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East Coast 

Film Screening and Lecture Tour 

with Director Matt Dunning

 The Stirring of a Thousand Bells

- December 6th, Toronto Ontario: Small World Music Society
http://smallworldmusic.com/shows/the-stirring-of-a-thousand-bells/
https://www.facebook.com/events/318278381698687/

- December 11th: Buffalo NY, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centerhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1515646995361276/

- December 12th: Brooklyn, NY: Spectacle  http://www.spectacletheater.com/the-stirring-of-a-thousand-bells/

- December 15th: Hanoi Vietnam: Manzihttps://www.facebook.com/manzihanoi

- Dec 16th: Washington D.C.: Bloombars
https://www.facebook.com/events/753616768044109/

- Dec. 18th, Baltimore, MD: Floristree

Doors at 7pm

- Dec. 19th: Wilmington MD: Theatre N at Nemours

http://theatren.net

- Dec: 20th: Philadelphia PA: Vox Populi 
http://voxpopuligallery.org/calendar-event/the-stirring-of-a-thousand-bells-w-sublime-frequencies/

ROBERT MILLIS EUROPEAN TOUR: MAY - JUNE 2014MAY

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Sublime Frequencies' European 
Film Screening Tour 

with Robert Millis presenting

THIS WORLD IS UNREAL

 LIKE A SNAKE 

IN A ROPE

Folk cinema from the eternal never-ending collage that is INDIA. A journey through the ancient Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu featuring Hindu trance ceremonies, street music, festivals, nagaswaram improvisations, impossibly loud cities, ancient temples, processions, devotions, decay, fireworks, abstractions and more. India is impossible to know: it is impossibly old and impossibly new, impossibly rich and impossibly poor, quiet and chaotic. Offered here is one perspective, raw, captured live and in the moment, with an emphasis on India’s complex and mesmerizing sounds. 

MAY 14: BERLIN - N.K. Elsen Strasse, 52 12059 Berlin

http://www.nkprojekt.de/ May 16: BERLIN - (improv set w/ Ratbag and Gilles Aubry) Loophole, Boddinstrasse 60 12053 Berlin http://www.loophole-berlin.com/ May 18: BERLIN - Schwelle 7, Uferstraße 6, 13357 Berlin, Germany 

performance with Sublime Frequencies' contributor, Laurent Jeanneau, 

Using material gathered on various Sublime Frequencies expeditions. May 21: GENEVA - Cave 12, 4 Rue de la Prairie 9pm CHF10 www.cave12.org May 22: BRUSSELS (film screening) Crickxstraat 15, 1060 bruxelles 8.30PM €5 http://www.lesateliersclaus.com/ May 23: AALST - Houtkaai z/n, 9300 Aalst 8pm €13/10 with Dean Blunt http://www.netwerk-art.be/en/concerts/989/dean-blunt-rmillis May 24: AMSTERDAM - OCCII Amstelveenseweg 134, 1075XL Amsterdam 9pm €7 http://occii.org/ May 25: BRADFORD - Threadfest @ Fuse Art Space, 

5-7 Rawson Place BD1 3QQ 1pm Free entry. Also appearing: Philip Jeck + Basic House + Lee Patterson + Dean McPhee + Female Band https://www.facebook.com/events/488180197953434/ http://wearefuse.co/threadfest/ May 26: COVENTRY - The Coal Vaults, Coal Vaults CV1 4LY 

8pm £5/7 http://thetinmusicandarts.org.uk/events/robert-millis-presents-sublime-frequencies/ May 27: LONDON - Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston E8 3DL

* Also screening Robert Millis' film: Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts of Isan 8pm £7/8 http://cafeoto.co.uk/sublime-frequencies-robert-millis-the-world-is-unreal-like-a-snake-in-a-rope.shtm

May 28: HELSINKI - Korjaamo, Töölönkatu 51 a-b, 00250 Helsinki with Avarus

* Screening This World Is Unreal Like A Snake In A Rope 8pm €tba http://www.korjaamo.fi/ May 29: TAMPERE - Telakka, Tullikamarinaukio 3, 33100 Tampere

