NEWS
Pix from Japan tour - September 2008 (by Martin
Holtkamp):
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here
Live at No Fun Fest '08 at the Knitting Factory
in New York City 18th May 2008:
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here
SUDDEN INFANT on MySpace:
www.myspace.com/suddeninfantnoise
CONTACT: joke@suddeninfant.com
EVENTS
16/June/2009
SUDDEN INFANT (Joke Lanz & Ute Waldhausen)
BILLY BAO
ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO & PASCAL BATTUS
@ Les Trinitaires, 12 rue des Trinitaires, Metz (F)
www.lestrinitaires.com/
17/June/2009
SUDDEN INFANT (Joke Lanz & Ute Waldhausen)
BILLY BAO
@ Instants Chavires, 7 rue Richard Lenoir, Montreuil/Paris (F)
www.instantschavires.com/
20/June/2009
SUDDEN INFANT (Joke Lanz & Ute Waldhausen)
RADICAL SATAN
COUPE COUPE
OBSCURIOSA
ZARA WAZ ZAGRAM
LL DE MARS
and many more...
@ L'Agrippa Festival, L'Autre Cafe, St. Laurent de Terregatte (F)
www.myspace.com/lagrippa
01/July/2009
Knife 'n' Jive:
USHI HUPE
JOKE LE TAXI
@ Tartane, Torstrasse 225, Berlin (D)
www.tartane.de
03/July/2009
SUDDEN INFANT
BASE FORCE ONE
NOISE CREATOR
ZAZTRAS
FFT ERROR
YANN KELLER
FOBIA
@ Deliberate Wreckage, Lutz Friedrich ex Tante Käthe, Bernauer
Str. 63-64, Berlin (D)
www.myspace.com/deliberatewreckage
10/July/2009
SUDDEN INFANT
PURE
O.S.T.
@ White Rabbit/GdK, Potsdamerstrasse 98, Berlin (D)
www.myspace.com/shadowcastorganization
15/July/2009
JOKE LANZ: turntables solo
@ Theatre de Poche, Obergasse 1, Biel/Bienne (CH)
www.podring.ch/
18/July/2009
SUDDEN INFANT
CUT HANDS (William Bennett)
FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE
@ NK, Elsenstr. 52, Berlin (D)
www.myspace.com/enka52
This new SI Tape was especially made for their 2009 mini-tour in France with shows in Metz, Paris and
St. Laurent de Terregatte (l'Agrippa Festival).
Sudden Infant, this time consisting of Ute Waldhausen & Joke Lanz, delivers rough and wild versions and new edits of: Moi Toi Lui Elle, Tandoori Chicken Scooter, Parrotism, Ne me quitte pas, Ghostzilla, Celinoise.
Each cassette comes with a different children book!
Recorded at Etui in East-Berlin June 2009. Strictly limited edition of 50 copies!
www.myspace.com/ssbtapes
Brand new Sudden Infant LP (Vinyl only!) on Harbinger Sound. Composed and recorded by Joke Lanz in February 2009 for Sudden Infant's 20th anniversary. Comes with SI stickman rubber-stamped on the front and handmade stencil artwork by JL. This special version is only available through SI headquarters and selected record stores in Berlin. Limited edition of 100 copies!
http://wrackedandruined.blogspot.com/
'I asked Joke to record a 20-minute-secret of himself, which he's still not willing to give away. This cassette is the result'. (Micha Barthel / RFTS)
Limited edition of 100 copies!
Another 2009 tape sweetie! This time released by Gothenburg based 'iDEAL Recordings' label. This two-track cassette was especially made for Sudden Infant's live action at the Freefest at Nefertiti Jazzclub in Gothenburg. Limited edition of 50 copies!
www.idealrecordings.com
Brand new 2009 tape release on French label Tanzprocesz. Limited edition of 66 copies.
Tracks: Mindfuck, Interlude, Catharsis, Dreamhole, 22 scenes from the sink.
http://tanzprocesz. free. fr
Nihilist Records official statement: These recordings are quite plainly the work of a madman, well... two madmen: Joke Lanz (aka Sudden Infant) and Dick Tourette invite you into their Theater of Syndromes where insanity is the dress code. Hyperkinetic is an overlying theme and acts one through thirteen exemplify sickness in aktion. This is strictly limited to 95 hand numbered copies and comes with one Sudden Infant patch (yes, a real patch!!) in white ink over black denim in two different designs, harkening back to the Radiorgasm artwork (Francoise Duvivier).
www.nihilistrecords.net/
OUT NOW!!
