usual sprawl sonic art buffet...
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Wed 13th Oct: Mike
Cooper (live) |
Sprawl 7.30pm -
11.30pm |
Mike Cooper (UK/ITALY) -
live pictured
For the past 40 years Mike Cooper has been an international musical
explorer, performing and recording solo and in a number of inspired
groupings covering a variety of genres. Initially a folk- blues
guitarist and singer-songwriter, his work has diversified to include
improvised and electronic music, live music for silent films, radio
art and sound installations. He also puts his vast knowledge to use
as a music journalist, writing features for magazines such as Roots,
concentrating on Pacific musicians. But mike does not leave it there.
His artistic enthusiasm bursts through as a visual artist, film and
video maker, and ardent collector of Hawaiian shirts. He appears on
more than sixty records, most recently on his CD Rayon Hula, which is
released on his own Hipshot label. The CD has been described as
"....a masterpiece of contemporary exotica" by David Toop in the
Wire. http://hometown.aol.co.uk/cooparia/hipshot.html
Greg Headley (USA) -
live
Los Angeles based composer and guitarist Greg Headley began in a
relatively traditional vein of guitar experiments, but quickly
mortgaged his musical roots to invest into electronics and noise.
Each of his first three albums signalled a new stage on this process
of personal de-contextualization: the solo tabletop guitar
meditations a la Kevin Drumm of Adhesives (Bake, 2000), still rooted
in his guitar techniques, the more abstract manipulation of guitar
sounds of A Table of Opposites (28 Angles, 2001), and finally the
noisy, frantic electronic soundscapes of Similis (28 Angles, 2002),
which hardly related to the instrument anymore. The guitar is even
less relevant on his fourth album, A Bulletin on Vertigo (28 Angles,
2003). Nine computer pieces that construct living sounds and then let
them evolve in their artificial environment, this is actually a less
abstract art than on the previous album. Night Blooming and The
Water's Fall radiate very dynamic and organic textures. Headley
briefly flirts with rhythmic effects in This Too Is Unknown, but
stops short of entering the fray of post-techno music. http://www.gregheadley.com
Didac P. Lagarriga (Brazil)
- live
Didac P. Lagarriga aka UN CADDIE RENVERSÉ DANS L'HERBE was
born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He moved to Barcelona (Spain) when he was
a child. Working with texts and sounds since 1994 resulted of
hundreds of unknown influences, specific temporary places, some
souvenirs sampling older souvenirs, garden practices, pastiches and
observations on not fitting in. He has released the results of his
worl through albums on Hamburg's Dekorder label and on his own label
oozebap. His music follows the rich
tradition of Brazilian antropophagous concept, mixed with his own
fictionidentity research, an amalgam of traditional instruments
(mbira, balaphon, berimbau...) and digital processing. He also
participates in numerous compilations on labels such as Audiodregs,
k-raa-k, amanita, tu'm. The performing arm of his sound tkes him all
over Europe, Argentina and USA. And "...who knew microsound could be
so dreamy?" EI magazine, USA
residents/curators
si-cut.db
http://home.earthlink.net/~efrans/benford
Iris Garrelfs
www.dfuse.com/BitTonic
venue
details
Upstairs at The
Charterhouse
38 Charterhouse
St, London EC1
tube: Farringdon
venue contact:
020 7608 0858, info@charterhousebar.co.uk, www.charterhousebar.co.uk
other
details
time: 7.30pm -
11.30pm
admission:
£4/£3 concs
sprawl contact:
info@sprawl.org.uk
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Wed 10th Nov: FM3
(live) |
Sprawl 7.30pm -
11.30pm |
FM3 (BipHop, Staalplaat) -
live
FM3 play quiet
music. Very, very quiet music. The kind of music that turns up your
ears and makes you sit. Very, very still... Some reviewers describe
fm3's live act as "daring." Audience members often call it
"cathartic." Others say listening to FM3 is painful...
FM3 is US-born
but long-term China resident Christiaan Virant. Active in the Beijing
music underground for nearly a decade, Virant founded FM3 in late
1999 as China's first-ever experiment in live, abstract electronica
act. Working with lo-fi computer software and a host of home-built
instruments, FM3 distills ancient Chinese folk tradition into a
barely-there organic glow.
GAVIN STARKS - live
After being
Experimental Officer at the radio telescope Jodrell bank (with a
degree in Radio Astronomy), Gavin now produces rich provocative
sounds from its processed data & cosmological radio recordings -
he recently performed some pieces at the Virac telesope in Latvia. He
is known also as a software developer, internet broadcaster, studio
consultant, investigator of virtual reality audio & computer
musics. www.dgen.net/biog/gavinstarks.htm
IRIS GARRELFS (Bip Hop) -
live pictured
Iris Garrelfs,
musician and co-curator of Sprawl is best known for her emotive voice
improvisations. She has recorded tracks for numerous compilation
albums, and has also collaborated with Freeform, Robert Lippok (to
rococo rot), Kaffe Matthews, Scanner and others. She has also played
at the CCA, ICA, the Scala, Podewil (Berlin) The Batofar (Paris),
Tonic (New York) plus has created installations for Glasgow's CCA
Watermans Art Centre, Marseille's Arborescence festival, Earational
in Holland and many more. Her debut album due out soon on Bip
hop.
ALEX CZINCZEL -
DJ
German born
purveyor of fine obscurities (eg Moondog, Mapstation) and resident DJ
and curator at the infamous Horse Hospital, Alex has impeccable
taste. This makes it unavoidable that he DJs at Sprawl...
residents/curators
si-cut.db
http://home.earthlink.net/~efrans/benford
Iris Garrelfs
www.dfuse.com/BitTonic
venue
details
Upstairs at The
Charterhouse
38 Charterhouse
St, London EC1
tube: Farringdon
venue contact:
020 7608 0858, info@charterhousebar.co.uk, www.charterhousebar.co.uk
other
details
time: 7.30pm -
11.30pm
admission:
£4/£3 concs
sprawl contact:
info@sprawl.org.uk
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