RITUAL is a new series of events from art-music curators GALVANISED! exploring esotericism in music and performance art. We are producing an exploratory platform that brings together artists and musical performers to examine and amplify the relationships between; magic / movement / action / art / sound. RITUAL will glamourously keen your mind - lest we will open up new possibilites in the theatrics of musical presentation.

Don't miss this first event with legendary ritual performer Z'EV plus four other intriguing occult inspired performers ENGLISH HERETIC / MYSTERIUM / EBE OKE / YUMI HARA CAWKWELL + GUY HARRIES

Z'EV

Z'EV performs intense ritualistic drum / sound / percussive mantras - conjuring up a maelstrom of elemental bliss - metal/air/wood meld into one. Z'EV has collaborated with many performers including collaborations with Genesis P-Orridge and PSYCHIC TV, during this period he was also initiated into Western Ceremonial and Ritual Practice, and involved with PSYCHIC TV'S - Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth.

Z'EV's work was also included in Konrad Becker's 1984 Ritual Opera for the Vienna Festival so expect a unique bewitching performance from Z'EV that will cast a spell of mesmerizing labyrinthine sounds, pulses and beats.



Z'EV website
Z'EV on Discogs

ENGLISH HERETIC

English Heretic is a creative occult organisation dedicated to the reification of malefic energy spectres and the adumbration of a modern qliphoth. For our public ceremonies we achieve rapport with the tortured souls and allowed fools of our black plaque scheme. Current focus is on a collection of candidates constellated around the M4 corridor. Join English Heretic on a Journada del Muerto through a magickal inner cinema taking in the tragedy of self delivering witch Robert Cochrane, the ritual cinematography of Dick Bush, the cult of Angel Blake and the funeral processions of Medmenham's inner sanctum.

English Heretic website
English Heretic blog

MYSTERIUM

Formed in November 2011 Mysterium have been blackened the psychic sound spectrum with a new form of perfumed metal-noise balancing a fine potion of metal, vibrating electronic and monastic chants. Floating slowly between free noise improvisational tones and ghostly atmospherics. Mysterium are soaked in the combined inspiration of the heavy deep drones of Florida death metal and spiking soft tones works of Gyori Ligeti.

EBE OKE

EBE OKE Is a North American-born, London-based, singer-songwriter who uses the angelic sombre instruments of voice and piano with accompanying Instruments. Ebe takes us on a serene meandering tour into his exotic sublime dream-like songs that produce a haunting and resonant sound that is deep in the memory and real in the present. He will be joined onstage by performance artist Nissa Nishikawa.

Ebe Oke on Myspace
Expression Records



YUMI HARA CAWKWELL + GUY HARRIES

Sound artists Yumi Hara Cawkwell and Guy Harries collaborate as a duo, creating 'sound rituals' using voices, found objects and electronic sound. Inspired by fire rituals, psychoanalysis, futuristic shamanism, and post-apocalyptic scenarios the duo have developed a mesmerising language of sound, movement and narrative.