The show on 11th September (The Young Gods Play In C & Innode) has been CANCELLED. On Fri 10th September will perform Etenesh Wassie, Dudu Tassa & The Kuwaitis, Pierre Bastien. Concert starting at 19:30.
LINE UP Friday 10/9
Pierre Bastien
Etenesh Wassie
Dudu Tassa & The Kuwaitis
LINE UP Saturday 11/9 — THE SHOW IS CANCELLED!!!
Refund via GoOut / MeetFactory.
New 1-day tickets for 350,- CZK will be available at the venue on 10th September
The Young Gods Announcement:
“Dear music lovers,
we are sad to announce that we decided to cancel our show in Praha this coming saturday, due to concerns about Covid-19. Our home country, Switzerland, is back on the red zone for travel. Not all of us in the band are vaccinated. After pondering all the information we have received from official channels, the current conditions no longer guarantee safety and the ability to travel freely, without restrictions and quarantine between states. Dear audience, we sincerely regret this decision, especially since it is the 31st anniversary festival of Rachot Production which has been working and taking care of us for over 15 years. This pandemic is a real drag, we pray everyday for better days.”
The Young Gods – A hypnotic voyage.
The Young Gods continue their exploration of In C the famous piece by american composer Terry Riley. Written in 1964, In C is often cited as the first minimalist composition. In C consists of 53 short, numbered musical phrases, lasting from half a beat to 32 beats; each phrase may be repeated an arbitrary number of times. In this way, although the melodic content of each part is predetermined, In C has elements of aleatoric music to it. In C marks a turning point in written music history: it is performed without a conductor and it is up to each musician to take decisions on when to go to the next phrase. After many experimentations with In C (with the Alias dance company, with a brass band of 85 musicians and scoring it to the film Petropolis by Peter Mettler), for the 31 years anniversary of Rachot Production, The Young Gods will perform it as a simple power trio, mixing electronic and acoustic instruments as they always do. The performance normally average between 45 minutes and an hour.
More infos about In C
Dudu Tassa & The Kuwaitis – The cross-cultural joint Jewish-Arabic project from Israel
Every band has a story – but none has the story of Dudu Tassa and the Kuwaitis, the Israeli band that opened Coachella festival last year and was chosen by Radiohead as its support act for 2017’s spring tour of the USA. With the release of new album El Hajar, Dudu Tassa & The Kuwaitis are ready to enter the global stage. Dudu Tassa, one of Israel’s leading rock stars, is the grandson of Kuwaiti musician Daoud Al-Kuwaiti, whose musical collaborations with his brother Saleh as the Al-Kuwaiti Brothers became famous in the Arabic world between the 1930s and 1950s. Their music was later banned in Iraq by Saddam Hussein during his regime when he discovered that the singers were not Arabic, but Jewish. Being of Iraqi-Jewish (and Yemeni) descent, Tassa’s exploration of his roots revealed an amazing musical history.
Etenesh Wassie – Melodies emerge, reminding the watermark of the Ethiopian forms, rock, jazz, improvised music and world music influences.
Ethiopian diva Etenesh Wassie began singing in the azmaribèt cabarets of Addis Ababa in the early 90s, becoming known for her daring improvisations on Azmari traditions. She first encountered French guitarist Mathieu Sourisseau in 2007 when invited to perform with the Toulouse Tigers of Platanes. The mutual empathy between her powerfully resonant voice and Sourisseau’s inventive constructions on acoustic bass guitar, merging contemporary energies from jazz to punk with Wassie’s in-depth knowledge of the Ethiopian repertoire, has sustained them on a ten-year musical journey, creating an original expressive platform.
Pierre Bastien & his mechanical instruments.
French composer and musician Pierre Bastien played first in some collective bands, and with the Dominique Bagouet Dance Company. In 1976 he built a sound sculpture that was going to be the first element of a large orchestra called Mecanium : an ensemble of musical automatons made of meccano parts and electro-motors, playing on acoustic instruments from all over the world. In the nineties the mechanical orchestra developed up to 80 pieces. It took part in music festivals and art exhibitions in Norway (World Music Days 1990), Australia (Tisea 1992), Japan (Artec 1995), Canada (Fimav 1995, Sound Symposium 1998), Poland (Warsaw Autumn 1995), United States (Flea Festival 1996)...
Innode – Innode is a project by Stefan Németh (Radian, Lokai, Sonotope Platform) Steven Hess (Locrian, Pan.American, Cleared) and Bernhard Breuer (Elektro Guzzi, Tumido). Central aspects of Innode´s music are rhythm, reduction and precise forms.
Based on this navigation system, pieces display a technical approach contrasted by human intuition and unpredictability. So are drum machines interlinked with acoustic drums, one being shaped, extended and complemented by the other. At the same time these percussive patterns are substrate for electronic textures, made up of raw and unprocessed waveforms, which are generated by analog synthesizers. It is the function defining the choice of sounds, hence resulting elements can be as simple as a pulsewave or white noise.
