DAVID TIBET CURATES A DAY-LONG SPECIAL EVENT AT THE ROADBURN FESTIVAL IN HOLLAND ON APRIL 20 2008
David Tibet has been invited to to curate a special long-day-event as part of the 13th annual Roadburn Festival, which will take place April 20, 2008, at the 013 Club in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Current 93 will be performing as well as other special guests to be announced soon.
David Tibet comments: "I am proud and delighted to confirm that I have been invited by the wonderful Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Holland to curate a special day-long event. Current 93 will be performing, as well as some special guests that I have invited to accompany us. I can confirm that the majestic OM will be appearing, and that I am presently discussing the appearance of 2 or 3 more of my favourite artists. Roadburn is perhaps the pre-eminent festival of doom, stoner, psychedelacidic and othercoloured metal, and I am very touched and happy to have been invited by Roadburn to bring some of those artists whom I love to a festival whose work I have long admired."
Founded in 1982 by David Tibet, Current 93 has created a highly personal musical and æsthetic entity over 23 years, subliminal and dramatic, an opulent and complex music made of psychedelic Coptic jazz, distorted folk memories, apocalyptic ballads, gothic chorals, nursery rhymes and Roman electronics.
Tibet's musical influences are wildly diverse, ranging from psychedelic rock bands from Ramases to Patripassian, from Gregorian Chant to Sahidic Threnodies.
Current 93's sound varies, according to Tibet's choice of collaborators, but it has oscillated between apocalyptic tape loops, minimal piano-and-voice settings, electronic hymns, massed drone attacks and children singing at the end of the world, whilst always featuring Tibet's own idiosyncratic singing and guitar playing. David Tibet has worked with Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound), Antony and the Johnsons, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Marc Almond, folk goddess Shirley Collins, Stephen O'Malley, Attila Csihar, Andrew W.K., horror writer Thomas Ligotti, Nick Cave and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) and many others artists.
OM, comprised of Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius, the former rhythm section of stoner-legends Sleep, combine minimalist vocal mantras with propulsive drumming and vibrating bass to channel mind-expanding paeans of spiritual awakening.
Tickets will be on sale on December 1, 2007, and cost €32,50 for the day. For more information (including the other guests David Tibet will announcing), please visit
www.roadburn.com or
www.myspace.com/roadburnfestival.
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NEUROSIS' SCOTT KELLY TO PERFORM ACOUSTIC SOLO SHOW AT ROADBURN FESTIVAL 2008.
Roadburn is pleased to report that Neurosis' Scott Kelly will do an acoustic solo show (his first ever in Europe!) at Roadburn 2008, which will take place April 18-19, 2008, at the 013 Club in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Scott Kelly will perform songs from his forthcoming solo album for Neurot Recordings as well as some tracks from earlier records, on Friday April 18, 2008.
Scott Kelly comments: "Acoustic songwriting and performance has been a focus of mine over the last few years. It is a challenge that I embrace with all of my heart. The simplicity and gravity of this type of communication is something that I hid from in my earlier years of writing and performing live music. In this type of setting there's nowhere to hide, all scars are evident, all mistakes are obvious, and all intentions are known. I have been very inspired to go deeper into this experience and bring things from myself that I had previously buried. I will be performing songs that I have written for a forthcoming solo record on Neurot Recordings as well as a couple of previously released tracks. Roadburn is the place that I feel I need to bring this to light for the first time outside of the U.S. I will give it all."
Grails have also been confirmed for the Friday Roadburn date, April 18, 2008, and with the addition of Boris & Jesu to the Saturday Roadburn date, April 19, 2008, the line up of the 13th annual Roadburn Festival is now complete.
Pre-sales will start December 1st
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