CINDYTALK (Cinder&FireatWork) + ACRARTEP @AUDITORIUM NOVECENTO NAPOLI
Schedule
Sun, 13 Apr, 2025 at 09:30 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Auditorium Novecento Napoli | Napoli, CM
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PER INFO E PRENOTAZIONI VIA WHASTAPP AL 3406642517Cindytalk is an experimental music project, founded in 1982. Cindytalk operated as a group for many years, but more recently has been a solo project by Cinder, a Scottish performer and the only constant member since 1982. Cinder was also credited as Gordon Sharp and Cindy Sharp.
Cindytalk was formed in 1982 by vocalist Cinder (then credited as Gordon Sharp) and David Clancy (guitar, keyboards; formerly of Edinburgh-based punk/new wave band The Freeze).
After re-locating to London in 1982, Cindytalk began to work towards their debut album Camouflage Heart, with a darker and more fractured sound that drew much from post-punk and early European industrial music. In 1983 Cinder and Clancy were joined by John Byrne who proved to be a crucial component in Cindytalk's deliberately disintegrating sound.
The album Camouflage Heart appeared to some critical acclaim in the UK music press. Shortly after Camouflage Heart, David Clancy left the band and was replaced by brother/sister team Alex and Debbie Wright. The colossal In This World was recorded over the next three years: two albums of the same name released simultaneously, featuring cover art by Kathy Patterson. The first of the albums, a broken and noisy affair, the second, an album of creaky ambience featuring Cinder's improvised piano experiments. In This World also featured an uncredited collaboration with feminist punk writer Kathy Acker (Janey's Love).
During this period Cindytalk had also begun working in tandem with performance artist and film maker Ivan Unwin, providing sound for some of her short pieces. This led Cindytalk to scoring Unwin's "Eclipse: An Amateur Enthusiasts Guide to Virus Deployment", the record of which was released on Midnight Music in 1990 under the title The Wind Is Strong..., the album, following on from the second of the In This World albums, was based on piano improvisations and abstract/concrete experiments. At the time Cinder described it as "Ambi-dustrial" fusing her love of the early ambient releases on the EG label with the above-mentioned European Industrial music. Cinder was joined on this release by Ivan Unwin and long standing co-producer/engineer David Ros who then became a more active member of the band. Matt Kinnison and drummer/percussionist Paul Middleton also provided sounds and ideas to this mix. Secrets And Falling, a 4-track e.p. culled from the Wappinschaw sessions was released in 1991. At this point the band had become more of a collective, drawing on musicians from the current line-up as well as the past, John Byrne returned and was joined by Kevin Rich and Darryl Moore (Soul Static Sound).
Midnight Music folded in 1992 and prevented the recently finished album Wappinschaw from being released until 1995 (on Cinder's own label Touched, distributed through World Serpent). Wappinschaw features a collaboration with Scottish artist and writer Alasdair Gray, who reads from his novel "Lanark" (Wheesht).
By 1993, Cindytalk had gone through more changes and was preparing to play live for the first time. Cinder, Middleton and Ros were joined by Paul Jones, Andie Brown, Mark Stephenson and Simon Carmichael to record and release 1994's "Muster"/"Prince of Lies" 7" (Touched/World Serpent).
In early 1996, Cindytalk toured the US. They played two shows in Boston – one a "secret" show at the start of their tour under the name "Lucinder", and one at the end. In between, they played Washington DC, Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, Portland OR, Seattle, Santa Clara, San Francsisco, Corona CA, Tempe AZ, Baton Rouge, Atlanta, Orlando, Miami, Charlotte NC and New York City. Bowery Electric and Trance to the Sun were opening acts at multiple dates.[citation needed]
In 2007, Cindytalk signed a licensing deal with Italian distributors Abraxas through a sub-label Wheesht, who were to re-issue the back catalogue up to Wappinschaw. However, this deal appears to have gone awry with Abraxas releasing the first two Cindytalk albums Camouflage Heart and In This World without complying with the contract.[citation needed] In 2021, Dais Records (USA) re-issued The Wind Is Strong... and Wappinschaw.
Since 2024, the Cindytalk project includes the Italian producer Fabrizio Rossi, active since the late 90s in the experimental electronic scene with the Fire At Work project, connecting the territorial realities of the capital and the international context.
Cinder has collaborated with This Mortal Coil, for whom she has long been the voice; with Massimo Pupillo of the legendary ZU and with Ancient Methods for the combo "In The Mouth Of The Wolf".
Line-up:
- CindyTalk and Fire at Work, together on stage
- Acrartep (Eugenio Petrarca) whose research flows into drone and abrasive noise. His latest work “Lateral Journey” was released by the Italian label Brutal Forms
Special mentions go to Nicole Oike for the artwork and to label Stirpe999 for promoting the Italian tour.
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Where is it happening?
Auditorium Novecento Napoli, Via Mezzocannone, 67, 80134 Napoli NA, Italia,Naples, Italy, NapoliEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
