Sat 23 September 2023

K-Group (NZ) + Kristallroll & Vincent Jehanno (FR) + Gerry Franke (De)

presented by knotwilg records and les ateliers claus

K-Group (nz)
live + new lp presentation. Straight from the Surface Of The Earth drone-headquarters.  
New LP out on Knotwilg presented live.

Kristallroll & Vincent Jehanno (FR)
double drum/percussion driven duo + a reel to reel extravaganza from Vincent Jehanno mingled in. Kristallroll is half of Humbros (see also Knotwilg and Album Claus lp's) and part of Nis Nah Ensemble.

https://kristallroll.bandcamp.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfQ1GwkHGCo

gerry franke (de)
A modest, dubby orientated take on psyched out rhythms bumping into obscure percussion countered by guitar and synths. The aim is taking all evidence into court to prove there is a bright musical future behind that horizon. The result is a mindshaking experience where listeners suddenly start to dance, while the dancers become aware of an introvert nature. Last year’s lp ‘Found Myself Or Just I’m Dead’ on Tax Free Records made it to several ‘best of year’ lists. Rightfully so because it is a timeless masterpiece not revealing all its secrets instantly. Hence the appeal to Knotwilg to present this.

https://gerryfranke.bandcamp.com/album/found-myself-or-just-i-m-dead

DJ Klakke: As requested by some people & bands playing: a partyset (of sorts)

Joshua Burkett (us) + jeugdbrand (be) + mira matthew (be), les ateliers claus, 25/09/2023

Mon 25 September 2023

Joshua Burkett (us) + jeugdbrand (be) + mira matthew (be)

JOSHUA BURKETT (us)
“Joshua better exemplifies the original free-folk impulse than any of his more celebrated contemporaries. And while he may not be doing four page fashion spreads in 'underground' style bibles, he remains *the* keeper of the flame.”– David Keenan Wire Magazine/Volcanic Tongue

Burkett has been recording & playing live in the states for 20+ years. He has played in the following groups/collectives: Vermonster, Tower Recordings, Shrinnirs, Parrotprobe, Borb, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Wormdoom, & Tarp... & has played solo sets on bills with folks like: Charalambides, Michael Hurley, Jack Rose, Dredd Foole, Chris Thompson, Ed Askew, Michael Chapman, Cherry Blossoms, Steve Gunn, John Fahey, Corsano/Flaherty, Ghost, Daniel Higgs, Red Favourite, Sun Ciry Girls, Ralph White, Son Of Earth, Bobb Trimble, Big Blood, Six Organs Of Admittance, Valley Of Ashes, Fursaxa, Thurston Moore, Circle, George Stavis, Michael Yonkers, & more.

In recent years J Burkett released an lp with Tucker Zimmerman, released a short novel and another solo lp ' If You Can’t Wander The Waffle, Wonder In Drizzle'.

“Joshua Burkett is one of the rock’s of the New England rock underground. He got his start in the Bimbo Shrineheads at just 16 years old, playing bass and saxophone. Burkett later played sax and served as cover artist for Vermonster, Wayne Rogers and Kate Biggar’s outlet before Major Stars. Beginning in the mid 1990s, he released solo material on his own Feather One’s Nest label, including the masterpiece Gold Cosmos, which featured both Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance and Pat Gubler of P.G. Six. Spirit of Orr Records recently reissued Owls Leaves Rustling, Burkett’s 1995 solo debut, along with testimonies from Thurston Moore, Chris Corsano and Wolf Eyes’ John Olson.” – Dusted Magazine

https://joshuaburkett.bandcamp.com/album/gold-cosmos

jeugdbrand (be)
jeugdbrand is the duo of percussionist Jeroen Stevens and piano virtuoso Dennis Tyfus. They recently released their debut LP on Lieven Martens' Edições CN label and are presenting their new LP on Feeding Tube Records with a theatrical live concert at Les Ateliers Claus.

