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Andrew Weatherall

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"privately electrified"

Location: United Kingdom

Websites:

• http://myspace.com/twoloneswordsmen
• http://twoloneswordsmen.com/

Bio: Andrew Weatherall’s musical career has continued to chart new waters ever since he revealed his first recording persona under the name Sabres of Paradise (along ... (more) with Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns later of The Aloof).

Ironically titled “A Pox on The Pioneers” Andrew’s debut solo album, to be released this September, again explores the integration of the substrata of rock and roll with modernistic electronics and persuades potentially uneasy bedfellows into some delicious on top of the duvet shagging.

Andrew’s convoluted, unrelentingly creative, and erudite history has involved his own outfits, most notably Warp Records’ Two Lone Swordsmen, and a vast host of other artists who he has produced, collaborated with, and remixed over the last twenty years. Through these projects Andrew has sometimes shed new light on a genre and sometimes completely reinvented it.

He’s still a driving force and in recent months alone has worked with everybody from V.V. Brown, Doves, Manic Street Preachers, through to the cluttered brilliance of the Fuck Buttons.

Andrew’s latest ventures include a regular BBC Radio 6 show, a series of upcoming pieces for a monthly magazine, new hand made prints for a gallery exhibition in 2010, as well as continued remix credits.

Throughout all of this activity it’s amazing he still had time to create the remarkable new album “A Pox on The Pioneers.” This debut solo album is undeniably a beast of a release which takes sonic cues from his status as a dance, techno, and house master all the while skilfully acknowledging his grandly professed love of Rockabilly, Soul, and Roots Rock from the golden years of the last Century.

As Mr. Weatherall himself says, “I’m not purist, I’m not precious; it’s just about that rock ’n’ roll essence, whether it’s done with a drum machine or by twanging a guitar. It’s just about that swing, that kind of groove, just music that means something to the people that listen to it and the people that made it.” (less)