fluc_wanne
dienstag 15. Mai 2007

22:00 klub ruin:
LIVE: APSE [US]
LIVE: ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI [PL]

dj's: peter nachtnebel / philipp quehenberger / christian egger

Nach den beiden RUIN-Festivals in den Jahren 2005 und 2006, bei denen so große Namen wie Acid Mothers Temple, Sand, Tony Conrad u.a. auftraten, gibt es ab Mitte Mai einmal/Monat den Klub Ruin, der trotz seines Hauptsitzes im fluc auch an anderen Orten Wiens stattfinden wird und schwerpunktmässig auf Live-Acts aus dem Noise-, Experimentalmusik- und Post-Rock- wie auch aus dem Free Jazz/Improvisations-Bereich setzt.
Die Reihe wird mit den New Yorker APSE und den in Japan beheimateten Polen Zbigniew Karkowski einen Anfang setzen.

Zbigniew Karkowski was born in 1958 in Krakow, Poland. He studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden, aesthetics of modern music at the University of Gothenburg's Department of Musicology, and computer music at the Chalmers University of Technology. After completing his studies in Sweden, he studied sonology for a year at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Den Haag, Netherlands. During his education, he also attended many summer composition master courses arranged by Centre Acanthes in Avignon and Aix-en-Provence, France, studying with Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, and Georges Aperghis, among others. He works actively as a composer of both acoustic and electroacoustic music. He has written pieces for large orchestra (commissioned and performed by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra), plus an opera and several chamber music pieces that were performed by professional ensembles in Sweden, Poland, and Germany. He is a founding member of the electroacoustic music performance trio "Sensorband." Zbigniew has lived and worked in Tokyo, Japan for the past eight years, and is active in the underground noise scene there.

Formed in New England in 1999, Apse has been writing and performing music for 7 years, spanning an array of different eras, styles, aesthetics, and lineups. The band released it's first S/T Debut in April of 2005 on Acuarela Discos, of Madrid, Spain. Their first release has been acclaimed as an essential exploration in different forms of ambient rock and post-rock, with hints of damaged pop, shimmering and interlocking guitar arpeggios, pounding percussion, and rich, luscious walls of sound. Themes of spiritual and interpersonal paranoias inform the album, delivered through indirect, often eerie lyrics that surface and retreat during the duration.

Upon the international release of their brand new LP 'Spirit' - Apse will set out to Europe, winning the hearts and minds of those who are able to catch their unparalleled live performances, culminating with a final concert in November at Spain's annual Tanned Tin festival.

'Spirit' - out on Acuarela in September 2006, sees the band investigating rich percussive and rhythm-based compositions, a stronger inclusion of pop aesthetics, more of an emphasis on vocals, creating a dark, addictive, brilliant body of work that is their most accessible, yet by far most original work to date.