Familia Moja Fundraiser Concert

FAMILIA MOJA FUNDRAISER - MELBOURNE
FRIDAY 4TH JUNE
@ the Workers Club

Cnr Brunswick & Gertrude Street, Fitzroy


feat: MISO | HOULETTE | OWL+MOTH | SHEAHAN DRIVE

TICKETS: $15 + Booking Fee
All proceeds go directly to Familia Moja Children's Centre in Kenya
http://www.familiamoja.org/


MISO

www.myspace.com/misobeats

Miso deliver a captivating live performance with their unique blend of trip-hop, glitch and post rock textures. Seductive vocalist, Supina Bytol, writes abstract narratives that are perfectly complemented by the band's distinctive sound; a contrast of acoustic instrumentation and progressive electronica. Miso creates music that has been described as having "a Bristol-via-Tokyo feel". After a year long hiatus, the band is back with all new material.

THE NUMERO UNO TRIP HOP EXPONENTS IN MELBOURNE ..." (Inpress Magazine)


HOULETTE

www.myspace.com/houlette

Houlette glean a mix of early folk influences, interwoven with minimalist modern-pop arrangements and dark intermissions.

"Bless Bless" album launch review, the Toff in Town Melbourne April 2010 - Inpress Magazine

For a band who seem to have existed with minimal publicity - yet about to depart on their second European tour - Houlette do a fantastic job of packing out a venue. The mood tonight is one of celebration yet it doesn't seem like 300 friends have shown up, rather a mix of Melbourne's hip and curious and a lot of people who've heard Bless Bless, the CD being launched tonight...

Curtains part to a projection of an Icelandic mountain range, keening violins and ethereal harmonies. The breathy vocals of singer Felicity Cripps are a thing of wonder. Though bound to alienate some listeners with her initial Teutonic po-faced earnest efforts (later dispelled wonderfully by some beatboxing and banter), the audience are captivated. Part Kate Bush confidence and physicality, part Ute Lemper boldness, and often tempered by a fragility and tenderness reminicent of Vashti Bunyan, Cripps is a hypnotic presence. New song Japanese Tattoos, Longtime, current radio single Tee Vee and beautiful encore Corduroy suggest the when the band (featuring ex-Underground Lovers drummer Derek Yuen) are firing and Cripps gets to cut loose, Houlette are unbeatable.Vocal interjections from guitarist Liam Linley are welcome additions and violinist Cecilia Dowling is a great asset. A band bound to appeal to any Europhile and one whose debut album heralds great things.
- Andy Hazel (Inpress Magazine)


OWL+MOTH

www.myspace.com/owlmoth

Melbourne artist Oliver Hunter's 'Owl+Moth' project incorporates rhythmic chanting, glossolalia, soul harmonies and shamanic ululations into electronic loops of increasing complexity. Using only a single autoharp, baritone uke, kalimba and the many textures of his own voice, Owl+Moth builds musical landscapes that attempt to describe, through trance-inducing repetition, the cyclical patterns in nature and human experience.


SHEAHAN DRIVE

www.myspace.com/guscfranklin

The darkest roads follow ancient songlines towards the Coast and set sail through Bass Strait...
Shantys are sung along the way, and some of them sound like Gus Franklins' songs about trying to understand the Universe.
The Universe is trying.