OOPSA Associação CULTURAL presents:
RADON 10th Anniversary Tour
In the fall of 2009 the Radon Collective celebrates its 10 year anniversary. This international community of artists with members from the US, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Belgium and Portugal has spent the past decade laboring on nearly every aspect of the work behind bringing experimental music to the world. They have offered landmark releases as a label, such as Fabrizio Palumbo’s debut disc as (r) , Smegma’s 30th Anniversary cd and Iggy and the Stooges saxman, Steve Mackay’s first solo outing. Radon’s event organization and tours have brought many of Europe’s finest oddities to the US including Ovo and Jean Lois Costes, mounted the first full scale tour of Z’EV and created stops on Damo Suzuki’s never ending tour. Their studio productions have been documented by labels such as QBICO, Bar La Muerte, Steinklang and Beta-Lactem Ring. During October and November, Radon ambassadors from Portugal’s Soopa and the nomadic tribe Sikhara, set out for a US tour to be joined along the way by co-conspirators from the collective.
SIKHARA
music, video and promotional materials:
www.sikhara.org
www.urckrecords.com
This autumn, Sikhara return to the road in the USA, giving their milestone 500th performance in surrogate hometown, Portland, OR. Their latest tour is to unveil a holy trinity of new releases on CD and DVD. Their newest effort, an EP entitled “IV War Haka” (produced by Jonathan Saldanha) is an epic tale of tribal war, invoking the warrior spirit of the Maori and Benin voodoo magic. Also available will be a live album on Oklahoma’s Anti-Clock, captured during radio broadcasts for America’s finest sister radio stations, KFKC and WFMU. And finally, after over a year in the making, Sikhara unveil their first dvd. A film with music from each of the first three albums and documenting travel across 3 continents. Sikhara have performed their unique take on ritualistic, tribal sound across 26 countries including a variety of bizarre locales. They have carved their place as one of the foremost bands in primitive, post-world music.
HHY & DRUMS OF HABNOM
music and information
www.soopa.org
www.myspace.com/hhyscumclash
www.myspace.com/mostpeoplehavebeentrainedtobebored
www.myspace.com/soopaserver
HHY, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, and D.o.H, Gustavo Costa, are two of the most diverse and prolific members of the Portuguese exploratory music community. As core of the Porto based Soopa collective, they have spent the past years contributing to the country’s rapidly developing scene both with the music they have created and the events they have organized, opening the doors to a previously overlooked portion of Europe. As a duo, they move in unpredictable incarnations invoking elements of Dub, Doom, Voodoo, Free jazz, noise and beyond. Under their own name or with other formations they’ve been sharing projects and collaborations with musicians such: Damo Suzuki, Mark Stewart, Steve Mackay, Raz Mesinai, Adrian Sherwood, Vincent Patternostro, Dan Kaufman and countless other artists from a wide lexicon of sonic context (Unlooped HipHop, Spectral Dub, Brass Band, Xamanic Improv, Chaos Rock…)
Steve Mackay (Iggy and The Stogges)
Dan Kaufman (Barbez/Tzadik)
Raz Mesinai (Badawi/Tzadik)
Vinnie Paternostro (Total System Failure/Arthur Doyle)
“USS V2 : MACHINE GUN”
cd on Blossoming Noise
Radon and Soopa have teamed together to create “USS” an ongoing collaborative project. The second volume in this series, “Machine Gun” was created out of sessions from Seizure’s Palace, inside of the famed BC Studio in Brooklyn. The disc features 17 musicians from across the US and Western Europe and is being released by the Blossoming Noise label.