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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 get back to me if you want to set up a concert/performance for one of them.

ASTIRELLO (Argentina)https://astillero.bandcamp.com/Availability: November 2024 Territory: BelgiumCelebrated as the new tango of Buenos Aires on the most prestigious stages of the world, Astillero reflects the passion, rebellion and fury of a devastated city. From the Argentine crisis of 2001 comes this exceptionally beautiful, sensual and yet rabid music that the BBC proclaimed as “The continuation of Piazzolla, absolutely virtuous, crazy and fantastic.HANNES SEIDL (Germany)https://soundcloud.com/hgs/die-letzten-25-jahre-expt?si=95506a8e021d4e8daae736181d8c8c9a&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharingAvailability: From April 2024 Onwards Territories: Europe + UKHannes Seidl (1977) was born in Bremen. Between 1988 and 2003, he studied Composition with Nicolaus A. Huber and Thomas Neuhaus on the Folkwang Academy in Essen, as well as with Beat Furrer on the University of Arts Graz in the frame of the DAAD scholarship. Among other, he created works on IRCAM (Paris), in ZKM (Karlsruhe), in the electronic studio of AdK (Berlin) and in IEM (Graz). He received numerous awards and was scholarship awardee of Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music, scholarship holder of Academy of Arts Berlin and DAAD. He received the first price on the competition on Impulse 2005 and composition competition of Bremen Landesmusikrat 2006. Hannes Seidl developed his pieces with numerous renowned ensembles like Ensemble Modern, KNM Berlin, Ensemble Mosaik, Klangforum Wien or the New Vocal Soloists Stuttgart. His compositions were presented, among others, on Donaueschinger Musiktagen, Ultraschall-Festival Berlin, Festival Ultima Oslo, on steirischen herbst Graz, ECLAT und Warschauer Herbst.ENEMIC INTERIOR (Spain)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l94yp72BF8AAvailability: Early April 2024 Territory: BelgiumAfter their demo tape released in early 2022 (and recently reissued on vinyl) this Catalan band is back with 6 new tracks on this 7″ in the same vein as their debut: hearty songs with bleak and introspective lyrics sung in Catalan, filled with bittersweet melodies that go deep. Somber Punk with exquisite sensitivity that mingles with Post-Punk without falling into any formula, showing nothing but excellent songwriting skills in order to combine different elements and influences of various sub-categories of punk creating something really unique and very personal. It´s catchy, angry, gloomy, melodic, raw and desperate. It´s ENEMIC INTERIOR.ABIGAIL TOLL (UK/DE)https://soundcloud.com/abigailtollAvailability: January-June 2024 Territory: BelgiumAbigail Toll is an experimental music artist based in Berlin. Her psychoacoustic soundworlds combine ambient, electroacoustic techniques which unfold as meditation and upheaval. Her artistic research focuses on data aesthetics and harmonic chaos as a mode for critical thinking, which is often in collaboration with musicians, artists and writers. Matrices of Vision is the title of her forthcoming debut record which will be released on 18 August 2023 on Shelter Press.The piece premiered as an ensemble performance featuring Rebecca Lane, Lucy Railton, and Evelyn Saylor at the Klosterruine in Berlin with KW Institute of Contemporary Art and at KM28 in 2022. Toll composed the piece during her Masters in Electroacoustic Composition at the KMH–Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Toll’s work and performances have also been shown at Kunsthalle Gent; Pawilon, Posnan and Volksbuhne Berlin among others. She will present her upcoming sculptural-sonic collaboration with interdisciplinary artist Stina Baudin for Rehearsing Moves on Hazy Paths at ZK/U in September 2023.Toll studied English Literature and Art History (BA) at Sussex University (Brighton, UK) and is the recipient of numerous scholarships. She was an artist in residence for the Amplify Berlin programme in 2018 with Caterina Barbieri and Maya Shenfeld, shortly after which she released her first EP Old World | New Ruins in 2019 under the moniker Ionian Death Robes.Toll’s work and performances have been shown at ZK/U (Berlin, DE); Klosterruine with KW Institute (Berlin, DE); Kunsthalle Gent (Ghent, BEL); The Lucerne School of Music (Lucerne, CH); LAS – Pawilon (Poznan, PL); Volksbühne (Berlin, DE); Swedish Association of New Music Promoters, (Gävle, SE); l’Ancienne Belgique (Brussels, BEL), UT Connewitz, (Leipzig, DE); Arttheater, (Cologne, DE); Beatpol (Dresden, DE) and with Tiara Roxanne at re:publica (Berlin, DE), Images Festival (Toronto, CA) and AMOQA (Athens, GR) among others.MARTIN BISI [USA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrCClsjSm2Y https://martin-bisi.bandcamp.com/album/feral-mythsAvailbility: 11th-20th November Territories: central-western Germany, Prague, Vienna, Netherlands, Belgium. Paris, DenmarkMartin Bisi band – Bisi is an original No Wave and Post-Punk producer from New York City who has been a central figure in it’s musical history for the past four decades. Bisi has made landmark recordings by Brian Eno (On Land), Sonic Youth, Swans, Unsane, Lydia Lunch, John Zorn, Africa Bambaataa, JG Thirlwell/Foetus, Cop Shoot Cop, Herbie Hancock’s « Rockit », Live Skull, White Hills, Dresden Dolls and countless others

