"Experimental three piece Still House Plants celebrate the release of their debut LP at Glad Cafe, supported by fellow songwriters Ashley Paul and Ailie Ormston. Combining visual strategies, free improvisation, UK garage and punk, Still House Plants build melodic hierarchies scaffolded around ambiguities and intimacy. Experimental songwriting is rarely so forthcoming, emotive, or approachable. https://bison-records.bandcamp.com/releases

STILL HOUSE PLANTS are 2018/19 recipients of the Cafe OTO x Jerwood Artistic Development Fund and have also been artists-in-residence for the CCA/AC Projects Music Residency and at The Pipe Factory. The trio have performed internationally too, touring with Mette Rasmussen to perform at Ultra Eczema's 20th Anniversary, Fasching Jazz Club with Rasmussen and Richard Dawson, as well as at KRAAK festival.

ASHLEY PAUL is an American composer/performer whose intuitive process integrates free form song structures with a focused approach to sound and clatter. A complexity of instruments including saxophone, clarinet, voice, prepared strings, bells and percussion create a delicate palette, uniquely her own. Paul’s recent LP on Slip, ’Lost In Shadows’, is a bewitching, expansive, deeply personal excavation of recent motherhood, told through songs dissolving and re-crystallising at the threshold of free improvisation. At the LP's heart is Paul's mercurial multi-instrumental style, which renders the primal wails, clunks, and twangs of clarinet, saxophone, percussion, and guitar uncannily melodic, alchemised by frank, vulnerable vocals. The deft negotiation of the fragile and the coruscating evidenced on Paul's 'Line The Clouds' (2013) and 'Heat Source' (2014) has now reached a kind of hesitant sublime.

https://slipimprint.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-shadows

&&& Pleased to have AILIE ORMSTON join with tracks from her new output "The Sedate / Tony Soprano Fashion Inspo" - co-written alongside one drum machine and one synth, embracing elements of chance and coincidence. Ormston writes and records simultaneously - the record is the last plop in a production line of spontaneous melodies with realtime decision making. Ailie writes: "A group of compositions named Tony Soprano Fashion Inspo., each track is a chef white. Part of the same team, but a representation of multiplicity within music making, and as oneself making music. When I feel that I’m losing it, I remind myself that I prefer to use my KeepCup without it’s lid anyway. The Sedate / Tony Soprano Fashion Inspo. is due for physical and digital release on November 23rd, on 50% PURE. "

www.fiftypercentpure.com/

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