PHIL MAGGI & DRAAIER/FREZER (TOM VAN LIPPEVELDE)

Live, audiovisual performance - Idiosyncratics @ CAFE CENTRAL, Brussels (Belgium)
9 PM
Cafe Central Borgval 14, 1000 Brussels

Idiosyncratics Label Night

Idiosyncratics Label Night

mercredi 20 février 2013
NEST, Botermarkt 2, 9000 Gent

with
PURE, AT (Live - Mego, Crónica, Feld)
MIEKE LAMBRIGTS (Live - Silken Tofu)
PAUWEL DE BUCK (Live, Entr'acte)
PHIL MAGGI & DRAAIER/FREZER (TOM VAN LIPPEVELDE) (Live, audiovisual performance - Idiosyncratics)
YANNICK FRANCK presents HIEROPHANY (Live - Idiosyncratics)
MAZE (dj set - Idiosyncratics / Viscous Mantle)

+ Merch available! Event artists, Idiosyncratics Label artists

LINKS
Artists
http://pure.test.at/
http://deplayer.nl/people/peter-fengler
http://www.myspace.com/miekelambrigts
http://pauweldebuck.blogspot.de/
http://www.philmaggi.com/
http://www.yannickfranck.com/


Venue http://www.nestgent.files.wordpress.com/


Idiosyncratics Label http://www.idiosyncratics.net/

The Golden Age

New video : "The Golden Age".

Music : Phil Maggi.
Video : Tom Van Lippevelde.

CYCLES Martin Coste // Phil Maggi

The Exhibition will take place from 10th January to Friday 15 February 2013 @ Centre Culturel de Chênée, Liège, Belgium.

Next gig @ Brussels

Next gig @ "Connectic'arts" on 17th June 2012 (More TBA)

Grande Matinee OHP 9

Next gig @ Maastricht on Sunday 20th of May.

Kaspar König (CH)- Quadrophonic Spagetti for Android
Syndicate (NL) - Ambient
Phil Maggi (B) - Field recordings
Oscar - BBQ

Ghost Love Free Download

Hey Folks, my last album 'GHOST LOVE' is now available here for free download:

Performance for the end of Jonathan De Winter's Exhibition

I will perform with friends Bruital Orgasme and Gérard Meurant. The end of exhibition will take place @ Botanique, in Brussels.

New Live Free Download

Tsuku Tsuku Grammofon will release the entire Live @ An Vert, a solo performance supporting Philippe Petit and guests.(see the cover on discography)

Performance at Jonathan De Winter's Exhibition

It will take place at Botanique, in Brussels, on Wednesday 29 February 2012. I will perform with these others guests Bruital Orgasm and Gérard Meurant.

Next Gig @ Ciné-Club du Laveu, Liège

It will take place on 26th of February 2012, with the presentation of 'Itinerances', an experimental film created by Delphine Fedoroff.
The soundtrack of the film is the entire album 'Blue fields in Paramount'. The performance will be accompanied by two dancers: Etelle Bibbo and Ornella Venica.

An Inedit Track for the Compilation 'PARTICULE ARISES'

Particule Arises detailed (Basses Frequences):
I’ve received quite a lot of demos and sollicitations since summer 2010. I thank all the artists for their trust and interest in the label. Unfortunatelly, my (already pretty full) schedule started to extend due to delays and financial issues. I haven’t been able to take new projects for a while but still, I wanted to find a way to help or work with some of these artists. Then the end of 2011 was approaching and I wanted to offer a christmas gift to my loyal customers this year again. So the idea of producing a free compilation with exclusive material from some of them came in mind, thinking it would give them some highlight. The artists in this compilation are Johannes Buff (also known as Knell – Utech Rds) (France), Witxes (France), Kevin Gan Yuen (also known as Fermantæ) (USA), Philippe Lamy (France), Attilo Novellino (Italy), Colbets (Japan), Ecka Liena (UK) and Phil Maggi (Belgium). They all were kind enough to participate and offer and exclusive track ! That was a very exciting project. CDR in an edition of 100, with 4 pages booklet. And then, here it is, the Basses Frequences christmas gift 2011 ! This, too, has been delayed, like any other release, mostly because of the particularly low sales of last fall. Too late for christmas, too late for being a “happy new year” gift as well, the compilation remains free nevertheless and will be given away with the purchase of any Basses Frequences release during February.

