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Z’EV
+ CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE
(Los Angeles / New York)(www.charlemagnepalestine.org)(www.rhythmajik.com)
Thursday 4 October, 9 pm.
Teatre dels Lluïsos de Gràcia
Plaça del Nord, 7-10
ticket 6 €
Z’EV, one of the most farsighted creators on the
US post-industrial scene, and Charlemagne Palestine,
a leading evoker of the mysteries of minimalism, offer their first joint
concert. A hypnotic journey led by two key figures on the contemporary
experimental scene in which Z’EV’s dense
acoustic percussion, influenced by Afro-Caribbean and Asian cabala and
culture, combines with Charlemagne Palestine’s
sacred keyboards to produce sound alchemy and intense emotions –
a fittingly historic event with which to open the Festival this year.
25
HOMBRES
(Barcelona)
Friday 5 October, 8 pm.
Almazén
Guifré, 9
free admission
Almazén joins the network of LEM venues with 25 Hombres,
a restless and multifaceted group of artists keen to experiment with sound
and its relationship to other art forms, from literature to image and
design. Their work can be heard on Ràdio PICA, at numerous exhibitions
and at other cutting-edge events at which this indefinable and incorrigible
gang display their versatility in all its colours. This sound collage
sends out dark yet elegant ripples – radio waves which trace out
slippery strategies for keeping musical stupor at bay.
VAGINA
DENTATA ORGAN
(Barcelona)(www.elsitiodeltopo.com.ar/vdo.htm)(www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagina_Dentata_Organ)
Friday 5 October, 10 pm.
MACBA auditori
Plaça dels Àngels, 1
ticket 6 €
One of the top names on the European industrial scene returns to Catalonia
after a long spell in England to present a piece full of stark contrasts
and visceral staging. Cristal Music is a performance in three
interrelated movements which flow past like visions of a small-scale apocalypse.
An overture in the form of a violin sonata by Bernarda Jones,
a volcanic intermezzo with the pagan drums Tabalers de la Malèfica
del Coll, and a painfully poetic grand finale as sharp as a glass storm
all interact with the unwholesome electronic atmospheres created specially
for the occasion by Jordi Valls himself. An unmissable
passionate and torn picture.
SELECTORES
LEM-URS
(commutació 1)
TONI L. QUEROL
(Sons of Bronson-Barcelona)(www.myspace.com/sonsofbronson)
Friday 5 October, 11 pm.
C3 Bar
(Bar del Centre de Cultura
Contemporània de Barcelona)
Montalegre, 5 (entrada CCCB)
free admission
Toni L. Querol, one of the cogs within Sons of
Bronson and Lords of Bukkake and co-founder
of Mano Dura Records, joins this night of industrial hums with a tantalising
DJ session in which he’ll unleash the beasts that roam around his
own universe of musical beats: extreme metal, psychedelia, noise and electronic
experimentation. A wild collage, an extreme sound raid that doesn’t
stop to think, like a Sam Peckinpah film. Protection is pointless: this
sniper shoots with the speed of the devil and uses ammunition of the calibre
of a napalm bomb.
MUERAN
HUMANOS
(Barcelona)(www.nochteff.com)(www.myspace.com/mueranhumanos)
Saturday 6 October, 9 pm
Desig
Mare de Deu dels Desemparats, 14-16
free admission
Mueran Humanos is a joint project by Tomás
Nochteff and Carmen Burguess, two Barcelona-based
Argentine musicians addicted to spreading infectious psychophonic melodies
and jet-black poetry, as suggested by the band’s name – Die
Humans (“the only imperative we all have to obey”).
A dark, gothic performance with strains of lyricism and pop, their stunning
musical act is built on electric nightmares and cruelly surreal landscapes
which speak of cannibal pigeons and sensual interludes in hell. A small-scale
apocalypse for sensitive, sick minds.