* Screening: Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts of Isan 8pm €tba http://www.telakka.eu/ May 30: BRIGHTON - The Cowley Club, 12 London Rd, BN1 4JA 

with F.Ampism + Dickinson/Murphy/Nyoukis 7.30pm £5 http://www.cowleyclub.org.uk/ May 31: GLASGOW - The Old Hairdressers, 20-28 Renfield Lane, G2 6PH

with Bridget Hayden www.stereocafebar.com June 1: BRISTOL - Cube Cinema, Dove Street South, BS2 8JD 8pm £6/8 http://www.cubecinema.com/programme/view/2014/3/28?daysahead=90#event_7324 June 3: Film screening, Athens TBA June 5: Performance Athens, TBA June 7: PARIS - Espace en Cours, 56, rue de la Réunion, 75020 Paris 

with Tara Jane O'Neil 7.30pm €7 http://alifibgigs.wordpress.com/

GROUP DOUEH European Tour Dates July / August 2012

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GROUP DOUEH

Group Doueh from Dakhla in the Western Sahara, are a band who morph effortlessly, just like the vital and heavy sandblasted music they make. Their live set-up can switch from soaring and hypnotic rocking and rolling guitar songs with huge choruses to meditative and transcendental acoustic folk tracks. The group’s ancient/modern is rooted in the traditional foundations of Sahrawi/Hassania music, but one that is also entirely its own. It shares its roots with the neighbouring styles of Mauritanian music, however Group Doueh have managed to transcend the classical limitations of that music with a fiery, independent, and individualistic approach that incorporates a distinctly rock element anomalous in the region. This is a sound that can only come from the land that inspired it: the Sahara desert.

The now legendary Group Doueh have been playing in and around their native Dakhla, in the Western Sahara for over 27 years. The discovery of the group by Sublime Frequencies , via a song snatched from a AM radio broadcast in Morocco in 2005 (as well as an exploratory mission in 2006 that landed Hisham Mayet in the group’s compound after chasing an overland trail all the way to the Mauritanian border) sealed the band’s relationship with the label. A successful European tour with label mate Omar Souleyman in 2009 ensued and western audiences were finally able to witness the power of the group’s mighty live shows. Doueh’s guitar heroics and wife Halima Jakani and Bashiri Touballi’s soaring vocal interplay entranced all who were present. In 2010 Doueh hosted Tony Allen in his home town and joined in on some of his dates in Europe. Then they returned to Europe in triumph in May 2011 with new album Zunya Jamma in tow, delivering a blistering set at the Animal Collective ATP and sending the atmosphere skybound everywhere they traveled.

GROUP DOUEH European Tour Dates July / August 2012

JULY

Friday 20th -  Festival of Cultures - Augsburg / Germany

Wednesday 25th tbc - Marsille/France

Thursday 26th  La Marquise - Lyon/France

Friday 27 –  Studio de l'Ermitage - Paris/France

Monday 30th - 4AD - Diksmuide/Belgium

Tuesday 31st - Compilotheque - Brussels/Belgium

AUGUST

Wednesday 1st  –  Festsaal Kreuzberg - Berlin/Germany

Sunday 5th  - OFF Festival -  Katowice/Poland  - http://off-festival.pl/

SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is a collective of explorers dedicated to acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, and other forms of human and natural expression not documented sufficiently through all channels of academic research, the modern recording industry, media, or corporate foundations. SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is focused on an aesthetic of extra-geography and soulful experience inspired by music and culture, world travel, research, and the pioneering recording labels of the past including OCORA, SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS, ETHNIC FOLKWAYS, LYRICHORD, NONESUCH EXPLORER, MUSICAPHONE, BARONREITER, UNESCO, PLAYASOUND, MUSICAL ATLAS, CHANT DU MONDE, B.A.M., TANGENT, and TOPIC. SUBLIME FREQUENCIES PO BOX 17971 SEATTLE WA 98127 USA

Hayvanlar Alemi Tour Dates Spring 2012 / Tour 7"

Hayvanlar Alemi Live Dates 2012

05 May - Lausanne (CH) Le Bourg
08 May - Milan (IT) Lo-Fi (w/Sir Richard Bishop)
10 May - Geneva (CH) Le Cave 12 à L'Ecurie
16 May - Paris (FR) Les Instants Chavires
18 May - Berlin (DE) Koplos Festival
19 May - Aarhus (DK) Pop Revo Festival

Booking for Hayvanlar Alemi, please contact:
john.qujunktions@gmail.com 
www.qujunktions.com
vimeo.com/qujunktions

There will be a limited edition tour 7" single

Yekermo Sew 7"

SF 070 EP

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S.F. 2009 Interview Podcast: Hisham, Alan and Mark

Sublime Frequencies – Music from the Backyard Melting Pots

Melting Pot ist eine Metapher für Orte, in denen verschiedene kulturelle Einflüsse zusammenfliessen und etwas neues ergeben, die Hinterhöfe sind im übertragenen Sinne die abseits gelegenen, unbekannteren Regionen der Welt, in denen Sublime Frequencies ihre Klänge sammeln. In der Aufzeichnung einer Diskussion stellen die Nordamerikaner ihre Arbeit vor. Als global traveler dokumentieren die Mitglieder des Kollektivs – Alan Bishop, Hisham Mayet und Mark Gergis – lokale Klangbilder zwischen Nordafrika und Südasien. Radiocollagen und eine stetig wachsende Platten- und Audiokassettensammlung von historisch-traditionellen Klängen bis hin zur urbanen Musikkultur dieser abgelegenen Orte bilden das wertvolle Archiv von Sublime Frequencies. Es soll ungefiltert und unverfälscht die westliche Welt erreichen, um einen (musikalischen) Dialog zwischen Osten und Westen, Nord und Süd, den glitzernden Shoppingmalls der Industrieländer und den versmogten Hinterhöfen zu eröffnen.

