POSTER : ETERNAL TAPESTRY

Next Saturday. Co-production with A Viva Veu

Poster design by Vasco Valentim - http://www.wdesignstudio.net/

NEXT SHOWS

This will probably be our last shows until summer.
Looking forward for all of them!!

ETERNAL TAPESTRY

PURLING HISS

BLUES CONTROL

SAND CIRCLES

SPACIN'

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April program: Psychic Ills, Sightings and Sun Araw!

Three shows in April that we have been looking forward to since a long time!

Poster by Vasco Valentim 

Psychic Ills (Sacred Bones/US)

8th of April, Heliogabal, Barcelona
Co-produced with To Be Confirmed

Psychic Ills have been around already for quite some time making psychedelic music. Their psychedelia by far predates most of the stuff that is circulating now, And that can be noted, they have a very mature sound and seem to have found a perfectionized sound on their last two excellent records released on sacred bones (Hazed Dream and One Track Mind). This show therewith promises to be far better than any other psychedelic show around, and the opportunity to see them in Barcelona, and in such a small and intimate place as Heliogabal is not one that you are likely to get again. It is the first time they play Barcelona in their decently long career. 

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Mind Daze

Poster by Vasco Valentim 

Sightings (Dais Records/US) + Vida (BCN)

16th of April, Rocksound, Barcelona
Co-produced with Colectivo Detakon and Lucia Holubnik

We are very proud to present the return of one of the most important cult bands when it comes to experimental noise: Sightings. It has been 9 years since Sightings visited Barcelona, and in the meantime they released many amazing and very high quality records. Sightings is real experimental music. Having Tropa Macaca a few months ago was likely the closest we had to this, being amazed by the sounds they produce and put into a coherent whole. Just that this time it are the masters of the game that will be doing it. That can just be really, really good. Similar to Harry Pussy they are one of the biggest names in the noise scene, and will have a new record out on the 1st of April called Terribly Well, and the advances of that record sound good, very good. 

 Terribly Well advance

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'Perforated'

Sun Araw (Drag City/US) + Ocellot (BCN) + Sun Color (BCN)
21st of April, Sala Upload, Barcelona
Co-Produced with A Viva Veu

Sun Araw has become an icon of the underground electronic psychedelia scene after topping the lists of best records of the year two times in a row. In 2011 his record Ancient Romans made many more people realize how good this guy is in making you feel good and relaxed. Last year, it was the incredible cooperation of him and M. Geddes Gengras with nobody less than the Congos that took everything to a whole other level. Psychedelic, electronic reggae. It has been some time since he played Barcelona, and all this has happened in between. We can't wait to see how the creme de la creme of the scene will look like live. 

Crown Shell
Sun Araw & the Congos

Poster by Vanessa Millet

NEXT SHOWS : APRIL

PSYCHIC ILLS

SIGHTINGS

SUN ARAW

UMBERTO : SPAIN & PORTUGAL

We are booking a few dates of the upcoming Umberto European Tour!

The alter ego of musician Matt Hill, Umberto is a one-man band crafting horror score creep-scapes for the digital age. A true master of the horror film soundtrack aesthetic, Umberto’s music is a hypnotic, all-consuming journey, reeling you into a foggy, neon-lit world of graveyards, stalkers, haunted houses, witches and blood-stained corpses. Evoking the unsettling progressive rock of Goblin and the sinister, dystopian synth-work of John Carpenter, his acclaimed releases have garnered considerable praise for their staggering, gothic take on italo disco and new-wave synth pop, recreating the brooding intensity of a Dario Argento soundtrack through the cyclical melodies and throbbing rhythms he shares with his closest contemporaries, Zombi and Gatekeeper.

07/03 - Madrid (SP), The Space Cadet (El Perro Club)

08/03 - Valencia (SP), La Residencia

09/03 - Barcelona (SP), Apolo 2 (Nitsa)

12/03 - Porto (PT), Plano B

13/03 - Coimbra (PT), Aqui Base Tango 

14/03 - Lisbon (PT), Lounge 

http://umberto.bandcamp.com/

Photos of Ensemble Economique/ Sun Color in Miscelanea

Check out photos taken by Catalina Perez of our last show here 

Here two selected ones: 

photos: Catalina Pérez  www.enseguida.net

UPCOMING GIGS

Tropa Macaca 

(Siltbreeze/Software Records/PT)

Norberto Lobo

(MBari/PT)

Ensemble Economique

(Not Not Fun/Clandestine/Dekorder/US)

ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE : SPANISH DATES

Our friend Brian a.k.a. Ensemble Economique (Not Not Fun/Clandestine/Dekorder) is coming for a few dates in Spain this month.
In the past twelve months, he released the sublime Motion Forever split album with Lee Noble, and another interesting split release with Dubai, a record with his other project Starving Weirdos, a couple of CD-Rs… And, of course, a number of tracks posted to his regularly updated Soundcloud page.

You can see him live in this dates:

30/01 - C.C. Delicias - Bombo y Platillo, Zaragoza

31/01 - The Space Cadet (El Perro Club), Madrid

01/02 - Flow Hub, Alicante

02/02 - Miscelanea, Barcelona

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POSTER : JANUARY & FEBRUARY

Poster by Imagina Society

Our first shows of 2013: Tropa Macaca + Manta, Norberto Lobo + Gunthi, and Ensemble Economique + Sun Color!

To start the new year well, we hereby announce our next three shows with which we will kick off the season, and it is going to be a great one! We have some exciting new acts which we were finally able to book, and we will repeat some gigs that have been great before.