https://edicoescn.bandcamp.com/album/siamese-dream-team

https://youtu.be/hF4kXZxoqow

MIRA MATTHEW (be)
Hyena Women (radiophonic piece by MIRA MATTHEW)
Born in 1991 MIRA MATTHEW grew up in South Africa. At 17 she left for India, following her yoga teacher. She studied yoga, tantra and permaculture there. At 20 she moved to Brussels and studied editing. She edited Juanita Onzanga’s film, The Jungle Knows You Better Than You Do during her undergraduate studies. She then completed a masters degree in audio-visual art at Luca School of Art with her first short film, Resident Alien. In parallel she continued her somatic experimentation with yoga and tantra, also touching on practices such as Alexander Technique, Feldenkreis and Authentic Movement. In 2022 she completed her first radio piece, Hyena Women. MIRA is also a photographer and is a mother.

https://soundcloud.com/mira-matthew/hyena-women-trailer

NSB23 x Meakusma - Hedzoleh Sounds Remixes Release Party, les ateliers claus, 14/10/2023

Sat 14 October 2023

NSB23 x Meakusma - Hedzoleh Sounds Remixes Release Party

presented by les ateliers claus x nuits sonores x meakusma

On the occasion of the release of the Hedzoleh Soundz remix 12inch on Meakusma, there will be live performances by Jimi Tenor, Mark Ernestus & Tikiman and Gavsborg and a dj set by Waltraud Blischke at Les Ateliers Claus on October 14th, all in the framework of Nuits Sonores & European Lab Brussels 2023.
Hedzoleh Soundz were one of the first and most original ‘Afro’ bands from 1970s Ghana, playing an unusual mix of traditional music and western rock as part of the West African Highlife scene. The music for the Hedzoleh album was used by legendary South-African trumpeter Hugh Masekela as the backbone to his afro-jazz classic, “Masekela – Introducing Hedzoleh Soundz”.
After reissuing Hedzoleh in 2022, a collaborative effort between Meakusma and Soundway, the new remix 12inch sees Jimi Tenor, Mark Ernestus, Gavsborg and Waltraud Blischke transport Hedzoleh's tracks into new spheres and circumstances.

line up:
Gavsborg
Jimi Tenor
Mark Ernestus & Tikiman
Waltraud Blischke

Wed 25 October 2023

Nâr (beirut-lb) + Héron Cendré (rennes-fr)

presented by les ateliers claus x nuits beau tas x moli del tro

◥ Nâr ◣ (Beirut / live act after residency at les ateliers claus)

is a Swiss Lebanese multi-instrumentalist and singer based in Beirut.
In a constant metamorphosis, she works with various instruments, her voice and different objects she finds. Abrasive, hypnotic, NÂR's lives are sonic experiments and improvisations built up from A to Z, often led by short sentences on repeat like mantras. Her music takes its roots in a very large spectrum of sounds, inspiration or genre such as middle eastern and north African trance, industrial, electronic and grime music. Lately playing with a set up essentially composed of clocks, carillons and other metallic objects, the musician is showing a new face with more radical directions and raw sounds.

youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KqCy5mF7iY

Bandcamp:

https://nadiadaou.bandcamp.com/album/what-we-talk-about-n-r

◥ Héron Cendré ◣ (Rennes)

Born in la Hague near Cherbourg and based in Rennes for 7 years, Héron Cendré builds a poetic world made of sounds from modular synthesizers, field recordings picked up in schools and other minimal lofi weirdness. The album 3-4 released on moli del tro records is a perfect example of this. It's « a pure, minimal, chaotic, holy, cosmic, tender skill, somewhere between a movie soundtrack and a signal from outer-space » (Gonzaï). His influences include Terry Riley, Philippe Glass, Hiroshi Yoshimura, François de Roubaix, Jean-Jacques Perrey and Pierre Bastien.

