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ORCHESTRA OF THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE plus JUXTAVOICES

Orchestra of the Upper Atmosphere is an improvising rock group featuring

Martin Archer – organ, saxophones

Chris Bywater – keyboards, laptop

Terry Todd – bass guitar

Sarah Henderson – violin

Walt Shaw – percussion

Steve Dinsdale – percussion

Initial starting point for the group’s direction was the music of Magma, Sun Ra, Terry Riley, Faust and Amon Duul.

Opening group Juxtavoices is Martin Archer’s 25+ voice semi-improvising choir which has been amazing and surprising audiences in unexpected locations across the region since starting to perform in early 2011. By turns musical, poetic, theatrical and outrageous, this group is genuinely not like anything else you will have heard

Wed 12^th October

THE HARLEY

Glossop Road, Sheffield

8.30 pm

£5 / £3 on the door

Wed 19^th October

ISLINGTON MILL

James Street, Salford M3 5HW

8.30 pm

£6 / £4 on the door

Venue 07813 276 808

The next Sheffield appearance for Martin Archer & Alan Halsey’s 25+ voice anti-choir will be at the annual Art in the Gardens event in the Botanical Gardens.

The group will be playing three different sets during the course of the afternoon: 12.30pm – Pavilion 1.30pm – Bear Pit 3.00pm – Bear Pit Works to be performed include Hugo Ball’s Dadaist sound poem Karawane, plus semi-improvised pieces based on texts by Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein and Alan Halsey. Admission price is to the whole event, which centres around exhibitions by locally based artists.

SUNDAY 4th SEPTEMBER 2011 BOTANICAL GARDENS, CLARKEHOUSE ROAD, SHEFFIELD £6 NOTES & SOUNDS presents Mick Beck tenor sax & bassoon Martin Archer reeds & electronic effects Steve Chase guitar & miscellaneous A brilliant and curious selection of left field exponents.

MONDAY 5th SEPTEMBER 2011 THE RED DEER, 18 Pitt Street, Sheffield S1 4DD 8pm £3.00/2.00 concessions.

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Juxtavoices in Salford

Juxtavoices in Sheffield