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Elektra in Montreal

07 May 2009 By andy 0

So I’m playing tonight at the Elektra festival in Montreal. The show is at the Usine C theatre at 10pm if you happen to want to come down for it.

It’s the second Openland live show with a dual screen video show along with my improvised audio twiddlings. I’m really excited about playing here as the venue is fantastic with a very good sound system. Fingers crossed, the show should sound as good as it can be.

I arrived in Montreal yesterday evening and managed to get out to the opening shows of the festival. Feeling really tired and rather disorientated, I got to see the performance of ‘Feed’ by Kurt Hentschlager. It’s an amazing experience of quite extreme audio and visual where the theatre is filled with dry ice (supplied by 20 smoke machines!) and then lit up by strobing, pulsing light. The soundtrack was mostly drone based, with some rhythmic material and plenty of sub bass and it fitted perfectly with the visuals.

If you ever see ‘Feed’ coming to your town then don’t pass up a chance to see it. Well, unless you have issues with strobe lights.

Elektra, Feed, fog, Kurt Hentschlager, Openland, strobe

Openland live shows

25 March 2009 By andy 1

I’ve got a few live audio/visual shows coming up over the next couple of months. They are as follow:

3 Apr 2009
Nemo festival, Paris
8 May 2009
Elektra festival, Montreal
14 May 2009
Mapping Festival, Geneva

I don’t have more info than that at the moment. I’m sure Google can help you if you need to know specific details.

All the shows will feature both myself and Patrick Defasten performing a totally live version of the Openland film. The show will run for about an hour. Free cake for everyone coming along (I’m quite possibly lying here).

cake, Live, Openland

Dummy

20 March 2009 By andy 0

The Dummy ep is now available for purchase at your local record emporium. It’s distributed by Cargo so should find its way to a number of places. Limited to 500 copies and wrapped in a rather fetching 350g recycled card sleeve, it’s something to hand down to the grandchildren, or maybe feed to the dog.

ale, beer, dummy, ep, la Madame avec la Chien, Live, record, vinyl

A bit of Openland and some almost

25 February 2009 By andy 1

In celebration of the fact that the company hosting this site has quietly increased both my disk space and bandwidth, I’m going to post up some more mp3′s.

Today’s mp3 is the opening part of the Openland album (rather than the soundtrack). It’s over 10 minutes long and very quiet in places so I’ve encoded it as a VBR file.

Andrew Coleman – Repeat and Bridge 160k-320k VBR mp3

bridge, free mp3, Openland, quiet, repeat

Acroplane v/a 02

23 February 2009 By andy 2

Quick bit of news. Acroplane, an online electronica label based in Ireland has recently released a free compilation which I have a track on. You can find out more info about it and download it here: