All Time Low Presents a primer event for the Supernormal Festival featuring Duke Garwood, French violin player Agathe Max performing with percussionist and visual accompaniment, plus new London based experimentalist drum and synth duo Tomaga.

Supernormal is a festival like no other, providing a powerful antidote to the current malaise of festivals-as-big-business. Blurring the boundaries between art and music, performer and audience, it champions the iconoclastic and the experimental, allowing risks to be taken and leaps of imagination to occur. Somewhere in spirit between the original Glastonbury Fayre and an eccentric village fete, Supernormal is the alternative's alternative.

www.supernormalfestival.co.uk

DUKE GARWOOD

Duke Garwood has had a long and distinguished career in which he has consistently threatened to break out of the underground and into the world at large, most recently with the stunning album collaboration "Black Pudding" (Ipecac) with Mark Lanegan . Other distinguished outings include playing guitar on The Orb's single Perpetual Dawn, appearing on the first two albums Fur and Derdang Derdang by English rock band Archie Bronson Outfit not to mention various contributions to albums by the likes of Savages, Seasick Steve, Josh T. Pearson, Richard Bishop, Wooden Wand, Wire, Alexander Tucker, The Gutter Twins, and Kurt Vile. For this performance at Cafe Oto he is joined by a group of as yet unnamed players.

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AGATHE MAX & CYRIL M.

Agathe Max plays electric violin combined with electronics, stomp boxes and a loop station. She has collaborated with a series of other experimental musicians such as Rhys Chatham, Carla Bozulich, Jonathan Kane, Alexander Tucker, Lucio Capece,[1] David Daniell, Yoko Higashi, Animal Hospital, Melt-Banana[2] and with dancers like Juha Marsalo, Carolyn Carlson. Besides her musical carrier Max is also active as a visual artist. Max has played on the Supersonic Festival, Roadburn, ISSUE Project Room, Electron Festival. Her 2008 cd This Silver String was released on Xeric, a sublabel of Table of the Elements Records.

TOMAGA

Tomaga channels percussive energy via drums, percussion, analogue synthesizers, contact microphones and effects pedals to create a collision of vibrating rhythms and tones. Tomaga create extended duration improvisations by pushing these instruments to places outside of their normal registers into a place of unpredictability and uncertainty. Tomaga is the manifestation of two musician's boredom at playing within conventional musical zones. They don't know what you should expect.