Glorious Traces Festival with Ian William Craig, Tapes, Jon Collins and Adam Campbell / Tina Krekels (duo)
Counterflows is delighted to present a special night as part of the Glad Cafe’s Glorious Traces Festival, taking place at the Pollock Ex-Servicemen Club (just next to Crossmyloof train station).
IAN WILLIAM CRAIG
Blending choral, ambient and noise influences together into his customised array of analogue tape decks, composer/vocalist Ian William Craig moves you over shifting tectonic plates of operatic improvisations, fields of tape hiss, haunting pastoral melodies and billowing clouds of becoming. We’ve been wanting to bring over Ian to Scotland since the release of his stunning debut record ‘A Turn of Breadth’ on Recital. We can’t wait to see what his live set has instore…
TAPES
TAPES is a cassette dj and manipulator whose practice explores the creative boundaries of reggae and its sub genres. Affiliated with avant-dance labels Jahtari and Sex Tags, he has recently has been working on a live set that takes his interest in various forms of African dance music, music concrete and early synthesis and pushes it into whole new realms.
JON COLLIN
Very happy to welcome brilliant English guitar Jon Collin upto to Scotland for the first time.
Acoustic string improvs of great abstraction, clanger and depth, recalling a certain vibe that Loren Connors once called his own, although there’s no aping here. Lots of dizzy inventions of clustered strings that manage to maintain a certain melodic beauty for all their weirdness. There are even bits of wobbled slide and sustain that recall Fahey at his loosest. Totally boss. (Byron Coley, Arthur Magazine)
“This spine-tingling album by Jon Collin is six-string primitivism taken to a whole other level of wildness and intuition.” – Derek Walmsley, The Wire
ADAM CAMPBELL & TINA KREKELS
One of the freshest new improv wizz-kid duos on the block. Adam plays modular synth and Tina plays sax. Or maybe they’ll do something different. Fizzing snap, crackle, pop and strange deep vibes.