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

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Booking offers (2023 #26)Dear all,Please find here under some bands and musicians who be soon touring.I am booking dates for them.Feel free to get back to me if you want to set up a concert/performance for one of them.

BEAM SPLITTERhttps://triptickstapes.bandcamp.com/album/split-jawAvailabilities: 9th-11th October, 16th-25th October, 19th November-07 December Territories: Europe + UKBEAM SPLITTER have been touring globally since 2015, playing close to two hundred concerts in a wide variety of spaces and contexts, bringing their own brand of highly amplified dialog, which is as intimate as it is equal amounts raw and entirely exposed. They join together their two individual voices into a distinct language that delves beyond the borders of the corporeal elements of un-processed voice and trombone, while utilizing analog electronics to offset their hyper extended physical play. The duo’s latest album « SPLIT JAW » was released on Nat Baldwin’s Tripticks Tapes in 2023. This bite size format packs an entire universe of their crafted sputter, breath and glitch inside its forty-five minute magnetic tape loop. The album is one third introspective Berlin studio production and the rest, live from a splintering concert given at Wels Unlimited Festival in Austria, their last concert of 2022 where audience and the duo alike giving it their all center of room, split open like hollow bones head to clavicle, muscles twitching and air spewing, breaking ground and mending it with alien hums.CHOPCHOP (UK)https://chopchopsounds.bandcamp.com/album/el-sticoAvailability: 2024 Territory: BelgiumSince their inception in 2016 CHOPCHOP have garnered a reputation as a compelling live band, with Galician writer Xelís de Toro mixing performance art with his yelped vocals, and the band pulling in wildly eclectic influences to form their own unique sound. They have been played on the BBC 6’s cult favourite radio show Freak Zone, and had a recent sold-out headline show with veteran Brighton promoters Melting Vinyl. Following on from their debut album ‘Everything Looks So Real’ and 2023’s EP ‘Elástico’, the band have a third release due for November 2023, and plan to build on their extensive live experience with some overseas shows in 2024.PASSED FUTURIST (Finland)https://passedfuturist.bandcamp.com/album/lost-naturistAvailability: tba Territories: BeneluxKnown mostly from their adventures in experimental rock music and visual art, Heikki Hautala (gtr) and Touko Santamaa (drums) lay their insides on the table and predict the future. The group’s live work is simultaneously both conceptual and performative.CLAUDE COOPER & BRAIN FROG (UK/USA)https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-jazz/the-best-jazz-on-bandcamp-february-2023Availability: Autumn 2023 Territories: Europe + UKOne year on and Claude Cooper has now re-emerged working in collaboration with poet vocalist Brain Fog on ‘More Myriad Sounds’, a fresh consideration of that debut available from 10th February through Friendly Recordings. The story goes that the desperate lyricist, burdened by the weight of his unsung rhymes, got wind of Cooper’s sonic exploits and travelled across the Atlantic from his Brooklyn home to the West country nu-jazz capital determined to track Claude down. The NY rapper with an untraceable back story obviously succeeded, the mythical Mr Cooper was found and now we have their joint