K O N K P A C K 2006 AT FRAKTURE
+ SWUNG DASH

28th February, a Tuesday at View Two Gallery, Mathew Street, Liverpool,
8.00 pm £3.00

Roger Turner (GB) drumsets and percussion [ web link more info ]
Thomas Lehn (D) analogue synthesizer [ web link more info ]
Tim Hodgkinson (GB) lap steel guitar, electronics, clarinets

"Grob label artists Konk Pack are utterly awesome. Featuring Thomas Lehn on the craziest old EMS synthi A, Tim Hodgkinson on flat guitar and Roger Turner on percussion, the show is awkwardly brilliant and defiant. With startling combinations of punkish nuisance, ingenious change-ups, and rolling, stumbling, tripping and flipping sound inventions, Konk Pack are one of the most exciting Improv groups in the world."
Lee Henderson reviewing Vancouver Electric City in The Wire, Dec 2003

Konk Pack are celebrating the release of their third album OFF LEASHŠ
Since meeting at Szuenetjel Festival in Budapest 1997 there've been numerous tours and festivals, a live broadcast for BBC MIXING IT, three albums for the Cologne-based GROB label, and a sold-out concert in London with Derek Bailey. Recent festival appearances include Vancouver, Seattle, Mulhouse and MhèreŠ

TIM HODGKINSON
Composer and improviser, currently working on new pieces for projects with Dumitrescu to be presented at Acousmania 06, Bucharest. Also a solo clarinet piece for Jacques DiDonato. member of Bindou Ensemble experimental composers' group, and acclaimed K-Space trio with Gendos Chamzyryn and Ken Hyder.

ROGER TURNER
Developed personal percussion language, including research into percussion with electronics. Work has included residency at Alan Silva's Institut Art Culture Perception, Paris, collaborations with film, dance, + playing with Cecil Taylor, Annette Peacock, THE RECEDENTS (with Lol Coxhill and Mike Cooper), + duos with JOHN RUSSELL and PHIL MINTON.

THOMAS LEHN
Interpreter, composer and improviser of contemporary music. Concert pianist, he went on to transform the public's awareness of what could be done with the Synthi A. Many collaborations - e.g. with John Butcher, Guenter Christmann, Axel Doerner, Phil Durrant, Mats Gustafsson, Gerry Hemingway, Paul Lovens, Radu Malfatti, Keith Rowe. Member of MIMEO electronic ensemble and many other projects exploring the far limits of technology.