Moose Factory and Cloth Cat Studios Present: Matt Elliott @ The Brudenell Social Club, 33 Queens Rd, LS6 1NY, Leeds on April 14 with support from Benjamin Weatherhill and the Trumpets of Death and 7 Hertz. Doors 7.30. £5 on the door or £4 in advance through Wegotticket.com (0113 2752411).
Moose Factory, the leftfield London-based promoters, Cloth Cat Studios, the Leeds-based community music organisation have teamed up for the first time to bring Matt Elliott from France to Leeds. Matt Elliott first found fame for his drum ‘n’ bass/space rock mixes as Third Eye Foundation but for four albums under his own name he has been increasingly focussing on a unique blend of Balkan folk, melancholic introspection and studio wizardry. He is currently on UK tour promoting his latest album, ‘The Howling Songs’. Past review comments have included
“you can imagine this as the soundtrack of the abandoned house at the end of road, brimming with memories.” (BBC).
“Disturbing, complicated, and enthrallingly strange…it's like giving blinking eyes a chance to adjust to a dark room-- shapes emerge slowly, breaking up and coalescing as your vision adjusts, realigns, modifies.” (Pitchfork Media).
“Incredibly moving music and another quiet masterpiece.” (Boomkat)
“This is oblique, yet somehow deeply personal stuff, an eerie, mental soundscape that might be triggered off by looking back through a very old family photo album, perhaps.” (NME)
Supporting Matt Elliott will be two Leeds artists who also happen to have at times a melancholic folk sound. Benjamin Weatherhill presents songs that sound like a distant memory of something very quintessentially British. His band, The Trumpets of Death, expand his usual understated performances with such sounds as free-improv sax. Has to be seen to believe it.
A live review:
“In spite of his chosen style demanding an acoustic approach, the twang of his cheap electric guitar, the insane saxophone improvisations and the often sporadic drumming all breathed a somewhat sinister life into his fantastic songs. This is folk music relevant to such an urban context...” (HiFi Club, Leeds)
First on the bill are chamber improv masters 7 Hertz. They play a mesmerising blend of gypsy fiddle music, klezmer, jazz and classical. Beautiful stuff.
“stirring yet mellowing and original chamber-folk” (Leeds Music Scene)
