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Cecil Sharp House

2 Regents Park Road, London, NW1 7AY

Doors 7.30pm ~ £12.50 adv

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A HAWK AND A HACKSAW

A Hawk and a Hacksaw is Jeremy Barnes (former Neutral Milk Hotel drummer) and Heather Trost from Albuquerque, New Mexico.A Hawk and a Hacksaw released its self-titled debut, a solo effort by Barnes which explores 20th century American music on Leaf Records in 2004. The following year, after enlisting help from tuba player Mark Weaver, trumpeter Dan Clucas, and violinist Heather Trost, Barnes and the band issued Darkness at Noon, which delved into both Eastern European and American folk music. Ever the traveller, Barnes relocated to Romania for the group's third album The Way The Wind Blows, where he recorded songs with the Gypsy brass band Fanfare Ciocarlia.Having expanded to a six piece band for their upcoming tour A Hawk And A Hacksaw return to London to play in support of their fourth album, Délivrance, recorded in Budapest, Devon and Albuquerque during the second half of 2008. A single, ‘Foni Tu Argile’, released on 10" and cut at 78rpm precedes the album.

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Cafe Oto

18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

Doors 8.00pm ~ £5

BEN REYNOLDS

Ben Reynolds is a songwriter, solo steel string guitarist and improviser. Outside of solo concerns he has been a collaborator/contributor to various musical projects including Baby Dee, Trembling Bells (w/Alex Neilson), Ashtray Navigations, Nalle and Directing Hand amongst others.

Reynolds' latest record 'How Day Earnt Its Night' is released by Tompkins Square on 9th June 2009. The album consolidates his interest in British and American folk guitar traditions in concise and intensely melodic pieces as well as longer, expressionist improvisations. The intricacies of British guitar luminaries such as Bert Jansch and Davy Graham are found alongside the stark grandeur of John Fahey's 'American primitive guitar' stylings.

Ben Reynolds show

CIAN NUGENT

Cian Nugent is a 19 year old guitar player from Dublin whose playing is rooted in pre-war blues, Appalachian string band music, modern classical and the Takoma tradition . His music boasts a orchestrated and fully instrumented sound that is playful and eerie at the same time. Nugent's first official recording titled 'Childhood, Christian Lies & Slaughter' produced by Jozef Van Wissem documents a live recording, and a new album is due for release by Tompkins Square later this year..

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St Giles-in-the-Fields Church

60 St Giles High Street, London, WC2H 8LG

Doors 7.00pm ~ £13.50 adv.

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FENNESZ

Fennesz uses guitar and computer to create shimmering, swirling electronic sound of enormous range and complex musicality. "Imagine the electric guitar severed from cliché and all of its physical limitations, shaping a bold new musical language." - (City Newspaper, USA). His lush and luminant compositions are anything but sterile computer experiments. They resemble sensitive, telescopic recordings of rainforest insect life or natural atmospheric occurrences, an inherent naturalism permeating each piece. Christian Fennesz is published by Touch Music. He lives and works in Vienna and Paris.