Wednesday 10 July 2019, 7.30pm
Don the Tiger is the solo project of Adrián de Alfonso, an ubiquitous presence in Barcelona's underground of the 00s, and the nomadic guitarist who has played with the likes of Lydia Lunch, Mark Cunningham (Mars), Robert Forster (Go-Betweens) and Carla Bozulich.
Having relocated to Berlin in 2011, he now takes inspiration from everything he misses in that city -be it bolero, rumba, MPB, baroque fantasy, guabina, flamenco or Fania Records- and mixes it with musique concrète and elaborate sampling techniques, delivering it all in a way that owes more to avant-rock than to anything else.
"Matanzas", his second album to date, was mixed and produced with the help of Lucrecia Dalt, and mastered by Rashad Becker.
Live he's accompanied by Andi Stecher, who plays Latin percussion, synths and tape delay.
Harrga (‘a burn’ in the Moroccan Darija dialect) is a duo formed by producer and philosopher Miguel Prado (Nzumbe) and experimental vocalist, composer and producer Dali de Saint Paul (Penumbra, Ondata Rossa, EP/64, Viridian Ensemble,Content Provider).
Harrga have been exploring new sonic territories with Dali de Saint Paul mixing poetics and politics, using multiple languages and Miguel Prado creating singular, amorphous noise-design, they conjure a thoroughly anomalous vision of contemporary industrial music.
Their first album 'Héroïques Animaux de la Misère' (2019, Avon Terror Corps) was a critically acclaimed meditation on the horror of that which crevasses borders, with Moor Mother as guest vocalist. Since this release, the 3 artists have collaborated again; Dali appearing on 'Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes' (2019) and Moor Mother releasing Harrga’s track 'Urban Blues' on her own label BlackMas5 Records (2022).
In the midst of the pandemic, Harrga were among the first artists released on Takuroku (Cafe Oto inhouse Label). Pushing boundaries to deliver an unusual cinematic musical drama exploring violence towards women, 'Femmes d’Intérieur' expresses the duo's fears for those trapped behind closed doors. Harrga appeared on several international compilations, the latest one being 'Future Chorus' (2023, Hypermedium) where human and non-human voices were mixed.
https://www.instagram.com/dalidesaintpaul/
https://www.instagram.com/miguelprad0/
https://harrga.bandcamp.com/album/h-ro-ques-animaux-de-la-mis-re
https://blkmas5.bandcamp.com/album/great-mas5-one
https://hypermedium.bandcamp.com/album/future-chorus#
https://avonterrorcorps.bandcamp.com/track/alkisah-ii-3
Far Rainbow is an improvising duo from London formed in 2015 by Emily Mary Barnett and Bobby Barry. Barnett is a painter and percussionist whose work has been exhibited at several London galleries. Barry is a writer and composer who has collaborated with visual artists, film-makers and choreographers. They have released albums on labels including Fractal Meat Cuts, Linear Obsessional, Slightly Off Kilter and their own Zero Wave imprint, including collaborations with Cath Roberts, John Doran, and Colin Webster. Their latest, The Blue Hugeness, was released in 2023 by Metaphysical Powers.
"a spooky and hypnotic zone, one where machines seem to live in ghostly spaces" – Daryl Worthington, Spools Out, The Quietus
