Booking Offers

Booking offers (2021 #24)Dear all,Please find here under some bands and musicians who will be soon touring.I am booking dates for them.Feel free to get in touch with me if you want to set up a concert for one of them.

LE RYTHME DES FOURMIS (Belgium)https://lerythmedesfourmis.bandcamp.com/Availability: On request Territory: Europe + UKStyle : Radical metal drum, visual performance & urban trance ! Nice to meet you, we are the ants ! If you were looking for something different, you just found it! Some might say drumming on metal drums is « déjà vu », we would answer « what about guitars and keyboards »?! Recycle to basic, the soundtrack of the next parties and riots! « Le Rythme des Fourmis » has been drumming for years now (in many places and events, streets and festivals), building a growing audience and has numerous fans asking for the album… A total rhythmical and visual show, unique and explosive! Ten (and more!) Percussionists drumming under your faceted eyes and exited antennas some rhythmic prowess as much as physical; as said in the old ant-adage: « Les tonneaux c’est pas du bidon! » The Ants brings rhythm to your festival, event, discos and protesta-fiesta with the sound of their metal grooves. Rhythmic prowess as much as visual because for the raw metal sounds to become the haunting rhythm, this compelling urban trance requires great precision, poly-rhythms require absolute concentration, a true ant-symbiosis! A complete show or two, three and more sets of fifteen minutes each, presents the advantage of variable geometry and therefore adaptable to each situation.CHRISTINE ABDELNOUR (France) + ANDY MOOR (UK)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkf_SYQEcLQAvailability 22ns, 24th and 25th September 2021 Territories; Europe + UKBorn 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. 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 2001 with long-time collaborator and sound artist Yannis Kyriakides and designer Isabelle Vigier. Unsounds has released records by Robert Ashley, Francisco Lopez, John Butcher, Kaffe Matthews and Anne-James Chaton.DECOLONIZE YOUR MIND SOCIETY [Hungary]https://decolonizeyourmind.bandcamp.comAvailability: 15yth-19th Novvember 2021 Territories: Europe + UKInspired by non-European traditional music, non-tempered tuning systems, psychedelic ritual performances and the legendary Fourth World music by Jon Hassell and Brian Eno, Decolonize Your Mind Society was founded by Balint Szabo Gosheven as a natural continuation of his creative focus and work. The Hungarian band floats in a hazy no man’s land between psychedelic rock, avant-garde, jazz and experimental music, with the glissonic wind instrument (glissotar) and analog synthesizer adding to their absolutely unique sound. The six-piece just released their debut in October.DC_33.33 (USA)https://alreadydeadtapes.bandcamp.com/album/oblique-opaqueAvailability: 23rd May 2022 – 30th June 2022 Territory; Europe + UKDC_33.33 is the solo electronics persona of Chicago-based musician Dave Gabriel. His first full-length was released via the pan y rosas net label which The Wire described as, « directionless assaults of non-musical sound. » His second full-length will be released on cassette via Already Dead Tapes  on 21 February. Mr. Gabriel also works with noise rock band Imelda MarcosLYDIA LUNCH (USA)https://www.lydialunchmovie.com/Availability: 29th October – 30th November 2021 Territory: BelgiumLYDIA LUNCH will be in europe from 29th of Oct-the end of Nov 2021. I am looking for shows during that time; a combination of streaming her new film  » The War is never over » combined w/ a spoken word performance.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqEIDTR7RtUSeated venues, cinemas are preferred.

I hope to hear from you asap.Happy new yearAlain

Noisy Crescendo [playlist]

Voici la playlist du programme Noisy Crescendo qui fut diffusé sur les ondes de Radio Campus Bruxelles le dimanche 27 juin 2021 entre 22h30 et minuit.

1/ Jsp: SELIM ASSLANI & HAFIZE ASLI: « Lacakapetani ». Various-Songbirds [Albanian Music from 78s 1924-1948]

2/ CBS: LOUIS ARMSTRONG: « Willie the weeper ». The Hot Fives And The Hot Sevens, vol.II

3/ Bureau N: KREIDLER: « Flood V ». Floor.

4/ Polydor: JAMES BROWN: « Talming loud & satin’ nothing ». In The Jungle Groove.

5/ Editions: JASPER HOIBY: « Consciousness ». Planet B.

6/ Editions: KURT ELLING:' »A certain gentleman ». Secrets Are The Best Stories.

7/ Intakt: ELLERY ESKELIN/CHRISTIAN WEBER/MICHAEL GRIENER: « Abc ». The Pearls.

8/ Sunnyside: JEREMY UDDEN: « Azure ». Three in Paris.

9/ Greysparkle: MATTEO UGGERI – Album: The Next Wait

10/ Milan: JÜRGEN KNIEPER – Album: Les Ailes Du Désir

Booking offers

Booking offers (2021 #23)Dear all,Please find here under some bands and musicians who are available for live concerts/ performances.I am booking some dates for them.Please write back if you want to set uo a performance/concert for one of them.

TEONIKI ROZYNEK [Poland] + QBA JANICKI [Poland]https://dymrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-14th-m-zg-festivalAvailability: On request Territories: Europe + UKTeoniki Rożynek Composer born in 1991 in Cracow, Poland. Lives in Warsaw. Her works are mostly electroacoustic but also instrumental and electronic. Rożynek frequently collaborates with film and theatre directors and performers. Inspired mostly by vibration of environment in which she lives. Fascinated by ‚dirty’ and glitchy sound, frequently ‚unmusical’ – sounds of machines and engines, noise of cities and nature. Qba Janicki – born 6th February 1989 in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Currently living in Sokołowsko. Growing out of the artistic society gathered around famous club MÓZG. Over last 15 years he performed hundreds of concerts, with such personalities as Jerzy Mazzoll, Sławek Janicki, Roscoe Mitchell, Tomasz Sroczyński, Toshinori Kondo, Peter Brotzmann, Kris Wanders or Fred Frith. Currently he works solo and in such formations as Malediwy with Marek Pospieszalski, Kondensator Przepływu with Bartłomiej Chmara, Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet as well as in duos with composer Teoniki Rożynek and belgian producer Obsequies. Besides playing instruments, he also composes music for theatre working with Maciej Podstawny, Paweł Łysak, Artur Pałyga and Grzegorz Jaremko. He also made his appearance on the hiphop stage, producing an album HORE by a legendary rapper VIENIO of one of the first polish hiphop groups MOLESTA. In addition, as a co-creator of MÓZG FOUNDATION, he works on organizing cultural events in Bydgoszcz, Warsaw and Sokolowsko. Since 2020 he is alao running his own radio show « WARSTWY » for Radio Kapitał.CARVER [France]https://carverofficial.bandcamp.com/album/white-trashAvailability: On request Territory: Europe + UKCarver « can go along obeying all the rules and then it don’t matter anymore », far from an artificial mix of music styles, the band from Nantes (France) is a perfect synthesis of power trio experiences : Thomas Beaudelin guitar/vocal & saxophone (Café Flesh / Tom Bodlin / Trombe), David Escouvois drums (Francky Goes to Pointe à Pitre / Mr Protector / Mandrill) and Nicolas Monge bass (Nihil / My Own Pleasure). Their new EP « White Trash » is out, in keeping with their ongoing savoir-faire : a sound made of sneaky noise rock and a straight to the edge energy within 4 efficient tracks ! Record labels Araki Records, Day Off records, Kerviniou Recordz et Pied de Biche have co-produced the project.MICHAEL WOLLNY [Germany]https://www.actmusic.com/en/Artists/Michael-Wollny/Availability: On request Territory: Europe + UKAs a pianist, Wollny has established himself one of the most important figures on the instrument in our time. He is, as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has described him: « the consummate piano maestro: One can justifiably name Michael Wollny alongside phenomena like Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Brad Mehldau, Stefano Bollani and Paul Bley. He has everything you can demand of a perfect jazz pianist: masterly technique, exuberant imagination, discipline and a talent for creative chaos, sensitivity and aestheticism. » Few people work the piano as physically hard as Wollny does, his mind and body are always in constant motion. There is a viscerality about his playing. His expressive power is irresistible; it comes from the sheer energy levels he is capable of, from an inexhaustibly rich imagination and from a phenomenal technique. He has also probably won more awards in Germany than any other jazz musician, plus a « Choc de l’annee » from the French jazz magazine « Jazzman / Jazz Magazine », a Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Award, and the Album of the Year at both Jazzwise and The Times (London) for « Weltentraum » in 2014, an album which also made it into the German pop charts. Most recently, Wollny’s response to the lockdown has been to turn his gaze inwards and to record a solo album reflecting on the theme of solitude, « Mondenkind ». Here again, the breadth of influences is jaw-dropping: Alban Berg, Tori Amos, Sufjan Stevens, the Candian band Timber Timbre – plus his own compositions.AY FAST (USA)https://soundcloud.com/ay-fast/sets/2021-1/s-po8NhYgGaEYAvailability: On request Territory: Europe + UKWithout much fanfare, Ay Fast has been making some of the freshest, most intriguing electronic music on the scene. Also a talented visual artist, Ay Fast made his bones with Cleveland, Ohio’s Jerk — a gnashing, tempestuous noise rock group that centered on cheap and barely-functioning electronic gear systemically deconstructed by him and his bandmates. Rarely did a gig pass without some patched-together keyboard or synth ending up in the junk pile. But throughout Jerk’s decade-long existence, Ay Fast was concocting addictive, spastic, hypermelodic digital music. Periodically, CDRs and files would leak out and make bigger name artists look foolish and boring. Long-running taste-making electronic label Schematic noticed this stealthy game of one-upmanship and began releasing Ay Fast’s music. Now based just outside of Buffalo, New York, he has been churning out killer beats and quirky melodies for years. Another person who noticed was Beans — inimitable MC and former member of legendary underground hip-hop aggregate Anti-Pop Consortium. Anti-Pop is a key influence on Ay Fast’s unique take on the near-future sci-fi pulse that runs through his music. Their collaboration makes perfect sense and brings us to Ay Fast’s newest and most satisfying project to date — Icky Reels. The Icky Reels solo soundworld is a natural extension of his production work with Beans. Icky Reels illuminates your surroundings like the neon-lit anime cityscapes of our impending mythical future. It’s just around the corner and now you’ve got your cruising music. Plips, the debut Icky Reels album on Tygr Rawwk Rcrds, hops genres and styles effortlessly while melting the barriers between them at breakneck speed; equal parts Clark’s Clarence Park and Quasimoto’s The Unseen. Ay Fast has shared bills with acts as diverse as Venetian Snares to Black Dice and Tobacco to Oneohtrix Point Never. He’s remixed Lee Gamble, Nmesh, Danny Daze and more.PRESIDIOMODELO (Russia)https://presidiomodelo.bandcamp.com/Availability: January 2022 till late June 2022 Territories: Europe + UKPresidiomodelo is Novosibirsk-based group which explore the immersive potential of sound structures. Other words, we are trying to immersing the listener through the different states of consciousness. In Spanish « presidio modelo » means « model, exemplary prison » or « exemplary imprisonment », but name « presidiomodelo » has nothing to do with Cuba. It can be understood as a image of consciousness limited by subjective experience. Or as an image of voluntary reclusion / asceticism – the limitation of perception for concentration on the only important here and now. Something like that 🙂 The trio was formed on the wreckage of the experimental theater workshop « Ангел Копуста » in 2013. All presidiomodelo members have a direct relationship to the theater, most of the compositions are originally created as soundtracks for the plays and installations. The trio is not limited to purely sound studies but also experiments with performative and installation practices. For example, as part of the MYK group: https://mykfield.com/

I look forward to hearing from you soon.All the best.Alain

Noise Addict (playlist)

Voici la playlist du programme Noise Addict qui fut diffusé sur les ondes de Radio Campus Bruxelles le dimanche 20 juin 2021 entre 22h32 et 00h04

1/ Reprise: NEIL YOUNG: « Lookin’ for a Leader ». The Times.

2/ ANDY MOOR + ANNE-JAMES CHATON: « At argo 16 – Venezia mestre ».

3/ Trost: LEE RANALDO/JIM JARMUSH/MARC URSELLI/BALAZS PANDI: « Treshing field ». Churning Up The Ocean?

4/ ROME: « Panzerschokolade ».

5/ Blast First Petite: PAN SONIC / SUICIDE: « Motor maniac ». Endless.

6/ BEANS: « Bermuda serpent saliva man »/

7/ Southern Lord: ANNA VON HAUSSWOLF: « Entering ». All Thoughts Fly.

8/ Amgen: RODHI DAVIES: « Penglog ceffyl ». Telyn Rawn.

9/ Eux Saem: LES  MARQUISES: « Des carottes dans les cheveux ». Les Marquises/

10/ LAILA SAKINI: « Blip in the bungalow ».

11/ Thrill Jockey: SUMAC: « Consumed ». May You Be Held.

12/ STILL HOUSE PLANTS: « Curb ».

13/ Goner: NOTS: « Reactor ». We Are Nots.

14/ JORDAN DYKSTRIA: « 14 horse bells ».

15/ Century Media; EYEHATEGOD: « Every thing, every day ». A Historic Of Nomadic Begavior/

NOISY CRESCENDO (playlist)

Voici la playlist du programme Noisy Crescendo qui fut diffusé le dimanche 13 juin 2021 sur les ondes de Radio Campus entre 22h30 et minuit.

1/ MCA: TANGERINE DREAM; « Creation ». Sorcerer

2/ Castle Communication: TANGERINE DREAM: « Zeit ». Zeit.

3/ Atlantic Jazz: CHARLES MINGUS: « What love? ». Mingus at Antibes.

4/ Fatbeats: BEAT JUNKIES: « The session ». The World Famous Beat Junkies, vol.1

5/ Esp Disk: SUN RA: « Heliocentric worlds ». Heliocentric Worlds, vol.3

6/ Folkways; THE RNTOURAGE MUSIC THEATRE ENSEMBLE: « Incantation of the death of self ». The Neptune Collection.

7/ Riverside: THELIONIUS MONK WITH JOHN COLTRANE: « Epistrophy ». Thelonius Monk With John Coltrane.

8/ Ryko: JOHN LENNON / YOKO ONO: « No bed for beatle, John. Unfinished Music, n°2

9/ These: SPACEHEADS: « Smash the god offensive ». Round The Outside, Live In The USA/

10/ Virgin: TANGERINE DREAM: « Rubycon, part one ». Rubycon.

11/ Koos: NOBUKA – Album  The Body And The Madness

— 
Alain Bolle / Some Noise
16, Rue Timmermans
1190 Brussels
Belgium

BOOKING OFFERS

Dear all,Please find here under some bands and musicians who are available for live concerts/ performances.I am booking dates for them.Feel free to contact me if you want to set up a concert/performance.

BEANS (USA)https://beansiswack.bandcamp.com/Availability: 2022 Territories: Europe + UKAccomplished abstract poet. Early architect of electronic-infused beatscapes. Founding member of legendary left-field rap act Anti-Pop ConsortiumLAILA SAKINI (UK)https://lailasakini.bandcamp.com/Availability: 15th September – 15th December 2021 + from 15th January 2021 onwards Territory: BelgiumAnother record that arrived just on the cusp of strange times™ and sold out before anyone really had a chance to notice, Laila Sakini’s ‘Vivienne’ is an intimate collection of threadbare songs for piano, voice and effects that evoke a tremendous sense of melancholy – like a set of half-remembered earworms drifting into view decades later. It’s an album that provided us with a strong sense of presque vu – a feeling of being stood on the verge of some great inner realisation – and is perhaps the most vital and real re-configuration of traditional singer-songwriting we’ve come across since Grouper’s ‘Dragging A Dead Deer’ re-aligned dreampop/shoegaze signatures into something much more intangible and personal. For those of you who realise that not all quiet music should be tagged « Ambient », this is perhaps the most important intimate listening 2020 has to offer.JORDAN DYKSTRA (USA)https://jordandykstra.bandcamp.com/album/14-horse-bellsAvailability: March-April 2022 Territories: Europe + UKJordan Dykstra is a Brooklyn-based violist and composer exploring the performer-composer-listener relationship through the incorporation of conceptual, graphic, and text-based elements. His film music has been heard at numerous film festivals (Cannes, Sundance, Rotterdam, TriBeCa, Toronto, etc.) and his chamber music has been programmed in venues around the world (Tokyo, Reykjavík, Los Angeles, Zürich, New York City, São Paulo, Ostrava, Portland, Brussels, Berlin, Boston, etc.). Dykstra’s 2020 album The Arrow of Time was listed as one of the best Modern Composition albums by The Wire and included in Best Contemporary Classical Albums of 2020 by Bandcamp. In 2015 Dykstra founded Editions Verde, a small-run cottage industry label exploring the connection between sound and object.STILL HOUSE PLANTS [UK]https://soundcloud.com/stillhouseplantsAvailability. September and October 2021 Territory: EuropeArtists Finlay Clark, David Kennedy, Jessica Hickie-Kallenbach and Calum O’Connor create collaborative works as musical collective Still House Plants. Using the conventions of Western instrumentation, text pieces are linked to obscured melodies, exploring the qualities of the human voice with a grounding in a Minimalist approach to song structure, tempo and rhythm. Through use of guitar, vocals, drums, saxophone, and violin, a grounding is created; consciously not overusing instrumentation, the instruments are pushed the furthest that they can go. Rather than using effects or synths, the body is put into play, saturating the instruments for everything they have.PATRICIA BRENNAN (USA)https://patriciabrennan.bandcamp.com/Availability: 16th-26th October + 1st-23rd November + 1st-12th December + March-April + June 2022 Territory: Europe + UKA vibraphonist to watch out for… » according to the New York City Jazz Record. Mexican born vibraphonist, marimbist, improviser and composer Patricia Brennan « has recently started to make her presence known on the New York avant-garde, working with such prominent bandleaders as Matt Mitchell and Michael Formanek. » observed The New York Times.

I look forward to hearing from you asap.All the best.Alain

Booking Offers

Voici la playlist du programme Noise Addict qui fut diffusé sur les ondes de Radio Campus Bruxelles le dimanche 6 juin 2021 entre 22h30 et minuit.

