We are beyond excited to announce the first ever concert in The Netherlands (!) by legendary French band Heldon led by guitarist Richard Pinhas! HELDON (FR, Cuneiform Records) Progressive Electronic / Progressive Space Rock
In 2019 HELDON is: Pinhas Richard, guitars and synths, Arthur Narcy, drums and synths,Florian Tatard, bass and synths.Already since the early seventies Heldon is one of the pinnacle French bands of electronic experimentation, cosmic soundscapes and the psychedelic prog-rock explosion. Richard Pinhas, having released dozens of albums both solo and with Heldon, is without a doubt one of the most important French underground musicians who kept true to his musical visions until today. His dreamlike guitar moves combined with modular synthesizer experimentation inspired by Robert Fripp and Brian Eno has given Heldon an important place in the historical development of electronic music, next to some of the most known Krautrock groups. Pinhas played with numerous important French musicians including members of Magma, Gilbert Artman (Lard Free/Urban Sax), Patrick Gauthier and many more. He was also student and friend of philosopher Gilles Deleuze who collaborated with Heldon in the 70’s. The musical themes of Pinhas vary from Deleuze’s rhizome theory to radical politics to science fiction creating a special musical universe of its own.
On March 14th this unique concert will take place at OCCII Amsterdam which cannot be missed! Alongside Heldon there will be a support act: the duo of Dutch experimental music composer Gert-Jan Prins and Alan Courtis of Argentinian cult-band Reynols.
Last but not least the night will be weaved together (+ afterparty) by underground surrealist DJ duo Octatanz (Oscar Der Winzige, ES & Matas Aerobica, LT).
We of Haperende Mens and OCCII hope to see you all there on March 14th to experience the true Électronique Guerrilla and make history!
Presale: € 10,- (PayPal/Credit Card/iDeal/SePa). Venue is CASH only.
ZU (IT) + MORE T.B.C.
“CARBONIFEROUS 10th Anniversary” | Stubbornly free from genre classification | Ipecac Recordings | More info soon | €8-10 | Presale Ticket [iDeal of Paypal] | Concertzaal is ‘cash’ only!
Lineup: Luca T. Mai – baritone sax Massimo Pupillo – bass gtr Jacopo Battaglia – drums
Italian trio Zu have been proud to follow their own musical pathways for some twenty years now. Zu have been broadly questioning and evolving their musical identity , developing their musical vocabulary with every release and collaboration, never allowing their personal and creative freedom to be suffocated by imposed structures and labels. All of their strongest inspirations and artistic reference points have produced a very varied output, evolving (sonically speaking) from one album to another in their respective musical canon. Zu ’s musical language has changed a lot over the years, yet the essence very much remains the same. Throughout their highly diverse career the band has cultivated the art of collaboration, joining forces with luminaries such as Mike Patton, Damo Suzuki, Mats Gustafsson, King Buzzo of the Melvins, David Tibet, FM Einheit of Einstuerzende Neubauten Jessica Moss of Thee Silver Mt Zion, Thurston Moore, Jim O’ Rourke, Mats Gustafsson, Eugene Robinson of Oxbow, Gabe Serbian of The Locust , just to name a few, but also collaborating with director Romeo Castellucci of legendary avant-garde theatre company Societas Raffaello Sanzio . 15 releases, more than 2000 concerts, and ongoing. Their experimental amalgam of metal, math, no-wave, noise and electronics, led acclaimed composer John Zorn to describe their sound as “a powerful and expressive music that totally blows away what most bands do these days”.
Ticket-URL: https://occii.org/events/haperende-mens-zu-carboniferous/
After the summer on Monday the 4th of September we return with an eclectic night of bands to celebrate OCCII’s 25th birthday! Amongs others experimental arab sounds, Italian improv, Belgian ritualistic home-taping and Dutch experimental music.
