This performance, outlined in the London underground club scenes, then presented in diverse theatre festivals ( Institute of Contemporary Arts, LIFT, National Review of Live Art.) went on to tour throughout Europe with the help of the Dutch agency NL Centrum. Von Magnet met with music wizard Phil Erb (keyboard player of the group Psychic TV) as well as producer Ken Thomas ( Psychic TV, Test Dept, Sigur Rós, Dave Gahan, The Sugarcubes, Moby, Yann Tiersen, Current 93.), with whom they achieved their album El Sexo Sur-Realista, their first Electroflamenco manifesto inspired from Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dalí, iconic flamenco artists Camarón de la Isla, Lole y Manuel, Enrique Morente as well as from early electronic acts such as Suicide, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, The Residents.). In parallel, they were initiated to flamenco rhythms (palmas, zapateados, palos) by dancer Nuria Garcia and guitarist Mick Jingle (members of the London Peña Flamenca) who both contributed to the first showings and tours. Coming from the world of theatre (Flore Magnet, Samia Doukali), visual arts (Laurence Abraham, Erik Yaeger) or music (Stocha, Phil Von), the different individuals forming the group invented a style of performance which combined all of those disciplines. The record, firstly confidential, was soon distributed within Europe and featured in the charts of the independent music dance clubs. 1985–1990 Īfter a collaboration with Robert Rental ( The Normal) with whom they prepared their first demo tapes, Von Magnet, helped by Hugh Griffiths at the Remaximum studios, composed their first auto-produced E.P : "I". History London, the "Electroflamenco" initiation. destabilizing the codes or the staging conventions, the musicians become acting characters whereas the dancers/actors are bound to participate in live sound creation. These multidisciplinary performances bring together musicians, actors, dancers, sculptors, video artists. This work will give birth to their motto: "Sample us as we have already sampled you".Īlthough strongly focused around the music component, the peculiarity of Von Magnet is to endeavour the recurrent relationship between theatrical actions, dance as well as visual or performance arts, resulting in the creation of "staged" concerts. Since 1985, even before the " Computer music" era, they experimented within the likes of the post-industrial musical movement (Greater Than One, Cabaret Voltaire, SPK, Coil.) using intensive sound collage and sampling techniques. Their compositions, either instrumental or vocal melodramas, poetic, lyrical, cabaret crooning are sung or spoken in different languages English, Spanish, French, and also in Arabic, German, Turkish or Russian. This electronic ethnic mix, often referred to as "expressionist" or even tribal music, features also references to contemporary and cinematographic soundscapes, ( Andreï Tarkovski, John Cassavetes, Carlos Saura, Amos Gitai, etc.). Becoming rapidly well known in the underground because of their new approach to electronic music, firstly by incorporating the bases of flamenco (rhythms, dances and melodies) then later adding influences of Middle Eastern music. Founded in 1985 in London, the group gathered around Flore Magnet (stage direction, actions, vocals) and Phil Von (composition, feet percussion, vocals) initiating a style of their own which they named "Electroflamenco". Von Magnet is a theatre music band that originated in the post-industrial musical current of the 1980s.
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