Dabei kritisieren die Mitglieder von Sublime Frequencies etablierte Mainstream-Strukturen: ihre Arbeit formiert eine Gegenfluß zu den Strom an Kultur, mit denen amerikanisch und europäisch dominierte Medien- und Musikkonzerne den Rest der Welt zu betonieren. Sie finden sich nicht damit ab, dass ihre Projekte in Schubladen gesteckt werden: weder akzeptieren sie wissenschaftliche Definitionen noch die üblichen kommerziellen Konzepte unabhängiger Plattenfirmen. Ihnen geht es um die ursprüngliche, rohe Musik – und sie zollen ihr in ihrer Originalität Respekt.

Im Podcast stellen Sublime Frequencies ihre Arbeit, ihre Motivation und aktuelle Projekte vor. Die Diskussion fand anläßlich von Structures Node 1: Global Alchemy im Juni 2009 statt, eine Veranstaltung der Club Transmediale.

Podcast interview is in English

Link for podcast below...

http://www.bln.fm/2009/07/sublime-frequencies-music-from-the-backyard-melting-pots/  

Von Andreana Slavcheva ⋅ 1/07/2009

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GROUP INERANE 2011 EUROPEAN TOUR: LIVE IN PARIS VIDEO

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GROUP INERANE EUROPEAN TOUR 2011

GROUP INERANE 2011 EUROPEAN TOUR

NOVEMBER 2011

Friday 11 TRONDHEIM, NORWAY, FRI RESONANS FESTIVAL

Saturday 12 OSLO, NORWAY, BLA

Sunday 13 GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN, CLANDESTINO INSTITUT

Tuesday 15 MALMO, SWEDEN, INKONST

Wednesday 16 COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, MAYHEM

Friday 18 KORTIJK, BELGIUM, DE KREUN with Land of The Songhai 

Saturday 19 KREFELD, GERMANY, SUEDBAHNHOF

Sunday 20 ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, WORM

Monday 21 BERLIN, GERMANY, FESTSAAL KREUZBERG with Land of The Songhai 

Tuesday 22 LEIPZIG, GERMANY, NATO 

Wednesday 23 GENEVA, L' USINE-KAB (ORGANISED BY CAVE12) w/ Land of The Songhai 

Thursday 24 LYON, FRANCE, SONIC

Friday 25 PARIS, FRANCE, INSTANTS CHAVIRES

Saturday 26 HASSELT, BELGIUM, KUNSTENCENTRUUM ZAAL BELGIE 
above date with Land of The Songhai 

Sunday 27 UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS, LE GUESS WHO

Tuesday 29 BRISTOL, UK, THE CROFT with Flower-Corsano Duo

Wednesday 30 LONDON, UK, PLAN B  with Flower-Corsano Duo

DECEMBER 2011

Friday 1 NEWCASTLE, UK, CUMBERLAND ARMS  with Flower-Corsano Duo

Saturday 2 GLASGOW, UK, KINNING PARK COMPLEX with Flower-Corsano Dou

Sunday 3 LEEDS, UK, HOWARD ASSEMBLY ROOM with Flower-Corsano Duo

DECEMBER ATP FESTIVAL CURATED BY JEFF MAGNUM RESCHEDULED FOR MARCH

The latest band to make the transition from the rich catalogue of Sublime Frequencies recordings to the live stages of Europe is perhaps the most anticipated of them all, the one we have been waiting for since “Guitars From Agadez Vol. 1” first stormed from the speakers and sold out in record time four years ago: the rough-hewn, tranced-out juggernaut that is Group Inerane hit Europe this winter, playing a 20 date run that culminates in an appearance at All Tomorrows Parties curated by Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum.

Centred around band leader and six-string god Bibi Ahmed, Inerane hail from Agadez, Niger, one of the most volatile zones in West Africa. Out of this vast, arid land long beset by political unrest comes a sound fit to bring tumultuous joy to any party on the globe: ecstatic and electrified Saharan guitar modes entangle/disentangle themselves around mantric vocals and propulsive trap kit drum attack.

Genuinely rocking and raw as hell, at points the fuzz descends and Inerane seem to bore their way to the mainline of rock ‘n’ roll itself.

A second Inerane album, Vol. 3 of the “Guitars From Agadez” series, came out last year with a repress due for this tour, and gives further call to rejoice. There will also be a scorching tour-only 7″.

GROUP INERANE EUROPEAN TOUR 2011

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