Posted in Uncategorized on janvier 28, 2019 by debloque
Dear all,
Please find here some artists who will be tour soon.
Feel free to contact me if you want to set up a concert/performance for one of them.
TEST DEPT (UK)
Availabilities: Festivals + November et December
Territory: Belgium
Industrial Agitators Test Dept have signed to One Little Indian Records and will release their new album ‘Disturbance’ 1st March 2019. The group return to the fray with a call to action, having re-emerged in recent years to engage in the cultural and political climate, utilising their extensive archive and exploring new ways of expression in a strategic programme of actions including performance, installation and the publication of their book ‘Total State Machine’. ‘Disturbance’ continues this process of exploration.
NEGATIVLAND (USA)
Availability: 3-6 November
Territory: Belgium
Negativland is an American experimental music band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. They took their name from a Neu! track,[1] while their record label (Seeland Records) is named after another Neu! track. The core of the band consists of Mark Hosler, David Wills (aka « The Weatherman »), Peter Conheim and Jon Leidecker (aka
« Wobbly »)[2].
Negativland has released a number of albums ranging from pure sound collage to more musical expositions. These have mostly been released on their own label, Seeland Records. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, they produced several recordings for SST Records, most notably Escape from Noise, Helter Stupid and U2. Negativland were sued by the band U2’s record label, Island Records, and by SST Records, which brought them widespread publicity and notoriety.
KHOST (Switzerland)
Availabilities: 18th May
Territory: Belgium
KHOST are Andy Swan (Iroha / Final) and Damian B (carthage / 16-17 / Cortex / Gauge / Deathless / Techno Animal). Formed in 2013, KHOST has toured extensively with GODFLESH, CONAN as well as sharing the stage with AUTHOR & PUNISHER , CULT OF OCCULT, ASPHYX, LOCRIAN, VODUN, MOSS, ANAAL NATHRAKH, FINAL/JK FLESH with tours of Russia, Israel and of course all over the UK. Their collaborators including EUGENE ROBINSON of OXBOW, STEPHEN AH BURROWS, SY AN, DANIEL BUESS, JO QUAIL and other far-ranging sources providing saxophone, cello and voice.
MARTIENSGOHOME (Belgium)
Availability: On request
Territory: Europe + UK
Martiensgohome is a sound collective operating on the radio every thursday 9:30pm on radio campus 92.1 FM, in brussels each programme consist of one hour-long improvisation using field-recording and broken everyday electronics to compose some kind of anti-ambient soundscape. martiensgohome is also performing live whenever possible, preferably in special settings, composing site-specific interventions or playing unconventional venues.
LYDIA LUNCH’s BIG SEXY NOISE (USA/UK)
Availability: 6th and 8th June 2019
Territory: Belgium
In the late 70’s, as member of the notorious Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Lydia Lunch was a leading figure in the rise of New York City’s no-wave scene. Grounded in a dissonant and atonal sound, Lydia’s work typically features provocative and confrontational noise music, combined with a strong anti-commercial ethos. Big Sexy Noise’s performances are a raw and fearless display of works by Lydia’s acclaimed groups and projects, including Teenage Jesus, 13.13 and Shotgun Wedding.
Posted in Uncategorized on janvier 21, 2019 by debloque
Dear all,
Please find here some bands and artist§s who will be touring soon.
Feel free to contact me if yoiu want to set up a concert/performance for one of them.
BENJAMON FINGER, JAMES PLOTKIN, MIA ZABELKA (USA/Austria)
Availabiloity: September, October, November 2019
Territories: Europe + UK
The trio creates a freeform sound that invokes the spirit of both concrete and electronic music, while incorporating both traditional and
unorthodox instrumentation. Benjamin Finger‘s heavily processed signature collages of sound are embellished by the organic and of ten similarly processed strings of Zabelka and Plotkin, resulting in a world of audio that buzzes and drones, glitches and slithers, caree-
ning into unstable musical territories
HAROUNA SAMAKE (Mali) https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m05cvg6x2fhqxo6/AAAAYvHq5anR410MLtt2h2hsa?dl=0
Availability: May, June, July 2019
Territories: Europe + UK
Malian musician Harouna Samake, long time Kamale n’goni player for the legendary Salif Keita, is releasing his first solo album. A master of the instrument, and recognised as one of Mali’s foremost Kamale n’goni players, Harouna has a long history of award winning musical collaborations.
