Filed under: concert, occultofest, weirdness | Tags: Berlin, boring machines, davide coccolo, DuChamp, Epiphany Now, golden diskó ship, How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?, Jana Sotzko, kwjaz, la piramide di sangue, moon wheel, not not fun, Occulto, OccultoFest, san francisco, sound of cobra, Theresa Stroetges, torino, west germany
O C C U L T O F E S T 2 0 1 3
.Expect metamorphosis.
Expect fly-like mutants, giant beetles, the new issue of Occulto Magazine and great live performances: here comes the Metamorphosis.
8 JUNE – 8pm/1am
DUCHAMP (IT/DE, Boring Machines)
http://duchampdrone.tumblr.com/
DAVIDE COCCOLO (IT)
Solo project of the guitar player of How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck If a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood?
LA PIRAMIDE DI SANGUE (IT/DE Boring Machines/Sound of Cobra)
https://soundcloud.com/lapiramidedisangue
9 JUNE – 8pm/1am
EPIPHANY NOW (DE)
http://epiphany-now.tumblr.com/live
KWJAZ (US, Not Not Fun)
http://www.notnotfun.com/posts/kwjaz-st-lp/
MOON WHEEL (SE/DE, Not Not Fun)
http://www.moonwheel.org/
+ distros, dj, Occulto new issue, smart talks and so on…
Filed under: concert, occultofest | Tags: bruges, brussels, donkey kollectief, drone, DuChamp, Felicia Atkinson, Je suis le petit chevalier, motto, Occulto Magazine, OccultoFest, shelter press, shleter press, wiels
The second step of Du Champ & Occulto adventure in Belgium will take place at Motto@WIELS, Bruxelles.
Thanks a lot to Shelter Press for organising and co-curating this evening!
Books & Magazines presentation: Occulto and Shelter Press
Music performances: Du Champ and Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier
WHERE: WIELS, Av. Van Volxemlaan 354, 119
WHEN: 7pm-10pm
28 October 2012
Donkey Kollektief presents: Du Champ + Occulto Magazine
https://www.facebook.com/events/474624405903862
Occulto will be traveling with Du Champ to Belgium for a mini-tour. This is the first event, in the beautiful Bruges. It is presented by Donkey Kollektief, a very active group of people bringing good music and more in the city, and the location will be in the space of Die Keure, a well-known local typography/publishing house. Sounds like the perfect chance to put together drones and magazines!
ADDRESS: oude drukkerij Die Keure, Oude Gentweg, Brugge
DOORS OPEN: 8pm (concert starts at 8.30 sharp)
25 – 26 May 2012
Filed under: concert | Tags: arbutus records, black magik, brian pyle, ensemble economique, fausto maijstral, no fear of pop, Noisekolln, not not fun, OccultoFest, Raum, sean nicholas savage, selective horen archiv, starving weirdos
Noisekölln and nofearofpop.net are teaming up again for a wonderful night at the Raum sanctuary. This is the first Berlin show for our “favorite Canadian weirdo” (nfop) Sean Nicholas Savage!
SEAN NICHOLAS SAVAGE (Arbutus Records / CAN)
Sean Nicholas Savage is probably the best thing that happened to music this year. Smokey Las Vegas lounge P!O!P!, dirty disco, weird-folk, neo-R&B thrashers, bubbling 80s heartsongs, smooth 70s AM pop, basement lonertude, campfire balladry, dreamy soft-psych, blue-eyed reggae, Caribbean-tinged synth pop and, most importantly, hit-making.
http://seannicholassavage.bandcamp.com/
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ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE (NOT NOT FUN)
“I’m in a perpetual personal transitional period and my music moves along accordingly. I let the vibes take me, this way and that, like the mist, the fog, the gentle ghost, floating aimless on the beach, full of everything and nothing, at once, letting the early morning sun blast me into a million pieces of ecstatic white light, pure, fragmented, transcendent.”
http://soundcloud.com/ensemble-economique
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FAUSTO MAIJSTRAL
Fausto Maijstral is the Berlin based duo of DuChamp (IT) and Will Gresson (NZ). Together they perform dense, musique concrete/drone pieces that explore memories and lived experience through heavily processed instruments and field recordings. They have performed with Concern (US), Family Battle Snake (GR), Preslav Literary School (UK), BeMyDelay (IT), Rella the Woodcutter (IT), Drekka (US), Canid (US), Sun Worship (DE) and Nadja (CAN) among others, and recently performed in Istanbul.
