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June 2016
BBE pres. FATIMA AL QADIRI – MELBOURNE SHOW
Kuwait-raised musician, composer and visual artist Fatima Al Qadiri is unquestionably one of the most exciting talents in the universe. Her genre-less sound, epitomized in two mind-altering albums 'Brute' (2016) and 'Asiatisch' (2014), is always 'grounded in some kind of idea or real life memory.' Whether it be her experiences during the Gulf War or more recently with the global police state and their lack of accountability, Al Qadiri is able to channel raw and extreme emotion in a truly haunting and mesmerizing fashion.
Find out more »September 2016
L-FRESH The LION-Become Tour 2016
The first half of 2016 has been crazier than cray for L-FRESH The LION, and things are just heating up. After smashing shows as main support on the recent Urthboy ‘Second Heartbeat Tour’, L-FRESH and team are prepared to pounce, launching his new album Become and bringing hype to capital and regional areas all around Australia.
Find out more »October 2016
Sovereign Trax: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music
Sovereign Trax: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music Kick back this Friday evening with a DJ set from Sovereign Trax—aka writer and blogger Hannah Donnelly—creator of the Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander music blog that shares the same Sovereign name. The blog is a subversive online space that's "decolonising our music choices" by encouraging the consumption of music in an environment that speaks to collective stories, identities and resistance, all while promoting the visibility of artists. Expect the freshest new tracks—surely coming soon to a Sovereign Trax playlist—mixed in real life by the great Sovereign Trax herself. Come down for an an evening packed with the maddest contemporary and experimental music from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artis...ts. Pop by at 6pm and stick around! http://mpavilion.org/program/sovereign-trax-dj-set/ ____________ Special Sovereign Trax request: Uncle Larry's Bedford Dreaming – Uncle Larry Walsh, a respected Taungurung Elder who is very active in the…
Find out more »November 2016
Open Spaces 2016
The Abbotsford Convent is set to showcase more than 150 artists, writers, musicians, designers and performers, welcoming thousands of visitors to the Convent’s biggest day of the year – Open Spaces. Open Spaces invites visitors to explore the Convent inside and out, activating the entire site with an impressive program of interactive art, live music, new design and good food, offering more than 30 events, classes, walks, talks, workshops, musical acts and performances on Sunday 6 November 2016. Through music, art, ideas, design and play, this year’s program celebrates multi-disciplinary arts, diverse cultures, collaboration and place.
Find out more »February 2017
ATTRACTOR at XO STATE (Music / Performance)
Indonesia’s tour-de-force music duo Senyawa along with Melbourne's choreographic luminaries Lucy Guerin and Gideon Obarzanek join forces with two of Australia’s leading dance companies, Dancenorth and Lucy Guerin Inc. Together they take you on a trance-noise odyssey that transcends all borders, a unique ecstatic music/dance ritual for non-believers. Senyawa’s performance reinterprets the Javanese tradition of entering trance through dance and music as a powerful secular present-day form. Their sound borrows from the metal bands they listened to as teenagers – Black Sabbath, Metallica, Iron Maiden – and Indonesian ritual and folk idioms. Their music and performance is influenced by forces in nature to take the audience into a transformative state outside of organised belief systems. As the performance unfolds, Senyawa’s unique fusion of hand-made electrified stringed instruments with opera style and heavy metal voice slowly builds to a euphoric pitch. The exceptional dancers are propelled into wild physical abandonment…
Find out more »JAMBINAI at XO STATE (Music)
South Korean trio, Jambinai, sound less like a band than a force of nature, fusing the full dramatic range of post-rock dynamics to Korean folk roots to create an exhilarating, vivid and unique fusion. Jambinai have shocked Korean audiences unused to the kind of intensity and adventurism that the trio have made their own. Yet Différance won Best Crossover Album at the 2013 Korean Music Awards (they were also nominated for Best Jazz & Crossover Performance), which the band used as a springboard for several overseas tours, as a quintet with Jihoon Ok (bass) and Jae Hyuk Choi (drums). Music this rousing and beautiful, rising and subsiding in epic fashion, will doubtless trigger a flood of intense or even apocalyptic images. Yet Jambinai also represent a positive force, resisting the old ways and reinventing the future. Come join their thrilling adventure. Patron Advice: 18+ only.
