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Pravda23 Scales Down Second Live Dance Residency
It seems surprising that a cramped little upstairs room at Cape Town’s longstanding late-night Long Street eatery, Mr Pickwicks, can accommodate the kind of high-energy live performance hybrid dance music that fans of Goldfish, Coda, Iridium Project and Flash Republic are presently switching on to. But, with typically irrational disregard for conventional behaviour, dynamic three-piece live dance outfit Pravda23 has scaled down its successful dance/art stageshow to accommodate only 60 brave and fortunate people every week. Welcome to Saturdays in October with Pravda23.
Every Saturday in October, Pravda23 will be plugging in and banging out an inimitable live music party upstairs at Mr Pickwicks at 9pm. Cover charge is R30 (for your first Saturday: free for all Saturdays in October thereafter!). T-shirts, CDs, comic art, badges and stickers are on sale. Various art projects take place every week on the open-air balcony overlooking Long Street, and materials are provided.
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Pravda23 is a musical outfit from Cape Town, South Africa. Taking cues from groove music across a number of genres, Pravda23 is led by multi-instrumentalist and musical director John Bartmann, and features a variety of session artists, including acclaimed scratch DJ Knucklez, and classical guitarist and pianist James Harris. 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.
Bartmann began his music career at the age of three, playing from his older sister’s piano books, taking violin lessons at the age of 10, teaching himself guitar, drums and African drums and returning to violin twelve years later after receiving an amazing response to live violin electronica from the South African crowds. He has been composing hybrid electronic music since 2004. Nick Knucklez has been DJing since 2003 and performs live djembe, didgeridoo, scratching and FX from behind the decks. All music is free to download and enjoy from www.pravda23.com.
Pravda23 can be compared to artists such as Röyksopp, Telépopmusik, Nôze, Daft Punk, Goldfrapp, Moby, Massive Attack, Underworld, The Bays, Robert Miles, Plaid, Zero7, Telefon Tel Aviv, Air, Portishead, Leftfield, and St Germain, amongst others. 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, performed enthusiastically and released for free download on www.pravda23.com regularly.
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FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/pages/Pravda23/8574138309
MYSPACE: www.myspace.com/pravda23
OVERTONE: www.overtone.co.za/pravda23
UPCOMING SHOWS
Oct 3rd @ Mr Pickwicks, Cape Town, 9pm
Oct 10th @ Mr Pickwicks, Cape Town, 9pm
Oct 17th @ Mr Pickwicks, Cape Town, 9pm
Oct 24th @ Mr Pickwicks, Cape Town, 9pm
Oct 31st @ Mr Pickwicks, Cape Town, 9pm
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Neo-Classical Puck Fills The Lark Gap
images by Brett Thompson
| Listen up, all you fans of the ill-fated, London-bound, live operatic electronic outfit Lark: there’s a new outfit in town that’s gonna scratch your itch. Meet Puck. |
MTV Music Releases Entire Video Catalogue
| It may have taken them about fifteen years, but MTV has finally released its entire catalogue of music videos to the public for free streaming on MTVMusic.com. They’re embeddable. They go back almost 50 years, and there are millions of them.
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7 Free MP3 Albums From South African Artists
| As if there weren’t enough digital data out there (3.63 exabytes, some say, and as if the world wasn’t finally melting down, it seems that the new black is simply giving away your music. South African artists are climbing on board the free tune trend with a varied array of music for free download. So come on. Get with ‘glocalisation’ and download some South African music. |
Jackal & WolfExploding on to the local rock scene, this new power-trio features Charlie Murder on vox and guitar, with brothers Morgan and Redge O’Kennedy on drums and bass, are more intent on creating great tunes and playing them live than topping the charts, a refreshing change from the hit-obsessed mentality that pervades modern music.
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The 10 Awesome Practices Of Online Music Promotion
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It’s no secret that we’ve got more opportunity than ever to be heard. Between bedroom composers, online publishing and mobile file-sharing, opportunities await like the jagged teeth of a K.O.B.U.S! fan. But rather than falling into the trap of thinking that it doesn’t take much to get your name out there, remember the massive pool of competition. Follow these tips to raise your online profile as an artist.
The author of this post is also the musician behind this video. Visit Pravda23.com and download free local electronic albums. See what I mean about promotion? Stream Your MusicThere are about a million sites you can use to upload your music for the public, but start with Last.fm, MySpace, iMeem and iLike. Drop a few free tunes in there, because 30-second tidbits are about as tasty as the floor of Carfax. Let them listen. Get A HomepageSeems obvious, but spend the R150 and get a homepage rather than sending potential fans and clients to MySpace or Facebook. You either own or are owned. Go BigDon’t just rely on three or four sites. Hit every popular music site with your profile, but also get your images on Flickr, join Mxit Music, Twitter and YouTube. Even if it’s just a foot in the door, online music promotion is more about volume of content than the quality of your music. Get noticed by being prolific. |