Saturday 15th November 2008
Laki Mera + The Phantom Band + Keser
Please read on for more information. Click here for tickets & times info.
"Not since the Blue Nile's first recording has such well crafted music appeared from a Scottish band, Laura Donnelly's voice as affecting as Paul Buchanan's. With Portishead reborn and the ambience of trip-hop being reassessed, the time may be just right for Laki Mera to make the leap to more widespread acclaim." Keith Bruce ***** The Herald
Out on Nov 3rd is The Diet of Worms EP an excursion into an obscure landscape. It is Laki Mera’s second release on ROLinc and should be viewed as a companion piece to their debut album ‘clutter’ rol018 rather than a follow up.
This is a collection of entirely instrumental projects that the band believed should be heard by more than those who passed through their studio doors.
It completes the formative picture of a band whose collective sense of sonic adventure, along with their particular brand of intricately crafted rhythms and soundscapes, reaches far beyond the pop format.
In The Diet of Worms EP there is a melodic daring which is sometimes bizarre but always brilliant.
Releasing something quite so ‘out there’ after such a well received debut is courageous, and it reaffirms that Laki Mera will always create music on their own terms setting their own agenda.
The Diet of Worms EP - ‘Eerie floating electro-melodies with metallic droplets, pops and clicks from their factory over the railway.’
More info at http://www.myspace.com/lakimera
More info at http://www.phantomband.co.uk
Keser is a Scottish two-piece band from Edinburgh, UK. Fusing an experimental, unique guitar style with synthesised beats has resulted in a new progressive form of guitar-based seraphic electronica.
According to Is This Music? magazine, they "achieve in their tracks a new sound drenched in guitar-based electronica...they are able to explore the syntax of electronica with awe and excitement". (Issue 24)
Ambient and ethereal sounds elevate subtly, building up into crushing waves and returning back again. The vaporous instrumentals and melodic chimings are only anchored by the electro beats and unconditional ambience throughout.
The debut album 'Esoteric Escape' has captured both the Keser live feel and refined recordings into 12 tracks and diverges into the realms of post-rock melodic electronica, with a "music as a metaphor for life" mentality evident on every track - songs which seem to aptly soundtrack a person's journey.
Be it travelling through life or simply on a bus...6 billion people can't be wrong.
More info at http://www.keser.co.uk
From 7.30pm in The Ballroom. Admission £5.