effort. Whatever, let’s not take the distractions any further. There may be an element of sneaky rib-tickling going on here with all the smoke and mirrors but that’s not the issue. What matters is that in ‘More Myriad Sounds’, Claude Cooper (and his new buddy) have made another album that absolutely rocks.SPECIMENS [UK]https://specimensmusic.bandcamp.com/album/intersectionsAvailability: On request Territory; Europe + UKSpecimens is the London/Paris based British/Jamaican artist Alex Ives. His work explores the avenues of self awareness & racial identity through the medium of cassette loops, ambient drones, distorted piano samples, saxophone and experimental frequencies. He has toured across Europe, Japan & America throughout his musical projects performing alongside artists such as Machinefabriek, Midori Hirano, Chihei Hatakeyama, John Bence & more. Ives has released 4 full length LPs featuring collaborations with the likes of Benoit Pioulard, Midori Hirano, Peter Broderick & Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch. His album ‘In The Dust Of Idols’ which was featured as one of FACT Magazines “Ambient Albums Of The Year” & recent album Power, Pain, Privilege is accompanied with a film by Director Lucie Rox & is incorporated into his live show, performances of this have been held in Paris (3537), London (Southbank Centre / FAWW Gallery) & Liverpool. He also released a track on the compilation @0 which was released on the Ninja Tune imprint Ahead of Our Time featuring artists such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Julianna Barwick, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Suzanne Ciani and more.KILL YOUR BOYFRIEND [Italy]https://killyourboyfriend.bandcamp.com/album/voodooAvailability 6th-7th December Territory: Belgiumitalian dark-psych / post-punk duo will embark on another tour in December ’23 in promotion of their latest and very well received album ‘Voodoo’ Kill Your Boyfriend is a two-piece band formed in 2011 in Venice (Italy): Matteo Scarpa on guitar/vocals and Antonio Angeli on drums (Live set 3 musicians).The band’s sound could be defined as an extremely loud and dark psych / post-punk / shoegaze mix, taking inspiration from bands like Suicide, Jesus and Mary Chains, Joy Division.TOMOYUKI AOKI [Jap] + MASAMI KAWAGUCHI [Jap]https://utechrecords.bandcamp.com/track/aoki-tomoyuki-sweet-sister-solo-version https://anarchiveslabel.bandcamp.com/album/self-portraitAvailability:17th November Territory: BelgiumAoki Tomoyuki is mostly known with as the guitarist & vocalist of Up-Tight (Alchemy records, 8mm) and for more than 2 decades he has been behind some albums which mix plaintive echo-drenched imprecations, love of bitter-sweet folk and blissfully nihilistic guitar noise reminiscent of Les Rallizes Denudes and Mizutani’s velvetian ballads. In early 90’s, Kawaguchi formed the band called Broom Dusters and started his music career in Tokyo underground music scene. He joined Haino Keiji’s Aihiyo as a bassist in 1998. He formed the band called Miminokoto with Shimura Koji (ex. Acid Mothers Temple) and Nishimura Takuya iin 2000. He left Miminokoto and formed Kawaguchi Masami’s New Rock Syndicate in 2006. Recently he plays with his band New Rock Syndicate, Haino Keiji’s The Hardy Rocks and also plays as solo and collaborates with many musicians including Penny Ikinger, Deniz Tek(Radio Birdman), Anla Courtis (Argentina), Mason Jones (US), Yohei Hasegawa(Korea) and more, from garage rock to free improvisation.

