An upcoming British tour looks into this particular dynamic and feel, at the stripped-down point where the genres meet: along the way, there are more overlappings and enfoldings. These buggers always had a lot more depth than previous circumstances have allowed them to show: or perhaps, more than they allowed themselves to make clear. In Markers, they no longer have either of these problems.
Following their recent showing at a mid-February gig in Brighton hands up, I admit that I missed it Markers are setting out on tour with kindred spirits Haress.
Mantric, minimalist, low-hanging and close-knit, theirs is a music in which several tight and lowering musical disciplines meets. Art-rock, hardcore edge, meditational post-rock and American electric folk fragments emerge via very loud, mostly clean electric guitars on the lip of distortion and at the precarious peak of electromagnetic responsiveness and meet shruti and amp drones plus delicate percussion tingles. Below are a couple of clips of David and Elizabeth meeting inside and outside:.
Haress sometimes expand for live dates. And here he is in transient mode, halfway between folk and electropopβ¦. Hometown girl Aby Vulliamy is also joining the evening. The final tour show, in Liverpool, is just Haress and Markers on their own. Jay Jayle are compelling. Bell Lungs sits at the middle of a host of possible routes.
Her sound incorporates post-folk and drone, dream pop, noise and free improv, psychedelia and site-specific realisations, while her psychohistorian subject matter takes in the ancient, the near-ancient and the presently numinous: probing prehistoric spaces, the ghosts of the industrial age, day-to-day feelings and the slide into a new virtual existence space via online culture.
