Author: llure
full set live Barcelona 20-05-2017, Hangar Magia Roja NOVA ONA II
live@vS//Showcase3.0
La sang, l’excés, les flors / Astrofàgia
La Notte é Oscura
Jochen Arbeit & Huan live
esne gorria psilocybenea 2016/01/23
Zozobra Live
live at Nova Ona II – Màgia Roja
live at Zasavje Noisefest
Aquel Invierno
Dicevi a me
Chicos Salvajes
Wackelkontakt
WACKELKONTAKT is a three-headed A/V psychotrap project that currently spearheads the Jerusalem experimental scene. From R&B to hip hop to industrial to power electronics and back to local influences, Wackelkontakt have already made a global mark with the sensory overload of their live multimedia performances and the scintillating presence of frontwoman Tomer Damsky AKA MC Slice, backed by Eyal Lally Bitton (electronics, visuals, scenography) and Marco Milevski Tomasin (drums and electronics).
Since 2018 the three have been developing an aesthetics manifested in their performances, sound installations and site-specific events, which challenge the relationship with the audience through social dissonance and emotional conditioning. Besides creating an ever-changing multisensual spectacle, they produce gallery peroformances and sound design for theater and dance.
WACKELKONTAKT’s visual and sonic language is a result of the boiling life on the border between East and West Jerusalem, present in their work with a sense of an absurd vitality, paranoia and isolation.
“The record is an accomplished and bold debut from a group at the forefront of Jerusalem’s defiant art scene […] Wackelkontakt are staring, screaming and spitting into the void, but forever will the void be too afraid to spit back”. (The Quietus)
Jerusalem’s foremost “psychotrap” outfit transform the writing of Michel Foucault, the philosophy of Deleuze & Guattari and the poetry of Antonin Artaud into cacophonous experimental hip-hop. (Factmag)
Qa´a
Qa’a is the last of a small secret genealogy of unclassifiable bands that use music for magic and quasi religious purposes. Using a wide variety of instruments – some self made – and configurations, their range moves from aural assaults to zen pastoral moments. Psychedelic in all its wide spectrum, repetition, dissonance, prehistoric rites, oriental folk, electronics, ritual noise, chamber music, and avant-garde leanings give birth to a music that feels alive, mysterious and yet full of emotion. Music that has left many reviewers agreeing that they are devoid of tags with which to pigeonhole it and that are unable to feel indifferent after hearing it.
Between 2006 and 2011 Qa’a toured Spain and Europe extensively visiting a total of 7 countries and participating in festivals such as Sónar, Primavera Sound, Saint Ghetto Festival or Klangbad festival curated by Hans Joachim Irmler (Faust), sharing the stage and opening for pioneers of advanced music such as The Residents, Steven Stapleton (NWW), Cluster, Dieter Moebius, Jaki Liebezeit (Can) and FM Einheit (Einstürzende Neubauten).
Hans Joachim Irmler (Faust) is a firm benefactor of the band and executive producer of their second album Chi’en which he qualified as “an incredible album which probably won’t receive the recognition it deserves until after 10, 15 or maybe even 20 years have passed”.
“Make sure you grab your own copy of this Final Drudion’s Vinyl of the Month, for SANG by Spain’s expert ensemble Qa’a is one essential to own in the real world. Released in triple white vinyl on the Magia Roja label, this supposedly final release showcases Qa’a at their Can-esque finest. […] SANG is six sides of pure sonic invention whose feet dance within the bossanova rhythms and Jaki Love-time drum-o-thons. Imagine Dr. John’s ‘Mama Roux’ Night Tripper-period meets Miles’ AGARTHA No Wave meets Parson Sound, and yooz halfway to understanding these gents’ pleasure centres.” (Julian Cope Final Drudion’s Vinyl of the Month)
“Qa’a turn in a well thought out and sophisticated krautrock classic, which high fives a long line of stimulating and galvanised influences. […]Somewhere between the moody dark rock of latter day bands such as Dead Meadows and Black Mountain mixed with the modular tinkering of groups like Holy Fuck and Leafcutter John, our plucky duo manage to throw up enough surprises to make sure that this is not merely a homage” (Monolith Cocktail)
Ordre Etern
Following in the tradition of the dark and stark imaginary of artists such as Lorka and with distinct Mediterranean fire, the sound of Ordre Etern is bleak and vile as the void the spirit of their city represents. Ordre Etern is not the defeat but the struggle, the endless struggle, and the celebration of the endless crises-not just economic, but moral-of present times. With lyrics dark as the period that brought them to light, they speak of fighting and resisting in a cruel present, against adversity, urban and moral desolation and the divide between the two natures of man.
With feedbacking drums that ressemble guitars and guitars that ressemble shards of metal-without a single note-together with electronic and modified drums, synths and tímpani, Ordre Etern have created a dystopic postindustrial nightmare.
“There is noise everywhere – pressurized spews of static, mangled metallic percussion, manipulated shards of guitar – yet it feels choked off. It comes in bursts, it promptly stops. Pockets of silence hang where the anger should be, as Ordre Etern fight for the oxygen necessary to continue. […] Despite the omnipresence of waste and immobilising noise, Revolució Soterrada still glimmers with the potential for change.” (ATTN Magazine)
“Mixing electronics with buzz saws, soldering equipment and a cannonade percussion of metallic reverb the new but atavistic preoccupied Order sound like a pissed off The Normal, or a stripped backed and hostile Einstürzende Neubauten jamming with Sunn O)))” (Monolith Cocktail)
Huan
This primitivistic music is created with a varied instrumentation that goes from electric viola, piano and snake-charmer’s flute to cymbals, modular synths and self-made instruments, with almost all other possibilities in between but with virtually no guitar.
Moving from animalistic sexual pulsations, the reptile brain, noise-zen, surrealism, free savagery and minimalism, Huan uses space in an unusual way, orchestrating it with sounds that are almost visual and palpable. Far from cold and empty experimentalism, this is visceral and alive music that’s almost like a living organism, an organism that is at times sick, dying or excited.
Huan has toured several countries with highlighted shows such as at the CCCB Barcelona, Sónar Chicago, Terminal in Oakland or at the Ethnological Museum of Barcelona. With Huan he’s also worked on several collaborations such as touring the US in collaboration with Les Aus and as a sporadic collaborator of Nurse With Wound with whom he played live as a guest member at Primavera Sound Festival in 2013.
“Huan is on loan from his mother-band Qa’a. ‘Bells’ is further out and crazed, sounding like something dredged up from the american counter-culture during the glory days of esp (think Cromagnon) and the furthest reaches of the most recent ‘free folk’ scene. The emphasis is on organic instruments, sound-art, voice, samples of disembodied sounds and of course bells. The cd throbs with an underlying sense of menace and ancient rituals.” (Rough Trade)
Coàgul
Coàgul is the musical moniker of visual artist Marc O’Callaghan. With synth, vocals and bells he creates minimalist industrial music which at the same time seems medieval, almost rural, with chants and proclamations of lyrics from dark esoteric poems in Catalan. With an aesthetic between black metal and David Tibet, his themes are plagued with ancestral Mediterranean symbology, references to Tarot, surrealism and old secrets.
“Acertadamente lo han comparado con Throbbing Gristle, Suicide o Esplendor Geométrico, pero lo cierto es que este moderno profeta pagano recoge sus influencias de los mitos y filosofías más arcaicas procesándolas a través de un riguroso filtro ritual y esotérico que convierte todo lo que toca en preciosas y duras gemas de pop industrial. En su música nada es gratuito, ni estable, ni cómodo […]” (Vice Magazine)
“A harassed chorus of chained up dogs, starved grunting pigs and unidentifiable scuttling creatures that dart in and out of the darkened corners of the speakers, add a sense of forbidding dread. For an album of such miasma, fuzz and distortion – Boris without the luxury of space and time – this self-titled opus can be quite melodically pleasing at times, breaking out from the primordial soup to sniff at the passing nuclear breeze of harmony.” (Monolith Cocktail)
“It is probably the enormous energy that first springs to mind when one sees Marc O’Callaghan for the first time at a stage performance of his project Coàgul. At the same time one has the impression that the powerful electronic music of the Barcelona based atist, who repeatedly and maybe a little prematurely has been compared to classic ritual electronica such as TG or early Coil, has arisen spontaneously – arisen out of a certain mood of simply following an inner necessity.” (African Paper)
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Màgia Roja Refugi I al LAUT: Comisarios de la Luz + Sergio Valor
➜ Entrada gratuita para socios de Màgia Roja antes de las 2h sin consumición, se tendrá que enseñar el carnet en la entrada
➜ Precios anticipada: 8€ + gastos (1 consumición incluida accediendo a la sala antes de las 02.00h)
➜ Precio taquilla: 10€ (1 consumición incluida accediendo a la sala antes de las 02.00h)
La asociación y sello Màgia Roja constituye en la actualidad una de las claves para entender el underground barcelonés. Definido recientemente por The Quietus como “un sitio único en España y posiblemente en el mundo entero”, en estos momentos se encuentra a la espera de encontrar el que será su próximo local. Mientras tanto, sus miembros se refugian en LAUT, uno de los clubes de referencia de la ciudad, donde prometen obsequiarnos con un ritual antológico.
Esta primera ceremonia será oficiada por Comisarios de la Luz, residente de Màgia Roja, y Sergio Valor, dj invitado para esta ocasión.
Comisarios de la Luz es residente y director creativo de Màgia Roja. Con casi 400 sesiones a las espaldas en los últimos cinco años, se ha convertido en uno de los djs de su tipo más prolíficos de España. Sus sets, además, han supuesto una auténtica revolución al hacer bailar a miles de personas mezclando indistintamente géneros tan diversos como música industrial, krautrock, EBM, cantos chamánicos o música clásica.
Por su parte, Sergio Valor comenzó su andadura musical con la explosión en el año 1988 del acid-house, género musical que le impactaría para siempre y que le serviría para proyectar sus gustos musicales hasta el día de hoy. Dub, techno, IDM o Industrial se entremezclan en sus sets, dejando espacio también para su vertiente mas clásica: chicago house, electro, cold wave o minimal synth. Toda una experiencia sonora que no te puedes perder.
Màgia Roja Refugi II al Pumarejo: Wackelkontakt + Dame Area + Jaco + DJ sets
En la segona nit de Refugi ens movem al Pumarejo per a la presentació del nostre pròxim LP “Heal the Split” del trio Wackelkontakt!
Obren la nit Jaco i Dame Area, després sessió de DJs fins les 3!
> 21.00 OBERTURA PORTES
> 21.30 JACO
> 22.30 DAME AREA
> 23.30 WACKELKONTAKT
> 00.30 COMISARIOS DE LA LUZ
WACKELKONTAKT (Israel)
Tornem a tenir entre nosaltres aquest trio de Jerusalem presentant seu primer LP a Màgia Roja “Heal The Split”. Projecte iconoclasta on els hi hagi és una mescla impia de trap, industrial, R&B i experimentació post-orientalista. Vivint a un minut de la porta de Damasc i en el barri ultraortodox de Me’a She’arim, Jerusalem es troba present en la musica, no en forma de turisme i exotisme, si no en forma de conflicte, paranoia i aïllament. Per ser encara més iconoclastes les lletres referèncien a Deleuze, Guatarri, Foucault, Artaud, WJT Mitchell i altres.
Per fans de: Godflesh/JK Flesh, Pharmakon, Dälek, The Body, Princess Nokia, Death Grips, Throbbing Gristle, Arca, Ahuva Ozeri, Sarit Hadad, Puce Mary, Pan Daijing
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DAME AREA (Bcn)
És com un test de Rorscharch musical: alguns li diuen Tribal Wave, alguns diuen que fan postpunk industrial, altres Latin EBM i altres que fan krautrock techno. La sortida del seu nou 12″ EP “La soluzione é una” , del que tocaràn varies cançons, és inminent.
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JACO (Bcn)
Jaco és un dels artistes més inquiets de l’underground barceloní. La seva figura desmanegada s’acomoda a la perfecció amb la posada en escena bruta i afilada (és literal) que es marca.
Jaco, partint del postpunk i l’industrial, s’acosta al ritme del ball amb els seus tocs d’hip hop i bass music, ultimament mesclant-ho. Els seus espectacles són una epifania sonora, un descobriment de les formes i textura del so. Armat amb ganivets, peces metàl·liques, caixes de ritmes i samplers, l’agosarat Larry construeix peces d’una força subtil, entre la gravetat i la gràcia; un rerefons musical minimalista però profund que s’enfila amb les seves lletres fosques, enigmàtiques i tallants, entre el somni i el deliri.
Estarà presentant nou material i noves cançons.
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Sessió amb COMISARIOS DE LA LUZ i DOZA