I hope to hear from you soon. All the best.Alain

Some Noise • Avenue Emile Verhaeren, 4 – 1030 Brussels, Belgium

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

DELPHINE DORA (France) + MOCKE (France)https://bythebluestofseas.bandcamp.com/album/linvisible-est-multiformeAvailability: December 2023 + January 2024 Territories: Europe + UKAfter a first album as a duo released on Okraina Records: « Le Corps défendant », Delphine Dora and Mocke invite us to join them again in listening to a new album. We slip into it as if in a dream, the music carries us away with its floating images. Heard before on a handful of disturbingly beautiful solo albums and in collaborations such as Midget!, Arlt, Chevalrex, Mohamed Lamouri, Mocke (Dominique Dépret’s nom de plume) is a subtle and inventive guitarist, who draws melancholic arpeggios, with a beautiful languor, that walk the line between tensions and tears. Delphine Dora has been heard with Roxane Métayer, Sophie Cooper, Andrew Chalk, Jackie McDowell, Helena Espvall, Valentina Magaletti … meeting in a moment of improvisation, a solitary sincopated voice blooming between the black and white keys of her piano, tuning betwist these keys, or at other times in the gap of the right note. Here improvisation feeds on melody, or is it the other way round?PAOLO CALABRESE [Italy]https://adventurousmusic.bandcamp.com/album/no-14Availability: On request Territory: Europe + UKPaolo Calabrese is an Italian artist whose work mostly encompasses recordings, phonographies, and performances. his main focus is on sound capacities: unconventional tunings, exploration of psychoacoustic properties, and perceptions phenomena. his pieces of work deal with topics such as deep listening, sonic awareness, silence, reductionism, abstraction, minimalism, and timbre research. his solo and collaborative works are documented on labels such as adventurous music, here free press, hxagrm, subsist, exprecords, corpus black. he is currently attending the academy of fine arts (new media) in bari.ANGEL-HO [South Africa]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppGEJHAt6HUAvailability: 2024 Territories: Europe + UKSouth African artist and performer Angel-Ho produces experimental club music related to themes of transgender identity, oppression, solidarity, and resistance. Chaotic, abrasive, and challenging, her music combines industrial sound design with intense club rhythms. Along with Nkisi and Chino Amobi, Angel-Ho is one of the founders of NON Worldwide, a collective of artists of the African diaspora. Establishing her sound with abstract releases such as 2015 EP Ascension, Angel-Ho made her proper full-length debut with 2019’s Death Becomes Her, a more focused album highlighted by her bold, assertive vocals.KRIS KULDKEPP [Germany]https://vimeo.com/782281356Availability: On request Territories; Europe + UKKris Kuldkepp is an experimental musician and performance artist based in Hamburg, Germany. After years of musical life dedicated to classical and early music performance on the double bass and viola da gamba, she currently works with DIY audio techniques combined with cutting edge technologies to create a unique fusion of traditional music and sonic disturbance. She explores the rich traditions of the double bass to discover sonic experiences featuring rich harmonic textures, noise music as well as elements from pop and doom ambient. In addition to the double bass, she uses found objects, motors, and field recordings to create musical experiences that deconstruct meanings and forms of musical structures. Kris has presented her music at the festivals such as Papiripar, JAUNA MUZIKA, StimmeX, Blurred Edges Festival, Piksel, and Estonian Music Days. In addition to sound art, Kris frequently features in theatre and performance art settings working with interactive technology, audience participation, and durational performance. Her solo performance works, ranging from interactive performances to private