1. • CommentAuthorholzkopf
   • CommentTimeSep 29th 2010

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   Hello!

   My appolgies for English. I am posting because United Dairies Recording artist, Freida Abtan and independant act Holzkopf will be in Normandy for a festival in early November an would like to perform in Paris while traveling through.

   Available dates are Nov 2 and 3 of 2010.

   Below is artist information and links to sound and video samples. Please check it.

   Please contact [email protected] for booking.

   Freida Abtan Bio:

   Freida Abtan is a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist and composer. Her
   music falls somewhere in between musique concrete and more modern
   noise and experimental audio and both genres are influential to her
   sound. Her work has been compared to bands such as Coil, and Zoviet
   France, and to that of performers such as Andrew Liles because of her
   use of spectral manipulation and collage.

   Freida primarily works with samples of both musical and non-musical
   objects that she records herself and then manipulates, often beyond
   recognition, through techniques derived from musique concrète and
   through successive layers of digital signal processing. She uses
   structures reminiscent of popular music and more abstract
   compositional variants to sequence these sounds into melodic songs
   before incorporating her own treated voice.

   As well as having created visual shows for and performed with the
   internationally renown group Nurse with Wound, Freida has presented
   her own sound and visual work at festivals across North America and
   Europe. Her first album "subtle movements" is available on United
   Dairies / Jnana Records. Her upcoming release "the hands of the
   dancer" will be available on Robot Records.

   An interview with Freida Abtan:
   http://www.mutek.org/blog/132-trans-medial-express

   and here is a link to some of the musical materials she will be making
   her set from:
   http://www.sendspace.com/file/hqka0m

   and some of her visual excerpts:
   http://www.sendspace.com/file/5oe9v8

   Holzkopf

   Since 2001, Holzkopf has been developing a style of hypnotic and frenetic dance music made from a mishmash of homemade tape collages, blown out drum machine beats, dumpstered Chinese pop cassettes, raw data noise, barely controled feedback and smashed and grabbed found sounds. The sound is remenicent of proto-industrial, disco, hip-hop, global psychedelia, gospel and breakcore synthesized into a complete unique whole unlike any one component part. This is futurist and anarchist music made on cheap gear, recorded live to tape or dusty old hard drives. It embodies the spirits of rotting architecture and 100 year old brothels, the wide open spaces of the Canadian prairies and the angst and anger of battling slum-lords, debt and panic. More than anything else though, the music is a celebration. Celebation, after all, is the best form of protest. Sharing the stage with Princesse Rotative, Cex, Electric Kettle, Andrew Duke, Maladroit, Botborg, the Shearing Pinx, Sam Shalabi, Knurl, Emil Beaulieau and many others over multiple tours through Canada and Europe (in squats, clubs, backyards and under bridges), a Holzkopf performance is always a spontaneous, raw and one of a kind experience.

   holzkopf666.googlepages.com

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     CommentAuthorvalkiri
   • CommentTimeSep 29th 2010

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   Hello, welcome to you, and thanks for the info. Seems to be great :)

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