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BOOKING OFFER: PASCAL BATTUS/JEAN-PHILIPPE GROSS

debloque — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:39:21 +0000

Dear all, I’m booking some dates for the duo PASCAL BATTUS/JEAN-PHILIPPE GROSS. They’re available from early June 2012 onwards. Please read these two biographies: PASCAL BATTUS: Pascal Battus started out in music as a teenage rock guitarist, then studied percussion (ENM Le Mans et Noisiel) and finally focused on experimental music and improvisation, shaping his instruments to match his own gestures. He now presents a wide range of sound possibilities and experiences, including the surrounded guitar, acoustic and amplified percussion, acoustic walkman, saz and pick-ups of guitar. He performed all over Europe, Middle-East, Japan, Canada with musicians as diverse as Thierry Madiot, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Thomas Lehn, Martin TÈtreault, Michel Doneda…but also with dancers, visual artists, notably in his duet EYEAR with Kamel Maad (video) and with light artist Christophe Cardoen. He is developing what he calls Graphones, in which he produces sound and drawing on paper with the same gesture and the Sound Massages : low acoustic sounds sourced in everyday objects and tools are produced close to or directly into the listener’s ears. With Thomas Lehn and Michael Johnsen Battus performed at Music Action in Nancy in 2008. Pascal can be seen and heard playing with Bertrand Gauget on You-Tube here more information: http://pbattus.free.fr JEAN-PHILIPPE GROSS More information: http://www.jeanphilippegross.com/ Born in 1979. Before turning to electronic he was playing drum. Since 1998 he plays improvised electronic with a mixing board, cheap microphones, small speakers and with a serge modular synth. His work is primarily focused on feeback. Mostly performaning live, he is also creating sound/music for dance & theater, “We killed a cheerleader 2.2″ (2011) / “We killed a cheerleader 1.1″ with the dancer & choregrapher Marie Cambois (2008), “Radiographie” a theater piece by the company Les Patries Imaginaires (2004). In 2003 his work was part of the exhibition 33 RPM: Ten Hours of Sound from France at the San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA, USA) curated by Laurent Dailleau. He is collaborating with various musicians, among them with Xavier Charles, Clare Cooper, Jerome Noetinger, Lionel Marchetti, Franz Hautzinger, Axel Doerner, John Hegre, Jean-Marc Montera, Will Guthrie, Ferran Fages, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Arnaud Rivière, eriKm, Pascal Battus, JazKamer Metal line up… From october 2001 to june 2009 he was engaged as a program curator in the association Fragment (Metz, France). I hope to hear from you soon. Regards. Alain Some Noise asbl C/O Alain Bolle PO BOX 43 1050 Brussels 5 Belgium http://debloque.wordpress.com www.lesateliersclaus.com info@somenoise.be

BOOKING OFFER: DJ STINGRAY

debloque — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:02:08 +0000

Dear all,

I'm trying to book a date for DJ STINGRAY.

He's available on 28th April

Please find here under a biography and also click on:
http://soundcloud.com/dj-stingray-tribal-king
http://www.frequency.com/video/dj-stingray-s-all-connected/22913119

