Friday 4 November 2016, 8pm
“The music of Tropa Macaca is the fruit of a subjectivity of a couple.
To love is to experiment, to problematize. To love is to see, to talk and to make, but loving is something you make among those three, in the interstice or in the disjunction of the seeing, the talking and the making. The singular and specific love, as opposed to the universal one, belongs to the domain of the wild, rejected by knowledge and power to the margins, so much so that science can’t recognize it. Death’s enigma in life.
Tropa Macaca is André Abel (guitar) and Joana da Conceição (synth & electronics), based out of Lisbon and publicly active for a decade now. Their new record Vida was released last June on The Trilogy Tapes, having had past vinyl LPs published by creative music labels Ruby Red, Qbico, Siltbreeze and Software.”
London based duo who debuted with a triptych of albums for the unimpeachable Mordant Music through 2016-2017. Followed by a fourth on the singular Outer Reaches (2020) and were part of the Cafe Oto Takuroku digital series. Their latest album 'forgeries' was released in early 2023. " This is one for late nights and misty mornings....musique concrete, haunted folk and some dub attitude" (Rewind Forward).
Beginning as a dare, live shows became central to their way of working. Outings included an inaugural performance in Paris, support for Tropa Macaca and Echtoplasm Girls. Their sound is based on electronics that breathe! Incorporating sonic place, sonic space and all manner of sound makers. "Dank!!" (Jackson Burton).
They have recently set up the Goods Outward label with no set of rules, more a set of possibilities. Mysteries, histories and curiosities. The first GO release by Jim Edgar Morgan (At home with the Boyle Family dir. Stuart Heaney & Chris De Selincourt 2022) is the soundtrack to an art film documentary about the birth of the psychedelic liquid lightshows.
Leyden Jars have recently enjoyed some swims in the sea and are very relaxed....
Miki Yui is an artist and musician from Tokyo, based in Duesseldorf /Germany. Since 1999 she creates sonic landscapes emerging out of delicate noises, samples, electronic sounds, and field recordings. Her unique minimalist and organic approach towards sound balances between subtle nuances, industrial hums and turbulent hooks. In her live concerts she invites listeners to take part in mesmerinzing in the acoustic spaces, rich of abstract and narrative sound circulation.
She has released her solo albums from 12K /LINE(N.Y.) and Hören (Osaka). Her 5th solo album "Oscilla" is released in October 2015, on her own imprint MY.
