Dear promoters,
Please find here under the musisians/bands/arttists I’m offering you this week.
Feel free to get back to me if you want to set up a gig/concert/performance for one of them.
THOMAS JAMES FOLKS (France)
https://soundcloud.com/begarrozpublishing/sets/eric-thomas-found-small-extended-forms/s-4K153
Availability: 27th, 28th, 29th January 2018
Territory: Belgium
TONY BUCK (Australia)
http://tony-buck.com/portfolio/unearth-tony-buck-solo-room40/
Availability: from 2nd week of April onwards
Territory: Europe
GOLEM MECANIQUE (France)
http://golemecanik.tumblr.com/ [2]
https://golemecanique.bandcamp.com/ [3]
Availability: From early February 2018 onwards
Territory: Europe
SUNWATCHERS (USA)
https://sunwatchers.bandcamp.com/
Availability; Between 12th and 15th March
Territories: Belgium + the Netherlands
ZS & ARTO LINDSAY (USA)
Availability: 2018
Territory: Europe except but The Netherlands
WEDGE (Germany)
Availability: On request
Territory: Belgium
THOMAS JAMES FOLKS
Musician, guitarist, composer, songwriter, artistic director, sonorosophe… He loves and rocks everything that makes sound. He practices free improvisation, prepared guitar. He plays with music as he likes to play it. New creative live music.
Still close to the punk spirit of his debuts or to the Oblique Strategies of Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt, he is at an in-between place, playing with notes, sounds, lines, but also preparing things, pre-arranging them.
For a long time guitarist of Albert Marcoeur, his electric guitar led him on stage with Julien Baillod, Frédéric Bargeon-Briet, Pierre Bastien, quatuor Béla, Han Bennink, Sébastien Boisseau, Noémi Boutin, Nicolas Courret, Denis Charolles, Denis Chouillet, Stéphane Fromentin, Etienne Grass, Haco, Sylvaine Helary, Oscar Jan Hoogland, Jean20 Huguenin, Dylan James, Erwan Keravec, Joëlle Léandre, Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Laurent Paris, Nicolas Pointard, Christophe Rocher, Camille Secheppet, Serge Teyssot-Gay, Ali Wagué, Etenesh Wassié, and others.
Eric THOMAS finds himself naturally in trans-genre projects, which make the link between music(s) and sound(s). But also between sound materials and other artistic fields. So he composes feature film musics, occurs to the theater, builds sound installations.
TONY BUCK
Tony Buck has been performing solo concerts for at least two decades. In the past, these performances have often incorporated live electronics and sampling, but, in the last 10 years or so, he has concentrated on creating live, improvised pieces using the drumkit, assorted small percussion instruments, guitar, video and other acoustic sound sources.
GOLEM MECANIQUE
Golem Mecanique is a project designed around the manipulation of sound and voice, creating its first echoes in the personal synthesis of different myths and intimate landscapes, studied
and reorganized according to specific paths: manipulated recordings, drone, concrete sounds, singing voice, spoken voice, sound poetry, whispers, repetitive series
SUNWATCHERS
Lead by New York City heavy hitter Jim McHugh (Nymph, Dark Meat), Sunwatchers are nothing if not unusual. Relying heavily on saxophones, guitars and keys, this album mashes avant-jazz and punk tendencies where droning, repetition and improv sensibilities are simultaneously perplexing and engaging. Noisey, meticulous and beautifully chaotic, though there’s only 7 songs, it’s 40 minutes of inimitable psyche/punk/jazz/cosmic and vocal-less art.
ZS & ARTO LINDSAY
Arto Lindsay does not need of presentations… guitarist [2], singer
[3], record producer [4] and experimental [5]composer [6]. He first
achieved recognition as part of New York no wave [7] group DNA [8] in
the late 1970s.
He has a distinctive soft voice and an often noisy, self-taught guitar
style consisting almost entirely of extended techniques [9], described
by Brian Olewnick « studiedly naïve … sounding like the bastard
child of Derek Bailey [10] ». His guitar work is contrasted frequently
with gentler, sensuous Brazilian music [11] themes.
ZS in the immediate aftermath of their critically acclaimed album
‘Xe’, is developing a new record of material and fostering a series of
exciting collaborations.
ZS’ new work is predicated on their ‘near telepathic’ group playing,
developed during years of hard touring.
New collaborations with Arto Lindsay, visual artist Tauba Auerbach,
and director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte in addition to continued
collaborations with in-house projectionist Laura Paris.
ZS is currently planning the roll out of a new record, and of all
these collaborations.
WEDGE
Since the release of their long sold out debut, WEDGE are
definitely an integral part of the European Rock scene. Over a short
time the group managed to establish a steadily growing fan base by
PLAYING NEARLY UP TO 200 SHOWS SINCE 2014 in numerous countries such
as Spain, Italy, Portugal, France, Holland, Norway, Denmark, Austria,
Switzerland, Luxembourg, Poland, Czech Republic, Belgium, England,
Greece, Israel and of course Germany.THIS INCLUDES FAMOUS FESTIVALS
such as Bukta Open Air, Desert Fest, Stoned from the Underground,
etc., and support gigs for bands such as Fu Manchu (US), Blues Pills
(SE), Orchid (US), The Flying Eyes (US), Lucifer (UK), Pontiac (US),
Simo (US), to name but a few.
Thanks for reading.
Regards.
Alain
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