In August 2013, San Francisco guitar-drone duo, Barn Owl kick off their first ever tour of Australia – and the support acts to join them in each city have now been revealed.
In Sydney, witness the haunted psychedelic and ethereal soundscapes of six-piece, Dead China Doll who’ll dish up both beauty and chaos on the night, alongside Broadcasting Transmitter – an improvisational group with members from The Laurels. Their music warps recklessly between hypnotic synthesized drones and apocalyptic feedback-induced freak-outs – all in an attempt to reach altered states of consciousness. Also catch the presenter of FBi Radio’s Ears Have Ears program, Brooke Olsen, DJing on the night.
In Perth, the full line-up of Tura New Music’s biennial Totally Huge New Music Festival opening party is yet to be revealed, but confirmed along with Barn Owl is Japan’s Haco who’s music is based on the principles of post-punk, electroacoustics, avant-garde, improvisation, post-rock, environmental sound, and technology, and accompanied with visuals by Mariko Tajiri. Plus Melbourne arts group, Speak Percussion and producer Terminal Sound System will present City Jungle – exploring 90’s drum’n’bass, jungle and glitch in collaboration with fragmented beats, distorted classical timbres and ambient resonances.
Support acts for the Barn Owl show in Melbourne include five-piece Zond, who’ll obliterate you with noise, elements of black metal, shoe gaze, doom and epic rock; and Miles Brown formerly of Heirs presents his solo work, Miles Brown (Night Terrors), which explores the Theremin and analogue synth in a more electronic setting from morbid electro, to cold minimal synth and hyperactive space disco. Kane Ikin will also unleash his mechanical, yet natural solo beats, which speak on a near-primal level.
DATES AND TICKET INFO:
Wednesday August 7 – Goodgod Small Club, Sydney with Barn Owl, Dead China Doll, Broadcasting Transmitter and DJ Brooke Olsen.
Tickets from lifeisnoise.com and Oztix
Friday August 9 – Tura New Music presents: Totally Huge New Music Festival 2013 – The Opening Party, The Bakery, Perth with Barn Owl, Haco and Speak Percussion
Tickets from lifeisnoise.com, Heatseeker, Ticketek and Now Baking.
Saturday August 10 – Northcote Social Club, Melbourne with Barn Owl, Zond, Miles Brown (Night Terrors) and Kane Ikin.
Tickets from lifeisnoise.com and northcotesocialclub.com / ph: 1300 724 867
SUPPORT ACT LINKS:
SYDNEY
Dead China Doll
Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dead-China-Doll/42869543270
Youtube – http://youtu.be/4vKJjzNGpzc
Website – http://facefuckersuniteforaids.blogspot.com.au/
Broadcasting Transmitter
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/cosmicevil
Vimeo – http://vimeo.com/44086353
Website – http://skydreams.com.au/music/broadcasting-transmitter/
PERTH
Tura New Music: http://www.tura.com.au/
Haco – forever and ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sw2vAZ3YuQ4#at=10
Speak Percussion: http://speakpercussion.com/
MELBOURE
Zond
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/pages/ZOND/164584935699
YouTube – http://youtu.be/5hXbkIjRJd8
Website – http://www.kemado.com/?artist=zond
Miles Brown (Night Terrors)
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/M1le5Br0wn
YouTube – http://youtu.be/Ikz3fD5cDMc
Kane Ikin
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/kaneikin.music
YouTube – http://youtu.be/tUNQENXDAWk
Website – http://kaneikin.com/
BARN OWL LINKS:
Web site: www.electrictotem.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Barn-Owl/238373636592
Label: www.thrilljockey.com/thrill/Barn-Owl/#.UcFosOv_79A
Barn Owl – Light from the Mesa: http://vimeo.com/13590725
Barn Owl live @ Supersonic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUHQgCnAfLg
Barn Owl – Darkest Night Since 1683: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWOSSrWOPUg
FADER interview: www.thefader.com/2013/04/16/interview-barn-owl
Barn Owl – Light from the Mesa from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.