#pandelindio

Bird People are a drone band formed in 2010 by Ulrich Rois. Solo and with a host of collaborators Rois has since explored various forms of extended tone music, often influenced by drone-based folk music, Hindustani music and early minimalism. Bird People have toured extensively throughout Europe and have shared the stage with MV+EE, Sylvester Anfang II, Hellvete, Head of Wantastiquet and Rhys Chatham, among many others. Recently Bird People have performed in a band line-up focussing on predominantly acoustic free drone music. Pandelindio is a self-described "solo and collective project of experimental and ritualistic music" from Argentina, founded by Federico Fossati. On "Fuego y Soma", Pandelindio create a unique blend of drone-based jams with strong Indian and Middle-Eastern flavors, comprised of field recordings, box tambura, didgeridoo, violin, shehnai, bansuri, harmonium and chanting. Harry Hoogstraten is a Dutch beat poet and visual artist who has been a key figure in the European underground poetry scene of the last few decades. He edited the literary magazines Mandala and Abracadabra, organised the One World Poetry festivals in Amsterdam and worked with Steve Lacy, James Koller and Franco Beltrametti. Hoogstraten writes in Dutch, English, German, Italian etc: working with breath and sound being the most important which gives his poetry a musical quality. 'His readings are sometimes almost chanting, sometimes in machine-gun bursts of lines out of which he would often break into a quiet and lyrical passage.’