Touch Presents: Mark Van Hoen (Touch/R&S Records/UK) & Friends Monarch Bar, Berlin am 20.06.18

Touch Presents
Mark Van Hoen / Locust (UK)
Mark Van Hoen is a British electronic music artist. He has released under his own name as well as Locust. Pitchfork said, "Musically, Van Hoen belongs to a distinguished family tree. Originally influenced by the likes of Brian Eno and Tangerine Dream, and later presaging both Autechre's glitch and Boards of Canada's pastoral IDM.”
https://markvanhoen.bandcamp.com
http://www.markvanhoen.com

Sohrab (Berlin)
Sohrab was born in Tehran in 1984. He was seven when the Iran-Iraq war ended. His name, from an old poem called ‘Shahname’, means ‘rouge water’, which can also mean ‘blood’. He started a punk band with his brother and a friend, which lasted about two years before splitting… He was totally isolated in Iran, so he left and now resides in Germany.
http://touch33.net/artists/sohrab

Jasmin Blasco (LA)
Jasmin Blasco (b.1981) is a multi-disciplinary artist who approaches time-based media as the site where sound, image, and language conspire to generate fictions. Through a process of research and abstraction, his practice stages the individual in problematic narratives. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
http://jasminblasco.com

Marta De Pascalis (Berlin)
Marta De Pascalis (Rome, 1987) is an Italian composer living and working in Berlin. Her solo works employ analog synthesis and tape loops, incorporating free playing into steady, repetitive patterns. She has produced two albums of Berlin School minimal synth excursions: the self-released Quitratue (2014) and Anzar (The Tapeworm, 2016). Her new piece ‘Her Core’ will be published on spring 2018 by The Wormhole.
http://www.martadepascalis.com

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