I CAN HEAR MUSIC
We programme an ongoing and diverse selection of local and international, alternative and experimental artists and DJs to perform, sometimes as part of the film festival, oftentimes as stand-alone events. We’ve held concerts and parties in secret gardens, in a band club, in a cemetery, in a tower, in a cave, in a bocce club, in a fortification ditch.
DEAN WENGROW
Dean is Kinemastik family, he’s been a strong presence at our most recent festival parties keeping them exactly as they should be. We also partner with Dean in his Les Nuits Cosmiques project – excellent dance parties for excellent people which aim to support the local scene whilst bringing up and coming international artists from the world of electronic music to Malta.
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CAPITOL K
It’s difficult to know where to start with Kristian, he’s ubiquitous to a Kinemastik festival – our thin, long haired ghost with a handheld laptop style. On top of that we proudly hosted Kinemastik Kave Sessions II with him and John Joanna (see more of John below).
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C.A.R.
London residing, Franco-Canadian Chloé Raunet aka C.A.R. is a unique underground producer and lyricist who’s been immersed in the world of post-punk, cold wave and her own brand of off-kilter synth-pop since the days fronting her band Battant. A self-trained musician, she writes, composes and produces everything on her own. Raunet is the first to say her approach is punk – very much a DIY process of trial and error. The result is playful, machine-driven and dark.
Following a handful of singles for Kill The DJ, her debut solo album My Friend came out in 2014. It was followed by a move to cutting edge UK label, Ransom Note, and a second LP, PINNED in 2018.
JOHN JOHANNA
We had the pleasure of hosting a double bill of Capitol K and John Johanna for our Kinemastik Kave sessions II.
John Johanna’s eclectic output uses psychedelia and oriental tonalities, primal gospel blues, and folk – among other ingredients – to create a body of diverse yet coherent devotional music. A singer and multi-instrumentalist who works on cassette and reel to reel tape at his home in rural Norfolk UK. His debut release the Mini Album ‘I’ll Be Ready When The Great Day Comes’ via Faith & Industry was released in January 2018. He is “inspired by and aspires to approach the spirit of the anonymous musicians I hear in folk field recordings from around the world, in classical Indian dhrupad singers, in outsider musicians, in the hissing cassette recordings of the underground electric guitarists of NW Africa and so on.” / Almost like a series of manipulated field recordings that have an ancient, ritualistic quality, Goatherder shimmers with Balearic strangeness, rooted in an earthy outer-national dance music tradition.
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KENICHI ISAWA
We had the pleasure of hosting a double bill of Capitol K and John Johanna for our Kinemastik Kave sessions II.
John Johanna’s eclectic output uses psychedelia and oriental tonalities, primal gospel blues, and folk – among other ingredients – to create a body of diverse yet coherent devotional music. A singer and multi-instrumentalist who works on cassette and reel to reel tape at his home in rural Norfolk UK. His debut release the Mini Album ‘I’ll Be Ready When The Great Day Comes’ via Faith & Industry was released in January 2018. He is “inspired by and aspires to approach the spirit of the anonymous musicians I hear in folk field recordings from around the world, in classical Indian dhrupad singers, in outsider musicians, in the hissing cassette recordings of the underground electric guitarists of NW Africa and so on.” / Almost like a series of manipulated field recordings that have an ancient, ritualistic quality, Goatherder shimmers with Balearic strangeness, rooted in an earthy outer-national dance music tradition.
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AARON DILLOWAY
Aaron Dilloway is a sound artist / noise musician from midwest America working with the manipulation of crude tape loops in combination with voice, tape delays and various organic and electronic sound sources. A founding member of the industrial noise group Wolf Eyes (1998 – 2005), Dilloway now performs and records solo and in ongoing collaboration work with artists such as Genesis P-Orridge, Jason Lescalleet, Vicky Langan, Dylan Nyoukis, and more. Dilloway also runs the experimental music record label & record shop Hanson Records in Oberlin, Ohio, and is an avid collector of underground music, video, and artwork.
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NIGEL BALDACCHINO
Baldacchino started making music and learning production in 2011 through his musical project Fastidju, developing rough musical and written ideas with local producers such as Mario Sammut (Cygna). The project eventually developed into a band that performed several times around the island and released a self-titled album in 2014 (fully funded by the Malta Arts Fund).Working with different producers and musicians throughout the Fastidju project, Nigel Baldacchino soon started learning to produce his own music. This led to a performance in a cave together with renowned experimental musician Aaron Dilloway, along with a number of soundtracks composed, produced and designed for local theatre performances and art video pieces. Soundtracks include videos such as Adrian Abela’s 4.1868 The Theory of Heat and SONUS: The sound of sonnets and the paper memory machine. Theatre performances include Teatru Santwarju’s LIMBUS and Rebecca Camilleri/Nicola Rayworth’s S-S-Spaces.
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STEPH VR
Stephanie is an artist and illustrator and Kinemastik family. With a penchant for the mysterious and the darkly funny. Educated in Brussels and London, she graduated from Central St Martin’s.
Her work includes pictures, comics, murals, animation, and
installations. As a core member of London art collective LE GUN, as well
as independently, she has widely exhibited in the UK, Europe, the US,
Japan, and China. She lives and works in London.
Favourite things include Negroni cocktails, bookshops, old cinemas,
dingy harbour bars, forests, beaches, and cemeteries.
In her spare time she can be found taking part in sinister theatrical
events, or playing in various musical ensembles and circumstances.
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LUCAS ABELA / JUSTICE YELDHAM
Lucas Abela (born 7 May 1972), also known by the stage name Justice Yeldham, is an Australian noise musician. He is most famous for creating an instrument made from a diamond-shaped pane of glass, fitted with contact microphones and attached to effects pedals. During live shows, he manipulates and breaks the glass with his mouth, often receiving cuts in the process and leaving his face and the instrument smeared in blood. NME described his live shows as “crossing the line between music and bloodsport”.[1] Despite being classified as a noise artist, Abela sees himself as an improvisational musician in the free jazz tradition.
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RENZO SPITERI
He performs as multi-percussionist and drummer in major festivals and venues, and carries a distinct artistic sensitivity and ability of adapting to a wide range of musical styles – classical to experimental, from solo percussion performances to improvisations, contemporary, jazz and world music.
When composing music for contemporary dance companies, art exhibitions and film/moving image, Renzo uses the sonic environment around him as a primary source of raw material that not only sets the tone to his work, but is also a powerful source of inspiration.
Through his work, Renzo seeks to bring about a deeper sensorial engagement between listeners / audiences and his work, be it in public spaces, performance venues, film, art galleries and museums.
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BEN RUSSELL
Ben Russell and Basma Alsharif, a tall couple of filmmakers came to Malta to hold a workshop on psychedelic ethnography. Malta Arts Fund gave us a helping hand so we’d like to shake it firmly and say thanks. Ben Russell’s film Atlantis, coproduced by Kinemastik, premiered at Nyons Film Festival and continues to be screened until today, most recently at Tate Modern. Hemade a music video during his stay in Malta, for none other than Kentucky’s most charming man, BPB
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DARK HORSES
In their own words: “DARK HORSES believe that the lightning is within you, let it travel up your spine.
There are zones of the story yet to be revealed.”
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DARK HORSES
In their own words: “DARK HORSES believe that the lightning is within you, let it travel up your spine.
There are zones of the story yet to be revealed.”
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