Posted in Uncategorized on décembre 23, 2019 by debloque
Voici la playlist du programme Noise Addict correspondant à un programme qui fut diffusé sur les ondes de Radio Campus le dimanche 10 octobre 2019 entre 22h30 et minuit.
Posted in Uncategorized on décembre 19, 2019 by debloque
Dear all,
This is the last newsletter of the year.
The next one is to be mailedout on Monday 6th January 202O.
The bands and artists you can find here under will be touring soon.
I am booking some dates for them.
Please feel free to contact me if you want to set up a gig/concert for one of them.
MY DILIGENCE (Belgium) https://mydiligence.bandcamp.com/
Availability: From April 2020 onwards
Territory: Europe + UK (except but Brussels and Wallonie)
Active since 2010, the Brussels based band MY DILIGENCEreturn as a trio in 2019 with their second album “Sun Rose”. After the ep “Who Killed The Driver” (2014), their first “Self-Titled” effort (2015) and a line-up change, the band locked itself away from the audience and came back with the 9 tracks of this “Sun Rose”. Two guitars and a drum kit are the ingredients of what MY DILIGENCEis today. Recorded at the end of winter 2018 at STUDIO PYRAMIDEwith François Vincent (THOT,DEEPSHOW), it took Kasper De Sutter’s (ENM, CROWD OF CHAIRS) expert fingers to make “Sun Rose” faithfully reflect the energy of the trio.
GERT-JAN PRINS (The Netherlands) https://www.noizumashin.com/synchronator_HD.html
Availability: 6th April-15th May
Territory: Europe + UK
Gert-Jan prins focuses on the sonic and musical qualities of electronic noise and percussion and investigates its relationship with the visual.
while he started his career as a drummer, his works include performances, sound-installations, compositions, electronic circuits
and collaborations with other musicians, visual artists, composers, and dancers.
ZEA (The Netherlands)
Availability: 7th February
Territory: Belgium
The Ex vocalist Arnold de Boer’s solo performances are always a complete blast. He deploys guitar and sampler for an almighty bout of crazily high energy songs – urgent lyrics over guitar, roughshod beats and grimy bass lines. « One guy stands playing his guitar like he’s trying to saw it in half with his bare hands, the other bashes at the vocoding keyboard devices like he wants them to explode, and they end up making one almighty racket that could be called ‘dance’ music. If you happen to dance like a malfunctioning washing machine, that is. Ace. » Drowned in Sound
ANDY MOOR (UK) + CHRISTINE ABDELNOUR (France)
Availability: 11th-22nd March + 25th May-6th June 2020
Territory: Europe + UK
Andy Moor has been playing the guitar for 27 years and wary of rules when it comes to his craft, preferring instead to be lead by spontaneity and instinct. In what started as a general interest playing rock n roll Moor’s musical career soon gave way to a curiosity about broader forms of music. First gaining notoriety for his contribution to Dog Faced Hermans, Moor then transitioned to become the official guitarist of Dutch experimental punk band The Ex. Still a member of the band, Moor has since expanded his musical horizons to include free jazz, rebetika and sound art, founding the Unsounds label in 200
Born in 1978, Christine lives in France but is of Lebanese origin. After discovering improvised music in 1997 she began a process of self-taught study and sound experimentation using the alto saxophone.
She has developed a unique personal language, producing sounds that are close to those of electroacoustic music but on a purely acoustic instrument. She approaches sound as a malleable material, rich in concrete textures which combine breath, silence and countless acoustic distortions. She has developed extended techniques and complex patterns of sound production, exploring the microtonal aspects of the saxophone and its high-pitched tones. She employs subtle tonguing techniques, unpitched breaths, spittle-flecked growls, biting, slicing notes and breathy echoing sounds from the bell of her horn. Far from any narrative effects, her music addresses the relation between listening and concepts of perception, time and space.