Psychotic Einzelkind is an exploding kaleidoscope, an acoustical Rorschach inkblot test, of psychotic sounds and noises. Sudden Infant as a trio, with the forces of Joke Lanz (vocals, electronics), Bill Kouligas (percussion, electronics) and Christian Weber (bass), delivers a strong and extensive album without any boundaries and limits. Recorded 2007 at Rashad Becker's studio in Berlin Kreuzberg. Includes three remixes by Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Lasse Marhaug and Z'EV. Cover design by Allon Kaye.
www.blossomingnoise.com
Eminent DVD release of three seminal Sudden Infant performances from three different time periods:
2007 Berlin, 2002 Paris and 1996 Taipei. All actions composed and performed by Joke Lanz.
Pure classic noise-actionism and physical sound-poetry! Includes four inserts with photo and detailed informations about each performance. Direct mailorder copies (from Sudden Infant or Tochnit Aleph) are signed by the artist! Available in PAL & NTSC.
'An inner motivation causes the sound to find its way out of the body and into the space. Gestural pantomime explains more about this music, coming as it does from a feeling for the body, than words could ever do.'
www.tochnit-aleph.com
Brand new tape-release on the american label 'Teenage Whore Tapes'.
Recorded January 2007 at the white room in East Berlin. Fullcolour fold out coverart by Gary Stevens.
Tracks: Eye Box, Lips Of Chaos, Tate Boy, Varicose Vienna, Dream Chamber, Little Dead Body, Speak In Figures.
Limited edition of 100 copies!
www.myspace.com/teenagewhoretapes
Carlos Giffoni says: 'I first met Joke Lanz four or five years ago in New York, during his US-tour. I was immediately blown away by his work, by its ferocitiy and precision. I had been experimenting in similar areas in my solo performances and in recordings with the Old Bombs trio, and had heard of Joke through his involvement in Schimpfluch-Gruppe, but nothing could prepare me for the cut-up insanity of Sudden Infant's performance.
This current collaboration has its origins in a joint performance in a shady pub in East London in 2004, though in between then and the time this record was made our styles had diverged - Sudden Infant still ferocious and precise but with a whole new refreshing approach to physical sounds - me still looking for the perfect frequency to make the audience come in their pants. Combine these approaches and you get a true oscillating orgy.'
Recordings have been exchanged and reworked, and finalised when the two played together again at Blå club in Oslo in 2006. Mastered and cut by the peerless Rashad Becker in Berlin. First edition of 200 copies!
www.entracte.co.uk
Liederliches is a collection of 36 one minute cut-up absurdities / insanity? perpetrated by Joke Lanz (Sudden Infant) and Rudolf Eb.er (Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock), both of which are founding members of the actionist group Schimpfluch. This LP is pressed on 140 gram marbled vinyl that plays from the inside-out (vinyl starts at center and plays to the edge) and comes housed in a beautifully printed (and sturdy) sleeve adorned with art by Rudolf Eb.er. Limited edition of 300 copies! www.blossomingnoise.com
Exciting studio album featuring Annie Stubbs on vocals + percussion and Joke Lanz on noise toys + vocals.
With cover versions of Cabaret Voltaire's Nag Nag Nag and Roxy Music's In Every Dream Home A Heartache.
Housed in a beautiful Digipack with a limited edition Sudden Infant sticker.
"Abandoning the predictable walls of noise and static assaults, the music of Sudden Infant bounces the listener about an unpredictable journey through violent explosions, eerie body sounds and functions, and hysterical lunacy. If there was an asylum established for noise and industrial musicians who had lost touch with reality in their pursuit of music 'Invocation of the Aural Slave Gods' would be the soundtrack playing at the asylum.
by Malakhi Thorn / Heathen Harvest / September 2005
www.blossomingnoise.com
Recorded in Whitechapel, London during April-August 2004. Additional sound material by Roger Rotor (Catholic Boys In Heavy Leather), Annie Stubbs (Devotion) and Rolf Brunner (Bloodstar). Hand printed and numbered digipack with two different (randomly packed) artwork inserts. Check out this fine label: http://entracte.co.uk
Long awaited CD release by SSSM Records/Japan. Very harsh, noisy and humorous!
Inclusive cover version of Jacques Brel 'ne me quitte pas'. Original line-up like Japan-tour 2000
with Franz Lieberherr on trombone and flexible pipe and as very special guests: Christian Weber on silicon bass and Celi Urech on contact microphones. Get it! www.geocities.jp/coolanatomy/
La Bamba cover-versions by: SUDDEN INFANT, FLORIS VANHOOF, ANGST HASE PFEFFER NASE, BROMPTREB, ANLA COURTIS, SMACK MUSIC 7, KOMMISSAR HJULER, MITT LAND OCH LEO, HUMAN HAIRS, DANIEL DE WERELDVERMAARDE BOTANICUS, REMÖRK, REIJO PAMI, LUDO MICH, RUBBER O CEMENT, MAMA BÄR, DANIELLE LEMAIRE, KRAUS a.o.
