Wednesday 12 October 2022, 8pm
Repossessed by the past, bitten once again and forced to relive drama, history, memories, tradition and roots. A past that needs exorcizing, bending and re-imagining in order to move forward and depend on. This is ‘Rimorso’, Mai Mai Mai’s colossal mediterranean gothic album.
Known for his incredible blend of Southern Italian Folklore, industrial drone, proto-techno & punishing miasmic electronic music, Toni Cutrone aka Mai Mai Mai approached ‘Rimorso’ with a clean slate. Following ‘Nel Sud’ (La Tempesta International, 2019) and his mediterranean trilogy ‘Theta’ (Boring Machines, 2013), ‘Δέλτα’ (Delta) (Yerevan Tapes, 2014) and ‘Φ’ (Phi) (Not Not Fun Records / Boring Machines, 2017) the Roma based noise artist recreated his spirits of the past by collaborating with musicians and ethnomusicologists that work on the present, on traditions that are still passed on and morphing continuously, healing our nostalgia for a lost future. ‘Rimorso’ sheds the past heavy use of samples and sound manipulation in lieu of a human element: voices, percussion, lap steel guitar all embedded in a rich cultural heritage.
[something’s happening] is the sound and text duo of poet and performer Iris Colomb and sound artist Daryl Worthington (Beachers). The project explores textual and sonic permutation through improvisation, scores and responses to situation and context. Their practice is centred around an integrating of sound and language, the two emerging together in unison rather than one leading the other. Their previous work has included experimental translations fused with site-specific field recordings, responses to art exhibitions as well as a live, fully improvised performance practice wielding poetry, processed voice and electro-acoustic sounds made with a variety of instruments and non-instruments.
In 2025 they released the albums Buzz (Flaming Pines) and a map has always been an attempt (Strategic Tape Reserve).
Their first release, an album of single-take live improvisations recorded with a solitary mic in a practice room, ‘Something Like That’, was released in May 2022 by Sensory Leakage. Their second release, 12.10.22, a recording of a live performance from October 2022 at Cafe Oto was released on the venue’s digital label Otoroku in 2023. In 2024 they were commissioned by EMALIN Gallery in London to respond to Adriano Costa’s exhibition HOW GRANDMA TAUGHT HOW TO KILL A GHOST CHICKEN.
[something’s happening] have performed with Eric Chenaux, Mai Mai Mai, Dali St Paul’s EP/64, Neo Geodesia and many more, for promoters and venues including Café Oto, Baba Yaga’s Hut and Upset the Rhythm.
https://flamingpines.bandcamp.com/album/buzz
https://strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/a-map-has-always-been-an-attempt
