RED ORANGE artists roster

FULL ROSTER (get in touch if interested in any of the artists below):



WORLD MUSIC:

* A Moving Sound * [taiwan]
Traditional meets Modern Taiwanese, Chinese and Asian music forms

* Ana Diniz * [brazil]
Cocos, Cirandas, Maracatus, Afoxes, Bois and more from Pernambuco

* Antonio Zambujo * [portugal]
a daring fusion merging 'cante alentejano', fado and Brazilian popular music

* Melike * [turkey]
breathes new life into the old troubadour songs by creating a Turkish folk style that belongs to the young generation of today

* Meng Wang * [china]
Young guzheng player who has won already several awards and performed in the opera "Monkey, the journey to the west" (O2 Arena)

* Municipale Balcanica * [italy]
Klezmer/Balkans/World Music

* Raquel Tavares * [portugal]
one of the most representative Fado singers of the new generation, winner of the 2006 Amalia Rodrigues Revelation Prize

* Tri A Tolia * [turkey/iraq/belgium]
Turkish voice, Iraqi qanun, Belgian cello: an acoustic bridge crossing Eastern and Western worlds led by Melike Tarhan, the "new star of Turkish folk" (Mondomix)

* Uxia * [spain]
contemporary mix of Galician roots with Portuguese and African songs



JAZZ / IMPROVISED / EXPERIMENTAL:

* Carlos Barretto * [portugal]
Modern creative jazz doublebass player who has played with Steve Lacy, Mal Waldron, Barry Altschull...

* David Maranha * [portugal]
Founder of Osso Exotico, using traditional or classical instruments, focuses on small variations of harmonics and overtones

* Max Eastley * [uk]
sound sculptor and painter, music instrument maker, kinetic sound sculptures [concerts/exhibitions/installations/workshops]

* Osso Exotico * [portugal]
It spews the grit of Tony Conrad and the trance of Terry Riley, while radiating the experience of a sweat lodge in a behemoth explosion of tribal minimalism

* Rafael Toral * [portugal]
Post-Free Jazz Electronic Music

* Uniform * [uk]
Dark blend of fractured electronic, industrial, experimental soundscapes - have collaborated with Lydia Lunch, Alan Vega, Dalek and Franko B

* William Parker [usa] / Guillermo Brown [usa] / Victor Gama [angola/portugal] *
(trio)

* Z'EV * [usa/uk]
American Text Sound artist who began recording in the late 60's in a handful of psych-out projects. By the late 70s, he began to explore the "spatial poetics" of the polyrhythmic clamor he had established with his hand-built percussive instruments

* Z'EV [usa/uk] / Kasper T. Toeplitz [france] *
(duo)

* Z'EV [usa/uk] vs PITA (Peter Rehberg) [uk/austria] *
(duo)

* Z'EV [usa/uk] / Peter Rehberg [uk/austria] / Oren Ambarchi [australia] *
(trio)

* Z'EV [usa/uk] / Charlemagne Palestine [usa/belgium] *
(duo)



ELECTRONICA / EXPERIMENTAL:

* Heribert Friedl * [austria]
minimal, lowercase electroacoustics, experimental, working with scents and its non visual phenomenons

* Gintas K * [lithuania]
minimal digital sounds, sinewaves, microwaves, acoustic vibrations

* Ran Slavin * [israel]
Prix Ars Electronica awarded composer with releases on Sub Rosa, Mille Plateaux and Cronica, live video/sound, image generative sound, installations

* Vitor Joaquim * [portugal]
beatless electronica, ambient, warm glitch, minimal, emotional electronica

* Yann Novak * [usa]
sound art, abstract digital processing, experimental contemporary minimalism, installations



DANCE MUSIC:

* Pixel 82 * [portugal]
Electro/Techno/Minimal/Tech House, remixed Freddy Mercury, Kylie Minogue, Anderson Noise...



AVANT ROCK / AVANT FOLK / OUTER LIMITS:

* Faust * [germany]
the legendary and most radical Krautrock band

* FAUZ't * [germany]
Z'EV and Hans Joachim Irmler, keyboardist for the original Faust band, CD out soon on Atavistic

* Li Jianhong * [china]
highly-crafted noise guitarist

* Lonely China Day * [china]
avant pop/rock, minimalist indie rock

* Xiao He * [china]
avant folk guitarist/singer



MODERN COMPOSITION / UNCLASSIFIABLE / OTHER EXPLORATORY MUSIC:

* Jenni Roditi * [uk]
opera, choral, chamber, orchestral and vocal music, in the best European theatrical and sacred minimalist school traditions

* Rodrigo Leao * [portugal]
intimate modern-classic compositions, one of the founders of Madredeus, has collaborated with the likes of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ludovico Einaudi, Beth Gibbons (Portishead) and Adriana Calcanhoto

* Tanya Tagaq * [canada]
Startlingly innovative vocal explorations from Inuit throat-singer, who has collaborated with Bjork, Kronos Quartet, Mike Patton, Sainkho Namtchylak...

* Victor Gama * [angola/portugal]
composer, performer and designer of innovative musical instruments [concerts/exhibitions/installations/workshops]

* Wu Fei * [china/usa]
"Soulful, lyrical and powerful music from this remarkable young composer/performer from Beijing" (John Zorn), "Fei's playing on the guzheng is breathtaking" (Fred Frith) - she has collaborated with John Zorn, Fred Frith, Elliot Sharp, Joelle Leandre, Pauline Oliveros, Meredith Monk, Alvin Curran, Cecil Taylor... - new album out now on Tzadik



CONTEMPORARY DANCE:

* Companhia Paulo Ribeiro * [portugal]
Award-winning dance company led by choreographer Paulo Ribeiro, presently touring internationally Sextet (2009), Feminine (2008) and Masculine (2007)



PERFORMANCE ART:

* Ana Borralho & Joao Galante * [portugal]
frequent addressed themes include body/mind, outside/inside, emotion/feeling, me/others, gender/sexual ambiguity, erotic imaginary



Miguel Santos
RED ORANGE Arts Agency
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• article submitted by: Miguel Santos, Red Orange

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