Eight gigs by musicians from China, Japan, Germany and Georgia will grace the popular B10 Live stage next weekend at the sixth Tomorrow Festival.
A lecture and two documentary screenings will also be held at the three-day festival to promote avant-garde music.
The most highlighted gigs will be presented by two female musicians: Asiq Nargile from Georgia and German electronic musician Gudrun Gut.
Asiq Nargile
Nargile plays saz, a long-neck lute. Her vocal recital of epic folk poetry is by turns ecstatic and deeply expressive, and is interspersed with bursts of virtuosic, highly ornamented saz.
Gudrun Gut
Gut’s style is a kind of minimal techno with a warm sound and a dark timbre, and it radiates with beautiful melancholy. The Wire magazine featured her on the cover of the April 2008 issue, saying “this ‘dilettante’ has genially hosted Berlin’s new music scene for 30 years.”
Another gig which should not be missed is German veteran band Guru Guru who carved its way outside the mainstream and short-lived trends by blending experimental rock, avant-garde, jazz and world music into an unique, original form of rock’n’roll.
Guru Guru
On the last night of the festival, Tomorrow Improvisation Unit will be arranged for the artists and audiences who are hungry for the unexpected.
Shows
May 17
7-8 p.m., Asiq Nargile
8:20-9:20 p.m., Byetone
9:40-10:40 p.m., Merzbow
May 18
7-8 p.m., Gudrun Gut
8:20-9:20 p.m., Mamer
9:40-10:40 p.m. Koenji Hyakkei
May 19
7-8 p.m., Feng Jiangzhou
8:20-9:20 p.m., Guru Guru
9:40-10:40 p.m. Improvisation
Lecture
‘Extra-Geography — A History and Methodology of Sublime Frequencies’
Speaker: Hisham Mayet (U.S.)
Time: 2-4 p.m., May 18
Screenings
‘Musical Brotherhoods From the Trans-Saharan Highway’
Time: 4-5 p.m., May 18
‘Ballads, Blues and Bluegrass’
Time: 2-3 p.m., May 19
Shows: B10 Live
Lecture & films: A3+
Tickets: 180-230 yuan
Add: North Area, OCT-LOFT, Nanshan District (南山区华侨城创意文化园北区)
Metro: Line 2 to Qiaocheng North Station (侨城北站), Exit B
