.Angela Valid.

A.V's essentially a two-piece London based outfit that work largely under improvised conditions with guitars, drums, electronics and a violin/hosepipe ............................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ ...................... DISCOGRAPHY //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////WiW001 SPLIT 7" WITH ASHBOURNES STRONGEST MAN //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ////// //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////WiW003 THIS BOOK'S ON FIRE EP //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /////////////////A 33:33 TRACK OF OURS FEATURES ON THE LEAS LIFT SOUND COMPILATION "...AS PART OF THE FOLKESTONE FRINGE 08, ARTISTS WERE INVITED TO CREATE NEW AUDIO WORK FROM A SOUND PALETTE OF ON-SITE RECORDINGS OF THE WORKING (VICTORIAN) LIFTS..." //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////A SECTION FROM THIS PIECE FOR THE FOLKESTONE FRINGE RECENTLY APPEARED IN "JUAREZ CITY OF DREAMS" - A DOCUMENTARY RECENTLY SCREENED IN KABUL, AFGHANISTAN AS WELL AS THE FRONTLINE CLUB IN LONDON "WHICH CHAMPIONS INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM" //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////HERE'S SOME BLURB/////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /////////////"Situated across the Rio Grande from the US city of El Paso, Texas, Ciudad Juarez is one of the largest border towns on earth with one million desperately poor and maligned inhabitants. Documentary filmmaker Alex Tweddle and cameraman James Buck travel through the city to find out why people flock to the city and what life is like for those living in one of Mexico’s most violent and unstable cities."//////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ///////ANGELA VALID "PARADIGM" LP COMING VERY SOON. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /////////////////////////////WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING ON A PIECE FOR ERGO PHIZMIZ'S DR FAUSTUS PODCAST SERIES - http://www.ergophizmiz.com/faustcycle.htm******************* ************************************************************ ************************************************************ *************** REVIEW OF SPLIT 7""...pulsing sideways into brightly lit hallways with noticeably druggy footsteps."THE WIRE (issue 263) //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ///////// //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ REVIEWS FOR OUR EP "THIS BOOK'S ON FIRE"////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////"Bristling with overloaded circuits, clattering percussion and murky layers of meandering melodic progression piled on top of electronic squiggles and musical echoes, this EP meanders through its 33 minute duration in a very pleasant fashion, occasionally turning your ear with a particularly inventive idea or sound. Nicely restrained, it never threatens to overload your stereo with any kind of bombast or noise assault, and even in its most minimal moments the band sounds confident and assured. They are exploring textures and spaces that have been addressed before, but it's been a whle since anyone did so with such vim and vigour" (DISKANT) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% "...this duo of Alex Jones and Iain Chambers manage to do something so effortless in their improvisations that it feels natural and never forced - it feels like the noise is there because it has to be." (BOOMKAT)@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ "At times it's like there's someone building something in the next room, or doing construction work upstairs, banging tools about. But at the same time there's constant jazzy rhythmics buried beneath it all as well. If you like this sort of stuff (we sure do) these four tracks are all very satisfying and leave us wanting to hear more..." (AQUARIUS RECORDS, SF. http://www.aquariusrecords.org)""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" """""""""""""""" """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""