Harouna arranged and recorded on five of Salif Keita’s albums, and has recorded on more than 50 albums with artists including Blick Bassy, Djessou Mory Kanté,
Etienne Mbappé, Bela Fleck, Cheick Tidiane Seck and Bassekou Kouyate.
On the album he plays groovy, energetic Mali Blues & Mandingo styles in complex compositions. His texts on Human Rights and society are song in Bambara with a few French and English lines. Beautifully orchestrated with some of Mali’s top musicians, the music is determined to inspire dance floors and listeners around the world.
The album was recorded at Harouna’s Studio in Bamako, and produced by Harouna & Carolina Vallejo, One World.
Released on One World Records August 16th 2018.
ITALIA 90 (UK)
Availability: On request
Territory: Europe
Italia 90 sound like many of the bands we may have heard on bad quality cassettes in the late 70’s.
The sound this four piece create, recalls those early Wire recordings, Joy Division cassettes and Gang of Four bootlegs at least one mate would own having sneaked a cassette recorder into the venue to record and listen to a few weeks later. Tapes that probably still exist, unplayable now, they’ve been nearly out the door more than once but are still nice to look at as a reminder of times gone by.
ALBATRE (The Netherlands)
Availability: Beween 7th and 17th June
Territories: Europe + UK
The screwed up, angry, either riff-based or totally abstract punk-metal-free jazz-noise played by Albatre may be one of the very best offers coming from the Rotterdam underground scene. Everything emerged in distortion and with a sometimes heavy, sometimes crazily fast beat. But if the music is explosive and always searching for the maximum impact,there’s a place for nuance and for detail, with the three contributors throwing intriguing elements to the magma of sound. All wrapped with live visuals by their long road partner and fourth member of this unit, video artist 5upleft.
EMILIO BERNE (Italy) https://vimeo.com/268043715
Availability: 21st March
Territory: To be confirmed
Improvisation and noise influences researching closed to performing arts. Playing snare table thinking noise turntablism, searching sound as an analog synthesizers musician. Attracted by error beats and defective functions, this set is a crack of simulated electronics composed by amplified metal strings on cymbals and spinner on snare, fragments of glitch music and abstract noise
LEECHFEAST (The Netherlands) https://leechfeast.bandcamp.com/
Availability: From 23rd May onwards
Territory: Belgium
The madness of decaying urban jungle, endless nights without sleep, strange dreams that you remain thinking about through the next day, chronic back pain, cramped up stomach, pathethic porcelain faces around you with a permanent smile, the fact that you can relate to the cat that lives with you more than you can to other people and years of repressed aggression that needs to get out badly
THE SCORPIOS (Sudan)
Availability: On request
Territory: Europe
Hailing from Central Sudan and now based in London after fleeing the fundamentalist takeover in that region, the Scorpios are a band that melds Arabic rhythms and guitar chops (and a kind of swooning cyclical ecstasy) with a raw Eastern funk feel, properly dismantling cultural barriers in pursuit of a unifying rhythmic bliss. Supported by an international backing band heavy bass, synths, horns and percussions drive through traditional Sudanese forms to create a sound that owes as much to Detroit as it does to Khartoum. Mesmerising forward looking fusion.
Posted in Uncategorized on janvier 15, 2019 by debloque
Deear all,
Please find here under some bands and artists who will be soon touring.
Feel free to get in c touch with me if you want to set up a concert/performance for one of them.
I hope to hear from you asap.
All the best.
