Zoviet France and Cantenac Dagar - June 30th

No physical ticket - its just your name on the door

The Lubber Fiend is an 18+ venue

Local legends Zoviet France join us alongside French band Cantenac Dagar

Emerging from England’s rich industrial underbelly of 1980, :zoviet*france: have made a career out of their unassumingly profound sonic strokes, bending sound barriers before most of us even knew what sampling and improvisation were. Words like ‘ambient’, ‘found sound’ and ‘dub’ seem too emphatic for the serene way in which the duo’s emanations materialise in the air around you.

For over 40 years the Newcastle, UK based music group :zoviet*france: has tested and explored the edges of known music both in recording and performance. Their approach to composition defies adequate description: its
form is instrumental non-song based and derived from an eclectic mix of electronic and acoustic instruments, infused with field recordings. Though wilfully obscure and underground their music has an international audience. They have released over
20 albums and have featured in the catalogues of Mute Records (UK), Staalplaat (the Netherlands), Soleilmoon Recordings (USA), alt.vinyl (UK), and their own Charrm label. Over recent years they have worked extensively with contemporary dance companies and have been commissioned to compose soundtracks for new works by
Karas (Japan), Zero Visibility Corp (Norway), Nye Carte Blanche Danseteater (Norway), balletLORENT (UK), and for award winning productions by Random Dance Company (UK).

:zoviet*france: produce a weekly net radio programme and podcast, A Duck in a Tree, which is transmitted by Resonance FM in London, Colaboradio in Berlin and CJMP in British Columbia, and which they describe as a "continuous mix of some of the best genre-refusing, zero BPM and maximinalist recordings that have grabbed
their attention.”

:zoviet*france: can be found online at

https://soundcloud.com/zoviet-france
https://www.facebook.com/zovietfrance
https://twitter.com/zoviet_france

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Cantenac Dagar contains the past, present and future.

J.H. Marwany

The duo relies on a very personal base (banjo, human beatbox, bells and tape player) to create rough music, something folk/industrial imbued with a huge punk energy. Music with no beginning, with no end ; the sound variations, the screeching textures, the screaming and distant voices, light a fire throughout the concert, it is at night that it experiences its triumph.