About this Event

MelloMello is very very proud to present...



CINEMA SOLORIENS //



Since beginning this ambitious project 20 years ago with Marshall Allen, leader of The Sun Ra Arkestra, filmmaker/musician James Harrar sees Cinema Soloriens as a constantly evolving creative and spiritual learning center.



Cinema Soloriens is a multi-media performance consisting of James Harrar’s experimental and highly personal film and video images with a live musical rendering of soundtracks for each film. The musical concepts are created, directed and performed by Harrar (tenor sax, flute, bulbul tarang, reeds, voice and effects) with Marshall Allen (alto sax, flute, keyboards, EVI and effects), and Rogier Smal (percussion and electronics) plus a stellar changing line-up of gifted musicians.



The project places attention on Artist collaboration, exploring the moving image with live performance and when combined, an attempt to reveal deeper levels of interpretation within Harrar’s visceral film poems. These presentations also celebrate the early beginnings of cinema, providing live music to support and elevate the silent movie experience.



Any musical incarnation of Cinema Soloriens reveals a group possessing a penchant for psychedelic rock, outre ethnological improvisations and Marshall Allen approved jazzy stomps of which these performances deliver in equal measure.



Also to mark the 20th anniversary of Cinema Soloriens, we are very proud to be hosting an exhibition of portraits, film frame enlargements and images documenting the 20 year collaboration, which will be on display / on sale tonight.



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Support comes from none other than...



MUGSTAR //



Kraut / space / noise / psych / power quartet MUGSTAR need absoloutely no introduction at all.



An intense hard hitting bastion of super star sound force, these dudes have released on Important Records and played with all your favourite bands. Oneida, Clinic and Mudhoney to name just a few.



Pretty happy about that to be honest.



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PADDY STEER //



A well known chap around the place these days for his unique blend of homemade experimental tropical groove-tastic wizardry. Paddy's live shows are drenched in bone tingling beats and swamping multi-melody played using an ever changing array of homemade synths, effects boxes, triggered, prepared glockenspiels, lapsteels and vocoders, which he plays all himself...at the same time...YOU GOTTA SEE IT MAN! Not to mention the occasional explosion of earsplitting feedback and the stuttered on the fly fixing of equipment...which all adds to an entirely immsersive performance not to be missed!



Gives a whole new meaning to the term 'octopus core'.



Paddy is a Zelig-like character along the timeline of Manchester’s musical activity. It’s a testament to his musicality that he has played with such a wide range of music and artists over the years, be it as a bass player, drummer, Hawaiian guitarist etc. or all these roles at the same time. His own Homelife project released five albums in recent years, Homelife’s sound was intricate but with a warm sense of wonder, a balance of songs and instrumentals. Many musicians contributed to the Homelife project, brewed slowly by Paddy in his attic before being taken out as a small orchestra for some very unique concerts.



Never one to blow his own trumpet, Paddy quietly gets on with developing his craft. There is something of the fairy-tale cobbler working late into the night in order to make the finest shoes in the kingdom, or maybe the musical elves strike up while he’s in bed.



Tickets for this very special events are £10 advance and are available now from HERE : http://www.bidolito.co.uk/gig/cinema-soloriens-featuring-marshall-allen



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HERE : http://www.wegottickets.com/event/243899



This event is also in conjunction with SoundCity.