USTED
ES UN COLECTIVO
(Barcelona)
Saturday 6 October, 10.30 pm
La Sedeta - bar
Sicília,
321
free
admission
Usted es un Colectivo stop by the inimitable Sedeta to
present Vostè ets Altri, a multifaceted show which explores
the disappearance of the modern subject in social self-management movements
and the long tradition of the association movement. The surprising staging
– somewhere between a happening and a literary cabaret – tells
a story that takes in proletarism, the avant-garde, and satirical and
underground culture. Brimming with conversation, electrified ditties,
performance and poetry, this show is the official presentation of this
action cell at the Festival. Welcome.
SELECTORES
LEM-OSCÒPICS
(posició 1)
ENRIC CASASSES
(Barcelona)(www.uoc.edu/lletra/noms/ecasasses)
Saturday 6 October, 12 pm
Mi Bar
Guilleries, 6
free admission
Enric Casasses dashes from La Sedeta to Mi Bar on the
same night to work his magic at the musical selectors sessions that LEM
Festival has programmed as an epilogue for Saturday nights. Far from following
the usual approach of DJ sets, this relaxed, late-night session aims to
serve as a post-concert meeting point where leading Barcelona cultural
firebrands will open the doors to their own individual nightclub. On this
occasion we shall have the opportunity to share the musical interests
and ears of a poet who has made musicality and intense phonetics a bottomless
well of inspiration.
EYVIND
KANG ORCHESTRA
(New York)(www.scaruffi.com/avant/kang.htm)
Tuesday 9 October, 10 pm
Mercat de les Flors - sala Ovidi Montllor
Lleida, 59
ticket 18 € (telentrada.com / 902101212)
localidades a mitad de precio tres horas antes del inicio del espectáculo,
en la taquilla de Tiquet•3 de Caixa Catalunya (plaza de Catalunya)
A night
of numbers, mysticism and lyrical revelations at the Mercat de les Flors
at the hand of this Oregon-born violinist. Eyvind Kang,
who has worked with a series of far-from-sensible artists such as John
Zorn (on whose label, Tzadik, she has released two records),
Bill Frisell and Mr. Bungle, sets out
on a philosophically passionate, meticulously reckless adventure to turn
Ramon Llull and Giordano Bruno’s reflections on language and combinatorial
analysis (Ars Brevis, Ars Magna; Umbris Idearum) into
sound events, whilst conducting a rich orchestra of more than thirty players.
A masterclass with some surprising conclusions.
JULIA
KENT
(New York)(www.scaruffi.com/avant/kang.htm)
Thursday 11 October, 10 pm
La Pedrera
entresol
Passeig de Gràcia, 92
free entry
limited capacity
bookings at 902 400 973
Although best known internationally as an integral part of Antony
and the Johnsons, Julia Kent also has an extensive
and prolific career of her own, including a number of recordings (with
her own group, Rasputina) and collaborations with other
artists and groups, such as Angels of Light, Devendra
Banhart and Burnt Sugar. She will use this performance
at La Pedrera to present her latest work, Delay, an experimental
piece in which her electronically modified cello plays with a universe
of sounds to create an atmosphere that evokes journeys, voyages and landscapes
full of personal emotions.
ELIANE
RADIGUE'S NIGHT
CHARLES CURTIS
(San Diego)(www.squealermusic.com/catalog/curtis.html)
Friday 12 October, 8 pm
Miscelänea
Guàrdia, 10
ticket 5 € (socis Miscelänea 4 €)
The
first instalment of the tribute to Eliane Radigue can be found at Miscelänea
in the form of a very special performance by Charles Curtis,
intrepid US cellist whose long tradition has been fed by both avant-garde
and underground currents. Championed by LaMonte Young,
one of the fathers of minimalism, he has worked with the likes of Herbie
Hancock and Kramer and even set up his own group,
the Charles Curtis Trio. At this year’s LEM Festival
he will present and perform a solo piece created for him by Eliane
Radigue: Naldjorlak, this legendary composer’s
sole acoustic work.
ELIANE
RADIGUE'S NIGHT
GERARD PAPE
(Paris)(www.kalvos.org/papeger.htm)
Friday 12 October, 10 pm
MACBA
Plaça dels Àngels, 1
ticket 6 € both concerts
Gérard
Pape is a Paris-based US composer who has been the director of
the renowned Iannis Xenakis Centre for Musical Creation since 1991. His
prolific output includes more than sixty pieces for orchestra, chamber
ensembles, choirs and soloists, as well as a number of electroacoustic
works. His interest in new technologies has also led him to work with
experimental film directors and artists from the world of video and plastic
arts. Gérard Pape will open this performance at
the MACBA by presenting 676, a work created specially for him
by Eliane Radigue.
ELIANE
RADIGUE'S NIGHT
KASPER T. TOEPLITZ
(Paris)(www.sleazeart.com/)(www.myspace.com/sleazeart)
viernes
12 de octubre, 23 h.
MACBA
Plaça dels Àngels, 1
ticket 6 € both concerts
As
a composer and musician, Kasper T. Toeplitz moves with
the greatest of ease within the ill-defined no-man’s-land between
academic works (pieces for orchestra, and operas, amongst others) and
electronic noise experiments. For some time now his computer has taken
centre stage as a working tool which interacts with more traditional instruments.
This creative synthesis has given rise to the BassComputer, a cross between
a bass and a computer, which Kasper T. Toeplitz will
use to perform Elemmental II, a piece created specially for him
by Eliane Radigue. A formidable epilogue for this intense
tribute to this grande doyenne of electroacoustic music.
HECTOR
ZAZOU
(Paris)(www.takticmusic.com/artistes/zazou)(www.myspace.com/hectorzazou)(www.musicoperator.com)
Saturday 13 October, 10 pm
Caixafòrum
Av. Marqués de Comillas, 6-8
ticket 3 €
LKXA, Club Estrella, Carnet Jove i Carnet +25: 1,50€
Tickets on sale at Servicaixa and the CaixaForum box office
50% off all tickets bought with "la Caixa" cards
Free entry for Mediateca members
Hector
Zazou is without a doubt one of the most versatile and best-known
creators on the European scene. In his career as a sound sculptor and
composer, he has delved into rock, traditional African music and impressionist
music, and worked with the likes of David Byrne,
Ryuichi Sakamoto, John Cale and Bill
Laswell, amongst many others. This key figure in contemporary
music comes to CaixaForum to present his acclaimed work Bird Symphony,
composed as the soundtrack for Carl Theodor Dreyer’s
film The Passion of Joan of Arc. Starting with electronically
processed bird songs, Hector Zazou builds up a strangely
beautiful sound universe which leads us along a fascinating path to reveal
the spirituality and psychology of this delicious cinematic poem.
JORGE
CASTRO & BRIAN MACKERN
(Córdoba/Montevideo)(www.sudamericaelectronica.com)
Sunday 14 October, 10 pm
Niu
Almogàvers, 208
ticket 5 €
The banks of the River Plate are home to restless and innovative objects
and sounds. Intrepid explorers Jorge Castro (aka Fisternni,
one of the leading exponents of electronic music in Argentina) and Brian
Mackern (pioneer of net-art in Latin America) will lead us deep
into their idiosyncratic world through their joint work Soundtoys
Remixed: a real-time offering that fuses sound objects and programme
routines to weave a tapestry of audiovisual dreams and pixelated noise.
An unbeatable opportunity to get a taste of technological exploits from
the Southern Cone courtesy of the Sudamérica Electrónica
project.
LAURENT
BIGOT
(Lyon)(www.oisiveraie.com/02-lepetitcirque)
Thursday 18 October, 7:30 pm
L’Obrador-Sala Beckett
Alegre de Dalt, 55, 2-A 1
free admission
L’Obrador at Sala Beckett makes its debut as a Festival venue with
an exquisite and delicately theatrical performance. Le Petit Cirque
is a poetic miniature, a microcosm barely 1 metre wide populated by tightrope
walkers, animal tamers, mechanical animals and found objects that plays
with chance with a subtle sense of humour. Through his intimist and engaging
staging, craftsman Laurent Bigot has created an intricate
piece in which the performers in this tiny circus unleash a catalogue
of games, moves and sounds full of unexpected situations.
