New Ruins: Lubber Fiend FestivalThe Lubber Fiend, Newcastle ·
New Ruins Festival takes place across 4 days at The Lubber Fiend and Lubber Kitchen. The festival moves between heavy experimental music, fractured dance forms and artists reshaping inherited traditions for the present. Moving between acoustic and electronic, abrasive and intimate, the festival centres a shared approach: pushing at the edges of genre, treating sound as material, and rebuilding musical forms through DIY practice and collective experimentation. To find out more about the festival, the venue, accessibility and inclusivity please check out the festival website here: Or email any questions to info@thelubberfiend.com Day splits and tickets will be announced at a later date. We are incredibly excited to reveal the inaugural festival line up: Maria W Horn - Swedish composer, sound artist and co-founder of Xkatedral label. Horn’s work explores the inherent spectral properties of sound and moves from fragile and beautiful to abrasive and powerful. Her compositions employ a varied instrumentation ranging from analog synthesizers to choir, string instruments, pipe organ and various chamber music formats. Synthetic sound is often paired with acoustic instruments in order to extend the instruments timbral capacities with precise control of timbre, tuning and texture. Rezzett - First surfacing back in 2013, the duo stitch together a grimey, lo-fi angle on live jungle, techno, footwork and experimental electronic soundscape, keeping it raw and analogue, switching from harsh to majestic in the blink of an eye. Their output on The Trilogy Tapes has been part of the labels flagship offering, creating this future-nostalgic and blown out sound. Elena Colombi - A swirling headrush of techno, post-punk, industrial and experimental spoken word can only try to sum up Elena Colombi’s DJ sets. Founder of Osàre! Editions, a label supporting boundary-pushing artists, spanning everything from 1990s darkwave to forward-thinking dance music, their taste is dynamic and im...
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