Find out more »Pearl River Delta Dance (Super Cell Festival of Contemporary Dance)
Pearl River Delta Dance A Delta Moves project. Delta Moves is a confluence of contemporary dance at the pan-Pearl River Delta region. Supported by: 2016 Major Cultural Exchange Projects with Hong Kong and Macau and 2016 China Friendship Association of Cultural Circles Supported Key Projects. Macau Cultural Affairs Bureau, Guangdong Province Department of Culture Point One (excerpt) guangdong modern dance company | CHINA Point One was a full-length work created by Li Pian Pian and Tan Yuan Bo, two of the most promising up and coming choreographers in China, on an ensemble of fourteen dancers. This iteration of the work was the result of an ongoing research of the couple choreographers’ approach to dance expressions, which are rid of formal precepts and true to the essence of human nature. Virtuous and poetic, highly fluid and dynamic, this piece presents a unique perspective with focused and dynamic movement language. Choreography Li…
Find out more »ARISTOPHANES at XO STATE (Music)
Aristophanes is a Taipei based artist, whose striking verbal wordplay, poetry, and forward thinking delivery has seen her rise to be at the very forefront of the new sounds emerging of the new Taiwan. Fusing elements of Hip-Hop, Slam Poetry, Jazz, Soul and Electronica, her music has been featured by international press including The Fader, Rolling Stone, VICE, and has received radio play on Zane Lowe's show on Beats 1, BBC Radio 1, KCRW, and Triple J. Her collaboration track with Grimes "SCREAM" featured on many critics choice LP album of the year for 2015, Art Angels, released on seminal UK indie label 4AD. Aristophanes has performed at international music festivals including Coachella—becoming the first Taiwanese artist to do so—SXSW, and Laneway. Aristophanes is currently working on her debut LP, inspired by the timeless Stanley Kubrick directed Sci-fi, 2001 : A Space Odyssey, with production from Will Butler of…
Find out more »REBEL MUSIK at XO STATE (Music / Performance)
For renowned Papuan Producer / Percussionist / Activist – Airileke, music is his weapon. Rebel Musik sees Airileke bring rising stars from Port Moresby’s urban music scene, traditional dancers from the highlands of PNG, along with Australian and West Papuan artists from Airi’s back catalogue of collaborators including members of Grrilla Step, Twin Tribe, Paluai Sook Sook, Drum Drum and Rize of the Morning Star. Together they present Rebel Musik – urgent, political, in-your-face musik from one of the harshest urban environments on the planet. The show is a new flip on log drumming of the Manus islands, heavy Krump meets traditional Sing Sing, Sound Scapes that take you deep into the jungle and back. Hauntingly beautiful Kwakumba flutes evoke the Birds of Paradise and new forms of Urban dance from West Papua and PNG. The strength & importance of the Kundu / Tifa (drum) takes it’s integral place…
Find out more »PARVATHY BAUL at XO STATE (Music / Performance)
Breathtaking master singer, instrumentalist, painter and storyteller Parvathy Baul is one of the leading exponents of Baul sung poetry, the stunning ancient vocal tradition of the Baul mystic bards of Bengal. Celebrating the lineage of the great Sufis and mystics, Parvathy Baul returns to Melbourne for one durational performance accompanied by master musicians and storytellers from the ancient Bengal traditions of Baul, Fakir and Alpana. Ancient Indian practices and living traditions reveal the devotional forms of spiritual transcendence through dance, design, music and sung poetry including the sacred art of Alpana – slowly revealing mesmerising traditional patterns. And the quote from Supersense is still great: “Her clear, soaring voice seems otherworldly and divinely inspired.”(VANCOUVER OBSERVER)
