01.06.2013
°^SISSI/Chinesische Wäscherei^° präsentieren: High Wolf * Strange Forces
High Wolf (USA)
Exotica, Ethno-Flux, Drone, Minimal, Psychedelic , Electronic Afro Punk, Crust Punk,
High Wolf never stops to produce and collaborate from the beginning, in
2009. Revealed with the release of his first tape on the influential
Californian label Not Not Fun, starting for recording 24 albums by now
on various labels.
In between Herzog's Aguirre and Levi
Strauss' Sad Tropics, mysterious and psychoactive, High Wolf's music
mixes cosmic loops, fuzzy guitars, droney synths, mystic vocals and
tribal percussions, inspired by primitive and ritual music as well as
adventurous modern music.
High Wolf has many different
projects, including Iibiis Rooge, dark duo close to a techno ambient
harsher than his usual music, with Neil Campbell (Astral Social Club,
Vibracathedral Orchestra). Iibiis Rooge has two LP albums out, self
titled in 2010 on Dekorder (nominated for the Qwartz Electronic Awards)
and "Hespherides" in 2012.
He also collaborated, either live or on
record, with many emblematic artists from the new underground psych
scene: Sun Araw, Gnod, Sylvester Anfang II, Eternal Tapestry, Topping
Bottoms…
High Wolf frequently performs live all around Europe
since 2009 and has toured Japan in 2010, China and Australia in 2012 and
USA in 2011 and 2012. He's been invited to play in some of the most
prestigious festivals like the Austin Psych Fest or Hopscotch Festival.
In the same spirit than Sun Araw, some of the Sublime Frequencies
artists and classic Krautrock legends High Wolf opens a mental and
synaesthesic window with his equatorial electronic psychedelia.
France’s High Wolf possesses a natural-born ability to zero in on the
tones most conducive to inducing transcendental states. Prolific without
wearing out his welcome, this guitarist and manipulator of effects
boxes looses fervid streams of fever-dreamy drones that suffuse any room
they enter with mystery. High Wolf’s tracks carry the uncanny sense of
sounding as if they’ve been sluicing since the beginning of time, and
that he had the graciousness to siphon them for teasingly brief
absorption before they shimmer off to the vanishing point. This elite
droneur is one of the few musicians who could title a release A Guide To
Healing without it coming off as an ironic gesture or a laughable
boast. (Cop that 7” and try not to get a spring in your chakras). Dave
Segal
http://highwolf.wordpress.com/about-2/