Mountain Sound Festival

Tones Teatro Natura opens its doors to rock in all its declinations between psychedelia, kraut-rock, shoegaze and post-punk.

LINE UP

• Muschio (Italy)
• Movie Star Junkies (Italy)
• Yobs (UK)
• Throw Down Bones (UK)
• Clock DVA (UK)
• Kudd Dj set (Italy)

The main guests of this edition are Clock DVA, an English industrial rock, post-punk and electro-industrial band. Heirs of the Kraftwerk school and forerunners of a cybernetic aesthetic of music, Adi Newton’s Clock Dva were born in the industrial hotbed of Sheffield, debuting with a personal and layered style and then becoming the most representative name of an electronic front with gothic and metaphysical contours.

The charismatic mind behind the Clock Dva project is Adi Newton, a character devoted to a passion for dark and cryptic artistic expression, enigmas, and avant-garde cultural currents of which he himself has become a protagonist. His work represents a more thoughtful and meditated artistic path than that which characterizes most of his contemporaries. In particular, his deep understanding of the philosophical implications of technology has always distinguished him from most other exponents of the genre.”

There is something deeply fascinating about the introspection and experimentation that characterizes the art of Clock DVA. Their dark perspective is truly unique, fusing minimal and introspective elements with a palpable sensuality, all infused with an innate sense of darkness.

Clock DVA remain an essential presence in avant-garde electronic music, alongside groups such as Cabaret Voltaire, Klinik, Tangerine Dream, Model 500, Kraftwerk and Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Liverpudlian band Yobs, their primitive garage-punk/noise-rock hurtling with pounding intensity. Emerging from the wreckage of now-defunct Liverpool bands Weird Sex and Ohmns, YOBS have kicked off 2022. Their debut album, recorded over four days at Hackney Road Studios with producer James Aparicio, comes on the heels of a 2023 spent playing loud, ear-splitting shows that would have made the likes of A Place To Bury Strangers, Mark Sultan, COFFIN, Alien Nosejob and more prick up their ears.

Throw Down Bones are a rave/kraut trio split between Milan and London, who have been residents of the festival since they played at every edition of Mountain Sound Festival. Throw Down Bones blend gritty electronics, fuzz-filled bass, hypnotic guitars and a driving live drum set. They will release a new live album, “Live at Fuzz Club Festival 2024”, in April 2025 via Fuzz Club. This follows the release of Three in 2023, which marked Francesco Vanni’s return to London’s New River Studios, where he reunited with long-time collaborator and producer James Aparicio (producer of bands such as Spiritualized, Nick Cave). With a reinvigorated lineup that includes bassist Marion Andrau and drummer Raphael Mura, the band has embarked on an electrifying new chapter, following the untimely passing of founding member/band member Dave, to whom the festival is dedicated.

Movie Star Junkies, a band formed in Turin in 2005, began touring Europe, performing alongside artists such as Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Black Lips, Thee Oh Sees, Sic Alps, Ty Segall and many others. In 2013 they did their second tour in the United States and recorded a live show for the infamous Hoboken radio station, WMCU. It’s incredible how special and unique this band is, inspired by books and writers such as Herman Melville, William Blake, Friedrich Nietzsche, condensing everything into a storm of poetry like no one else can do.

Muschio, an instrumental trio from Verbania, capable of blending post-hardcore, noise and psychedelic sounds. Formed in 2011, they have participated in festivals in Italy and tours in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic, sharing the stage with prominent names in the Italian alternative/experimental scene such as Uochi Toki, Bologna Violenta and Ottone Pesante.

Kudd DJ set, known in the event production environment and for his collaborations with important musical institutions that search for new music. He is one of the founders of Spazio Hydro and Mullet Management.

STREET FOOD BY:

With such a rich program that starts at 6:00 pm and ends late at night, the presence of the Balabiott Brewery, excellence in the field of craft beer production, enriches the evening with a proposal of its most iconic beers on tap and, thanks to the support of Balabiott Gastropub, a street food menu to make this event even more unique and qualitative, ready to take off and liven up the summer in one of the most beautiful and wild mountain locations in Italy.

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