H. TAKAHASHI (Japan) https://htakahashi.bandcamp.com/
Availability: 29th May – 7th June
Territory: Europe + UK
Quiet, lower case ambient electronics from Tokyo’s H. Takahashi, following sublime turns for NNF and White Paddy Mountain with a return to the atmospheric connoisseurs at Where To Now?
Tokyo based H.Takahashi follows up his ‘Raum’ LP for Where To Now? with ‘Sonne und Wasser’, a continuation & development of his unmistakable brand of meditative Pulse Minimalism.
Where ‘Raum’ was concerned with architectural space and energy, ‘Sonne und Wasser’ turns its focus towards the lives of the plants & flowers that live amongst us. This LP has been born from a deep adoration of Horticulture and the microscopic lifecycle of the plant world, where themes of vitality & slow growth are explored through Takahashi’s gloriously delicate & considered movements.
L’AUTOPSIE A REVELE QUE LA MORT ÉTAIT DUE A L’AUTOPSIE (France/Argentina)
Availability: 8th February 2020
Territory: Belgium
L’autopsie a révélé que la mort était due à l’autopsie » is a musical projet initiated in 2007. The project has a very strong identity borrowed from Shamanism, Art Brut, Medicine as well as Literature. The music is radical, experimental and improvised : stridency, no-human voices, distortions, strange litanies… all mixed up with a good sense of Irony. A first LP came out on vinyl in 2009. It was coproduced by French Labels Komma Null and Chienne Secrète. The second Opus « Musica Acouscousmatica » (Komma Null / Chienne Secrète, 2010) is obviously a slap in the face for intellectual / jet set / « serious » electroacoustic musicians. Since then, the Band released two more cassettes and the latest LP, « Le Souffle De L’Avorton » i.e. live mediumnic interpretation of Jean Philippe Borbollono’s works. Borbollono is one of the greatest (forgotten) born-dead musicians.
DELPHINE DORA (France)
Availability: 14th April – 15th May
Territory: Europe + UK
Delphine Dora is a french musician and performer from France working with interaction of music, voice, text and sound. Her music based mostly on piano and voice has evolved these past years in new combinations of instrumentations and settings. Inspired by different musical aesthetics, which translates her personal world into sound, her iconoclastic music is based on an idea of composition as a spontaneous process, nourished by a variety of approaches: poems and texts by the likes of Walt Whitman, Sylvia Plath, Ingeborg Bachmann, or Kathleen Raine (among others) set to music; raw sketches melted into lost languages; free improvisations performed for piano and for various instruments; vocal explorations in acoustic surroundings, musical compositions based around soundscapes and field recordings.
DHIDALAH (Japan) https://dhidalahggb.bandcamp.com/album/threshold
Availability: 10th May
Territory: Belgium
Dhidalah started in 2007 as an instrumental heavy psych trio from Tokyo (Gotoh Ba, Konstantine/Dr, Ikuma Kawabe/Gt). The group’s name comes from the mythological giant Daidarabotchi, which was believed to create mountains and land with its enormous size, much like Dhidalah’s sound.
While Ikuma was playing as a guitarist for Church of Misery, the trio discovered a connection between music from different genres. Their sound reveals that connection, which is often described as space kraut rock meets heavy doom.
After they built strong fan base in Japan by touring Japan several times, they released their debut 10” “NO WATER” from Guruguru Brain in 2017, and now they are seeking to touring in Europe.
Thanks for your time and reading.
I look forward to hearing from you asap.
Happy New Year.
Alain
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Alain Bolle / Some Noise
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1190 Brussels
Belgium
Posted in Uncategorized on décembre 9, 2019 by debloque
Booking offers (2019 #48)
Dear promoters,
Please find here some artists and bands 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.
BATON BLEU (France)
Availability: January-September 2020
Territory: Europe (including UK)
A hybrid of styles from France, Louisiana, Mongolia, and elsewhere, Bâton Bleu is Maria Laurent, who plays Mongolian lute, banjo, guitar, thumb piano, Glockenspiel, flute, and more, and Gautier Degandt, who also plays all the above, plus bass, harmonica and tovshuur.