ESPANYA
(Barcelona)(www.myspace.com/ispain)
Thursday 18 October, 9 pm
Elèctric
Travessera de Gràcia, 233
ticket 3 €
Part of the Cabaret Hofmann programme, Espanya is one
of the surprising and playful phoenixes that have risen from the ashes
of Dead Man on Campus, along with other groups such as
Coconot and Manos de Topo. Dashiell
Fernández and Alberto Flores were on
a quest to create an electronic version of surf pop and seem to have achieved
it with the help of vintage synthesisers, video consoles, the world of
comics and morning Spanish television. Here they will present Anástasis
en el Electric Café, a work of digital fireworks with both
Dadaist and melancholic touches. Another Spain is possible.
SANTIAGO
LATORRE
(Barcelona)(www.santiagolatorre.com)
Friday19 October, 8 pm
Almazén
Guifré, 9
free admission
His final-year project, Sonificación del Genoma Humano,
marked the start of Santiago Latorre’s fascination
with musical experimentation and new sounds, closely linked to other areas.
He has since composed dance, theatre and film projects and perfected his
work with his electronically modified sax, helped by his time working
as a sound engineer at several recording studios. This year’s LEM
Festival will see the fruit of these travails – an elegant record
full of subtle textures and bubble-wrapped melodies. Quite a discovery.
CABEZAS
DE CERA
(Ciutat de Mèxic)(www.cabezasdecera.com)
Friday19
October, 10 pm
MACBA
Plaça dels Àngels, 1
ticket 6 €
The
latest studio recording by this Mexican group (Fractal Sónico,
2005) confirmed the power and versatility of their music, which appeared
ten years ago in the form of their first, eponymous album and which has
since been refined to create precise machinery that combines hybrid sounds
and constantly seeks to break across traditional boundaries. They offer
a unique vision of an alternative scene in a multifaceted country that
rejects clichés and explores its own world guided by surprising
intuitions.
SELECTORS
LEM-URS
(commutació 2)
MINUIT
(eklegein recordings-Tijuana)(www.myspace.com/minuitdelacroix)
Friday19
October, 11 pm
C3 Bar
(Bar del Centre de Cultura
Contemporània de Barcelona)
Montalegre, 5 (entrada CCCB)
free admission
This double concert dedicated to atypical sounds from Mexico will be followed
by a session by this Barcelona-based artist. Minuit De Lacroix’s
relationship with sound experimentation dates back to the mid-1990s and
a recording which included two microphones, an acoustic guitar, a plastic
jug and a bicycle chain. She has since specialised in recordings and mixes
and worked with the likes of Francisco López,
AntiQuark and Zan Hoffman. A very special
DJ for a far-from-conventional show.
CAPHRE
(Barcelona)(www.caphre.com)
Saturday 20 October, 8 pm
Espai Eart
Torrijos, 68
free admission
The winners of the dissemination section in this year’s OFF LEM
Festival are this unclassifiable trio made up of Tirso Orive,
Xavier García and Rubén Muñoz,
three artists and self-taught musicians who revel in preparing unexpected
cocktails of pop music and avant-garde acts of reckless abandon. After
trying out a number of different formats (the first, Checkybugger
Tabagee, in 1995), Caphre finally started to
take shape in 2003, when they gave à la carte concerts in private
homes and took part in the Hetklein Festival in Eindhoven. Their latest
work, Negra Crisma, places them in a parallel dimension influenced
by the Italian Renaissance. LEM Festival gives a heartfelt welcome to
masters Tirtian and Beatlecelli.
LE
PETIT RAMON 3 EXPERIMENTA
(Barcelona)(www.lepetitramon.com)
Saturday
20 October, 9 pm
Teatre dels Lluïsos de Gràcia
plaça del Nord, 7-10
ticket 6 € both concerts
Ramon
Faura’s latest in a long series of musical mutations takes
the form of experimental chamber music: a trio in which traditional instruments
(electric guitar, harmonica, percussion and cello) strike up an excitingly
mischievous relationship with a whole constellation of technological hired
assassins, turning each programme piece in this the third instalment of
his saga into a perfect synthesis of powerful stage presence, poetry and
delirium. Allied with Elvira Jiménez and Xavi
Tasies, Le Petit Ramon unveils an impeccably
dressed and well turned-out universe of wild punk that runs with the smoothness
of an undisputed classic, oiled by the elixir of eternal youth. A bittersweet
and select offering.
