VROOOM #66
┆APRICOT MY LADY
┆SPIRITCZUALIC ENHANCEMENT CENTER
┆MARIA CARLAS & MYLO CYWITZ
┆DJ No See Jazz
location: Pink Pank – Delftsestraat 9, Rotterdam
doors: 20:30 end: 23:30 / entrance: 6 euro
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/544955812633327/
On
this evening: Apricot My lady is sound bros Adam and Jonathan Bohman,
Anne La Berge, and Lukas Simonis. As a four-piece band they make music
that sits on it’s desert island waiting for nobody, heard by everybody.
The duo Maria Carlas and Mylo Cywitz present a costumed show that sounds
like a garagey electronic opera. Stopping by from Germany: the
"outernational" Spiritczualic Enhancement Center; an eclectic ensemble
with rootst in different cities and countries who create ritualistic and
devotional instrumentals.
APRICOT MY LADY┆int'l
Apricot My
Lady comprises sound mavericks Adam and Jonathan Bohman, Anne La Berge
and Lukas Simonis. Formed in 2003, the quartet joyously make borderline
music using found objects, text, voice, samples, filters, mixers,
pedals, violins, guitars and flutes. It might be (un)interesting to know
whether this music is supposed to be ‘improvised’ or ‘composed’ or
‘heavily processed’ or even ‘spontaneously erected’. It’s all that and
less, or none of that and more. Influences are: Fluxus, Cage, de Band
Zonder Naam, and Ubiquity (not the software).
https://adambohman.bandcamp.com
SPIRITCZUALIC ENHANCEMENT CENTER┆int'l
This
eclectic ensemble can be described as a sort of free beat resonance
field with a revolving cast of players. At Vrooom they're are going to
be a quintet that creates spontaneous instrumentals that are
ritualistic, strange and devotional. Following concerts at Fusion
Festival in Berlin, the Outernational Days in Bucharest, and the New
Hamburg festival, they have three releases coming up: "Transporting
Salt" on Crash Symbols, "Who Corrupted Our Wave, Back in 1969?" on
Kinship; and a vinyl release entitled "Me and My Students Have Reached
Higher Levels" on Cheb Gero's Akuphone, scheduled for early 2019.
https://soundcloud.com/enhancementcenter
MARIA CARLAS & MYLO CYWITZ┆it/nl
Maria
Carlas (aka Carla Genchi) is a classicaly-trained singer from Italy who
studied at the Nino Rota Conservatory in Monopoli. Carlas teamed up
with Mylo Cywitz; a German vocalist and composer based in the
Netherlands. The voices of this duo are embedded in an orchestral
environment created by their samplers and electronics. Maria layers her
operatic voice and impulsive key work onto Mylo's classical industrial
compositions.
https://mariacarlasmylocywitz.bandcamp.com/releases
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This event is made possible with kind support of Popunie Rotterdam.
VROOOM #65
┆SAX RUINS (Tatsuya Yoshida & Ono Ryoko / Ipecac Recordings)
┆PISITAKUN (th / Chinabot)
┆LAFIDKI (kh / Chinabot)
┆Chris Baas – DJ
location: Pink Pank – Delftsestraat 9, Rotterdam
doors: 20:30 end: 23:30 / entrance: 7 euro
FB event
Vrooom goes Far East. Minimalist in instrumentation, maximalist in
compositional complexity, the hyper-kinetic instrumental rock duo Sax
Ruins comprises Yoshida Tatsuya and Ono Ryoko. Yoshida is the most
important and innovative drummer in Japanese avant-garde music of the
past 30 years. Ono Ryoko is one of the best saxophone players in
Japanese improv. Next to the post-human, ultra-nimble mathematical
bludgeon of this pair we're also excited to host two artists of Chinabot
– a collective created to change the dialogue surrounding Asian music.
┆SAX RUINS┆jp
Drummer
extraordinaire Yoshida Tatsuya and saxophonist extraordinaire Ono Ryoko
form the tag team Sax Ruins. This duo packs more ideas and time
signature changes into their two-minute songs than most artists can fit
on an entire album. The albums "Yawiquo" (on Mike Patton's Ipecac, 2009)
and "Brimmguass (Skin Graft, 2014) are jaw-dropping works of extremely
dense and pure musicianship, comparable to a big band playing
progressive Jazz-hardcore.
https://ipecac.com/artists/sax_ruins
┆LAFIDKI┆kh / uk
Lafidki
is a London-based sound/visual artist who has been releasing
experimental electronic since 2008. He is the founder of Chinabot, a
platform / collective created to change the dialogue surrounding Asian
music. Born in a refugee camp in Phanat Nikhon (Thailand) to Cambodian
refugee parents who fled Pol Pot's regime, Lafidki was raised in France.
His music is an confluence of ideas, synthesising multiple
underrepresented histories, geographies, musical genres and cultural
signifiers into compelling, colourful sonic material that packs
contemporaneous dancefloor weight. He released his EP ‘Absynthax’ via
Orange Milk records.
https://www.chinabot.co/lafidki
┆PISITAKUN┆th
Pisitakun
Kuantalaeng is an artist from Bangkok, Thailand. Visual and performance
elements inspired by historical (political) events feed into his
experimental music. His album "Black Country" (2016) deals with a
country full of dialogues between dark voices. As Thai history currently
unfolds under martial law following the military coup on 22 May 2014 –
the thirteenth since the end of the absolute monarchy in 1932 –
Pisitakun’s music and art represents a decisive break from many of his
Thai peers: he questions fundamental and increasingly universal values
without merely decrying corruption, or offering palliatives. Pisitakun's
works are based on political speculation and the external and internal
frustrations artists are subject to.
https://www.chinabot.co/pisitakun
http://thequietus.com/articles/24151-pisitakun-kuantalaeng-thailand-noise-artist
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This event is made possible with kind support of Popunie Rotterdam.
