Brighten The Corners Presents psychedelic groove band Cavolo Nero from The Netherlands on Thursday 8th October at The Church.

Support comes from Pleasurewood

• Event Info

  Time: 7:30pm - 11pm
  Venue: The Church, Ipswich
  Tickets: £13+bf
  

  Age Restrictions: 14+ (14- 17s must be accompanied by an adult)

  There is step-free access into the venue and the bar / accessible toilet / venue are all on one floor.  For further information, please email info@brightenthecorners.co.uk so we can make your visit as comfortable as possible.

• Artist Info

  Cavolo Nero is a psychedelic groove band from The Netherlands, blending exotic rhythms with modern club influences and psychedelia. Inspired by funk, disco, and afrobeat, the band creates a unique and irresistibly danceable sound that fascinates audiences at countless festivals.

  With the release of their debut album Mountain Disco, Cavolo Nero invites you into their “mountain disco”... a place where genres merge and everyday worries can be left behind. Here is only one rule: let loose, as hypnotic grooves and ecstatic energy come together in an explosive live experience.

  Pleasurewood compose and produce a cinematic funk-o-rama of French inspired 60’s and 70’s gauche TV beats and 70’s and 80’s Simla beat Mumbai synth rock featuring their aladdin’s cave of vintage weird and wonderful instruments that take turns to step across the stereo field.

  Electric Telepathy is the second full-length LP from the Suffolk, UK duo of Paul Elliott and Dan Smith following on from their debut LP of 2023, They Live and their psych-groove-out rework EP of Rod Temperton songs, Heatwaves from 2024.

  This new offering from the band embraces more of their vintage Hindi Cinema soundtrack influences — ‘Chump Change’, ‘The Hoverfly’ and ‘RAMMM’ could easily fit into the middle of an R.D. Burman score, each with their incongruous synthesis of different genres, infectious percussion, classical modes and funk chops.
  There is also a slight sweep across a too-slow-to-disco tempo and feel with the moody Johnny Guitar Watson-esque slow burn of ‘Good Falcon’ up to the nonchalant four-to-the-floor of ‘Last Dance Saloon’ with its lyrical warning of digital over-saturation in our social-media saturated world and a foreboding of the mini-monoliths sat in the palms of our hands that in a Kubrickian way threaten to cosmically absorb us all as a species into their individual jet-black abysses.
  And then, coming into focus like a sweet slice of disjointed, lo-fi, 8 bit space disco, ‘Mojave Desert’ is a slacker-strut with telephone vocals dub guitars, dry cosmic synths and futurist Farfisa organ driven by an almost Acid-Jazz meets Post-Punk Bass line, the song is autobiographical in its account of an excursion along the 29 Palms Highway reflecting on an escape from the City of Angels not so far away, up into the stark psychedelic desert realm.
  There is a lot to unpack in this record and yet more to discover so it will be best to allocate 40 minutes in a comfortable dimly-lit room with eyes closed and maybe a cognac in hand, to have a deep-dive into its well-travelled and esoterically funky grooves.
  Send us back a postcard from wherever Pleasurewood’s Electric Telepathy takes you.