Another exciting evening of controversial performances curated by Kukuruku recordings at cafe Oto. An adventurous line up of artists from different fields of exploratory music, introducing the newly formed free improvised duo “The Car Boot Sales” by Adam Bohman & Tasos Stamou combined to the cutting edge tunes and performance by Leafcutter John and the atmospheric soundscaping of the field recording artist Mecha/Orga.

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TASOS STAMOU & ADAM BOHMAN - “THE CAR BOOT SALES”

A recent collaboration between the sound experimentalists consisting of both musicians’ passionate relation to found objects and recycled material treated as instruments. Devoted solo performers of free improvised music, also members of the London Improvisers Orchestra, Tasos Stamou (modified electronics, prepared zither, found violin) & Adam Bohman (amplified objects and prepared violin) create layers of “instant” musique concrète which balances between narrative structures and textural noises, much like the sonic ambience of a crowded Sunday car boot sale market. Their sound explores the possibilities of expression through means of irregular practices and modified lo-fi equipment.

Adam Bohman is well known to the avant-garde and the free improvised British music scene (also as a member of the Bohman Brothers, Morphogeneses etc) for his unique solo achievements over objects and amplified-table techniques.

Tasos Stamou is a (non academic) electroacoustic music composer and a performer of free improvised music, an instrument designer and circuit bender. He has been performing and recording in solo and collaborative projects using several different arrangements of handmade electronics and electroacoustic arrangements.

www.tasosstamou.com



LEAFCUTTER JOHN

Yorkshire come London lad, John Burton has graced the planet with his remarkable contributions to electronic, folk and experimental music since his primary explorations with an old computer, originally bought to write his Art School dissertation in 1998. Since then he has released 5 critically acclaimed albums which combine elements of music-concrete and electro-acoustic music with voice and guitar work more commonly found in folk music. He has performed his award winning work extensively throughout Europe and Australasia and has performed on television and radio.

Recently John composed the music for a major new production by Handspring, the pioneering puppetry company responsible for Warhorse which ran at the National Theatre before going on to the West End and Broadway. 'Crow' combines puppetry, dance, and music. It is based on the Crow poems by Ted Hughes and premiered at the 2012 London festival in May.

John is also a full time member of the Mercury Music Award nominated contemporary Jazz band Polar Bear, providing electronics, guitar, and vocals.

leafcutterjohn.com



MECHA/ORGA

Mecha/Orga is the project and recording name of sound artist Yiorgis Sakellariou. Since 2003, he has been active internationally being responsible for solo albums, having composed music for short films and theatrical performances, leading workshops and ceaselessly performing his music around the globe. He is currently attending the sound art postgraduate degree programme at the LCC, London.

His practice is founded on the digital manipulation of environmental recordings. His palette of sounds is all encompassing; from vibrating rail-tracks to refrigerators' static, and from noisy waterfalls to the humming of insects. He mostly performs in absolute darkness, fostering an all-inclusive and profoundly submerging sonic experience.

Yiorgis Sakellariou is a member of the Athenian Contemporary Music Research Centre and the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association. 

Since 2004 he has curated the label Echomusic

The spectator is immersed in some sort of a place or state where his threshold of awareness becomes more sensible and acute: the listener’s hearing is induced to a very responsive level where both the universal and the particular can occur simultaneously (John McEnroe, The Field Reporter)

- You better start considering Sakellariou as a serious candidate to the field recording genre’s Senate of Finest Assemblers. (Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes – May 2011, Italy)

www.mecha-orga.com