VIALKA
(Saint Jean des-Ollières)(www.vialka.com)
Saturday
20 October, 10 pm
Teatre dels Lluïsos de Gràcia
Plaça del Nord, 7-10
ticket 6 € ambos conciertos
This
duo made up of Marlyse Frecheville and Eric Boros
have been showing off their turbo-folk music since the start of the millennium,
first as NNY (a trio keen on punk, jazz and striptease)
and then, since 2002, as the duo Vialka. They see themselves
as more than a music group and define their project as a scientific and
social experiment – research into the cultural roots which have
led them to work with musicians from all over the world, with particular
interest in musicians who have survived under absurd dictatorships, thinly
veiled colonies and monarchical democracies. Two madcap activists who
champion a world free of bureaucrats and mandarins with ears of stone.
SELECTORS LEM-OSCÒPICS
(posició 2)
MOISÉS LÓPEZ
(Cáñamo-Barcelona)(www.canamo.net)
Saturday
20 October, 12 pm
Mi Bar
Guilleries, 6
free admission
Cabaret Hoffman presents the second session of LEM selectors and invites
us to indulge the musical whims of Moisés López,
founder and current editor of “Cáñamo” magazine.
This dissolute intellectual has been involved with numerous groups with
a distinctly underground flavour (Roeles Mauritas Drogo,
Rambla de Nit, Aribau), worked on audiovisual
production, helped promote the cassette and even infiltrated the mechanisms
of the system by selling insurances. An unshakable defender of systematic
chaos, he’s been doing his bit for controlled delusions and mental
oxygenation for nearly ten years.
TRIO
LIO
(Barcelona)(www.myspace.com/xaviertort)(www.amazings.com/galerias/galeria0071.html)
Thursday 25 October, 8:30 pm
Orfeó Gracienc
Astúries, 83
free admission
As you might expect, a free-improvisation group like Trio Lio
was born by chance: Albert Giménez (guitar),
Xavi Tort (trumpet) and Quicu Samsó (drums)
found themselves together on stage at a Gràcia soundscape tribute
to Hiroshi Kobayashi and ever since have worked tirelessly
on the rawest and freest essence of musical language. This conspiratorial
threesome has already borne its first fruit: Òxid/Coure
is a work which spurns standards, rehearsals and any other set path. Take
a deep breath and plunge into the world of three unashamedly energetic
talents.
QA’A
(Barcelona)(www.myspace.com/houseofqaa)
Thursday 25 October, 10 pm
Claustre de l’Oratori de Sant Felip Neri de Gràcia
carrer del Sol, 8
free admission
OFF section winner QA’A is a foursome made up of
Jordi Heras, Victor Hurtado, Álvaro
Gallego and Carles Esteban. Although barely
a year old, this group has already made a name for itself on the city’s
busy underground networks and taken part in the Cap Sembrat Festival alongside
international subculture performers such as Wind-up Bird and
Justice Yeldham. Filled with introspective bubbles, their
music is a mischievous catharsis that combines psychedelic voids, noise,
fleeting electronic moments and minimalist cadences. A compact yet fluid
offering, like a constantly mutating cell, or in their own words, a sound
like “an impossible piano at the bottom of the sea.”
TUNYI
(Madrid)(www.doctorosmond.org)(www.myspace.com/tunyi)
Thursday 25 October, 11pm
Claustre de l’Oratori de Sant Felip Neri de Gràcia
carrer del Sol, 8
free admission
Pablo Palacio and Gonzalo Maestre Fernández
make up this duo which redefines the concepts of jazz and improvisation
by placing them in a highly personal world of electroacoustic attitudes.
