Saturday 23 October 2021, 7.30pm
Pleased to welcome this incendiary triple bill, featuring the return of Bristol's acerbic, politically-fuelled Harrga. The bill also features slippery avante-rock, musique concete and unforgeable sounds from London's Triple Negative; and the first show in OTO from gilgul, who delighted us with his truly macerated Takuroku release this August.
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
RETURN OF THE LIVING DIRT
IT'S NOT GOOD FOR YOU JUST BECAUSE IT HURTS
14th drawer down since 2017 or 2003, depending how you count it
Waiting for transport into Stab Central
our jawlines are splinters where glass used to be
our facial tissue is all tissue paper
never no layoff from this
condensery
Makrokakozebekikism from deep in the Welt am Draht plunge pool.
PENULTIMATE PRESS recording disastrists.
Incoming audio-falsifications in collusion with PSILT and AL KARPENTER.
Retirement from private life fully documented, incl. infantile Zeichnungen, in the anaemic volume Nothing is Possible (or Nervousness, or Immorality, or Don't Wait to be Hunted to Hide, depending which front cover you're looking at), P. Press, 2023.
Favours for the flinching strays
always weak and wide astray
