Returning to our headquarters inside the Neo-Byzantine chamber of St Barnabas Church, we are immensley proud to present two megalithic acts – Aluk Todolo & Jose Macabra.
Aluk Todolo is an instrumental power trio performing Occult Rock since 2004. Their music is a methodical exploration of the powers of musical trance. Part occult black metal fiend and part snide kraut menace, the band conjures rabid obsessive rhythms and abyssal disharmonic guitars, subliminal spiritualist vibrations and bizarre, magick summonings. Aluk Todolo reduces psychedelic improvisation to a bare, telluric instrumentation, in which dry, spare percussion grievously mines the scrapes, shrieks and shimmer of mutated guitar and bass. The band’s sound is monolithic and stabbing, hypnotic but unpredictable, minimalist yet teeming: a dangerous, noxious coil of all things black. The name Aluk Todolo was brought back from a mountainous region of South Sulawesi in Indonesia, it’s an ancient religion with animist beliefs meaning the Way of the Ancestors.
Jose Macabra is an artist, sound designer, producer, video director, radio DJ/podcast maker and curator and is a iconic figure in the London Underground scene. He has performed in art establishment venues, including Barbican, Tate Modern, National Gallery X, Oxford University, Tate Liverpool, BFI, The Photographer’s Gallery, Waterman’s Centre, The Museum of Consciousness, Camberwell College of Arts, London College of Communication and Kent University.
