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School Of Language + The Week That Was
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The Luminaire, 307-311 Kilburn High Rd, NW6 7JR
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- It’s been a year since Field Music, a band specialising in meticulously assembled recordings packed with melodic twists and herky-jerky rhythms, said they were going to postpone band duties and ‘go and do some real work’.
David Brewis re-emerged first as School Of Language, whose album ‘Sea From Shore’ was a triumphant attempt to ‘make the weirdness in my music more explicit so that reviews stopped saying we sounded like Maximo Park’. Now his bandmate and older brother, Peter, has also recorded an album as The Week That Was, and the two acts play together for the first time on Friday.
‘I was halfway through recording my album when I started to hear bits of Peter’s,’ says David. ‘I was, like, oh wow, oh no! He’s managed to do something I never could – to create a story with chords, like Randy Newman or Duke Ellington.’
‘The album’s a labyrinthine murder mystery kidnapping plot,’ confirms Peter, whose marimba-tinged melodies make light work of familiarly knotty structures. ‘It also comes out of listening to a lot of Japan, Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush, and thinking about how pop people dealt with post-punk.’ Before they consider another Field Music record, the brothers have plans for an improvised album. Meanwhile they’ve got their work cut out bolstering each other’s live bands.
‘Playing this gig will just be like doing one long set, but with a little break in between,’ says David. ‘Just like when we used to play in a pub rock band… but probably without the Deep Purple encore.’
Further listening: www.myspace.com/theweekthatwas; www.myspace.com/schooloflanguage
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