Bad Chapel presents:
Pye Corner Audio (Live)
& Namke Communications
The Crescent, York
Friday 25th October, 7.30pm.
Tickets are £8 in advance and are available from Earworm Records, the venue in person or online via See Tickets.

Pye Corner Audio is a British electronic music project by “dark-hearted synth sorcerer” Martin Jenkins. He deals in an eerie, fragile strain of electronic music mixing the Radiophonic/library music sound, sometimes with a post-punk influence that aligns him firmly with such seasoned hauntologists as Mordant Music, Belbury Poly and The Advisory Circle. There’s also a tough rhythmic edge to Jenkins’ material that triggers associations with cold wave synth-pop, early 80s horror soundtracks a la John Carpenter and even squelchy Chicago house. Jenkins refers to himself as the mysterious and nameless Head Technician in most of his online profiles, and extra detail is taken to make the audio and visual elements of his performances look and sound worn and vintage.

PCA first came to attention with 4 volumes of Black Mill Tapes on his own label Pye Corner Audio Transcription Services, and has since recorded three timeless LPs for Ghost Box – 2012’s Sleep Games, Stasis from 2016 and this year’s Hollow Earth. It’s fair to say that many reviewers went a bit nuts for this most recent release, with Boomkat hailing it as “a glorious vision of retro-futurist electronics” and Bleep snapping him up to record Bleep Mix #53, cataloguing his recording influences from Scott Walker and Stereolab to Cluster and Eno.

Jenkins has also contributed numerous singles and Eps that come across as mini-albums for labels including Death Waltz, Lapsus and Ecstatic, and has also an impressive list of collaborations to his name, splitting releases with fellow head-nodder Not Waving and teaming up with Fatan Kanaan on 2017’s project The Darkest Wave for Polyphonic Youth. He regularly features on the soundtracks of renegade documentary maker Adam Curtis’s films such as Bitter Lake and Hypernormalisation, and is writing partner on Mark Lanegan’s new LP Somebody’s Knocking released on October 18th.

Support comes from Namke Communications — operating at the edge of any given scene since 2001 — returns to using a collection of obsolete (or is it vintage?) gear together to create a new set of minimal techno-inspired tracks. If you think of the stripped back sounds of Plasitkman’s ‘Consumed’, you’ll be on the right track…

Bad Chapel presents:
Pye Corner Audio (Live)
& Namke Communications
The Crescent, York
Friday 25th October, 7.30pm
Tickets are £8 in advance and are available from Earworm Records, the venue in person or online via See Tickets.