Barcelona

www.myspace.com/putosza
www.facebook.com/putosza

ZA! are two multi-instrumentalist polymaths from Catalonia. This multilayer supersonic-orchestra combines African beats, noise, math rock, vocal-loops, free jazz, analogue electronics, sounds
from the shepherds of Tuva, Balinese polyrhythms, Mauritanian trip hop, Dadaism, distortion, dance and drones – “POST WORLDMUSIC” may be the name of this danceable hybrid. This music is made for the stages and magical moments of gatherings, but if you hear their brandnew effort “MEGAFLOW” on the other side you will be amazed how much sense this makes on recordings as well.

Vienna/Kranj

www.majaosojnik.com/broken.htm

broken.heart.collector is the project of the Austrian superband BULBUL, clarinetist Susanna Gartmayer and Slovenian artist/singer Maja Osojnik.
Spacious and wide pro-anti-compositions of brusque elegance – artful, rough, industrial, gaudy, emotional and cynical, but with the perfect dose of sparkling eruptions that we know and love from BULBUL, plus the haunting and dark timbre of Maja, who tells severe and less severe sad, brutal, gloomy, seldom geographical, unreliable, no, this cannot be true, short stories.

Sacramento

www.myspace.com/soundsofloveandspace
deadwestern.bandcamp.com
DEAD WESTERN is TROY MIGHTY, who demands to live. This is the soundtrack to your fever dreams. Songs that sound like they have been here for hundred years, music you can hide within and brave the world outside. And you might need to climb in a wooden horse to get to the heart of this DEAD WESTERN.

Berlin

www.myspace.com/ultraschnaak

Two tip-toe sounds from afar in the dark, the two that call themselves SCHNAAK. They make fire from amplifiers, They know how to do that, cause they are smart… and they cook human flesh over it, nicely. SCHNAAK has lived up and loves weird hip-hop beats and stylish African rhythms, though still working deep down in a factory of noise, but adjusting their machines nicely to sing along.

Leipzig

www.myspace.com/donvitorocktDON VITO – advanced noise creators and one of the neatest outfits there are. Hardly anyone in that genre has accomplished a tighter match of two antagonisms – chaos and structure.
A monstrous maelstrom from Eastern Germany, pushing the concept of “Noise” to a new level of forcefulness… at times very danceable. Their latest record “IV” is a brute piece of greatness.

Berlin

www.theseasonstandard.com /
www.myspace.com/theseasonstandard

THE SEASON STANDARD was the most idiosyncratic way to blow up a ballroom. The “perfect band”, if you ask us. Here you go!

Es ist als gingen wir alle gemeinsam nach „Sing-Along-Land“…
Es ist ein wunderschöner Tag – die Sonne strahlt ganz ohne Vorbehalte, so wie wir selbst. Wir treten ein:
Und da kommt auch schon Minus, ein fast schon absurd süßes Comicgeschöpf. Und wie er so ist, so durch und durch Hund, jagt er glücksdurchdrungen einem Knochen hinterher – und ganz knapp an dir vorbei.
Was ist das? Dieser ohrenbetäubende, quietschende Lärm und überall Staub. AHA!
Minus versucht, durch plötzliches Innehalten der Bewegung seiner sowohl Vorder- als auch Hinterläufe, die Laufgeschwindigkeit um ein
Maximum zu reduzieren. Und es gelingt! Da steht er auch schon vor dir und knuddelt dich als gebe es kein morgen.
Doch dann plötzlich passiert es: Das ganz still und leise und im hintersten Winkel ein kleiner Schmetterling zu weinen beginnt.
Und immer kläglicher werden seine Laute und wie eine Krankheit verbreiten sie sich, so dass binnen Sekunden der nächste mit einstimmt – und der nächste – und nächste… bis schließlich alle Geschöpfe im „Sing-Along-Land“ und auch wir, die Besucher, nur noch weinen können – und weinen, als gebe es nur Schmerz auf der Welt.
Die Sonne indes strahlt weiter. Doch sind die Schatten der hundert winzigen Türmchen,
die den Blick auf das Schloß sonst so herrlich verklären, das einzige, was für uns von ihr übrig bleibt.
Und doch strahlt sie genau wie am Anfang des Tages mit der selben Ruhe und inneren Kraft, die sie tief tief in sich verborgen hat.
Und was immer du fragst, sie wird stets dir sagen: Die Geschichte ist weder dies noch das.

(aka “Aufrichtiges Zappa” in their Zappa-Freakshow-Bigband-Outfit)
Dresden

www.tarentatec.de / www.myspace.com/tarentatecRising from hypnotic sessions, a motley collection of different song structures evolves. In the diverting to epic songs of Tarentatec you can find elements of postpunk, noise and jazz, which they interweave intuitively anew. The trio oscillates between widescreen sound and minimalism; instrumental short stories and dry rock’n’rolling; snapshot and steamroller. Musical patterns are being reflected by all members – own ways within rock music are being explored. Besides, the way of Tarentatec, if there is any direction, is always a tightrope walk between convention and the unreserved search for freedom.

Jena/Berlin

www.dyse.info / www.myspace.com/dysexxxProbably the best live-band on earth, twisted Noisecore-duo DŸSE transmute every venue into a jubilating drop of sweat. In Middle-Europe yet an established sensation, with clubs bursting at the seams, those two nice energetic guys are coming to get all of you!

Philadelphia

www.myspace.com/capillaryactionCapillary Action songs never sit still and do what you expect: They bend, stretch, fall apart and come back together, only to fall apart again. On three very different recordings, composer/guitarist Jonathan Pfeffer has drawn upon a wide range of influences to create dense, catchy and deeply personal compositions that mesmerize as much as they challenge. The NY-based band has toured relentlessly, playing over 450 shows across the US, Canada and Europe alongside the reunited Shudder To Think, Joe Lally (Fugazi), Dirty Projectors, Les Claypool, Beirut, Mike Watt, Daughters and Ruins among others.

Jena

large-m.de / Gnarled Bikers hate MySpace

Jazz-percussions meet the Fender Rhodes. Krishan Zeigner and Lars Mäurer (both in Charlie Bucket Trio&, Wise In Time and Feindrehstar) are one musical organ, creating groovy complex and improvised jazz-hop-tunes. Find yourself in trance or nodding your head. No rehearsals! Strictly impro!

Osis Krull

www.myspace.com/osiskrull

From the still here rather unknown planet Osis Krull…

Weimar

www.thezonnhaidersclub.de / www.myspace.com/thezclubBeing the last offshoot of the French Revolution and the Ages of Enlightment, THE ZONNHAIDER’S CLUB goes its most sensitive step: Retreat!
In its non-representative function the club is mostly exercising a nomadic tradition of the mosaic. Not holding on to a theme, form or style, THE ZONNHAIDER’S CLUB is an amoeba and in the permanent process of becoming, there is nothing else to do than stepping aside from identity.

Paris

www.myspace.com/zarbothRising from the sophisticated underground of Paris, Etienne Gaillochet (of We Insist!) and Phil Reptil (from Osteti) stumbled together for a blindfold project full of twisted rhythm, beautiful yelling and playful staccati. Yes, dear people! Another crazy duo. Interweaving Jazz, Rock, Noise and Pantera. A hell of a lot fun. A journey. A glimpse. Or to say it in Bill Hicks’ words: “It’s just a ride!” So is Zarboth.