Jul
HUMAN FEATHER 2013 FESTIVAL
Here we are again : another long year has gone, and at Human Feather we´ve been swearing, struggling, doing the utmost to put up great shows and always loved what we were doing and whoever was following it. So show after show, the time led us to the summer, warm old enemy of the rock, the summer that came back to undress Barcelona and make it fussy and sexy. It’s time for us get our heads out of the venues, and bring the noise in broad daylight. An Open Air festival to shake the road, two days, seven bands, a DJ duo, and a lot more to share. Stay tuned !
July 19th, Friday:
ETERMORTIFERA
The idea behind Etermortifera is intriguing and delicate. Is the tight relation between a single sound (micro) and the musical structure it makes up and ends up belonging to (macro). Is the sensitive feel of a whole change by playing around with simple details, with some gently vibrating strings, some pulsating synths, few spectral voices, and a whole arsenal of sounding junk.
http://www.etermortifera.net/
http://www.youtube.com/user/Etermortifera?feature=watch
AGAINST THE EYE
“The soundtrack of the upcoming global rEvolution”. This is how those five explosive individuals introduce themselves to the world, mixing up their genuine rage, along with their whole generation’s one, in a blend of Crossover, Trash, Doom, Death. Their mission: unleashing their concerns over how wrong the world goes, sounding metal, acting punk, but without leaving melodies behind. And always keeping in mind that a change is possible
http://www.against-the-eye.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/againsttheeye/videos?view=0
NITCH
Nitch are the project that BCN was missing. Despite being quite young, they’ve been around for a while, loving that ‘90s sound, promoting themselves within the DIY circuit. However thanks to nowadays technology they´ve already achieved two releases, a Spanish tour and they’re now working on a EU one. This all slightly past the age of 20 . They sound rough, yet sweet, somewhere between punk, grunge, post-rock, shoegaze, but with a whole batch of their own personality. Very tasty.
http://www.wenitch.com/
http://wenitch.bandcamp.com/
FAMILEA MIRANDA
Most fascinating story in town . Three friends from Chile moved over to Barcelona back in 2000, and never stopped running since. The battleship has travelled for 13 years, nearly 400 gigs, 8 between records and compilations, few tours in Chile and EU, some line-up change, and never lost the plot on their sound : a constantly evolving range of rock, from ‘proto’ to ‘post’, from ‘soft’ to ‘hard’, widely enriched of their own touch, who gave them a big name in BCN’s underground scene.
http://www.famileamiranda.com/
http://famileamiranda.bandcamp.com/
DJ EightBitRate
Another great story comes from EightBitRate, two DJs and a VJ (Alfa, Beta and Gamma) who started putting up disco-8bit-acid colors-videgames based parties in Napoles, back in 2003. Shortly after they found themselves opening for people like Trentemoller, Groove Armada, Chicken Lips, etc. Few years later, in 2007, they moved on to London where they played regularly in all main clubs in town (Fabric, Ministry of Sound, Pacha, Club 54, etc.) prior to become resident at Notting Hill Arts Club. Few more years and the only one left in London is Alfa while Gamma is VJing for major events in Italy (Chemical Brothers, Tiesto, Luciano, Francois K.) and Beta is following up his teaching career.
They’ll meet again now, in Barcelona, to celebrate 10 years of activity and shake the ground with their pumping bass. They’ll play both on Friday and Saturday
https://soundcloud.com/alfa-1
http://www.mixcloud.com/eightBitRate/
July 20th, Saturday
ZOZOBRA
Definitely one of our favourite solo acts, Zozobra is a pure weirdo. Someone whose humour and paranoia melt and generate a flow of spontaneous, genuine, insisting vibes, made up of far voices, everyday noises, struggling chords, and all sorts of mantras that a daydreamer like him can layer up. Hypnotizing.
COMMON DEFLECTION PROBLEMS
Three young men need to vomit out as much as possible in a short and frantic rush of riffs and chords straight to your face. Someone calls it ‘Math-core’, someone else ‘some kind of random stuff that sounds like a scratched record, jumping from part to part as a psycho relentlessly flicking through his TV´s channels’. Like it or not, CPD’s music is intense, loud, and instinctive, even though you can notice a whole lot of meticulous work behind it.
http://commondeflectionproblems.bandcamp.com/
CRTVTR ( Cartavetro )
From Genoa, Italy, CRTVTR key is a very different sound from what you can hear around, in the scene. Despite their distorted, angry roots, they tend to deliver sort of a fine rounded British sound, emotional, intense and genuine, driven by full rich vocal effects and some synthetized shouts here and there. And still fuzz-oriented. A very enjoyable mix that opened these guys many doors. Among them, having Mike Watt ( from Minutemen, Stooges, etc. ) to to take part to their record in more than an occasion, and touring China recently. There must be a reason for that, huh ?
http://crtvtr.bandcamp.com/album/here-it-comes-tramontane
All this will be deliberately FREE, opposite to the bar Tiel.la i llibertat, whose people actually made this possible.
C/Blai 35, BCN, from 20.00 onwards.
The massive artwork is by LEG. Rad !
http://www.easyleg.blogspot.it/