KAYO DOT is an avant-rock band hailing from New York City. Led by composer Toby Driver, who has performed and recorded with contemporary geniuses such as Trey Spruance (Secret Chiefs 3, Mr. Bungle), John Zorn (Masada), G. Stuart Dahlquist (Burning Witch, ASVA), and Randall Dunn (Sunn0)), Master Musicians of Bukkake), Kayo Dot began as the band MAUDLIN OF THE WELL in the 1990s and later changed their name.
Their hallucinatory, dark, and despondent music has its roots in doom-metal, goth, progressive rock, and new age, and has combined these influences with their experiences in the modern classical and avant-jazz worlds of downtown New York to create a completely unique, complex, heartbreaking, and meticulously composed genreless sound all their own.
KAYO DOT has just completed their new EP, "Stained Glass", slated for November/December 2010 release, hot on the heels of their April 2010 release "Coyote" (both on Hydra Head Records). KAYO DOT has also released albums with Tzadik, Hydra Head, Robotic Empire, and Holy Roar Records, and their albums have made many "Best Albums of the Decade" lists.
Germanotta Youth è un progetto che unisce le elettroniche di stampo industrial-breakcore a ritmiche e sonorità grind:
attivi dal 2010 hanno iniziato questa avventura con Massimo Pupillo (ZU) e hanno già 3 pubblicazioni in attivo:
"The Harvesting of Souls"-Wallace Records (CD)
"Joy as a Toy/Germanotta Youth"-Cheap Satanism (Split 10'')
"The Final Solution"-Wallace Record-Off Set Records-Sangue Dischi-Bloody Sound Fucktory (Ep 7'')
Dopo un tour in Europa e molti festival in Italia, stanno preparando sia il loro quarto lavoro (cd full-lenght) sia un'altra apparizione firmata Cheap Satanism.
Questo 2013 li vedrà impegnati in 2 tour italiani, uno norvegese, nel quale parteciperanno anche al festival internazionale "Match & Fuse" a Oslo e un tour europeo per promuovere la nuova compiation in vinile edita appunto dalla belga Cheap Satanism.
Ora Germanotta Youth è un combo che si riduce all'osso con questa nuova formazione in duo:
con Reeks che introduce il suo peculiare elemento polistrumentale simultaneo, suonando synth e basso contemporaneamente, e la sezione ritmica nelle mani e nei piedi di Giulio Galati, il gruppo si spinge così sempre più ai confini dell'atletica leggera!
Founded in 1994 by the Masson brothers, Pneumatic Head Compressor, one of the oldest metal-electronic-industrial-noisy band in Belgium is still there to bring the chaos on stage..
"Their Music is somewhere between Godflesh, Meshuggah, Neurosis, Strapping young lad, Ministry, Hint and Primus "
With destructured, heavy, tortured music and a confusion of original tones, strange noises, shouts and atypical singings, P.H.C. surprises by the originality and diversity of its repertoire.
As a matter of fact, PHC's intense compositions are the result of a long maturation process (the group finds it funny to call it a putrefaction process).
Let's we forget, the fraternal duo has been involved in Magasin 4 for a long time. As one of the last fortresses of alternative music in Brussels, it is fair to say they had a lot on their plate; one might even wonder when these DIY aficionados —who record, mix and create their artwork by themselves—have found the time to share the stage with bands such as Godflesh, Zu, Pound, OvO, Hint, La Muerte, Mr Marcaille, Zeni Geva, Punish Yourself, Le Singe Blanc and many more....
Zea is a breakpop mono from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Armed with guitar, mic, drum machines, sampler and synths, Arnold de Boer comeswith fast-paced programmed drums, copious synth work, guitars that go from jangly to strummy on a moment’s notice, and vocals that chant as much as they sing; 8-bit electronic sounds exploding all over the place, and at the same time a poptune isn't out of the question either.
Live is Zea fast and vicious, putting rock and roll into electronics, and pushing noisy loops into beat punk. Zea released four albums and many singles. The last two albums were released, especially for an Ethiopian tour, on cassette. In 2009 Zea released a 7” EP containing 7 songs, called “We Better Boil Soup of the Grown-Ups”, in December 2009 Zea released “Super Cosmotics” a second 7” (both on his own Makkum Records), and the new album is released just now. After “Kowtow to an Idiot” (2000), “Today I Forgot To Complain” (2003) and “Insert Parallel Universe” (2006), “The Beginner” [2010] is number four.
