Filed under: Chinchillatone Records, France, Pickled egg, Upset the Rhythm, a.P.A.t.T. Syndication, chops, post music | Tags: apatt, Liverpool, icy demons, rock, pop, avant garde, oddball, weird, the beatles, experimental, nowave, post music, syndication show, Prog rock, Cardiacs, Mr Bungle, Oingo Boingo, The residents, Zappa, Polysics, Gentle Giant, DJ Scotch Egg, Tom waits, ChromeHoof, Slayer, Scott Walker, Metronomy, uk, pink floyd, canterbury
a.P.A.t.T./Chops /Hokaben Feature on French TV
a.P.A.t.T./ CHOPS footage from Hokaben Festival @ 93 Foot East in London, November 2008
Pourquoi se répéter quand on peut innover! Inclassables, inconnus, impayables, les parias du son font pèlerinage au festival Hokaben, Mecque de la Nu’Zik.
On croyait avoir tout entendu… Raté! Londres remet les pendules à l’heure et accueille la crème des musiques non identifiées.
Ils ont atterri à Brick Lane, un quartier situé à l’Est de Londres réputé pour son marché aux puces, ses bars et… ses salles de concerts. Cette année pour la première fois le “93ft East” accueille le festival “Hokaben”, “livraison chaude” en japonais. Sa mission : rassembler pendant trois jours les groupes les plus bizarres, bruyants et dingues de la planète!
Les aventuriers les plus intrépides de la nu’zik ont rendez vous en marge des deux salles principales, sur une scène collée au bar. Une prise électrique, c’est à peu près tout ce qu’offre le festival Hokaben. Les concerts s’enchaînent sans que les groupes aient le temps de faire leur balance.
Katie Stelmanis
Moitié italienne, moitié lettonne et résidant à Toronto, Katie Stelmanis étudie l’Opéra dès son plus jeune âge, avant de rejoindre le combo féminin Galaxy. Trois ans plus tard, en 2007, elle s’enfuit avec la batteuse du groupe, Maya Postepski, sort son premier album, et se retrouve à 24 ans, sélectionnée au festival Hokaben.
DJ Scotch Egg
Piocher dans l’art lyrique ou piller la musique classique: les explorateurs du son repoussent les frontières. Le japonais DJ Scotch Egg a imaginé une symphonie pour console de jeux portables, qu’il surnomme du “Gameboy Gabba Punk”.
Le collectif a.P.A.t.T.
Vétérans de la nu’zik, le collectif a.P.A.t.T. envoie valser depuis 10 ans les étiquettes et les genres musicaux. Les membres de ce groupe de Liverpool changent continuellement de style et de musiciens. Seule constante : leurs uniformes invariablement blancs.
Zun Zun Egui
Formé en 2006, Zun Zun Egui, “Yeah Yeah Ah!” en japonais, est le résultat d’un choc tectonique entre le mauricien Kush, importateur de Rhum dans le civil et la japonaise Yushino graphiste. Dans le groupe, seul le batteur gagne sa vie dans la musique. Sans album ni single, le quatuor basé à Bristol prend son pied à brouiller les cartes. Un pudding relevé!
Filed under: Capital of Culture, Chinchillatone Records, Class a audio, Liverpool, Pickled egg, Upset the Rhythm, Yahdigg.com, a.P.A.t.T. Syndication, apatt, ballons, icy demons, music, post music, post music night, stan ambrose | Tags: apatt, Balloons, gig, icy demons, KAZIMIER, Liverpool, May 14th
Icy Demons/a.P.A.t.T./Balloons – Performance of a lifetime! @ – THE KAZIMIER
Icy Demons/a.P.A.t.T./Balloons – Performance of a lifetime!
@ – THE KAZIMIER- May 14th
Icy Demons
Started by Bablicon’s Griffin Rodriguez (aka Blue Hawaii) and Man Man’s Christopher Powell (aka Pow Pow), Icy Demons are a genre-spanning hypno-rhythmic indie project borrowing heavily from electro, Krautrock, and prog rock, specifically its Canterbury subgenre. Rodriguez takes bass and vocal duties while Powell drums, and the two act as the primary ringleade
rs of the band, roping in a rotating circus of musicians from their home cities of Philadelphia and Chicago. Upon initiation into the group, members adopt aliases like Graveyard P, Young Master Schneider, Ta-Freek-Ya, and the Diminisher. Cloud Recordings, a label with close ties to Elephant 6, another collective-friendly band of brothers, took a liking to Icy Demons’ first record an
d released Fight Back! in 2004. Between touring with their respective groups and recording albums for other musicians at Rodriguez’s Shape Shoppe studio, Rodriguez and Powell found time to piece together their second Icy Demons album, Tears of a Clone, in 2006, which was released by Eastern Developments. To add to their musical endeavors and house their creative output, the two started a record label called Obey Your Brain, and released Miami Ice in April of 2007. Plans followed to play live shows as a touring band with guitarist Russell Higbee of Man Man, guitarist Jeff Parker of Tortoise, upright bassist Josh Abrams of Prefuse 73 and Sam Prekop, and atmospheric improviser and cellist Tomeka Reid, in support of Slint and Arcade Fire, and as a main stage act at the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival. Miami Ice was reissued that summer.
www.myspace.com/icydemons
www.icydemons.com
a.P.A.t.T.
a.P.A.t.T. sound like the best bits of eveything you’ve ever heard. File next to ABBA / Zappa. Completely original bewildering 2-7 piece band using all the genres possible to create a daft yet beautiful mess. Running all over stage whilst swapping instruments. Eclectic dosn’t cover it.
“To hear a.P.A.t.T.or more specifically their ‘Back and white mass’ full length album is to experience a musical odyssey like no other, avoiding the usual pragmatics of pop, they are a law unto themselves” -M Barton.
2009 = Prepare for the village idiots of pop
www.apatt.com
www.myspace.com/apatt
Balloons
There are five of them and they call themselves Balloons, beyond that we know nothing except that on the evidence of these showcased cuts they sound like they’ve been overly tucking in to the kaleidoscopic sherbet over the festive season concocting and cobbling deliriously skewed sounds that sound for all the world like wired road kill resulting from a head on collision between early career Sparks, Cardiacs, Devo and ‘SF Sorrow’ era Pretty Things
www.myspace.com/wereballoons
PLUS POST MUSIC DJ’s
£5 entry
8:30pm doors
9pm first act prompt
CHEAP ENTRY FOR GROUPS
OF FIVE PEOPLE FOR £20.
(5-4-20)
THE KAZIMIER
4-5 Wolstenholme Square
Liverpool
L1 4JJ
United Kingdom
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