RITUAL EXTRA is a French-Finnish trio formed in 2014. They excel in repetitive, quiet and structured improvisation with noisy acoustic elements. The foundation is built around mutating and dissolving musical cells: Tuukka Haapakorpi?s voice, Lauri Hyvärinen?s acoustic guitar and Julien Chamla?s screeching cymbals and broken rhythms.
?Metal breaks magic and noise drives away the evil. The bells won?t stop ringing until they have cracked.?
PIP is a duo playing improvised and semi-composed pieces of music, with Torstein Lavik Larsen on trumpet and Fredrik Rasten on guitar. The music is focusing on small variations in tonal and timbral colour often utilizing just intonation, extended playing techniques and repeating musical patterns.Sometimes the music includes electronic elements, never abandoning the core sound of acoustic guitar and trumpet as a point of departure.
For the Concert at Setzkasten, Roy Culbertson will create live projections to their music.