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The Blackheart Orchestra

Friday 13 7.30pmApril
2018

Music

Quay Arts

Sea Street
Newport Harbour
Isle of Wight
PO30 5BD

01983 822490

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The Blackheart Orchestra

Source http://www.quayarts.org/event/the-blackheart-orchestra/

Blackheart orchestra

Award-winning British songwriters, composers, and multi-instrumentalists, Chrissy Mostyn and Rick Pilkington are The Blackheart Orchestra.

One of the must-see bands of 2018, the pioneering duo blends musical styles in a non-conformist way, seamlessly sidestepping boundaries to create their unique, highly individual, emotion-drenched music. Well known for producing music beyond all easily marketed genres, their multi-instrumental sonic landscapes have always been too unpredictable for pop, too adventurous for the mainstream and too plain weird for folk.

Fusing acoustic fragility and pulsing electronica, The Blackheart Orchestra bring together stringed instruments with 80’s synthesisers and classical influences. Often mistaken for an 8-piece band on first listen, their stage has been described as a ‘musical spaceship’ or ‘laboratory’ where they are to be found continuously changing from electric & acoustic guitars, piano, organ, bass and electronic percussion to vintage synthesisers, omnichord and melodica in a complex choreographed weave of musical moods and textures.One moment their sound is minimal, the next it’s a mountain-like wall of sound with vast symphonic climaxes.

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An Evening Menu will be available from 5.30pm. Booking is recommended, please call 01983 822490 to book a table. To view the Quay Arts Evening Menu or to book tickets please visit http://www.quayarts.org/event/the-blackheart-orchestra/ (menu is subject to change).



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