It’s our pleasure to share with the whole wide world the FULL CONCERT of Pure Phase Ensemble 4 feat. Mark Gardener recorded at SpaceFest! in Gdansk in 2014. Last year we released the live album (https://nasiono.net/en/album/pure-phase-ensemble-4-ft-mark-gardener-live-at-spacefest/) but this material is just so damn good that we’ve decided to publish a video version as well. 🙂
Members of PPE4:
Mark Gardener (Musical Director, Ride) – voice, guitar
Ray Dickaty (Musical Director) – saxophone, flute, korg monotribe
Jacek Rezner (Wilga) – drums
Kamil Hordyniec (Wilga) – bass
Michał Pydo (Hatifnats) – voice, guitar
Michał ‘Kostek’ Stolc (Cisza nocna) – synths, backing vocals
Karol Schwarz (KSAS) – guitar, voice, korg monotribe, phase
Pure Phase Ensemble 4 is an international music collective, created especially for the SpaceFest! festival of shoegaze, space-rock and psychedelia in Gdansk. Musicians from Poland and abroad gathered to take part in a special workshop. They collectively composed a concert’s worth of music, which they then presented live to the festival-goers. The programme for the workshop was curated by Ray Dickaty, a British saxophonist improviser and former member of Spiritualized (1997-2002) and Karol Schwarz (KSAS), who also manages Nasiono Records label. During the 2014 edition of SpaceFest!, Mark Gardener, the frontman of celebrated shoegaze pioneers RIDE, was a new musical director and co-curated the workshop. This unique performance was recorded live and subsequently released as an LP in 2015.
The band will meet again to play a concert this year. We can’t tell you when and where just yet, but we can already share the news. More details soon to come. Meanwhile here’s the FULL CONCERT from 2014 for you to enjoy: