Sunday 8th June 2025
ADRA promotions and Puzzle Hall Inn present …
Floating World Pictures
‘Loud Ambient’/Improv trio from London feat. members of Snapped Ankles
https://floatingworldpictures.bandcamp.com/
Helicopter Quartet
Melancholic soundscapes from Leeds violin, guitar and synth duo
https://helicopterquartet.bandcamp.com/music
at Puzzle Hall Inn, 21 Hollins Mill Lane, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 2RF
4pm - 6pm
FREE ENTRY with donations for bands gratefully accepted.
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Floating World Pictures is led by Chestnutt, producer & member of Snapped Ankles (The Leaf Label) and graphic/sound artist & instrument builder Raimund Wong. It has an ever-changing flexible lineup for adapting to different contexts & acoustic environments, but its current optimal trio includes:
Sophie Lowe – drums, percussion, clarinet
Chestnutt – analogue synths
Rai Wong – cassette 4-track, live instruments treatment
While the recorded output has detailed non-quantized production at its heart, the live setup, punctured by a heavy rhythm section, is driven by improvisation and collective gestures within the framework of cassette tape-loops manipulations, live signal processing and analogue synthesis provided by the duo. Alongside a shifting cast they spin a sensuous, densely populated soundscape: grounding drones and flowing waterfall synths, a rainforest of hisses and a thrumming hive of life while in the distance the metallic snaps of drums conjure people working. Fragments of found dialogue, melodies and environmental sounds navigate impressionistic passages, focussing the performance as a way of searching and recontextualising.
Previous and ongoing collaborators / guests:
Alabaster Deplume
Charles Hayward (This Heat)
Danalogue (The Comet Is Coming)
Clementine March
Akihide Monna (Bo Ningen)
Emanative
Cathy Eastburn (Southbank Gamelan Players)
Charles Prest (Noon Garden/Flamingods)
Francesca Ter-Berg (Fran&Flora)
Kamal Rasool (Flamingods)
Phil MFU
Andy Channing (Lila Cita/Unrest Work & Play)
tyroneisaacstuart
Jon Tye (Lo Recordings/Ocean Moon)
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“It’s a small world we live in. I was delighted to find when reading about Helicopter Quartet that they are two musicians I am quite familiar with from another time in my life. Over the years I have shared a bill with both Catscans and We Sell Seashells (Helicopter Quartet‘s predecessors), both of which were incredible acts: huge-sounding, complex and ultimately entertaining. One thing I noticed when Catscans began performing was that they appeared to have less members than before. It seems that the group has since dissolved even further into what we have before us today: Chrissie Caulfield on violin & synth duties and Michael Capstick on guitar and bass.
‘Helicopter Quartet’ is the product of two dedicated musicians, full of ideas and inspirations. The pair have been writing together for an incredibly long time so there is no doubt in their musical ability. I have witnessed firsthand the immense force to come from Caulfield’s violin when screaming through a wall of sound and I have seen Capstick’s guitar create and enforce this wall in top form. “
Jake Murray for Echoes and Dust
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