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Beautify Junkyards & Guests
June 21, 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 11:30 pm
£10.00
What a pleasure it is, to welcome BEAUTIFY JUNKYARDS to The Peer Hat. Here’s a little about their last album, which ought to illuminate this splendid band for you:
“The fourth album for the Lisbon based band and their second on Ghost Box following on from The Invisible World of Beautify Junkyards in 2018. Cosmorama is a beautifully crafted and lavishly produced adventure into tropicalia tinged psychedelic dream pop. A hallucinogenic fusion of Os Mutantes and Broadcast. The eleven songs here are instantly rewarding and transportive, but the rich production rewards the listener with new detail on every repeated play. Its music that’s knowingly informed by Portuguese and Brazilian vocal traditions, with gauzy layers of male and female voices moving beguilingly amongst each other, shifting, dreamlike, between languages. This is set against an electroacoustic backdrop of complex percussion, masterly acoustic musicianship and a matrix of haunted electronics that makes this album perfectly at home in the world of Ghost Box records.
The Band: Beautify Junkyards are a very talented group of multi-instrumentalists headed up by João Branco Kyron on vocals and keyboards, Helena Espvall (formerly of Espers) on cello, flute and electric guitar, João Moreira on acoustic guitar and keyboards, Sergue Ra on bass and Antonio Watts on drums and percussion. Newest member, Martinez was recruited just in time to contribute vocals on Garden by the Sea. Joining the band as writing and performing collaborators on Cosmorama are: Nina Miranda (of Smoke City fame) on vocals on the title track and on Reverie and Parangolé, Alison Bryce of NYC’s Lake Ruth on vocals on Deep Green and classical & contemporary harpist Eduardo Raon on A Garden by the Sea and The Fountain.”
Monorail Music
CHRYSALID HOMO; noun: (pronunciation Kris-sah-lid Hoh-Moh): The futurist sounds of a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
In 2019, three brothers emerged from the ashes of Salfordian Prog-Punk outfit, Trojan Horse. Heavily laden with synths, harmonies and crooning, these heralds of a dark and dangerous future are here to shock and awe. Not afraid of drawing influences from those that have come before, this merry band of mad-max musicians can name those early pioneers of electronic music; Kraftwerk, The Human League, John Foxx (to name only 3), as shaping their own unique sound. Fear not, they aren’t flogging horses here (alive or dead), they’re pushing the boundaries of electronic music to carefully curate a sound that is unique, interesting and, dare we say, pop.
The sounds emerging from their secret studio in sunny Eccles, are steeped in satire and the rich history that comes with living in the cradle of the industrial revolutio
In 2019, three brothers emerged from the ashes of Salfordian Prog-Punk outfit, Trojan Horse. Heavily laden with synths, harmonies and crooning, these heralds of a dark and dangerous future are here to shock and awe. Not afraid of drawing influences from those that have come before, this merry band of mad-max musicians can name those early pioneers of electronic music; Kraftwerk, The Human League, John Foxx (to name only 3), as shaping their own unique sound. Fear not, they aren’t flogging horses here (alive or dead), they’re pushing the boundaries of electronic music to carefully curate a sound that is unique, interesting and, dare we say, pop.
The sounds emerging from their secret studio in sunny Eccles, are steeped in satire and the rich history that comes with living in the cradle of the industrial revolutio