PRAVDA23 (Brought to you by Hunters Dry)

Location

Fridays at 7.

PRAVDA23 plays every Friday at Cybar in Rondebosch.
Brought to you by Hunters Dry. Student specials, sports on the plasmas,
and sexy violin house.

Pravda23 is a groove music outfit from
Cape Town, South Africa. Taking cues from a number of genres, Pravda23
is led by multi-instrumentalist and musical director John Bartmann, and
features a variety of session artists. Their music is a cross section of
danceable electronic beats and live performance, often featuring live
violin, keyboard, guitar, turntables, djembe drums, knives, forks,
tables, stomping feet, and various other percussive instruments.

Pravda23
can be compared to artists such as Röyksopp, Telepopmusik, Moby, Daft
Punk, Massive Attack, Underworld, The Bays, Robert Miles, Plaid, Zero7,
Telefon Tel Aviv, Air, Portishead, Goldfrapp, Leftfield, and St Germain,
amongst others. Imagine sparse vocals, dense basslines and powerful
synthesizer stabs, arrhythmic trip-hop violin pizzicato, glitchy patches
of intelligent dance music programming and haunting violin overlays. A
magnificent hybrid of live and programmed audio.

Bartmann began
his music career at the age of three, playing from his older sister’s
piano books, and later studied the instrument at elementary and high
school. He started taking violin lessons at the age of 10, but dropped
them when he was 15 to focus on self-taught guitar, drums and African
drums. The violin would later prove his main passion, and was picked up
again twelve years later after receiving an amazing response to live
violin electronica from the South African crowds.

In 2004,
Bartmann began the well-trodden path of bedroom composer and began
creating electronic music at home. South African bandwidth issues proved
a constant problem for the uploading of the various completed tracks.
However, it is essentially the power of the Internet that has inspired
the creation of Pravda23, which was originally merely a distribution
experiment in releasing tracks via raw RSS feeds rather than on CD. The
tagline “Update Your Music” became a ubiquitous companion to the ghostly
project logo.

www.pravda23.com