STELLAGE presents: Nick Klein / Joachim Nordwall / ILIOS
In the last few months, the record store STELLAGE (49 Kypselis Street) has organized a series of concerts at KET with iconic artists from the international and Greek experimental and electronic scene (Callahan & Witscher, Kostis Drygiannakis, Yorgas Helmet, Katya Shirshkova, David Maranha, Giuseppe Ielasi), expanding its curatorial and selective function in the field of live performances and opening valuable windows to the Athenian audience. The journey continues on Saturday 18 May with three separate entries from Sweden, America and Greece.
Nick Klein is an artist working in sound and art and sometimes (begrudgingly) sound art with a lean towards the social potential in those modalities as they interact. Klein has recorded a large amount of music for tape, CD, digital file, and vinyl editions for music labels around the world, as well as running his own amorphous label project PL (primitive languages, Psychic Liberation, etc). Concurrently, to the best of his ability, he has shown work in visual art contexts. Klein is uninterested in the prohibitive ideological tropes and circumstances that both contexts offer, and focuses the intent of his work on trying to see what productive energy comes from the friction between the two. Klein likes loud volume, cooking, offline community building, records, bars, synthesizers, and comedy. Klein is currently located in Berlin. Klein has operated a monthly radio show on Montez Press Radio since its inception and is spending 2023-2024 developing a monthly invitational program at the Volksbühne Roter Salon. Klein has performed and shown works in contexts and festivals like The Amant Foundation (USA), SARA’S (USA), MOMA PS1 (USA), De La Cruz Collection (USA), Volksbühne (DE), Empty Gallery (HK), Berghain (DE), Tresor (DE), Seendosi (SK), Cafe Sismo (CDMX), Cafe Oto (UK), Folkteatern (SE), Burning Fleshtival (USA), Herrensauna (DE), and Summer Scum (USA).
www.soundcloud.com/psychicliberation
Joachim Nordwall is based on Brännö island on the west coast of Sweden. He has a long background in the Swedish experimental music scene, starting out with recordings with the psych-drone duo Alvars Orkester as a teenager in 1988. His early interest in psychic tension created by sound is now as ever present in his music. His ”Soul Music” album for Entr’acte shows his deep interest in circular rhythms, analogue synth loops and mind expanding experiments. Nordwall has also released his music on labels like Ash International and Hospital Productions. From 1999-2005 he was sweating with the avant punk rock trio Kid Commando and when that stopped he created the ritual drone rock group The Skull Defekts. Nowadays he is active in the tape loop trio Organ of Corti with releases for iDEAL, Dead Mind and New Forces. Nordwall also runs iDEAL Recordings since 1998 and has ongoing or ended collaborations with artists like Mika Vainio, Mats Gustafsson, Leif Elggren, CM von Hausswolff, Kevin Drumm, Mark Wastell, Michael Morley, John Duncan and Christine Abdelnour, and he is a busy organizer of festivals and concert nights in Sweden and abroad.
www.idealrecordings.bandcamp.com
ILIOS has been active since the early 90’s in sound art and image, ILIOS has been exploring the extremes of sound and image derived phenomena. Through constant change in his sound palette touching and surpassing the limits of the sound spectrum, flirting with the opposites from ultra-orthodox silence to ultra-catholic noise ILIOS advocates for an anti-career. Some of ILIOS ‘recorded output has been regarded by the media as: “The sound of death” or “The most enervating record imaginable”. By 2024 ILIOS has presented his work live more than 400 times in various venues and festivals in 40 countries in Asia, Europe, Oceania, South and North America, pushing the space and body resistances to a hard test pursuing a state of alert for the human senses. Releases on: Antifrost, PAN, Entr’Acte and many other labels. Curatorial works in Spain , Greece and South America. Music for multiple film, dance and theatre works. Half of MMMD. Runs Antifrost label since 1997.
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