API UIZ ‘s 30-years anniversary caravan w/ API UIZ (FR) + MEDIANOCHE ARTIFICIAL (FR) + TONY GERANNO (FR) + MOTHER TONGUE (SEN/PRI/NL)

API UIZ (Dancing-Punk) + duo MEDIANOCHE ARTIFICIAL (ex-Radikal Satan, atmorpheric cumbia black/tango) + solo TONY GERANNO electronic fantastic dark songwriter full of poetry and generosity + LOCAL SUPPORT by: MOTHER TONGUE (Mola Sylla, Frank Rosaly & Oscar Jan Hoogland)

Full new albums are forthcoming, anyway check :
https://apiuiz.bandcamp.com/album/sm-12-double-lp-2024-2
https://medianocheartificial.bandcamp.com/album/medianoche-artificial
https://grandecartrecords.bandcamp.com/album/garonnes

API UIZ (Bordeaux, France)
Api Uiz is a cult band in the French underground scene (Bordeaux) that has been playing nonstop for decades (completely independent, without a manager or a booker). They have played over 400 shows, with tours throughout Europe and the United States, in squats, bars, clubs, and association venues. They have also been invited to major festivals such as Wels Unlimited (Austria) playing with Melt Banana (Japan), Sonic Protest (France), Vision (France), LeGuessWho? (Utrecht), and even the Roskilde Festival, invited by The Ex (NL), who have long supported Api Uiz.
They have recorded and released a dozen albums over the course of 30 years, all in LP format.
To form, reform, and deform, and above all to create a unique and recognisable sound that has drunk punk until it blacked out while wallowing in a pool of Dadaist jazz, vomiting rainbows from its eyes in an act of surreal repetition that is tremendously festive, crazy, and wonderfully broken. The hubbub is therefore imaginable.

Api Uiz
Enrique Vega : basse
Jorge Vega : batterie
Mehdi Beneitez : guitare
Éric Martinez : électronique

MOTHER TONGUE (Dakar/Puerto Rico/Amsterdam)

Mola Sylla – voice, m’bira, xalam Oscar Jan Hoogland – electric clavichord Frank Rosaly – drums

A Senegalese Griot singer, an Amsterdam improviser and a Puerto Rican jazz drummer find each other on an open playground, a stage build for improvisation, an old cinema now used for minute made story telling. Equiped with an m’bira, a xalam, a drumkit, a voice, percussion, house hold tools and an electric chlavichord on 220 volt, they sit down and take off: Wrrrrrraaang!

Singer and percussionist Mola Sylla is in many ways a musical explorer. Born and raised in Dakar, Senegal, he grew up in the tradition of the griots. Griots play conveying stories – sometimes decorated with music, theater and dance – which all play an important role in West African culture. His rhythm and melodic compositions differ from the western agreed schedules and provide surprising twists.

Puerto Rican drummer Frank Rosaly has been involved in the improvised and experimental music scenes since 2001 when he became an integral part of Chicago’s musical fabric, navigating a fine line between the vibrant improvised music, experimental, rock and jazz communities.

Oscar Jan Hoogland is the sound of Amsterdam in person. He is an instant composer and inventor of his own instrument by joining a clavichord, a keyboard instrument from the 17th century, to 220 Volt electricity. As the last student of the late pianist, composer and improvisor Misha Mengelberg he tears like a tornado through the Amsterdam jazz and impro scene.

Together they are MOTHER TONGUE.

photo: Niclas Weber

TOUR DATES:
26/09 Fleurac (24) – Le Grrrrrrepère (+ Medianoche)
27/09 Clermont-Ferrand (63) – Raymonde (+ Medianoche + Tony Geranno)
28/09 Lyon (69) – Grrrnd Zero (+ Medianoche + Tony Geranno)
29/09 Grenoble (38) (tba) (+ Medianoche + Tony Geranno)
30/09 Metz (57) – La Chaouée (+ Medianoche)
01/10 Strasbourg (67) – DMNTDR (+ Medianoche + Tony Geranno)
02/10 Louvain-la-neuve (B) – C&L (+ Medianoche + Tony Geranno)
03/10 Amsterdam (NL) – OCCII (+ Medianoche + Tony Geranno)
04/10 Pantin (93) – org. Arrache-toi un oeil (+ Medianoche + Tony Geranno)

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