Lustfaust & Schneider TM are playing an exclusive gig for the opening of the Haunch of Venison Berlin space on September 13th from 21h (CEST). The event will be streamed live on www.lustfaust-live.de. This is part of the Jamie Shovlin Lustfaust retrospective (first shown at the I.C.A. in London early 2006).
Lustfaust was an experimental noise band active in West Berlin during the late seventies and early 1980s composed of a group of session musicians. Featuring a Japanese jazz drummer, Matsushita ‘Bobby’ Kazuki, a Belgian guitarist/multi-instrumentalist, Guido van Baelen, a German bassist, Hans Berger, and the California-born, German/American Peter Kruger, the band was a curiously international mixture, initially formed through a mutual distaste for the inoffensive music that it was for the most part their job to produce. Their combination of an aggressive on-stage presence, instrumentation through found objects such as cement mixers and pneumatic drills, and the use of an anti-capitalist community-based model of distribution (if you sent the band a blank cassette, they would return it with their latest release) spawned the Dadaist Geniale Dilettanten movement of the early 1980s and pioneered the burgeoning cassette culture of the late seventies.
There will be a Lustfaust & Schneider TM 7" record released at this event, put out by MirrorWorldMusic (MWM), which is the label of Dirk Dresselhaus (aka Schneider TM) and Michael Beckett (aka kptmichigan).
The cover was designed by Mick Larkin who was responsible for a series of Lustfaust tape covers in the late 70`s.
This is some exciting news! Also check out Lustfaust on myspace.com/lustfaust
Composer and producer William Orbit is best known for collaborating with the cream of contemporary musical talent, including Madonna, Blur and U2. But it is his solo projects, the 'Strange Cargo' series and the groundbreaking 'Pieces in a Modern Style' (including his seminal electronic arrangement of Barber’s 'Adagio for Strings'), that have best displayed his innovative compositions and diverse range of musical influences.
Manchester International Festival and the BBC Philharmonic now play host to the world premiere of this major orchestral commission. Orbit is scoring the piece for full symphonic forces, a choir and a battery of percussion, as he explores new musical ideas and landscapes.
An adventure in eight orchestral movements, this work promises to be an exciting and enchanting addition to the classical repertoire.
Artists:
Composer: William Orbit
Performed by: BBC Philharmonic and singers from the Manchester Chamber Choir
Conductor: Alexander Shelley
Co-commissioned by Manchester International Festival and BBC Philharmonic
There is no interval in this performance. This performance will be recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
8th July 2007, Bridgewater Hall Manchester
Exodus Live Special with Reem Kelani and the Beating Wing Orchestra
This incredible night features the premiere of a composition by the acclaimed Palestinian singer and musician Reem Kelani, commissioned by Manchester International Festival and performed by the Beating Wing Orchestra, along with the best of Exodus Live.
Exodus Live is a 'sell out' music event involving performers from DR Congo, Kurdish Iraq, Angola, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Liberia, Nigeria, Ukraine and Eritrea. Organised by Community Arts North West, this is one of the most unique and lively band nights in the region. It features electrifying performances from some of our best international musicians, many of whom have exile or refugee status.
The highlight of this outstanding evening is Reem Kelani's challenging new composition for the debut performance of the Beating Wing Orchestra, which consists of ten specially selected musicians from hugely diverse global geographies. The piece will musically explore resonances between the conditions for displaced migrants today and
the brutal migrations of the slavery era.
Sun 8 July, Manchester Academy
Unknown Pleasures celebrates some of today’s most exciting emerging artists, bringing together an eclectic mix of music and diverse talents from across the world.
The Noisettes – Fronted by the astonishing Shingai Shoniwa, The Noisettes’ music is dark, dangerous and sexy as hell – a bit like Joey Santiago taking a clawhammer to the back of Siouxsie Sioux’s head round the back of a PJ Harvey gig.
Unknown Pleasures is curated by Tom Baker, Eat Your Own Ears www.eatyourownears.com
A Futuresonic project by The Folk Songs Project
(Alastair Dant, Tom Davis & David Gunn)
Manchester : Peripheral remixes and replays the sounds of Manchester. At its heart is an engaging audio-visual installation in Piccadilly Gardens, which mixes the sounds of street musicians, interviews with residents, local rappers and even the ambient noises of school playgrounds and cricket matches. The sounds are selected by the votes of local communities, via node installations in four outlying wards, in digital culture’s answer to The X-Factor. Every vote shapes a rich, organic soundclash of lives, voices and music from Manchester’s contemporary urban environment.
Fri 29 June - Sun 29 July, Kro Piccadilly Manchester
www.futuresonic.com
www.manchesterperipheral.com
The world's first international festival to premiere original, new work - created for the festival by an extraordinary shortlist of leading artists from across the spectrum of credible popular culture, innovation and the arts. Curated by festival director Alex Poots, Manchester International Festival will present a series of at least ten world-premiere large-scale works at venues across the city centre over three weeks. The industrial revolution forged the world's first, modern city - Manchester International Festival will enable the city to host another world first. Acknowledging Manchester's pivotal role in music, the festival programme which spans popular culture, arts and innovation will also have a focus on new music - premiering work by established and emerging international musicians. If 2007 seems too far away, over the course of the next eighteen months a series of high-profile trailblazer events will whet the appetite and provide a sneak preview of what to expect.
http://www.manchesterinternationalfestival.com
Northern Soul Night, feat. The Sweet Vandals (E)
Supporting Act / DJ: DJ's Guy Hennigan (UK) & Henry Storch (D)
Saturday, 28th April 2007, Dachstock Reitschule Bern
Drawing by Jimmy Royalty
Hypernova, a young hip Iranian rock band, performs for the first time in New York City.
By FREYA PETERSEN, New York Times, March 28, 2007
HYPERNOVA © Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times
The Iranian group Hypernova on a visit to the Lower East Side: from left, Jamshid, Kami, Kodi and Raam.
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Saturday March 3, 2007, The Guardian
NYC's late-70s sound has remained forever young, says Louis Pattison
Nostalgia isn't as good as it used to be. At least, 1960s nostalgia isn't as good as it used to be. Blame the baby boomers, who shed their aversion to good old capitalism and, four decades on, continue to applaud as their heroes strut the stage in progressively smaller, more reinforced corsets. But if, like me, you'd actually rather eat goat's head soup than read another magazine cover story promising the truth about what Keef had for breakfast the morning the Stones wrote Paint It Black, maybe it's time to get digging some new crates.
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Take a deep look at Chicago and take this record to accompany you.
By Kev the Head, CUE Central Europe, December 2003
Jackmate’s new album is a great piece of music. It has a very fitting cover: On the front there’s a picture of a major American city - probably Chicago – and on the back there’s a wood of feeble birches like you’d find on the borders of cities, along railroads and brownfields. The Prodigal Son is the perfect soundtrack to a setting like this. The music is a deep affair, - a slightly sad and longing sound that takes you places and tells you stories. Not in a cold and hard Detroit kind of way even though Jackmate plays with Detroit elements. There’s plenty warm and mellow bass work under the driving high hat and the pumping kick drum and beautiful melodies… Jackmate plays a sound well held together in one vibe although he toys with various styles, having a good bit of electro influence in there. Prodigal Son is essentially a very American album – in the best of ways.
Resopal-Schallware 2003, distributed by EFA
www.resopal-schallware.com