New York cultivated, DJ Stingray has relocated and is already one of the
top djs in South Beach. Acquiring his Liberal Arts Degree at the
University of Albany, Stingrays' musical heritage is derived from his
father (a musician) and his uncle (also a DJ), both whose presence gave
him the tools and foundation to not only follow in their footsteps but
also to take it to his own unique direction. His first experience was at
the age of 10, learning the fundamental DJ skills from his uncle and
duplicated the spins, switches and mixes, and taking it a step further to
generate his own grooves and dimensions. A few years later he found
himself featured at the most legendary of the local hot spots in the
Bronx, including The Devil's Nest, Red Zone, Webster Hall, and many
others. Stingray has shared the spotlight of New York's world-renown Dj
scene with such talents as Larry Levan, Todd Terry, Junior Vasquez, and
Little Louie Vega to name a few. Then on to South Beach, DJ Stingray has
made his own mark on the scene. He has had working residencies in Miami
Beach in clubs such as Blue Lounge, Crobar, Space, N.V, and other
nightclubs. He previously inspired the masses as resident of such South
Beach legends as Liquid, V Lounge and Le Cabaret. Stingray's shows have
frequented every club on South Beach and have expanded his horizons to
Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia, Toronto, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela,
Aruba, Los Angeles and beyond; if you havent experienced him already, you
will soon. In the last year Stingrays shows in Colombia have grown from
the clubs to the Convention Centers and have become legendary, with
bookings well into 2012. This is a major achievement since the Electronica
audience in Colombia is regarded as one of the most educated and up to
date on the subject in the world, they know their Djs!!. Stingray is also
ensuring that his sound is heard around the world by drumming out tracks
for everyone to hear. The list includes "Get up and Go to Work", on SPF
Records (Sounds for People); "The Dance Floor is Now Open", on Prince
Charming Records, and numerous apperances on underground labels and CDs
and his latest and biggest hit so far Las Calles de Cartagena a song
featuring Humberto Pernett from Sony Music Colombia on the vocals and soon
to be released in Colombia, Spain and the USA. 2011 promises to take
STINGRAY higher, with a brand new record of all original music coming out
in Spain on the annis/bonita record label distributed by stereo
productions. In Colombia and the USA, the video of the song Las Calles de
Cartagena can be seen currently on Telemundo all over South America and in
the USA on MUN2 TV and on a3TV in the Miami area,. STINGRAY kicked off the
new year in Cartagena as one of the headline Djs on the Ultramar Festival
which took place on the 2,3 and 4th of January in Cartagena Colombia,
where other great Djs like Mauro Picotto, Marco Carola, Joy Kitikonti,
Corvin Dalek and many others played in one of the most exotic cities in
the world, he continued to Costa Rica, Salinas, Ecuador and Guatemala as
the official Dj of the 1st Playboy tour of South America followed by tours
in Colombia and April 23 as part of the Ultra Music Festival in Quito,
Ecuador with Djs Bad Boy Bill and a host of others. Currently, Stingray is
located in Washington DC bringing his world class skills and experience to
the DC scene.

I hope to hear from you soon.

Regards.

Alain

Some Noise asbl
C/O Alain Bolle
PO BOX 43
1050 Brussels 5
Belgium
http://debloque.wordpress.com
www.lesateliersclaus.com

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BOOKING OFFERS: MOVING FUSION + TUNNIDGE

debloque — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:10:57 +0000

Hello,
I’m booking some dates from late May 2012 onwards for MOVING FUSION and TUNNIDGE
They will come separately.
Please find here some useful words and some links to be clicked on:
TUNNIDGE http://soundcloud.com/tunnidge
A new name to the scene, Tunnidge makes his debut for the home of heavyweight orthodox dubs, Deep Medi. ‘Geddeon’ is a static stepper that could have been produced anytime in the last 3 years, sticking as it does to the template laid down by Loefah on ‘Horror show’, all cavernous reverbed slowsteppers labouring under an all encompassing darkness. ‘Face melt’ on t’other side doesn’t let up, with another unremitting sludge stepper, pressured under the weight of a mammoth sub attack and clocking you round the lungs with some industrial strength snares…
MOVING FUSION http://www.myspace.com/movingfusion
Moving Fusion exploded onto the scene in 1998 with the dance floor smashing heavy weight anthem Turbulence on Ram Records which went on to receive MixMags coveted Tune of the Year award. Ever since, Moving Fusion have been a permanent fixture of the Ram Records family and at the cutting edge of dance music production. The outfit have also enjoyed touring the world on a regular basis, mixing up the music that they love. Their debut artist album The Start Of Something confirmed them as a drum and bass outfit of epic proportions.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Regards.
Alain

Some Noise asbl C/O Alain Bolle PO BOX 43 1050 Brussels 5 Belgium http://debloque.wordpress.com www.lesateliersclaus.com
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BOOKING OFFER: ANTOINE CHESSEX

debloque — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:09:41 +0000

Dear all,

I'm booking some dates for Antoine Chessex.
He's available from 16th April backwards and from 21st/22nd April onwards.

Please find here a biography + some links to be clicked on:

http://www.myspace.com/video/naivsuper/antoine-chessex/31454929

+

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=BE&v=Vc20XMcyobw

Antoine Chessex is a Swiss saxophone player, improviser, composer and
experimental musician born in 1980 in Vevey, Switzerland.

