Photo by Jonathan Morgan

The next Capsule event takes place on Monday 24th June at Hare & Hounds. There we’ll meet Victor, a young band on the local scene they promise noisy post rock with a grunge edge.

“The first taste of Victor we had was supporting The Chapman Family at The Rainbow in March – and what an unexpected treat they were. Victor don’t have any recordings online but we’d urge you to go and see them; their passionate vocals combine with a post-rock sound verging on grunge, subsequently creating a wall of noise that will make you deafer than your nan.” Counteract

Along with the mighty Deerhoof and Free School, this is going to be a great Monday night. Tickets are selling fast so snap yours up for £10 via www.theticketsellers.co.uk

FACT magazine have released a great interview with Nicholas Bullen. The interview delves into his long history of extreme music creation, and the making of his new record Component Fixations. The official release show for this album will take place Tuesday 9th July st CBSO Centre in Birmingham. It’ll be a special event, with Nazoranai also on the bill.

“The common thread is an interest in new strategies of engaging with both the material and the wider world. Napalm Death was informed as much by Power Electronics as Punk or Heavy Metal (for example, the middle section of Sacrificed on the Scum album was intended to reference the ‘walls of noise’ of Throbbing Gristle and Ramleh’s attack of sound). Just as the Power Electronics I made in 1984 operated in a realm where the agitated and active meets the laminar, so Napalm Death moved – through velocity and abrasion – towards a form of stasis which I think also characterises Scorn, where the creativity operated within a seemingly endless but closed space. These elements all have their place within my compositional approach.”

Read the full interview here

Tickets for the show are available via www.theticketsellers.co.uk

A firm fixture of Capsule’s programme over the years, we’re really pleased to see the excellent reception for Nicholas Bullen’s new record. From solo electro acoustic performances, grindcore academia, and heavy noise rock with Backwards, Bullen is an artist who always delivers the goods!

You can stream his record Component Fixations via soundcloud, it’s now out on Type*. Parts of the album will be performed live on Tuesday 9th July at CBSO, this will be the official launch for the album. Also on the bill is Nazoranai, the heavy power trio of Stephen O’Malley, Oren Ambarchi and Keiji Haino. Tickets are available via www.theticketsellers.co.uk

The powerhouse trio of Stephen O’Malley, Oren Ambarchi and Keiji Haino perform a very special show at CBSO Centre on Tuesday 9th July. This is going to be loud. Nazoranai are psychedelic avant doom from “three undisputed masters in their field”.

“…It was one of those ‘what now’ moments you never imagine happening, having been a fan/follower of Haino’s playing, concerts and recordings over the years. Five years later, somehow, we ended up as this trio. Haino, Oren and I were all in Holland for one reason or another and decided to try it. I played bass for the first time on stage with this group. Maybe it shows but the idea was a power trio backing up Haino-san, with a lot of amplification…It’s hard to describe the lessons through real-time communication in music with such a master of form, but needless to say, they were much different than what I was expecting and beyond! Proof again that expectations lead to dead ends. Was a most challenging experience in real-time music. I feel incredibly honored to be part of this trio.” —Stephen O’Malley

Listen to an album preview soundcloud.com/experimedia/nazoranai-nazoranai-album

Nicholas Bullen (Napalm Death, Scorn, Black Galaxy) will be launching his new record Component Fixations at this event, released on Type Records.

“Over 25 years since that first Napalm Death release, Bullen is primed to release his debut solo LP through Type*. Component Fixations will offer “tape manipulations, drones and noise” spread over three long-form tracks. The album promises a synthesis of Bullen’s influences, with a particular emphasis on the electronic pioneers of the 1960s. Intriguingly, all the sounds on the record were directly sourced from field recordings made around Bullen’s house and garden” Fact

Listen to the opening track soundcloud.com/_type/nicholas-bullen-element

Tickets are £15 and available via www.theticketsellers.co.uk

Got the June playlist for you nice and early  – enjoy the sounds of Deerhoof, Nicholas Bullen, Nazoranai and more.

The next Capsule event sees noise popsters Deerhoof play an intimate show at the Hare & Hounds, on Monday 24th June. They’ve not played in Birmingham since 2005 and it seems you’ve not forgotten them as tickets are selling fast. Joining the bill are two great, and very different Birmingham bands, Victor and Free School.

Free School will bring the sunny Balearic sounds of summer and the icy kosmische sounds of winter for some disconcerting dance music. Here they are opening Supersonic Festival’s 10th anniversary where Stool Pigeon enjoyed their “insidiously groovy, shiny pop-tinged approach”.

And this video was made for the release of their album Tender Administration on Tirk Records

There’s lots of videos and tracks to peruse at www.wearefreeschool.com and you can buy tickets for the event at www.theticketsellers.co.uk

On Wednesday 26th June Eric Isaacson of Mississippi Records will be at Vivid Projects in Digbeth showing us some very rare footage from the label’s archive as we as film footage from Alan Lomax’s North American music archives.

Mississippi Records is based in Portland, Oregon, operating as both an old style record store and a label digging up joyous albums, singles and unheard songs. They have managed to do this on a shoestring budget and distributing only through DIY avenues. Among it’s catalogue you can find Fred McDowell, Mahmoud Ahmed, Irma Thomas, Dog Faced Hermans, George “Bongo Joe” Coleman, Kleenex/Liliput, The Georgia Sea Island Singers, The Clean, Alamayahu Eshete, Dead Moon, Clara Rockmore, The Ex, Washington Phillips, Philip Cohran & The Artistic Heritage Ensemble, G.I. Gurdjieff, Marisa Anderson, Peter Buck and Michael Hurley and some killer compilations.

Many of Mississippi’s releases—especially those compilations—share a distinct design sensibility, with mysterious, slightly sloppy-looking collages, awkwardly handwritten text often appearing in place of type, and a near-total absence of promotional folderol. They also have the kinds of deluxe physical materials that have been almost totally absent from record manufacturing for decades.

Mississippi Records Tour Preview Film from plastic shaman on Vimeo.

David Hand has created some lovely limited edition screen prints of his super cool design for the Daniel Higgs show in black/gold or white/pink. Be warned, they are SUPER limited and shan’t be available for long. You can also buy screenprints from the Barn Owl show, in an equally lovely design. Snap one up for £20 via the shop