We’re curating a very special night at Le Chinois in collaboration with Radio Flouka in Paris featuring Chooc Ly, Jaeho Hwang, Ha Kyoon, Neo Geodesia and B-SAADCHINABOT TOUR 2024:
https://www.chinabot.co/events
Date: 01.06.24
Hours: 23h / 5h
Price: 10€ door
Line-up: Chooc Ly, Jaeho Hwang, Neo Geodesia + Ha Kyoon + more tba
Address: 6 Pl. du Marché, 93100 Montreuil, France
✹ Ha Kyoon (Paris)
Erwan Ha Kyoon Larcher is a protean artist.
With a background in circus, dance and theatre (CNAC and CNSAD), he co-created the Ivan Mosjoukine collective with Tsirihaka Harrivel & Vimala Pons with "De Nos Jours [Notes on the Circus]" in 2012 at Les Subsistances - Lyon. He has collaborated with a number of artists (Christophe Honoré, Damien Manivel, Philippe Quesne, Clédat & Petitpierre, Phia Ménard, Marcela Santander Corvalàn, etc.) and danced during the dances at Les Subsistances in Lyon. ) and has danced during Rebeka Warrior's dj sets.
He created his first solo RUINE at the CENTQUATRE-PARIS (currently on tour) in 2019 and a short version "Envers Amour" for the re-opening of La Station Gare-des-Mines / Paris in September 2020.
In July 2022, he was invited by La SACD and the Festival d'Avignon to create PROMETTRE with dancer Taos Bertrand.
Under the name HA KYOON, he tours concert halls and clubs, sharing the stage with artists such as Angel Karel, Dopplereffekt, Metaraph, UVB76, Rebeka Warrior, Heimat, IV Horsemen, Jung An Tagen, MIND/MATTER, Ascendant Vierge, Flavia Laus, Pelada (...) and has played in Paris, Brussels, Seoul, Busan, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg etc.
In June 2019, he will compose and play live the music for the GAMUT SS20 fashion show; Invited by the German label MMODEMM and the Theater Mousonturm in Frankfurt in April 2020, he will produce the first version of "Inverted Méditation - Die Sicht der Wirbel": a one-hour musical act balancing on his head, invited by the German label MMODEMM and the Theater Mousonturm in Frankfurt.
He is a member of Maulwürfe, a group of moles initiated by P.Quesne, and has released EPs on WARRIORECORDS , Chroniques Records and TSA Records.
https://www.instagram.com/ha_kyoon
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✹ JAEHO HWANG (Seoul)
Jaeho Hwang is a Seoul-based DJ, producer, and visual artist who recontextualizes traditional Korean instrumentation and brings it into the contemporary club music scene. South Korean artist inspired by the Buddhist concept of impermanent selfhood, his first EP “Non-Self/비자아” combines dark, industrial club beats with old Korean sound and samples. He explores his sense of identity in the digital age as refracted through the Buddhist concept of anatta, or non-self, the belief that there is no unchanging, permanent soul or essence in living beings.
His music has been featured in Resident Advisor, Boiler Room, The Wire Magazine, BBC, DJ Mag, Xlr8r. He is a member of Chinabot but also he is one of founders of Seoul-based collective called “Fragmented Service” that represents Seoul’s sub-club scene and curates shows with International artists in Seoul such as ZULI, ENDGAME, Dis Fig, X/O and etc. Recently, based primarily in Seoul, he is involved with Seoul’s underground club scene such as Cakeshop, Visla FM and, Seoul Community Radio, etc.
“Hwang incorporated traditional Korean instrumentation into the familiar palate of post-apocalyptic underground London club music...While the whole EP is excellent, this relentlessly visceral finale is its best track” The Wire magazine
“It’s a remarkable mixture, and the result is an intense rush of sounds that converse at a ferocious pace; thunderous kicks propel sweet-yet- sharp melodies, disjointed voices and wild FX into a dazzling orbital motion.” DJ Mag
https://www.instagram.com/jaeho111111/
https://soundcloud.com/jaehohwang
https://www.chinabot.co/jaehohwang
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✹ NEO GEODESIA (London)
Neo Geodesia is Saphy Vong, a French Cambodian audio visual artist born in a Thai refugee camp after his parents fled the Khmer Rouge, and grew up in the suburbs of Nancy, northeastern France. His unique musical outlook fuses the experimental and DIY ethos that can be found in both the local Nancy Hardcore and Grindcore scene that embraced him as a teenager, and the sounds broadcasted from Cambodia into his home through his parents pirated tapes and videos of Khmer pop, karaoke, monk chants and movies.