There will be a night of portuguese electronic psychedelia, the 19th of January in Miscelanea, with Tropa Macaca and Manta. The saturday after that (the 26th) we will repeat the wonderful acoustic gig of Norberto Lobo in the Centro Gallego, can't be missed! Gunthi will be the opener. On the first saturday of february (the 2nd) we will have Ensemble Economique again who had and will have some great new releases after we had him here last time. The opening act will be Sun Color. 

Tropa Macaca (Software Records/Siltbreeze, PT) 

+ Manta (Marvellous Tone, PT)

19th of January, Miscelanea

                              Tropa Macaca

We start the year with what is probably the most exciting psychedelic electronic act from Portugal. Of course we have a good eye on what is going on in the Portuguese scene, but in this case I heard about Tropa Macaca also through people in Barcelona. In Europe it is hard to make it to the international circuit, but bands that do are normally really worth it. Just so is the case with Tropa Macaca. Their music is definitely weird but musically interesting too, a nice and rare combo. 

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Playground Mag

Tiny Mixtapes

Manta

Choosing an opening act was really easy this time. We had Manta presenting his latest record last year in one of our shows, and would love to hear it presented to us in its matured version. His music and visuals have already provided the perfect setting for some our shows in Miscelanea and it will be so this time too. 

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Norberto Lobo (Mbari, PT) + Gunthi (BCN)

26th of January, Centro Gallego

   Co-produced with byNicho

Norberto Lobo

In 2011 we had Norberto in our first and, so far, only show in Centro Gallego. A very special show in many ways. The setting of Centro Gallego is great for acoustic gigs. They normally have traditional Galician concerts there. And seeing one of the best European acoustic guitarists there.. Not only is Norberto a renowned guitar player having played all over the world, he mixes more known guitar virtuosity a la John Fahey with enchanting fado elements from his home country. An acoustic show cannot get much better than this. Listen to his recently released Mel Azul if you need to be convinced. 

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Mel Azul, bandcamp 

Gunthi

One of the amazed spectators in the Norberto Lobo gig was Gunthi, Goncalo, with whom we produce this show. After Norberto's show he told us about his own music. When we decided to put the show together, we remembered listening to his music. We were convinced he had to open this show. Gunthi's music is guitar-based too, but processed using many effects that create a layered soundscape that will fascinate.

Gunthi

Ensemble Economique (Not Not Fun/Dekorder/US) + Sun Color (BCN)

2nd of February, Miscelanea, 6 euros

                       Ensemble Economique

Ensemble Economique is Brian Pyle. The great thing about Brian is that he moves really really fast and ahead of many trends. His record Psychical on Not Not Fun, had ideas that made many of the following releases on that label big. His LP Crossing the Pass by Torchlight pre-dated most of the mysterious soundscape records that one can find now, the only difference being that we still keep putting on Brian's records while many others start to bore. Since we had him last time in BCN he released a great split with Lee Noble and I think he told us he had another full LP coming up soon. His last show had, all of a sudden, vocals. And we are looking forward to find out where he is heading towards this time, since much of other music will do so too afterwards. 

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Ad Hoc

Fact Mag

Sun Color

Having Sun Color opening one of our shows has become a long-term wish of us. After our Bill Orcutt show got cancelled, we were also sad about not havin seen Sun Color play. This time we finally hope to succeed, and it will be worth it. Sun Color is one of the most exciting acts to emerge from our local scene. 

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Former Selves (US) + Lace Bows (Sunflare/PT) + Manta (BCN) in Miscelanea 11th of November

                       

    Poster by Vasco Valentim

We prepared a night made to fascinate for Sunday the 11th in Miscelanea, Barcelona. The night will enjoy the music of one of our discoveries of the year Former Selves, our favorite Portuguese soundscape master Lace Bows, and the first live presentation of the new album of our local Manta! 

 

Former Selves (Hooker Vision/Rotifer/Bridgetown, US) Former Selves is Paul Skomsvold from San Francisco and makes expressively layered themes that instantly catch you and guide you trough deep textures and innovative sounds. We've heard from the artists of the San Francisco scene that his show is great and not just the music, but his visuals are amazing too, which will of course be on display on the great white wall in Miscelanea.

http://formerselves.bandcamp.com/
http://adhoc.fm/post/former-selves-healing/
http://nofearofpop.net/2011/06/former-selves-zones/

Lace Bows (Digitalis/Wasser Bassim/Hooker Vision, PT)

When listening to Lace Bows you start to realize why Sunflare is such a good band, it is not just noise, it is very well constructed. While being part of the hyperloud and energetic act from Portugal, Lace Bows is a much more quiet project. His music is one to dream away with too, and we have done so before when we organized our little festival mini-mercado festival in Aveiro. Looking forward to see this again!

 http://lacebows.bandcamp.com/
http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/?p=3225

Manta (BCN) 

Another project we have on repeat is Manuel Carvalho's Manta, and for good reasons. He will present the music of his new album first time live, so only for that reason already not to be missed. Besides the great music, his last show in Miscelanea was memorable for the great visuals. All in all this night will see three great artists in a perfect setting. Not to be missed!

http://soundcloud.com/mantasound/ 

POSTER : BARN OWL + WHITE HILLS

Hello!

Here is the poster for our next gig.
We are putting up the show with our friends of A Viva Veu and this time the poster was made by Clara Iris.

POSTER : STEVE GUNN + OCELLOT

Poster design by Vasco Valentim (http://www.wdesignstudio.net/)

One of our favorites!

TONIGHT : CAVE

We are putting up this gig with our friends of To Be Confirmed.
Poster design by Vasco Valentim (http://www.wdesignstudio.net/)