Somewhere between twelve-note composition, groove and Miles Davis at his
most electric, Tunyi is a refreshing tonic that should
be sipped like all the best liqueurs, by savouring its textures and teasing
out its aromas. Autoplástico, their first record, is full
of tastes that explode in real time and spread out into both pleasantly
warm and mathematically abstract atmospheres. An innovative and truly
healthy option which brings a breath of fresh air to the Spanish jazz
scene and reaches LEM Festival just ready for picking.
JORGE MARTORELL
(Tarragona)(www.bianchiniproducciones.com)
Thursday 25 October, 12 pm
Biblioteca Vila de Gràcia
Torrent de l’Olla, 104
free admission
A disciple of Pedro Iturralde and Jean-Yves Fourneau,
amongst others, Jorge Martorell is a perfect example
of how the same spirit that blows air through brass can also pique a performer’s
curiosity in electronic devices. With nearly ten years’ experience
behind him, this musician and composer has recently started out along
a fertile and seductive path through the world of new technologies. In
this ensemble, the sax finds new forms of expression and Jorge
Martorell’s style strikes a delicate balance between the
snaking arabesques of the French school and intrepid exploration of technological
soundscapes. A fluid and sophisticated show simply teeming with life.
LOS
INVISIBLES
(Madrid)(www.medialabmadrid.es)(www.tomajazz.com/perfiles/dead_capo.htm)
Friday 26 October, 8 pm
Almazén
Guifré, 9
free admission
Marcos Monge (a saxophonist specialising in free improvisation)
and Javier Montero (a conceptual and sound artist) are
the two poles of this magnet which takes experimentation and appropriationism
as its field of operations. A field in which Los Invisibles, as their
name suggests, remain in a state of lucid translucence, acting as mediums
through which we can communicate with an almost spectral universe made
up of curiously deconstructed samplers, field recordings, textual collages
and pop references. The end result leaps unashamedly from Ornette Coleman
to post-punk, forming a catalogue of emotions of which we are all part.
ALKU / LESS-LETHAL
(Barcelona)(www.vivapunani.org)
Friday 26 October, 10 pm
MACBA
Plaça dels Àngels, 1
ticket 6 €
In 1999, ALKU decided to look into the use of music as
a non-lethal weapon by the major powers’ military ranks. By incorporating
reflections on psychological determinants, the insidious effect of piped
music and muzak, and the bastardisation of pop music, the Less-Lethal
research project is now able to deliver its first findings. At this final
LEM function at the MACBA, they will offer an artistic, instructive, serious
and sarcastic set on this phenomenon by combining reflections and exhibits
by artists from all over the world to reveal the hidden face of this war-thirsty
strategy.
SELECTORS LEM-URS
(commutació 3)
SUBURBIO AZUL
(Barcelona)(www.archive.org/details/10-02-2007_1HY1M)
Friday 26 October, 11 pm
C3Bar
(Bar del Centre de Cultura
Contemporània de Barcelona,
entrada CCCB, Montalegre 5)
free admission
Fan Mutis is the name of the session that Suburbio Azul
(Roger Montserrat, accompanied on this occasion by Maria
Vernet and Jordi Murillo) will offer to close
this night given over to activism and sound collage. His extensive experience
as a technician, cultural firebrand and radio artist have served him well
when it comes to forging a mosaic of experiences and concepts from radio
waves. He always works at the limit, searching for the point at which
artistic radicalism becomes a political position, without the need to
incorporate pieces of ideology. This unexpected set for mixer and two
‘announcers’ will almost certainly bring us closer to this
wild, fragmented, gushing discourse.
ANAMNÈSIA
RECUPERACIÓ DEL LÒBUL MUSICAL LAIETÀ
Orquestra de Cambra Vila de Gràcia + grup elèctric
Saturday 27 October, 9 pm
Teatre dels Lluïsos de Gràcia
Plaça del Nord, 7-10
ticket 6 €
During
the transition to democracy in Spain in the late 1970s, Barcelona was
witness to a musical movement called laietà, which helped
revitalise the popular music scene at the time. By renouncing the use
of lyrics, its members distanced themselves from song and folk music and
sought to go back to their roots and avoid Anglo-Saxon influences. However,
this movement, like the historical period in which it arose, has been
unfairly and inexplicably forgotten; recordings of these creative and
imaginative bands who filled concert halls before salsa was declared the
country’s official music are now very hard to come by.
