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Thu 30 January 2025

stacks + trystero + dj rick shiver

knekelhuis & nosejob present

stacks
an escape into moments of timeless allure, brothers jan and sis matthé create dusty landscapes for dancing and dreaming. their third stacks album came out on knekelhuis in may 2024. ‘want', both lack and desire, is the sound of two bros trying to sing sense into a burning world. galvanised with a proper european feel for synthetic timbre, they dip into sophisticated synth-pop savvy, immaculate measures of vocoders, fm synths and pellucid, breezy keys. hypnotically sentimental and emotive, prepare to get lost in their world of voices.

https://stacksofvoices.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/stacksofvoices

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trystero
trystero is thomas lea clarke (aka mr tc), nelly (part of easy goats) and low nat (half of jean-luc). their debut album ‘sfumare e vedere' was conceived over three days aboard a transformed 1960s barge moored on a canal in northern france, and released by knekelhuis in january 2024. low bat sings in a combination of italian, french and english about class struggle, love and loss. thomas adds a tripped-out soundtrack taking cues from sizzling acid, post-punk, kraut and downlow sleaze. and nelly's inventive bass playing and precise slapping make for the perfect sweltering oddball trio.

https://trysteromusic.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/trysteromusica/

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dj rick shiver

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Sun 2 February 2025

"the Sundays" ft. bazip zeehok

bazip zeehok

And so Bazip Zeehok it is. That is, as it were: vocals, guitar, percussion. A three-piece formed in the second half of the year twothousandtwentytwo, simply because. Instant compositions, with corresponding Dutch poetic lyricism. Live maybe some in English too. And what else would one might like to know about that? Well, this, perhaps?

About the CD:
“In over 45 minutes they let 10 songs pass in review. Or songs, they are rather musical works of art where improvisation is paramount. Just as spontaneously as the group came together, their musical ideas also come squirting out like a leaky fountain; even where you don’t expect it. The whole thing goes from tight guitar parts to guitar struggles, from small exciting rolls to artfully stumbling drum parts and from spoken word to poetic vocals and almost screams. (...) They forge all this together in such a way that they always manage to surprise you or put
you on the wrong, but also sometimes right track. At times it speaks to the imagination and at other times they take you more to unexplored territory or to running the I-don’t-know-how-many meter hurdles to music. With every listen you discover something new from the beautiful tangle of sounds. (...) Bazip Zeehok does not fit into a box, is his own boss and simply sails a completely unexpected course of its own, with a sublime, daring and masterful album as result.”
– jan willem broek, nnm/de subjectivisten

About a concert:
“No, then Bazip Zeehok, named after the main character from a 1969 novel by legendary Dutch writer C. Buddingh’. Three old hands, each of whom I have seen countless times before – often as improvisers: percussionist Gert Jan Prins, guitarist Lukas Simonis and wordsmith GW Sok. ‘Three times better,’ to quote a classic advertisement for Mascotte rolling papers.
Cross-fried songs, with Prins not infrequently working his drums with plumes and Simonis playing cracking box guitar. Over that, Sok does what he rarely, if ever, did in the past: sing. At least, that’s what it seems like. In doing so, he consistently keeps his own rhythm, which leads to pleasantly curious effects.”
– peter bruyn, 250 woorden

Sok (The Ex, Zoikle, Oiseaux-Tempête, L&S, King Champion Sounds, Action Beat);
Simonis (Dull Schicksal, Zoikle, Stepmother, Trespassers W, Coolhaven, Mothers of Exit); and
Prins (Gorgonzola Legs, Mothers of Exit, Synchronator, VoltageSpa, M.i.m.e.o.).

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Sat 8 February 2025

Broshuda + Manoir Molle + Yves de Mey

Broshuda
Intentionally hyper personal / diaristic while dwelling on universal human sensations and sentiments such as memory, language, grief, collective consciousness, community & humanism. His ever evolving cross pollinating output and shapeshifting live shows apply a multitextured form of demanded deep listening & intense warped emotional pressure delivered via his vast stash of home & studio recordings reconfigured & collaged in a new way on each individual occasion, ranging from distorted heavyweight ambient steppers to intricate, chamber-esque musique concrète meanderings to sizzling weightless eskibeat & computer music hybridisations.
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Manoir Molle
« The manoir molle makes music like the hive make honey. Like a house makes dust. Like the sky makes rain. It doesn’t have any doors, only many open windows. The manoir molle is a see-through flag, drooping in the wind. Threads loop in and out. And under this shroud, a hand-carved orchestra of air. »
Turner williams Jr
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Yves De Mey
He'll perform tracks from his latest album "The Velocity of Anguish" on Stellag/iDeal, combined with some older and/or unreleased work.

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Tue 11 February 2025

Laetitia Sadier + pink shabah

Laetitia Sadier

Over the course of her career, spanning three-plus decades, Lætitia Sadier has never shied away from the hard topics, or stopped advocating for the possibility of self determination and emancipation in the face of the powers that be, conscious or unconscious. This is an essential part of the foundation she co-built with Stereolab, showcasing her spiritual, scientific and sociopolitical inquiries. She’s continued this process with Monade and under her own name and as a writer/singer/musician whose every album acts as a report on her journey of the self through time, space and the collective. On Rooting For Love, the report is set alight by the heat
of a turbulent world, collapsing institutions and Lætitia’s fully engaged process of expression as well as orchestration. The opening number, “Who + What” elucidates the central issue of
the album: a call for a collective striving for Gnosis — an inquisitive outlook that will lend clues to the traumatized civilizations of Earth, allowing us to evolve away from millennia of alienation and suffering and towards the achievability of healing. The musical arrangements help to embody the layers of the issue, as with “Who + What”’s combination of organ, synths, guitar, bass, trombone, drum programming, vibraphone and zither, all working along intricate paths of chord and tempo changes. Leading from the inside is the implacable presence of Lætitia Sadier, herself interacting with a vocal assembly of men and women billed as The Choir. The regular reappearance of The Choir throughout Rooting For Love is a reminder of this
music being one of a people in critical mass, in addition to an evolution that continues to deepen the rich harmonic fields in which Lætitia plays. Past wounds are addressed again and again in the libretto, as the music provides a transformational balm to aid the healing process. The melodic funk of bassist Xavi Muñoz leads a Chic-adjacent slink to the occasional dance floor vibes and no-wave rockouts, while Hannes Plattemier and Emma Mario take turns in mixing the tracks and informing the far reaches of the material, with vibes, additional drum programming and synths alongside a talented cast of players and singers from Lætita’s Source Ensemble and beyond.
Whether drawing inspiration from Zen Shiastu training, or the lyrics of Véronique Vincent, (lyricist and singer for Aksak Maboul, and once upon a time, lead singer of the French Honeymoon Killers), Lætitia faces the truth without flinching. The shadows, whatever stuff they are made of — individual and collective, present and ancestral — need to be recognized and acknowledged, because the more we heal within ourselves, the more undivided we become in the face of looming Neofascist/ Neoliberal narratives polluting the inner and outer landscapes.
As with the cover image of the winter tree mirrored by the word patterns of Rooting For Love, Lætitia maintains that how we heal the world that’s coming, and what we make of it, will be a co-creation. The quality of our imagination, the orientation we give our thoughts and the capacity to bring love to ourselves and the world are a first step.
Alongside her collaboration with Modern Cosmology, last year’s incredible What Will You Grow Now? , as well as her continued tours with a reformed Stereolab, Rooting For
Love finds Lætitia back in the world, once again urging all our grounded inner alignment and heart power to make us better equipped for creating what’s to come.

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Pink Shabab

Pink Shabab is the heartbreak disco-pop project of London based musician Joseph Carvell. After years as a trusted bass player for the likes of Batsch, Laetitia Sadier, Marker Starling, Baby Dee, Malphino and many more bands, Pink Shabab was created as an outlet for Carvell's solo music. A few demos and concerts later, an invitation came from Emma 'Astrobal' Mario to the South of France to record a debut album. 2019's 'Ema by the Sea' released on Berlin label Karaoke Kalk.
'Groovy and laid-back, danceable and intimate, the minimalist structures of Carvell’s songwriting open up a lot of space and make room for plenty of surprises along the way. ' - Forced Exposure

Since then Pink Shabab has performed in UK, France, Switzerland, Belgium, toured in Taiwan and Japan and recorded three more albums with the same producer. 'Never Stopped Loving You' released in February 2022,

'It's a feel-good album in the tradition of the best sad disco songs, balancing upbeat rhythms with matters of burden and loss.' - The Letter

'Do You Remember?' was released in Spring 2023 and a fourth album is due for release in Winter 2024.

Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1ogqaliaFoEBGL7PuLFG5E

Bandcamp:

https://pinkshabab.bandcamp.com/

Instagram:

https://instagram.com/pinkshabab

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa141019Ipc_M0nTs7RbihH6Gp99DjloL

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Sat 15 February 2025

INVITRO: Weston Olencki & Laura Cocks (more artists TBA)

In vitro #22

Weston Olencki is a composer, trombonist, and instrument builder based in Berlin who mostly doesn't play the flute. Laura Cocks is a flutist based in New York City who works in a wide array of environments as a performer of experimental music. Music for Two Flutes is two pieces for two flutes. Through various deconstructions of the instrument and years of friendship, we pull uncanny resonances from these modest means - locating sites of intensity and spectral saturation where they aren't always found.

1. ceòl meadhonach
From the Kilberry Book of Ceol Meadhonach, published in 1908 by Captain John Campbell and Archibald Campbell:

"The music of the Highland bagpipe is usually said to be divided into three categories: Ceol Mor, the "big music" or Piobaireachd; Ceol Beag, the "little music," that is quicksteps and dance music, and Ceol Meadhonach, the "middle music" which lies between the other two, and consists of such tunes as are neither constructed in the measure of Piobaireachd, nor adapted for the quick march or dance."

2. SLUB
As an instrument activated via buzzing, the flute’s scales and acoustic systems are reconfigured; SLUB is the act of submerging into the instabilities of this reconfiguration, building a world of internal physical disturbance that shifts, envelopes, and becomes quasi-environmental as it moves along the body of the flutes.

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Fri 28 February 2025

Jorge kaplan + Lorena Izquierdo & robogeisha + pour la guérison

Lorena in da Club

Lorena in da Club flips the club’s usual script. Instead of a predictable party backdrop, it becomes a medium for improvisation and experimentation. A collaboration between multimedia artist Esra Genc, known for her experimental dance project robogeisha, and poet-performer Lorena Izquierdo, the project thrives on the tension between structure and spontaneity.

Born out of a friendship and a shared obsession with breaking norms, "Lorena in da Club" redefines the club as a space for raw musical communication, merging spoken word and anti-art performance with a deconstructed club aesthetic. The result is an unexpected and unrepeatable experience that reshapes what the club can be.

Pour la guérison
"i am improvising solo on my drum kit while singing non-sense words to let people make their own perception and leave themselve to the unknown... just disconnect your mind and let your body feel free to move, like your inner child do.."

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Jorge KAPLAN

With a microphone, minidiscs, a Casio SK1 and a sequencer, J. Kaplan gathers voices, sound recording and wave traffic. By cutting fragments, we introduce ourselves into the material. Soon it stretches. Scores appear, they become carpets, paintings or polyphonic trees on which other elements bounce. The voice settles on a new object, changing energy and direction.
J. Kaplan, is a solo project by Juliette Thomas, member of the band Ladr ache, who shares sound collage and combination experience for several years.

https://jkaplan.bandcamp.com/album/ton-chelle-extraits

https://soundcloud.com/phonurgia-nova/juliette-thomas-lucie-laluque-panoramique-dune-flaque

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Sun 2 March 2025

"the sundays" ft. brique

Brique balances between urban and lyrical music. One moment it makes you float over a poetic landscape, another moment it makes you dance around a local baseball ground. It has the unexpected excitement of taking apart a post-punk Russian doll..
Bianca Iannuzzi with her beautiful voice sings in French, English, Italian and German, Eve Riser shows in her own inimitable way how music can hit you full in your heart, while Luc Ex and Francesco Pasticaldi create a world of irresistible cadences and explosions.
Written pieces and songs, using texts from different writers, who are strong in their simplicity and rich in their imagination.

https://youtu.be/zXGg3DZ9PZU?si=xv2FMC5_sQlsD8Yx

https://soundcloud.com/umlaut-records/episode-6-brique-donkey-monkey

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Fri 14 March 2025

able noise + de kloe

Able Noise

Alex and George’s experimental baritone guitar and drum duo, based between The Hague, the Netherlands and Athens, Greece. Through the use of voices, tapes and alternative methods of playing their instruments, they create a minimal and visual performance exploring the acoustics of space, the roles of performer and audience, and the physicality of performing.

https://ablenoise.bandcamp.com/album/high-tide

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de kloe

Antwerp-based band De Kloe explores the border between rock and electronic genres such as drum ‘n’ bass and techno. The four members of the group combine uplifting riffs and drum patterns with freely improvised parts, which are contained of musical references. The result is a dynamic whole in which different sounds collide and reinforce each other, or as De Kloe has previously been described, ‘When five groups seem to be playing at the same time and it miraculously still works.’

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Sat 15 March 2025

Rashad Becker + Valerio tricoli

rashad becker

composer and musician, berlin
started not not being in 1970
started losing trust in 1983
started losing hope in 1989
started losing discipline in 1993
started losing hair in 2005
started losing perspective in 2020
some items still available

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Valerio Tricoli

Valerio Tricoli is a Palermo born and Munich resident composer and performer of electro-acoustic music.
Active since the late 90's, his main instruments for live presentations are reel-to-reel tape recorders, used as completely analogue devices for live sampling and real-time transformation / editing / mixing of pre-recorded and live-produced sounds.
His concerts focus on the impromptu creation of a narrative which takes into account the multiple relations intervening between reality, virtuality and memory during the acoustic event: sounds are always hovering between the "here and now" of the concert situation and the shady domain of memory - distant but at the same time present like in a deja-vu experience.
His electro-acoustic studio compositions are aligned to - and try to reinterpret - the tradition of Musique Concrète ,and explore themes of the internal - represented both by the psychological and the physical - and of the occult, making them often deeply existential works, self-investigations of the psychological, emotional and irrational

