As a companion piece to the cross-disciplinary, multi-media publication Brewing Folk, this regular gathering is yet another feather in the pluming cap of our good friends Verdant Brewing Co’s extra-curricular activities. Encompassing a podcast, the Beer & Book Club, and regular parties at their Penryn taproom, not to mention their ongoing mission to bridge the worlds of music and beer with a steady flow of collaboration brews.
For anyone who couldn’t make it to Cornwall, Pour Decisions has come to London. Once a month, a carefully curated congregation of guests, ably hosted by resident DJ Doug Shipton, will share their wisdom and their wax, while the bar plays host to a line-up of your favourite hop-forward beers and special guest collaborations.
Valentina Magaletti
At the risk of doing Valentina Magaletti a great disservice, it is somewhat impossible to recognise her talent as a formidable drummer, percussionist, composer, improvisator and publisher, without dropping names like a proverbial tonne of bricks. A consummate solo artist in her own right, boasting an essential discography of recorded work, she is the driving backbone of more groups and collaborations than you've had both hot and cold dinners combined, making her arguably the hardest working and in demand sticksperson in the business. As well as keeping time for the likes of Tomaga, Vanishing Twin, CZN, Moin (with electronic duo Raime), V/Z, and UUUU (with Graham Lewis of Wire and Thighpaulsandra of Coil), she has worked with the likes of Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Jandek, Mica Levi, Bat For Lashes, Debbie Googe (My Bloody Valentine), Malcolm Catto (The Heliocentrics) and Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals). If your kudos meter hasn’t already slammed into the red, the fact that Valentina learnt her chops from Agostino Marangolo (of none other than blood-soaked progressive Giallo soundtrack behemoths Goblin), should have record nerds flatlining. As passionate about collecting records as she is making them, we have it on good authority that Valentina could literally build a house out of her record collection.
https://valentinamagaletti.bandcamp.com/music
Marta Salogni
Stepping around the mixing desk for what is a rare special appearance on the ones and twos, this once in a blue moon DJ set must be somewhat of a busman’s holiday for Marta Salogni. Producer, mixer, engineer, remixer, composer, tape manipulator and general knob twiddling polymath, Marta has scorched a trail through the international recording establishments over the past two decades. From aspirant beginnings in her native Northern Italy, Marta has established herself as one of the go-to pioneering studio wizards. With a CV that would make Jimmy Iovine blush, Grammy nominated Marta counts credits for the likes of Björk, Frank Ocean, Depeche Mode, Groove Armada, M.I.A., Temples, Goldfrapp, Bloc Party and Kim Deal amongst others (we would need more pages to list everything here). With an award cabinet at her very own Studio Zona that must cost her a fortune in Mr. Sheen, Marta recently added a Mercury Prize for her work producing and mixing the English Teacher album This Could Be Texas, as well as Producer Of The Year at Billboard Italia Women In Music. Despite all of this, Marta also found time to establish and actively runs the Free Youth Orchestra charity, providing children from all backgrounds access to musical instruments through workshops with local musicians.
Free Youth Orchestra QR - https://www.freeyouthorchestra.org/
Live tape performaces QR - https://www.martasalogni.com/copy-of-projects
Doug Shipton
As they are fond of saying in Italy “non c'è due senza tre”. As we say at Brewing Folk, there is no Pour Decisions without your humble host Doug Shipton. A mutable disk jockey and label boss with a rotund rolodex, our statisticians estimate that Doug has flown over a gazillion miles, logged a gajillion hours of needle time, destroyed countless dancefloors, unwittingly mispronounced thousands of artist’s names and/or record titles, and has had at least six dozen arbitrary conversations with hard boiled record shop owners. Most commonly known as co-founder of archival record label Finders Keepers, he has in recent years launched a second label, Fundamental Frequencies, as the back room electronic ying to Finders Keepers’ psychedelic avant-garde yang. Tonight’s Italian company in the booth suits him down to the ground, as he can regularly be found attraverso il paese covered in factor 50 and mosquito bites, guzzling non-filtrata beers and munching Fonzies on the hunt for elusive progressive rock gems, the perfect sofficini and obscure library grails.
https://soundcloud.com/finderskeepersrecords/doug-shipton-beskrajne-dimenzije-mixtape
