The Berlin group PERLONEX’s flurrying micro textures and corrupted electro-acoustic zones have taken them on a twisting incursion across some of the most persistently radical and inventive musical fields of thought and experimentation. While the trio have collaborated and played alongside an esteemed line-up of disparate spirits that have included pianist Charlemagne Palestine and Keith Rowe (AMM), its individual members have done time with an even more proliferate array of iconoclastic luminaries, such as Don Cherry, Zbigniew Karkowski, Jason Forrest, Anla Courtis (Reynols), Philip Jeck, The Haters’s GX Jupitter-Larsen, Xavier Charles, Valerio Tricoli, Toshimaru Nakamura, Phil Minton, and our own Greg Malcolm. Percussionist Burkhard Beins’ Polwechsel has appeared on fabled UK label Erstwhile in tandem with Fennesz and prolific Swiss imprint Hat Hut, alongside AMM’s John Tilbury. As The Wire Magazines Nick Cain writes, Perlonex’s “music is in a state of constant movement and advance, and though the rate and speed at which it shape-shifts varies greatly, it is never static. Comparison has been made to AMM, and there are surface similarities in the use of layers of sound in the construction of the improvisations, but Perlonex’s electronic source material is significantly more dynamic, and the range of sounds it generates broader” Presented in association with Vitamin S and HSP.

25 June 2009 – Auckland – Cross St Studios
with: Dr Quirky’s Good Time Emporium Band .

START: THU 25 JUNE 2009, 12:00 AM
VENUE/CITY: CROSS ST STUDIOS, AUCKLAND.

27 June 2009 – Wellington – Happy
with: Bad Statistics.

START: SAT 27 JUNE 2009, 12:00 AM
VENUE/CITY: HAPPY, WELLINGTON.

30 June 2009 – Christchurch – Provincial Chambers, Durham St
with: Preschool.

START: TUE 30 JUNE 2009, 12:00 AM
VENUE/CITY: PROVINCIAL CHAMBERS, DURHAM ST, CHRISTCHURCH.