Bandcamp:

https://molideltro.bandcamp.com/album/3-4

moli del tro

https://soundcloud.com/molideltro/sets/kiosk-and-lyl-radios

CROATIAN AMOR | MT GEMINI , les ateliers claus, 28/10/2023

Sat 28 October 2023

CROATIAN AMOR | MT GEMINI

Croatian Amor
is the solo alias of Loke Rahbek. Croatian Amor realises a distinct and brilliant intimacy about the bracing pace and chronicles of the contemporary world. Hailing from Copenhagen, Rahbek operates

the label Posh Isolation, a place of incubation for many artists from across Scandina-vian experimental music, including many of his own collaborators. As Croatian Amor,

Rahbek's most crucial and imaginative account is laid bare. Often using a mesh of real events and places as a platform for a largely dreamlike play, Croatian Amor composing with pop artefacts of the circuits that interlace our lives. Sometimes speaking in loneliness, though often telling of trysts, Croatian Amor

presents a longing for indeterminate sensation. Employing a medley of diffuse elec-tronic music traditions, fantastical synthetic worlds are evoked to make this world just a little more habitable.

https://croatianamor-poshisolation.bandcamp.com/album/a-part-of-you-in-everything

https://croatianamor-alter.bandcamp.com/album/love-means-taking-action

https://youtu.be/OVVTE5KmdqU

MT Gemini (Yannick Franck, Raum, founder of Antibody label)

"In 2019, my interest in early ska, boss reggae, rocksteady and dancehall has led me to initiate MT Gemini, a project in which I use Jamaican music as core material.

I quickly came up with a debut LP which was released on Belgian label Sub Rosa, it ended up in the "10 records of the year" list of the Wire Magazine's Dub section.

In another review, Brainwashed (UK) wrote: "Every single one of the pieces is a striking example of transformational wizardly, going beyond mere deconstruction to create something deeply lysergic that is light years away from the raw material that it was birthed from. Moreover, Franck is consistently inventive in his alchemy, studiously avoiding the temptation to repeat the same tricks or head in a direction that has already been explored: each piece is treated like a completely unique foundation for a new vision to organically grow from.”
As I see it, MT Gemini is not dub music per se but rather an incantatory deconstruction of Jamaican tunes that I love, a laboratory grown mixture of aural mutations infused with strangeness, joy and nostalgia. But above all, a meditation on alterity.

https://yannickfrancknoise.blogspot.com/p/mt-gemini.html

https://yannickfranck.bandcamp.com/

https://antibodylabel.bandcamp.com/

RICHARD SKELTON (uk) + EVERYTHING FALLS APART (Throwing Snow + Otto Lindholm) (uk/be) presented by Les Ateliers Claus x Totalism, les ateliers claus, 04/11/2023

Sat 4 November 2023

RICHARD SKELTON (uk) + EVERYTHING FALLS APART (Throwing Snow + Otto Lindholm) (uk/be) presented by Les Ateliers Claus x Totalism

richard skelton
richard skelton is an english musician. over the past seventeen years he has recorded over fifty albums and eps of music. a diy advocate, most of his music has been self-released, either via sustain-release (2005-2011) or corbel stone press (2009+). renown for his expressive and innovative use of acoustic instruments, his much-imitated treatment of strings — at once visceral and haunting — began in 2007 on the album ‘box of birch’, and was later developed on his trio of ground-breaking recordings, ‘marking time’ (2008), ‘landings’ (2009) and ‘verse of birds’ (2011). his work has been lauded by gramophone, mojo, q, record collector and the quietus, among others, and in 2011 he was featured on the cover of the wire magazine. in 2013 he was shortlisted for a paul hamlyn foundation award, and in 2014 he was a finalist for the arts foundation award for experimental music. an online archive of his work is maintained at aeolian.bandcamp.com.

https://www.richardskelton.net/info

https://aeolian.bandcamp.com/track/a-longilaterall-figure

https://aeolian.bandcamp.com/track/the-late-afflicting-fire

https://phantomlimblabel.bandcamp.com/album/these-charms-may-be-sung-over-a-wound

