Cardiff's most exiting promoters, Lesson No 1, together with the excellent Fourier Transform label, bring Gary Smith & Shoji Hano, Magrathea, and Dan Haines to Dempseys on Tuesday May 24th 2005.

Dan, in one of his outings under his own name rather than as STEREO MINUS ONE, will be performing completely live explorations of minimalistic drill n bass/gabba-infused futurism. Expect a total assault on accepted ideas of musicality, technical competence, and common decency.

Magrathea, who recently impressed all at THE QUARTER with an endlessly fascinating and inventive improvised set, will be once again combining post-rock and musique concrete in a spontaneous organisation of sound - not to be missed.

The main act, though, is the duo of stereo electric guitar pioneer Gary Smith and Japanese free jazz/improv drummer Shoji Hano. "Gary can be heard ripping up the fretboard and shredding speakers on the last Aufgehoben album, Anno Fauve (transform001). He's also played in the past with New York no-wave hero Rhys Chatham, ex-Soft Machine bassist Hugh Hopper, marshals his own high octane power trio MASS, and performs on the just-released and previously unheard Bill Fay Group album, Tomorrow and Tomorrow. He is a unique, uncompromising and exhilarating talent. Shoji Hano is a legend - he's a member of Japanese psychedelic speed freaks High Rise, has recorded with dark noise lord Keiji Haino, and regularly performs with such leading European free jazz luminaries as Derek Bailey and Peter Brotzmann. His latest project is the blistering guitar'n'drums explosion, Kyoaku No Intention.Together, Smith and Hano are an intense, disorientating but richly rewarding experience."

This promises to be one of the most exciting, and noisiest, nights Cardiff has witnessed!

8pm/Tuesday 24th May 2005/ £4
Dempseys, Cardiff

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