YL Hooi & Silzedrek + Inturist

Tickets:
https://ra.co/events/1779672


20:00 Doors
20:30 Inturist
21:30 Silzedrek
22:30 YL Hooi


YL Hooi:
YL Hooi is the project of Valya Ying-Li Hooi, inhabiting a subtle and mysterious realm of furtive, dubbed-out song, sparse electronic percussion, and distant winds. Active in the Melbourne underground scene since 2017, Hooi is a member of Kallista Kult (with Sam Karmel and Tarquin Manek) and has recorded and performed with artists including Jonnine Standish (HTRK), Jarrod Zlatic (Fabulous Diamonds) and Rohan Rebeiro (My Disco).

Her debut album Untitled (first released on cassette by Altered States Tapes in 2019 and reissued on LP by Efficient Space in 2021) was widely praised, finding a spot on many year end lists including the number 1 spot on Boomkat’s Discoveries l ist and being described by Boomkat as ‘an immaculately frayed conception of dubwise dream-pop’. Moving seamlessly from angelic song to gritty tape gunk, Hooi’s work opens onto a multitude of genres and directions while retaining a distinctly personal stamp through her obsessively zoned-out dub production tactics.

‘These are songs that seem to emerge in plumes of smoke, magician’s tricks conjured from the ether’ (World of Echo).

Both live and in the studio, Hooi’s work is produced in close collaboration with Tarquin Manek (known for his eponymous solo work on Blackest Ever Black, as well as a swathe of aliases including LST and Static Cleaner Lost Reward, and membership of groups including Kallista Kult and F ingers). In the live setting, the pair use voice, trumpet, bass clarinet, guitar, bass, drum machines and synths to reimagine the carefully produced studio material anew for each performance, keenly aware of improvisational possibilities and the vicissitudes of audience, venue, and acoustic space. Touching on the fringes of many genres and traditions – post-punk, minimal synth, dub, krautrock – Hooi’s protean music is haunted and seductive, her voice trailing off into an echoed infinity anchored to body-shaking foundations.

https://www.closetopm.com/
https://ylhooi.bandcamp.com/



Silzedrek:
Silzedrek is the latest in a long list of aliases of Tarquin Manek. This project was conceived to explore clarinet and bass clarinet in a live setting utilising the Eastern European and Roma sonorities of the artist’s heritage. As a mainstay and central figure in the current Oz underground scene Manek is adept at employing higher dub logic to the rough juxtapositions and seemingly abrupt left turns his performances can take. Ultimately Silzedrek presents a deeply personal synthesis of time-dilating folk-jazz romanticism, heavy chamber dub and sense of smoked out inner space projected to the outer in cosmic proportions. Gwen’s Pen was featured in The Wire Tapper 56.

https://acolourfulstorm.com/album/i-stumble-and-then-i-fall



Inturist:
Inturist is an alter ego of Evgeny Gorbunov, Tel Aviv based musician and media artist, owner of a label "Incompetence Records" and author/co-author of music projects ГШ/Glintshake, Interchain, NRKTK, also bass player and co-author of Kate NV's album "Room for the Moon" (RVNG Intl.) Inturist finds an inspiration in everyday life, which in project’s discourse is built on absurdity, randomness and unpredictability. He also explores the post- Soviet trauma and transfers memories of it to the contemporary context and now to the context of other countries. The approach of Inturist is based on improvisation. The project's lineup is constantly changing, from a solo act or duet to a four-piece band. In addition to the musical work, Inturist is a theatrical project — his latest album is a radio play called "Neznakomka", a full-fledged absurdist piece where voices and narrative are intertwined with abstract musical ornament.

https://www.youtube.com/@Inturisttt/videos
https://inturisttt.bandcamp.com/