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Sat 29 March 2025

mark templeton + ben bertrand

MARK TEMPLETON

Mark Templeton is a Canadian media artist and the founder of Graphical, an audiovisual
label dedicated to publishing his own musical and image based experiments. Mark’s audio
compositions are constructed from reel-to-reel tape loops and sampled cassettes that are
contrasted with contemporary sound techniques. In his published photobooks, he
incorporates his own 35mm pictures and found images, focusing on intangible fantasies
and realities. During his audiovisual performances, he utilizes digital instruments while
projecting his own photographs, VHS footage, Super 8 film, and other sampled video.
Since 2007, he has released material on various international record labels and photobook
publishers, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with other artists.
Templeton has performed live and exhibited his work at art galleries, festivals and
alternative spaces throughout North America, Europe, United Kingdom and China.

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Sat 12 April 2025

DMRA + FLART + JUSTINE FERRER

danse musique rhône-alpes (DMRA)

L’avatar Danse Musique Rhône-Alpes est un hommage nostalgique à la dance commerciale des années 90 mais également aux formes les plus brutes et radicales de la musique électronique. Une volonté de Gangloff de saluer l’immédiateté régressive des mélodies plastiques aussi idiotes qu’addictives tout en criant son amour des dé/ constructions rythmiques directes et physiques. La promesse amusée de vénérer les codes de la dance autant que ses détracteurs maléfiques et de faire emprunter à D.M.R.A les trajectoires les plus obliques de la house de Chicago autant que les ornières les moins praticables de la techno lo-fi, et de s’inscrire ainsi dans la lignée de ces musiques électroniques de transe collective qui ont réussi à fondre les archétypes du club populaire à des expérimentations bruitistes, offrant ses heures les plus cathartiques à la danse sociale.

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FLart (Live set)

Renaud Carton loves manipulating sounds, turning knobs and pushing buttons.
Infused with sound design, hypnotic elements and Berlin techno, his music has a very distinctive style;
Minimal, but not boring...
Raw yet colourful...
Experimental but Groovy... (never cheesy !)
FLart Live is the electro remedy. Good for your legs, your heart and your stomach.
FLart Live@Bonnefooi (Extrait1)

https://youtu.be/72AifehbBzU?si=VkoIDYRppwTQuBgg

https://youtu.be/bN1SlF4myAo?si=qh4gXKykU-S0FKxq

https://soundcloud.com/flartundkuss

https://flart.bandcamp.com/

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Justine Ferrer

Justine Ferrer (she/her) is a Brussels-based visual and sound artist, dismantles the rigidity of electronic music, making its precise rhythms bleed into dysfunction. Navigating between the frenetic tempos of jungle and the weighty, tectonic pulses of dubstep, her work fractures the conventions of club music, creating moments of rupture that challenge and expand its boundaries. Deeply rooted in a fascination with sonic systems and their imperfections, the avant-garde meets the unpolished, celebrating the beauty of dissonance and the creative potential of glitches.

https://on.soundcloud.com/kdqXq8wdATrv5HBz5

https://on.soundcloud.com/qJGYb4xoXbcmn1AcA

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Lucie Simone Gresil

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Fri 18 April 2025

ex-easter island head + kaboom karavan (IN COLLABORATION WITH music on a whim)

Ex-Easter Island Head - Minimalist/ Electro-acoustic / Prepared electric guitar

Ex-Easter Island Head are a UK-based experimental musical collective composing and performing music for solid body electric guitar, percussion and other instruments. The group plays multiple electric guitars augmented through mechanical preparations and extended techniques, creating hypnotic performances rich in repetition, shimmering drones and melodic invention through purposefully limited means.
Their records and live performances have received significant critical acclaim from the likes of The Wire, Pitchfork, the Quietus and the New York Times. Favourably compared to the likes of Steve Reich, Glenn Branca and John Cage, the groups' music has been praised for its mixture of percussive drive, emotional warmth and playful experimentation.

https://exeasterislandhead.bandcamp.com/album/norther

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kaboom karavan:

Kaboom Karavan is the working moniker of Belgian soundwizard / musician Bram Bosteels. Using a mixture of selfbuilt instruments, old acoustic string instruments and electronics he creates a universe reminiscent of night-time carnival, strange vaudeville, or folk forms from an imaginary land.

For current liveshows Kaboom Karavan performs as a trio , with :
Bram Bosteels : acoustic guitar, amplified objects, live electronics, voice
Stefaan Smagghe : violin, sarangi , sound objects
Steven Tevels : motorised instruments, live electronics

https://kaboomkaravan.bandcamp.com/album/fiasko