https://soundcloud.com/c-s-p

everything falls apart (throwing snow + otto lindholm)
“in fact, the more i try to escape, the less i can breathe. the more i try to hold on, the less i can focus. something’s leaving me. parts of me. everything falls apart.”
mark z. danielewski, house of leaves
inspired by danielewski’s masterpiece “house of leaves”, everything falls apart (efa) brings together in a brilliant dialogue prolific english producer ross tones, aka throwing snow (houndstooth), and double bass player otto lindholm (icarus, gizeh, totalism). through a deep connection and appreciation of music the two artists hit it off instantly upon meeting and despite the improvisational nature of their practice, the underlying concept of their collaboration was thoughtfully composed. they are two musicians using different languages yet achieving a mutual understanding. acting as a human fx on the initial acoustic sound, ross tones gives a new dimension to each impulse of the double bass, which, at the same time, influences lindholm's play in return. entropic and minimal, efa music morphs from stable beauty and terrifying chaos and back again, delivering a unique catharsis of unforgiving soundscapes and melodies.

https://everything-falls-apart.bandcamp.com

https://Linktr.ee/everythingfallsapart

throwing snow
london based migrant ross tones makes music under the ever so pertinent moniker throwing snow (houndstooth). drawing influences from a vast array of genres encompassing dubstep, uk funky, house and post-rock, his productions have a consistent comforting warmth and glistening coldness. his live sets have taken him from sonar and roskilde to berghain via tour support for the likes of bonobo, thom yorke’s atoms for peace and jon hopkins, as well as several boiler room appearances. he was asked to be part of rbma in 2013 and won a music week award as part of his snow ghosts project for best sync in 2018.

http://www.throwingsnow.com/

https://linktr.ee/throwingsnow

otto lindholm
brussels-based composer and double bass player, otto lindholm specializes in drone music and avant-garde modern classical. delving into the textures and timbres of his chosen instrument, he produces immersive and introspective music, creating a sense of hypnotic tension and release. lindholm has released music on various labels, including icarus records, gizeh records, houndstooth, aurora borealis recordings, bedouin records, midira records, or 7k!...

http://www.ottolindholm.net/

https://linktr.ee/ottolindholm

Bitchin Bajas (us) + Frédéric d. Oberland (fr), les ateliers claus, 10/11/2023

Fri 10 November 2023

Bitchin Bajas (us) + Frédéric d. Oberland (fr)

presented by collectif mental and les ateliers claus

🎵 BITCHIN BAJAS (experimental/space rock / US / Drag City Records)
Bitchin Bajas began in 2010 as a solo side project for Cooper Crain, guitarist/organist of Chicago krautrock revivalists Cave. The early sounds of Bitchin Bajas were equally psychedelic but decidedly less aggressive than Crain's primary band, opting for more textural exploration than rhythmic force. The project quickly became prolific in its release of music, starting with the Tones & Zones full-length in 2010 and trickling out split singles, EPs, cassette-only releases, and the like among more actualized full-lengths every year that followed. The solo project was expanded to a duo with the inclusion of Mahjongg's Dan Quinlivan, adding more synth and guitar textures to Crain's web of spectral sound. Rob Frye, also of Cave, eventually became a member of Bitchin Bajas, contributing flute, saxophone, and guitar. Albums documenting the group's development arrived often. Their lastest one, Bajascillators, was released in September 2022 on Drag City Records.

https://bitchinbajas.bandcamp.com

🎵 FRÉDÉRIC D. OBERLAND (drone ambient/electronic / FR)
Opaque oceans, skies disguised by clouds, continents that seek each other: it is on the surface of this anatomy of duration that Frédéric D. Oberland (cofounder of Oiseaux-Tempête, FOUDRE !, Le Réveil des Tropiques and FareWell Poetry), since youth, groups and dreams, travels, fiercely self-taught, through multi-instrumentalist practices, towards the pulverulent litany of the world.
Solstices, his fourth solo album, was released in March 2023.

https://www.fredericdoberland.com

https://fredericdoberland.bandcamp.com

🎵 dj moonbase alpha
dj moonbase alpha will drove you to a kraut and kosmiche journey.

