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EPICUREAN ESCAPISM FESTIVAL
15TH OF JUNE 2013
@ MARIE ANTOINETTE
HOLZMARKTSTR. 15
10179 BERLIN
(S Jannowitzbrücke)
Doors: 18 h
video screening starts 19:00 h!
concert starts
20:00 h!
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EPICUREAN ESCAPISM FESTIVAL
KE/HIL
Ke/Hil is habitat industrial, field work closely observing a deprived
and callous population’s behaviour in a hostile environment, while
seeking to wipe away the neon gloss from facades, showing gloom and
bleakness lurking behind, exposing the ultimate cause for resistance
without anything to achieve but resistance going on … - look from inside
a precarious scenery! Formed by B.Moloch and W.Herich.
video
POST SCRIPTVM
Active since 1999 the New York City-based Russian duo creates dark
electronic music that has been described as concertedly dreamlike,
mesmerizing, claustrophobic, and disturbing. The compositions flow from
eerie, hypnotizing death ambient structures to abrasive industrial
noise, invoking surreal, Kafkaesque mental imagery, as well as an
overwhelming anguish of metaphysical horror.
The project is back from a 5-year long break in concert activity to perform its first show in Germany.
"Continuing on an exploration within the original aesthetic of
industrial music Post Scriptvm creates track after track of compositions
that challenge the preconceived notions of music and reformulate these
into a powerful and darkly unsettling amalgamating of noises, distorted
sounds and dense thick drones to produce a bleak, sludgy ambience that
sits uncomfortably between the dark ambient and death industrial genres
whist still having one foot firmly rooted in the old-school styled
industrial soundscapes." (Judas Kiss)
"A downward spiraling carousel takes you on a ride through vibrant and
surrealist visions of horror, paranoia and civilization in decline with
the darkest atmospheres wrapped in mystic transmissions and unholy
rituals, acoustic sound manipulation and organic drones. Hypnotizing
dark ambient with visceral intensity and flowing analogue pulsations."
(Gothtronic)
"Rather than suffocating the listener in endless rounds of rumbling
darkness Post Scriptvm transports the listeners down a desolate road of
mental imbalance, naked aggression and nightmarish soundscapes. The
music is your guide but the journey will only be as harrowing as your
imagination." (Heathen Harvest)
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video
TREPANERINGSRITUALEN
Trepaneringsritualen explores themes of religion, magick and the
occult realms of consciousness, taking its musical cues from the old
school of ritual ambient & death industrial. Rhythmic and seething
at times, and oozing forward with a creeping sense of desolation,
Trepaneringsritualen conjures forth bleak but mesmerizing visions of the
end-times.
Active since 2008, T × R × P have racked up a fair amount of
cassette releases on renowned labels such as Hanson, Small Doses and
Harsh Head Rituals, with 2012 seeing the first vinyl appearance in the
form of »Deathward, To The Womb« 10" on RTB Records.
website |
video
DIETER MÜH
“Murky sound sculptures that verge on aural surrealism from a project rarely glimpsed in the wild” (Feral Debris. 2012).
Dieter Müh is the solo project of Devon (UK) based sound artist
Steve Cammack. Dieter Müh were created as a trio in 1994, but has been a
solo project since 2009.
The live sound of Dieter Müh (2013) is construction and
de-construction of prepared loops and drone walls. Steve works with
manipulated acoustic sounds, percussion, metals, glass as well as spoken
word.
In the past Dieter Müh have been released by labels as diverse as
EE Tapes, Tesco Organisation, Hanson, Harbinger Sound, Xerxes and Licht
Und Stahl. The 2012 LP “Heterodoxie” was released by German label
Verlautbarung. 2013 and Dieter Müh are working on an album for French
label Force Majeure.
Steve Cammack also operates his own label Haemoccult Recordings and has his own radio programme; “Muhmur” on SoundArt FM.
Live in Paris photograph by Sylvie Carteaux
website |
discogs
ANEMONE TUBE
Anemone Tube was founded 1996 in South-Germany; since 2010 based in
Berlin. The audio works of Anemone Tube are a unique blend of dark
ambient, noise, industrial and soundart with a strong psychogenic
impact. The use of constantly shifting and altering sounds and moods is
possibly one of the most intruiging things about the audio creations of
Anemone Tube.
Since 2007 Anemone Tube has been working on "The Suicide Series". To
this fieldrecordings made in different parts in the world build a
conceptional basis. In a poetic way Anemone Tube combines analytical
realism of the phenomenal world with buddhist psychology and nihilist
rhetoric influenced by the works of Michael Haneke, Hayao Miyazaki, H.P.
Lovecraft and Yukio Mishima. CD and vynil releases on labels such as
Auf Abwegen (DE), Peripheral Records (GB), Silken Tofu (BE) and Topheth
Prophet (IL).
“Anemone Tube stands out among other projects in the genre not due to
the quality of his music but rather the psychological basis of it.”
(Encyclopaedia Of Industrial Music, Rafal Kochan, 2010)
"Effectively Anemone Tube achieves a sound that spans the divide
between ‘academic’ experimental material and ‘underground’ industrial
territory. Likewise within this context Anemone Tube have achieved a
particularly unique sound, which these days can be a challenge to say
the least within ambient/ industrial spheres."
(Noise Receptor Magazine, February 2013)
Live Performances since 2008 with: Inade (D), Anenzephalia (D), Cut
Hands/William Bennett (UK), Troum (D), IRM (Se), Jarl (Se), Last
Dominion Lost (Aus), BJ Nilsen (N), Dave Phillips (CH), Sudden Infant
(CH), Wraiths (UK), The (Law-Rah) Collective (NL), Hybrids (B), Schloss
Tegal (USA), Machinefabriek (NL), etc.
website |
soundcloud |
video |
interview
CON-DOM / MIKE DANDO
Mike Dando, based in London, has been active since the early 80s
as musician & conceptual artist and is best known through his
notorious, confrontational performances with his power-electronics
project CON-DOM. His controversial religious and political artworks
have earned him widespread recognition.
We are honored to welcome Mike Dando on our festival, who will
present his short films and experimental movies for the first time ever
to an audience. More than 50 minutes of video footage had been
exclusively produced by Mike Dando for the Epicurean Escapism Festival,
and which will also be released on the festival compilation on DVD
including 2 more short films not shown on the festival.
video |
discogs
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Visual artists:
ALEX TENNIGKEIT DE
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ANDREW LILES GB
website
CARMEN BURGUESS ARG
website
DENNIS RUDOLPH DE
website
PHILIP BEST GB
website
RUDOLF EB.ER JP
