Following their first physical release, the excellent self-titled double-disc compilation that tQ’s Rory Gibb praised by stating, "I can’t imagine you’ll find a better or more comprehensive survey of the eccentric, magical and plain weird in British electronica this year", The Outer Church are moving even further afield from their Brighton home (following recent dates in London and Manchester), with two stops in Scotland next month.
Heading to the Wee Red Bar at Edinburgh Art College on Friday 25 October and Kinning Park Complex in Glasgow on October 26, curator Joseph Stannard has put together a brilliantly haunted bill (note the proximity to Halloween; coincidence? We think not) featuring Belfast’s Black Mountain Transmitter and a screening of Graham Reznick’s backwoods horror film I Can See You, alongside Embla Quickbeam and Broken3.
The dates mark James Robert Moore’s, for Black Mountain Transmitter is he, first live shows outside of Northern Ireland and will see him animating his creeping, fearful sonics as demonstrated on last year’s Playing With Dead Things release:
Rowan Forestier-Walker, aka Embla Quickbeam, similar draws on high-density atmospherics, but uses them as a means to conjure "a portal to the mythic rural realm evoked in the writings of Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood", as Stannard says by means of introduction – have a listen to an excerpt of ‘Gloam Mirror’ below:
Broken3 will be the first collaborative performance of the trio behind Glasgow’s Broken20 label; "expect vaporous drones, deep fields of static and resonant beats," says Stannard. Here’s ’96D’, their contribution to the compilation:
Finally, have a watch of the trailer for I Can See You, Reznick’s 2008 debut feature, below and get tickets for Edinburgh and Glasgow for a mere £5 each:
