Louis Laurain

Following on from the autumn’s unforgettable El Khat show, the second Southcoast DonArden/James Endeacott co-promotion at The Piper also has a home-made instruments theme as Gallic Meccano visionary Pierre Bastien brings (some of) his amazing arsenal of automaton cornet mutes, underwater trumpets, revolving wooden flutes, coat hanger harps and paintbrush heads that play brushes on contact mic drums. It’s a measure of Bastien’s status as a one-off of global renown that Aphex Twin has released three of his albums on his Rephlex label. Pierre will be accompanied by fellow French cornet virtuoso Louis Laurain (who has previously worked with names as illustrious as Elias Radigue and Stephen O’Malley) under the umbrella of CNT (wash your minds out with soap, it’s the orchestral abbreviation for cornet). The show will be a co-headliner with Hastings’ own avant-garde supergroup OBTRAM3 (featuring Olie Brice, Tullis Rennis and Slapp Happy alumnus Anthony Moore - they’re the CSN of cerebral impro-skronk) and masked actionist Effective Word Order will be getting the party started in the way only they can.

This is an 18+ event

The Piper

C.N.T (Pierre Bastien - Louis Laurain) + Obtram 3

Louis Laurain

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