For the last seven years Zea has been playing all over the world, including 3 times USA, 5 times Russia, Canada, 10 times UK, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Balkan, Scandinavia. Zea also played many festivals like Moers (D) and Printemps de Bourges (F), Lowlands (NL), CMJ, SXSW (USA). In 2008 and 2009 Zea played 11 concerts in Ethiopia and one in Accra (Ghana). In 2010 Zea will tour in Russia, France, Spain, on the Balkan and in the UK. Since 2009 Arnold de Boer is also the new singer and guitarist of The Ex.
Press quotes:
Incendiary Mag: "The Beginner is an incredible record. Oh it's incredibly bonkers, that's for sure, but it's so bloody energetic, so bull headed and so schizophrenic in its approach to crafting a tune that you simply can't fail to be impressed by it. This is what happens when you give a troubled youth recording equipment. The results are astonishing."
Kerrang: “Like They Might Be Giants jamming with the Ramones or Pink Floyd headlining a punk convention,
Playlouder“Single Of The Week”: Sounds like They Might Be Giants after they've fallen on their heads. Superb, and a worthy winner."
LOGO magazine: “Zea sounds like he’s been visited by the Gary Numan-obsessed ghost of At The Drive-In. A brightly hued collage of electro, glitch-pop and heavily compressed guitars, the image of Stephen Malkmus reborn as an angry wasp trapped under a beer glass is one that won't abate. Here sits two very good arguments for legalising drug use."
Losing Today“Clearly a man of wild imagination and restless spirit, Zeas punk ethic proves the bedrock to this collection of tracks and to his career to date. Wonderfully bonkers.”
The late John Peel played Zea songs on BBC Radio One and BBC Worldservice.
In October 2006 Zea recorded a live session for BBC Radio One program One Music.
Jeremiah Cymerman (pronounced SIMMER-MAN) is a composer and clarinetist based in Brooklyn, New York. Since 2002 he has been active in a wide variety of musical contexts and has been honored to present his work in some of New York City's most highly regarded venues for avant-garde and experimental music including Roulette, The Stone, Issue Project Room, Anthology Film Archives, and Washington Square Church. Described by Time Out New York as "one of downtown's most inventive and resourceful composer-performers" Cymerman has worked with a broad range of contemporary artists including Otomo Yoshihide, John Zorn, Jandek, Ned Rothenberg, Ikue Mori, Peter Evans, Jessica Pavone, Toby Driver, Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, Trevor Dunn, Walter Thompson, Nate Wooley, Mary Halvorson, and Matthew Welch, among many others. With a foot deeply rooted in the avant-garde tradition of downtown New York and an interest in exploring new methods for clarinet performance, Cymerman has developed a highly personal language of extended clarinet techniques which are often augmented by a customized analog electronics set-up. After several self-released hand-made cdrs, in February 2007 Cymerman released his first album as a leader, "Big Exploitation", a record that found him in the role of conductor of a 13 piece improvising big band. The album found its way to regular rotation on college and jazz radio stations nation-wide and according to Phillip Buchan of Flagpole Magazine “swings with a desperate-as-your-life abandon that makes it feel astonishingly sincere, a far cry from a postmodern grab bag.” In 2008 the Tzadik label released his album "In Memory of the Labyrinth System", a highly personal work featuring a series of compositions for solo clarinet and computer processing which Andy Hamilton of the Wire called “a wholly original and intriguing listen” and found it’s way to many top ten lists for the year. In 2009, with assistance from funds provided by the Jerome Foundation, Cymerman premiered a new work for string quartet and electronics, entitled “Under a Blue, Grey Sky” which was commissioned by Roulette. .
TARTAR LAMB is a satellite project of KAYO DOT, consisting of all Kayo Dot’s members plus clarinet deconstructionist, Jeremiah Cymerman. Tartar Lamb’s music is distinguished from its mothership band’s by its specific use of modular repetitive forms – small musical phrases that are repeated and stretched and shrunk in time, with non-repetitive melodies swirling about. Cymerman provides the percussion by use of his extended clarinet techniques and electronic processing. TartarLamb’s music is like hyper-elaborate, horrifying ambient music, every moment filled with information while washing over and enveloping the listener in constant atmosphere. Tartar Lamb’s music is like a whale swallowing a comet, slicing up your face with the shards of ice it belches from its bloody blow-hole.