MoAW x DIVAGATION - PERCUSSIONITIS: Sébastien Forrester+m-0-m+Cesar Palace

Music on A Whim is proud to join hands with Divagation to present you an evening of ethereal and hard hitting percussion and an act that in inspired by light. We believe that after watching the performances of these talented artists you may suffer from the sweet affliction of ‘Percussionitis’

Address – WineBunker, Rue Picard 3, 1000, Brussels

Doors – 6 30 pm

Tickets – 10 euros advance; Choose your price from 12 euros on the door (cash only)

SÉBASTIEN FORRESTER (FR) – Percussion / Electronic / Ethereal

Drummer, composer and producer, Sébastien Forrester previously operated under the alias Holy Strays; active solo since the age of 19, the Franco-British musician distills music that is both powerful and intimate, haunted by original percussion. A true free electron of the French electronic scene, he has to his credit several maxis and EPs on labels such as Not Not Fun Records, standard-bearer of the Californian experimental scene, and hundreds of concerts throughout Europe.

Author of notable remixes for SUUNS or Tristesse Contemporaine, close collaborator of Lafawndah, Brodinski, and the Toulouse choreographer Pierre Rigal, he develops a personal approach to trance, between frenetic rhythmic flights and nebulous soundscapes.

His EP ‘Turmoil’, released in April 2022 on the Promesses label, mixes mutant club music and abrasive percussion. And his latest project, 'Orpheus' Pipes', released on the Italian label SUPERPANG on November 11, brings together Occitan cabrettes and Highland bagpipes based on sound collages and manipulations of 78rpm records from the 10s to the 30s. Partly initiated during the Berliner Festspiele at ICC Berlin in October 2021, these pieces are the fruit of a desire to reimagine musical practice and the relationship to the rite of one's ancestors, from the angle of reverie.

“Initially, faraway drones and synths shimmer, until mid-way through there’s a flurry of tambourine, moulded and scrunched metallic percussion and pounding tambour, then a momentary lull before the climb to a final, magnificently swimmy peak, by which point you won’t be dancing but you might perhaps be levitating.”, The Quietus, October 2023

https://sebastienforrester.bandcamp.com/album/bou-rgxo

https://sebastienforrester.bandcamp.com/album/orpheus-pipes-object-oriented-studies

m-0-m (FR) – Lights / electronic / Immersive

Thomas Laigle aka m-O-m is born from a fascination: amplifying light in order to listen to it. When brightness becomes sound, the vibratory power of lamps calls upon an electric lyricism with a background of magnetic squeaks. Noisy tones traced on a primitive technoid rythm, coloured ambient…

A live-analog-audio-processing for a richer lighting spectrum. An immersive concert-installation in dialog with the space it occupies.

https://thomaslaigle.fr/en/m-o-m-2/

CESAR PALACE (FR) – Percussion / Minimalist / Cosmic drone

César Palace is the solo project of French drummer Vincent Redel (ex Electric Electric's member), currently also involved in the pharaonic band "La Colonie de Vacances".

César Palace blends minimalist music, cosmic drone, and pure rhythms, drawing influences from contemporary music to 90s house/techno and the experimental scene. The result is a tachycardic, percussive, disciplined performance where Vincent embodies a trance-inducing machine, inviting people to dance with nothing but a drum kit and effects pedals.

https://cesarpalace.bandcamp.com/

https://www.octobertone.com/en/band/cesar-palace-electric-electric-side-projet

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