Spaceheads To Light Up The Wonder Inn with Electro Jazz Funk & Live Loops

Spaceheads are a unique trumpet and drums duo, formed in 1990, with Andy Diagram?s layers of melodious live brass loops, breathy samples, electronics and effects combining with Richard Harrison?s driving percussion to generate a highly danceable fusion of electro jazz funk with an indie flavour. They will be bringing their stunning live show to The Wonder Inn in Manchester on the 14th October for an event not to be missed!

Andy Diagram has brought a new facet to the trumpet over the years, playing through loopers and effects with a wide range of bands, from the bright leftfield pop of Manchester?s indie heroes James to the darker, more abstract sounds of Pere Ubu?s David Thomas. He has a long history of taking the traditional sound of the trumpet, adapting and changing it to give it a completely new voice within the heart of today?s alternative music. He has recently integrated a mobile phone into his set up, working in conjunction with effects and pedals, transforming the traditional brass instrument into a modern, electronic sound ? with the help of something as mundane and unexciting as a fish slice, lashed to the trumpet ? enabling him to transform a single horn into the full sound of widescreen, cinematic brass, right in front of your disbelieving eyes and ears!

Along with drummer and percussionist Richard Harrison, Spaceheads are pioneering a live electronic looping sound that is beat driven with fragmented melodic bursts and disjointed, cut up samples. The almost psychic connection that Diagram and Harrison have built up between them over 35 years of playing together allows them to change their sound and take it into an entirely new direction, seemingly at a whim.

Their new mini album, ?Laughing Water?, is released on 21st November 2016 on Spaceheads? own Electric Brass label, the label?s 6th release, following hot on the heels of last year?s successful double album, ?A Short Ride On The Arrow Of Time?, which combined a series of 20 minute jams into four parts, or ?continuums? with each track leading the listener on a journey through time and space, the duo instinctively working off one another to produce an album of spiky effects mutating into joyous dance tracks and wandering off into reflective, trance-like rhythms.

Laughing Water aims to add yet another dimension to their unique and distinctive sound. Andy?s hotwired, loopy trumpet and Richard?s skippy beats are perfectly complemented by the mellow rhythm of long-time friend Vincent Bertholet on Double Bass. The resulting sound carries at its heart the Spaceheads? characteristic live loops, with twisting melodies set over shifting grooves, its ambient atmospheres accompanied by blissful, harmonized trumpet loops ? yet each track has its own individual feel and texture which sets it apart from its neighbours.

But the Spaceheads experience isn?t just an aural treat ? they are accompanied by Rucksack Cinema, whose live mixing of video images, from black and white films of steam trains, 1920s space films and clips from classic movies combines with images of the universe, spinning stars, psychedelic swirls and blocks of light and colour projected around the walls, floor and ceiling of the venues they play, turns the whole show into a complete mind blowing audio-visual experience not to be missed.

Tickets for their show at The Wonder Inn on 14th October 2016 can be bought through Ticketsource - https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/EHMIGI or payment of £5 on the door.

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