Tonto | QOA | Primeio

Tonto
came out of the most perverted wet dreams of Lightning Bolt, Shellac, Zu, and Death Grips. You can call it Noise, but it’s groovy like Hip-hop but raw like Punk. The project started in the damp hole of the early 2010s Italian noise rock scene, then tamed in the worst pubs of Bologna, dribbled in the dense broth of the European Impro-Noise, and polluted by the same with a frenzied series of international tours between 2016 and 2023. Tonto is a no-guitar one-man band, with drumset and voice amplified in a jungle of distortions and digital artifacts. You get some sexy blast beats but also African polyrhythms at times, a lot of bumbum-cha like ghettoblasta and occasional ass-shaking straight 4/4. Tonto goes for wild barbarism and non-verbal expressiveness, rather than overt structures and methods. Tonto is a musician through a computer, like a monkey in a spaceship.
https://frazedde.eu/tonto
Primeiro
blends experimental electronics with samples of acoustic instruments and field recordings made by him, exploring the dynamic relationship between sound and territories . He develops intricate soundscapes with multiple layers that evoke a sense of tranquility and meticulous craft. Additionally, he organizes the Feed the River festival, which explores our connection with water bodies as sentient entities requiring our care and nurturing, and the use of sound to foster meaningful transformative dialogues. Last year’s event took place in Hamburg, and this year, it will be hosted in both Chemnitz and Berlin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdQeSMeusVo

QOA
works with listening as a tool to tune in with the environment around us and our own being,  centering on the materiality of  sound as a vibrational existence that occupy, move, and traverse the air around us. They generate expanded listening bodily experiences.  Their sound ranges from minimal frequencies, processed field recordings of natural environments, live sampling of acoustic object as stones & branches, spoken word, synthesis & rhythmic spectral convolutions, creating an expanded listening experience that invites to immerse oneself in a floating time.
Qoa is part of AMPLIFY Digital Arts Initiative (Amplify D.A.I), international network of artists from Argentina, Canada, Peru and the UK, supported by Mutek and British Council. This year they was one of the 8th Latin American artists selected for Nicolas Jaar’s Ladridos project.
They performed at different festivals such as MUTEK Argentina, San Francisco & Japan, Domo Lleno, Colombia, CCK, Planetario, Argentina. QOA publishes music on different labels (Aural Canyon, Krut Records, Fluere Tapes). Their upcoming album „Sauco“ will be released under the Leaving Records label in Los Angeles this june.
QOA also makes installations that they presented at the Oi Futuro Museum (Brazil), Andreani Foundation, Bienal SUR, MACRO Museum (Argentina) Agora Collective (Berlin), Flux Factory (NY, USA).