Saturday 17 November 2018, 7.30pm
Great double-header from Chinabot – a platform and collective created to change the dialogue surrounding Asian music.
"In 2017, a digital diaspora community, a multi-disciplinary label and network of Asian artists decided to cooperate on a new way to collect and promote exciting Asian music. We want to show a slice of what we like, the cultures we come from and our own ideas. We’re an online community and a virtual home celebrating the music that falls between the gaps -- a place for adventurous listening.
Chinabot is positioned at the junction point between the influence of Asian music on contemporary/traditional sounds, music outside the mainstream and the development of experimentation. We work with composers, sound artists, improvisers and musicians to develop projects that rearrange the furniture of the musical world. We want to question our assumptions about what music is and where it can go."
"A stellar beginning to a new project well worth keeping an eye on as it gathers speed" – The Quietus
SABIWA is an experimental electronic producer and performer from 未知. Her first approach to music was inside an aquarium; she started playing Cello at the age of 12, developing later a deep interest in electronic music, sound designed and field recording. She produces, records and dissects sounds from natural and synthetic sources, making them interact with complex texture and abstract patterns, also using her voice processed as guiding path in her compositions. She is also curating the live visual for her performances. She composed soundtracks for art performances and documentaries, collaborating with numerous artists and musicians. She is actually working in between Berlin, Taipei and Torino as audio-visual producer.
She's coming back to Cafe OTO for premiering her new album.
”Taiwanese performance artist Sabiwa uses warping bass, brittle beats, and shifting sample layers as the base for her charismatic vocals.” Bandcamp
“She interprets reincarnation through bass heavy rhythms, dissected sound art, and intense vocal gymnastics." XLR8R
"Dipping deeper into a bizarre soundworld of animalistic vocals and minimal thudding dubstep" Spools Out
https://www.chinabot.co/sabiwa
https://www.facebook.com/sabiwamusic/
LAFIDKI is a London-based sound/visual artist, and founder of Chinabot, a platform and collective created to change the dialogue surrounding Asian music. LAFIDKI is the moniker of Saphy Vong, who has been releasing experimental electronic since 2008. He was born in a refugee camp in Phanat Nikhon (Thailand) to Cambodian refugee parents who fled Pol Pot's regime and was raised in France. He released his EP ‘Absynthax’ via Orange Milk records. He's a sound artist and conceptual collagist who performs around the world. His music is an confluence of ideas, synthesising multiple underrepresented histories, geographies, musical genres and cultural signifiers into compelling, colourful sonic material that packs contemporaneous dancefloor weight.
LAFIDKI has played at a number of international festivals: Donau Festival 2018 (Krems), VIA 2012 (Pittsburgh), Nuit blanche - French Institute 2016 (Kyoto/Japan), represented Cambodia at Tallinn Music Week. He has shared stage with Hype Williams, KXP, Tzusing, James Ferraro, Nightmares on Wax, Molly Nilsson, Andy Stott, Varg, Tropic of Cancer, Laurel Halo, Amnesia Scanner, Faka and James Holden.
Li Yilei is a Chinese artist and composer working and living in London.
With a background in fine art and sound art, Li’s body of work sought to investigate alternative modes of listening, reflecting upon the tacitness and transience of existential occurrences.
Li’s work often incorporates with sound, body, found materials, poetry, events, daily objects and broken/damaged instruments.
Investigating serendipitous encounters between beings and their environment, the muted state, the unheard, the disabled and untrained voices.
The overarching dialogue around the tacit and the disabled state stems from Li’s idiosyncratic relationship with the outside world as a person on the autistic spectrum.
Their early classical training in violin sparked an interest in the physique of instruments, and the interests in the alternative use of conventional instruments due to the rejection of the Eurocentric formalities of classical music.
In 2016, Li founded Non Dual Collective, focusing on curating live events for ESEA emerging artists. Li has been releasing records and performing internationally since 2018.
Website: liyilei.me
Instagram: li_yi_lei_
Jaeho Hwang is a London/Seoul-based DJ, producer, and visual artist. As a producer, he recontextualizes traditional Korean instrumentation and brings it into the contemporary club music scene. As a DJ, he has been recognised for forward-thinking mix styles including Techno, Bass, Hard dance, Reggaeton, Post-Club, Experimental with Asian sounds.
After releasing his first EP on Chinabot in 2019, he has been featured in DJ Mag, The Wire magazine, BBC Radio 6 Music, 4:3 Boiler Room, Boiler Room, NTS Radio, XLR8R, DUMMY Magazine, Nowness, and Mixmag Korea, Coeval Magazine. He is a member of Chinabot but also he is one of founders of Seoul-based collective called “Fragmented Service” that represents Seoul’s sub-club scene and curates shows with International artists in Seoul such as ZULI, ENDGAME, Dis Fig, X/O and etc. Recently, based primarily in Seoul, he is involved with Seoul’s underground club scene such as Cakeshop, Visla FM and Seoul Community Radio, etc.
“Hwang incorporated traditional Korean instrumentation into the familiar palate of post-apocalyptic underground London club music...While the whole EP is excellent, this relentlessly visceral finale is its best track” – The Wire magazine
“It’s a remarkable mixture, and the result is an intense rush of sounds that converse at a ferocious pace; thunderous kicks propel sweet-yet- sharp melodies, disjointed voices and wild FX into a dazzling orbital motion.” – DJ MAG
https://www.chinabot.co/jaehohwang
https://linktr.ee/jaeho111111