Jooklo Duo & Riccardo Sinigaglia (IT)
Jooklo Duo (Virginia Genta and David Vanzan) meet Riccardo Sinigaglia (founder of legendary Futuro Antico and Correnti Magnetiche and creator of the Legendary album Riflessi from 1986)
electro-acoustic, abstract minimal kind of vibe…. synths, flutes, organs…
new LP on Aguirre OUT SOOON
Ōgon Batto (BE)
Antwerp resident Bent Von Bent and co-runner of the Hare akedod label, Limited Edition Cassettes and Electro-Acoustic Improvisation Rituals.
new LP on Aguirre records OUT SOOON!
Songs About The Business
This 7” is made by powertrio Freek Lomme (word), Joan van Barneveld (guitar) en Gert-Jan Prins (drums).
Label: de Player, Rotterdam, NL.
http://www.deplayer.nl/releases/dob-083
THE DWARFS OF EAST AGOUZA • Nawa Recordings
The Dwarfs Of East Agouza is a trio from Cairo formed in 2012 by MAURICE LOUCA (Alif, Bikya) on keyboards/electronics, SAM SHALABI (Land of Kush, Shalabi Effect) on electric guitar/synth and ALAN BISHOP (guitar/saxophone/vocals) of Sublime Frequencies & Sun City Girls fame.
The group utilizes improvisation to propel their unique and hypnotic musical vision. In 2016 debut album Bes was released on Nawa Recordings followed by a EU Tour including performances at CTM Festival, Clandestino Festival, Jazz Jantar Festival, Le Guess Who? and Unsound Festival amongst others.
More information here: http://www.disk-agency.de/artist-booking/the-dwarfs-of-east-agouza/
On May the 10th we return together with OCCII for another Haperende Mens night with THE BODY (US), UNIFORM (US) and Celestial Bodies (NL). It promises to be a night of deconstructive metal going into energetic noise experiments to relieve the disbelief we cherish for this insane world.
10th of May at OCCII AMSTERDAM, Amstelveenseweg 134. Doors open: 20:30 Tickets: 8,-
Check out the event here: http://occii.org/events/haperende-mens-5/
THE BODY (Usa)
UNIFORM (Usa)
www.facebook.com/uniformnewyork/
www.unifuckingform.com/
www.sacredbonesrecords.com
CELESTIAL BODIES
Featuring members of nightmare creators and main Dutch black metal outfit Nihill and free-jazz giants Dead Neanderthals, Celestial Bodies’ ecstatic meditations on chaos communicate the aggression of black metal’s essence and intent, but through the free-form, shattered lens of noise, power electronics and avant-garde music. Influenced by first wave black metal, dark ambient and the chaotic and violent harsh noise action of the late 90’s, Celestial Bodies channel a rage of anti-cosmic satanism hell bent on destroying your conceptions of reality. Celestial Bodies’ debut album “Spit Forth From Chaos’ is simultaneously being released on Cd by Italian cult label I, Voidhanger Records and on vinyl by Roadburn related Burning World Records.
Maandag 19:00 uur http://redlightradio.net een Haperende Mens Incubate special. De meest haperende kunstenaars die tijdens de september editie van Incubate zullen optreden.
Shacleton, Silver Apples, Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia / Psychic Warriors Of Gaia / PWOG Een paar namen uit de line-up van Incubate aanstaande maandag Haperende Mens- Red Light Radio show. Tune in om 19:00 en win een van de twee passe-partouts die we weggeven.
