La Touche Franche
Schedule
Fri, 25 Apr, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Sat, 26 Apr, 2025 at 01:00 am
UTC+01:00Location
New River Studios | London, EN
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This is a unique event organised by As it hears, a London based collective gathering weird music lovers, to honour Agathe Max, French artist and composer. To mark 40 years playing the violin, Agathe presents her new release La Touche Franche.French born, London based Agathe Max, violin and viola player, works on projects which include electroacoustic compositions, soundtrack for documentaries, animated movies, short movies. She also performs live for multidisciplinary arts.
Max is a ferocious and prolific contributor in the London music scene. She plays in Abstract/Concrete, Melos Kalpa, UKAEA, These Towns. She is well known for her participation in record sessions for renowned artists such as Laetitia Sadier, Tomaga, Vanishing Twin, Clémentine March, Yama Warashi.
https://www.agathemaxmusic.com/
https://asithearsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/agathe-max-la-touche-franche
To celebrate this special milestone in her career, Agathe shares the stage with some friends, la creme de la creme of the French experimental music scene:
KOSMOSUNA
https://kosmosuna.bandcamp.com/
LOUPS DE VIRGINIE
https://soundcloud.com/loupsdev
HARPIE
https://soundcloud.com/harpieharpieharpie
Tickets on sale :
£12 https://wegottickets.com/event/652067
£15 At the door
+ Concession
LA TOUCHE FRANCHE
La Touche Franche is Agathe Max’s 10th Opus to be released on the 25th April 2025.
It will mark and celebrate 40 years of playing the violin.
As a child, she fell in love with the soaring sound of the violin and she hasn’t forgotten this. Agathe and her wooden acolyte have been hanging out for a while and she has experimented with it in many different ways: from gigs to festivals, contributions to collaborations, the stage, the videos, the arts, all the arts…Their great epic is all digested to be told better. La Touche Franche is sober, epidermal but with character. It depicts landscapes of an enchanting forest, an underwater ball, the sky and its stars. It carries us from near to distant horizons.
For this album, Max mixed samples from sound libraries on vinyl with her own personal collection of recorded sounds, a palette of percussion, wildlife, outdoor elements, noises from the city. The collage of all these sound textures creates rhythm and loops. It’s got temperament and invites us to stamp our feet and head-bang with Max’s pagan London friends. More than ever, Agathe is true to her DIY ethics and affirms “it’s time to create together with a sense of awareness”. Therefore she invited a few collaborators to add different dynamics and colours to this self-produced anniversary album.
Enough said, listen to it and join the mermaids, siege the dance floor or get on a plane.
La Touche Franche will be available digitally and as a silkscreen print by the artist Amélie Grosselin.
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Where is it happening?
New River Studios, Ground Floor Unit E, 199 Eade Road,London, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
