TOMAGA channels percussive energy via analogue synthesizers, effects and contact microphones to create a collision of vibrating rhythms and tones. TOMAGA actively seeks to transport the musicians and audience to zones outside of conventional musical experience via extended duration improvisations using instruments that are pushed beyond their normal limits. TOMAGA is the manifestation of two musician's boredom at playing within conventional musical modes.
HOUSEWIVES are a genreless band from London who play experimental music thatpoints to the future. Using prepared guitars, electronics, percussion and saxophonethey create an enveloping sound of syncopated rhythms and antithetical songstructures. Droning bass lines underpin ethereal samples, whilst precise guitar linesmix with minimal drum parts in ecstatic fashion.Their kinetic live sets have cemented their reputation as one of the most exciting livebands in Europe; championed by the likes of Tom Ravenscroft (BBC 6 Music), Radio3 Late Junction and pioneering experimental musician Charles Hayward (This Heat).They join the like of Liars, Animal Collective and The Knife in laying the gauntlet forexperimental music this decade and pushing the boundaries of what a live band cando.
Karolien Polenus (1979) aka NiXie is a creative do-it-all. She is a dj, visual artist and music promotor based in Brussels, Belgium. She has been active in the Belgian underground music scene for years as a dj and as the head of the notorious NIXIE’S events, organising concerts and parties, harmonizing the far-out gospels from notorious wild life with the primitive roaring of obscure hidden night owls. You have the right to remain haunted.