Promoters, the following bands will tour during the forthcoming months, please write us in order to book the TBA dates :
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ARTIST | WORRYTRAIN
LABEL | Own Records
ARTIST WEBSITE | www.myspace.com
16th Jan | UK | Tba
17th Jan | UK | Tba
18th Jan | UK | Tba
19th Jan | UK | Tba
20th Jan | UK | Tba
21th Jan | OFF
22th Jan | France/Benelux/Germany | Tba
23th Jan | France/Benelux/Germany | Tba
24th Jan | France/Benelux/Germany | Tba
25th Jan | Differdange - LU | Autre part
26th Jan | Bruxelles -BE | Café Zebra
Since the winter of 2002 Worrytrain (Joshua Neil Geissler) has found sanctuary in composition with such acoustic inspirations as cello, piano, mandolin and other various stringed and percussive instruments to create organic pieces mapping the cinematicambient and experimental fields.
Worrytrain’s evolving cross genre style since his more subtle selftitled debut is most notable on his latest album “Fog dance, my moth kingdom“. This album attempts to balance modern classical composition with harsh electro noise, two fields that he feels can reach the same level of intensity and emotional dialect for those willing to try it and one that he plans to explore more in the future...
It's dark and brooding, but breathtaking nonetheless.
THE SILENT BALLET
Intense moments of reflection dominate the album, making Fog Dance, My Moth Kingdom often feel like a welcome shelter from the cacophonous storm of the modern world.
TEXTURA
Résolument pessimiste, la musique de Worrytrain serait une sorte de "Sonate au clair de lune" interprétée devant des images de guerre et de famine...
POP NEWS
Joshua Neil Geissler frappe à la porte du tout puissant pour lui dire qu'en bas les choses sont loin d'un champ de ruine et que la reconstruction est possible. Un disque d'espoir.
A DECOUVRIR ABSOLUMENT
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ARTIST | JODI CAVE
LABEL | 12k
ARTIST WEBSITE | www.jodi
Feb 01 | UK | Tba
Feb 02 | UK | Tba
Feb 03 | UK | Tba
Feb 04 | France | Tba
Feb 05 | France | Tba
Feb 06 | France | Tba
Feb 07 | Zurich - CH | Kunstraum Walcheturm
Feb 08 | Germany | Tba
Feb 09 | Germany | Tba
Feb 10 | Germany | Tba
Feb 11 | Germany | Tba
Feb 12 | Germany | Tba
Feb 13 | Amsterdam -NE | VPRO Session
Feb 14 | Netherlands/Benelux | Tba
Feb 15 | Netherlands/Benelux | Tba
Feb 16 | Differdange - LU | Autre Part
Feb 17 | Netherlands/Benelux | Tba
Jodi Cave is a sound artist and musician from from the UK. He was braught up in a small town near Sheffield playing the clarinet, went to study music, and then in 2006 completed a research internship at the ircam in Paris.
Jodi’s work ecompasses studio-based electronics, laptop performance and instrumental composition. His first widely available full-length CD ‘for myria‘ was released on NY label 12k in June 2007.
There’s a sense that, rather than create some ridigly girded technological structure in which to house all of these objects and elements, he’s let them roll around as they please, finding their own place and direction.
THE WIRE
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ARTISTS | LA FA CONNECTED / VS YOU
ARTISTS WEBSITE | www.myspace.com
www.myspace.com/vsyou
feb 2 | Imperia - IT | Babylonia
feb 3 | Lonate-Pozzolo - IT | Atlantic
feb 4 | Italia | tba
feb 5 | Milano - IT | Transylvania
feb 6 | Italia | tba
feb 7 | Italia | tba
feb 8 | Castellanza - IT | Heineiken Jammin Club
feb 9 | Italia | tba
LA FA CONNECTED
Existing under the current line up since 2005, la fa connected have released their first album ‘urban’ on april 2007. urban, yes, but not in the sense of a city, the lyrics are even written by someone who lives and works in a middle sized town, not a mega-city.
urban is about the speed of life, conflicts, exclusions, switching faces with displays.
it is better than a pill, knowing you can sometimes enjoy pastures the former members of bands like
def dump, tiger fernandez, spyglass, actarus and treasure chest at the end of the rainbow got together to share their experience with guitar oriented independent music.
their sound can be namedropped with washington dc posthardcore orientations, moods of modest mouse or melodic signals caught somewhere close to mock orange in 2007, the band shared the stage with groups like the arctic monkeys or marilyn manson.
there is something in the way they mix the ingredients so perfectly, something in the way this album flows with a steady curve and leaves you with a nice taste and a good feeling is something special …
MONOCHROM
VS YOU
Versus You is a four-piece indie/rock band from Luxembourg.
