Semispecific Ensemble Live in the Stable Bar

After their mind-warping debut release on Optimo Music last year the mercurial, morphing manifestations of Semispecific Ensemble continue with their first show outside of Scotland.  Expect technoid improv journeys setting out from freaky folk songs.

On “Everyone is making it up”:

“Five-song EP from jazzy Glaswegian morass that’s cacophonous, but in a really quite pleasant way that prizes melody. Founded by Charlie Knox but in other respects elusive and evasive by design, it seems, self-describing as “a constantly shifting lineup of players and guests,” Semispecific Ensemble pile up watery electronics, zigzag-wandering drums, varyingly textured trumpet and what sound like marimbas…Get an early-00s German tang from all this, actually – Bernd Friedman, Compost Records – which I’m in no way opposed to.”

Neil Gardener, the quietus