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 is a band formed in Bristol in 2017 by Miguel Prado (Nzʉmbe) and Dali de Saint Paul (EP/64, Viridian Ensemble, The Sound Cupboard,DSC).
In May 2019, they released Héroïques Animaux de la Misère, on Avon Terror Corps, in honour of those who burn the borders & keep indelible marks, glossolalia and xenoglossia. Diaspora of the future. Harrga means A Burn in the Moroccan Darija dialect, and also recalls the term harragas, which refers to migrants who burn their ID papers and seek asylum in Europe. The album is explicitly framed as a tribute to these asylum seekers, bearing a frenzied urgency which refuses the listener a comfortable position, with an intensity to match the similar combination of political and sonic radicalism of Moor Mother, who makes a brief contribution to the final track “À Vif”.
In May 2020, they published “Femmes d’Intérieur” on Takuroku, (Café Oto digital label) considering this time domestic abuse and exploring tropes of femininity.
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
