Biography


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wajid-mic.jpgWajid Yaseen – vocals/programming/various extended instruments – Born in Manchester, England, Wajid’s formative music education fluctuated from the influence of mid-eighties electro and the thrash of The Boredoms and Sonic Youth. Re-locating to Sweden, he formed a punk band who performed using only damaged and broken equipment. Re-locating to London several years later, Wajid joined the group Fun-Da-Mental as bassist and unofficial noise-maker and toured with them for two years. It was around this time he began work on the initial archetype for 2nd Gen, a distorted electronic project and consequently released the Noise Sculptures EP through Flo Records. It wasn’t long before the Mute label expressed an interest in 2nd Gen which gave Wajid the opportunity to push his creative urge to much wider territories . Mute released the overwhelming ‘Against Nature’ EP and followed on for his debut album, ‘Irony Is’ . Skills and techniques sharpened, Wajid then went on to release the ‘Flicknives’ album on the Quatermass label. He has since produced the latest album for London industrialists Leechwoman, and has remixed an eclectic array of bands including Depeche Mode, Robert Miles, Venetian Snares and Hawkwind. He has also been involved with collaborations with various choreographers, contemporary dance companies and live-art practitioners such as Candoco, Athina Vahla, Franko B, Mara Castilho, Reza Aramesh and Gail Sneddon, producing an array of work from installations to film to dance theatre. His other projects include an immersive sound art/performance installation titled Ear Cinema , the infamous destructivist nightclub Scrapclub , and is the founder of the sound art collective Modus Arts

 

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Alice Kemp – trombone/guitar/vocal/misc … Alice (aka Germseed) is an interdisciplinary artist-musician based in South Devon UK with a background in self taught experimental music, sound collage & live performance. She has been making collaborative & solo music and sound-based work for over 20 years, performing in Japan, USA, UK & Europe.

Between 2004 – 2007 she studied Contemporary Music at Dartington College of Arts where she received an MA distinction in Performance Practices. Alice is a member of the Lazarus Corporation artist’s collective and she has also created a number of sound scores for performers Weeks and Whitford.

Selected live appearances include: Germseed tour of Japan 2003 … DEFEATIST tour of Japan 2006 … Transmodern Festival, Baltimore 2008 … Live Art Falmouth, 2008 … Ron Athey’s Gifts Of The Spirit, Manchester 2011 … Fear Is The Child Of Love (with Rebecca Weeks), Penzance 2012Extreme Rituals Schimpfluch Carnival , Bristol 2012 and Tempting Failure, Bristol 2013

 

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Yoshi Shinagawa – programming/guitar/cymbals – Born in Akita, lived in several places in Japan, audio and visual artist and noisician, living in Norfolk. As well as being an alert and quick photographer. Yoshi had started musical dodge in 2000 under the name of Subdock, Dubsock, and currently Ducksob after the architectural practice in London, built a Walking bridge which is an inflatable prototype on the crossing River Thames. His overall affection are improv workouts in site specific performance/acoustics and joins with various bands such as Cau_cational betreet, Wrong man, Peni.5, Agn, Anal garden, Kimberly clark, Zenjido-butsudan, Extractor fan, Colics, Vibration white finger , and City electric factor… he has also involved with a movie project, Yamaneko-ishi and Diss waveney pétanque club.