Free Range 4: Ragtime Frank, Oscar Keating x Yvette Ofa Agapow, Tony Irving
Event description
Free Range sounds, sunny side up. Loosen up with the next instalment of the IMA's Thursday-night sound club.
Ragtime Frank: Founding member of free-rock outsiders The Lost Domain returns from Nipaluna to the IMA for the first time in a decade, ready to shake it like a mole in the ground. The emergence in early '90s Meanjin of a pre-war blues obsessed noise outfit with their heads buried in the Harry Smith Anthology was, and remains, a head-scratching anomaly of the highest order. The sweet mystery still burns in brother Frank - expect hollers, foot stomps and no-wave chops. For the children of Son House. Nice and greasy, over easy.
Oscar Keating x Yvette Ofa Agapow: New combo of two unstoppable local sound explorers. The ubiquitous Yvette ofa Agapow, pack leader of the notorious Chapel Hill drain gig set, black tonsilled noisician extraordinaire and winner of the percussionist-most-likely-to-be-dragging-an-amplified-chain-through-yr-head award, teams up with Free Range favourite and Coo master-general Oscar Keating for a set of flaked guitar and drum song puff. Smoked deviled.
Tony Irving: Fresh from gale force London shows with saxophonist Massimo Magee, the non-linear drumming cyclone that is Tony Irving stands tall in the hall of free improvising infamy. His nineties UK based duo Ascension with guitarist StefanJaworzyn scorched the earth lit by Coltrane/Ali. Their expanded Descension line up supported Sonic Youth, earning a barrage of missiles and abuse from befuddled grunge heads. Respect. An overturned floor tom for a kick, the breeze in his hair (so to speak), Tony Irving doesn't just play the kit – he is the fucking kit! Hard boiled and tossed at the audience.
Doors open from 6pm.
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