For the fourth time Haperende Mens teams up with OCCII for an alien and pitchdarkly obscure double bill of sound and confusion with:
WOLF EYES + SUZUKI JUNZO (JP) Wednesday, June 8Doors: 20:30 Entree €8 Occii, Amstelveenseweg 134, Amsterdam
WOLF EYES
‘Born in the dead, dread-filled haunted hills of Michigan, Wolf Eyes are the rabid beasts of Trip Metal & have been plowing thru new tunnels of the underworld since 1997. Pure audio stunt, homemade post-nuclear terror & claustrophobic atmospheres — the most shattered and confusing horror vision since Bo Diddley dropped the duct taped warhead on all humans in 2024.’ – Wolf Eyes
The infamous blistering noise of Wolf Eyes propelled them from being a basement sensation to the finest ranks of Sub Pop without ever losing a shred of credibility. Originally started as the solo project of former Nate Young, he was soon joined by Aaron Dilloway in 1998, John Olson in 2000 then Mike Connenlly and now Crazy Jim. They has released over 150 recordings in their relatively short lifespan, on labels such as Bulb Records, Troubleman Unlimited, Fusetron, and Sub Pop, as well as on Olson’s American Tapes label, Dilloway’s Hanson Records, Mike Connelly’s Gods of Tundra label and Nate Young’s AA Records. Their stunning new album “I am a problem: mind in pieces” is now out on Jack White’s Third Man Records.
‘Wolf Eyes have always had a B-movie aura. They’re like the Roger Corman of underground music, churning out releases, inspiring other low-budget noise-auteurs, galvanizing scenes both locally in Michigan and globally in festivals and collaborations. Many of their blunt album titles have a schlock-horror feel: Slicer, Dread, Burned Mind, Human Animal. That feel is in the music too. At turns scary, funny, dramatic, and transfixing, Wolf Eyes’ morphing sound has one constant: creepy, thick tension.’ – pitchfork 2015 album review
Tokyo guitarist/songwriter/singer Suzuki Junzo! Known from his work with MIMINOKOTO, 20 GUILDERS, Overhang Party and more, Junzo’s Shark-Infested Custard mixes psychedelia, blues, drone, noise and rock into an intoxicating singular blend.
Together with OCCII we are back for our third collaboration on Sunday the 7th of February with a mesmeric triple bill of electronic music pushing at the edges with Drew McDowall (Coil / Psychic TV), Helm and Clamor. Make sure not to miss this!
DREW MCDOWALL
McDowall formed art-punk trio Poems in 1978 with his then-wife, Rose McDowall. During the 1980s, McDowall was a member of Psychic TV. McDowall performed with Coil regularly for several years, becoming an official member in 1994. McDowall currently is a member of the groups CSD (formerly Captain Sons and Daughters) and Compound Eye (with Tres Warren of Psychic Ills). The notoriously reclusive musician, who resides in New York City, has done a number of public performances for the Modular Synthesizer Solstice and Equinox series in Brooklyn, beginning in 2012. In March 2014, McDowall provided the score to Are You Okay, a short film written by Bret Easton Ellis for the “Are You Okay?” single by Dum Dum Girls.
HELM
Helm is a sound artist and experimental musician based in London, working with a vast array of revolving instrumentation and abstract sound sources. He has produced four full-length albums and three EPs consisting of dense compositions which explore the relationship between acoustic and electronic derived sounds. Helm’s initial influences were derived from a range of 20th and 21st century avant-garde and experimental music, yet recently the project has grown to incorporate elements from other forms of electronic music such as post-industrial and various strains of dance music. He has also performed extensively across Europe and the USA in various different contexts, including many festival dates and North American and European tours with Danish band Iceage.
In 2015 Helm released ‘Olympic Mess’ on PAN, his most substantial and highly acclaimed record to date. Where his previous effort, 2014’s ‘The Hollow Organ,’ dealt in dense, distressed sonics, ‘Olympic Mess’ is Younger responding to a period spent engaged with loop-based industrial music, dub techno, and balearic disco. These musical references, all of which can induce hypnotic states and feelings of euphoria, inform ten evocative aural landscapes which unfurl over the course of an hour and act almost as a counterpoint to the turmoil that spawned them. “It’s about exploring a perverse desire to pull the rug from under yourself, and the struggle to achieve a healthy equilibrium between one’s personal and artistic lives,” Younger says. “Dealing with the problematic consequences of pushing your own limits, forming and dissolving relationships, transient lifestyles, physical and mental exhaustion, excess, and other kinds of personal chaos”. Crafted using an array of heavily processed samples, found sound and electroacoustics, personal conflict manifests in “I Exist In A Fog” and “Outerzone 2015,” where visceral noise disintegrates into veiled, ambient strata. The disquieting crescendos of “The Evening In Reverse” and “Fluid Cloak” offer no such relief, while the title track and “Don’t Lick The Jacket” are mineral, multilayered abstractions twisting around a brittle pulse.