Their sound is similar to bands (and influences) like Jawbreaker, Jawbox, Jets to Brazil, Swervedriver, Pixies, Weezer, Nirvana or Weston. Versus You is Eric Rosenfeld on electric guitars, acoustic guitars and lead vocals, Giordano Bruno on bass, Jimmy Leen on guitars and backing vocals and Mike Lahier on drums .
Versus you was founded in 2005 by Eric Rosenfeld, Giordano Bruno and Pit Romersa, who left the band due to personal reasons in 2006 after a year and a long list of shows. The band played shows with bands like Nick Oliveri and the Mondo Generator, Defdump, Jordan and more. Versus you’s new drummer is called Mike Lahier who was a former member of the street rockers Nervous Chillin’.
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ARTIST | PERCEVALMUSIC
LABEL | Effervescence
ARTIST WEBSITE | www.myspace.com
28 Feb | Italy | Tba
29 Feb | Italy | Tba
1 March | Italy | Tba
2 March | Pescara - IT | Tbc
After his musical work on the choreographic performance “Comme en plein jour” by Jean Baptiste André under the name PERCEVALMUSIC, Tony Chauvin (Guitar player for cult experimental duo Chevreuil) hits your local club with a new set-up.
Not forgetting his past shows and experiences with CHEVREUIL, Tony Chauvin pushes the limits further away with PERCEVALMUSIC. CHEVREUIL played in the middle of the audience with a quadraphonic guitar surrounding the drums, now the sound is hybrid between the guitar amps and the PA system giving more depth to his eloquent guitar sometimes pretending to be organ or a lead singer, other times a clavinet or a percussion instrument. This live performance surrounds the audience for an experience in-between acoustic and electric, carefulness and brutality, stability and chaos.
Sperimentale? Avanguardia? Forse non proprio, ma sicuramente ci si avvicina... Tutte le sonorità elettriche sono dovute a Chauvin e alla sua chitarra, che simula suoni e strumenti; quelle acustiche sono affidate a Février, e il risultato è un rock che riprende stilemi cari al progressive più alternativo, superando i confini della «canzone» propriamente intesa...
IL MANIFESTO
... a stupire è l’“allestimento” del suono, il gran lavoro effettuato sulla costruzione/decostruzione delle strutture, sulla stratificazione/sottrazione degli elementi, sull’amplificazione di echi avant-rock...per una resa complessiva ottima anche grazie all’apporto tecnico di Bob Weston.
COMUNICAZIONE INTERNA
... Provate ad immaginare come potrebbero suonare gli Air edulcorati, privati di quell'acidulo che investe ogni loro traccia, o ancor meglio un Kruder&Dorfmeister estremamente gentile e pieno di gioia di vivere, e vi starete avvicinando velocemente a questo album.
ROCK SHOCK
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ARTIST | CHAPTER
LABEL | Saiko Records
ARTIST WEBSITE | www.music
04th March | Italy | Tba
05th March | Italy | Tba
06th March | Italy | Tba
07th March | Italy | Tba
08th March | France | Tba
09th March | France | Tba
10th March | France | Tba
11th March | France | Tba
12th March | Luxembourg | D:qliq
13th March | Benelux | Tba
14th March | Benelux | Tba
15th March | Benelux | Tba
16th March | Germany | Tba
17th March | Germany | Tba
18th March | Switzerland | Tba
19th March | Toulon - FR | Shannon
20th March | Switzerland | Tba
21th March | Switzerland | Tba
Hailing from the likes of England, Belgium and Switzerland, Chapter are as much an amalgamation of sundry musical genres as they are a melting-pot of cultural identities. The band consists of Thierry van Osselt, songwriter and sound engineer, and Alexander Craker, singer and songwriter. Together they build craftworks of warm acoustic guitars, slow-yet-dynamic beats and gloomy folk melodies. The two multi-instrumentalists have configured a live band to deliver the material on the road with help from Alex Muller on bass and guitars (Seaplane Harbor, Equus), Franco Casagrande on guitars and backing vocals (Casagrande) and Christian Pahud on drums (Honey for Petzi, Larytta)
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ARTIST | THE DUST DIVE
LABEL | Own Records
ARTIST WEBSITE | www.myspace.com
11th March | Germany | Tba
12th March | Germany | Tba
13th March | Berlin - GE | Schokoladen
14th March | Germany/Benelux | Tba
15th March | Andenne - BE | Le Hangar
16th March | Paris - FR | Mains d’Oeuvres
17th March | France/CH | Tba
18th March | France | Tba
19th March | Italy | Tba
20th March | Firenze - IT | Sintetika
21th March | Cesena | Officina 49
22th March | Luxembourg | Dqliq
Weird, warm, and enigmatic, the Dust Dive returns from another long field trip with Claws of Light, the captivating follow-up to their critically acclaimed debut, Asleep or Awake Walk. “Like modern Huck Finn tales where the Dionysian clashes with the suburban” (in the words of D. Shawn Bosler of The Village Voice), the Brooklyn-based trio’s new covey of songs soars with gritty equanimity and uncommonly vivid and poetic verse, evoking an urban-pastoral world that is simultaneously arcadian and trashy, dreamy and deadpan, magical and everyday.
