Formed in 2006 with Junya Noguchi on guitar and vocals, Keisuke Koyano on bass guitar, and Hideaki Yamada on drums. Performing as a three-piece, its tracks are made through a process of editing, replicating, and deliberate error. In recent years, the band has attempted to construct and implement a form of live concert in which they go back and forth between playing multiple simultaneous songs in parallel, but the flow of time as a whole manifests as a single unified rhythm. They will come to Wrocław and Warsaw with the premiere of the new album Palm, which will be released in May 2019 on Ideologic Organ, the curator of the project is Stephen O'Malley, Rashad Becker is responsible for the final production. For this years AAF, the band will collide with Hubert Kostkiewicz, the guitarist of Wroclaw’s The Kurws, to present the improvisational project, that had its premiere last month in Kyoto. The collaboration resulted from the residency of artists in Kyoto organized by Avant Art Foundation in May 2019.
Born in New Jersey’s late-90's DIY underground, Dälek, has been moving the avant-garde hip-hop scene for 20 years. Their sharp productions, distorted breaks, and above all, their uncompromising attitude are shocking, the lyrics focused and provocative. Since their reactivation, rapper and producer MC Dälek, producer Mike Manteca and DJ rEK have released two albums (Asphalt For Eden, Endangerred Philosophies) and an EP (Respect To The Authors), Dälek formed Anguish, the industrial / noise project along with Mats Gustafsson and Hans Joachim Irmler, known as Faust. The illusion of chaos, created by the group: the harsh noise wall, dash of rhythm and harmony is a smokescreen for carefully conceived micro-details. To confront the stereotypes of hip hop as a form of art that is addressed only to certain age group, Dälek pushes the genre further and creates 'rap for adults'.