‘SECRET ANARCHY GARDEN’ is an evening of experimental sounds, convulsive sound-poetry and junk concrete film curated by London based publishing house and tape label, My Dance The Skull.

Artists performing on the night: Dylan Nyoukis, Daniel Spicer, Tom Roberts, Lewis Major, Tom White, Valerio Cosi, Architeuthis Rex and Sindre Bjerga.

Dylan Nyoukis’ music exists outside of as many genre boxes as anyone might care to stick it into. A restless hurricane of mangled-throat vocalisation, wobbly tape murk, and feral punk/noise, the sound is urgently alive and human with a volatile undercurrent of absurd/sinister humour. As the head of pioneering DIY label Chocolate Monk, Dylan has been issuing a steady stream of sub-underground homemade strangeness since the early 1990s, including a slew of tapes and CDRs by his former band Prick Decay/Decaer Pinga, Ceylon Mange (with guitarist Bill Nace) and now Blood Stereo (a duo with his wife, the artist Karen Constance).
www.chocolatemonk.co.uk

Daniel Spicer is a writer based in Brighton, UK. He is a regular contributor to The Wire and Jazzwise magazines and has published work in The Guardian, The Independent, BBC Music Online, Signal To Noise, Plan B, Rock-A-Rolla and elsewhere. He was nominated for ‘Jazz Journalist of the Year’ in the 2010 Parliamentary Jazz Awards. He presents a weekly radio show, ‘The Mystery Lesson’, on Brighton’s Radio Reverb FM, playing new releases in avant-garde
improvised music. He also performs in the chaotic Brighton-based electro-acoustic improvising sextet, Bolide.
http://thebolide.tk/

Tom Roberts is an old lag on the margin of Brighton underground, in Daguerreotype and various combos before forming Bolide with the others, performing solo as Infinite Gaa'aah, Psychedelic Sour Mash, Lost Notes from the Wormhole.
http://thebolide.tk/

Lewis Major is a doom-thrash-hippy. Occasional solo name for him is Reverend Cal-Mag Boron, coruscating guitar defecation and the pan pipes of hell.
http://thebolide.tk/

Tom White is an artist currently based in London. His work features across various multi-media platforms including sound, experimental film and video, installation and live performance.
www.tomwhitesound.com

Valerio Cosi."I couldn't recommend highly enough Italian wunderkind multi-instrumentalist Valerio Cosi's "Immortal Attitudes" (CDR); his sun-drenched sax-drone-ragas will make you wish it was 1969 hanging with Terry Riley at an Alice Coltrane gig - or vice versa." (Stephen Clover, Foxy Digitalis writer/musician)
http://soundcloud.com/valeriocosi

Architeuthis Rex. Leviathan. King. Magnificent sea dweller and haunter of the dreams of Italian artists Antonio Gallucci and Francesca Marongiu. It sounds like an aperture into a horrific underwater world filled with the fear of what lies outside, an orchestra of giant octopuses, ocarinas and morays murmurs, a kaleidoscope of early dub acetates, strange strings, outer space broadcasts of unholy funeral rites, mescaline, percussion and metaphysical drone.
http://www.myspace.com/architeuthisrex

Sindre Bjerga has been touring the UK every October for the last 5 years, as well as mainland Europe and even Russia, with his cassette player drones and kitchen sink psychedelia... Splattering collisions between grey and grey, beware of drone fumes seeping into your brains... Armed with an array of tape players, dictaphones and a pile of less-than-glamourous sound debris from the sonic junkyards, he tries to juxtapose and melt sound ghosts hidden deep in the molten magnetic tapes, sometimes force feeding them with sheets of feedback from dying amps, always aiming for that mind-altering head trip...
Sindre has been recording and playing over 70 concerts together with Jan Iversen as the Bjerga/Iversen duo.
Has released about 100 records, solo, duo and in other constellations on labels all over the known universe.
Lately most of his records have been live recordings from his many concerts and tours around Europe.
http://sindrebjerga.wordpress.com/

('Secret Anarchy Garden' appears on 'Stay Left' by Big City Orchestra. Cassette released by Bannedproduction.com)

My Dance The Skull is an independent publishing house and tape label founded in 2009 and based in London. Our aim is to promote contemporary artists whose work is inspired by the dangerous and convulsive beauty of the everyday life.

Our vision is focused on contemporary drawing, photography, ordinary object, bullets, fashion, poetry, leaves, death, human behaviour, drama, gestures, life, dusty glass, blood, detailed lines and abstract prose, paper cut outs, video, violence, ink, protest, brutality, love, sex, sugar, blue collage, sound, curating, confusion, eyes, screaming, infamy and shame, light, absurdity and you.

www.mydancetheskull.