His works are based on the exploration of the physicality of sounds and
spaces.

Nowadays Chessex plays mostly as a solo performer appearing either in
fully acoustic settings where his circular breathing textures react with
the sonic architecture of the space he is performing in or amplifying his
horn with amps or PA systems and electronic devices often resulting in
intense live actions.

In addition to regular international touring as a solo performer, Chessex
has also been playing with the band Monno (Conspiracy Records) and
collaborating with different musicians like Thomas Ankersmit, Lasse
Marhaug, Zbigniew Karkowski, C. Spencer Yeh, Chris Corsano, Didi
Bruckmayr, Axel Dörner, Mattin, Dave Phillips, Valerio Tricoli, Hans Koch,
Kasper T. Toeplitz, Christian Weber, Matthew Bower, architect Christian
Waldvogel (Globus Cassus) and media artist Ulrike Gabriel(flow 2002-2003).

In 2009, he received a composition grant by the Swiss Arts Council Pro
Helvetia for the creation of DUST a piece for violins, electronic and
diffusion in quadraphonic sound.

I hope to hear from you very soon.

Have a nice week-end.

Alain

Some Noise asbl
C/O Alain Bolle
PO BOX 43
1050 Brussels 5
Belgium
http://debloque.wordpress.com
www.lesateliersclaus.com

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BOOKING OFFER: OLIVIA BLOCK

debloque — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:58:24 +0000

Dear all,

I’m booking some dates for Olivia Block.
She’s available on 20th and 22nd March.

Please find here a biography and click on that link:

http://soundcloud.com/olivia-block

Bio

Olivia Block is a contemporary composer and sound artist who combines
field recordings, scored segments for acoustic instruments, and
electronically generated sound. Block works with recorded media, chamber
ensembles, video, and site-specific sound installations.

She has performed throughout Europe, America, and Japan in tours and
festivals including Sonic Light, Dissonanze, Archipel, Angelica, Sunoni
per il Popolo, Outer Ear, and many others. Her works have premiered at La
Biennale di Venezia 52nd International Festival of Contemporary Music, and
she has completed residencies and premiered works at Mills College of
Music and The Berklee College of Music. She has taught master classes at
several additional universities.

Block has created sound installations for public sites and exhibition
spaces including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the library at
Wesleyan University in Connecticut, the Lincoln Conservatory Fern Room in
Chicago, and at the “Echoes Through the Mountains” exhibit at the 2006
Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.

Her 2008 DVD release with film projector artists Sandra Leah Gibson and
Luis Recoder, Untitled, on SOS editions, has been screened at the 2008
Sundance Film Festival and the Expanded Cinema symposium at the Tate
Modern in London. Her release Mobius Fuse was voted one of the best albums
of the decade by Pitchfork.

Block has published recordings through Sedimental, either/OAR, and Cut,
among other labels.

I hope to hear from you asap.

Regards.

Alain

Some Noise asbl
C/O Alain Bolle
PO BOX 43
1050 Brussels 5
Belgium
http://debloque.wordpress.com
www.lesateliersclaus.com

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BOOKING OFFER: ASTMA

debloque — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:23:47 +0000

Dear all,

I’m booking a few dates for the Russian duon Astma featuring Alexei
Borisov and Olga Nosova.
They are available between 26th and 29th April.

Please find here under a biography.

Please also click on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l4shHfQeyU

Next, I was very impressed with the Russian, improv-collaboration duo,
Astma (Alexei Borisov and Olga Nosova).* Pairing drummer/vocalist Olga
Nosova from the Russian noise- core scene and Russian industrial legend
Alexei Borisov (seriously were talking pre-’89 USSR here), Astma is a drum
and guitar-torture act incorporating looped electronics and disturbing
improv vocal performance. Playing in near total darkness, the two set to
work, seemingly unaware of one another and yet making music that
complimented each other in powerful ways.
If kung-fu styles could be applied to drum-kits, I would describe Nosova’s
style as drunken-master. She worked the kit in forceful, stumbling ways
that kept the listener off-balance the entire performance. Borisov played
his guitar effects pedals more than his guitar as he manipulated the
signal from it into all sorts of electro-glitches and worbles. Astma’s set
began with a spare sound and became increasingly dense as they introduced
new elements such as Nosova triggering a killer industrial backing loop
(the main instrument of forward propulsion in the set), or when Borisov
stood up and unleashed on his guitar. Both Nosova and Borisov did some
form of singing during the set, but it was completely alien in its effect.
Nosova sang in high-pitched eee-ooo’s that sounded like a female toddler
in-the-wild discovering and attempting opera vocal warm-ups; while Borisov
mumbled into the microphone sounding like a microphone sound-check coming
through the walls from the building two doors down. Astma’s set was
awesome and their 45-minutes of electro- industrial-noise left me wanting
more.

