
NEWS
Izzy Isgate the inevitable website launch!
29.3.2016
Our anti-social media attitude not withstanding - we have decided to launch a website in order to promote and share some of the music we are currently working on! Before we record an E.P. we are going to perform some of this material at Bedern Hall, May 29, in York. We are very excited about some of the material that is getting underway, and we are now trying to organise the logistics of how and where to record the menagerie of instruments in the repetoire. The challenge is to re-create a sound that sustains the texture and timbres of the instruments and their unique voicings. Izzy is in the process of writing some beautiful and interesting pieces for the hammered dulcimer, the sound falls somewhere between an Eastern European cimbalom and prepared piano a la John Cage. And the process of recording/amplifying the instrument is challenging to say the least - any attempt to record the hammer dulcimer so far sounds like cats on a tin roof!
Meanwhile, we hope you enjoy the website - feel free to contact us and let us know what you think!
Lend Me Your Ears Presents...
28.3.2016
Izzy Isgate & accompanist Pauls Sparks live at Bedern Hall, York, May 29. We are delighted to announce an intimate gig at one of the most beautiful venues in York.
This will be a unique event to showcase some of the material from the so-called Polyvalent Acoustic Project- playing anything with strings attached. Come and join us for a chance to share in the music and get a flavour of the material that we are going to record soon. There will be more stringed instruments than you can shake a stick at (speaking of which - a hammered dulcimer too!).
Advance tickets are available here.
Be A Witty Twit...
28.3.2016
If you're in need of social media overkill then engage with Izzy's twittercisms, or share with your friends on facebook.