The following bands have all been confirmed for the 2009 iteration of the Gouveia Artrock Festival:Stick Men (United States of America) feat. Tony Levin Pat Mastelotto & Michael Bernier to headline day two
Daevid Allen's University of Errors (Australia/USA) confirmed to day three
Koenji Hyakkei (Japan) confirmed to day three
PFM - Premiata Forneria Marconi (Italy) to headline day three
Volapük (France) confirmed to day two
Gatto Marte (Italy) confirmed to day two
October Equus (Spain) to open day one
Gordon Giltrap (England) confirmed to day two
Focus (Holland) to headline day one
KBB (Japan) confirmed to day two
More info:http://www.gaudela.net/gar/index-e.html
from the press release:
GOUVEIA ART ROCK 2009 proudly presents...
STICK MEN (feat. TONY LEVIN, PAT MASTELOTTO and MICHAEL BERNIER) live in concert!
Focused on exploring the unique sound of the Chapman stick, the project combines Bernier's highly technical experimentalism with Levin's and Mastelotto's avant-garde maturity, with a strong emphasis on rhythm and electronics in compositions that carry a slight influence from the latter period of Robert Fripp's Crimson music.
Tony Levin's well-known passion for the Chapman stick inevitably had to lead to the creation of a musical project dedicated to this instrument. The idea took shape in 2007, when Levin recorded his latest solo album,'Stick Man'. Among others, the album included Pat Mastelotto, Levin's companion throughout many adventurous years with King Crimson, and indirectly Michael Bernier, a master of the Stick, and whose technique Levin admires greatly. The year after, the trio founded Stick Men and eventually began performing last October.
Despite being a recent project and not having recording any album of their own, Stick Men is a musical project whose stage performances must not be missed for the sheer talent of Bernier and Levin' and Mastelotto's vast experience - with the former having played with some of the most important English progressive acts, from King Crimson to Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel's band and Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, and the latter having played in countless highly renowned projects such as King Crimson, XTC, Mr. Mister, KTU, The Flower Kings and Tuner, with whom he performed at the 2007 GAR.
The Australian Daevid Allen is one of the most important names in international progressive music. In addition to having founded legendary bands like Soft Machine in the UK and Gong in France, Allen has constantly reinvented himself in the course of a solo career spanning more than four decades, eventually making himself into a living legend.
Among Allen's numerous collaborations, one from the late 90s stands out especially and has produced particularly excellent results: University of Errors, founded in the US by the almost "retired" Professor Allen together with three musicians from San Francisco. Since its very beginning, the project has featured a good amount of the experimentalism and recklessness that are so characteristic for Allen, and their music goes far beyond the limits of what a rock quartet with guitars, bass and drums would normally produce.
At their Gouveia show, Sunday May 3rd, the band will not only perform their own material, but also revisit songs from Soft Machine's 'pop' era and Gong's 'allien' phase.
GOUVEIA ART ROCK 2008
Gouveia, Portugal, 5 & 6 April
Teatro-Cine
Beduinos a Gasóleo (Portugal)
Aranis (Belgium)
Pär Lindh (Sweden)
Ange (France)
Les Reines Prochaines (Switzerland)
Thinking Plague (US)
Van der Graaf Generator (UK)
NIGHT OF THE PROG 2008
Loreley Freilichtbühne, St Goarshausen, Germany
Friday 18 July
SOLAR MOON
HIPGNOSIS
ISILDUR'S BANE
TANGERINE DREAM
KLAUS SCHULZE
Saturday 19 July
CENTRAL PARK
KNIGHT AREA
PRISMA
SIEGES EVEN
PAIN Of SALVATION
Sunday 20 July
ROGER HODGSON
FISH
GAZPACHO
announced, but not yet scheduled: CIRCA:
