Psychedelic summer triple bill with Flemish collective Syvester Anfang II, Liberez and Helm.

SYLVESTER ANFANG II

Flemish Psych-Rock explorers of Disrobed Trappist Blackness summoning a sound that might be something called Pagan Belgopsych. The compositions are mostly non-musical offertories to worship their almighty overlord Brohll, but every now and then things just work out as free psychedelic improvisations.

Dark, ritualistic, and lost in a haze somewhere between the graveyard and the opium dem, this Belgian Funeral Folk troupe are magi of altered states and dreamlike horror. Their otherworldy jams radiate beyond the pagan serenades of Amon Duul II and the ceremonial devotionalism of Popol Vuh that are their forebears, and touch on misty revelations all their own. A psychedelic tonic from macabre origins and a rare rural elixir.

"Sylvester Anfang II is a Belgian psychedelic collective that evolved out of Silvester Anfang somewhere around 2007. While jamming - on stage or during recording sessions - the band bring together a wide range of influences which crystalize in loose, far-out improvisations. They have released various LPs, CDs and tapes on international labels such as Kraak, Aurora Borealis, Eclipse Records, Southern and The Great Pop Supplement and continue to look for new directions and sounds.”

Selected discography:

Silvester Anfang - Satanische Vrede (lp) (Kraak) (2006)
Silvester Anfang - Vlaamsche Geiten (lp) (Eclipse) (2006)
Silvester Anfang - Kosmies Slachtafval (cd) (Aurao Borealis) (2007)
Sylvester Anfang II - Sylvester Anfang II (2lp & cd) (Aurora Borealis) (2009)
Sylvester Anfang II - Commune Cassetten (lp) (Blackest Rainbow) (2010)
Sylvester Anfang II - Latitudes Session (lp & cd) (Southern) (2012)
Sylvester Anfang II - Perzische Tapijten (lp) (The Great Pop Suppelement) (2012)





HELM

Helm is Luke Younger - a Sound Artist and experimental musician based in London, working with a vast array of revolving instrumentation and abstract sound sources.

Younger's compositions build a dense aural landscape that touches on musique concrete, uncomfortable sound poetry, noise, and hallucinatory drones. His most last LP for the Kye label, Cryptography, presents a five-part suite of expertly rendered electro-acoustic study which uses processed piano, Casio MT-40, cymbal and broken guitar strings. Younger creates a world where these instruments morph into spectral rust, a shimmering klang swims alongside passive noise and the relationship between acoustic and electronic derived sounds forms a solid foundation. This sound is steered through a melange of fringe territories: glacial drone meditations, reconfigured gamelan clusters, and howling walls of organized feedback, all coalesced in a post-industrial fashion with a commitment to homemade exploratory zeal.

For the past ten years, Younger has also performed extensively in Europe and the US with Steven Warwick as pioneering avant-drone duo Birds of Delay. New LP 'Impossible Symmetry' is out now on PAN.



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LIBEREZ

Formed in 2003, Liberez is the latest incarnation of a long running musical collaboration between John Hannon and Pete Wilkins. The Letter, their latest release on Alter Records (autumn 2010) is the first LP where they are joined by multi instrumentalist Tom James Scott and vocalist Nina Bosnic.

Live, liberez attempt to engage audiences using simple techniques such as light rhythms, abstracting the audiences view, deliberate mistakes, ritual, repetition etc.