GEIGER fortsätter samarbetet med Koloni!

GEIGER och Koloni presenterar:

LUCKY DRAGONS (US, Upset The Rhythm)
CAM DEAS (UK)
SWEDISH AZZ (SE)

Onsdag 16/2 Gårdaskolan
Fabriksgatan 32
kl 19-01

entré typ 100kr

LUCKY DRAGONS (US, Upset The Rhythm/Marriage)
The 'communal experiment' that is Lucky Dragons started as a 'band' eight years ago in San Francisco. Founder Luke Fischbeck (1978) has an academic background in music from Brown University, where he met Sarah Anderson, aka Sarah Rara, who studied comparative literature. The pair sought to forge a new definition of 'band' that included contexts such as public art, the gallery system, museum programming, blogs, and small-press publishing; a way to subvert the accepted power structures of musical performance and creation through workshop-performances. Everything produced is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike license.

Lucky Dragons are notorious for the 'reverse-shoplifting' distribution of their 2003 album Hawks and Sparrows, which involved planting copies of the album in records stores across the globe. The album itself was made up entirely of field recordings from anti-war protests across the US in 2003. The CDs were packaged with early spring flowers pressed into each case, with a digital version available for free download from the Hawks and Sparrows website. Besides that the pair has recorded 19 albums under the creative commons license, with some appearing on small labels such as 555 Recordings, Ultra Eczema and Marriage Records (their 2004 track 'Heartbreaker' appearing on a Warp Records compilation) and all available for free download. The

Lucky Dragons concerts-as-workshop style happenings have generated considerable interest in both the art and music worlds. With a basic set-up of laptop, homemade electronics and folk instruments the pair – often with collaborators – encourage audience participation with offbeat premises. 'Complement Song' (2006) implores audience members to compliment each other, while 'Make a Baby' encourages physical contact. They are also participants in the Dublab/Creative Commons art instillation project, Into Infinity – a CC-licensed art and music project themed around the infinite possibilities of creative reuse.

The Lucky Dragons have performed at: NY's PS1, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Philadelphia Institute for Contemporary Art, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Frankfurt's Schirn Kunsthalle, Los Angeles' The Smell, NY's The Kitchen, and the 2008 Whitney Biennial, and The Smithsonian Institute's Hirshorn Museum, Tokion's "Creativity Now" conference. Side projects include 'Sumi Ink Club' – a weekly collaborative drawing society, and Glaciers of Nice – a publishing effort that ties together different projects, packaging and distributing them as hard copies/ physical objects.

Lucky Dragon (Daigo Fukuryu Maru) was the name of the Japanese fishing-boat that was caught up in the Bikini Atoll nuclear testing in 1954, exposing the crewmen to nuclear fallout.

PRESS QUOTES

"Lucky Dragons... create ecstatic music that completely transcends genres. My attempts to describe what their music actually sounds like always fall short of the magic they are making. I guess you could say it sounds like—ecstatic magic. Challenging stereotypes that electronic music is cold and sterile, Lucky Dragons' live show, though conducted via computers, is a truly great celebration of the human spirit, giving real hope for the techno-future our society is racing toward."
-Artforum (March 2006)

"a line between the handmade and the distanced digital... ...a successful forging of the personal detritus, the mic-ed moments between moments"
-All music guide

"Lucky Dragons have managed to create a completely new strand of West Coast American psychedelia"
-Frieze

links :
official website : http://www.hawksandsparrows.org/
mypace : http://www.myspace.com/luckydragons
wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Dragons
label : http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/
label 2 : http://www.marriagerecs.com/
last fm : http://www.lastfm.de/music/Lucky+Dragons
video : http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lucky+dragons&search_type&aq=f

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SWEDISH AZZ (SE, NotTwo Records)
Swedish Azz is a new group by Mats Gustafsson and Per Åke Holmlander, consisting of five European improvisers loving, respecting, and playing the swedish jazz masterpieces from the 50´s and 60´s.The Golden Age of Swedish Jazz happened in the mid 50´s, as we were told, and was represented by some very distinct and personal voices that were all taking their main inspiration from the American West Coast Jazz, but transforming it into a swedish colour and language, also including elements of traditional Swedish Folk Music.Lars Gullin, Jan Johansson, Bernt Rosengren, Georg Riedel, Lars Werner, Berndt Egerbladh and later Per Henrik Wallin were all part of this movement and we just LOVE this music!Swedish Azz wants to explore the possibities to use these wonderful and strongly lyrical melodies and put them in a contemporary structure and soundscape. We want to find out, or at least to try out, what will happen when you put these melodic lines in connection with a.o. live electronics and experimentation in form, using the freedom of improvising freely.

Mats Gustafsson — saxophones and live-electronics
Per-Åke Holmlander — tuba, cimbasso
Kjell Nordeson — vibraphone
dieb13 — turntables and electronicsEric Carlsson — drums

Links:
http://swedishazz.klingt.org/
http://www.nottwo.com/

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CAM DEAS (UK, Present Time Exercises)

Since the dissolution of his previous band, Deas started a solo career under the name Cam Deas. He has released various EPs on CDr and cassette along with a handful of vinyl releases under the record labels Blackest Rainbow, Great Pop Supplement, Dead Pilo] and Dirty Demos among others.

Deas most notably plays the 12 String Guitar. His music ranges from solo composed and improvised guitar pieces to mixes of acoustic and electronic sounds, which "conjures up an air of ancient smoke-wreathed ritual with ghostly moans and 12 string acoustic guitar ragas that disappear into cascades of echo, haze and distortion."

Influences behind the music of Cam Deas include the usual Takoma players such as Robbie Basho, John Fahey as well as minimalists such as Charlemagne Palestine and improvisors such as Derek Bailey.

Cam Deas has performed alongside artists such as Alasdair Roberts, Jack Rose, James Blackshaw, Pocahaunted, Corsano-Flower Duo, Greg Weeks (of Espers), Burial Hex and Jozef van Wissem among many others.

links:
http://www.presenttimeexercises.com/
http://en.wi

kipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Deas
http://www.lastfm.se/music/Cam+Deas
http://www.myspace.com/camdeasmusic