Rock a Rolla Review

While Belgian doomsters Ultraphallus punctuate their heaviness with noisy digressions and soundscapes, vocalist/noisemonger Phil Maggi goes into full-on exploratory mode on his latest solo effort, showing unmistakably where is band get their free-form grooves from. Citing traditional Tibetan music, Klezmer and Werner Herzog, amongst others as inspiration, Ghost Love perfectly encapsulates Maggi's intentions - an unsettling collage of Eastern sounds and omnious soundscapes, it would indeed serve as spot-on accompaniment to a Herzog film.
John S.

Nextclues Review

Dear folks, here is that great review of Ghost Love, written by Bil for Nextclues:

La prolifération d’albums ambient/expérimentaux, depuis que faire sa mixture sur ordi est à la portée du moindre con sachant déplacer sur un écran un curseur à l’aide d’une souris, est telle, que distinguer les grosses bouses des vrais bons disques devient de plus en plus délicat. Sous couvert de pseudo mysticisme et de prétendue spiritualité, on nous enfonce le plus souvent dans les conduits quelques drones aggravés de minables crépitements, on triture deux ou trois potards virtuels, on tire sur un bong, et on espère qu’un semblant d’ésotérisme fera le reste – pourvu que l’i-Book ne freeze pas et que Cubase ne plante pas, parce que ça, ça a plutôt tendance à foutre en l’air tout l’aspect shamanique de notre affaire. Phil Maggi n’est pas de ceux qui se croient immensément créatifs parce qu’ils savent coller des sons les uns à la suite des autres. Ou les uns sur les autres. Son Ghost Love, enregistrement d’une grande humilité, est là pour le prouver. Car ce qui m’a plu avant tout lors de son écoute, c’est que très rapidement on oublie qu’il n’y a qu’un seul capitaine aux commandes (celui-ci ne craignant pas de faire se confronter ses propres idées) et que ces nappes ne sont qu’un triste défilé de uns et de zéros. Phil Maggi est parvenu à composer une œuvre organique, absolument pas hermétique, dans laquelle on s’enfonce. On palpe, on goûte. On l’inspecte, on la tourne, on la retourne. On fait autre chose que contempler le paysage. Elle est tout sauf inerte, cette musique. Au lieu de proposer le systématique soundtrack imaginaire d’un film qui n’existera (heureusement) jamais, Maggi nous invite à inventer son propre voyage. Chacun ira où bon lui semble. De mon côté, peut-être à cause des bruits d’insectes et des fléchettes au curare qui sifflent au-dessus de ma tête, je me vois paumé au beau milieu d’une forêt tropicale, en Amazonie, alors que si je suis les « inspirations » que Maggi a imprimées à l’intérieur de la pochette*, c’est plutôt vers l’Est que lui a voulu se tourner. Ou alors, plus loin, en route pour une visite des catacombes guidée par Popol Vuh ? Peu importe. Je ne vais pas non plus essayer de vous faire croire que Ghost Love est un trip transcendantal, un rite initiatique, une révélation mystique, une quête intérieure ou une extirpation de son corps. C’est simplement un album ambient en constant mouvement, plein de percus, de sonorités originales, de chants bizarroïdes, fantomatiques, de bouts de musique classique, de violons en perdition, de bruits de pas décidés et d’idées qui ressemblent à une recollection de rêves. Ceux de Phil Maggi, qui sans les interpréter, les a faits d’entrechoquer. Pour ensuite nous proposer de monter à bord. Libre à nous de sauter dans le wagon ou de rester à quai. Phil Maggi est le chanteur/bidouilleur des belges d’Ultraphallus, et si les passages les plus « ethniques » / « drogués » de leur dernier album, le super bon Sowberry Haggan, ne vous ont pas laissé de marbre, il se pourrait alors que Ghost Love soit votre came.
* Werner Herzog (certainement ce qui m’a mis sur les pistes d’Aguirre et de Nosferatu), la musique traditionnelle tibétaine, la musique Klezmer, Henri Barbusse, Istanbul, G.I. Gurdjieff, Leadbelly et Ennio Morricone. (8/10)

Interview for 'Accroches' Magazine

Here is a french interview for 'Accroches', written by Julien Broquet.

