Rural Objects reissued on Horn of Plenty

Very pleased to announce that Rural Objects has been reissued on LP (with two extra tracks) on the great UK label Horn of Plenty. Available here: https://horn-of-plenty.bandcamp.com/ and here: https://www.horn-of-plenty.org

New release

New tape out now on Alex Macfarlane's great Hobbies Galore label!

Available here: https://hobbiesgalore.bandcamp.com/album/rural-objects

Rural Objects
HG-024.

Limited 100 copies.

Recorded at home on cassette, 2018-2019.

Cover art by Francis.

Drums on V by Joe Talia.

Mastered by Mikey Young.

Cassette lay-out/design by Julian Hocking.

Digital release will be coming through Black Truffle Records soonish!

Europe May 2019

European Dates May 2019

Friday 10th of May
Francis Plagne (w/ James Rushford and Joe Talia)
others tbc

The Dentist
London

Saturday 11th of May
Francis Plagne & crys cole 
David Rosenboom (w/ crys cole and Oren Ambarchi)
Manuel Pessôa de Lima
Alvin Lucier (performed by Oren Ambarchi and Julia Reidy)

Cafe Oto 
London

info

Monday 13th of May

Oren Ambarchi's HUBRIS (w/ Mats Gustafsson, Johan Berthling, Konrad Sprenger, Eiko Ishibashi, Francois Bonnet, James Rushford, Francis Plagne, Julia Reidy, Joe Talia, Will Guthrie and Andreas Werliin)

Massimo Toniutti
Arnold Dreyblatt & Konrad Sprenger
Kassel Jaeger

Cafe Oto 
London

info

Wednesday 15th of May
Francis Plagne (w/ James Rushford)
James Rushford (solo)

Glad Cafe 
Glasgow 

info

Thursday 16th of May 
Francis Plagne (w/ James Rushford)
Hen Ogledd

Les Ateliers Claus
Brussels

info

Friday 17th of May
Francis Plagne (w/ James Rushford)
James Rushford (solo)
others tbc

Table Dance 
Antwerp

Saturday 18th of May 
Francis Plagne (/ James Rushford)
others tbc

Herman 
Rotterdam 

Maria Moles / Francis Plagne / Kota Yamauchi 5th of March

Maria Moles / Francis Plagne / Kota Yamauchi (JPN)

&

Jen Callaway / Susan Frykberg / Allanah Stewart

Crazy Arms / Polyester Records
(enter via the rear alley after 7pm)

Tuesday 5th of March
7PM

Second edition of Francis Plagne & Andrew Chalk cassette available

Francis Plagne & Andrew Chalk

The Painter’s Family

Mould Museum 03

The Painter’s Family is the first duo release from Andrew Chalk and Francis Plagne, recorded intermittently, both together and apart, over eight years, in Hull, Melbourne and various places in Japan. Eight pages from the sketchbook, sequenced into two languorous side-long suites.

‘He tried by every means to come close to nature, lying in the fields before daybreak and until nightfall in order to learn to represent very exactly the red morning sky of sunrise, sunset and the evening hours’. 

Edition of 100   Second edition of 50 pro-duplicated chrome tapes, mastered by Joe Talia, with wrap-around covers designed by Andrew Chalk.

Available from 

Penultimate Press (UK)

Broken Music (Australia) - [thanks for the scans!]

Japan'archives (France)
Reconquista (Japan)
Art into Life (Japan)

 

March 2018 Shows

Some shows coming up in March:

Thursday 8th of March

Nice Music presents:

Ying Li-Hooi

Francis Plagne (w/ Alex Macfarlane)

Post Office Hotel, 231/229 Sydney Rd Coburg

9PM

Free Entry 

Info here

Sunday 11th of March

INLAND 18.3: THERE ARE MANY SHADES OF BLUE,

AND IT IS DIFFICULT TO SAY WHICH THEY ARE

3:30PM Sunday 11th March, 2018
The Main Hall, Building E
Collingwood Arts Precinct, 35 Johnston St, Collingwood
TICKETS: $12 

crys cole
voice, instruments, objects, microphones

Alvin LUCIER
Criss-Cross (2013)
Two electric guitars
(Oren Ambarchi & Alexander Garsden)

Giusto PIO
Motore Immobile (1979)
Two electric organs, violin, humming
(Francis Plagne, Lizzy Welsh, Rohan Drape)

Francis PLAGNE
The Depth Dimension of Air (2013/2018)
Eight channel cassette

Thursday 15th of March 

An Evening of Musik #6

GILES FIELKE
FRANCIS PLAGNE
KATHLEEN MARY LEE
CAROLINE KENNEDY
OLIVER MANN

7:00PM startThursday 15th March 2018

$10 full / $5 concession

West Space
Level 1, 225 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC
OPPOSITE TARGET