24/11- 11 Vialka (FR) + Straw Dogs + Mag

24/11- 11 Vialka (FR) + Straw Dogs + Mag
Premiär för konsert på Kulturföreningen Uddevallakassettens kontor. Duon Vialka från Frankrike var huvudakt. Mag från Göteborg agerade support precis som Straw Dogs som gjorde en hemlig uppvärmningsspelning. Kvällen till ära var TV4 Väst på plats för intervju med Straw Dogs. Det blev en fantastiskt kul kväll som inleddes av just Straw Dogs. MAG aka Magdalena trollband publiken med sina loopar och mycket vackra musik. Vialka var helt fantastiska, tänk att två personer kan låta så mycket.
Fullsatt och festligt.

VIALKA (Frankrike)
Vialka hail from deepest France, via everywhere and nowhere. They are a devilishly high-spirited guitar/drums duo who tour hard and fast across the world. Their music skips joyfully across borders, channeling desert blues, Chinese folk songs, scatter rock and European gypsy song dynamics in a whirlwind of dervish energy.

Their endless gypsy punk folk rock tales, hard hitting poly-rhythms and yelps and howls make for a danceable and intoxicating brew. Like A Hawk And A Hacksaw or The Ex their openness to new sounds and cultures makes you feel alive and shows that ‘world punk rock’ need not be a dirty phrase.

The dynamic duo of Marylise Frecheville and Eric Boros have been lugging their nomadic turbo folk sound and modus vivendi all over the planet since the turn of the century, originally as the rhythm section of the performance striptease jazz-punk trio NNY, and since 2002 as Vialka. They have resided in Switzerland, Slovenia, Canada, and are currently calling a remote village in France their home between tours. Deriving its influences from traditional and modern underground music from around the globe, Vialka’s music is based on the frenetic interaction between Marylise’s syncopated drumming and singing and Eric’s orchestral guitar playing – and is delivered with ecstatic energy, humor, lust for life, and a sophisticated musical language and subliminal connection all their own.

After releasing their first two albums “Tonight I Show You Fuck” (2002) and “Republic Of The Bored & Boring” (2003) on the mysterious Manufracture label, they founded the “VIA” nonprofit cooperative for the production and promotion of working artists (officially the Vialka Association 1901) and henceforth began releasing their own material: “Everywhere And Nowhere” (2004), a video documenting their work together over the first five years; “Curiosities Of Popular Customs” (2005), their first full-length recording; a split disc with the Israeli “klezmercore” combo Kruzenshtern I Parohod (2006 – co-released with Auris Media in Israel); “Plus Vite Que La Musique” (2007); and their latest album “Succès Planétaire International” (2009 – co-released with Dual Plover in Australia) – their third recording with Bob Drake.

Vialka is not just a musical project, but a social scientific experiment, attempting to meet, communicate and work with extraordinary and little known musicians and artists from everywhere and nowhere – with particular interest in polluted dictatorships, bleak colonies, and monarchic democracies. They have toured extensively in over fifty countries (100+ concerts per year) across Europe, Africa, North America and Asia, and have collaborated with Chinese musician Xiao He, French mbira player/drummer Andrew Dymond, Italian saxophonist Jacopo Andreini, Macedonian artist collective OPA, Swiss cinematographer Sébastien Riond, French eco-designer Cédric Carles, the legendary former-CAN singer Damo Suzuki, and New Zealand drummer Kieran Monaghan.

http://www.vialka.com/

Audio of their latest acoustic album can be heard here:
http://vialka.com/science-and-superstition