INSECT PYRAMID TRANSMISSION / USA TOUR 2006
PRESS PHOTOS AND BIOS PAGE
INFO RE: THE EUROPE 2005 TOUR IS HERE
February
20 - Pittsburgh @ Garfield Artworks
21 - Charlottesville @ Tea Bazaar
22 - Washington D.C. @ DC9
23 - Raleigh @ Badgerhaus
24 - New Brunswick @ The Killing Center, 35 Plum St.
25 - Providence @ email bone-dust@hotmail.com
26 - Cambridge @ Zeitgeist Gallery
28 - New York City @ Glass House Gallery (w/o Tzii & Ripit)
March
1 - New York City @ PURE FIRE (Tonic) (w/o MMHF but w/ Drum Jester Devotional DJ set)
1 & 2 New York City - Recording at Seizure's Palace
3 - Radon Reunion @ Sin-E
RADON REUNION is a live collaborative performances between musicians:
Jason Lafarge (seizure's palace) - drums
Nyko Esterle (ripit/sikhara) - electronic
Eric Desjeux (tzii) - electronic
Carl Off (hop-frog) - electronic / saz
e.loi (hop-frog) - electronic / bass
Hermit the Flog (hop-frog) - percussions
Tom Hohmann
(USAisaMonster) - guitar / drums
Collin Matthews (USAisaMonster) - drums / guitar
Ed Wilcox (Temple of Bonmatin) - prepared drums
Vinnie Paternostro (Arthur Doyle/Temple of Bonmatin) - sax
Sam Loham (36/AcidMothersTemple/SheerTerror) - prepared drums
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TZII
French composer, Tzii is a musician but also a video maker and a DJ. As a logical sequel to his musical activities of the nineties (public performances began in 1994), he created his own label (Night On Earth Rec.), releasing vynil records, videos, mixtapes and soon CD-Rs and DVDs. Polymorphis in tastes and centers of interest, he is influenced by various popular cultures, mainly european and african. He explores all the forms of the industrial culture, playful or introspective, electronic or acoustic, visual or sonic. His livesets, whatever form it takes, are always an "inside mind" trip.
http://www.nightonearth.org http://www.myspace.com/tzii
THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF HOP-FROG
The hop-frog kollectiv itself is a mix of over twenty participants who focus on experimental spoken word, art & music. The core members of the kollectiv have performed with Not Breathing, DJ Cheb I Sabbah, David J (Bauhaus, Love & Rockets, etc.), Steve Mackay and The Radon Ensemble (The Stooges, Violent Femmes) & Dame Darcy (Meatcake) under the names hop-frog's drum jester devotional and The Master Musician's of hop-frog.
Hop-frog have not only toured with Backworld (feat. Joe Budenholzer of Current 93, Foetus, etc.) and Sorrow (featuring Rose McDowall of Strawberry Switchblade, Spell, Current 93, Death In June and Coil) on two separate occasions but members of hop-frog have played in both of these projects for the duration of the tours.
The live performances are especially intriguing featuring heavily effected traditional western instruments such as clarinet, violin, guitar, drums, analog and bass fused with eastern, tribal, toy and non-traditional instruments such as the saz, toy & real accordions, circuit bent keyboards, snake charmer flutes, christmas tree bells, the Dhol, broken cymbals and even a kitchen sink.
hop-frog have performed on six occasions in Paris, France, all over the western U.S., and just completed an intensive European tour in May, 2005.
http://www.myspace.com/themastermusiciansofhopfrog
http://www.myspace.com/hopfrogsdrumjesterdevoti
http://www.myspace.com/refrigeratormothers
DISCOGRAPHY:
URCK2016
HOP-FROGS FATWA The Silk Road CD
URCK2023 part 4 of "the hop-frog kollectiv live cdr series"
(limited to 18)
hop-frogs drum jester devotional - Gogotagharaytee Live
SOUNDWALK CD & Book - Compilation www.soundwalk.org
N.O.E. # 5 - hop-frog's drum jester devotional/TZII 7" (night on earth)
URCK2020 PHAUL - Music for Molasses
URCK2021 - REFRIGERATOR MOTHERS - "bedding down the revolution with a
mouth full of shit...Part 1"
URCK2022 - THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF HOP-FROG - LIVE
URCK2024 - hop-frog: hop-frog kollectiv video release #1
URCK2017 hop-frog drum jester devotional "chants de sewage"
URCK2018- The Master Musicians of hop-frog - CENTURIES LATER
Hop-Frog Drum Jester Devotional 12" TOOLBOX Ltd 01 (FRANCE)
URCK2019
Refrigerator Mothers A Sufi Pop Dream (release date: Summer 2006)
URCK2025 hop-frogs drum jester devotional: Bets Ov, Volumes 1 & 2
(release date: Fall, 2006)
RIPIT
Nyko Esterle's electronic experiments, as an attempt to a musical self-suffisency, start in 1998 with the founding of his label RIPOSTE.REC and his solo project RIPIT. He was mixing electronic sounds patterned in a rhythmic and repetitive form with a stage attitude closer to punk than to the DJ one, confronting a rock audience to a hard and crude music, where the human is only there to alternate the structure and by then, giving an animal spontaneity to analog and mechanical sounds.
Since then, he knews how to explore the worldwide underground electronic scene
by touring Europe and north America, by releasing several recordings on
various formats and by developing a local scene thru massive experimental
party organizing over Paris.
All along his travels and tours, his meeting with other artists leaded him to
collaborate with a lot of different projects as Black Elf Speaks (Noise Rock
Opera project from the members of Usaisamonster), Sikhara (Radonstudio.com),
Steve Mackay (Sax player of The Stooges and The Violent Femmes), Jason Forrest
(aka Donna Summer). He toured alongside the previous but also with Doormouse,
Venetian Snares, Hecate, Man Is The Bastard Noise and several others...
http://www.myspace.com/riipiit
Discography: