Rising Drone Japan Tour

Rising Drone is a collaboration tour between 4 solos experimental artists from different countries.

B°TONG
HOSTILE ELECTRONICS, NOISY TECTONICS, DRONES & TONES

Chris Sigdell is an experimental electronic musician from Sweden. He developed a soft spot for early industrial textures and pioneering ambient soundscapes while cutting his teeth in cult industrial band NID (1995-2005). He builds an interesting body of work that moves in various directions at the same time. From dealings with ambient and isolationism on one hand and experimental music, ranging from the soft microsound end to the more engaging noise end, in a clever combination of ideas...

Since going solo in 2005 he has performed over 300 concerts in the whole of Europe, and completed three Norht Amercian tours. He has appeared at various renown festivals such as Audio Art (PL), Les Digitales (CH), Norberg Festivalen (S), Temple Of Silence (PL), PNEM (NL), Støy På Landet (N), Monsters Of Rot (IRL), Destroy All Artifacts (UK), Unser Industrie (DE), Ausklang (DE), Shift (CH), Lab30 (DE), Kildemose Festivalen (DK), Zeit Für Lärm (DE), Sinus Series (CH).

b°tong has released +10 albums on labels like Drone Records, Zoharum, Greytone,Attenuation Circuit, Noecho Records and Gears Of Sand. New label Hots will release the live album “Each And Every Word Must Die” on vinyl, while Reverse Alignment is set to release two CD’s “The Long Journey and “Monastic“ this year. 2017 also sees him composing music for circus artist Finn Jagd Andersen’s piece “Vertikal“.

Live, b°tong is using found electronic objects and effect pedals to re-create his sonic experiments. b°tong is afloat in the mind-drone droned mind.

https://www.facebook.com/btongmusic
http://www.btongmusic.com
https://btong.bandcamp.com

tAk

Shindo Takuma Leo started playing music in punk bands at the end of the 90s. In 2009 he started his solo project tAk in order to focus on instrumental music inspired by both his Japanese and Western origins. He creates atmospheric atmospheres with musical layers and aerial ascents using electric guitar and various effects.

Since 2011 he collaborates with the comic book artist Adrien Demont in simultaneous graphic and musical performances. He toured Japan in 2010 and 2016.

https://www.facebook.com/taaaque
https://taaaque.bandcamp.com
https://www.taaaak.com


TAMAGAWA (from Saint Etienne, France) is a solo project influenced by krautrock, hyptonik blues and psychedelic music.
He uses guitar and delay pedal.
A lot of tours in europa, usa, canada...300 gigs this day.
Fews lps, cds and tapes on European, Brazilians labels.
Tamagawa has released a split LP with Richard Pinhas (Heldon) and Oren Ambarchi in 2015

(no echo, mayonnaise records, boom boom rikordz, basses fréquences...)

https://tamagawa.bandcamp.com

RE-DRUM

Re-Drum is a project of Pavel Aleshin, experimental musician from Russia. He uses field recordings and found sounds, his own voice, acoustic instruments and non musical objects to create a living environment, oscilating from warm calmness to ritualistic depths.
During past years Re-Drum played numerous amount of gigs all over Europe.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Re-Drum/175392915846475
https://emerge.bandcamp.com/album/eclipse
https://re-dr-um.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/re-drum-russia