http://fausto-maijstral.bandcamp.com/
http://selektives-hoeren-archiv.dablweb.com/?cat=18
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spinning some rad tunes:
XORZYZT (BL4CK M4G1CK)
www.xorzyzt.com
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www.nofearofpop.net
www.facebook.com/noisekolln
Filed under: concert, occultofest | Tags: altes finanzamt, awe processing sitar, Berlin, concern, digitalis, drone, DuChamp, filipe dias de, francesco tignola, giuseppe esposito, joy de vivre, live, matan dolores, Noisekolln, occulrofest 2012, OccultoFest, oscillating innards, the zone
La gioiosa macchina da guerra, Occultofest and Noisekölln are delight to present:
Concern + Matar Dolores + DuChamp (w/Filipe Dias De) @ The Zone Berlin
live Sun May 13th @ The Zone, Reuterstrasse 95 starting from 8.30 sharp!
Concern is the recording project of Portland-based Gordon Ashworth, who in a previous incarnation (as Oscillating Innards) delivered an altogether more brutal take on experimental music before planting his feet firmly in the world of shimmering, layered drones. His brother, Owen Ashworth, works under the Casiotone for the Painfully Alone banner. Gorden has often worked with his sibling in that project. Under the Concern moniker, Ashworth “proceeds to completely obliterate the vast majority of what passes for contemporary drone with a colossal shimmer that sounds like Tim Hecker reconfiguring classic Raga structures into something almost unspeakably beautiful. Amazing music” (Boomkat). Full-lengths releases on Digitalis and Peasant Magik have acted to establish Concern as a key figure in the field of contemporary drone explorers.
Matar Dolores is a collaborative effort consisting of Francesco Tignola and Giuseppe Esposito, active in Naples, in the south of Italy. Their sound research is based on a massive use of field recordings in a strict compositional perspective and clever breaks of “music”; their gigs usually hit audience for depth and dynamism. First official release, a c20 tape dedicated to philosopher Karl Polanyi, will see the light in early 2012 through the italian label Joy De Vivre.
http://soundcloud.com/matar-dolores
DuChamp is an Italian scientist, musician and curator based in Berlin, religiousely devoted to drone. In her semi-improvised compositions, she uses accordion, baritone guitar, keyboard and voice. She performed here and there in Berlin, in Italy and Turkey. She´s currently working on her first solo album. In this very unique occasion, she will perform a piece baritone/sitar with Filipe Dias De from Awe Processing Sitar
http://duchampdrone.tumblr.com/
Filipe Dias De is a founding-member of Altes Finanzamt, musician and writer. After graduating in economics in Lisbon, moved to Asia (i.e. India, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia) where he lived from 2006 till 2008. There he learnt sitar (Indian classical music), various Gamelan instruments (Balinese music) and Gender Wayang (Balinese xylophone used for shadow puppetry). After moving to Berlin (mid 2008), Filipe started exploring sitar in the context of experimental improvised music, developing new melodic constructions and also using objects.
http://soundcloud.com/filipediasde
minus twenty to Occultofest!! 🙂
Filed under: occultofest | Tags: 2012, apex predator, Boring Machine, DuChamp, fabio orsi, fausto maijstral, frisk fruit, How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?, ill winds, moon wheel, Nadja, Noisekolln, Occulto Magazine, OccultoFest, occultofest2012, sun worship, supermelle, valentina besegher, will gresson
Occulto Fest 2012: Music Program
The Armageddon Edition will take place in Kottbusser Tor, Berlin Kreuzberg, on May 25th and 26th.
Now, this is what we call a LINE-UP.
25 May/ 9 pm – open end
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Fabio Orsi w/ videoperformance by Valentina Besegher
26 May/ 9 pm – open end
Filed under: concert, occultofest | Tags: armageddon, Berlin, Concert, doom, drone, fabio orsi, fausto maijstral, How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?, Kreuzberg, music, Nadja, OccultoFest, program, sun worship, valentina besegher
Occulto Fest 2012: Music Program
The Armageddon Edition will take place in Kottbusser Tor, Berlin Kreuzberg, on May 25th and 26th.
Now, this is what we call a LINE-UP.
25 May/ 9 pm – open end
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Fabio Orsi w/ videoperformance by Valentina Besegher
26 May/ 9 pm – open end
An amazing band based in Berlin TBA
Filed under: occultofest | Tags: 2012, apocalypse, armageddon, Berlin, Concert, Festival, Kreuzberg, music, Occulto, OccultoFest
Occultofest 2012 is coming, thank God. Save the date and book your flights/trains/car lifts: Occultofest 2012 Armageddon Edition will happen in May 25th and 26th in Berlin Kreuzberg.
