Wednesday, August 10, 2016

OUT.FEST 2016 OCTOBER - Festival Internacional de Música Exploratória do Barreiro (Portugal)


Evan Parker & Barry Guy

Paul Lytton

For the 13th edition of OUT.FEST  that will take place as usual in the city of Barreiro, Portugal, across the river Tagus from Lisbon, from October 6 to 9, we announce the first names confirmed on the program, that reflect some of the focus that has been part of the curatorial fabrics of the festival. 

As always, the priority is given to whom has been developing a musical work of bravery, creativity, progression and artistic coherence - the provenance of one’s aesthetic field or vocabulary is not a primordial concern. 


Thus, we find one of the most fundamental bands of the history of jazz - not only the free, but the whole of it - in the last decades, in the trio of Evan Parker, Barry Guy and Paul Lytton, for its first show in Portugal in 15 years; the spearheads of the tradition of Japanese psychedelic heavy rock Acid Mothers Temple, as always led by the Hendrixian virtuoso Makoto Kawabata.

Acid Mothers Temple

The return of Peter Kember, which is to say Sonic Boom, to present his project E.A.R. (Experimental Audio Research), a short time after settling residence in our country. Mr Kember will also offer a workshop project to announce further ahead; the legendary Lê Quan Ninh, french percussionist, composer and improviser, will also come to present a solo show as well as a workshop.

Peter Kember


Lê Quan Ninh

Foodman, from Yokohama/Tokyo, will premiere in Portugal as part of his first European tour, after crashing the scene as a revelation of an electronica that cross-pollinates and distills every possible style (in potency) that this neo-renaisssance and futurist producer can grab and mold in a concretist manner.

Foodman

Tropa Macaca, who have seen the release this Summer of their new LP “Vida” by Londoner label The Trilogy Tapes, constituted by 4 rites with its singular density and psychodynamic breath, the new episode of this music rich in harmonics textures and mediumship rhythms, an infinite techno ballad composed by gracious phrasings on guitar and an aural landscape played by an original electronic system.

Tropa Macaca

Ondness

Ondness is the most active heteronym in recent times of Bruno Silva, tireless musician with a route amply registered with releases published internationally in the last few years, on this project particularly focused on humid landscaping and vaguely toxic, which he processes and distills countless references of composition, improvisation, electronic and ambient music.

The festival, accordingly to his identity, will take place throughout different stages and venues in Barreiro, and the global passes will be on sale online starting tomorrow August 5, with a special price of 20€ until September 9th.