April 8th, 2024
F7 Entertainment Group presents
Re-TROS
Liars, Moon Diagrams
+19 (with 2 pieces of govt issued ID)
DOORS: 7:00PM
Chinese Post-Punk/Gothic Rock band Re-TROS take the Rickshaw stage this Spring with support from Liars and Moon Diagrams.
Re-TROS
https://anniversarygroup.com/Re-TROS
Re-TROS (Rebuilding the Rights of Statues) began in the underground music scene of Nanjing, China in 2004. Lead singer/guitar/keys Hua Dong had just returned from studying abroad in Germany when he formed the band with bassist Liu Min.
The band quickly caught the attention of Beijing’s Modern Sky Records and were signed to the label in 2005. Shortly thereafter, they recorded their first EP ‘Cut Off!’ in Modern Sky’s then basement studio, with keyboard contributions by a visiting Brian Eno. The record received critical praise in China, and soon the band was playing sold-out shows to a growing legion of die-hard fans.
The past fifteen years since the release of ‘Cut Off!’ (credited by many in the Chinese music scene as one of the more pivotal records to come out of mid-00’s Beijing) have seen the band release their full length LP ‘Watch Out! Climate Has Changed, Fat Mum Rises’ to critical acclaim; tour the world, playing major festivals and supporting Depeche Mode, Gang Of Four, PiL, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Paul Weller, Cut Copy, and more; and continue to garner accolades from Chinese and foreign press – including The New York Times, NPR, ABC News, Vice, The Village Voice, and many more.
Their most recent full-length ‘Before The Applause’ was recorded and mixed by Hector Castillo (Philipp Glass, David Bowie, Björk) in Beijing and Brooklyn, and featured remixes by Liars, Xiu Xiu and Fujiya and Miyagi.
Liars
https://anniversarygroup.com/Liars
“My goal was to create something beyond my abilities,” says Liars’ Angus Andrew. “Something bigger than just myself.”
This mixing of raw, organic live instrumentation in the studio, along with Angus’s solo tinkering at the computer, results in an album that blurs boundaries between the archetypal band structure and experimental electronics. “Constructing these songs felt akin to dragging them through a wormhole,” he says. “I’d stretch and transform the studio sounds in the computer, pushing patterns and melodies through filters and sequencers, experimenting with probability based algorithms.”
There are not many bands that could make looking to the past feel futuristic but here Liars have managed to create an entirely new world – sonically, thematically and lyrically – by doing just that.