Unsound

Unsound coming to London

2 July 2013

One of our favourite music festivals, Unsound, begun in Krakow has been spreading itself wide, with festivals popping up in Tbilisi and New York. This will be the first time the programme hits London and it will be running from Thursday, September 26, to Sunday, September 29.

Less global than the Polish arm of the event, this one will feature mostly Polish and UK artists like Pianohooligan, presenting his homage to Polish composer Penderecki, Robert Piotrowicz and Anna ZaradnyDemdike Stare and composer Michael England present last year’s Unsound commission Concealed with Sinfonietta Cracovia, as well as producer Forest Swords. That will be happening just a month ahead of the main event in Krakow. See the Unsound website for more details. **

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2nd Unsound lineup announcement

18 June 2013

Now that the end didn’t happen the world can start anew and focus on what’s really going on. Hence, Unsound festival’s theme for 2013, ‘Interference’, running October 13 to 20. With all eyes on the Mayan calendar not many of us have been paying much attention to anything else and now, with the PRISM scandal and Turkish unrest it’s up to us to decide how to challenge and disrupt existing systems. Some musicians who might be able to point us in the right direction are Andy Stott and Demdike Stare, working together on their ‘EUTECTIC’ project, Jenny Hval, Pete Swanson and the Mullholland Free Clinic.

They join the list including aqnb favourites Pharmakon and Stellar OM Source. See below for the full line up. **

ANDY STOTT & DEMDIKE STARE PRESENT: EUTECTIC (UK) – World Premiere
DJ QU (USA)
DJ RICHARD (USA)
EARTH (USA)
FIRE! (SE)
FOREST SWORDS (UK)
GALCHER LUSTWERK (USA)
HELENA HAUFF (DE)
STARA RZEKA (PL)
INNODE (AT)
JENNY HVAL (NO)
KARENN (BLAWAN & PARIAH) (UK)
KING MIDAS SOUND (UK)
OREN AMBARCHI PRESENTS: KNOTS, WITH
SINFONIETTA CRACOVIA (AU/PL)
PEARSON SOUND (UK)
PETE SWANSON (USA)
PHARMAKON (USA)
REGIS PRESENTS: NECKLACE OF BITES (UK)
PORTER RICKS (DE)
ROBERT HENKE (AKA MONOLAKE) PRESENTS:
LUMIÈRE (DE)
ROBERT PIOTROWICZ (PL)
ROBERT RICH PRESENTS: SLEEP CONCERT (USA)
RP BOO (USA)
STARA RZEKA (PL)
STEFAN WESOŁOWSKI PRESENTS LIEBESTOD (PL)
STELLAR OM SOURCE (BE)
THE MULHOLLAND FREE CLINIC (MOVE D, JUJU &
JORDASH, JONAH SHARP) (DE/IL/USA)
TROPIC OF CANCER (USA)
YOUNG MALE (USA)

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First Unsound Festival announcement

20 May 2013

The first batch of artists set to appear at this year’s Unsound Festival in Krakow, Poland, have been announced. Chicago footwork pioneer RP Boo, gloomy Blackest Ever Black singing Tropic of Cancer and drone metal band Earth will be appearing under the theme ‘Interference’ for the event, running October 13 to 20. We’re especially excited about young and intense Brooklyn-based noise artist Pharmakon who releases an album, Abandon, on Sacred Bones, June 10, as well as Stellar Om Source. As reported earlier, the latter Christelle Gualdi’s break from the signature weird ambience Joy One Mile drops that same day. See full line-up below.**

DJ QU
EARTH
FIRE!
HELENA HAUFF
KARENN
KING MIDAS SOUND
PHARMAKON
PORTER RICKS
ROBERT HENKE
LUMIÈRE
ROBERT RICH PRESENTS: SLEEP CONCERT
RP BOO
STEFAN WESOŁOWSKI PRESENTS LIEBESTOD
STELLAR OM SOURCE
TROPIC OF CANCER
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Piotr Kurek’s ‘Edena’ reviewed.

Piotr Kurek. Archives & Anachronisms.
24 December 2012

When it comes to his concept of time and eclecticism, Piotr Kurek is all over the place. As a composer and multi-instrumentalist with a penchant for vintage sound equipment, as well as the practical sense to know where their limitations are, his musical compositions –part melodic narrative, part sound collage –distil a sense of nostalgia into a romance for the present. Using a Moebius comic he had never seen (Le Monde d’Edena) and an instrument he would never have (a Mellotron) as a conceptual starting point, the Warsaw-based, Polish artist presents Edena, out on Wroclaw label Sangoplasmo.

Piotr Kurek. Photo by Hannah Devereux. Image courtesy of the artists.
Piotr Kurek. Photo by Hannah Devereux. Image courtesy of the artists.

Continue reading Piotr Kurek’s ‘Edena’ reviewed.

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