The Whole World Window III

by Chris Vysotskaya in Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The Whole World Window III

Total raised £95

£1,000 target 5 days left
9% 7 supporters
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 14th October 2024 at 12:00pm

For YOUR listening pleasure, WE are putting on pre-Cardiacs-show gatherings. Live music & Cardiacs-themed DJ sets. Seeking to cover costs.

by Chris Vysotskaya in Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Hello?

Greg Braysford of Hyena Inc. and Chris Vysotskaya of Edinburgh Zeuhl are joining their forces to bring YOU a carefully crafted programme of enlightening entertainment and exquisite sonic delights at the WHOLE WORLD WINDOW III gatherings that will take place before SING TO TIM events in Manchester on 10th October, Glasgow on 11th October, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 12th October.

To celebrate the music of TIM SMITH and all things CARDIACS, we are putting on pre-Cardiacs-shows get-togethers with live music, Cardiacs-themed DJ sets, and some lovely thoughtful touches here and there.

For YOUR listening pleasure WE are bringing together ALL HAIL HYENA, A PIG CALLED EGGS, DJ GONGMAN, and BOB DRAKE. 

This full line-up will manifest itself in Manchester. In Glasgow and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the sonic treats will be provided exclusively by BOB DRAKE (who will play a full-length set at these two events) and DJ GONGMAN.

All three events will be FREE TO ATTEND.

Is it just mud?

In the best DIY spirit, we have taken care of as many organisational elements and aspects ourselves as we possibly could.

However, some costs incurred have been unavoidable. As all three events are free to attend, that makes it very difficult for us to recoup the expenses, so now WE are seeking YOUR financial support in making this happen. 

Every contribution, no matter how big or small (you can enter any amount in the box next to the "Donate" button), would be accepted with deep gratitude and used towards recouping the costs of the venue hire, sound engineers' services, sourcing some Crowdfunder rewards, covering the fundraising platform fees, and also put towards covering the costs associated with bringing Mr Drake from across the channel to play at all three Whole World Window III gatherings.

We are looking for £1,000 to help us with the estimated costs of organising these three events. Any contribution towards covering the expenses mentioned earlier will be met with great appreciativeness, and praise and thanks will be distributed voluminously in response.

All the funny toys

By way of heartfelt thankyous we are able to offer a signed Bob Drake CD (a choice of 10 titles, 30 copies available) to those donating £10 or over. It can be signed to you personally if you wish, please let us know through the Crowdfunder "Contact project" feature. 

PLEASE NOTE. £10 donation does not includes postage in case you are unable to collect the CD at one of the three Whole World Window events. If you would like to get the CD posted to you, please get in touch through the Crowdfunder contact form and we will sort it out.

Is everybody happy?

In the event of this fundraiser being a roaring success in covering all aforementioned costs incurred in the organisation of the WHOLE WORLD WINDOW III events in Manchester, Glasgow and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, any extra funds would be given to the musicians and a DJ playing at these FREE TO ATTEND events.

If this fundraiser will not reach its intended target, the collected funds will be used to pay the Crowdfunder platform fees and to cover other costs of this fundraiser, and the remaining sum will be split equally between Greg Braysford and Chris Vysotskaya to cover the above-mentioned costs incurred by them in the process of organising the Whole World Window III gatherings in Manchester, Glasgow and Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

You will not need a ticket for these pre-shows, they are free.

You still can get tickets to the Sing To Tim events in Glasgow and Newcastle if you can make it.

GLASGOW SING TO TIM TICKETS

NEWCASTLE SING TO TIM TICKETS

Do you look forward to these singularly beautiful, sonically thrilling, and hauntingly meaningful events?

SO DO I. 

 

Chris & Greg

Rewards

This project offers rewards in return for your donation. Please select a reward below.

£10 or more

2 of 4 claimed

Bob Drake Signed CD - The Room in the Tower

An autographed copy of Bob Drake's latest release. "A joy from start to finish and the sum is even greater than its parts." (Chris Cutler)

£10 or more

0 of 4 claimed

Bob Drake Signed CD - Legendary Lore...

A signed copy of Bob Drake's 2022 album "Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells of England". "Hallucinatory, educational, intriguing, mysterious and almost certainly efficacious to the elevation of the spirit - not to mention some serious compositional heft." (Chris Cutler). Including rivers, lakes, fountains and springs.

£10 or more

0 of 4 claimed

Bob Drake Signed CD - Planets and Animals

"A suite of short, dense, twisty, jaw-dropping and highly unusual songs-slash-mini-epics, that ‘give delight and hurt not’. For this release, Bob has added a small menagerie of invented instruments to his already extensive, acoustic and electronic instrumentarium." (Chris Cutler)

£10 or more

0 of 2 claimed

Bob Drake Signed CD- The Gardens of Beastley Manor

"22 exquisite, enigmatic and compressed vignettes, defying comparison, but demanding repeated audition." (Chris Cutler)

£10 or more

0 of 2 claimed

Bob Drake Signed CD - Lawn Ornaments

"Playing only drums, guitars, bass, banjo, fiddle, organ, trumpet and piano Bob herds tamed cataclysms of musical debris into the shapes of coherent - if episodic – songs, en route skipping through half a century of recording history. Extraordinary music, intriguingly wrapped." (Chris Cutler)

£10 or more

1 of 2 claimed

Bob Drake Signed CD - Bob's Drive-In

A set of twisty, forty-ideas-a-minute, niftily arranged, irredeemably eccentric, but strangely brilliant songs that skip blithely across genre borders - from Nashville through the Miskatonic by way of the Beach Boys…" (Chris Cutler)

£10 or more

0 of 4 claimed

Bob Drake Signed CD - The Shunned Country

"Perhaps the scariest thing is that each of these 52 miniatures is a fully formed, fully orchestrated and complete structure - no lazy snippets here - and Bob plays all the parts with his famously Paganini-esque virtuosity in spooky variable tempo synchrony, packing more ideas and material into 50 seconds than many manage on an entire album." (Chris Cutler)

£10 or more

0 of 4 claimed

Bob Drake Signed CD - The Skull Mailbox

"The strangest so far. Mostly songs; a lot of acoustic instruments, a lot of unidentifiable sounds, a lot of fragments borne on a wind from somewhere else; bizarre picking interludes, humour (maybe) and snatches of incandescent playing. You can't pin this one down; it's full of twists and turns and a geometry that doesn't quite add up." (Chris Cutler)

£10 or more

2 of 2 claimed

Bob Drake Signed CD - L'Isola dei Lupi

"Another collection of close-up songs with impossible structures, extraordinary harmonies, informative lyrics (though a little outré in their subject matter), virtuoso playing (in a casual sort of way), great production and impressive musical economy (Bob has enough ideas, so he doesn’t need to stretch them out)." (Chris Cutler)

£10 or more

2 of 2 claimed

Bob Drake Signed CD - Arx Pilosa

"I know we’ve all heard everything these days, but you haven’t heard this." (Chris Cutler)

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