DRONES! RUMBLES! CRACKLES! CREAKS!

The Cube Microplex is privileged to welcome drone-luminaries Tongue Depressor along with the triumphant return of Marija Kovačević's Broken Violins and the ever changing landscape of Zero Gravity Tea Ceremony.

Tongue Depressor (New England, USA) is the duo of Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey. They write and perform drone-based music with continually expanding instrumentation including bagpipes, double bass, pedal steel/lap steel, tape loops, harmonicas, organs, and bells. They tour regularly in North America, Europe, and the UK, and have released 30+ LPs, CDs, cassettes, and lathes on labels including No Rent, Astral Spirits, Xkatedral, Stoned To Death, Redscroll, Chocolate Monk, Full Spectrum, Dinzu Artefacts, Worried Songs, and Soundholes. Tongue Depressor maintains collaborations with a revolving door of third members including Austin Larkin, Weston Olencki, John McCowen, Jakub Battick, and Leila Bordreuil.

Serbian born, New York City based violinist Marija Kovačević works in classical, experimental and improvised music. Her project “Music for Broken Violins” is an exploration of sonic textures with broken violins, bows and their fragments. In addition to four albums of solo work, broken violins also appear on “Rainy Afternoon near Paris” album with Thierry Müller, “Push Broken Duet” album with Romain Perrot (available on Chocolate Monk), “Bez Vremena” album with Paul Collins and Quentin Rollet (available on Astres d’Or) and most recently “Playable Litter” album with Theo Gowans (available on Scatter Archive). Marija’s fifth solo album is set for release this year on Relative Pitch Records. The project has travelled internationally to the UK, Europe and USA.

Bristol-based ambient weirdo composer Zero Gravity Tea Ceremony creates solo and ensemble pieces based around indeterminacy and improvisation within conceptual frameworks, quilting together repetitive phrases into dialectic environments and gnosis-inducing dreamscapes. They will be presenting the first live incarnation of 'feedback forms', built around endlessly vibrating, open-tuned guitars accompanied by Gong, Cello and Double bass.