MIA ZABELKA (Austria) performs Pauline Oliveros
Availability: February-December 2020
Territory: Europe (including UK)
This document of a sound installation created in memory of the late Pauline Oliveros delivers the opposite of closure. As it proceeds, the lulling ambience is overtaken by the harsh slashes of what might be a violin, or a knife against rough leather for that matter. In retrospect — that is, upon subsequent listens — those string-like noises toward the end help reveal the source of the held tones at the track’s opening, the higher-pitch notes amid the general fog-horn drones. The violin is a constant presence, as it turns out, even though some time must pass before its presence becomes clear. The installation was created by the Vienna-born Mia Zabelka at the behest of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York (acfny.org). Pauline Oliveros, a maverick composer and sound theorist, was a practitioner of Deep Listening. So listen deep, put yourself inside Zabelka’s installation, and observe as her violin gains substance.
ELIZABETH COLOR WHEEL (USA) + DROWSE (USA)
Availability: 15th or 16th April
Territory: Belgium
Elizabeth Colour Wheel released their first proper album on March 15th on The Flenser, a record label known for reverb and catharsis (Have a Nice Life, Planning For Burial, Street Sects). Having previously released two EPs (self-titled and Queen Tired), ECW began their descent into twisting and turning anxiety. Members include Billy Cunningham on bass, Ally Jackson on guitar and synths, Emmett Palaima on guitar, Connor Devito on drums, and Lane Shi on vocals. Drowse is the project of Kyle Bates, an already-well-known musician. When he announced the project and first released music, it seemed like everyone was on board. This is probably due to the fact that it is his most personal endeavor, rooted in his own struggles with bipolar disorder and self-medication. Emphasizing the ephemeral nature of music, he employs revolving lineups ranging from solo to a full band.
VILE CREATURE (USA)
Vile Creature are a doom band from Ontario, Canada. With origins in Saint Catharines and currently residing in Hamilton, this non-binary duo active since 2014 play a style of doom metal that is a mix of abrasive sludge and funeral doom. The duo exhibit a heavy emphasis on anti-oppression, animal rights, LGBTQ rights and veganism in their lyrics, with no tolerance for bigotry or macho bullshit.
DAVIDE LUCIANI (Italy) + LAURA AGNUSDEI (Italy)
Availability: 21st-26th January + from 28th January onwards
Territory; The Netherlands, Luxemburg, France, Germany, Belgium
Davide Luciani is an Italian electronic music composer and media designer, based in Berlin since 2011. He has a background in the Italian noise-rock scene with projects dating back to 2005. “Calming Counts” is Luciani’s first solo release. His solo practice places acoustic instrumentation into analogue/digital synthesis to create works that bridge the territories of noise, drone rock and minimal music. His approach to electroacoustic music – which he voices with guitar, piano, strings, accordion, synthesisers, VST sorcery and loopers – has a distinct harmonic hue, with layered repetitive patterns and instrumental polyphonies.
As sound and visual designer he has directed and curated a wide variety of projects from soundtracks to space design. His collaborations have been hosted at highly regarded institutions and venues such as Venice Biennial, Berlin Atonal, Ström Festival, Bayreuth Festspiele, Museum Omero, Tresor and MUSMA. Luciani was a member of the label/platform Dromoscope and has collaborated as visual artist with Grün (Daniele de Santis) and Claudio Rocchetti. In 2014, together with sound artist Fabio Perletta, he co-founded Mote, a multidisciplinary design studio whose practice addresses arts and music.
Laura Agnusdei is an electroacoustic composer and saxophone player from Bologna (IT), classically trained, she also holds a Master in electronic music composition by The Institute of Sonology of The Hague(NL). Her compositions feature the saxophone as the main voice within sonic landscapes that shift between melodies and textures, the song form and improvisation, fusing acoustic, digital and analog sound sources to create emotional states that change from track to track.