Alain
BLACK PYRAMID (USA) https://blackpyramid.bandcamp.com/
Availability: Between 4th – 20th October 2019
Territory: Belgium
Black Pyramid are a stoner metal band from Northampton, Massachusetts. Billing themselves as « psychedelic war metal », this power trio also incorporates elements of doom and classic heavy metal to evoke a mix of downtuned rumblings and apocalyptic lyrics of war, the occult, religion and alienation. The band would attain significant attention from the stoner/doom circles with their debut EP and quickly sign to MeteorCity Records not long after.
Availability: From 7th April 2019 onwards
Territory: Europe
Ut is a radical rock group founded by Nina Canal, Jacqui Ham and Sally Young in December 1978. Originated in the downtown NYC No Wave scene and inheritors of the collision between rock, free jazz and the avant-garde, Ut exploded the rigidity of conventional rock, constructing songs through collective improvisation, swapping instruments and rotating the role of singer/director.
Ut disbanded in 1990, but began performing again in 2010. Ut are now reissuing their entire remastered catalogue on Out Records through Forte Distribution. The reissues have so far included the Ut and Confidential 12” EPs in November 2017, Ut Live at The Venue in April 2018 and Early Live Life in November 2018. The next release will be their first studio album – Conviction – on April 5, 2019. Ut will be celebrating this by performing at the Sonic Protest festival in Paris on April 6, followed by further dates.
MARC RIBOT (USA)
Availability: 5th + 6th + 12th May
Territory: Belgium
The great guitarist Marc Ribot makes a welcome return. Ribot’s solo performances are unpredictable events which may draw on all of his past recordings or none of them, creating a sonic matrix of memory, free improvisation, zeitgeist, extra-terrestrial radio signals, and much more… always leaving the listener on the edge of their seats.
BOOM FULL MEKE (Columbia)
Availability: TBC
Territories: Europe + UK
As one of New promises of Colombian music, this duo born from the roots of soundsystem of Barranquilla-Colombia Known As Picos, rebulding and enhancing the formula of the first original electronic genre of colombia, bastard brother of champeta, born from the act of remixing soukous songs and mix live vintage samplers (CASIO SK5, YAMAHA DD55), Mc’s Improvisations nearly 3 decades ago. WITH A live perfomance supported by 2 sampling stations, these 2 Boom full Meke’s MCs ,have made the NEO PERREO a really corrosive sound with a more serious production, promising a big future for the Caribbean universal dance floor.
MERCEDES PEON (Spain)
Availability: TBC
Territories: Europe + UK
Mercedes Peón who was born in La Coruña (Galicia, Spain) in 1967 has dedicated many years to recovering traditional music in her native Galicia and to teaching it in town schools and cultural associations. She has pioneered the formation of various female groups of singers and tambourine players.
As a performer, as well as an accomplished singer, she is also a master of Galician bagpipes and of several traditional percussion instruments.
MANU LOUIS (Belgique)
Availability: Between May and December 2019
Territories/ Europe + UK
Manu Louis was described by French newspaper Libération as « the braggart of kitsch ». That’s the price to pay for an eccentric songwriter and jack-of-all-trades composer who spends his time decontextualizationg high and low culture to create provocative juxtapositions. His general blueprint remains the same throughout all of his efforts, but the ingredients he uses may vary: from dissident chanson française, heroic jazz and 20th-century contemporary music to art-pop and DIY electronics.
In 2016, Manu Louis released his debut album, Kermesse Machine, on Igloo Records and performed at over 200 festivals and clubs across Europe, the U.K., Japan and China, refining his solo show into what’s become a must-see. Surrounded by a village of electronic instruments, a guitar and video projections, Manu delivers a passionate performance that eventually switches gears into an impromptu discotheque that gets the audience moving.
Apart from his digital activities, Manu also composes music for chamber orchestras, string ensemble and fanfares. Cream Parade, his newly recorded album, is being prepared for release in May 2019 on Igloo Records.
Posted in Uncategorized on janvier 7, 2019 by debloque
Dear promoters,
Here is my very first newsletter this year.
