Saturday 29th July | 7pm | £10 / £7 / Pay what you can
“Fiction, memories and emotions melt into a hermetic and trivial, murderous and loving sonic fabric” The Wire Magazine
Come and see boundary pushing Spanish musician and conceptual artist Nad Spiro perform live fresh from her residency and radio broadcast series here at The Rose Hill. She will play alongside her new collaborator Atsuko Kamura ( Japanese feminist punk pioneer and experimental musician) Spiro will also be screening her new audiovisual music series, a recent collaboration with visual artist Aurora Gasull followed by a Nad Spiro & friends DJ set. Its gonna be EPIC so come on down! We maaaay be serving tapas at the bar TBC!!
Spanish experimentalist Rosa Arruti, an essential figure in Barcelona’s cutting edge music scene, has worked for many years under the alias NAD SPIRO, her solo venture where she explores unfrequented audio zones and creates sound fictions.
She has been described as a psychedelic, warped, reverb drenched Ennio Morricone, using electric guitar, voice, effects and conceptual worlds to create her unique music live.
She is refreshingly less concerned by visual documentation and representation of her music and very concerned with what happens sonically in the moment and how to transmit that, with a healthy obsession for experimental radio broadcasting.
Besides her albums on the prestigious Spanish label Geometrik Records, her releases can be found on imprints like Farpoint Recordings, Silent Records, Sloow Tapes and international compilations. Arruti’s extensive experience includes collaborations with artists like My Cat is An Alien, Kim Cascone, The Asterism and many more, playing at Festivals and art galleries across the globe.
Atsuko Kamura is one of Tokyo's most emotive and inventive singers, part of Japan’s 80s women’s liberation movement, Atsuko founded the first Japanese feminist rock band, Mizutama Shobodan, also known as Polkadot Fire Brigade. As agitprop feminist pioneers, Mizutama Shobodan toured Japan extensively and released two albums, the second of which, Manten ni Akai Hanabira (Red Petals in the Sky) was produced by Fred Frith. She has collaborated with New York improvisers, Tom Cora and John Zorn and toured the world extensively as part of Japanese pop group Frank Chickens amongst many other bands and improvising groups and duos. Her most recent project is Cafe oto fave Kamura Obscura - described as “ surreal Japanese chanson and the occasional roaring punk wailing”
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