Wandering Oak: GNOD • João Pais Filipe • Dextro
Schedule
Sat, 06 Dec, 2025 at 07:30 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Star and Shadow Cinema | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN
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Wandering Oak brings you:GNOD
plus João Pais Filipe • Dextro
at the Star And Shadow Cinema
• GNOD • (Rocket Recordings)
Since their inception, Gnod’s musical trajectory has been one of constant fluctuation borne out of an incessant need to discover new sonic worlds. Beginning life as a shamanic drone ensemble, at times fitting up to 15 members on stage, these early rituals informed the core ideals that have come to define the group in their years of activity; community and trance-inducing repetition. Throughout a discography that has amassed dozens of CD-R’s, cassettes and vinyl for labels like Rocket Recordings, Trensmat, Krokodilo (Blackest Ever Black) and their own Tesla Tapes imprint, a restless yet organic need mutate their music into new realms has had critics clawing for comparative touch stones. Acts as far ranging as Hawkwind, Popul Vuh, Pan Sonic, Sunburned Hand of the Man and Pharaoh Sanders have all been referenced in attempt to pinpoint their output, one that has historically never aped any genre but with each record furthered their own unique place in truly independent music. It is the exact same dedication to the live arena that has seen Gnod become one of the most celebrated live bands in the UK and secured them multiple tours and festival appearances throughout Europe. In these times of cash in hand ‘glory days’ reunions and bands simply rehashing their recorded material pitch perfect live, Gnod are a stark and welcome anomaly. Already moving on from the barley released and universally acclaimed epic ‘Infinity Machines’, the current live incarnation of the band is characterised by a crushing, cataclysmic new protest music whose call to arms gravitas offers a meaningful defiance to Cameron’s Austerity Britain. Gnod have taken their very namesake and charged it with bludgeoning new edge that is as euphoric as it is nihilistic. It is one that stridently attests to the group’s spiritual center, one of community that is inclusive and respectful of its audience yet will never placate to their expectations. Instead, Gnod offer a gateway to an aural black hole and along with firm guiding hand, the opportunity to dive head and body first into a powerfully new psychedelic maelstrom full of possibilities.
https://ingnodwetrust.tumblr.com/
• João Pais Filipe • (Portugal)
Percussionist, sculptor and researcher João Pais Filipe (born 1980) has taken a unique path, combining various artistic methodologies throughout his practice and research into rhythms and timbres. His eclectic work spans the contemporary languages found in electronic and concrete music to traditional practices hailing from diverse geographies. His pieces result from an exploration of irregular tempos, in which he seeks to create natural fluidity through accentuations and the textures of sound objects he collects and manipulates. These include gongs, cymbals and other percussion instruments made of metal alloys, which he sculpts himself. During his two-decade career, he has recorded and released music eponymously, as well as through various ensembles (e.g. HHY & The Macumbas), and collaborations with Valentina Magaletti, Burnt Friedman, and Ilpo Väisänen (Pan Sonic).
João Pais Filipe's work has taken him on tours across Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, performing at festivals such as Unsound in Kraków, Poland, and Nyege Nyege in Jinja, Uganda. He has also collaborated with the Mexican film collective Los Ingravidos, giving a live concert for the film ‘Teocali’, which was later released as the official soundtrack. Other collaborations include working with the choreographer and dancer Marco da Silva Ferreira on the pieces ‘Terra Cobre’ and ‘Carcaça’. Owing to their timbral and aesthetic qualities, his sound sculptures have been used by other artists, including Marshall Allen (Sun Ra Arkestra), Valentina Magaletti and Jim Sclavunos (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds).
https://joao-pais-filipe.tumblr.com/instruments
• Dextro •
Dextro is the work of Scottish musician and producer Ewan Mackenzie, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (also the drummer in the UK rock band Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs). Having been released through Border Community (James Holden, Nathan Fake) Groenland Records (Neu, Harmonia, Eno), and remixed by Clark (Warp), The Village Orchestra and Dane Law, among others, the music of Dextro has routinely pushed the boundaries of ambient, electronic and drone genres.
Dextro has also been performed live alongside artists such as Loscil, Adam Betts, Nathan Fake and Amon Tobin, where live percussion, guitar and synth drones interchange to create what commentators have described as "akin to climbing and descending from a mountain" (Muzik Dizcovery) and a " rich interstellar wonder: an ambiguous dreamzone awash with arresting visuals and transcendental possibilities" (Narc Magazine).
The latest album 'Respire' was released in September 2024 through Mr Medicine Records.
https://linktr.ee/dextro_music
Advance tickets available via See Tickets:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/gnod/the-star-and-shadow-cinema/3502483
via DICE:
https://link.dice.fm/l62708009610
Also available in person from Reflex CD Vinyl Newcastle.
Star And Shadow Cinema
Warwick Street
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 1BB
For ages 18+ only, from 7:30pm
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