VIOLENT MAGIC ORCHESTRA - KENTARO HAYASHI

“Multi-headed beast VMO can only be described as an experience. They combine metal with shrieking, nerve-jangling electronic noise and painted faces”

Violent Magic Orchestra est le projet commun du groupe japonais Vampillia et de l'artiste visuel Kezzardrix. Cet ensemble pluridisciplinaire, dirigé par la chanteuse Zastar, associe une musique techno, black metal, industriel et noise, à une performance visuelle intense créée en live. Extrêmes dans le son comme dans l’énergie, les shows de VMO sont connus pour entraîner des pogos ultra violents. Musicalement, c'est comme si le black metal rencontrait Kraftwerk et qu'Aphex Twin était habité par Burzum. VMO a déjà enragé le public des festivals Roadburn, Bangface, Brutal Assault, Incubate, et Guess Who, laissant des spectateurs anéantis à travers toute l’Europe et l’Asie. Alors, êtes-vous prêt à vivre l’expérience VMO au Botanique ?

KENTARO HAYASHI

Kentaro Hayashi is an Osaka-based sound engineer who has mastered for Merzbow and Vanity Records. His debut album "Peculiar" was released in 2021 as a double LP on Opal tapes. The LP includes remixes by Jim O'Rourke and Merzbow. His work is characterized by experimental noise that stirs like a new life form. It is also a sonic work that seems to be a new interpretation of the possibilities of electric and experimental music, such as abstract techno and mutant Drum’n’Bass/Jungle, constructed as a soundscape of another parallel world. The sound, which seems to transform time and space with perspective, seems to crystallize the beauty of this world and the moment of suffering. The thoroughly polished sound is filled with such intensity that it seems to expand the listener's sense of hearing at once.