Peaking Lights, City Hands, Cotopaxi, Lumisokea

Le Club Suburbia @ SMART Project Space

5 mrt 2010

subterranean free music vibes in Amsterdam

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possitive music! - FRIDAY MARCH 5th @ SMART Project Space // Peaking Lights + Cotopaxi + Lumisokea + City Hands‏ Le Club Suburbia

Peaking Lights is a duo project. Floating electronic pulses, controlled feedback, tape loops, organ, synth, guitar, and vocal harmonies layered into waves of four track noise pop goodness. The perfect soundtrack to walking in mysterious places, haunted neighborhoods, lost river banks, and bike rides at night

Cotopaxi is the playful project of Johann (aka Fyoelk) and Hannah (aka Moemlien). These two in Amsterdam living Germans have been making the Amsterdam scene thrive again by organizing concerts, art-shows and making books, prints and releasing tapes and cdrs on the Stenze Quo label. Both schooled at a young age to be free with sound they manage to create interesting compositions almost out of thin air, with great sensitivity for dynamics and balance. Their approach is warm and positive resulting in a 'good times' feel that will leave a smile in the hearts of the listener, so in their own way they are making the world a better place.

The Hague’s own City Hands is Mr. Manuel Padding from Helbaard & Silver Ghosts fame, improvising with electronics, hooked-up objects and small percussion. Meditative sonars echo through time where they collide in frantic rhythms that provide a peacefully uplifting soundtrack to a downhill ride through the cold and desolate night.

Lumisokea plays improvised electronic music: not your usual "I- prepared-30-loops-and-I'm-playing-them-in-random order" kind of electronic live performance, but two people building the music from scratch, in real-time. Through intense on-stage communication, Lumisokea manages to sound like a single meta-instrument, combining the attention to detail and structure of studio based music with the uncompromising immediacy of real-time improvisation. Reflecting its name ("Lumisokea" means "snowblind" in Finnish), a sense of dark introspection pervades the music, which ranges from minimalist soundsculptures to beat/drone-based, high-intensity walls of sound.

more info www.leclubsuburbia.org