Art School Live
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Benzie Ground Floor
Thursday 5 May 2022
4pm—8pm
ICHI
‘To see ICHI live is to witness something totally idiosyncratic and entirely new. It’s fun, it’s danceable, it’s exciting. He takes the notion of a one-man band to new limits combining his handmade inventions with steel-drum, toys and everyday objects all in the space of one short set. There’s an ancient, ritualistic feel to his performances – he’s like the displaced leader of a lost tribe.
He takes inspiration for his art from far and wide – a melting-pot of punk, reggae and dub, Henri Salvador, tribal music and old scratchy 78s. With his trusty sampler never far away ICHI spends hours poised, ready to capture the perfect water droplet or page flick, a process which he describes as being “like catching an animal”. — Lost Map Records
Carmel Smickersgill
“Silly music that comes from serious places” is how Smickersgill modestly describes the crackling flashpoints and thrillingly assembled palette of sounds that make up her PRAH Recordings debut We Get What We Get & We Don’t Get Upset’s contorted pop.
Her pieces have been performed by the Liverpool Philharmonic and Glasgow-based collective the Galvanise Ensemble, among others. In 2017, meanwhile, she performed with New Order as part of ∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) – the legendary group’s 2017 Manchester International Festival commission.’ — Prah Recordings
Jack Lever (DJ)
Jack Lever is Music Producer, Label owner and DJ from the Peak District in England. Now residing in Stockport UK. Jack’s music productions span a decade of downtempo breakbeat electronica. Alongside his collaborative works as one half of Kiyoko and SK222 with Joe McBride, Jack is the director of the newly founded record label Open Tapes and club night Open Circuit with Tom Mallas.