Samstag, 4. Juli @ White Rabbit/GdK Berlin, Start: 21 Uhr.
PARKING NON-STOP (Klangbad) is Zoe Skoulding and Alan Holmes (Ectogram) from Wales (UK)
parking non-stop at total solar eclipse 99PARKING NON-STOP combine found sounds and field recordings with art pop music. In recent years they have built up a body of work that explores the sonic geography of a wider Europe within the context of north Wales, where they live. The main focus of this work is a series of musical pieces that integrate field recordings they have made in various European locations with recordings made in their own home studios. These pieces generally combine an experimental soundscape approach with an aesthetic that veers unpredictably between europop and industrial minimalism.
They aim to achieve a north Wales sound that is based in discovering new spatial and temporal resonances: this is not a musical identity built from a mythical past, but an engagement with the sonic possibilities of the abandoned quarries and rusting machinery in the landscape as it is today, and with how these locations are in conversation with other places, from Berlin to Budapest.
Their album, Species Corridor, was released by Klangbad in 2008: "I feel a true magic in this band.... Oscillating wildly between spacey pop and documentary, they have assembled an album that is not only a collection of wonderful songs but also give a bystander’s perspective on the strange creature that is Europe." John Kealey, Brainwashed.
http://www.myspace.com/parkingnonstop