Claws of Light also maps a curiously wild and deranged sonic landscape, spanning from punk to classical, pre-war American folk to psych, gypsy violin to naturalist field recordings, and classic rock to outsider Americana. When asked to describe their sound, Dust Dive organist Ken Switzer, who spent much of his youth in the backwoods of rural western Massachusetts, offers up the label “experimental campfire music.”
The world's most stoic band, and one of my favorites.
EAST VILLAGE RADIO
Mit minimalistischen Kompositionen haben The Dust Dive irgendwo am Stadtrand zwischen The Dirty Three, Sparklehorse und Will Oldham ihr altmodisches Zelt aufgeschlagen.
LAUT
The Dust Dive, un trio auteur de morceaux bons comme des vieux Palace ou Dirty Three, mais à la sauce gipsy-country-blues un peu toquée.
ARTE TV
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ARTIST | THE CESARIANS
LABEL | Imprint
ARTIST WEBSITE | www.myspace.com
21th March | FRANCE / north | Tba
22th March | Paris - FR| Mains d’Oeuvres
23th March | FRANCE / south east | Tba
24th March | Faenza - IT | Clandestino
25th March | Italy - nord | Tba
26th March | Milano - IT | Magnolia
27th March | Fucecchio (Fi) - IT | La Limonaia
28th March | Italy - nord | Tba
29th March | Pegognaga (Mn) - IT | Casbah
30th March | Vasto - IT | Tba
31th March | Roma | Sinister Noise
1th April | Italy - centro/Sud | Tba
2th April | Cosenza- IT | Partyzan
3th april | Brindisi - IT | Goldoni
4th april | Copertino (LE) - IT | I Sotterranei
5th april | Pescara - IT | Mono Spazio Bar
6th april | Ferrara - IT | Zuni
Charlie Finke - Vocals, Conceiver of the cesarian principal, Finke suffers-so you don’t have to. 7 years with the seminal proto new rockers Penthouse now also sings with ex Parkinsons, Blood Safari.
Justine Armatage - Piano, Toured heavily with gothic monsters Christian Death, would prefer readers to remember her work with Luke Haines’ Baader Meinhoff. Her prolific contribution to sub pop deviants Gretschen Hofner is well documented in the cybersphere.
Jan Noble - Drums, A true cesarian and our only section. A muscular intellect forced into a drummers body. Perhaps best known for Tudor-core anti-art punksters Monkey Island.
Suzi Stampella - Trombone, Alison Beckett - Clarinet, Classical excellence and troubadourian finesse. When these girls blow you hold their breath and yours...
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ARTIST | SLEEPING PEOPLE
LABEL | Temporary Residence
ARTIST WEBSITE | www.myspace.com
28 march | Siegen - GE | Vortex
29 march | Fernelmont - BE | Rhaaaa Lovely Festival
30 march | Benelux | Tba
31th march | Benelux | Tba
1st April | Strasbourg | Molodoi
2nd April | Paris | Tba
3rd April | Rennes north west | Tba
04th April | Nantes/Poitiers | Tba
05th April | Bordeaux or East | Tba
06th April | Lyon | Sonic
07th April | OFF
08th April | Italy | Tba
09th April | Forli - IT | Diagonal Loft Club
10th April | Brindisi - IT | Goldoni
11th April | Roma - IT | Sinister Noise
12th April | Pescara - IT | Mono Spazio Bar
13th April | Bern - CH | Dachstock
14th April | Dudingen - CH | Bad Bonn
15th April | Geneve - CH | L’Usine
16th April | Zurich - CH | RoteFabrik
17th April | Munchen - GE | Sunny
18th April | Leipzig - GE | Frühauf
19th April | Luxembourg/Germany | Tba
20th April | Wurzburg - GE | Cairo
Sleeping People have packed a lot into the two years since the release of their sleeper hit (no pun intended) of a debut album. The San Diego four-piece suddenly found themselves a trio after founding member Joileah Maddock moved to New York City. Almost immediately, Amber Coffman stepped in to replace Maddock. This lasted for little more than a year before Coffman also moved to NYC to join The Dirty Projectors. This prompted Maddock to rejoin the band, just in time to complete their second full-length, Growing. If you blinked, you probably didn’t notice a difference...