I would like to hear from you very soon

Regards.

Alain

Some Noise asbl
C/O Alain Bolle
PO BOX 43
1050 Brussels 5
Belgium
http://debloque.wordpress.com
www.lesateliersclaus.com

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BOOKING OFFER: JOHN WIESE

debloque — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:59:20 +0000

Dear all,

I'm booking some dates for John Wiese in partnership with Lee Tusk.
JOHN WISE is available between 24th and 26th March 2012.

Please read this review and also click on:

http://soundcloud.com/johnwiese

Out of all of the American noisemakers, California's John Wiese is among
my absolute favourites. Although like many of his peers his release
schedule is almost impossible to follow, with tapes, cdrs and limited
vinyl coming faster than Ron Jeremy's teenage understudy, he defined the
genre with the seminal 'Soft Punk'. Taking fragments of punk and hardcore
records, he pieced together an album which showed why American noise
differed from European noise (and Japanese noise for that matter) and to
these (battered) ears remains unmatched in the genre. Since then he's been
touring incessantly and anyone lucky enough to have caught him live will
know what I mean when I say his sets have to be experienced in the flesh.
'Circle Snare' was recorded on his January 2008 Scandinavian tour, a tour
I was lucky enough to catch at least a glimpse of, and this disc goes some
way to representing the visceral experience of the shows. Taking his
trademark Max/MSP concrete experimentation and throwing it up against
subtle drones, the album starts quietly, but before long we're dragged
kicking and screaming into deftly separated ear-pummelling noise. This
isn't quite the kind of amplifier destruction you might expect from Wolf
Eyes or their Mid-West set however; there is something more technical and
almost more academic about Wiese's knife-like processes. On stumbling out
of the Oslo venue where I witnessed this set performed, I remarked that he
was the "Autechre of noise" and I'll stand by that comment. John Wiese
makes noise that sounds like everything is in a specific place for a
specific reason - something rare and beautiful. It might be punk, but this
punk can play his instrument better than most. Startlingly good.

I hope to hear from you asap.

Regards.

Alain

Some Noise asbl
C/O Alain Bolle
PO BOX 43
1050 Brussels 5
Belgium
http://debloque.wordpress.com
www.lesateliersclaus.com

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BOOKING OFFER:THE BLACK TWIG PICKERS

debloque — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:39:57 +0000

Dear all,

In partnership with Lee Tusk I’m booking some dates for THE BLACK TWIG
PICKERS.
They are available between 20th and 24th March 2012.

Please read here a review and also click on:
http://soundcloud.com/user9979056/jack-rose-the-black-twig-pickers-sail-away-ladies-i-shall-not-be-moved

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb9OXXtcXek

Appalachian folk maestros and erstwhile bandmates with Jack Rose, The
Black Twig Pickers return with a new album for Thrill Jockey (their first
release for the label), recorded last year in the Virginian town of the
title. As far as Americana goes, these guys are just about as authentic
and on-the-money as it gets, romping through traditional regional songs
(with a couple of originals thrown in) with an all-acoustic instrumental
set-up that supplements a bedrock of banjo, fiddle and guitars with
washboards, bones, fiddlesticks and jaw harp. Possibly the band’s greatest
coup is making their antique material current and vibrant; nothing about
this fifteen-song selection sounds like it belongs to a defunct or expired
artform. Recorded in single takes with no overdubs, Ironto Special is a
joyous listen, performed by terrific musicians who clearly have a
scholarly grasp on their cultural heritage.

I hope to hear from you asap.

Regards.

