The Smokehouse Presents experimental psych outfit Modern Nature on Tuesday 10th May 2022.
Tickets £10+bf: https://bit.ly/SHPmod
Following the release of the deluxe double vinyl box set of their new album ‘Island Of Noise’ last year, Modern Nature have announced that they’ll be sharing the album digitally on 28th January.
Revealing new single ‘Performance’ alongside the news, Jack Cooper says the track “is written from the perspective of someone seeing or realising something overwhelming for the first time.”
Island Of Noise presents an obvious new peak in his discography, combining Cooper’s celebrated songwriting and compositional skills with a free flowing expansiveness coloured by British free music luminaries such as saxophonist Evan Parker, pianist Alexander Hawkins, bassist John Edwards and violinist Alison Cotton, as well as long-term collaborators Jeff Tobias and Jim Wallis.
Since the demise of his previous band Ultimate Painting, Jack Cooper – under his Modern Nature guise – has never stopped looking ahead, exploring and reaching for something further. Since 2019, he’s released an EP, one full length LP, last year’s mini-album Annual, one 7” and three live cassettes, as well as the minimalist system music of this year’s Tributaries LP on Astral Spirits – in the process mapping out astonishing new terrain.
Support comes from Tom Rogerson and Night Folk.
Keyboardist, vocalist and composer Tom Rogerson's music has been described as “masterful” (Line of Best Fit) and “full of rewarding surprises, alive and wondrous” (Pitchfork.) His debut album 'Retreat To Bliss' was released in March on Western Vinyl and is a return to his roots, focusing purely on piano and voice. It's been praised for its “pristine beauty, building in emotional intensity, like a stripped-down Sigur Ros” (Uncut.) Tom is the founder and keyboardist of acclaimed experimental rock band Three Trapped Tigers, and his previous album 'Finding Shore' was a collaboration with Brian Eno, released on Dead Oceans.
Night Folk is a weekly avant-folk, ambient and jazz radio show presented by Andy Norton, who will be playing a DJ Set.