Temporary Residence is home to maybe the best instrumental rock music of the moment. Like label mates Tarentel and Grails, San Diego four piece Sleeping People harness the energies of bass, drums and guitars with furious and fantastic effect...
THE WIRE
Adrenalinici, schizofrenici, nevrotici, frenetici. Sono tutti aggettivi che, a dispetto del nome, si sposano alla perfezione con gli Sleeping People, band californiana di San Diego. Nove brani strumentali e uno - ottimo - cantato (da Rob Crow dei Pinback) che portano oltre il post-rock, al di là dei Don Caballero, con un occhio ai maestri King Crimson, e a un confine che molti temono di esplorare ... Da seguire.
IL MANIFESTO
Car tout le talent de Sleeping People est là. Ne pas se perdre dans les affres de son propre moi du super héros qui maîtrise son instrument et l'art du contre-pied à la perfection pour mettre un peu d'âme et de chair humaine dans sa musique.
PERTE ET FRACAS
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ARTIST | BEAR CLAW
LABEL | Sick Room
ARTIST WEBSITE | www.myspace.com
03rd April | Regensburg or Leipzig - GE | Tbc
04th April | Berlin - GE | Red Rooster
05th April | Munchen - GE | Orange House
06th April | Koln - GE | Tba
07th April | Hamburg - GE | Hafenklang
08th April | Benelux | Tba
09th April | Benelux | Tba
10th April | Benelux | Tba
11th April | Namur - BE | Le Belvedère
12th April | Benelux/France | Tba
13th April | Le Havre - FR | Cabaret Electric
14th April | France | Tba
15th April | France | Tba
16th April | Paris | Mains d’Oeuvres
17th April | France | Tba
18th April | Cesena - IT | Officina 49
19th April | Pescara - IT | Mono Spazio Bar
20th April | Italy | Tba
21th April | OFF
22th April | Italy | Tba
23th April | Milano - IT | Magnolia
24th April | Geneve - CH | L’Usine
25th April | Berne - CH | Dachstock
26th April | CH/AT/Germany | Tba
With roots deep in the rust-belt communities just south of Chicago, drummer/vocalist Scott Picco and bassist Rob Raspolich have been playing music together since their mid-teens. A few years later, they hooked up with Rich Fessler, first in a band called Hello Operator, before changing gears and re-emerging as Bear Claw, the two bass/drums tour de force we see today. Slow Speed: Deep Owls is their second record for Sick Room.
It was recorded and mixed by Steve Albini and Mastered by Bob Weston. Slow Speed: Deep Owls is a true record, in that it is a documentary effort to capture the band at a particular moment in time, against the backdrop of both the personal and political environment...
Yes. Thank you Bear Claw. Fucking kick ass. Two basses and a drummer, who, by the way, does the singing. It’s no godsheadsilo but is instead its own unique beast...
RAZORCAKE
Bear Claw s’appuie sur ce double chassé-croisé entre les basses et les voix et délivre onze morceaux magnifiquement bien pensés, exécutés sans la moindre prétention... grâce à un savoir-faire éclatant qui fait que leurs morceaux peuvent maintenant être traités de chansons originales et bien ficelées. Une fois qu'elles t'attrapent, elles refusent de te lacher.
NOISE
... Shellac, Jesus Lizard e Thumbnails mischiati insieme con una base ritmica ancora più martellante: ecco il suono dei Bear Claw ...
AUDIODROME
Ein kurzes Manifest zwischen Postrock und Postpunk. Vertrackter Rhythmus, der aber nicht verkopft ist und ein geshouteter Gesang der der wilden Musik ein treibendes Element hinzufügt.
ROTERAUPE
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ARTIST | THE LADY BUG TRANSISTOR
LABEL | Fortuna Pop!