A duo founded in 2015 by two comrades with a mutual love for the industrial tradition. Channeling the classic sounds of muffled death industrial as well as fierce power electronics into a beast of it’s own. Over their short existence they’ve played alongside Damien Dubrovnik, Hive Mind, Neutral, Dave Phillips, Arv & Miljö, Cremation Lily and more likeminded souls. Both members are active in a variety of projects such as Qualm, Svartvit, Empty Front & Folteraar. A loud uproar, as from a crowd of people.
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.
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.”
Support: Julien Ottavi & Lukas Simonis & Goh Lee Kwang.
Entree: 10,- euro.
Locatie: Occii, Amsterdam.
Amstelveenseweg 134
1075 XL Amsterdam
tel. ++31 (0)20 6717778
Occii Amsterdam en Haperende Mens presenteren met trots het enige concert in deze tour van het legendarische noise rock duo Lightning Bolt in Nederland. Tegelijkertijd wordt dit waarschijnlijk het laatste concert in intieme setting gezien de goede ontvangst van het recente album ‘Fantasy Empire’ (2015)
LIGHTNING BOLT (USA)
Drummer Brian Chippendale en bassist Brian Gibson brachten in maart hun nieuwe album Fantasy Empire uit.
‘Fantasy Empire’ is het eerste album dat is opgenomen in een professionele studio en dat levert een voller en meer gedefinieerd geluid op -met de bekende veelheid aan gelaagde geluiden zonder dat het overgeproduceerd klinkt. Er is veel media aandacht voor het duo. Het betreft niet alleen de zeer positieve recensies voor het album (o.a. een 8 op Pitchfork) maar ook de beide bandleden staan in de picture als persoon, met features in internationale bladen waaronder Rolling Stone (ook tot onze verbazing).
Het geluid van Brian Chippendale (mindflayer en Black puss) blijft chaotisch maar strak met de welbekende hoeveelheid energie.
Bassist “Brian Gibson manages to make four strings sound like many more. From the beginning, their mix of mayhem and heaviness brought to mind the sound Harry Pussy and Black Sabbath performing on stage at the same time. Lightning Bolt somehow showed up in big features of magazines that normally didn’t care much about noise, and appeared in record collections of people who felt pretty much the same”.
voorprogramma;
JULIEN OTTAVI (Percussion, electronics)
A mediactivist, artist-researcher, composer / musician, poet and tongues destroyer, experimental film maker and anarchitect, founder and member of Apo33, Julien Ottavi is involved in research and creative work, combining sound art, real-time video, new technologies and body performances.
Is one of the founders of WORM, Rotterdam (www.worm.org). He organises and produces radio, concerts, cd’s, performing projects and writing. He started out as a ‘unconventional’ rock musician, playing in bands like Trespassers W and Dull Schicksal. The last few years he turned more and more to electronic, improvised music and sound art, allthough he still has a weak spot for his version of rock.
GOH LEE KWANG (Mixer Feedback)
GOH is an internationally recognized sound & new media artist from Malaysia. He has created sound installations, sonic-visual interactive installations, single channel video, multi-channels video, electro-acoustic improvised music performance, tape music, composition for radio broadcast and soundtrack for theater / dance / independent movie.
Goh’s works focus on the various possibility of both realistic & abstract, crossing the boundaries of digital & analog, electronic & acoustic, go beyond language, allowing audiences to experience the work directly, and in their own personal way. Most of his installation also operating interactively with the audience/viewer.
