Weekly Update: Shred Alert

By Josh, 2015年 12月 10日

Catch Norwegian noise rockers MoE on SUN at School + TUE at DDC

Weathered that red alert and ready to leave your apartment again? Cop a rad new mask and want to show it off at your favorite smoke-choked music dive? (Whatever happened to that smoking ban eh?) Well we’re going back to our roots this weekend, slowing our roll with some experimental electronics, psychedelic meltdowns, pummeling Nordic noise-metal and minimal Nordic improv, on into next week…

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First up: TONIGHT, Antidote and pangbianr host old-guard sample composer Carl Stone at Dada. Check our pre-flight interview with Stone for more background. He has some new material he’ll be debuting at this round of China gigs, before taking it across the Pacific for some shows in the US next year. Sweet. If you want to dive deeper into the man’s extended history (going back to CalArts in the ’70s) and his evolving relationship with sampling technology, you can also click through to this excellent interview from a decade ago.

Got a few solid acts piggybacking on the show after Carl’s set: x/o from Vancouver (“Contrasting harsh processed fragments with her warped vocal harmonies–x/o’s compositions are jarring and aggressive yet cinematic and serene”) and Sentinel from Baltimore (“Using familiar archetypes found in club music, Sentinel juxtaposes these sounds with everyday nature and technology to shape a fantastic almost sci-fi portrayal of contemporary life”). Here’s a track from Sentinel, who’s garnered buzz from The Wire and been placed alongside Arca and Holly Herndon on a Rinse FM podcast curated by Björk:

So that’s Carl Stone + x/o + Sentinel and more, tonight at Dada, 9pm start! Full info + artist bios + sample music here.

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OK, the next one’s not “experimental music”, but a quick shoutout is deserved nonetheless to this celebration of China’s strong showing at the 2015 Paléo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland. Beijing rock’n’roll photographer par excellence The Foukographer was in Nyon to capture the China-scene diaspora, and he’ll be MC’ing some of his best flicks from the experience, which have previously made the international gallery rounds.

The exhibit, China at Paléo, will officially open on Saturday at DDC, going hand-in-hand with a live show featuring some China-based artists who popped up at Paléo, or who are otherwise familiar on the Euro tour circuit: Tulegur, Chacha, Rootwords, and Djang San.

That’s this Saturday (Dec 12), 6pm start, 50rmb at the door. More info here.

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Onto Sunday: the peripatetic, nomadic, mythic & mystical Raying Temple is finally back in some kind of corporeal form, also at DDC. While I’ve seen individual devotees of the Raying Temple pop in and out of Beijing for select gigs (saw some of ’em at the Peter Brotzmann show in October, a few came out to see Bob Ostertag), the synecdochal whole — aka the Raying Psychedelic Coalition — hasn’t manifested for well over a year by my count. But they’ll appear in the flesh, in full freakout raiment, on Sunday at DDC, current lineup being: Li Yangyang on guitar, Xing Jiangbo (aka iimmune) on bass, Kouzuli on drums, and Sheng Di on vocals/synth.

Don’t wanna miss this, folks. They’ll slip back into the ether right after this show, which features opening sets from Earsnail (new duo of White+’s Wang Xu and Da Bang’s Yan Shuai), Whai, and “Out of Band 2”, which is Kang Mao and Wu Hao of SUBS getting their weirder juices flowing. They contributed one drip to this sloshy collage released under the banner of “Raying Temple Radio” earlier in the year, truly one of the top 2015 “releases” in my book:

Catch the madness on Sunday, December 13 at DDC.

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MoE

Last up: visiting Norwegian noise-metallurgists MoE. They’re descending on the city for two shows, but of more immediate interest to this readership will be a side gig some of the members are doing for Yan Jun‘s Miji series. Master Yan says:

hello!
december 14th we have two guests from norway. both are members of MoE. which is an infamous heavy and noisy band.
but guro and haavard also play other kind of music. for example improvised music. they are from oslo, an open arm city of contemporary music.
yan yulong plays violin in a super simple way. li jianhong plays guitar (does he need any more description?)

No, that nails it. Miji #31 is on Monday, December 14 at Meridian Space, featuring solo and duo sets from MoE’s Håvard Skaset and Guro S. Moe, alongside local players Yan Yulong and Li Jianhong.

If you need louder noises, though, you’ll want to catch MoE as a trio. They’re playing this Sunday at School and again on Tuesday at DDC. Expect everything “from jazz & blues and acoustic contemporary music, to hard rock/metal and harsh noise. A deep dive into 20th century music history.”

Great! Here’s a hard Nordic stomper to play us out:

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RECAP:

Antidote x pangbianr pres. Carl Stone = THU Dec 10 @ Dada

China at Paléo showcase = SAT Dec 12 @ DDC

Raying Psychedelic Coalition & friends = SUN Dec 13 @ DDC

MoE (Norway) = SUN Dec 13 @ School + TUE Dec 15 @ DDC

Miji #31 w/ Håvard Skaset, Guro S. Moe, Li Jianhong, Yan Yulong = MON Dec 14 @ Meridian Space

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