SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2024 - MAYHEM - KØBENHAVN
JUNKO (Japan) - voice
Junko Hiroshige (born 1961) is a core-member of the legendary group HIJOKAIDAN, one of the very first noise music groups, formed in 1979. She is known for her powerful, relentless and confrontational voice. The uniqueness of her voice has gained increasing Western attention, and Junko has been involved in a number of collaborations with musicians from outside the Japanese noise scene. "Junko sidesteps much musical debate. She has a calm authority onstage that can make you wonder why the other musicians are trying so hard. She wails, she keens, she jabbers in tongues, she works away at a break in the high voice where there's a vein of sonic impurity. She's a sleepless baby, she's the freak infant from Lynch's Eraserhead, she channels the howling of ancient plumbing. Junko narrows things down. There's a debate about sonic freedom in noise and improv, but Junko seems to laugh at such angst. She is now in her fifth decade of screaming." (Clive Bell / The Wire)
DUSTBREEDERS (France) - guitars & electronics
Since 1988 the Dustbreeders (Michel Henritzi & Yves Botz) extract music from the chaos of guitars and/or mange-disques, redefining the notion of esthetism and creation, generating an impressive wall of sound, larsens, noise, in a rock attitude.
TOMMI KERÄNEN (Finland) - electronics
Tommi Keränen (born 1974) is a Finnish noise/experimental electronics producer, performer, sound engineer and software designer, based in Helsinki and active since the late nineties. Working both with hardware tools (modular synthesizers, DIY-electronics, etc) and custom-built software, Tommi is interested in primitive and junk instruments, non-standard digital synthesis, and chaotic feedback systems - the resulting music is rugged slabs of vivid swirling noise. His discography consists of over two dozen entries ranging from cryptic tapes to critically acclaimed releases like the Bats in the Attic CD (among The Wire's Rewind picks in 2010). He has collaborated many artists including Florian Hecker, The Incapacitants, Lasse Marhaug and Phill Niblock.
