Sónar returns to the United States, this time to present a three-day festival, created especially for the occasion.
The objective is to take the philosophy of the Barcelona festival to the North American city, with all the features that have made Sónar an international touchstone: with an ambitious and high quality line-up featuring plenty of electronic experimentation and its derivations and unusual venues of the highest calibre, in this case the Jay Pritzker Pavilion – designed by Frank Ghery – in the popular Millennium Park (the 9th of September) and the famous Chicago Cultural Center (the 10th and 11th of September).
Some of the artists confirmed to date are The Slew (the scratch-rock project led by the wizard on the decks Kid Koala), Oval (a key project in 1990s electronica, featuring Germany’s Markus Popp, back with a new album), the Australian – resident in Iceland – Ben Frost (one of the most acclaimed sonic experimentalists working today), Nosaj Thing (the Los Angeles beatmaker featuring a show with serious visual impact), the Dutchman Martyn (a key name at the techno-dubstep crossroads), Nicolas Bernier + Martin Messier: La Chambre des Machines (a Canadian duo that base their show on rudimentary noise machines from the early twentieth century) or Lesley Flanigan (a New York artist who constructs her music with hand-made instruments and the sounds created by her own voice) among others.
Catalan performers are headed by two artists from the renowned Barcelona label spa.RK: Bradien (an experimental and tropical pop trio) and bRUNA (the creator of electronica with a heavy emotional charge). Two new projects seeking new musical languages will also be present, in the shape of Huan (folk, noise and experimentation) and Faraón (psychedelia, Krautrock and jazz).
As well as all that, Sónar Chicago expands its line-up with its collaboration with Adventures In Modern Music (AIMM), the five-day festival organised by the renowned British magazine The Wire and the promoters at the Empty Bottle, one of the city’s most important venues. In its eighth outing this year, it presents shows byThe Rhys Chatham Trio, Sleep and Efterklang, among others.
Meanwhile, SonarCinema presents five films: “Synth Britannia” (the BBC documentary telling the story of the birth of synth pop in Great Britain), “Amplified Gesture” (a film produced by David Sylvian on the art of improvisation), “Sensuous Cornelius” (the excellent filming of the live show by the Japanese musician), “Finisterrae” (the full-length film providing the image for Sónar 2010) and “Sónar Around The World” (which documents an entire year of Sónar, produced and made by Televisió de Catalunya).
Sónar Chicago is the result of an initiative by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs -the public office planning and promoting musical, performance, and visual arts events in Chicago-, the Institut Ramon Llull, -the consortium made up of the Government of Catalonia and the Government of the Balearic Islands-, Advanced Music -the creators of Sónar festival – and AC Entertainment -the promoter of the Bonnaroo festival-.
Details of the complete line-up and the performance times and days of each of the artistic projects in Sónar Chicago will be announced soon.
All the shows and activities at the festival are free of charge and open to all, except for the AIMM events which are subject to a separate payment.
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Si annuncia già come uno dei tour più attesi del 2010 quello dei Gotan Project. Il trio parigino che fonde tango ed elettronica sarà in Italia il prossimo maggio per tre date assolutamente imperdibili a Roma, Firenze e Milano.
Davvero unici e incredibilmente popolari, con i tre precedenti album hanno venduto milioni di copie in tutto il mondo (solo in Italia oltre 250mila copie), i Gotan Project hanno esordito nel 2001 con la Revencha Del Tango, realizzando quello che è a tutti gli effetti un vero capolavoro e punto fermo della storia del chill-out, ancora capace di essere protagonista nelle playlist dei dj di tutto il mondo a distanza di quasi una decade dall’uscita. Il successo viene poi bissato ed amplificato nel 2006 da Lunatico, il secondo disco di inediti del gruppo formato da Philippe Cohen Solal, Eduardo Makaroff e Christoph H. Muller, che li conferma tra i capofila di una scena dance definibile certamente divertente ma anche acculturata oltre che originale.
L’intensa attività live dei Gotan Project con i suoi concerti coinvolgenti e raffinatissimi (sul palco oltre al trio titolare del progetto c’è una formazione di ben 10 elementi) porta i parigini alla scelta di realizzare Gotan Project Live, un disco che regala ai tantissimi fans del gruppo la magia dell’atmosfera che si crea durante le esibizioni dal vivo.
Nelle tre date di maggio i Gotan Project presenteranno il loro nuovo album, che uscirà nella primavera 2010 i cui dettagli saranno resi noti a breve.
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