To Live and Shave in L.A. and Sudden Infant in Prague

*To Live and Shave in L.A.* (aka *TLASILA*) rip through sonic boundaries and demolish cultural mythologies with a kinetic melange of violent, constantly shifting musique concrète structures, splintered electronics, and stark, dramatic vocalizations. Their powerfully evocative compositions can take the form of forty-minute Kuiper Belt freak-outs or dense, demonic, two-minute pipebomb pop. Their avowed enemy is genre itself, their ultimate goal, * unknowing*. Hyper-literate texts, ungovernable performances, and a ruthlessly meticulous production regimen yield recordings without referent, sounds that garotte taxonomy.

*For this tour, TLASILA will be Chris Grier (US, guitar and treatments), Graham Moore (US, electronics), Andrew Barranca (electro-acoustic manipulations, May 8-20 only), Balazs Pandi (HU, percussion), Sickboy Milkplus (BE, electronics), and Tom Smith (US, voice and laptop). * TLASILA was formed in Miami Beach, Florida in 1991 by *Tom Smith*, an alumnus of late 1970s-early 1980s dada-improv outsider cabals *Boat Of* and *Peach of Immortality*, and the earliest (1985) incarnation of Jon Spencer's legendary *Pussy Galore*. Smith was immediately joined in TL&S by *Frank "Rat Bastard" Falestra*, a veteran of many aesthetically disruptive South Florida projects, and *Ben Wolcott*, a filmmaker and lifelong circuit bender whose mammoth screeching oscillators sent early Shave audiences running for cover. Now a full-fledged collective with nearly 20 members, To Live and Shave in L.A. have released dozens of albums on a variety of international labels and have toured the world with jagged frequency for more than 17 years. Smith is also a member of neo-Aktionist quartet *OHNE*.

*Joke Lanz* aka S*udden Infant* creates an unique blend of physical sound-poetry and dadaistic vocal expressions, using contact microphones, prerecorded soundloops and noises. Member of the infamous *Schimpfluch*collective and long time accompanist of *Rudolf Eb*er*, he's presenting his work since more than 20 years all over the world. Born in Switzerland, now based in Berlin, Joke Lanz has collaborated with the likes of Z'EV, Carlos Giffoni, Peter Kowald, Christian Marclay, Norbert MÜslang, DJ Olive, G.X. Jupitter-Larsen, Christian Weber, Charlotte Hug, Jorge Sanchez-Chiong, Roger Rotor, Strotter Inst, Evil Moisture, Small Cruel Party and many more. Music for contemporary dance, theatre, sound-installations and short-films. Innumerable releases on international labels e.g. Entracte, RRR, Tochnit Aleph, Blossoming Noise, Artware, Klanggalerie, SSSM. Artist residencies in Berlin (1999) and London (2004). Composition assignment by Pro Helvetia Arts Council of Switzerland (2006).

TLASILA:

http://www.toliveandshaveinla.com
http://www.toliveandshaveinla.com/pressgang.htm
http://www.myspace.com/toliveandshaveinla
http://toliveandshaveinla.blogspot.com
http://www.fourpawsmedia.com/tlasila/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Live_and_Shave_in_L.A .

Sudden Infant:

http://www.suddeninfant.com/
http://www.tochnit-aleph.com/suddeninfant/
http://www.tochnit-aleph.com/suddeninfant/