With the likes of Arca and Jesse Kanda, SUMS, Forest Swords and Jessy Lanza already confirmed, we’re delighted to bring you the second round of artists and projects for Rewire 2017.
Joining the lineup for the 7th edition of Rewire festival, we’re proud to welcome Jeff Mills & Tony Allen, Swans,This Is Not This Heat,Helena Hauff, Daniel Lanois, Peter Zinovieff & Lucy Railton, Wolf Eyes, Aurora Halal, SHXCXCHCXSH, Virginia Wing, Carla Dal Forno, Gábor Lázár, Pete Harden & Ensemble Klang, Sex Swing, Waclaw Zimpel and to The Hague.More artists, as well as talks, workshops and screenings, will be added to the lineup over the coming months.
Spread across three full days and the city’s key cultural and nightlife venues, Rewire 2017 returns to The Hague from 31 March to 2 April. Festival passes and individual day tickets are now available. All tickets can be purchased through: www.rewirefestival.nl/tickets.
A rare collaboration between two musical masters, Detroit techno pioneer Jeff Mills and legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen come together at Rewire 2017 for a special live performance. Each a leading figure in their respective realms, Jeff Mills is an iconic DJ and visionary producer hailed as one of the originators of Detroit’s infamous techno scene, while Tony Allen is best known for his revolutionary drumming and defining the pulse of Fela Kuti’s propulsive Afrobeat sound. Performing together for just the second time in their storied careers, Jeff Mills and Tony Allen treat Rewire 2017 to an hour-long, jazz-infused union of expansive techno textures and pulsating live percussion on the festival Sunday.
Swans headlines the Saturday programme. The legendary New York outfit surrounding singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira has made a profound impact on the musical world, and it’s an incredible honour to be hosting what might well be their final Dutch appearance. Championing a blatant disregard for genre boundaries, Swans have charted an uncompromising path through no wave, art-rock, industrial, sludge, doom, drone and folk over the course of their 30 year history. Returning from a 15 year hiatus in 2010, Gira and co. have since released four critically acclaimed albums – including 2016’s The Glowing Man – each of which have only served to feed their almost mythical status.
Joining Swans on the Saturday night is French-Canadian musician and producer Daniel Lanois. Renowned for his production work with Brian Eno, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson, Daniel Lanois is also a celebrated artist in his own right. Over the course of 9 full-length albums, including last year’s acclaimed ‘Goodbye to Language’, Daniel Lanois dispenses pure guitar magic with little more than a pedal steel, lap steel and battery of effects. Performed live, his intimate and expressive ambient dreamscapes command your full attention. At Rewire 2017, Daniel Lanois treats us to the Dutch debut of his instrumental A/V performance.
This Is Not This Heat marks the ‘return’ of pioneering British art-rock collective This Heat.
Formed back in 1976, the band concocted some of the most experimental ideas ever committed to tape during their short-lived existence, sowing the seeds of generations of post-punk, avant rock, noise rock and post-rock to come. Reunited after 40 years, founding members Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward have lined up an illustrious cast in Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor and Grumbling Fur’s Daniel O’Sullivan to reinterpret This Heat’s ground-breaking original sounds. The collective’s performance on the Sunday evening will be their first ever in the Netherlands.
Throughout the festival weekend, we’ll also be presenting a number of other special projects and premieres. Joining the Dutch debut of Arca and Jesse Kanda’s DJ + live AV performance and Daniel Wohl’s collaboration with Slagwerk Den Haag and Matangi Quartet are Hungarian artist and producer Gábor Lázár and The Hague-based collective Pete Harden & Ensemble Klang. Having just released his new album ‘Crisis of Representation’, Lázár will be presenting an adapted, responsive sound and light installation entitled, ‘A Trap For Attention’. Ensemble Klang perform ‘Precious Metals’, a recent work by their artistic director and guitarist Pete Harden that explores texture and resonance through distorted trombones and stuttering guitars.
Added to the Saturday programme are a trio of Dutch premieres, chief among them the debut of pioneering British composer and engineer Peter Zinovieff and cellist Lucy Railton. Founder of London’s Electronic Music Studio and inventor of the ground-breaking VC3 synthesizer, Zinovieff was one of the very first people to use a computer to control electronic sounds, and almost certainly the first to wheel it onto a stage and perform. At Rewire 2017, he’s joined by Lucy Railton to perform RFG, a new, spatially configured work for cello and computer. Also premiering on the Saturday are Polish one-man-ensemble Waclaw Zimpel and brutal London underground supergroup Sex Swing.
Extending the bruising sounds of Sex Swing as well as previously confirmed artists Pharmakon and Moor Mother deep into the Saturday programme are legendary Michigan trio Wolf Eyes. Evolving from underground curiosities into noise music pioneers over the course of their 20 year existence, Wolf Eyes dive into new depths of electronic and free jazz infected music with their forthcoming album ‘Undertow’. Also confirmed for the Saturday are Blackest Ever Black’s plain-spoken Australian rep Carla dal Forno and Manchester-based electro-pop duo Virginia Wing, while the frenetic energy of Philadelphia-born solo drummer NAH has been added to the Friday programme.
Helmed by Helena Hauff, Aurora Halal and SHXCXCHCXSH, the Saturday night programme shows no signs of letting up either. A long-time resident at Hamburg’s Golden Pudel Club, Helena Hauff’s eclectic all-vinyl sets have made her one of the most revered DJ’s of her generation, while New York underground club luminary Aurora Halal hypnotises with her shadowy and psychedelic live hardware set and mysterious Swedish duo SHXCXCHCXSH drag you through the darkest recesses of techno’s experimental margins.
Over the coming months, we’ll be adding more artists, as well as talks, workshops and screenings, to the Rewire 2017 lineup. In the meantime, you can sign up for our Newsletter and attend our Facebook event to stay up to date with the latest Rewire news.
A limited number of Festival Passes are available, as well as individual tickets for each of the Rewire 2017 days. All tickets can be purchased through: www.rewirefestival.nl/tickets.
Rewire 2017 Programme so far:
FRIDAY 31 MARCH
Arca & Jesse Kanda (DJ + live AV)
Daniel Wohl + Slagwerk Den Haag + Matangi Quartet present Holographic
Forest Swords
Jessy Lanza
GAIKA
Lorenzo Senni
Zs
Tirzah
Horse Lords
Gábor Lázár
Pete Harden & Ensemble Klang
Cloud Becomes Your Hand
NAH
Trigger plays John Zorn’s Bagatelles
SATURDAY 1 APRIL
Swans
Daniel Lanois (Instrumental steel AV)
Helena Hauff
Peter Zinovieff & Lucy Railton present RGF
Wolf Eyes
SHXCXCHCXSH
Pharmakon
Croatian Amor
Moor Mother
Aurora Halal
Virginia Wing
Carla Dal Forno
Waclaw Zimpel
Sex Swing
Reckonwrong
SUNDAY 2 APRIL
Jeff Mills & Tony Allen
SUMS: Kangding Ray & Barry Burns (Mogwai)
This Is Not This Heat
These Hidden Hands
Radian
Jameszoo Quartet
Sarathy Korwar
The Chi Factory
Ryan Teague Ensemble
+ more artists to be confirmed over the next months
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