installations, focus on public intervention, physical body as a material, and noise music. She has given various lectures and workshops on interactive technology, spatial sound, and free improvisation in Europe and the USA. Kris is a co-curator of the Biannual International Symposium on Sonic Art and Spatial Audio KLINGT GUT! KLG in Hamburg, Germany.THE MONOCHROME SET [UK]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpND7mJ350GMdm-lb7i2nOQAvailability: From March 2024 onwards Territories: The Netherlands and BelgiumFeaturing original Monochrome Set members Bid (Guitar/Vocals) and Andy Warren (bass) with Athen Ayren on keyboards and Stephen Gilchrist on drums.The Monochrome Set formed in 1978, and were heavily influential in the ‘post-punk’ scene that evolved after the initial scorched earth of punk. The band’s early releases were on the legendary Rough Trade Label before signing with Virgin offshoot Din Disc. They also released several albums on the Cherry Red label, making a notable appearance on that labels’ well known ‘Pillows and Prayers’ compilation. Though The Monochrome Set split in 1985 the next decade saw several reunions for both live gigs and further studio recordings. After a hiatus of over a decade the band reformed full time in 2010 and have since toured all over the UK, Europe, Japan and the USA, whilst also releasing seven new, critically acclaimed, studio albums. Now in their 45th year, they are beginning a new series of gigs promoting their latest album and playing songs old and new.CATATONIC LEISURE (Russia/Israel)https://catatonicleisure.bandcamp.com/album/unkeyingAvailability: To be announced Territories: Europe + UKCatatonic Leisure is a project of Zurich based saxophone/electronics player Anton Ponomarev and piano/electronics artist Felix Mirensky who resides in Tel Aviv . They have been playing together in different formations for many years, mostly being involved in experimental and improvised jazz bands. In this duo musicians are exloring the boundaries of power electronics, noise, speedcore and just dance music.OVO (Italy)https://ovomusic.bandcamp.com/album/ignotoAvailability: 17th December Territory: BelgiumItalian noise-rock duo OvO has been at the center of the worldwide post-rock, industrial-sludge, and avant-doom scenes for nearly two decades. Their “always-on-tour” mentality, coupled with a DIY ethic, fearless vision, and pulverizing live shows have made them the Jucifer of Europe; impossible to categorize, but always there, appearing in your hometown, like a ghostly omnipresence. OvO’s fiercely independent ethos and grinding live schedule have earned the band a significant worldwide fanbase that have come to expect nothing but the most daring and innovative dark music presentations.EVICSHEN (USA)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dPpZchcsNAAvailability: 21st November Territory: BelgiumVictoria Shen is a sound artist, experimental music performer, and instrument-maker based in San Francisco. Shen’s sound practice is concerned with the spatiality/physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body. Her music features analog modular synthesizers, vinyl/resin records, and self-built electronics. Eschewing conventions in harmony and rhythm in favor of extreme textures and gestural tones, Shen uses what she calls “chaotic sound” to oppose signal and information, eluding traditionally embedded meaning. Her personal identity; her body; is the space her work utilizes to restructure sonic meaning. In her live performances, she proposes an exploration between meaning and non-meaning through the physical activation of noise tropes. Her probing into these melodic voids interrogate the ways we perceive value within aural experiences. The appendage-like instruments and objects she makes, exemplify Shen’s ability to embody through sound her interest in the tension created by opposition: control and chaos, the unique and the mass produced, the practical and the absurd.

