RUISBURO: Scattered Purgatory + Owlbites

Thursday, October 6, 20:30

SCATTERED PURGATORY
破地獄(Scattered Purgatory) is the only instrumental ambient/drone band in Taiwan. They label themselves as “Eastern Cult Drone Trio”, formed in April of 2012, started recording and touring since 2013.

Li-Yang baritone guitar, bass, synth, chant, percussion | Lu guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion | Lobo synth, computer programming, percussion, gadget

OWLBITES
Using field recordings (environment/manipulated bird songs), old piano recordings (memories) and guitar drones (fear), this is an exercise in the limitations of ambient music and it’s trying to approach sound in a dynamic way, working consciously on forms and structures in order to create an illusion of order. ‘Owlbites’ is a project of Thanos Fotiadis. It’s nocturnal in its character, trying to explore the feeling of fear in an unfamiliar environment. On this occasion the field recordings were made after midnight in a abandoned house in the middle of a forest throughout a whole week of “nocturnal terror”. How do we cope with these feelings? We create our own imaginary familiar environment, full of happy memories from the past (childhood) and sounds that comfort us.