NEXT LIVE EVENT!:
Following a mammoth Bank Holiday Sunday, Mortal Kombat's Scorpion and Poisin Ivy resume their everyday personas as Jilk & Tulin-Fée to take the stage at tonight's Freq. at the Attic in Bristol. Crooked Pholk and DJs Jason Jones & Quiche Chegwin join for a night of warm, fuzzy electroacousticniceness! Only 3 quid!
About Jilk...
"About 7 years ago my friend gave me a ripped version of cubase that I put on my dads dying PC. Made some stupid tapes for my friends, and never really stopped."
.......... Like an old man tinkering in his fairytale tool shed, Jilk fuses an arsenal of home-found sounds with the twee, plinky-plonky lush of lo-fi folktronica. With knob-twiddling and live acoustic accompaniment, Jilk leaves you wondering "What would cotton wool sound like if it were a lucky penny falling into a bucket of rain?". Ahh!
… After years of skulking around his student-esque bedroom, recording, slicing, dicing & spitting out the sounds of anything from cardboard, bottles, cats, dogs, children, cutlery, bodily noises and filtering them through the his naïve but noble old desktop, Jilk has finally blossomed, developed and graduated to the same league as his idols when they were unsigned frustrated geniuses with mountains of potential.
As an introvert, pre-EMO teen heavily into Radiohead and a bit of early 90’s rave, Jilk quickly grew up and developed a taste and an eager fascination for those bending, screwing & twisting convention through sound. That was that, the electronic movement was his.
Although the legends of the current generations genre (Richard D. James, Tom Jenkinson, µ-Ziq, Plaid, Autechre etc) were the foundations for his fascination; respect & Intrigue for those artists who focused on the more ambient, folk, domestic and twee side started to push Jilk’s trajectory to where it’s clearly heading today.
Electronic music for Jilk was always “Brainmusicâ€, and he defended that this was as important as “Normal music†which tradition (and ignorance) has always suggested has the emotion. However, more fascination grew with the
legendary experimental ambience of the likes of Brian Eno, The epic brooding folk-law of post rock from Sigur Rós, Mogwai & God Speed you Black Emperor, and the scientific passion from the likes of Matmos (to name but a few), all combined to give Jilk more than a fair few ideas.
With the help of lush new gizmos, gadgets and boxes-with-knobs, and a vast variety of bizarre & beautiful instruments discarded to charity shops by those who don’t know better, Jilk’s adding more texture, colour and ideas than ever before and thus finally bringing him to a standard where he’s ready to let the world hear.
A few friends lend a helping hand, ear and brain when needed; most frequently a beautiful petit fairy-princess-like violinist who’s been adding her talents both to recording and to Jilks quickly developing live set. Currently based in Bristol, Jilk & his violinist (and other friends on occasions) are a frequent guest on the alternative live circuit. London & beyond is now where the focus is, and already has a small string of gigs behind him with more to follow.
Several generations of legendary electronic back-catalogue releases. An introvert youth. Musical science. Waking up at 3am to spew out any random idea that might hit. Folk & Folk law. Post Rock. Ambient soundscapes. Even a bit of grind-core & Electro-gabba. It’s all in there… What it sounds like though? Utterly delightful… with balls!"
- Management, Biog, Visuals & Stuff - Bit-Phalanx Music Management.
Jilk Vs T-toe @ 333 Old Street, 28th Mar 2007.
Emporium:
Following a successful appearance at Clean 1 back in February, and the growing success of the event following it's second event, Jilk warmly celebrates this occasion by donating his live-favourite and glitch-tastic "My Techno Heart Melts Your Emo Dribble", for Clean's first official compilation of it's live acts from both events.
Just £3.00 (Including postage), buys you all of the following:
Clean - {Memento} - A selection from the clan of Clean 1 & 2.
(Cat no: clnngtCD1.)
Click cover art for official www.discogs.com listing.
1, T-toe - Le Beau Gateaux
2, AmpUT - Talk Is Cheap (Blazing Swords Remix)
3, IJO - Sypmo
4, Hector Osbert - Xzeta
5, Jilk - My Techno Heart Melts Your Emo Dribble
6, Tuln-Fée - Avaloliteshrava
7, Most Valuable Mono - Burial At Sea
8, Minuek - My Eyes Hurt
9, Arctic Sunrise - A23
10, Model Fighter - A Small Pod Of Birds
There you go... the finest in Midlands Breakcore, Electro, DnB, Acid, Ambient, Glitch, Folktronica, Post-Rock, Abstract, White Noise and Minimalism... Something like that!
For convienience sake, Clean has set up a handy PayPal for you to to get your hands on these CDs. Click over HERE to the Clean myspace to go forth and spend merrily...
Clean wish to warmly remind you that their whole operation is totally non-profit. All the artists have happily donated their tracks for {Memento}, and all profits made from this CD (and any future releases) go straight back into funding the following ones!
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