1/ Sacred Bones: ALAN VEGA: « Muscles ». Mutator.

2/ Lonesaw: « Barbed wire with church ».

3/ Aum Fidelity: DAVID S. WARE TRIO: « Bodhisattva ». Balance.

4/ Relative Pitch: ZEENA PARKINS/RASMUSSEN/SAWYER: « Nat bygone, just bigonne ». Glass Triangle.

5/ VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR: « The uncover man ».

6/ Elevator Bath: FRANCISCO LOPEZ: « Fabrikas ». Machines.

7/ Touch/ MIKA VAINIO: « Swedenborgia »/. Black Telephone Of Matter.

8/ Denovali: PRAIRIE: « One-eyed cage ». + « Tendress ». And The Bird Said: Cut Me Open.

9/ CATHERINE LAMB:= « Muto infinitas ».

10/ Ipecac: HUMAN IMPACT: « Consequences ». Human Impact

11/ Hickies: « Motherlode ».

12/ Northern Spy: ONEIDA & RHYS CHATHAM: « Mabinogian [Oneida version]. What’s Your Sign?

13/ DUMA: « Lionsblood ».

14/ Southern Lord: NADJA: « Starres ». Luminous Rot.

15/ Trigger Cut: « Regular funk ».

BOOKING OFFERS

Dear all

Please find here under some bandds and musicians who are available for live concerts-performances.

I am booking some dates for them.


Please feel free to get back to me if you waznt to set up a concerts or a performance.


FRESCHARD (France) + STANLEY BRINKS (France)
https://freschard.bandcamp.com/
https://stanleybrinks.bandcamp.com/
Availability:  Autumn 2021
Territory: Europe + UK
Stanley Brinks began performing officially as André Herman Düne in 1999, sharing lead vocals, guitar playing and songwriting with his brother David in the band Herman Düne for a number of years. They released several albums and toured extensively in UK, gaining and owing a lot to great support from John Peel. He has used many monikers for various side-projects, but since leaving Herman Düne in 2006, he has been known solely as Stanley Brinks. Born in Paris, Stan has been living between New York, San Francisco, Malta and Berlin for about a decade, always on the move. He has recorded more than 100 albums, collaborated with the New York Antifolk scene on several occasions, recorded and toured with traditional Norwegian musicians, and played a lot with The Wave Pictures.
Freschard grew up in a farm in French Burgundy. Aged 18 she moved to Paris, where she baked pies and cakes in a cafe. There, a local musician and regular customer called Stanley Brinks wrote a few songs for her to sing. Homeless in Paris, she saved up just enough money to get herself a ticket to New York. There she found an old electric guitar and started writing her own songs. In 2004 she moved to Berlin, where she recorded her first LP, « Alien Duck ». Her second album, « Click Click », recorded in 2006, features electric guitar by Stanley Brinks. On her third album, she plays the drums herself. On her fourth “Shh…” she also plays the flute. For this year’s “Boom Biddy Boom” she also plays the washboard.


ANDY MOOR (UK) + ANNE-JAMES CHATON (France)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fbUM2z5Ptg
Availabilities: 13th and 16th October 2021
Territory: Belgium
Heretics is a series of portraits of radical heretical figures found throughout the history of schismatic thinking.Heretics like Caravaggio, William Burroughs, Jose Mujica, Marquis de Sade and Johnny Rotten, fascinated the artists. These influential figures are presented here in the form of poetic texts and catchy melodies combined with experimental noise.


ROME (Luxezmburg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZSF9G2IXg4
Availability: 18th November
Territory: Belgium
Rome (often stylized as ROME) is an experimental neofolk and martial industrial act founded in November 2005 as a main output for the songs of Jérôme Reuter (born August 2nd, 1981)[3][4] of Luxembourg.[5] Though Reuter is the main creative force in the band, he performs live with a range of musicians who also contribute performances on various studio recordings. In early 2006 Rome was signed to the Swedish record label Cold Meat Industry. Rome has since signed with the Trisol Music Group record label as of 2009. Rome is considered one of the most important acts within the neofolk genre.[6][7]

LOUISE LEMON (Sweden)
https://louiselemon.bandcamp.com/album/devil
Availability: 30th September
Territory: Belgium
Louise Lemón has a sound that is best described as death gospel. When playing live she evokes a massive and fateful sound with vigorous and soul-esque vocals.


Thanksd for reading.


I look forwzard to hearing from you soon.


All the best.


Alain




— 
Alain Bolle / Some Noise
16, Rue Timmermans
1190 Brussels
Belgium