A few years ago a band called Lash Frenzy took to the stage at a packed Flapper & Firkin.
Lash Frenzy is a sound art project from Birmingham musician Andrew Moscardo-Parker. Under the name Lash Fenzy Andrew has an outlet for the more unstructured elements of the Black Sabbath influenced song writing and performance techniques that he has been perfecting (with some considerable success!) since the fateful day many years ago when he first heard Tony Iommi’s detuned powerchords.
In 2007 Andrews’s involvement with Project X Presents (as a member of Einstellung) led him to revive Lash Frenzy. Discussions about Einstellung’s contributions resulted in PXP’s invitation for Andrew to curate an Aural Fight sequence for the 2007 show. The result featured Andrew and his Matamp amplifier (as well as the rest of Einstellung’s arsenal of valve driven analogue backline) “against” Mort The Sonic – a digital musician who converts text and image files to sound on his lap top and amplifies the resulting industrial tones.
The ideas for Lash Frenzy have been developed since the PXP show. Lash Frenzy will perform as first support band for Earth at The Factory, Custard Factory, Birmingham on Monday 11th February. The one off performance will be in the key of C because The Planet Earth itself resonates at that frequency. The piece forms part of the coursework for an MA in Fine Art that Andrew is undertaking.
Andrew said: “Project X Presents encourages people to move and break barriers to develop what they do. That’s precisely what’s happened for me with Lash Frenzy. Doing the PXP show with Einstellung made me revisit and develop the ideas I originally had for Lash Frenzy and has resulted in some great new work.”