ANAMNNÈSIA undertook initial research work by
searching for documentation and recordings and talking to those involved.
And on the musical front we have an excellent way of rescuing this music
from the past: live performances by young musicians who reread it in modern-day
terms, for the present moment is only able to create the future if it
is aware of the past.
The result is this concert: a group made up of Roger Fortea
(bass), Oriol Luna (drums), both members of Mil
Pesetas, Guillem Caballero (keyboard), and Eduard Mont
(electric guitar) and Anna Oliva (voice), plus the Vila
de Gràcia Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Francesc
Rodríguez Franquet, will revisit pieces by Orquestra
Mirasol, Secta Sònica, Música
Urbana and Blay Tritono, four key, albeit short-lived,
groups. Authors and members of the following groups with subsequently
brilliant careers have contributed to this work in progress: Joan
Albert Amargós, Joan Saura, Xavier
Batllés, Rafael Zaragoza “Zarita”
and Jordi Bonell.
ANAMNÈSIA is neither a revival nor a tribute band.
We are simply interested in forms of music that are the product of an
unrepeatable creative moment and which have been mysteriously hidden away
behind a wall of amnesia which cultural forces and the industry have built
up over the past two decades.
>>>ANAMNÈSIA-PDF
SELECTORS LEM-OSCÒPICS
(posició 3)
SERAPI
(Cabaret Hofmann-Barcelona)
Saturday 28 October, 12 pm
Mi Bar
Guilleries, 6
free admission
The name of Serapi, part of Cabaret Hofmann and organiser
of these selectors sets, has been indelibly linked to the promotion of
new music in Barcelona for over three decades. A tireless promoter, this
intrepid explorer of musical jungles has been behind names such as John
Lurie, Eugene Chadbourne, Embryo
and Arto Lindsay, amongst other prized wild species.
Manager and accomplice of historic champions of musical libertarianism
in Catalonia (Macromassa, Kòniec,
Moisés Moisés), he created veritable oases
in the city such as Nitsa and Abaixadors Deu. With such an impressive
CV, all we can do is put our ears in his hands and enjoy.
CLOSING CELEBRATION
VICENÇ
ALTAIÓ & XAVIER TORT
(Barcelona)(www.myspace.com/xaviertort)(www.sant-cugat.net/daltabaix/altaio.htm)
Sunday 28 October, 7 pm
Fàbrica Moritz
Ronda de Sant Antoni, 39
free admission
Vicenç Altaió, polymorphic poet, historic
cultural activist and ideas trafficker, joins forces with free-thinking
musician and poet Xavier Tort to offer us a previously
unheard recital for two voices. Anada i tornada d’una partitura
is an ambitious undertaking which explores the limits and contours of
language in order to resize it and weave it afresh – folding it,
refolding it and pulling it until it says something utterly unexpected
about itself. A cutting-edge, esoteric offering in which these two mediums
will take us to an unknown lyrical dimension.
CLOSING
CELEBRATION
COCONOT
(Barcelona)(www.bcoredisc.com)
Sunday 28 October, 8 pm
Mercat de l’Abaceria Central
Entrada carrer Puigmartí
free admission
This is the second incarnation of the project created by Alfredo
Montes and Pablo Díaz-Reixa which became
known as Novo Tropicalismo Errado (BCore). After the first of
their members decided to turn to windsurfing and economics, Pablo
Díaz rebuilt the group by recruiting Jens Neumaier
and Christian Subirà and working on a second record,
which they will present at this year’s LEM Festival. Coconot
find their inspiration by contemplating the cosmos from the beach and
turning these visions into pop music made from calculated beats, loosened
chords and dolphin cries. A meandering path to tropical climes that don’t
appear on any map.