We are thrilled to present you Spider, Spit and Broken Bells – the upcoming Haperende Mens Festival: December 8 and 9, 2017 (OCCII, Amsterdam) and January 12 and 13, 2018 (WORM+V2_ Rotterdam).
This edition will explore the idea of the sacred in the context of an overly regulated society. The present time in which political polarisation, alienation and thrill-seeking diverts us from inner experience and meaning. Where are those deep, intense moments that transcend our increasingly regulated daily lives?
Through a music and arts programme we present transgression, experiment and ritual as forms of sustainability; against the backdrop of today’s ever-increasing social disembodiment.
Not your usual cup of herbal tea maybe. Rather a mixture of spiders, spit and broken bells.
Spider, Spit and Broken Bells is made possible by Gemeente Rotterdam, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten (AFK) and in collaboration with WORM Rotterdam, V2_, OCCII Amsterdam, Pantropical and Europalia.
Chinese artist Pan Daijing lives in Berlin and is known for her incisive ritualistic experiments in music. Her live performances consist of theatrical performances with sounds inspired on the tribal industrial music of the 80’s, Tibetan music and field recordings of temples. Pan Daijing makes her audience go through a gripping catharsis of ecstasy and claustrophobia.
Perched on the cutting edge where Berlin’s music and art scenes blur into one another, Pan Daijing‘s music is steeped in dark noise and cinematic atmospherics, drifting into eerie drone and twisted beats. EP releases on Noisekölln and Bedouin Records have worked as enticing stepping stones towards the Chinese-born artists debut LP ‘Lack 惊蛰’, out on PAN in July 2017.
Culminating as the ‘finale’ to her improvisational live performances, the album also offers an insight to her future works. The process was intuitive and raw, born out of her previous explorations. Over the past 2 years, she has composed, recorded and edited different concerts and field recordings across Europe, China, and Canada, forming the basis of the record; ‘Lack 惊蛰’ was crafted from this long, painstaking mental and physical practice. The narrative of the album presents a perspective of the world as ‘the theatre of our minds’ – where Daijing sees the record as an ‘opera piece’ in its storytelling and drama.
Daijing’s pieces are created around a very intense and intimate mental catharsis, often expressed through a close physical interaction with strangers in her live sets which seek to engage them in a highly personal way. “When I was finalising this album, they didn’t feel like tracks to me anymore, but more like a psychoanalytical process,” she says. “I saw myself being this absurd, mad person ‘acting’ out the sounds… It’s rather physical, and became like a mindgame. All things came out naturally as part of me.”
Her purgative, often physical performances have recently pummelled the festival stages of CTM, Sonar, and Atonal, whilst also crafting sonic installations for exhibitions and live scored art performances and dance shows.
This remarkable new musical endeavor is a joint effort by Massimo Pupillo (Zu, Triple Sun) and Thighpaulsandra (Coil).
Massimo and Thighpaulsandra met in 2016.
Massimo being a longtime fan of Coil, and Thighpaulsandra a longtime fan of ZU, it was clear there was a common ground to go and create new music together.
Echoes of Coil music and Zu music appear here and there but the duo maps an uncharted territory. This is organic electronic music.
Their debut album will take you to dark and daring places — just as you’d expect of these joint forces. But even more, URUK is a challenging yet immersive listen of exceptional depth. The album is slated for a December 8th release on Consouling Sounds.
Anyone who has ever experienced the explosive Javanese duo Senyawa at work, is no doubt reminded of vocal artists Mike Patton or Diamanda Galas and of an intangible musical impact with a punk streak. This unique duo from Yogyakarta transformed traditional Javanese music through avant garde experiment and a serious injection of punk. Instrumentalist Wukir Suryadi builds his own instruments and frontman/singer Rully Shabara screams/pants /mumbles /sings and impresses with his unbelievable vocal technique.
Patshiva Cie is a 25-member polyphonic female choir that resides in Brussels. At the helm: choir leader Dounia Depoorter and choreographer Fatou Traoré who has French-Malinese roots and earned her stripes with/collaborated with Rosas (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker) and Alain Platel.
Senyawa and Patshiva Cie will be presented by Pantropical that focusses on rough edged tropical music, outré rural folklore, contemporary club music, global bass & more.
Lumisokea is a Belgian-Italian duo, formed by Koenraad Ecker and Andrea Taeggi. For the festival the band will turn into a quartet emphasizing their rhythm based trance inducing electro-acoustic improvisation. The duo has formed a four-piece band with percussionists Onno Govaert (NL) and Luca Marini (IT/DE) and will perform their special show ‘Dervish’. .
This project dives deep into Lumisokea’s trademark version of polyrhythmic intricacy and industrial sound design, using live drums, bass guitar, gongs, electronics and self-built percussion to push beyond the constraints of sequenced music. After a year-long preparation, Lumisokea is now proud to invite the audience for an extended session of snaking rhythms, spectral shimmers, growling synths and clanking copper plates.
AUN (can) + BLACK ZONE MYTH CHANT (fr, High Wolf) + LOW JACK (live set – L.I.E.S – The Trilogy Tapes ) + MARTIJN COMES & DJ CHIFF CHAFF
‘Blending the elements of psychedelic, ethnic industrial & cosmic shoegaze’.
