FRIDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER | 7PM | £12 / £9 / £6 / PWYC
✰ For all you lovers of in-between otherworldly sounds that make time go weird, this show is for you.
✰ For lovers of post post punk power women who have always paved their own way within the music industry this show is also for you.
✰ For lovers of radio art and art radio this is the show for you.
✰ For curious minds who don’t know much about any of the above but want to hear music which whisks you away into unknown dimensions - this show is also for YOU
“Extremely evocative” The WIRE Magazine
Rose Hill Records proudly presents Limbo Channel, the new album from Basque-born spanish experimentalist NAD SPIRO. The enigmatic alias of Rosa Arruti, Nad Spiro has been an essential figure in Barcelona’s cutting-edge music scene for decades. Besides albums on prestigious Spanish label GEOMETRIK Records, Nad Spiro releases can be found on imprints like Farpoint Recordings, Silent Records, Front&Follow, Nuova Materia, Sloow Tapes. Arruti’s extensive experience includes collaborations with artists like My Cat is An Alien and Kim Cascone, and radio projects for Radiophrenia, Camp Radio or The Neon Hospice. In 2023 Rosa was invited be part of the exhibition “PIONERES [D]’ones iexperimentació sonora” highlighting innovative Spanish avant-garde women.
Come and hear this special album played out live for the first time !
PLUS support from Kamura Obscura
“Rewarding and often unexpectedly beautiful” Spectrum Culture
The Limbo Channel is a haunting, liminal, late night album. A complete sound-world of cavernous spaces, textural drones, fractured guitars and mangled voices, all steeped in radio-art culture. Laden with static pulses and snippets of rhythms and electronics that surface before descending back into the murk, it’s both expansive and claustrophobic; a perfect distillation of the idiosyncratic sound Arruti has developed across her recent albums.
How it all came about:
After performing at The Wire magazine’s 40th Anniversary event at The Rose Hill, Brighton, she was invited to be artist-in-residence at The Rose Hill Studios. For this she delved deep into her background in radical radio art and transmitted a daily nocturnal broadcast live on Slack City FM across Brighton and Manchester, whilst spending the days making new work in the studios. She invited a long list of collaborators and guest musicians (eg Mark Pilkington (Teleplasmiste), Lars Müller (Victor Sol, +N), Atsuko Kamura (Frank Chickens), MK Ibáñez (Dial), Adam Bushell (Tacit Ensemble) and Kassia Zermon (Bunty, Resonators)) to get involved.
KAMURA OBSCURA
One of Tokyo's most emotive and inventive artists, first emerging in Japan during the early '80s women’s liberation movement, Kamura was a founder member of the first Japanese all-feminist punk band, Mizutama Shobodan, also known as Polkadot Fire Brigade, formed in 1979 in Tokyo. As agitprop feminist pioneers, Mizutama Shobodan joined the Japanese punk rock DIY movement, toured Japan extensively, set up their own record label (Kinniku Bijo Records) and released two albums. Their second album, Manten ni Akai Hanabira (Red Petals in the Sky), was produced by Fred Frith. Kamura also teamed up with Tenko as the female vocal improvisation duo Honeymoons, who developed a unique style of avant-noise improvisation and performed internationally with seminal New York improvisers including Tom Cora and John Zorn. In the late 1980s Kamura joined Kazuko Hohki’s UK based Japanese pop group Frank Chickens and toured Europe, USA, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, USSR and Japan. In 2002 she began working with UK musicians, expanding her vocal genre to ethnic-experimental song writing. At the same time she performed vocal improvisation with such masters of improvisation as Eddie Prevost and Clive Bell. Her 2021 project, Kamura Obscura Duo with Natalie Mason, supported The Nightingales' sold-out UK tour.
In 2022 Kamura recently released her first solo album, “4am Diary", on which - said Stewart Lee in The Idler - “she douses the anti-musical strategies of the late-seventies Rock In Opposition movement... with a soupçon of fizzy electrics, her operatic voice navigating an echoing mirror maze of pulses and tones.” That year too she performed “ A Page of Madness” with her original soundtrack at FILM FEST in Portugal, in the role of narrator for silent film.
https://kamuraobscura.bandcamp.com/album/4-am-diary
https://www.facebook.com/kamuraobscura/