Live @ Café Central

Live Performance on 1st of November 2011 @ Café Central, with Etelle Bibbo and Ornella Venica

Fluid Radio Review for 'Ghost Love'

A well appropriated musical and textural contrast can be an incredibly satisfying thing to hear. That way of combining ambient prettiness with noise and fuzz chosen by the likes of Fennesz and Belong for instance, or Barn Owl’s dusty twilight stasis atop a bed of doomed grunt. The feeling of having your brain pulled in several directions at once or in a jarring or disorientating sequence, being forced to feel conflicting bodily and mental reactions as the material unfolds, can distinguish an interesting, multi-layered album from its counterparts. What we have with Phil Maggi’s ‘Ghost Love’ is a set of tracks that visits various outposts of experimental music and wraps them up into something that shimmers with droning organic ambience on one hand; on the other it guides the listener through a quasi-ritualistic experience set out through primitive percussive or mechanical rhythms, captured ethnic vocal loops and even some Leyland Kirby-esque ‘hauntology’ (most obviously on the closing track) to push the unsettling atmosphere and support the record’s title. And unsettling really is the word for the majority of this album. Tracks like ‘Hordes’ and ‘Meshes, Ashes’ seem to possess a sense of dread, steeped in weird history and darkly enchanting like uncovered sonic relics of a long abandoned time in a distant place. This seems to overlap into something more exotic as the ever changing locational character of other tracks aim to place us, briefly, in one of a variety of surreal climates. And again, the exoticism then overlaps with the aforementioned ambience that makes up a large part of the album’s lighter side, more in tune with the kind of delicate ambience you might expect from one of the wide selection of artist operating under the swollen ambient / drone umbrella. Though these tracks contrast notably with the otherness (Andrew Liles mastered this, which makes a strange kind of sense) they make for an album overview which is unpredictable, intriguing and fairly unique in it’s ability to smartly combine the ambient with the avant-garde. ‘Slavery’ is perhaps the finest example of this – a simple, Ous Mal sounding ostinato backed with layers of vocals and slapped drums that continues for six decidedly beautiful minutes. And that, in a nutshell, is I think how this album succeeds. On paper it could easily be expected to form a bit of a mess, contrasting ideas not working together but cancelling each other out and weakening the overall work. It is not so. ‘Ghost Love’ bravely attempts to meld these and the result is an album full of artifacts to pick through, get lost in and emerge satisfied despite being none the wiser about what the last forty two minutes mean and why the sounds have been married as they have… the lack of resolution one might feel at perhaps never knowing this only adds to its mystifying personality. - Daniel W J Mackenzie for Fluid Radio

Ghost Love Pre-Order Now !

Hey folks, my new opus is released now on Idiosyncratics Records.
Here is the link for pre-order:

New gigs

Dear Friends, here are next gigs:
10th September 2011: I will support the great band TUXEDOMOON at Magasin 4.
17th September 2011: I will perform @ Flesh Factory Festival. It will be a very special performance with two dancers: Ornella Venica and Etelle Bibbo.
24th September 2011: Special Performance Improvisation (with T.Dardenne) @ Jon De Winter's exhibition (more info soon...)
1st November 2011: Performance Live @ café Central, Brussels.

New Album Release Soon !

The new opus 'GHOST LOVE' will be released on 1st of October on Idiosyncratics Records (www.idiosyncratics.net)

Flesh Factory Festival 2011

Hey Folks, I'll be present and will perform to this great festival: Flesh Factory 2. (17th September)
My friends of Bruital Orgasm will play too!!! Be there !

Ghost Love

Dear lovers, my new opus 'GHOST LOVE', mastered by Andrew Liles (Current 93, Nurse with Wound) is now ready.
Here is the link for pre-order:
http://idiosyncratics.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-love
It will be released in October 2011 on Idiosycratics Records.
Look at the artwork here: