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22.09.2011
05.08.2011
Alfredo Costa Monteiro & Topias Tiheäsalo & Matters in the North
Finnish-Estonian tour AUG 2011 SUN 21 Jyväskylä, Poppari (w/Jari Kaukua) MON 22 Tampere, Kulttuurikahvila Hertta TUE 23 Turku, b-Galleria WED 24 Helsinki, Myymälä2 (w/Tommi Keränen) THU 25 Tallinn, Ptarmigan Improvising musicians Alfredo Costa Monteiro (POR) and Topias Tiheäsalo (FIN) will join forces for five August dates in Finland and in Estonia. As a duo they both will be playing electric guitars and electronic devices, objects etc. Alfredo Costa Monteiro (b. 1964 Porto, Portugal) is an artist/musician based in Barcelona. As an improvising musician he uses both accordions and electric guitars as well as turntables, electro-acoustic devices and resonant objects as his instruments. He studied sculpture/multimedia at the fine art school in Paris with Christian Boltanski. After having moved to Barcelona in 1992 his work has been standing somewhere between visual arts, visual poetry and sound. His installations and sound pieces, all of a low-fi character, have in common an interest for unstable processes, where the manipulation of objects as instruments or instruments as objects has a strong phenomenological aspect. He works together with musicians, video-artists and choreographers. At the moment he collaborates regularly with French improvisers Pascal Battus and Michel Doneda and� Canadian electronics musician Tim Olive. He is also active with the musicians from the Barcelona and South-European scene, with whom he has groups such as Cremaster (with Ferran Fages), i treni inerti (with Ruth Barber�n), Octante (with Fages/Barber�n and Margarida Garcia), Atol�n (with Fages/Barber�n), Tellus (with Pilar Subir�) and Monolith (with Juan Matos Capote) He has toured around Europe and Japan. This will be his first visit to Finland and Estonia. HYPERLINK "http://www.costamonteiro.net" www.costamonteiro.net Topias Tihe�salo (b. 1978 Raisio, Finland). I�m a guitarist working in the field of improvised music. One day my music can be fragile, sparse, quiet, acoustic; the next day it might be hectic, dense, loud, electric � or something else. I�m only concerned on two things: improvising and playing. (You might see them as synonymous.) In addition to my solo playing I try to do this in various more or less settled groups such as Pymathon, Jooklo Quartet, SIR trio, The Henologists. Recently I�ve been playing with people like Ilia Belorukov, Virginia Genta, Atte H�kkinen, Jari Kaukua, Tero Kemppainen, Sami Pekkola, Antti Tolvi, Jaakko Tolvi, Janne Tuomi and David Vanzan. Some of this music you could call free jazz, some free improv, some improvised thrash metal...Music I want to play with people I love to play with. I live in Turku, Finland with my family. I�ve played here and there but not everywhere.
17.05.2011
Non Grata and Diverse Universe 04.06.2011
Diverse Universe is nomadic performance festival through the-East-South-West and North Europe. Non Grata (Estonia) Anonymous Boh Devilgirl C.n.o.p.t. Myk Henry (New York) Steve Vanoni (California) Philip Luddite (Denmark) Marcus Vinicius (Brazil) There is info on website http://nongrata.ee/diverse_universe.htm Non Grata and Diverse Universe FORCE MAJEURE - Paris: URBAN DISORDER - Piotrków Tribunalski: INTERAKCJE - Berlin: HUNGER our machine ploughed through the guard-rail and fell fifty feet onto the rocks below. Its front end crumpled with the force of impact thrusting two-feet of metal back into the car. The windshield imploded, showering us with slivers of glass. Both the driving wheel and dashboard compacted into one mangled mess. The rear side passenger door was savagely torn free from its hinges and the front two wheels were sent spinning out into the night. The metal of the car was screaming like the cry of some wounded beast and it shuddered once then fell slowly onto its side trembling. After that all I could hear was my heart throbbing. The blood started pooring from my eyes and hands. I looked through the shattered windsheild and I noticed that the sky had developed a complex geometric pattern which span in kaleidoscopic formations, to me it looked like thousands of cat faces twirling around in the air. I was now staring into an infinite structure, a matrix of interlocking bars made of a glassy substance, the structure was completely built up of elfin like faces with rainbow coloured gasses swirling around within them. Each happy face warped and morphed into another, each transient mouth opened and chattered a visual language which resembled micro fireworks exploding. And the last thing i remeber was looking at my body, torn and magled like the twisted metal of the machine.
13.05.2011
Helmi Levyt– ilta Karhumaurin ja Jeesus Arimatialaisen seurassa
20.05 klo 19-22.00 Toukokuun Helmi Levyt- illassa juhlitaan Karhumaurin levynjulkaisua. Aiemmin Drowsy-nimellä esiintynyt lauluntekijä Mauri Heikkinen on tehnyt kaksi englanninkielistä albumia maineikkaalle Fat Cat Recordsille, mutta kotimaassaan artisti on jäänyt vähälle huomiolle. Nyt ensimmäisen suomenkielisen levyn Karhumauri-nimellä julkaiseva Heikkinen liikkuu vahvasti suomalaisissa maisemissa. Albumin akustiset, mutta pääosin bändisäestetyt ...laulut henkivät kesää, maaseutua ja mökkielämää. Mauri on kirjoittanut laulut pitkälti mökillään Joutsenossa. Karhumaurin musiikkia on luonnehdittu ”aikuisten tuutulauluiksi”. Tämä persoonallinen lauluntekijä asettuu osaksi Pekka Strengistä Kari Peitsamon varhaistöiden kautta Kauko Röyhkän kaltaisten suomalaisten lauluntekijöiden jatkumoon, kuulostaen kuitenkin omalta itseltään. Karhumaurin esikoinen on kesän 2011 ehdottomia mökki- ja puistolevyjä. Mukana myös muuan kylähullu Pihlajamäestä, nimeltään Jeesus Arimatialainen. Liput 4 euroa.
06.05.2011
Tombstoned & Daerra
An Evening with Tombstoned and Daerra. Friday 13th May. Adults only. FREE ENTRANCE 19.00-22.00 hrs www.myspace.com/tombstonedhelsinki