Limited edition of 400 copies!
www.ultraeczema.com
Compilation of new and upcoming electronic music from the legendary Some Bizzare! Initiated by Some Bizarre founder Stevo, this eclectic compilation collects together some of the newest electronic acts from around the world. All tracks selected by Stevo himself!
With: SUDDEN INFANT (Nag Nag Nag by Cabaret Voltaire), FIGS, GARY LUCAS vs THE DARK POETS, FARMACIA, SATANICPORNOCULTSHOP, THE GRID, KONTOUR, MOTHBOY, TOYKULT and many more...
www.somebizarre.com
Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LP's put together by the Anarcho-Punk Band CRASS and released on their Crass Records label between 1980 and 1984. Bullshit Detector 2008 is an Industrial / Noise compilation of Crass-related rebel songs reinterpreted by: SUDDEN INFANT (Asylum by Crass), GUILTY CONNECTOR, FIRE IN THE HEAD, TRAVIS MORGAN, NOISEWERRRK, WERTHAM, SHALLOW WATERS and others.
This double LP contains a selection of artists who were part of the Audioscoop events between 2005 and 2007 at Intro in Situ in Maastricht. Curated by Kim Laugs: SUDDEN INFANT, ANDREA NEUMANN, ASMUS TIETCHENS, AUBE, MSBR, STAPLERFAHRER, KAPOTTE MUZIEK, INCITE, FEEDBACKSOCIETY and many more...
Asperger's Disorder is a milder variant of Autistic Disorder. In Asperger's Disorder, affected individuals are characterized by social isolation and eccentric behaviour in childhood. There are impairments in two-sided social interaction and non-verbal communication. Clumsiness is prominent both in their articulation and gross motor behaviour. The name 'Asperger' comes from Hans Asperger, an Austrian physician who first described the syndrome in 1944.
Tape compilation w/ SUDDEN INFANT, CRANK STURGEON, BBBLOOD, FECALOVE, MUTANT APE, VOMIR, HATRED IN EYES, ATRAX MORGUE, BATTERY SUSPECTS, SPLINTER VS STALIN, I DM THEFT ABLE, OBSCURE NOISE CONTROL, GINGAGARUGA. Limited and numbered edition of 100 copies! www.turgid-animal.co.uk
TELL (Joke Lanz & Christian Wolfarth) - tonal/nagual - CD (Rossbin / Italien)
SUDDEN INFANT - berlin '99 - 4CD-box (Scrotum Records / D)
JOKE LANZ / RUDOL EB.ER - gesprochenes & erbrochenes / poetry - C60 Tape (SSB Tapes / D)
JOKE LANZ - pa:in / paranoid inhibition - CD & photobook (tba)
16/February/2009 @ National Academy of the Arts, Oslo (N) photo by Andre Gali
12/February/2009 @ MS Stubnitz, Amsterdam (NL) photo by Ute Waldhausen
11/September/2008 @ Koenji High, Tokyo (Japan) photo by Martin Holtkamp
11/September/2008 @ Koenji High, Tokyo (Japan) photo by Martin Holtkamp
18/May/2008 @ No Fun Fest, New York City (USA) photo by Seth Tisue
09/May/2008 @ Terminal, Oakland (USA) photo by Randy Yau
16/March/2008 @ Unyazi Festival, University of Johannesburg (ZA) photo by Okko Bekker
14/March/2008 @ Unyazi Festival, University of Stellenbosch (ZA) photo by Eric La Casa
28/December/2007 @ Ausklang Festival, Hörbar, Hamburg (D) photo by Princess Libusse
24/November/2007 @ Cut & Splice Festival, Huddersfield (UK) photo by Randy Yau
23/September/2007 @ ZXZW Festival, Tilburg (NL) photo by Christiaan Westgeest
30/April/2007 @ Stralau68, Berlin (D) videostill by Ute Waldhausen
07/December/2006 @ Barden's Boudoir, London (UK) photo by Capitodeneuve
28/April/2006 @ Cube Microplex, Bristol (UK) photo by Hugh Spiller
16/September/2005 @ Transart Festival, Bolzano (I)
29/January/2005 @ public lavatory, Kentish Town, London (UK) photo by Martin Holtkamp
contact & booking: joke@suddeninfant.com
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