Tuesday 4 April 2023, 8pm
Album release show from the great Italian duo, Rosso Polare, courtesy of London based experimental music collective, Sagome.
Also on a the bill, acoustic, no-age krautrock group, Kulku, and Hackney's Atlantis Records on the decks.
Rosso Polare is Cesare Lopopolo and Anna Vezzosi, a contemporary improv duo from Milan, Italy, drawing from their complementary environments (the Italian countryside vs the city) to create a highly personal musical language merging field recordings, folklore and audio manipulation.
Having both studied visual arts, their approach is equally rooted in a deep theoretical background, as well as an intuitive élan, while focused on researching counter- narratives regarding the depiction of the animal world. They strive to normalize the levels between human-produced music and natural biophony by making the listener aware of their indigenousness to nature.
In 2020, they released their debut Lettere Animali via the Moscow-based label and collective Klammklang, followed by Cani Lenti via Cafe Oto’s in-house label Takuroku and later reissued by ADN Records. They played at festivals and venues across Europe, including Cafe Oto, Météo - Mulhouse Music Festival, Klang - Roma, Spazio Contemporanea - Brescia, BääFest - Milano as well as online events such as The Quarantine Tapes by Chicago’s Experimental Sound Studio.
https://sagome.bandcamp.com/album/bocca-dombra
https://soundcloud.com/cafeoto/tr128-rosso-polare-carrubbe-chit-ka
https://rossopolare.bandcamp.com/album/cani-lenti
Kulku is a musical phenomenon, a deep-cutting ceremony of primitive music at its best. The band, around lead singer Wenzlovar, keeps evolving their sonic imprint - an Orff instrumentation and drums are the pounding heart of this musical dervish. The acoustic perpetuum mobile is fed by a deep submersion in exploring the sound spectrum of wood, brass and voice. The band shares musical bonds with minimalists like Moondog or Krautrock bands like Neu or Can. A dedication and openness towards sound momenta and trance-induced states. Folklore from the future.
Atlantis Records is one of London's best 2nd hand record shops, currently based in Hackney. Liam and John, proprietors of the shop who don’t know what to say about themselves, will be on the decks.