Memorials (UK) + Yama Warashi (UK) + DJ synth gillis, les ateliers claus, 11/11/2023

Sat 11 November 2023

Memorials (UK) + Yama Warashi (UK) + DJ synth gillis

MEMORIALS
is the new band of Verity Susman (Electrelane) and Matthew Simms (Wire,
Better Corners, It Hugs Back, UUUU). As a duo these multi-instrumentalists cover plenty of
ground on stage, juggling instruments in a set up resembling that of a 5-piece band. Their
sound touches on the many points for which they are known, veering from melodic
songwriting to psychedelic noise, free jazz freakouts, tape loops and drones, and then back
again. Their debut double album - Music For Film: Tramps! & Women Against The Bomb - is
out on 12 May 2023 via The state51 Conspiracy label.

https://memorialsmusic.carrd.co

https://memorialsmusic.bandcamp.com

Yama Warashi
Yoshino Shigihara came into 2019 needing a change. The Japanese artist had been based in Bristol ever since co-founding the now defunct Maloya-infuenced raucous psychedelia collective Zun Zun Egui. She then blossomed on her own across an EP and two albums of more meditative but no less territorially transcendent records as Yama Warashi. As in her music, though, Yoshino has always had a sense of wanderlust and it was perhaps no surprise that she’d eventually want to move again – this time to London.
“Moving to London gave me the chance to work with more diverse musicians” Yoshino says. “And I wanted to be here too because of the high creative energy, the diversity of the music and art here and the people who live here.”

https://yamawarashi.bandcamp.com/album/crispy-moon-remixes

Fri 24 November 2023

LEAN LEFT (Uk/Us/No/nl)

Lean Left throws together two explosive duos - the free-jazz sax/drums collision course of Chicago saxophonist Ken Vandermark and Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love with the pile-driving guitarists from The Ex - to make up a positively apocalyptic quartet: an elemental musical force featuring Grade A international players zoning in and scrambling together rock, jazz, noise and blistering free improv into a highly-charged onstage assault, each member taking their sounds and bodies to the edge and often snapping out of the wilds and into glorious passages of regular rhythm.

The foursome crashes along sometimes creating a cacophonous racket but always musical and always ready to change direction or turn a new corner. The music of Lean Left is extroverted, energetic, powerful and inclusive but also confrontational and provocative: where rhythm, noise, melody and harmony melt together in perfect union.
Or as English comedic genius Stewart Lee stated about the band, "jazz theorizing be damned, its like being 18 again".

Terrie Ex – left guitar
Ken Vandermark – tenor saxophone – baritone saxophone – B clarinet
Paal Nilssen Love – Drums
Andy Moor – right guitar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGJshe8jx0E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvjhMuAOyyI

Jef Mertens, Nickolas Mohanna + Sitka, Hellvete, les ateliers claus, 25/11/2023

Sat 25 November 2023

Jef Mertens, Nickolas Mohanna + Sitka, Hellvete

Jef Mertens
Geel-based has been researching, documenting and subtly exploring the experimental music scene in Belgium and beyond for the better part of two decades. As a filmmaker, he’s dug deep in the realm of Flemish primitive fringe (Dronevolk) and chronicled the makings of giants like Sonic Youth and Borbetomagus. After running the now-defunct free tape label Dadaist Tapes, Mertens comes with a release of his own: NO MATHEMATICS, the first record collab between KRAAK and Feeding Tube.   This entrancing debut sees shruti box and guitar conjoining to create circling ragas of solemn yet resounding force. Additional contributions from US composer and multi instrumentalist Nickolas Mohanna provide an orphic sheen to the whole, amplifying its psycho-sensorial energy through ringing zithers and pulsating electronics. In essence, NO MATHEMATICS fosters a portentousness that is tenuous and vibrant, completely in line with Mertens’ work so far and proving that the heart of Belgian dronevolk is alive and very much beating.

