03.07.2010 - Simone Salvatori (SPIRITUAL FRONT solo) / COLLAPSAR

THE LODGE presents:

Simone Salvatori (SPIRITUAL FRONT solo) (it) + COLLAPSAR (fr)
03/07/2010 @ Bazillus Club, Zurich

Please note that space is limited! You can make a reservation till Saturday 3.7.2010 16:00 to klangkurier [a] gmail . com


 
SIMONE SALVATORI - Armageddon Gigolo - Italy's Nick Cave and Johnny Cash - nihilistic suicide pop folk - SPIRITUAL FRONT singer.

After successfully spending 4 years both on the road and in the studio, Spiritual Front are back, stronger than ever, with their new album 'Ro**en Roma Casino'.

Fronted by the charismatic Simone H. Salvatori, the band have been working in Rome with many different musicians (including the string quartet from the Ennio Morricone Orchestra, with whom they have already worked on the previous studio album 'Armageddon Gigolo'.) With 'Ro**en Roma Casino', Spiritual Front have created the new suicide pop manifesto, the perfect sensual soundtrack of your lives. Without any doubt the most perfect mixture of passionate refined pop, elegant southern vibes, astonishing folk wave, vicious tango and a spaghetti western inferno. These are pure feelings carved in music: love/hate anthems, sliding vibrato guitars, pulsing drums, fascinating orchestral parts! Lyrically based on the wild river of sensuality and hard feelings the story of the 'Rotten Roma Casino' is told by the biting lyrics of Simone H. Salvatori, who gambles his life at the most cruel casino ever seen before.

Now, Simone is coming to present old and new songs in an unplugged and almost intimate fashion - voice & acoustic guitar only! Those who are familiar with his work probably know what to expect: His shows with or without SPIRITUAL FRONT are simply charming, sexy, emotional, entertaining, powerful, professional and ... unforgettable!




COLLAPSAR

"Imagine a world in which a beam of light rose into the sky only to fall back to the ground at your feet. Or, picture an infinite continuum of parallel universes, each inhabited by slightly different parallel twins of yourself. Visualize a place in which all the laws of physics, that combine to make our universe the place that it is, vanish into inscrutable infinities. Welcome to the world of one nature's most bizarre phenomena: the black hole." (Robert W. Lindsay - December 01, 1993)

Inspired by writers (such as William S. Burroughs, H.P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick) and musical projects (Lustmord, SPK, Skinny Puppy, Dead Can Dance, Bad Sector and In Slaughter Natives to call a few) Thibaud, head of Collapsar, documents a twisted and bizarre world out of time an space as we know it.

The first album "Beyond the Event Horizon" has just recently been released on the US-based Malignant Records label and is said to "transport the listener on an epic journey deep into the cosmos, forging a path across a vast, inky void, and steering a course around a roiling galactic core of hyper-dense stars and black holes."

Without doubt, the sound is epic, expansive, and most of all, HEAVY. There is beauty and tranquility within these realms, but there is no light - just massive, pulsating textures coalescing into shimmering drones, rippling sound waves, and billowing, multi-dimensional layers of powerful dark energy. A must for fans of Inade, Lustmord and the like.

20.03.2010 - THO-SO-AA / SUM OF R / B°TONG

THE LODGE presents:

THO-SO-AA (ger) + SUM OF R (ch) + B°TONG (ch)
+ DJ Hollow Bone

20/03/2010 @ Bazillus Club, Zurich
Doors: 20:00, Concerts: 21:00, Entry CHF 30.-

It is recommended to use our ticket presale as the number of total admissions will be very limited.

THO-SO-AA

Lutz Rach (THO-SO-AA) in an old interview about the bands history: "My first project AADOM/Christbearing was formed in 1993 by Brian Bray and myself. After two releases Brian left the band. At this time I searched for new sounds. I was impressed from sounds like Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and John Carpenter. This was the time when THO-SO-AA was born. THO-SO-AA means THe Other - Side Of - AAdom. It was for me a new and exciting way to create music - like a vision. I found the sounds I was looking for for a long time. So it was a magic moment for me. THO-SO-AA contains my personal environment. It contains hate. Hate for e.g. capitalism or god. Everything which is normal in Europe."
SUM OF R

SUM OF R is a side project of Reto Mäder (RM74, Ural Umbo), for which he is joined by two members of Herpes Ö DeLuxe (Roger Ziegler & Christoph Hess aka Strotter Inst.) to create slow moving episodes of hypnotic and perplexing music led by a psychedelic understanding of minimal soundforms.
"SUM OF R’s sound shifts from doomed cinematic guitar descends to electric guitar music box-ism meets death tolling and the shimmering of 50’s sci-fi rise and ebb".
"SUM OF R don't really trying to oblige to specific genre but leaning on the mood and the expression of their output. You hear some SunnO))) riffs coming from the back, but then it becomes a post-apocalyptic Canadian post-rock, moves into the minor dark-ambient or blackened chamber doom".
B°TONG
B°TONG is Chris Sigdell, former member of NID (1995 - 2005), and guitarist/singer in Phased. b°tong reaches for the nether regions of experimental electronic sound but is never quite serious. b°tong's music varies from dark ambient layers of sound, brooding drones, itchy-scratchy tones to weird electronics and/or harsh noise. b°tong deconstructs and recycles samples from television, radio and/or films, he records natural and artificial sounds, and he processes and distorts his own voice.
In a live situation, he uses microphones, sampler, and "instruments" such as: metal sheet and spring, various kitchen utensils and an orgon emitter. The sounds thus generated are run through various effects giving birth to images of darkness and tranquility, the solitude of icy polar night, or the equivalent of an underwater journey down a bottomless pit!