A TUNE UP tour featuring Akio Suzuki & John Butcher will be taking place from 20-29 June 2006.

Isn¹t a tour as much about the places you visit as it is about musicians on the road: you visit places, each one different from the last? We think so, and so we¹ve set out to put together a TUNE UP tour that allows you to experience the environment around you in a different way, to listen to it.

We hope to capture and set free the sound of some of the most exciting and incredible locations in Scotland; locations that resonate and echo, or that have near endless reverberations. We¹re working with musicians who have a special interest in the sound of a space, of your place within it; both have the ability to create magical and charming, intense and often very moving performances. These won¹t be like an average live gig, but then don¹t you find that the greatest experiences happen where you least expect them, in the oddest of places.

Akio Suzuki is a Japanese musician and inventor, instrument builder who has been performing, teaching and building instruments for nearly 40 years. His music is simple and pure, and beautifully unworried by the rules of modern music. He explores nature and how its atmospheres and sounds can be harnessed and then set free, how you can lose yourself in the sound that surrounds us, and how musical creation and beauty exist in all things, in all moments.

John Butcher is one of the leading and most exciting improvisers in the world. He is a startling sax player with a beautiful and personal approach to his instrument, soaked in overtones, multiphonics and acoustic feedback. His performance in a huge and abandoned reservoir in Japan in 2002 was the original impetus for this TUNE UP tour.


TUNE UP TOUR
Tues 20th June 2006
Lyness Oil Tank, Hoy, Orkney
Doors open at 7:30pm, shows start 8:00pm
FREE
01856 871445

Wed 21st June 2006
Ring of Brodgar, Orkney
Doors open at 10:30pm, shows start 11:00pm
FREE
01856 871445

Fri 23rd June 2006
Smoo Cave, Durness
Doors open at 7:30pm, shows start 8:00pm
FREE
01382 909 252/258

Sun 25th June 2006
Tugnet Ice House, Spey Bay
Doors open at 7:30pm, shows start 8:00pm
FREE
01382 909 252/258

Tues 27th June 2006
Wormit Reservoir, Wormit, Fife
Doors open at 7:30pm, shows start 8:00pm
FREE
01382 909 252/258

Thurs 29th June 2006
Hamilton Mausoleum
Doors open at 7:30pm, shows start 8:00pm
FREE
01382 909 252/258

All events are FREE but ticketed. Doors open at 7:30pm, shows start 8:00pm sharp, except Ring of Brodgar, doors at 10:30, show starts 11:00pm.

Orkney events: 01856 871445
Rest of Scotland: 01382 909 252