Festival Closer Music 2020 / Day 3
Mark Lanegan is a cult figure on the American rock scene. After playing with The Screaming Trees, grunge pioneer with Nirvana and Pearl Jam, he collaborated with many artists (Queens of The Stone Age, Isobell Campbell or Greg Dulli). Since the early 1990s, he has released solo albums where his characteristic hoarse voice has worked wonders. In 2019, he recorded a new, more electronic project under the alias Dark Mark with Italian techno producer Not Waving, which oscillated between ambient and industrial music.
Alessandro Cortini was born in Bologna, Italy. His work is influenced by 80's electronic music, Indus, and alternative rock. In the early 2010's he became Nine Inch Nails' keyboard and since 2013 he has been releasing solo albums where he demonstrates his talent for dark synthetic and cinematographic music. His latest album VOLUME MASSIMO was released in September 2019 on the label Mute (Depeche Mode, New Order, Swans...).
Formed in Berlin, Jean-Luc is a quartet who brings together musicians from different parts of Europe. Luc Bersier, Low Bat, Leonard Prochazka and Ariel Garcia play a theatrical music bathed in punk, new wave, minimal wave and French chanson influences. They defend in 2020 a first hybrid EP released on the Knekelhuis label.
Gözen Atila is a Turkish photographer and sound artist based in Berlin. She initially led a collective improvisation project on traditional music from the Middle East. With her latest album Uzun Havalar, she models on tapes a psychedelic and iconoclastic pop synth completely out of time.