Document La Grande Zaza, The Ballad of Mable Wong & The Yawns

La Grande Zaza
Formed in Montpelier in 2011, this French-Scots outfit stop off for one night in the CCA on their mini-tour of Scotland. Shaped by the rich cultural mix of the Midi region of Southern France, yet uniquely themselves, La Grande Zaza reference a dizzying array of styles from Balkan to klezmer, folk to flamenco, chanson to swing in their own special groove as the rhythm section drives the tempo up to 7 beats to the bar behind the twin voices of Fred and Eva.

Glasgow meets Paris meets Montpelier in this fusion of songs and tunes to dance and dream to.
http://lagrandezaza.bandcamp.com

The Ballad Of Mable Wong
Rory McIntyre and Michael Kent have been writing music together since 2005. They are inspired by film music, and bands such as Tortoise, Papa M and Battles, to name but a few.

Originally The Ballad of Mable Wong started as a 3-piece which progressed into a foursome with Laurie Pitt on drums and Joanne Murtagh on percussion. The Ballad of Mable Wong’s line up is down to a two piece for this gig, but will not lack any of the punchy, polyrhythmic patterns listeners have become accustomed to.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Ballad-of-Mable-Wong/130269930366133

The Yawns
With a sound that meanders somewhere between indie pop and post punk, sparkly guitar lines lace themselves between tumbling bass lines, rolling drums and vocals seep into every gap, the songs floating on an air of mystery and melancholy. Too tight to be 'slacker', too drunk to be 'pop', The Yawns are forever trapped in limbo…
http://theyawnsband.bandcamp.com