Planningtorock at CTM + Album Coming on DFA
The Club Transmediale opening on Friday January 29 at WMF is the international premiere of a breathtakingly surreal new stage-show designed with custom-built, state-of-the-art audiovisual software, and featuring material from Planningtorock’s brand new album, Planet 9, to be released soon on James Murphy's DFA records.
After her critically acclaimed debut album, Have It All, and worldwide tour, Planningtorock returns with a stage show equal parts romanticism, spectacle and satire, a gesamtkunstwerk of transfigured futurism, heavy with exhibitionist sensuality. PTR will be flanked by DJ sets from specially invited artists: Hot Chip’s Al Doyle & Felix Martin and Jackson, who all contributed to the album, and from the original techno-sexualist, Mount Sims.
Planningtorock is British born, Berlin based musician and visual artist Janine Rostron. Her debut album, Have It All, was released in 2006 on her own label, Rostron Records, and distributed worldwide via Chicks On Speed. Since then Planningtorock has been touring her 'larger-than-life' one-woman show extensively throughout Europe and the US – both solo and together with artists such as LCD Sound System, Hot Chip, Peaches and The Knife.
After two years on the road, Planningtorock returned to Berlin to begin work on her second album. After two years of writing, recording and producing, Planningtorock worked with friends Felix Martin and Al Doyle (Hot Chip) on production and mixing and travelled to New York to record with Pat Mahoney (LCD Soundsystem) on drums. In conjunction with new writing, recording and producing, Planningtorock has developed a brand new live show for which to tour the record. Constructing an elaborate world of multi video projections, using new video tracking technology and distinctive imagery made from personal sketches and footage, Planningtorock is taking her already unique show to another level.
In addition to her personal projects, Planningtorock has also been collaborating with The Knife and Mount Sims to co-write a groundbreaking new Electro Opera about Charles Darwin titled 'Tomorrow, in a Year'. The opera debuted at Copenhagen’s Royal Danish Theatre in September 2009. The double CD will be released March 2010 on Rabid Records.
As a visual artist Janine Rostron has presented works in various gallery spaces including MAMA (Rotterdam), Galleria Riccardo Crespi (Milan), Tate Modern (London), Extra City (Antwerp) and Centro Cultural Montehermoso (Vitorio-Gasteiz). She has performed internationally at high-profile art and theatre festivals and institutions.
For live bookings contact ned[at]littlebig.org.uk
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