Events Calendar - November 27, 2004 |
| U/CTRL Micro-Tour 2004 [ Static Link : iCal ] |
| City: | Canada, Quebec, Montreal |
| Time: | Sat Nov 27, 2004 @ 9:00pm |
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| Info: | U/CTRL MICRO-TOUR 2004 FEATURING: * ANDREW DUKE - HALIFAX - BIP HOP RECORDS * NAW - MONTREAL - NOISE FACTORY RECORDS * AKUMU - TORONTO - SPIDER RECORDS MEDIA CONTACT: info@spiderrecords.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - U/CTRL ELECTRONIC MICRO-TOUR 2004 NOVEMBER 20-27, 2004 A SHOWCASE OF CANADIAN LAPTOP TALENT [ WWW.SPIDERRECORDS.COM ] Hamilton * Toronto * London * St. Catharines * Guelph * Ottawa * Québec City * Montréal The inaugural U/CTRL Tour (November 20 - 27, 2004) brings live electronic music to eight Canadian cities in eight nights. Showcasing three of Canada's top laptop artists, U/CTRL presents cutting-edge electronic music ranging from ambient/glitch to IDM to deep, dubby techno, accompanied by multi-media projections and original video art. U/CTRL performers Andrew Duke, NAW and Akumu are each accomplished independent electronic artists with multiple releases and remixes on labels around the world. Live, they produce customized sound environments for deep listening that incorporate a variety of techniques, and improvisations. For U/CTRL, they will perform live solo sets highlighting fresh material from new and upcoming releases. U/CTRL takes electronic music out of the clubs and studios and into bars, cafes and gallery spaces across Ontario and Quebec, bringing new sounds to new listeners. About the performers: ANDREW DUKE (Halifax) Producer, DJ and remixer (Chicks on Speed, Pink Floyd) whose international releases have been praised in the Wire and Exclaim. His upcoming release is on Montreal's PetiteSono Records. NAW (Montreal) a.k.a. Neil Wiernik, who joins the tour in support of his new full-length release, Green Nights Orange Days (Noise Factory Records.) Purveyor of experimental Dub-tech rhythms, sound design and manipulation, he has been a force in the Canadian electronic, techno and ambient music scenes for 10 years. A co-founder and member of Montreal's Phoniq collective, he has just returned from a European mini-tour. AKUMU (Toronto) Ambient sounds and shadowy beats with digital video manipulations from Toronto's Deane Hughes (Thrive/Alchemy). The latest Akumu CD, Fluxes (Spider Records) was composed in Central America and has been compared to Tim Hecker by Montreal's ICI magazine and called "soundtrack to an imaginary David Cronenberg Movie" by Toronto's eye weekly. TOUR DATES Saturday. Nov 20 -- Hamilton -- The Casbah (Early show: 6pm) Sunday Nov 21 -- Toronto -- Tequila Lounge (presented by Stained Prod) Monday Nov 22 -- London -- The Last Drop (with DJ Phonecard) Tuesday Nov 23 -- St. Catharines -- The Mikado (with DJ ) Wednesday Nov 24 -- Guelph -- News Café (presented by Linx Industries) Thursday Nov 25 -- Ottawa -- Agora/Universe City (5th Year Anniversary) Friday Nov 26 -- Québec City -- Galerie Rouje (presented by pertinence) Saturday Nov 27 -- Montréal -- Esperanza (presented by Phoniq) Music Samples (MP3s) at the Tour website: [ WWW.SPIDERRECORDS.COM ] - ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES - Andrew Duke Andrew Duke has been composing, producing, remixing, and performing music since 1987. His music is consistently referred to by the media and listeners alike as continuously presenting a unique and distinct sound; quotes: "Andrew Duke creates music that sounds like it has a reason for living" (The Wire, UK); "He often seems to be inventing new genres" (Cyclic Defrost, Australia); "Andrew Duke renews my faith in the world of slow-mo techno" (Igloomag/Microview, USA); "Andrew Duke reinvents himself almost with every release" (All Music Guide, USA); "Andrew Duke puts his soul into his experimental music" (The Halifax Daily News, Canada); "The man behind the East Coast electronic music scene, Duke displays a different facet of his skill with every release" (Exclaim, Canada). His Sprung album (released on France's Bip-Hop label in 2002) was nominated for Album of the Year (Electronica) at the 2003 annual Canadian Independent Music Awards. He has been commissioned for 42+ remixes (for artists such as Aaliyah, Pink Floyd, Chicks On Speed, Heavy Meadows, and David Kristian), has licensed 115+ tracks to compilations, and toured his live PA across Canada. Artist Contact: andrewduke@cognitionaudioworks.com NAW Montreal native Neil Wiernik began his explorations in electronic music making as early as 1988. Known to push the boundaries of his musical form, from designing new or manipulating existing sound-making devices and software, to creative uses of production environments and sound sources, naw^Òs music is a blend of sound manipulation/design, experimental music and dub-tech rhythms, which on the surface sound quite simple, but incorporate a number of touches that steer this artist away from being simply another minimal techno or experimental laptop artist. He combines post-house, dubby minimal techno, microsound and thick ambience, to create his own version of deep techno, house and other electronic laptop oriented musics. Neil has released music on various national and international record labels, including releases on Noise Factory, Clevermusic, Complot, Piehead, RRR and A/S systems. As naw, Neil has performed extensively alongside a variety of national and international artists both in and outside of Canada. Artist Contact: naw@phoniq.net AKUMU Akumu is the solo electronic project for composer Deane Hughes (formerly of Thrive/Alchemy). The self-titled debut CD (Spider Records/Fusion III) topped CBC Galaxie's Ambient chart for 9 months, was nominated for Best Electronic Album (CMW Awards 2001) and licensed for use in feature film and television. Akumu's new CD, Fluxes, is an ambient, zero-bpm release written in Mexico and Central America and recorded in Toronto with engineer/producer Jeff McMurrich (Infinite Systems/Deepspace). It continues Hughes' exploration of shadowy atmospheres and moods, pushing further into minimal territory. It has received airplay on Brave New Waves and positive reviews in Montreal's Mirror and ICI Magazines. Akumu performs live PA sets with original, digital video manipulations. Past performances have included Montreal (Phoniq series) and Toronto (Ambient Ping series, the Rivoli, NOW Lounge.) A second disc from the same sessions, containing slow-beat rhythms, is forthcoming winter 2004. Artist Contact: akumu@spiderrecords.com |
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