About this Event
Musical performance order:
6.30 - 7 pm - Gen on the guitar
7- 9 pm - Mircha Ivens ambient set
9-10 pm - Xtrah drum and bass set
Bios:
GEN (guitarist):
Gen is a guitarist from Rome he started playing blues jazz-rock with bands and singers then he started to tour Europe for many years organising shows with great musicians,and once in Andalusia he learned flamenco and gipsy style and created his own solo fusion guitar repertoire influenced by different genres and inspired by the experiences of life that touched him during his travels and tours playing with a deep, spiritual approach and mixing modern and ancient guitar techniques blended naturally.He s currently in UK playing his catchy show in many venues and clubs and he s recording his own album that will be out at the end of summer.
HANJO (model):
Hanjo is a model, dancer and artist from Italy currently based in London. She models for gothic fashion brands and alternative photo shoots, and performs fusion belly dance, pole dance and exotic floor work.
KATYA KAN (artist/organiser):
An idiosyncratic specimen of globalisation, Kan was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan, my father being North Korean and my mother Russian. Having caught a glimpse of the ex-USSR, she has a conflicting perception of political and cultural systems. Unable to fully assimilate into any one culture, she finds herself as an outsider with an eclectic artistic taste. The concepts, which she explores in her work, include globalisation, surveillance, nostalgia, utopia and eroticism. She has exhibited at ICA London, Whitechapel Gallery, Royal Watercolour Society, NYC Untitled Space, the New York Art Expo as well as the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.
PHILIP FIRSOV:
Philip Firsov is a British painter and sculptor of Russian origin. Born in Moscow, into a family of two Russian composers, Elena Firsova and Dmitri Smirnov, he left Russia at the age of 6 and settled in England. From the age of 15 he studied art privately with Russian artist and restorer Alexander Kolesnik, and then continued his education at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (Foundation), Slade School of Fine Art (BA in Fine Art), and on The Drawing Year at The Prince's Drawing School (now the Royal Drawing School).
XTRAH CYBERFUNK (DJ):
Since hacking into the drum and bass scene in 2010/11, XTRAH has opened the minds of the youth. With energetic atmospherics, redesigned classic drum breaks, heavyweight baselines and deep, meaningful messages coded within the music and breakdowns in his songs. Since the inception of his career in 2010, signing music to the likes of RAMA records, Metalheadz, Critical Music and more along the way XTRAH decided to start his own imprint Cyberfunk in 2015, XTRA has collaborated with some of the Drum and Bass and the UK music scene greats: Break, Noisia, Dub Phizix, DRS, DLR to name a few … XTRAH’s debut Album ‘X’ is a brief glimpse into the vast musical knowledge and heritage possessed by the creative mind of XTRAH, ‘X’ the debut album from XTRAH takes influence from the UK’s extensive dance music history and the culture that comes hand in hand with it. From Hardcore to Jungle, Drum and Bass, to hip hop and into the 140 realms of Garage, Grime and Dubstep. ‘X’ is a journey through tempos and styles with an ample number of flavours for you to take in and process. ‘X’ is not 12 bangers thrown together and called an LP it is a conceptual audio-visual experience pushing himself out into exciting, new avenues. The collaborations on the album are heavily focused on vocalists from ‘Holding ON (ft ‘Genic’) to guest appearances from DRS, Sense MC and Ray Uptown along with a collection of eclectic recordings taken whilst touring the world on his travels.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Reliance, 336 Old Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 10.00