GNOD
Since their inception, Gnod’s musical trajectory has been one of constant fluctuation borne out of an incessant need to discover new sonic worlds. Beginning life as a shamanic drone ensemble, at times fitting up to 15 members on stage, these early rituals informed the core ideals that have come to define the group in their years of activity; community and trance-inducing repetition.
Throughout a discography that has amassed dozens of CD-R’s, cassettes and vinyls for labels like Rocket Recordings, Trensmat, Krokodilo (Blackest Ever Black) and their own Tesla Tapes imprint, a restless yet organic need mutate their music into new realms has had critics clawing for comparative touch stones.
Acts as far ranging as Hawkwind, Popul Vuh, Pan Sonic, Sunburned Hand of the Man and Pharaoh Sanders have all been referenced in attempt to pinpoint their output, one that has historically never aped any genre but with each record furthered their own unique place in truly independent music. It is the exact same dedication to the live arena that has seen Gnod become one of the most celebrated live bands in the UK and secured them multiple tours and festival appearances throughout Europe.
In these times of cash in hand ‘glory days’ reunions and bands simply rehashing their recorded material pitch perfect live, Gnod are a stark and welcome anomaly. Already moving on from the barley released and universally acclaimed epic ‘Infinity Machines’, the current live incarnation of the band is characterised by a crushing, cataclysmic new protest music whose call to arms gravitas offers a meaningful defiance to Cameron’s Austerity Britain.
Gnod have taken their very namesake and charged it with bludgeoning new edge that is as euphoric as it is nihilistic. It is one that stridently attests to the group’s spiritual center, one of community that is inclusive and respectful of its audience yet will never placate to their expectations. Instead, Gnod offer a gateway to an aural black hole and along with firm guiding hand, the opportunity to dive head and body first into a powerfully new psychedelic maelstrom full of possibilities.
HARRGA
is a Bristol based duo from Miguel Prado (Nzumbe) and Dali de Saint Paul (EP/64-Viridian Ensemble) formed in 2017. In 2019, their album « Héroïques Animaux de la Misère » on Avon Terror Corps, was a critically acclaimed meditation on the horror of that which crevasses borders.
Their second opus, “Femmes d’Intérieur”, firstly released in 2020 on Takuroku (Café Oto digital label) was exploring femininity and violence against women, urging to empower them. They appear on several international compilations such as Mansplained Commando Vanessa in 2021, Great Mas5 One from Moor Mother & friends label, Black MAS5 Records in 2022 or Hypermedium Future Chorus in 2023.
Singing in French, English or Darija, mixing poetics and politics, Dali de Saint Paul pairs up with Miguel Prado’s singular amorphous noise-design to conjure a seething and thoroughly
anomalous vision of contemporary industrial music. They have performed in international festivals such Berlin Atonal 2019, WOS 2019, Colapsoloxias 2021, and in 2022 Counterflows Festival, Bristol New Music, Supersonic Festival, Avant Art Festival (Wroclaw) Klangzeit Festival.