Headfirst Editor's Pick
"Bristol’s brown-eyed baroque crooner plays a triumphant homecoming album launch, shot through with his singular vision of lounge music dissonance and downtown jazz noir. For the uninitiated, Bingo’s simulated the impossible - Thurston Moore and John Zorn covering Tom Waits on a bust-up after-hours bar room piano in 1950s Stokes Croft. "
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A gig held at The Jam Jar on Saturday 20th April. The event starts at 19:30.
Bingo Fury’s noirish, furiously inventive music – marrying Scott Walker-esque balladry, poised jazz and agitated no-wave – has marked him amongst the UK avant-garde’s most exciting young voices. The multi-instrumentalist and madcap producer’s debut album Bats Feet For A Widow arrives February 16th via The state51 Conspiracy.
The album was recorded in a local church in Bristol and inspired by Fury’s tangled feelings towards his strong religious upbringing. We hear the old building everywhere amidst the rich jazz performances of his band: Meg Jenkins (bass), Henry Terrett (drums), Harry Furniss (cornet) and Rafi Cohen (guitar, glockenspiel, piano). We also hear tossed house keys, wine glasses and strange acousmatic experiments: all channelled into a powerfully cinematic, deeply romantic album. At its heart is Fury’s crooning bass vocal, lending a vivid and slyly humorous voice to universal themes of love and pain.
Bats Feet For A Widow is an album of extremity. In all respects – its sonic palette, strange experiments, obscure references, offbeat one-liners, heart-breaking sentimentality and surging creativity – it is astonishingly full. Fury duly ends it on a note of maximalism: “you know I’m trying to give you everything / It all gets in the way.”
For one night only, Bingo Fury will be joined by an extended line-up of musicians who played on the album: Nathan Piggot (saxophone), Wilf Cartwright (cello) and Joe Jones (tape loops / electronics), as well as his usual five-piece band.
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Entry requirements: no age restrictions
The album was recorded in a local church in Bristol and inspired by Fury’s tangled feelings towards his strong religious upbringing. We hear the old building everywhere amidst the rich jazz performances of his band: Meg Jenkins (bass), Henry Terrett (drums), Harry Furniss (cornet) and Rafi Cohen (guitar, glockenspiel, piano). We also hear tossed house keys, wine glasses and strange acousmatic experiments: all channelled into a powerfully cinematic, deeply romantic album. At its heart is Fury’s crooning bass vocal, lending a vivid and slyly humorous voice to universal themes of love and pain.
Bats Feet For A Widow is an album of extremity. In all respects – its sonic palette, strange experiments, obscure references, offbeat one-liners, heart-breaking sentimentality and surging creativity – it is astonishingly full. Fury duly ends it on a note of maximalism: “you know I’m trying to give you everything / It all gets in the way.”
For one night only, Bingo Fury will be joined by an extended line-up of musicians who played on the album: Nathan Piggot (saxophone), Wilf Cartwright (cello) and Joe Jones (tape loops / electronics), as well as his usual five-piece band.
+ support from Foot Foot
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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