YKLU & Danny – The Joanne Duo

YKLU & Danny present “The Joanne Duo”: a new performance building on the duo’s previous work exploring and reinterpreting east Kentish vinyl records as a memorialisation of forgotten artists and sounds.

The original Joanne Duo released the album “Together” in 1976. It was recorded in Deal for ERON Enterprises, a local record company run out of a house in Deal, and released to supplement the Duo’s busy work as live performers in Thanetian clubs and German army bases. YKLU & Danny take the organ and voice-led sounds of the group and channel them through contemporary technologies to both conjure with the past and speculate on other-worldly sonic futures. They also draw on other vinyl ephemera of the era, including a recording of the punk band Lurkers playing at the Margate Queen’s Hotel, just a few miles and months apart from the Joanne Duo’s recording session.

Working with multi instrumental / live electronics, voice and home-made instruments YKLU & Danny offer a sonic landscape rooted in improvisation, critical nostalgia and performing with archives.

Written & performed by Nicholas Mortimer & Danny Scott
Recorded at Cafe OTO, London
Mastering: Brassica
Graphic design: Tomas Jefanovas
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