His recent project has been dedicated to fusing experimental electronic processes with traditional Khmer music and exploring the far edge of sonic expression to include noise, Bek Sloy, Funeral Smot and Roam Vong.
Over the years, however, he has focused his approach less upon heaviness than slipperiness, granular textures and head-spinning polyrhythms.
Active for more than a decade under the alias Lafidki, he has produced, composed and released electronic music for Orange Milk Records. His music has been featured in Resident Advisor, NPR, NTS, BBC, Mixmag, The Quietus and Bandcamp Daily.
NEO GEODESIA has performed with the likes of Foodman, Evicshen, Object Blue, Why Be, Zoë mc Pherson, Sunik Kim, Ecko Bazz, Still and his music was played by Drew McDowall, Hiro Kone, Zuli, Animistic beliefs.
He currently lives in London and runs the multidisciplinary Asian platform and record label Chinabot, on which he released his latest album 2562 Neon Flames. His new album is coming up this year, this work is inspired by Pradal Serey and Bokator music, while indirectly commenting on the gridlocked, Nepotisic system of power in Cambodia.
‘Fanta Rouge’, with its pounding drums and ridiculously addictive melody, is the most ecstatic thing I’ve heard in ages, all the more remarkable considering the sadness which surrounds it." The Quietus
“Euphoric sound collage of Cambodian folk song mashed into raver beats, gambling machines and cut-up karaoke. A glitter-smashed standout from Vong’s London-based Chinabot, a label devoted to experimental musicians across the Asian diaspora.” NPR
“Calmly negociating iridescent electronic and ancient acoustic instruments, the track plays out like an odyssey, some long, winding tale which leaves much up to the imagination. Piercing Asian instruments duet - or duel, depending on your stance” Inverted Audio
https://www.instagram.com/neogeodesia/
https://chinabot.bandcamp.com/album/2562-neon-flames
https://www.nowness.asia/picks/neo-geodesia-venomesis-chinabot
https://www.chinabot.co/neogeodesia
https://ra.co/features/3911
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✹ CHOOC LY (London)
Chooc Ly is a multi-disciplinary artist, DJ, music & cultural producer who works across moving images, DJ sets, radio podcasts, event organising, and club nights, with a background in sculpture and performance. Her practice sets out to create new visions of reality by subverting or repurposing systems and tools we use to understand the world around us – such as concepts and methodologies from physics, politics and music. She also co-runs the London club night Décalé. As a DJ, Chooc Ly fiercely and emotionally weaves music together through kaleidoscopic spectrums of club music and futuristic sounds.
Past gigs include: av_cache, TASTE, GGI 끼, Body Movements Festival, Howl Queer City IV, Queering Now, Décalé x Chinabot (all in London), Swallow (Los Angeles), Regenerative Feedback (WORM, Rotterdam), Chalet Wote Festival (Accra, Ghana), and Poekhali! (Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway). Recent music releases include Exaltation Onirique on the Chinabot compilation ‘5’, ‘coeur bioluminescent’ for OUTPUTS sampler1, and remixes on metronomicon, Lost Map and La Boocle.
chooclytan.net
https://www.instagram.com/chooclytan/
https://soundcloud.com/choocly
RADIO FLOUKA
Radio Flouka is an international online radio-station based in Paris. Launched at the end of 2018, it has relied on the goodwill of volunteers and a steady stream of Middle Eastern talent for the ultimate goal of redefining how the world sees contemporary music from the region.
https://www.radioflouka.com/
https://www.instagram.com/radioflouka/
B-SAAD
https://www.facebook.com/BSaaaad/
https://soundcloud.com/ggggggh00/sets/b-saad-on-radio-flouka
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About Chinabot:
Chinabot is a platform and collective created to change the dialogue surrounding Asian music. Started in 2017, the multi-disciplinary label and network of Asian artists decided to cooperate on a new way to collect and promote exciting Asian music. Releasing undiscovered artists from Bahrain to Thailand, Chinabot is positioned at the junction point between the influence of Asian music on contemporary/traditional sounds, music outside the mainstream and the development of experimentation. Whether it’s Jazz folk music, experimental ambient or mutant techno, we celebrate exciting new music that falls between the gaps -- a place for adventurous listening.
Website: https://www.chinabot.co/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Chinabot
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Chinabot_
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chinabotasia/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/chinabot
Bandcamp: https://chinabot.bandcamp.com/
Event Venue
Le Chinois, 6 Place du Marché, 93100 Montreuil, France,Montreuil, Ile-De-France, France
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