ARTIST WEBSITE | www.myspace.com
11th April | Germany | Tba
12th April | Germany | Tba
13th April | Germany/CH | Tba
14th April | Italy | Tba
15th April | Italy | Tba
16th April | Pegognaga (Mn) - IT | Casbah
17th April | Italy | Tba
18th April | CH | Tba
19th April | Germany | Tba
20th April | Germany | Tba
The Ladybug Transistor story begins in Brooklyn, NY during the mid-1990s. Initially a recording project based around founding member Gary Olson’s collaborations with friends (as heard on their 1995 debut album Marlborough Farms, named after the band’s fabled Victorian Flatbush headquarters and studio), they soon caught the attention of Merge Records who released Beverley Atonale in 1997. It was around this time that Ladybug Transistor evolved into a proper band, which went on to craft the trilogy of The Albemarle Sound (1999), Argyle Heir (2001), and The Ladybug Transistor (2003). During this period The Ladybug Transistor developed and honed their trademark sound - a distillation of classic pop, characterized by a precise melodicism that is anchored by the restrained baritone of Olson.
Can’t Wait Another Day develops the Ladybug’s earlier indiepop and psychedelic sounds towards a sound which is more classic baroque pop, with a glorious melancholic lilt and the sort of impressive crooning you thought was lost decades ago.
SOUNDS XP
un disco degno dei migliori anni '90 (decennio in cui la band era già attiva), con una musica che è difficile da rinchiudere dentro la parola indie appunto per la sua facile fruizione e pulizia dei suoni.
LOSING TODAY
Wunderschöne Harmonien und orchestrale Arrangements mit Zutaten wie Streicher, Bläser und Piano bestimmen das Album. Stücke wie ?Here Comes The Rain?, ?For No Other? oder ?Broken Links? sind höchst gelungene Songperlen und zeitloser Indiepop.
ECHOES ONLINE
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ARTIST | CENTENAIRE
LABEL | Chief Inspector
ARTIST WEBSITE | www.myspace.com
19th April | Germany | Tba
20th April | Germany | Tba
21th April | Germany | Tba
22th April | Germany | Tba
23th April | Switzerland | Tba
24th April | Italy | Tba
25th April | Italy | Tba
26th April | Italy | Tba
27th April | Italy | Tba
28th April | Italy | Tba
29th April | Switzerland | Tba
30th April | Luxembourg | D:qliq
01st May | Benelux | Tba
02nd May | Benelux | Tba
03rd May | Benelux | Tba
Centenaire saw the light of day in 2006 with the gathering of Damien Mingus (my jazzy child) , Aurelien Potier, Axel Monneau (Orval Carlos Sibelius) and Stephane Laporte (domotic).
Their music is rooted in Folk, Progressive, Pop and Post music, and is being composed jamming for hours by the fireplace of an old
forgotten country house. They use a charango, guitars, a cello, an organ, the vibrastar, a tape echo, various percussions, as well as some fire, rivers,
litchis, chamanic plants, electric eels, insects, and about a hundred of other things… Centenaire’s music is meant to be a real-time, live, intimate experience.
So verspielt und liebevoll wie hier mit Gitarren, Celli, Klarinetten, Melodicas, Keyboards, Xylophon und Perkussions umgegangen wird, gibt es in der Tat selten.
ROTERAUPE
Ni trop hippie, ni musicologue hermétique, entre rituels primitifs, magie blanche et narrations médiévales, Centenaire est donc une belle balade dans un univers musical principalement acoustique, fait de charango, de guitares, de violoncelle, de clarinette, de mélodica, de claviers, de xylophone, de percussions et de voix bien sûr.
CHRONICART
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ARTIST | GREGOR SAMSA
LABEL | Own Records
ARTIST WEBSITE | www.myspace.com
08th may | Benelux | Tba
09th may | Germany | Tba
10th may | Germany | Tba
11th may | Germany | Tba
12th may | Germany | Tba
13th may | Germany | Tba
14th may | Austria | Tba
15th may | Italy | Tba
16th may | Italy | Tba
17th may | Italy | Tba
18th may | Italy | Tba
19th may | France | Tba
20th may | France | Tba
21th may | France | Tba
22th may | Barcelona - SP | BeCool
23th may | France | Tba
24th may | France / Benelux | Tba
25th may | UK | Tba
26th may | UK | Tba
27th may | UK | Tba
28th may | UK | Tba
29th may | UK | Tba
30th may | Benelux | Tba
31th may | Germany | Tba
1st June | Benelux | Tba
After the release of two stellar EP’s, GREGOR SAMSA delivered us their debut full length 55:12 in 2006.
End of April 2008, their brand new album will be released worldwide by Kora (US) & Own Records (Europe). ‘Rest‘ is a nine song journey submerged in dreamy atmospherics. The band blurs the lines of ambient & indie, from heavy & dark one moment to hushed & serene the next, all while angelic vocals drift overhead.
The strongest moments sprinkled throughout 55:12 are those when softer, more peaceful sounds are contrasted with bursts of driving up-tempo melody.
PITCHFORK, March 2006
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