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The Salon is a multi-faceted mix of music and media presented to you by Creative Sound and Music students from the University of Wales, Newport.

The Salon 22nd November
Cardiff Arts Institute
8pm – Midnight
Doors 7.30
All tickets £1 (with free CD)

The line up so far…

Louis Derry

Lanny Watson

MyNameIsIan

http://www.myspace.com/mynameisiannicetomeetyou
my name is ian
i write little tunes and draw pictures
i hope you like them

Martyn K

My name is Martyn. My full name is Martyn David Kinnear, I guess I use my “artist/stage” name “Martyn K” because people tend to forget how to spell my first name let alone my last.

Kai Lena

Kai Lena is an emerging artist from Chester in the North West of England with a growing fan base. A forest pixie in essence whirlygigging around with vocal melodies, soaring piano and experimentation. Mermerizing and enchanting her audiences wherever she goes with her melodic tales and messages, she gets under your skin and alerts you to a passion of the human race and quests for truth of this life.

www.myspace.com/kailenamusic

Sorry there’s no video this time – camera FAIL. Next time we’ll document it as fully as possible.

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The Salon is a multi-faceted mix of music and media presented to you by Creative Sound and Music students from the University of Wales, Newport.

Featuring –

Jangle

http://www.myspace.com/janglemusic

Jangle cross-pollinates between electronic and organic, beats and bleeps, smiles and sighs. Jangle makes music to chill to, dance to, dream to, laugh to, think to, listen to.

Trwbador

http://www.myspace.com/trwbador
Trwbador are from rural Carmarthenshire in South Wales. They formed in late 2009 and join together their backgrounds in electronica and acoustic music to make English and Welsh pop songs.

Yaje

Combining influences too many to choose, refusing to follow a genre, completely free and fun music

MyNameIsIan

http://www.myspace.com/mynameisiannicetomeetyou
my name is ian
i write little tunes and draw pictures
i hope you like them

Martyn K / Crusader

My name is Martyn. My full name is Martyn David Kinnear, I guess I use my “artist/stage” name “Martyn K” because people tend to forget how to spell my first name let alone my last.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VaqSwZ3teM

The first Salon event at Buffalo bar in Cardiff was a delectable evening of top notch musical exploration and the second Salon event promises more ideas, sound, performances and social banter

It will be held at the Cardiff Arts Institute on Monday 15th March 2010, kicking off at about 8 o’clock.

More info to follow as and when things are set.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IJsfPQd5gI

Anyway.

What was a brilliant idea proved to be a brilliant night filled with an eclectic mix of music. First up were Martyn and Lewis hidden in a dark corner wowing us with their heavy beats and melodic scratching (with some interesting scratch sounds) combination which proved to be an awesome 10 minutes or so. It reminded me of the Goldberg Variations (JS Bach) with the slightly different version of the intro throughout the set.

Up next was Bryn with the beginnings of his guitar orchestra. I felt a Philip Glass influence with the play around a single idea and chord and it had a nice folky feel to it which gave a good contrast from the stuff we’d heard just before. It was a good start to what will be an exciting project, I look forward to hearing more.

Third was Ian Williams with his playful, folky, Jack Penate-esque acoustic guitar and vocal set. The playfulness of the tunes put everyone in an excellent mood, especially with the track about his trip to Amsterdam. This was a brilliantly simple set showing that, used correctly (which this was), less is more.

In complete contrast to the previous sets, Your Big Idea (featuring Aimee) took to the stage complete with an apparently radioactive guitar and flatcaps. What followed was a complete contrast to the music we’d heard before and possibly the heaviest and most energetic set. With Aimee jumping around the stage to the hyper power rock, Your Big Idea proved to be a force not to be reckoned with musically.

The final set was provided by Oscar Later (Louis Derry) bringing back the electro with his epic house/rave track. He successfully turned the venue into a club with the majority of people wanting to have a dance. The track was a continuous one with a lot of different elements, samples and sounds and the influences were clear throughout. Derry certainly provided a quality end to a quality night.

Sight of the night goes to Matt Lovett for successfully manoeuvring 3 drinks from the bar, closely followed by Nic Finch teaching a few second years how to do “the robot dance.”

See you all next time!