Many Chants a Trapped Secret is a solo project by Jef Mertens trying to evoke sounds for imaginary films and images. The music here serves more as soundtracks opposed to the more noisy/textural music under his own name.

https://kraak.bandcamp.com/album/no-mathematics

https://jefmertens.bandcamp.com

Nickolas Mohanna
New York-based artist and composer Nickolas Mohanna deploys various media to fade the borders between music,
sound and sculpture, producing works from environmental and internet sounds to guitar and percussion.
He also operates the publishing project Run/Off from which he has released audio objects & artist books.

https://nickolasmohanna.bandcamp.com/

https://runoffeditions.com/

https://www.nickolasmohanna.com/

Hellvete
is the solo moniker of Glen Steenkiste. Previously active in Silvester Anfang and Sylvester Anfang II and one of the founders of the Funeral Folk label. Hellvete draws influences from early Minimalism and old folk music and with the use of harmonium, bowed banjo, electric tampura and analog synth he creates probing intense sounds that try to undo notions of time and place. Steenkiste’s music is like taking an endless shower of sunbeams, warm, comforting and mind-altering. Music that makes time stand still and focuses on shifting details and textures, but massive in sound and presence.”

https://morctapes.bandcamp.com/album/droomharmonium

https://aguirrerecords.bandcamp.com/album/voor-harmonium

sitka
Ben Van Houdt is a Belgian musician releasing solo work as SITKA since 2015. Inspired by the sound of tape machines and reel to reel recorders, manipulated guitar textures stutter and distort through layers of runaway loops and broken sounds. Crippled oscillators surface hissing and blaring along steady streams of faded noise, echoing a withered image of decay.

https://sitkaspruce.bandcamp.com

organ of corti (SWE) + THE IDEALIST (swe), les ateliers claus, 02/12/2023

Sat 2 December 2023

organ of corti (SWE) + THE IDEALIST (swe)

ORGAN OF CORTI
Experimental music from Sweden, a trio for tape loops and analog synths.

ORGAN OF CORTI is all about tension and harsh minimalism. the tape loops of Gustafsson and Johansson and Nordwall’s crisp electronics and precise arrangements create spacious, fluid experimental music.
Mattias Gustafsson (b. 1978) came out of the hardcore punk scene where he played bass for the band the jam session. since then, as altar of flies, he has a cult following in the contemporary noise scene. his music is sick, filthy and mind expanding.
Dan Johansson (b. 1978) made himself a name as sewer election in the early years of our current decade. rough, harsh stuff often released on heavily limited releases for the international market for any weirdo. his intense, short live sets also quickly became a thing.
Joachim Nordwall (b. 1975) started recording psychedelic experimental music as a teenager in the late 80s (with Alvars Orkester and a.b.o.) and has a long history of arranging concerts and festivals, collaborating with likeminded and playing in bands like ritual rock group The Skull Defekts and electronic duo Saturn and the sun.

https://newforces.bandcamp.com/album/auris

https://dead-mind.bandcamp.com/album/incus-malleus

https://organ-of-corti.bandcamp.com/album/hostile-mess

THE IDEALIST

THE IDEALIST is the result of a life long obsession of dub and industrial music, as well as letting styles collide. its as if the good parts of the on u-sound label meet up with throbbing gristle in a basement somewhere. dub industrialism not afraid of being offensive. on the recent "say yes to no" album (ideal 2019) he collaborated with kingston street poet Nazamba and conceptual artist and vocalist John Duncan.
THE IDEALIST in the shape of Joachim Nordwall started recording electronic music in 1987, runs the ideal recordings label since 1998.

https://meakusma.bandcamp.com/album/a-lion-is-a-lion-and-not-a-lamb

N.E.R.F. (Odal & Zyrtax)

N.E.R.F is a collaboration project of longtime comrades Peter Zincken and Johnny van de Koolwijk. Using vintage field recordings from the vaults as a foundation, adding fragments of improvised live recordings, analog synths, loops & vocals they recorded 2 albums over the last 2 years. Drawing inspiration from nature, mystical rituals and the ancient world in general, these 16 tracks capture the struggle of survival in a modern society. A journey to the end of our world, to overcome weakness and honor forgotten fragments of the past. Regression instead of progression.

https://zyrtax.bandcamp.com/album/ivinenn

https://zyrtax.bandcamp.com/album/skavenn

HACKEDEPICCIOTTO (de) + cassé (be) + why the eye? (be), les ateliers claus, 08/12/2023

Fri 8 December 2023

HACKEDEPICCIOTTO (de) + cassé (be) + why the eye? (be)