Find out more »PARADISE BANGKOK MOLAM INTERNATIONAL BAND at XO STATE (Music)
The concept of Paradise Bangkok was born out of looking for records. Back in 2009 DJs Maft Sai and Chris Menist pooled together their collection of obscure Reggae, African, Jazz and Thai vinyl to put on the very first Paradise Bangkok party. Thai luk thung and molam, both popular, rural music styles were spun alongside Mulatu, Augustus Pablo, R.D. Burnam and Fela Kuti, and the duo ended up playing in Japan, Vietnam, Germany, London, Switzerland, Austria and France. They also co-compiled the two volumes of Sound of Siam for Soundway, as well as Thai? Dai! for Finders Keepers. The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band came out of these sessions and they made their live debut in the Thai capital in 2012. Drawn from different music scenes in Bangkok, the band consists of Kammao Perdtanon on phin (Thai lute), Sawai Kaewsombat on khaen, a type of bamboo harmonica, Piyanart Jotikasthira on bass,…
Find out more »March 2017
CRY JAILOLO (Brisbane SuperCell Festival of Contemporary Dance)
Fresh from a string of dates at Sydney Festival, Darwin Festival, OZAsia Festival, AsiaTOPA and multiple European cities, Cry Jailolo is set to ignite the The Tivoli stage in a sign of exciting things to come for the venue, Supercell Dance Festival and Brisbane's thriving arts scene. “an exquisite fusion of traditional dance with a contemporary choreographic sensibility... intensely satisfying” - THE ADVERTISER Driven by the relentless rhythms of the ocean and the life that teems within, Cry Jailolo is an hour of constant motion in a shimmering halo of hope. The remote Indonesian town of Jailolo is home to some of the world's most spectacular coral seascapes, and choreographer Eko Supriyanto spent two years diving with 350 local youths to understand their relationship with this ancient ecology. He surfaced profoundly affected by the bond these young men share with their underwater environment, and together they began to build…
Find out more »April 2017
Melbourne Karaoke Festival
Karaoke enthusiasts are set to go head to head at the Melbourne Karaoke Festival – with $3,000 in cash prizes up for grabs! Think you’ve got what it takes? There are three categories, designed to cater for divas that can’t share the stage, couples that can’t do it alone & groups of three or more – in other words SOLOS, DUETS & BANDS. The best from each will take home a $1,000 cash prize & some serious street cred. Fuel the fun with takeaway options available on the night from some of Melbourne’s best Dumpling restaurants, including Tim Ho Wan Melbourne, China Red, China Chilli & Dragon Boat. And as karaoke is thirsty work – Collingwood’s Sample Brew will be serving up Dutch courage for those hitting the stag...e and those having to endure the hits and misses. The first 400 people to arrive at the Sample Brew pop-up from…
Find out more »Buddha Birth Day Festival 2017 (Brisbane)
Since 1997 the Buddha Birth Day Festival has grown into one of Queensland’s most prestigious cultural events attracting in excess of 200,000 visitors and is now recognized as the largest annual Buddhist Birth Day Festival in the world. This year the Buddha Birth Day Festival is proud to be celebrating its 20th anniversary at The Parklands at Southbank. continue to showcase the diversity of Australia’s multicultural society, as visitors can enjoy a relaxed environment surrounded by a range of displays, entertained by a variety of performances and experience many cultural customs and activities and vegetarian food. It is a Festival for everyone, regardless of ages, religious or cultural backgrounds.
