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Hell Chamber
Hell Chamber is a compilation of works by the project composed between 2013 and 2020 and recorded in the present form in 2021.
The tracklist for Hell Chamber was deliberately chosen to only include and showcase vocal compositions without the employment of any effect nor other electronic instruments. The techniques used in this album consist of various forms of extended vocals, extreme metal vocals (screech, growl, grotesque, scream, gurgling, inhale, pig squeal), traditional throat singing, as well as experimental interpretations of several traditional Indonesian, indigenous vocal techniques which are explored in onomatopoeic and other vocal forms.
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Out on July 23 on cassette and digital
Metal
Five dancers and eight metal-heads share the stage in this meeting of cultures, art forms, languages and belief systems.
Melbourne-based dance company Lucy Guerin Inc collaborates with Ensemble Tikoro, a heavy metal choir who come direct from the underground music scene in Bandung for their first appearance outside Indonesia.
Metal was created in both Melbourne and Bandung, a town that sits beneath Tangkuban Perahu. This active volcano embodies the idea of one world spilling into another, where the crust of the earth is thin and what is known and not known converge with explosive energy.
Co-created by Lucy Guerin and Ensemble Tikoro’s Robi Rusdiana, the performance sees heavy metal and traditional throat singing collide with contemporary Australian dance in an encounter that ultimately transforms them both, as the ghosts of tradition merge with music and dance to invent new mythologies for a globalised world.
Co-commissioned by Asia TOPA, Arts Centre Melbourne and Théâtre de la Ville, Paris.
