DEFLAG HAEMORRHAGE/HAIEN KONTRA
First North American tour coinciding with their new release:
“Humiliated” CD Tochnit Aleph (Berlin)
And a reissue of their first work
“Luxury” CD Tochnit Aleph (Berlin)
“Defusing preconceptions of what a live event should be and degrading its components - the sound, the performance, the audience - without imposing aesthetic or moral limits: this is the reason for being of Deflag Haemorrhage/Haien Kontra, the project born in 2001 from the minds of two of the most
unpredictable and ‘conceptual’ contemporary sonic activists: Mattin and Goldie. Ferocity and immobility, instruments abused and unused, musicians zombified in their ’stage persona’ and in general the sense of psychosis, of necessary superfluousness that gushes from every gesture, from each decision taken by this anglo-basco duo make their live event an experience that is all but impossible to relate to, at least until they’ve stripped you of the costuming of dominant culture.
Goldie is one of the most original noise musician/performers on the European scene. His double album “ABJECTOR”[sic] is a violent and considered examination of the fragmentation of language, the de-composition of instrumental research and the painful suffering that accompanies it. Far from any current or cultural influence, Goldie’s work places itself in a unique conceptual universe, and its cruel voice warbles a mix of agony and ecstasy. Netmage Festival, Italy 2009″
“The most abject music ever made against the reproduction of stereotypes. When noise becomes impotence, when impotence becomes a weapon. Noise and improvisation never done before, including elements of performance and conceptual art. Overdose of meaning, sucked into vacuum of dissolution. You never know where your are.
DEFLAG HAEMORRHAGE/HAIEN KONTRA formed in 2001 in Hackney, East London. Noumenal power improv where anything can happen. The improvisation is no longer happening just with musicians and their instruments but on the head of the spectator. Frustration as psychological danger. We all are spectators: appearance of dissolution mirroring the averageness of our lives. Something must be done.” Mattin 2009
DEFLAG HAEMORRHAGE/HAIEN KONTRA collaborated with some of the most radical and legendary musicians in the avant-garde such as Eddie Prevost (AMM) and Philip Best (Consumer Electronics, ex-Whitehouse).
DEFLAG HAEMORRHAGE/HAIEN KONTRA performed in European festivals such as Netmage (Bologna), Abject Music (Berlin), MEM (Bilbao) and TheErrorIsMedia (London). They recently depleted a residency at Worm (Rotterdam).
Mattin is performing at No Fun Fest this year and he just finished the Whitney Independent Study Program. Among his projects include: Sakada (with Eddie Prevost) and the avant-punk group Billy Bao. Mattin has collaborated with musicians such as Junko, Radu Malfatti, Matthew Bower & Drunkdriver. He has toured Europe, Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand and North America. He has over 50 releases in different labels around the world and with Anthony Iles he has edited the forthcoming book Noise & Capitalism.