TERMITE PRESENTS

Saturday 16th August, The Packhorse
£5 entry, first band on at 8pm, close11pm
PRIMORDIAL UNDERMIND
THOUGHT FORMS
THE TELESCOPES

www.termite.org.uk

On tour this August in the UK: a pair of free-minded avant/psych

combos: Texans via Vienna Primordial Undermind and Thought forms from

Bath

Primordial Undermind: A rotating membership and a restlessness to

stay put typifies the band, underlying a steady progression from

distorted, psychedelic overload to full-blown instrumental freedom,

and everything in between. Just before relocating from Austin,TX to

Vienna, Austria, the band recorded ‘Loss of Affect’ for the Strange

Attractors label. They’ve released 5 previous albums on Emperor

Jones, Camera Obscura, and September Gurls. “Reverberating with

primitive hallucinogenic drones, garage rock grinds, and

improvisations that slowly build from half-formed blowouts to cosmic

Stockhausen- style epics… PU have crawled out of the psychedelic

undergrowth and evolved into something special” – Edwin Pouncey, The Wire

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> Thought forms came together early 2004 starting from a freeform

electric miasma of buzzing circuits and colourful sunsets. The band

gathers up sparking shards of sound into tuneful bliss, only to

abandon it into gloriously spastic directions. Gnarly feedback,

screams and effects-eaten riffs become hypnoticaly interwoven

constructions. They effortlessly reference Slowdive and Loop as

gracefully as they evoke the modern spacerock crowd. Thought forms are

veterans of ATP (12/2007, curated by Portishead), and of Terrastock 6.

“post-rock like crepuscular fogged x-rays, teasing graceful
drones from two guitars and a loose-limbed drummer. They’ve got the
quiet/loud thing nailed and sections of their set have great delicacy,
like the faint squalling signals from dying stars” – Venue Magazine

The Telescopes have been mining a unique anti-myopian seam of drone/dream psych for 20 years. Expertly bolting gritty blocks of noise, rich with fossil and sediment, onto minimal songs and melodies which are miles apart and miles beyond the reams of drone/ambience out there.
Stephen Laurie & Bridget Hayden harness a primeval drone, rich in texture, and build it beautifully in unison with soaring feedback, guitar manipulation & viola which forever spiral outward, fractal and hypnotic – a bed of noise percolating at the edges of audiotory perception.
www.myspace.com/thetelescopes

The Termite Club, home of outsider music in Leeds since 1983