Warning: This show features stroboscopic effects, and as such is not recommended for pregnant women, those who suffer from epilepsy, or anyone with a pace maker.
The overwhelmingly powerful experimental pop and soul pioneers Jenny Hval and Yves Tumor will perform at the 12th edition of Electrify. Both have impressive and deeply personal voices, articulating their desires and fears in extremely delicate and unique ways.
The Norwegian Jenny Hval’s visceral multidisciplinary works of recent years have seen her become one of a group of internationally-celebrated experimental pop musicians. Her polyphonic artistry is seamlessly interwoven between musical, literary, visual and performative modes of expression. Accessible as they might often be, her works are obscurely complex and often described as transgressive. Released in September 2016, Hval’s sixth full length album ‘Blood Bitch’, presented as a vampire blood concept album, explores themes including menstruation, self-reflection and death through myths and confessions.
Sean L. Bowie, the artist behind Yves Tumor and countless other monikers, is part of a young and influential generation of American artists. The world first opened for Yves Tumor’s expressive, experimental soul and moody ambient atmospheres at the age of twenty when Bowie met Mykki Blanco, and through him all of his musical associates. By then, Bowie was already playing bass, guitar, drums and keyboards, and his newfound friends also quickly recognised his talents as a producer and songwriter. For years, he toured with Mykki Blanco, who later released some of Yves Tumor’s earliest songs, and also recorded with Chino Amobi and James Ferraro among others. ‘Serpent Music’, released in September 2016 on Bill Kouligas’s defining PAN label is the latest Yves Tumor solo effort. The songs come from an emotional, very vulnerable place, intertwining themes of paranoia, social anxiety, and yearning for loved ones.
Alley Catss is the project of Máté Janky, which reflects on a variety of elements obtained from the artist's self-induced impressions, sometimes over-interpreted with a certain sense of quaint eclecticism. Sound collages and dance music abstractions also find place under this moniker of his, lately combining fragments of footwork with crowded, sometimes uncanny found sounds. Influenced by overromanticized sceneries and rootless nostalgia, his latest LP "ℶ" on Belgian label Midlife Music is a playful but dark toned dosage of sonic mind-meltery.
The overwhelmingly powerful experimental pop and soul pioneers Jenny Hval and Yves Tumor will perform at the 12th edition of Electrify. Both have impressive and deeply personal voices, articulating their desires and fears in extremely delicate and unique ways.
The Norwegian Jenny Hval’s visceral multidisciplinary works of recent years have seen her become one of a group of internationally-celebrated experimental pop musicians. Her polyphonic artistry is seamlessly interwoven between musical, literary, visual and performative modes of expression. Accessible as they might often be, her works are obscurely complex and often described as transgressive. Released in September 2016, Hval’s sixth full length album ‘Blood Bitch’, presented as a vampire blood concept album, explores themes including menstruation, self-reflection and death through myths and confessions.
Sean L. Bowie, the artist behind Yves Tumor and countless other monikers, is part of a young and influential generation of American artists. The world first opened for Yves Tumor’s expressive, experimental soul and moody ambient atmospheres at the age of twenty when Bowie met Mykki Blanco, and through him all of his musical associates. By then, Bowie was already playing bass, guitar, drums and keyboards, and his newfound friends also quickly recognised his talents as a producer and songwriter. For years, he toured with Mykki Blanco, who later released some of Yves Tumor’s earliest songs, and also recorded with Chino Amobi and James Ferraro among others. ‘Serpent Music’, released in September 2016 on Bill Kouligas’s defining PAN label is the latest Yves Tumor solo effort. The songs come from an emotional, very vulnerable place, intertwining themes of paranoia, social anxiety, and yearning for loved ones.
Alley Catss is the project of Máté Janky, which reflects on a variety of elements obtained from the artist's self-induced impressions, sometimes over-interpreted with a certain sense of quaint eclecticism. Sound collages and dance music abstractions also find place under this moniker of his, lately combining fragments of footwork with crowded, sometimes uncanny found sounds. Influenced by overromanticized sceneries and rootless nostalgia, his latest LP "ℶ" on Belgian label Midlife Music is a playful but dark toned dosage of sonic mind-meltery.
