[5.14.2008]
OPENING Thursday 15 May 2008 from 6.30 pm to 9.30 pm
CONCERT THE MUSICAL WHEEL live!
THE HIGH LLAMAS will play at 8.00 pm on Thursday 15 May 2008
SHOW The Musical Wheel will be on show from May 16th to October 19th 2008
The Atomium is open daily from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
ATOMIUM SQUARE
B-1020 Brussels
T. +32(0)2 475 47 75
Labels: Atomium, Concert, Dominic Murcott, Jean Pierre Muller, Sean O'Hagan, Show, The High Llamas, The Musical Wheel
[9.16.2005]
Sept 23 Sat Dublin Venue Whelans
Sept 24 Fri Cork Venue An Crúiscín Lán in Douglas St
These are 2 of only 3 shows the High LLamas played in 2005. All too rare. Sorry , its a bit late with the notification.
The High Llamas will start recording the follow up to Beet Maize and Corn this month. We expect to deliver the record in January .
Drag City will be releasing the LP world wide hopefully spring 2006 .
Sean has continued to collaborate with Jean Pierre Muller on the Musical Painting projects and the next installation The Musical Wheel is ready and may visit the UK by Dec 2005.
Both Paintings (The Musical Wheel and The Musical Painting ) feature 20 minutes of original composition which we plan to make available for download or for purchase through Duophonic.
Sean has also started recording the follow up Turn On LP with Andy Ramsay and Tim Gane from Stereolab.
Labels: High Llamas, Sean O'Hagan
[12.18.2003]
I sat down a year and half ago and asked myself... how do you make a different record? How do you make an original record ? Well it's nearly impossible to make a totally original record and the pursuit of this ideal has driven many gifted players away from their intuition and instinct and into a ditch from which they struggle to recover.
You have to like the music you make. Even so I was determined to make a change. And the only way I thought plausible at the time was not to reference anything from the 60's or 70's. Which if you examine it, is what everyone does the whole time.
I realised I was listening to French and British impressionists because they had influenced the great early 20th century American pop writers (Gershwin and Cole Porter). The French stuff was woody and odd (Ravel, Debussy). But there was something else bobbing around on the horizon which I could not ignore. That was American dreamy pop ballad writing from the 50's. Frankie Avalon, Dion and the Belmonts, The Platters, The Flamingos, Bobby Darin. And that's where the record landed. France 1910 and Small town America 1959... the twilight between Elvis and The Beatles. There may even be some Rogers and Hammerstein in there or a bit of Kurt Weill. I'm sure these elements have not been examined in such close proximity before. Happy campers.
None of the music on this record is totally original but the context is fresh to my way of thinking. And there is no room for funny electronics or strange new sounds.
Anyway there you have. A different bag of potatoes from the last lot but they're still potatoes. And let's not get too serious about it all. I still love a tune and a chord change like never before. I still love a tune that makes you smile.
~ Sean O'Hagan
Labels: High Llamas, Sean O'Hagan