HACKEDEPICCIOTTO - exclusive Belgian date !!!
Alexander Hacke is original member and the bass player of Einstürzende Neubauten.
Danielle de Picciotto is the co-initiator of the Berlin Love Parade, a collaborator of the electronic Ocean Club & Monika Werkstatt project with Gudrun Gut; former member of cult band Crime & The City Solution and Alexander’s partner in crime. She is also a visual artist.
HACKEDEPICCIOTTO glides across genres that take in cinematic drone, industrial, experimental and spoken word that shift between meditative sung harmonies with soundscapes to heavy drones and meteoric, vivacious symphonies comparable to a perfect mixture of OM, Suicide, Dead Can Dance, Low and Arvo Pärt.
Their beautiful new album “Keepsakes” on MUTE is a collection of midtempo pieces with a newly added touch of heavy jazz beats and is based on personal stories & remembrances.

https://youtu.be/zcpB_TGQIOg

https://youtu.be/XK853Uz-PCQ

https://youtu.be/512Ak-V2qXg

WHY THE EYE?
WHY THE EYE? is a masked quartet formed in Brussels around D.I.Y. instruments. Their first album was released in 2017 on Plynt & Ångström record labels. Their tribal-noisy-experimental music will shake bodies in a trance, for a low-fi and hairy result.

https://whytheeye.org/

https://youtu.be/AFcCn0VX4g8

https://youtu.be/Fq1yreqhmic

CASSÈ
CASSÈ is an italo-swiss Duo by Caroline Profanter and Selene Mauvis formed in 2019, in the basement of the Radio Picnic Studio in Brussels. They started with the wish to use only acoustic or self-amplified instruments and to write one Hit Song per rehearsal. They play with found, old and broken instruments, starting from extremely simple melodies and rhythms, dadaist lyrics & amateur singing.
Their first cassette was released on the Belgian cassette label iki gaga in 2020, re-edited in 2022, with the bonus track: je te paye en trash.

https://ikigagalabel.bandcamp.com/album/tte-1

DJ KIM LE MAR
An eclectic variety of random themes in sound and music.

https://www.kimlaugs.com/dj

XYLOURIS WHITE (gr/au) + tba, les ateliers claus, 10/12/2023

Sun 10 December 2023

XYLOURIS WHITE (gr/au) + tba

XYLOURIS WHITE (au)
XYLOURIS WHITE is a musical collaboration established in 2013, involving Greek singer and laouto player George Xylouris and Australian drummer Jim White, best known for his work with Dirty Three. The duo's music has been described as combining "free-jazz, avant-rock and ages-old Greek folk traditions."

More in tune now with the rhythm of the sun and moon, XYLOURIS WHITE speak to each other across great distances with the intuition and fellowship that can only be found over years in each other’s company. With fewer distractions, appreciative of the freedom to play with new sounds and spaces, they carve "The Forest In Me" released in 2023 from unbelievably thin air.

https://www.xylouriswhite.com/

https://xylouriswhiteshop.bandcamp.com/album/the-forest-in-me

https://youtu.be/FFgodriU4fI

https://youtu.be/vdpDkboRgFw

https://youtu.be/_cDpmGB_iec

https://youtu.be/evfUpDdHnHU

https://youtu.be/d6CidTKItuc

Das Kinn (DE) + araf (lb/ma), les ateliers claus, 15/12/2023

Fri 15 December 2023

Das Kinn (DE) + araf (lb/ma)

das kinn (de)
dAS KINN oscillates between the poles. Clear cut and shape-shifting.

Between relaxation and tension, Post Punk and Kraut, Electronics and Art Rock, between Minor and Major, hiccups and singing.

DAS KINN rants against the imposition of impermanence.

Behind the curtain of DAS KINN hides Toben Piel. Located between the spheres of sound and mediums of expressions for years: as part of the music-performance duo Les Trucs, as co-operator of the tape label MMODEMM, as organizer of electronic music formats in Frankfurt a/M and with works for theater and radio.

