french & american experimental electro-acoustic
8pm
$15 or b/o
rob chalfen & subconsciouscafe new chamber music
presents
THE INSECT PYRAMID TRANSMISSION TOUR!
featuring
-MASTER MUSICIANS OF HOP FROG (int'l)
-TZII (france)
-RIPIT (france
HOP FROG
The hop-frog kollectiv itself is a mix of over twenty participants who focus on experimental spoken word, art & music. The core members of the kollectiv have performed with Not Breathing, DJ Cheb I Sabbah, David J (Bauhaus, Love & Rockets, etc.), Steve Mackay and The Radon Ensemble (The Stooges, Violent Femmes) & Dame Darcy (Meatcake) under the names hop-frog's drum jester devotional and The Master Musician's of hop-frog.
Hop-frog have not only toured with Backworld (feat. Joe Budenholzer of Current 93, Foetus, etc.) and Sorrow (featuring Rose McDowall of Strawberry Switchblade, Spell, Current 93, Death In June and Coil) on two separate occasions but members of hop-frog have played in both of these projects for the duration of the tours.
The live performances are especially intriguing featuring heavily effected traditional western instruments such as clarinet, violin, guitar, drums, analog and bass fused with eastern, tribal, toy and non-traditional instruments such as the saz, toy & real accordions, circuit bent keyboards, snake charmer flutes, christmas tree bells, the Dhol, broken cymbals and even a kitchen sink.
hop-frog have performed on six occasions in Paris, France, all over the western U.S., and just completed an intensive European tour in May, 2005.
www.hop-frog.com
TZII
French composer, Tzii is a musician but also a video maker and a DJ. As a logical sequel to his musical activities of the nineties (public performances began in 1994), he created his own label (Night On Earth Rec.), releasing vynil records, videos, mixtapes and soon CD-Rs and DVDs. Polymorphis in tastes and centers of interest, he is influenced by various popular cultures, mainly european and african. He explores all the forms of the industrial culture, playful or introspective, electronic or acoustic, visual or sonic. His livesets, whatever form it takes, are always an "inside mind" trip.
http://www.nightonearth.org
http://www.myspace.com/tzii
RIPIT
Nyko Esterle's electronic experiments, as an attempt to a musical self-suffisency, start in 1998 with the founding of his label RIPOSTE.REC and his solo project RIPIT. He was mixing electronic sounds patterned in a rhythmic and repetitive form with a stage attitude closer to punk than to the DJ one, confronting a rock audience to a hard and crude music, where the human is only there to alternate the structure and by then, giving an animal spontaneity to analog and mechanical sounds.
Since then, he knews how to explore the worldwide underground electronic scene by touring Europe and north America, by releasing several recordings on various formats and by developing a local scene thru massive experimental party organizing over Paris.
All along his travels and tours, his meeting with other artists leaded him to collaborate with a lot of different projects as Black Elf Speaks (Noise Rock Opera project from the members of Usaisamonster), Sikhara (Radonstudio.com), Steve Mackay (Sax player of The Stooges and The Violent Femmes), Jason Forrest (aka Donna Summer). He toured alongside the previous but also with Doormouse, Venetian Snares, Hecate, Man Is The Bastard Noise and several others...
http://ripit.widerstand.org/
http://www.myspace.com/riipiit
Production:Rob Chalfen - robchalfen@hotmail.com