Simon James Phillips
Simon James Phillips is a musician whose creative approach activates alternative processes broadening the relational connections between musics, participants, heritages, and practises. He utilises transdisciplinary methodologies of collaboration and adaptation to question dominant approaches to artistic creation. Phillips produces immersive work that explores the perception of time and place through sound and spatialisation by building […]
Musica Mosaica
Musica Mosaica focuses on composition following predefined principles and constraints, based on a strictly approximate understanding of music fundamentals such as rhythms, intervals and goofy notes. After years of playing mostly improvised music in different projects (Buffle, Humus, Saule), Brussels-based Xavier García Bardón and Emmanuel Gonay now transpose their intuitive approach into the field of […]
Japan Blues
Japan Blues is the project of Howard Williams, a Londoner and self described “obsessive record collector” whose work has included the release of numerous compilations, a long standing radio show on NTS, and concerts in Europe and Japan. (EastEast)
Paul Paulun
Paul Paulun is a field recording artist, a sound research engineer, an audio collector, a writer on the most imaginable diverse topics within the spectrum, and much more. Heinrich Dubel, 2011 Our sonic archeologist. The moderators of the cultural magazine Kompressor on DLF-Kultur, since 2015 Paul Paulun plays next millenium’s chill-out. Sonar-Festival Barcelona, 1997 https://soundscentral.org
So Sner
How can one explain the lasting popularity of the bass clarinet in musical circles from Vienna to Brussels? Perhaps because its note range articulates an alternative to conventions of popular music, where “bass” is reserved primarily for rhythmic impulses and the very foundation of the music. Viennese bass clarinetist Susanna Gartmayer´s playing can by no […]
Nonlocal Research
https://nonlocalresearch.bandcamp.com
A Trio
“A” Trio is probably the oldest Lebanese improv group. Formed in 2002 for a concert during “Irtijal’02”, they went on to record the first free jazz CD to be produced in the arab world (“A”, La Cédéthèque, 2003). Their music later moved away from its jazz roots towards a more textural approach, relying strongly on […]
Loto Retina
# drum n gnome A live performance in which a semi-dancing chaos is composed with velocity and fantasy, inhabited by struck, scraped, caressed percussions and semi-humanoid onomatopoeia. The samples are jostling and jumping around like in a cartoon. https://lotoretina.bandcamp.com
Infuso Giallo & Fog Puma
Infuso Giallo and Fog Puma met in Berlin’s concert and party venue Arkaoda a few years ago, and discovered that there is a lot of overlap in their musical tastes. These range from Ambient, Jazz, Fusion, Exotica, Minimal Music and Folk to Italo, Cosmic Afro, late night Boogie and New Wave, and they also share […]
Micamat
Michele Giovannini (aka Micamat) grew artistically in Bologna where he joined Homework, a collective promoting DIY culture through a festival and a netlabel releasing digital auto-productions. Once he moved to Brussels he took part in different sound projects combining guitar and electronics. Together with Jacques Lemaire (vocals and video editing) and Sylvain Dufayard (synths), he […]