Connecting the dots between experimental electronica night Spirit Of Gravity and Brighton Jazz Club, Club Savage opens its doors at Komedia tonight.
Led by music journalist, broadcaster and musician Marcus O'Dair,
of Brighton band John The Savage,
the soon-to-be-monthly residency promises a night of "interesting
music across the board", from modern
classical to instrumental hip-hop.
But like British Sea Power's Club
Sea Power - a night the band ran
at Brighton's Freebutt and the now-closed Lift - O'Dair says Club Savage
is about more than just music.
"It's obviously a gig but we want
to make it special," he says. "As well
as exciting music, we're hoping to bring in a multimedia element and are
looking for local film-makers and VJs
to get involved, as well as the bands.
"It's something that will develop
as it goes along."
Tonight's bill features music from Same Actor, Jacob's Stories and a DJ set from Dave Howell, of local
label Fat Cat Records.
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London-based Same Actor, aka
Chris Cook, makes electronic music and is a frequent guest at Spirit
Of Gravity nights, hosted by the Three And Ten, in Steine Street. Also going
by the names Remote and Hot Roddy, he mixes sitar with beats to build
up soundscapes on the spot.
Jacob's Stories are a semi-electronic indie band that have been likened to Sigur Ros and Radiohead, while Fat Cat's Dave Howell also edits Obsessive Eye, a fanzine that charts the course
of post-techno and post-rock.
"His taste is brilliant and all the music that he puts out on Fat Cat
is excellent," says O'Dair.
The night will also include
a performance, of course, from
John The Savage himself.
Formerly the bassist for acoustic folk group Passenger, O'Dair formed John The Savage at the end of last year with pianist Richard Brincklow, drummer Alon Cohen, guitarist Andrew Phillips and violinist Annie Kerr.
Influenced by the "death jazz" of acts such as Led Bib, as well as the mellower sounds of Polar Bear - both of whom the band have supported recently - Brincklow and Phillips are also film and television composers, lending
the band a cinematic sound.
Purely instrumental, O'Dair describes their music to be "as brutal as Thurston Moore doing one of his avant-rock,
free-jazz freak-outs and sometimes
as impressionistic as Claude Debussy".
He adds: "We're more down than
people like Led Bib. It's more
atmospheric and cinematic and a bit more melancholic and brooding. And we're not as virtuosic as these straight jazz people. It's more about how we sound as a group, rather
than as individual instrumentalists."
The band decided to launch Club
Savage as a platform for musicians who, like themselves, didn't quite
fit in at any existing nights.
After a break in May for the Brighton Festival, Club Savage will return
in June. Future confirmed guests include improv collective Vole
and cellist Bela Emerson.
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