Please find here under some artists who will be touring soon.
Feel free to get in touch with me if you want to set up a concert/performance for one of them.
TOMA GOUBAND (France)
Availabilities: 30th March – 5th April + 3rd and 5th May
Territory: Europe + UK
Toma Gouband is a percussionist whose materials include lithophones – rocks, stones, pieces of flint that are struck together to produce sound. Like Le Quan Ninh, he works from a horizontal bass drum used as resonator and table for a host of small instruments. Courants des Vents is a single improvisation, 45 minutes in length. It begins in isolated sounds, struck rocks resonating in the room. Gradually rhythmic figures appear, repeat, and mutate. Bass drum sounds occur, their echoes another measure of the space, and the work becomes increasingly complex, a dance of distances, pitches and durations. What may have initially seemed a simple set of materials assumes new dimension, perhaps in relation to the degree to which such resources might have been underestimated. Gouband emerges as cryptogeologist, an explorer of the mysteries and consciousness of the material world, opening himself and his listeners
to a universe of reverberant matter that whispers secrets of acoustics.
Listening closely to Gouband’s work, one shares in a fresh relationship (imaginative and imaginary) to the natural world. The stones are alright.
AMIRTHA KIDAMBI’s ELDER ONES (USA)
Availabilities: 15th May – 30th May, 21th June – 21st September
Territory: Belgium
Kidambi is the composer and bandleader of her quartet Elder Ones, with Matt Nelson, Max Jaffe and Nick Dunston and the leader of her vocal quartet Lines of Light, featuring Anaïs Maviel, Emilie Lesbros and Jean-Carla Rodea. Kidambi is also a regular collaborator of Lea Bertucci, in a voice and analog electronics duo, is a member of guitarist Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl, featured in various projects with composer and alto saxophonist Darius Jones, a longtime contributor of Charlie Looker’s early music inspired dark folk band Seaven Teares and a soloist in Pat Spadine’s analog percussion and light ensemble Ashcan Orchestra. She has collaborated and performed with New York luminaries in the experimental and creative music community including Tyshawn Sorey, Matana Roberts, Ingrid Laubrock, Maria Grand, Brandon Lopez, Daniel Carter, Sam Newsome, Trevor Dunn, Ava Mendoza, Matteo Liberatore and veteran improviser William Parker.
MIA ZABELKA (Austria)
Availability; To be announced
Territory: Europe + UK
Mia Zabelka is an improviser, composer as well as an experimental violinist and vocalist from Vienna, with Czech, Jewish and French familiar background. The last few years have shown Mia Zabelka to be a violinist with an enviable technique, a powerful stage presence and a vast creative imagination, and she is also emerging as one of the most important improvisers, composers and collaborators working today in Europe. In the last few years she has become known through her work with Medusa’s Bed (w. Lydia Lunch, Zahra Mani), Trio Blurb (w. Maggie Nicols and John Russell) and the One.Night.Band, as well.
HASSAN K (Iran-France)
Availability: On request
Territory: Europe + UK
DIY artist, Keyvane (his real name) mixes folklore and technologies, occident and orient, surf music and bellydance, swing and heavy metal… in crazy live acts, not too far from transe. With a guitar, a keyboard and a few sensors, he travels from the west kingdom to the Turan, spreading the words of his illuminated ancestors…
ZIG ZAGS (USA)
Availability: 17th and 24th May
Territory: Belgium
A trio from Los Angeles whose sound is a purposefully scuzzy fusion of punk, metal, stoner rock, and trailer trash culture, the Zig Zags were named after a brand of cheap shoes that guitarist and singer Jed Maheu and drummer Bobby Martin were both wearing when they first talked about starting a band in 2010 (though the fact the name is also similar to a popular brand of rolling papers seems quite fitting). Maheu and Martin began working up material, with both playing guitar; by the time they started recording their first single, it became obvious this lineup wasn’t going to work for long, so Martin moved over to drums, and the band played a handful of shows as a duo. Patrick McCarthy met Maheu and Martin when he did sound for them at one of their first gigs, and he quickly became a friend and a fan; when they asked him to join the group as a bassist, he quickly said yes, even though he hadn’t played the
instrument before.
