mosz_label_night

Lokai | Martin Siewert & Jade | Fuckhead

mosz is a new label founded 2003 by Stefan Nemeth, member of Radian and Video artist Michaela Schwentner [jade*]. mosz provides a platform supporting the diversity of individual ideas and non-conform musical strategies. Und MICA über Mosz: "Das Label Mosz ... ist Garant für innovative und experimentelle Sounds."
So finden sich bei Mosz Gustavs Debut-Album "Rettet die Wale" ebenso wie releases von Peter Rehberg, metalycée, September Collective oder Forest Jackson. Live zu hören bei der langen Mosz-Label-Night im Forum Stadtpark: Lokai, Martin Siewert & Jade und Fuckhead.

Lokai
Florian Kmet	guitar
Stefan Németh	EMS synthi, sampler
"In lokai's music tunes and tones merge and diverge. Guitar and software combine in compositions that stray to and fro across the borders between analogue and digital, structure and instability, music and sound. Parts of songs - loops, melodies, chords - float like moody jellyfish in electronic space. musical threads fly apart and reconvene in unresolved clusters. There's always another twist of the kaleidoscope to come. With ears sharpened in Vienna, Stefan Németh and Florian Kmet carry their musical baggage lightly, edging their work into thickly textured explorations of states of uncertainty. The old advice still holds good: play loud." [Will Montgomery]And this is what the artists say: "A basic impulse to form lokai was to combine and expand the sound spectrum of an electric guitar with the possibilities of electronic instruments on a structural and tonal level … tracks should oscillate between song formats and random-like situations. Within this scenario the dynamic range goes from extremely dense layers to fragile and ramified constructions of fragmented melodies and sounds. The components are rendered to instrumental music, thoroughly containing a certain impressionistic aspect." Lokai was founded in 2003 in Vienna.
Martin Siewert & Jade
Martin Siewert	guitars, lap- & pedal steel, electronics
Jade alias Michaela Schwentner	live-video
Jade alias Michaela Schwentner born 1970; media artist, teaching at kunstuniversität linz, promoter / curator of rhiz vienna, co-director of Mosz. Audiovisual projects: pita & Jade, Jade solo Live performances amongst others: earational’s - hertogenbosch/nl 2004, elektronik festival rennes 2005, unsound festival krakow 2005, sonorities belfast 2005, moving patterns nyc 2006, sonar barcelona 2006, wiener festwochen vienna 2006, netmage08 festival bologna, italy 2008. Martin Siewert born in Saarbrücken in 1972; living & working in Vienna; improv and composing activity in both acoustic and/or electronic contexts; work for theatre, film and dance as well as various remix and soundinstallation commissions Projects/bands include amongst others: Trapist, The Year of, Efzeg, My Kingdom for Lullaby, Komfort 2000, sssd has worked with: Otomo Yoshihide, Taku Sugimoto, Oren Ambarchi, Dieb13, Wayne Horvitz, Tony Buck, Toshimaru Nakamura, Wolfgang Mitterer, Elliott Sharp, Sun, Manuel Mota, Franz Koglmann, Thomas Lehn, Karlheinz Essl, Burkhard Stangl, Briggan Krauss, Ken Vandermark , Fuckhead, Klangforum Wien, Werner Dafeldecker, Christian Fennesz, Billy Roisz, Roger Turner, Steve Noble, Marceo Mattos, Franz Hautzinger, Christof Kurzmann, Sainkho Namtchylak, Max Nagl, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Boris Hauf, John Norman, Kevin Drumm, Didi Bruckmayr, Kent Kessler, Gene Coleman, Stefan Németh, Bernhard Fleischmann, Patrick Pulsinger, Philip Jeck, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Giuseppe Ielasi, Bernhard Lang, Alexander Hacke, Zeitblom, Steve Heather, Yannis Kyriakides …
Fuckhead
Didi Bruckmayr	vocals
Siegmar Aigner	vocals
Michael Strohmann	bass
Dieter Kern	drums
Alexander Joechtl	mix
Peter Pittermann/Thomas Grusch	lights
" … not for sissies!" (Arnold Schwarzenegger) Rude performance art, sonic violence, nudities, dirt, digital madness and fun! " … it`s the combination of psychotic ecstasy, aggressive rupturedness and intelligent concept-art that makes fuckhead unique." (Chris Duller, Falter) fuckhead are really hardcore: a band can hardly play rougher, more precise, more to the core. despite all the primitiveness which they express: their pieces are adventurously complex, the ecstasy which they invoke is always searching for new paths -- there`s nothing at all numb or dumb. (thomas kramar, die presse, 1995) Vienna`s Fuckhead were arresting for entirely different reasons. In the more "traditional" setting of the Roma Room, they gave What is music a kick in the pants, with an absurd set that looked like Laibach performing in an S&M bar after taking a course in actionism….Fuckhead were the visual spectacle What is music needed. (wire sept. 2002, p.86)