Occii vs Haperende Mens – concert series #1 22 April 2015 Locatie: Occii, Amsterdam. Amstelveenseweg 134
OCCII, Amsterdam en Haperende Mens presenteren een reeks concerten met nadruk op de door Haperende Mens uitgezetten lijn (Haperende Mens festival september 2014). We zoeken opnieuw de muzikale grenzen op en mede gestimuleerd door het onorthodoxe programmeren van het Occii podium gaan we daarbij nog een stap verder. De ontregeling en het experiment staan centraal, de eigenzinnigheid van de muzikanten is daarbij vanzelfsprekend!
Bij dit ‘Kick Off’ event #1 is de fascinerende drone psychedelia van het nieuwe album van Black Zone Myth Chant live te beluisteren. (side project van High Wolf, eerder te gast op het HM festival). Tevens de donkere ambient-psychedelia van het Canadese AUN, en de presentatie van overtuigend nieuw werk van electro-acoustic’s producer Martijn Comes. Met een live set van de onconventionele Franse industrial techno producer Low Jack wordt de avond plezierig ontregelend afgesloten.
Industriële esthetiek, techno experiment, ambient drone, psychedelica and far beyond. ‘Een massive Zone Music line up!’
AUN (Can) : ‘ Their music melts the boundaries between psychedelic, ambient, shoegaze, industrial and cosmic music into a unique pulsing glitch and gaze aura. Their performance includes video artworks by Julie.’
Cosmic industrial duo AUN, forge their ambient-psychedelia, into a glitchy, pulsing, waking dream experience. This Montreal power couple, have performed 150+ concerts, in over twenty countries, at such key events as Mutek, FIMAV, Roadburn, Phobos, Wave Gothic, Heart of Noise. Their critically acclaimed discography of over 15 albums, ep’s and splits, on top avant-garde labels such as: Alien8 Recordings (Canada), Cyclic Law (Canada), Important (USA), Denovali (Germany), Conspiracy (Belgium), Drone (Germany), has earned them a solid ever growing international following. The duo have recently completed two new albums, including a collaborative effort with noted french turntablist Philippe Petit (Lydia Lunch, Murcof) and a return to their home base at Cyclic Law records, intitled ‘FIat Lux’.Martin Dumais: guitars, bass, organ, synthesizers, percussion, visuals Julie Leblanc: synthesizers, theremin, percussion, vocals, visuals
LOW JACK (F) :Een live set preview van zijn nieuwe album ‘Sewing Machine’ (Release Mei 2015):
What used to be called industrial music by those on the radical fringes of ’80s post-punk is surfacing again in the techno sphere and beyond. French producer Low Jack (aka Philippe Hallais) now seizes control over this rich heritage. His goal is not to take it back to basics and produce something you’ve already heard, but to take classic industrial aesthetics to the next level, extending the trance experience using raw, sharp and rough sounds.
Earned a reputation for his uniqueness, one foot in club culture, the other in abstract experimentation. On one side, the influence of Bunker Records’ acid-industrial years, sinusoidal blasts by Pan Sonic, Cristian Vogel’s shifted techno, and esoteric grooves by George Issakadis, plus Dancemania records and assorted other ghetto house, East Coast hip-hop, and funk leftovers. On the other side, bullet-shaped noise music, ethno-shamanic trance, punk improvisations, post-industrial ambient, drone and power electronics. You’re bound to hear anything but tiny and conventional club music. A personal rhythmic frenzy, mostly designed for introspective and deep listening, drawing their magic from the master’s deep Central American roots. Obsessive rhythms, the rumbling sounds of an aircraft, venomous and helicoid frequencies: Low Jack’s music seems to have less to do with techno than a primitive and organic trance, where Afro-Cuban polyrhythms replace the metronomic beat.
BLACK ZONE MYTH CHANT (F) : (High Wolf side project), heeft een nieuw album ‘Mane Thecel Phares’ Februari 2015
French drone/psych producer High Wolf, whose Black Zone Myth Chant side project’s album ‘Mane Thecel Phares’ album is tantalizingly described as an “exceptional slab of squashed, Afro-centric psychedelia”, consisting of polyrhythms, slowed-down vocals and, of course, lashings of drone, with influence from Sun Ra, DJ Screw and Vox Populi. Incredible Deep fried head music direct from the dome of Black Zone Myth Chant It’s gotta be the most fugged-out, abstract hip hop/drone.
MARTIJN COMES
Martijn Comes is a Dutch composer specialized in new media, sound design and electro- acoustic composition. He graduated at the academy for Digital Communications in 2004. Comes’ music is diverse and goes from ambient soundscapes to technoid dance music to classical compositions. On this album he seems to search for a mixture of all of these delivering a rather special sound which finds its way between cosmic space sounds and abstract rhythms.”
“A good experimental and contemporary mix of ‘abrasive’ noise with underlying synths, choral style pad work, glitched/timestretched beats and percussive elements. I imagine it sitting well alongside music from Cristian Vogel & Jon Hopkins, with the more experimental side of Oneohtrix Point Never.”
“With Infinite Spaces and Beyond from Martijn Comes, IO Sound continues its string of stellar, ground breaking releases. Anyone looking to bring some new vibrancy into their listening oughta check this release out.”
Skullflower is a British noise-rock band, now a duo, that was founded by Matthew Bower in 1987. During the years the combination of evaporative wall-of-sound riffs and transgressive noise-rock has crossed all boundaries of rock music. The noise-rock, experimental sounds and even free jazz of Skullflower come from the debts of the dark psychedelic abyss. Their ritualistic and occult take on their rare live performances as a loss of self for both the band and the audience has gained them a cult-following.