His new 5-track EP “Die Kanten” will be released on 22nd of September 2023 on cassette and in a limited Lathe Cut Edition via Mangel and IchiIchi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn6t5FLdVqU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0i1V7cbxVU

http://www.mmodemm.com/

https://mmodemm.bandcamp.com/

https://soundcloud.com/fmaether

araf (lb/ma)
ARAF "Disgust" is an arabic-sung experimental project stemming from the collaboration between artists Othman Cherradi (Prophän) and Joseph Jadam (Maltash). Drawing influences from artistic movements such as post-punk and industrial as well as Levantine and Maghrebi music, it aims to bring a southern vision into a mostly euro-centric scene.

ARAF debut EP "Bathrah" on Antibody:

https://antibodylabel.bandcamp.com/album/bathrah

"هاك وارا" music video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWbMuoZrvdM

ARAF bandcamp:

https://arafband.bandcamp.com/album/bathrah

DJ DER MORD

https://antibodylabel.bandcamp.com/

TIME SCHEDULE:
20:30 doors
21:00 ARAF
22:00 DAS KINN
22:45 DJ DER MORD
01:00 curfew

K-Group (NZ) + Kristallroll & Vincent Jehanno (FR) + Gerry Franke (De)

Sat 23 September 2023

K-Group (NZ) + Kristallroll & Vincent Jehanno (FR) + Gerry Franke (De)

lES ATELIERS CLAUS

doors: 20:30

tickets

concert

Joshua Burkett (us) + jeugdbrand (be) + mira matthew (be)

Mon 25 September 2023

Joshua Burkett (us) + jeugdbrand (be) + mira matthew (be)

les ateliers claus

doors: 20:00

tickets

concert

NSB23 x Meakusma - Hedzoleh Sounds Remixes Release Party

Sat 14 October 2023

NSB23 x Meakusma - Hedzoleh Sounds Remixes Release Party

les ateliers claus

doors: 20:00

tickets

concert

Nâr (beirut-lb) + Héron Cendré (rennes-fr)

Wed 25 October 2023

Nâr (beirut-lb) + Héron Cendré (rennes-fr)

les ateliers claus

doors: 20:00

tickets

concert

CROATIAN AMOR | MT GEMINI

Sat 28 October 2023

CROATIAN AMOR | MT GEMINI

les ateliers claus

doors: 20:30

tickets

concert

RICHARD SKELTON (uk) + EVERYTHING FALLS APART (Throwing Snow + Otto Lindholm) (uk/be) presented by Les Ateliers Claus x Totalism

Sat 4 November 2023

RICHARD SKELTON (uk) + EVERYTHING FALLS APART (Throwing Snow + Otto Lindholm) (uk/be) presented by Les Ateliers Claus x Totalism

les ateliers claus

doors: 20:30

tickets

concert

Bitchin Bajas (us) + Frédéric d. Oberland (fr)

Fri 10 November 2023

Bitchin Bajas (us) + Frédéric d. Oberland (fr)

les ateliers claus

doors: 20:30

tickets

concert

Memorials (UK) + Yama Warashi (UK) + DJ synth gillis

Sat 11 November 2023

Memorials (UK) + Yama Warashi (UK) + DJ synth gillis

les ateliers claus

doors: 20:30

tickets

concert

LEAN LEFT (Uk/Us/No/nl)

Fri 24 November 2023

LEAN LEFT (Uk/Us/No/nl)

les ateliers claus

doors: 20:30

tickets

concert

Jef Mertens, Nickolas Mohanna + Sitka, Hellvete

Sat 25 November 2023

Jef Mertens, Nickolas Mohanna + Sitka, Hellvete

les ateliers claus

doors: 20:30

tickets

concert

organ of corti (SWE) + THE IDEALIST (swe)

Sat 2 December 2023

organ of corti (SWE) + THE IDEALIST (swe)

les ateliers claus

doors: 20:30

tickets

concert

HACKEDEPICCIOTTO (de) + cassé (be) + why the eye? (be)

Fri 8 December 2023

HACKEDEPICCIOTTO (de) + cassé (be) + why the eye? (be)