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ALGIERS are a politically conscious indie rock band who combine elements of post-punk and no wave with blues and gospel.
The band have announced UK & European headline tour dates for 2020, pointing to more new music to follow soon. Kicking off in Brighton on February 3rd, the band headline London’s Village Underground on February 5th, before continuing to further stops in the UK and Europe. Tickets for the 2020 shows go on sale Friday, August 30th, at 9am.
ALGIERS have recently released collaborative audiovisual piece, “Can the Sub_Bass Speak?”, a new work from the band and production duo Randall Dunn and Ben Greenberg (Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Mandy Soundtrack, Sunn O))), Uniform).
The new piece pits charged language and free jazz collage by ALGIERS multi-instrumentalist Franklin James Fisher, saxophonics pioneer Skerik and drummer D’Vonne Lewis against a maelstrom of visuals by award-winning filmmaker Sam Campbell and typographer Farbod Kokabi.
Inspired by a chance encounter with artists Moor Mother and Harrga at Wysing Polyphonic in 2018, “Can the Sub_Bass Speak?” contorts ALGIERS’ post-punk deconstruction of racial and class sonic politics into new collaborative directions.
“Can The Sub_Bass Speak?” is the centerpiece of a larger web installation thereisnoyear.com.
The film recalls the ‘visual abstraction’ and political radicalism of Lis Rhodes and John Akomfrah, situating Fisher’s lyrical examination of structural racism within the disorienting resurgence of fascism across Europe and the United States.
Fisher says:
Who has the cultural authority to designate origin and authenticity? “Can the Sub_Bass Speak? “is a frustrated regurgitation; a re-contextualization; a re-appropriation; a shield and a mirror that projects back onto the world a lifetime of interpellating language rooted in weaponized ignorance and supremacist privilege.
The improvised punctuation is provided by Skerik on the tenor saxophone and D’Vonne Lewis on drums and percussion.
The underlying cacophony traces the evolution of African-American music, experience and identity.
This is not for the mercenary architects: the Jacks and Queens of simulated experience.
This is for anyone who has found themselves on the sharp end of insidious, rhetorical prying: “Where are you from?” “What are you?”
This is for anyone who has had their identity assigned and determined by the agents of patriarchy.
This is for the Subaltern.
TICKETS
ON SALE FRI 30th AUG, 9AM: €15 available online from WAV Tickets or Lo-Call 01 4780766 (9:30am-7pm M-F)
– 50c per ticket service charge applies on phone, internet or credit card bookings. Final ticket price may be higher from other outlets.
Strictly over 18′s, I.D. may be required
AFTER THE GIG
Whelan’s Indie Club w/ Late Bar from 10:30pm or check out the bands playing The Midnight Hour in the upstairs venue – Free Entry via front door until 10:30pm | Drinks Promos
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