Find out more »September 2017
Assembly Operation Speak Percussion @ Arts House
Three percussionists dutifully form an assembly line to extract music from everyday objects. Drawing on the visual, sonic and conceptual qualities of the one Yuan note, using paper, packaging, electronic toys and traditional objects, Speak Percussion delivers a loaded sonic odyssey. In this major new collaboration between Eugene Ughetti, performance maker Clare Britton and visual artists Cyrus Tang and Jia Jia Chen, dark video sequences and minimalistic set design conjure surreal reflections on mass-production. Assembly Operation manufactures high quality sound by crunching and grinding low worth goods. Composer/Director: Eugene Ughetti Designer/Dramaturge: Clare Britton Video Artist: Cyrus Tang Sound Designer: Nick Roux Lighting Designer/Production Manager: Richard Dinnen (Megafun) Ceramicist/Visual Artist: Jia Jia Chen Performers: Kaylie Melville, Matthias Schack-Arnott, Eugene Ughetti Producer: Michaela Coventry Image: Damian Stephens @ DDT World Premiere Presented by Arts House 7.30pm, Tue 5 Sep 7.30pm, Wed 6 Sep 7.30pm, Thu 7 Sep 7.30pm, Fri 8 Sep 7.30pm, Sat 9 Sep 45…
Find out more »Charlie Lim and the Mothership (Charlie Lim)
Stretched between acoustic melancholia, neo-soul, post-rock, and electronic-pop – the extremities that mark Charlie’s music – there’s a cinematic gravitas that takes you on a sonic journey set against the rich narratives of life’s tales. Purchase tickets at brisbanefestival.com.au Dates: Sun 17 Sept @ 7PM Cost: Adult - $36 Concession - $30 Group (6+) - $30 each Venue: The Courier-Mail Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent Cultural Forecourt SOUTH BANK QLD 4101
Find out more »Estrella Wing, Showgirl at Melbourne Fringe Festival
Estrella Wing, Showgirl: A zany and poignant musical tale of the saddest showgirl in Chinatown San Francisco’s Forbidden City nightclub. 1942. Estrella Wing is on the brink and she needs time to think. How do you blend in and stand out? How do you tell your best friend you love her? When will you stop feeling so alone? In a dazzling Fringe debut, writer/performer Margot Tanjutco springs into a kaleidoscopic haze of eras with an eclectic mix of jazz, pop, and soul. Doses of magical realism are combined with true stories from this forgotten gem of history as the show follows the young showgirl’s attempts to conquer a city and understand her place in it. Whilst creating the show, Margot found lasting inspiration from Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s ‘Amélie’, Julie Koh’s short stories, David Bowie, Ella Fitzgerald - and her desire to contribute to the tapestry of diverse stories being told on…
Find out more »Queensland Symphony Orchestra Plays The Romantics (Darrell Ang, Conductor)
Singapore’s Darrell Ang is one of the world’s most lively up-and-coming conductors. Now he leads the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in a double bill of great nineteenth century romantic works based on the journeys of two of Byron’s wandering heroes, Harold and Manfred. Purchase tickets at brisbanefestival.com.au Dates: Wed 20 – Sat 23 Sept @ 7PM Cost: A-Reserve Adult $117 Concession^ $96.50 Student^^ $50 Family^^^ $284 B-Reserve Adult $97 Concession^ $85.50 Student^^ $50 Family^^^ $244 Venue: QPAC - Concert Hall Corner Grey and Melbourne Streets Queensland Performing Arts Centre South Bank QLD 4101
Find out more »In Between Two
Celebrated Asian-Australian Hip Hop artists, Joel Ma and James Mangohig share their stories growing up in Howard's Australia: underscored with humour and rap beats that resonate with Asian Australian youth today. Produced by CAAP (Contemporary Asian Australian Performance). On Tour NOW - 15 OCT.
Find out more »Sultan of The Disco (South Korea)
Inspired by soul/funk music from the Golden Age represented by Chic, Jackson 5 and Kool and the Gang, this Kooky five-piece Korean disco band delivers a vintage sound to modern listeners. Cool costumes, cheeky lyrics and unique group dancing will get the crowd grooving along!! Purchase tickets at brisbanefestival.com.au Venue: The Tivoli 52 Costin Street FORTITUDE VALLEY QLD 4006 Date: Sat 20 September @8PM Cost: Adult - $40 Concession - $35 At the door - $45
Find out more »December 2017
KAIJU HIP HOP JAZZ PROJECT
Kojoe X Aaron Choulai explore the boundaries of hip hop and jazz in a new collaboration with an impressive line-up of Melbourne musicians on the cutting edge of the local underground and mainstream music scene. Celebrated jazz pianist and beat maker Aaron Choulai, who grew up in Australia, made Tokyo his home in 2008. It was there that one of his most exciting collaborations came together when he crossed paths with Kojoe. Koichiro “Kojoe” Sakata is a Japan born, Queens NYC bred artist who bears lyrical fluency in both Japanese and English. Performing Hip Hop that authentically reflects his life story, Japanese heritage and Black culture experiences is what drives the artistic expression and cultural connection Kojoe aims to make through his music. Together, these fresh and innovative artists refuse to stop changing the sound of contemporary hip hop by incorporating elements of jazz and experimental beats. Doors Open 02…
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