I hope to hear from you soon. All the best.Alain

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Booking offers (2023 #25)Dear all,Please find here under some bands and musicians who are available for live concerts/performances. I am busy now booking dates for them.Feel free to get back to me if you want to set up a concert or performance for one of them.

JANNEKE VAN DER PUTTEN [The Netherlands]https://aloardi.bandcamp.com/album/jnnkAvailability: On request Territories: Europe + UKJanneke van der Putten (Amsterdam, 1985) is a visual artist, performer and vocalist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She presented her work in Europe, South-America and in the African continent at the Lagos Biennale 2021. Solo exhibitions include: All Begins With A, TENT (Rotterdam, 2015), Directed to the Sun, Atelierhaus Quartier am Hafen (Cologne, 2017), Quitsa, CINNNAMON (Rotterdam, 2017), and duo-show [to], Kunstraum 34 (Stuttgart, 2020). Van der Putten was artist-in-residence at amongst others the Centre international d’art et du paysage (Île de Vassivière, 2014), Haute école des beaux-arts du Rhin (Mulhouse/Strasbourg, 2019–2020), and was awarded a fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, 2019). She has lead her performance workshop ‘Textile and Voice in the Landscape’ at the 45th National Salon of Colombia (Bogota, 2019) and her research ‘Geo-astronomical Relations: the Moon and the River as our Elements’ at ArtEz (Arnhem, 2020). Her work has been supported by Mondriaan Fund and CBK Rotterdam/Centre for Visual Arts KOSSIGA [Italy]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHKhXUzD0_8Availability: 3rd-5th November + 16th-18th November Territories; France + BelgiumStarting from “Tesa Musica Marginale” by Anatrofobia, Kossiga duo (drums and baritone sax) comes out in a Free Jazz-Core scream. Music that speaks about a life spent playing together, a great friendship, moving between punk urgency and the spirit of surprising each other through improvising.BÄRLIN (France)https://baerlin.bandcamp.com/Availability: 27th October – 5th November Territories: Belgium, The Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Czech RepublicBärlin transcends genre boundaries. Based on deep and enveloping bass loops that might remind cold wave and post-rock, the drums, clarinet/vocals and bass trio creates a one-of-a-kind energy blowing everything away in its path. Even though the trio’s approach can be reminiscent of Tuxedomoon, Morphine, Einstürzende Neubauten, or Portishead, it follows its own timeless quest with no equivalent.HIRAM SALSANO (Italy)https://hiramsalsano.bandcamp.com/album/bucolicaAvailability: On request Territories: Europe + UKHiram Salsano, born in Agropoli (SA), class of ’88, lives in Cilento, is an independent ethnographic researcher. She has performed in France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy. She works experimentally on the voice as an instrument and plays tammorra and tambourine, since 2022 she has been engaged in a personal author’s world musical project. In 2023 she released her first album « Bucolica »MY CAT IS AN ALIEN (Italy)https://ellipticalnoise.bandcamp.com/album/hypnotherapyAvailability: 2023 Territory: BelgiumMY CAT IS AN ALIEN (MCIAA) is the world-renowned outsider duo of radical, experimental instantaneous composers and intermedia artists formed by brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio from Torino, Italy in early 1998. They live and work between Torino—the « Alien Studio » for audiovisual arts—and a secret location—the « Alien Zone »—in a remote region of the Western Alps.CRIME AND THE CITY SOLUTION [Australia]https://crimeandthecitysolution.bandcamp.com/album/the-killerAvailability: 22nd November Territory: BelgiumCrime & the City Solution are an Australian rock band formed in late 1977 by singer-songwriter and mainstay Simon Bonney. They disbanded in 1979 leaving only bootleg recordings and demos. In late 1983, Bonney travelled to London and in 1985 he formed a new version of the group in the U.K. which included members of the recently disbanded The Birthday Party; later they transferred to Berlin, where they issued four albums – Room of Lights (1986), Shine (1988), The Bride Ship (1989) and Paradise Discotheque (1990) – before disbanding again in 1991. In 2012 Bonney reformed the band in Detroit with two veterans of its Berlin era and a handful of new members.SANAM [Libanon]https://sanambeirut.bandcamp.com/album/aykathani-malakonAvailability : 11th-16th November Territories: Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland 18th November (Lausanne??)Sanam is a free-rock post-folk sextet consisting of Sandy Chamoun, Antonio Hajj Moussa, Farah Kaddour, Anthony Sahyoun, Pascal Semerdjian and Marwan Tohme. The group first formed as part of a performance with Hans Joachim Irmler from the legendary German experimental group Faust, at the Irtijal music festival. Their music and performances are akin to a ritual, a marriage and an exorcism of traditional Egyptian song/Arabic poetry and improvised rock, free jazz and noise. They recorded their first album in a traditional house in the village of Saqi Reshmaya set to come out early 2023.

I hope to hear from you soon. All the best.Alain

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