Ray Aggs
Rachel Aggs is a musician based in London. Primarily known for her distinct guitar work, influenced by both West African Highlife and Post-punk, she also sings and plays the violin.
She has been playing with the band Trash Kit since 2009,[1] with Ros Murray and Rachel Horwood, and released a full-length eponymous debut album in 2010 on the Upset! The Rhythm label.[2] She has been a member of Shopping, with Andrew Milk and Billy Easter, since 2012. Shopping released a full-length album in 2013 on the Milk label.[3] Other bands include Cover Girl, Sacred Paws and The Madrigals.
She writes zines, including I Trust My Guitar,[4] and was involved with the Power Lunches venue in Dalston, East London.[5]
She has also performed the Pauline Oliveros score To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe, In Recognition of their Desperation, 1970, in a performance in the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, 2012,[6] and on a second occasion in a film-based performance with other musicians Peaches, Catriona Shaw, Verity Susman, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, William Wheeler in a film of the same name by artists Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz and shown at Museum of Modern Art, New York, in a special event with the artists, Oliveros and Gregg Bordowitz[7] in May 2014.
External links
- Trash Kit interview, 2010
- Trash Kit interview, 2010
- Golden Grrrls interview, 2013
- Shopping interview, 2014
- Trash Kit interview, 2014
- Sacred Paws interview, 2015
- Shopping interview, 2015
References
- ^ "Auto Italia — Yes Way!". Auto Italia. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
- ^ "The Quietus | Reviews | Trash Kit". thequietus.com. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
- ^ "MÏLK — SHOPPING - 'CONSUMER COMPLAINTS' LP". milkrecords.bigcartel.com. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
- ^ "I TRUST MY GUITAR". r4ggs.tumblr.com. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
- ^ "Power Lunches Ltd". powerlunchesltd.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
- ^ "Artist talk and performance: Pauline Oliveros | Tate". tate.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
- ^ "MoMA | An Evening with Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz with Gregg Bordowitz and Pauline Oliveros". moma.org. Retrieved 2014-07-26.