gigs / 29 london street / lyttelton
MONTHS / may & june
ANTHONY PATERAS
with bruce russell / zeus gezeugt / poltroon
and DJ's stander black 5 / IRD
saturday 17th may / 7:30pm
$20 on the door
Anthony Pateras is an Australian composer, pianist and electronic musician who occasionally crosses the Ditch. He works across many contexts: modern classical, acousmatic diffusion, film soundtrack, free improvisation, experimental rock, and various mutations of electronica. He’s written for leading ensembles & avant-garde musicians, composing a 90+ catalogue of pieces which combine instruments, electronics, improvisation and notation in idiosyncratic ways.
Pateras has over 50 releases on labels including Tzadik, Editions Mego, Ipecac, Another Timbre, Futura Resistenza, Shelter Press, Cave 12 & Improved Sequence. He has lived in Melbourne, Perth, Brussels, Sydney, Berlin, Stuttgart & Vevey, and is now based in Castlemaine, Australia.
He will be paired in an analogue synthesizer cage-fight at the Lyttelton Coffee Company with Bruce Russell, hyper-local sound artist and unavoidable ‘identity’ round the manor.
Zeug Gezeugt is an Australia/Aotearoa grafted transplant experiment in the making. His software-wrangled electro-acoustic spew is highly esteemed in certain corners of the frequency spectrum. A rare chance to pick the fruit of this exotic species from the actual tree.
Meanwhile Poltroon (Reuben Derrick on his holidays) brings a wind vibe with afternotes of Ornette, and a lingering fragrance of ‘hep jazz’. What can we say? He travels the space-ways.
But wait, there’s more! DJs Stanier Black 5 (Come on baby, do the Locomotive) and IRD will ensure that no moment of the evening is left un-scorched.
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THE SETTLERS / louis theroux
free screening of the bbc documentary
thursday 22 may / 6pm
Collette’s most recent album, Our Other History, was released late in 2024 on the US label Sophomore Lounge and features contributions from regular collaborators including Jim White and Mick Turner of the Dirty Three, Chris Abrahams of The Necks, the folk singer Leah Senior, and other luminaries of adventurous music worldwide. His live performances drift between delicate, intimate folk and explorative sonic jam-outs, both when performing solo or in various band combinations.
Over the years Collette has collaborated and toured with such artists as Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Joanna Newsom, Cat Power, Bill Callahan, St Vincent, Kurt Vile and Deerhoof, amongst many others. Funny, haunting and sad, often all at once, the music nonetheless manages to remain plain-spoken and uncluttered, despite its expansive vision.
“Ned’s music wears its modernity subtly and surely and is as rewarding a listening experience as I’ve come across in recent times.” – Will Oldham