WEDNESDAY 03.11.2010 : WED 03.11.2010 :
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Post Rock / Experimental
AMBER ASYLUM (US) Post Rock / Ambient / Classique
Amber Asylum
AmberAsylum...a filmic fusion of modern classical and post-rock...where arias and Art Songs meet in a pale field of electronic disturbance. Equally at home in the opera house or the smoky, raucous din of an underground nightclub, AmberAsylum plumbs the crevass between noise and beauty. Lyrical, confessional, dark yet aspirant, their strings, vocals, and spare percussion billow like furious mists across your consciousness. Dark as it is beautiful, spare as it is complex, its supernaturally decadent powers will overtake you in the remote reaches of your imagination. There's no escaping the Asylum. And no reason you'd want to.
?ALOS (IT) Experimental / Noise / Doom / Queer / Pagan
?Alos

?ALOS
Muse of Chaos (queer-pagan-doom-avant-metal)

Queer because she doesn't admit gender identity
Pagan because she's against all religions
Doom because her music is slow, physical and piercing
Avant because her sound is not current
Metal because it's inside her
?Alos is this and much more: music, performance, dance, political activism, social critic, history, feminism, anarchy.
?Alos is the shape of chaos.

Stefania Pedretti/?Alos (Vigevano, IT 1976)
From 2006 to 2011 lives and works in Berlin, now lives in Ravenna (I)
Activ from 1998, she is a member of OVO and ALLUN.
?Alos is a musician and an experimental performer, from 2003 she melts these disciplines to create shows/performances in which live music is a basic element.
Her work surpasses the boundary between performing arts, integrating experimental music, performance, improvisation and video art and makes the audience participate actively in the show through the stimulation of the six senses.
The feminine figure is the basis of each performative action and its role both in history and in the contemporary society is critically investigated.

She has played in the whole of Italy and Europe, in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Israel.

DISKREPANT (SE) Psychedelic / Industrial
Diskrepant

Diskrepant is the solo project of Per Åhlund. He resides in Stockholm, Sweden where he's involved in several experimental music-, improvisation- and sound art-projects. With Diskrepant he explores the borders between sound and music, stillness and hysteria, darkness and light. He creates compositions on the verge of dissolving and focuses on atmosphere and texture rather than tonality and rhythm. Diskrepant has released one split-CD and three full length albums with abstract, dark soundscapes. 'Folie à Deux', '33-12' and 'Into Sleep' was released by Swedish record label Fin De Siecle Media. In 2009 'Ex Machina Libertas' was released by English record label Fractured Spaces Records, an album that got a great reception from listeners and reviewers.

THOMAS WATKISS (US) Ambient / Drone / Experimental
Thomas Watkiss
The work of Thomas Watkiss largely deals with the relationship between industrial corrosion and organic life. This stems from a curiosity for how natural form develops over time, exposure to the elements and the confrontation with man/machine. The audience is met with an experience of foreignness and vulnerability--allowing for their own imagination, curiosity (and even fears) to lead them. Both his visual and sound works go without human presence, only to focus on organic manifest of form by degrees of growth, decay and time. Simultaneously, he is not short of releasing blunt visual statements or social critiques in constantly alienating the role of man in his work.
MONGOLITO (BE) Experimental / Dark / Ambient
Mongolito

Dark ambient solo project of Brussels-based guitarist Marc De Backer. His music is dark and hypnotic, and made using mainly a guitar and several layers of sound effects and distortions - all coming together to create a strange and disturbing atmosphere.