MORNE (USA)
Availability: 27th and 28th September 2019
Territory: Belgium
Morne, formed in 2005, is a heavy, atmospheric band based in Boston, Massachusetts. Their style blends doom metal and classic British crust but stretches beyond those boundaries, combining a bleak lyrical style with driving riffs. Three studio albums have been released to date.
Their first, Untold Wait, was on Feral Ward Records in 2009. In 2011, they signed with Profound Lore Records and released Asylum that same year, followed by Shadows, in 2013. Currently, they are working on their fourth full length album. The band has toured the US, Canada and Europe, where they have been part of large festivals such as Roadburn and Hellfest.
LAS LLONORAS (BE/ES/NL/USA)
Availability: Early February – late May 2019 + from early August 2019 onwards
Territory: Europe + UK
Sura Solomon (BE, USA) and Amber in ‘t Veld (ES, NL) have grown together into Las Lloronas (The Criers ) in the wintery streets of Brussels in December 2017. Through the experience of busking, in a few weeks they put together a set that met lots of enthusiasm. Inspired by musicians such as Lhasa de Sela, Noname, Billy Holiday, Devendra Banhart, and influenced by different world folk and bluesy songs, Las Lloronas start to compose their own tunes. Their music (accordion, guitar and voices) reflects their experiences as young women, giving birth to intimate feminist poetry. They put forth, in their melodies and performance, their vulnerable and powerful authenticity.
In May 2018, they record their first EP titled ‘take space’. While continuing to take on the empowering challenge of busking, the duo gets offers to play in many living rooms of Brussels, various venues and small festivals in Belgium and the Netherlands. In September 2018, they get the opportunity to open the stage for the well-known Argentinian band Perota Chingo, in Amsterdam and Brussels, which allows them to play at Théâtre Molière, brings them visibility and a lot of inspiration and support.
Since then, they toured in France and Spain, featured at radio shows in Brussels, and on a TV reportage of BRUZZ. They just released some studio videos to showcase their new songs with their extended band (bass, percussion and saxophone). They are currently working on new songs to record a full blown album in Fall (2019). Looking back at how this project has evolved in just a year time, they are enthusiastic and determined to let their voices be heard.
BUSINESS WITH THE CLOUD (France)
Availability: April, May, June
Territory: Europe + UK
Business With The Cloud brought together three musicians who were not supposed to meet at all in the first place. From their respective geographical origins to the various musical surroundings each one of them was claiming to belong to,
no one could have expected such a successful and creative encounter between the Calabrese sax and clarinet player Raul Colosimo (Il Parto delle Nuvole Pesanti, VoicevLink, Asa Nisi Masa), the French-Martiniquan drumm er Erick
Borelva (Trash Corporation) and the French guitarist Philippe Thiphaine (Heliogabale, M83, Orval Carlos Sibelius). Far from any cliché, Business With The Cloud put together pop impovisations, avant-garde songs, traditional music and experimentation, remaining ready to welcome a fourth member whenever they feel like it : Jamaladeen Tacuma, Bobby Jocky, Etienne Brunet, Thierry Negro etc No wonder Business With The Cloud was born in 1999… they decided to re-unite in 2019
MARIA CHAVEZ (USA)
Availbilities: 20th – 30th January 2019
Territory: Europe + UK
Abstract turntablist Maria Chavez makes sound art that evokes the unconscious: quicksilver changes in timbre, random beeps and burbles, words out of nowhere. ‘Chance’ is taken to a whole new level — Maria he keeps her records, her ‘vocabulary’, in one massive, sleeveless pile where they can rub against each other an create new, organic scratches.
She also ‘sacrifices’ those records that no longer serve her purpose, transforming them into unintentional samples to be layered one on top of the other. Maria came to the New Sounds studio to explain how, exactly, all this works.
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