STEFAN FRAUNBERGER (Austria)
Availability: April-December 2020
Territory: Europe (including UK)
Stefan Fraunberger is an Austrian composer and artist exploring themes of transformation and liminality in sound, focusing on their interior counterpoint in relation to perception. Stefan engages in electro-acoustic dialogue with different instruments, beings and concepts, interacting with conditions and languages beyond nature and culture. By investigating embodied understandings of the uncanny, his work touches on time, matter, memory and transition.
TRIBALISM3 (France)
Availability: From May 2020 onwards
Territory: Europe (including UK)
TRIBALISM3 (Collectif Coax) is composed of Olivia Scemama on the bass, Luca Ventimiglia on the synthesizer and Yann Joussein on the drums. These three improvisers are exploring different musical styles such as free jazz, noisy and minimalist music or repetitive rock. TRIBALISM3’s music falls within an experimental vein arround Yann Joussein’s compositions, the trio creates its own style made of repetitive drum rythms, distorded bass and synthetics sound.
Thanks for reading.
I hope to hear from you asap.
All the best.
Alain
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Van Wissem is ‘both an avant-garde composer and a baroque lutenist, and thus no stranger to dichotomy,’ (New York Times). He has been ‘pushing the lute’s agenda out of the academy and into more accessible circles’ (Pitchfork).
LORCAN & JEREMIE (Belgium)
Lorcan & Jérémie met in the middle of a mad sessions of the American Roots Sessions of Brussels ! They decided to start this duo because of threir common love for Old-Time music from the Appalaches in the purest style of Kentucky : the association of the fiddle and the clawhammer banjo. Songs and tunes on the plate !
KHOST (UK)
Availability: 10th-11th March 2020
Territory: Belgium
khost are Birmingham’s Andy Swan (Iroha / Final) and Damian Bennett (Carthage / Cortex / Gauge/ Deathless / Techno Animal).
Since their inception in 2013, they have toured extensively with Godflesh and Conan as well as sharing stage with Final/JK Flesh, Anaal Nathrakh, Skullflower, Gnaw Their Tongues, Aluk Todolo, Ramleh, Locrian, Asphyx, Vodun. Studio collaborators have included Eugene Robinson of Oxbow, Jo Quail, Daniel Buess and other sources providing saxophone, cello and voice for their wide-ranging recordings. They have also been remixed by D&B artists Hostage and Necrobia.
CEEYS (Germany)
Availability: From September onwards
Territory: Europe + UK
CEEYS are the Berlin-born, Potsdam-based brothers Sebastian and Daniel Selke, an award-winning cello-piano duo performing an impressive experimental but accessible minimalism between avant-garde and pop that incorporates elements of jazz, ambient and classical chamber music.
KODAN TRIO (UK)
Availability: 23rd-24th March
Territory: Benelux, France, Germany
Some are building directly on the foundations of pioneers like Evan Parker, John Stevens and Derek Bailey, while others are always on the lookout for fresh, contemporary sounds, or try to combine them. But they’re all united by a similar curiosity, a search for finding their own voices and a never-ending reinvention of themselves. This also seems to be the case with the brand new Kodian Trio of Andrew Lisle, Dirk Serries and Colin Webster. While they first played together as members of a quartet with Amsterdam-based saxophone player John Dikeman and recorded two albums in April of 2015 (a live album that appeared on Webster’s Raw Tonk Records and a double studio album on New Wave Of Jazz), the trio reconvened for a studio session at the end of October that same year.
PEOPLE LIKE US (UK)
Since 1991, Vicki Bennett has been repurposing pre-existing footage to craft a/v collages, seeing sampling as folk art in the age of mechanical reproduction, with all of the sharing and cross-referencing incumbent to a populist form. Embedded in her work is the premise that all is interconnected and that claiming ownership of an “original” or isolated concept is both preposterous and redundant.
Thank you for your time and reading.
I hope to hear from you as soon as possible.
All the best.
Alain
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