Alain

Some Noise asbl
C/O Alain Bolle
PO BOX 43
1050 Brussels 5
Belgium
http://debloque.wordpress.com
www.lesateliersclaus.com

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BOOKING OFFER: SKULLFLOWER

debloque — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:34:19 +0000

Dear all,

I'm arranging some dates for SKULLFLOWER.
There are still some dates to fill:

20th April Brussels
21st April  Paris
22nd April Lyon or Open for Switzerland or France
23rd April Open (for Switzerland or France)
24th April Lyon or open  for Switzerland or France.
25th Geneva.

Please find here a biography and some useful links:

http://www.myspace.com/skullflowervibes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjzEhtA9PNs

Skullflower is still active and making an unholy racket in various corners
of the earth, but please note, I am not Skullflower. This is a straight-up
fan page. I have never crossed paths with Mr. Bower, or anyone else even
remotely connected to Skullflower. I greatly enjoy the music, particularly
the older blown-out and dusted rock of releases like "Last Shot At Heaven"
and "Infinityland", but that's it. Sorry.

For an excellent Skullflower biography, see the semi-official website.
Some older releases are still somewhat available - try aQUarius recOrds
for a few, and CDBaby for the last remaining copies of the aforementioned
and monumental "Last Shot At Heaven". Some more recent material (and a
reissue of the speaker-melting tweaked masterpiece "IIIrd Gatekeeper") can
be found through Crucial Blast. The most current stuff seems to be mainly
limited CD-Rs and specialty label releases. (aQuarius might be able to
hook you up.)

So enjoy the sounds, and share the overpowering vibes - blissed out yet
manic, expansive while still managing to be intensely claustrophobic.
Skullflower is that, and so much more. Can you F E E L I T ?

I hope to hear from you ASAP.

Regards.

Alain

Some Noise asbl
C/O Alain Bolle
PO BOX 43
1050 Brussels 5
Belgium
http://debloque.wordpress.com
www.lesateliersclaus.com

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BOOKING OFFER: ROLY PORTER

debloque — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:46:38 +0000

Hi,

I'm booking some dates for Roly Porter.
Availability: from mid May 2012 onwards.

Please read this review and aloso click on this:

http://soundcloud.com/subtext-recordings/roly-porter-tleilax
http://www.youtube.com/artist/Roly_Porter

Superb new album of industrial-strength drone, art-techno, noise and moody
synth experimentation from Roly Porter, formerly of Vex'd, returning to
his Bristol home of Subtext. Operating in a similar sphere to the last
Subtext drop from Emptyset, Porter mines a rich seam of eerie, corrosive
greyscale and moreover heavy, righteously dub-wise electronics, with a
warped but careful sense of modern classical composition: in short, the
perfect soundtrack to wandering the creaking corridors of the Event
Horizon. This really is one of the most suffocatingly atmospheric records
we've heard all year, with an ice-cold and uncompromising aesthetic, but
beautifully paced and compellingly borne out: from the opening 'Atar' on
in, with its noir synths, punishing low-end and drones hovering like enemy
attack helicopters. At first 'Tleilax' sounds like it could've come off
one of Leyland Kirby's Intrigue & Stuff 12"s, before the arrival of
machine-gun drum machines and shouted vocal snips - this wouldn't have
sounded out of place on the latest Prurient album, but there's also
something in its texture and attitude that clearly identifies it as a
product of the British post-rave tradition. Navigating beauty and
brutality like it ain't no thing, the album takes in reverbed chamber
instrumentals like 'Kaitain', bone-crunching, Earth and KTL-indebted
doom-fests like 'Rossak' and sub-bass pressure poems likie 'Giedi Prime',
with some elegiac, almost Vangelis-like interludes thrown in fod good
measure. It's perfectly balanced, and it moves quickly - every blast of
scouring power electronics is followed by a melodic, reassuring swell of
strings, and it's in these contrasts, expertly handled, that Aftertime's
magic lies. Highly recommended for fans of Earth, Raime, Sandwell
District, Fennesz, Emptyset, Ben Frost, Tim Hecker, Kangding Ray, The
Haxan Cloak and the like.

I hope to hear from you very soon.

Regards.

Alain

Some Noise asbl
C/O Alain Bolle
PO BOX 43
1050 Brussels 5
Belgium
http://debloque.wordpress.com
www.lesateliersclaus.com

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