The London based improvisation duo Tomaga has established itself amongst Europe’s most interesting experimental acts of the last years. Percussionist Valentina Magaletti (now also in UUUU) and bass player / electronicist Tom Relleen have been working together o.a. with French mecano musician Pierre Bastien and releasing numerous albums.

Their latest project focuses on a new live soundtrack for Kenneth Anger’s movie Lucifer Rising from 1972. Lucifer Rising is regarded as a cult classic in the genre of occult film, with numerous magickal symbols and allegories, ranging from ancient Egypt to Aleister Crowley’s Thelema. After a vaulted soundtrack for the film by Bobby Beausoleil (Manson Family) and a later official soundtrack by Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Tomaga takes on the soundtrack into the next century. A special screening of the film with live-soundtrack will take place on the Saturday of Spider, Spit and Broken Bells. Don’t miss this!

https://tomaga.bandcamp.com/

Turia was started in the winter of 2014. The band aims to evoke gripping black metal, stripped to its bare necessities. Utilizing a minimal setup of drums and guitar they bring to life a mirage of sound while anguished screams drag the listener into a vastness of desolation. Turia’s minimalist bare stripped Black Metal makes them stand out in their genre, ascending themselves to be one of The Netherland’s most promising black metal bands of the last years.

Michel Banabila, born 1961, is a sound artist, composer, and producer. Banabila has released music since 1983 and has produced musical scores for numerous films, documentaries, theatre plays and choreographies. He has worked and performed in The Netherlands, Poland, Lebanon, UK, South Africa, Russia, Japan, Spain, China, USA and Belgium.

Banabila is especially keen on mixing disciplines and music styles, using elements and influences from jazz, electronic music, classical and world music. Therefore there is no particular genre to categorize Banabila’s music. In addition to acoustic instrumentation, Banabila uses electronics, field recordings, and snippets from radio, tv and the internet. He has collaborated with many artists like Anton Goudsmit, Erkan Oğur, Hanyo van Oosterom, Holger Czukay, Joshua Samson, Machinefabriek, Mete Erker, Oene van Geel, Radboud Mens, Salar Asid, Sandhya Sanjana, Scanner, Yaşar Saka , Eric Vloeimans, and Zenial, among others.

His earliest ambient work has been given a lot of attention lately with beautiful reissue albums on labels like Bureau B and Séance Centre: https://www.seance-centre.com/michel-banabila/

One of Britain’s best kept secrets, Giant Swan is a Bristol-based techno-not-techno band, famed for their amazing live performances. They build their music on a foundation of rhythmic tension and frenzied improvisation, so their show is an ever-changing energetic spectacle. Combining hardware, guitar and manipulated vocals, they make thunderous and aggressive music that taps into both industrial noise and psychedelic jamminess.

David edren has been creating electronic sounds as DSR Lines for almost 2 decades, laying out liquifying modular synth stunners as audible acupuncture sessions. Edren keeps his sounds tactly understated and fully improvising explores his scientific aesthetics with delicacy and restrain. In 2012 he co-started the Hare Akedod label, an imprint for electro acoustic improv music. His latest work explores his own take on electronic gamelan music.

http://a-dsr.net

http://dsrlines.bandcamp.com

Pharoah Chromium is a project by German-Palestinian musician and performer Ghazi Barakat and was named after a song of the band Chrome. The project draws inspiration from diverse sources: free jazz, rituals from ancient past and near future, the dream syndicate, science fiction novels and all things brutHe has released albums on Grautag records, Deep Distance, Labelle 69 and collaborated with Günter Schickert, Vincent Epplay and Osman Arabi among others.
pharoahchromium.bandcamp.com/album/gaza

Oiseaux Tempete is an experimental postrock band with psychedelic and ethnic influences hailing from Paris. With their latest album Al An! they collaborated with musicians from Beirut and created an instant underground classic full of oriental sounds and experimentation.
In OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE ([wazo-tɑ̃.pɛːt] – Storm Petrel), Frédéric D. Oberland and Stéphane Pigneul have chosen a name, a call from the sea, of almost totemic quality. First, perhaps, it offers the suggestion of journeys over great distance, the distant hymns of fortune-tellers and gravity defying acts of the oracles. Yet at the same time, comes the idea of earthly chaos, a willing reference to the telluric frenzy that darkens the sky yet also, paradoxically, brings promise of a radiant tomorrow.

Bear Bones, Lay Low is the musical project of the Brussels based Venezuelan musician Ernesto Gonzalez. For the last ten years Gonzales has been making diverse music in which experiment, unexpected layers, ecstasy and ritual come together. Through the combination of electronic and acoustic sounds an unknown world of dystropical nature unfolds. Repetitive kosmische and experimental sounds build up to trance-like heights. Ernesto’s oeuvre spans over more than 50 different releases. Also he is part of many different collaborative groups like Yader and TAV Exotic.