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Brel was this year voted Glasgows 3rd best live music venue by Guardian Travel. Noah and the Whale, Martha Wainwright and Glasvegas are just some of the artists weve promoted.
We have free Live Jazz on Saturday afternoons, the cream of Glasgows indie talent at our Thursday acoustic night "The Concrete Campfire", not to mention regular touring bands!
Tuesday 09th February 2010
Gathering Whispers presents: Peter Von Poehl with support from Randolph"s Leap
Acoustic
Price: £5.00
Time: 7.30pm
For a traveller without a homeland or a fixed identity, music can be a sweet consolation, the chance to adopt a country based not in geography but a self-created world of the imagination. On Peter von Poehls first album, "Going to Where the Tea Trees Are", the Swedish musician who for many years has split his life between Malmö, Berlin and Paris, conjured up the vague sense of discomfort that can accompany a nomadic life spent floating between different landscapes, languages and cultures.
The album, was our first glimpse inside von Poehl"s deeply personal universe, a place woven from melodic golden threads, delicate sonic textures, and finely embroidered orchestral motifs. The record felt like a cosy cocoon, a home-sweet-home in which this eternal foreigner, a songwriter without a musical family (neither folk nor pop nor rock) finally found a way to feel at home.
If "Going to Where the Tea Trees Are" was a "private" album, von Poehls second album, "May Day", is far more public. Inspired by the scars left on his Berlin neighbourhood by a particularly violent demonstration, the song alludes to this deeply symbolic date for the labour movement, while hinting at the personal memories and mixed feelings that von Poehl associates with this unique day, the symbolic end of winter.
Just like "Going to Where the Tea Trees Are", the majority of "May Day" was put together in the middle of the Swedish countryside, in a studio owned by Christoffer Lundquist, a longtime friend and collaborator who is once again credited as co-producer.
"May Day" confirms Peter von Poehls unique place in the contemporary musical landscape, and is proof positive that when you stay true to your own vision, the deeply personal can be completely universal.
A live set comprising from both of these records is not to be missed!
Support comes from local folk pop outfit Randolphs Leap, who will be playing a special acoustic set.
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Peter Von Poehl
Acoustic
Price: 5.00
Time: Doors open at 19.30
Peter von Poehl is a Swedish singer-songwriter, composer, musician and director. He is now on a long series of tours, most notably as the opening act for Phoenix (autumn 2006) and Air (spring 2007). He will be performing in Brel as part of his tour which is promoting his new album "May Day".
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