More info on concerts program very soon here!
This year we will have a series of talks instead of a workshop, and there is a call for talks, we warmly invite all to submit ideas!
And, as always, a manifesto!
“Let it be a giant asteroid hitting the earth, the ultimate economical crisis, the third world war, the return of the big reptiles due to the Earth overheating, or a bunch of helicopters dropping napalm accompanied by Wagner’s The Ride of the Valkyries: Apocalypse is indeed not just a specialty number of religious fanatism and more or less articulated esoteric discourse. One or more of its possibile declination…continue reading“
Filed under: concert, occultofest | Tags: Alternative, Archaic Blues, BeMyDelay, Blake/e/e/e, Blues, Boring Machine, drone, Ethernal Zio, Experimental music, Frankin Delano, HBC, Improvisation, Italy, la gioiosa macchina da guerra, loophole, Massimo Volume, Occulto Magazine, OccultoFest, psychedelia, Rella the Woodcutter
La gioiosa macchina da guerra, Occultofest, Occulto magazine and Boring Machine are very proud to present:
RELLA THE WOODCUTTER
BE MY DELAY
two amazing, dreamy psychedelic live act from Italy, both issued on Boring Machine…live this week end in Berlin!
Rella The Woodcutter, is an Italian musician and songwriter. He has been associated with the underground ensemble The Rotten Wine Company for many years and released many albums and EPs on a variety of labels exploring different styles, some focused on traditional songcraft, others more experimental, based on a variety of subgenera as drone, free-rock and folk music, as the CD trilogy “Desire, Death and Rebirth/Ode to Makarashyiu/Excerpt from the Blue Bible”. He is also part of Eternal Zio, psych-drone project with Roberto Maggioni, Valla and Maurizio Abate, the latest known for his collaborations with Jooklo Duo and releases from Troglosound Records.
A fully devotion and understanding of the song dynamics makes Rella one of the most interesting musicians to continue the tradition that goes from psychedelic folk to blues to more experimental territories. Rella’s singing is rich, intense and perfumed, sometimes plunged into deep trance. Instruments and voice which rise together in a psichedelic unison building from country-like openings or dissolving from a noisy cluster into a static chord strumming.
BeMyDelay is the solo project of Marcella Riccardi (Blake/e/e/e, Franklin Delano, Massimo Volume), singer and guitarist. Her interest in archaic blues and adventurous music is the ground for building a song collection which tastes of experimental blues, vocali drones, acoustic pareidolia.
BeMyDelay takes the listener to a soft voyage, letting the mind flow gently, a cosmic singalong where melodies come and go circularly, immersed in a muffled and ethereal atmosphere. Voice is used as an instrument, following the guitar loops and delays. The new album, entitled “ToTheOtherSideΔ” is based around manipulation of two loop stations, a couple of old wha-wha tibetan bells and some percussions, which togheter with the voice create circular vortex where the mind can loose herself into thousand echoes floating inside the songs. Marcella Riccardi aka BeMyDelay has played and sung with: Blake/e/e/e, Franklin Delano and Massimo Volume. With Franklin Delano she recorded three albums, of which “Like a smoking gun in front of me” (2004, mixed in Chicago by Brian Deck) and “Come Home” (2006, mixed at John McEntire’s Soma Studios and produced by Brian Deck) with the partecipation of musicians like Jim Becker, Ben Massarella, Tim Rutili from Califone, Fred Lomberg-Holm, Nick Broste, Josh Berman and Brian Deck himself. In 2008, with her new band, Blake/e/e/e, she started her collaboration with Vacuum Studio’s Bruno Germano, fine soundmaker and great musician (played with Settlefish among others). Blake/e/e record, “Border Radio”, has been released in US by Freefolk Records and in Europe by Unhip Records. In 2011 she worked again with Bruno Germano to record and mix her new album as BeMyDelay “ToTheOtherSideΔ” which has been mastered by Carl Saff in Chicago. Marcella/BeMyDelay loves to play live and from 2004 until now she played three coast-to-coast tour in US, two european tours and more than one hundred gigs in Italy with her bands or alone.
http://soundcloud.com/bemydelay
SAT Nov 5th @ .HBC Karl-Liebknecht Straße 9 Berlin Mitte
MON Nov 7th @ LOOPHOLE Boddinstrasse 60 Berlin Neukölln
There will be an Occultofest 2012, Armageddon edition, in Berlin, next spring.
Start to get excited by now.
All pics by Will Gresson…enjoy!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27130967@N04/sets/72157626307818662/with/5542091455/