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.
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.
