Amon Tobin Preps New Two Fingers Album Stunt Rhythms For October 2nd Via Big Dada
09.12.2012
Amon Tobin Takes Over NYC This Week With Art Exhibition, Boat Party, And Performance At Hammerstein Ballroom
Critical Praise for Two Fingers:
"If you weren't at the Orpheum Theater ...to see Amon Tobin there isn't much else to say -- except that whatever you did, it was the wrong thing to have done." – City Pages
"At his spellbinding, visually arresting show at the Royal Oak Music Theatre Sunday, Amon Tobin didn't say a word to the crowd. He didn't have to. Tobin's music, and his jaw-dropping visuals, did all the talking for him" – Detroit News
"Deadly focus and intent." - The Wire
The News:
(September 12, 2012 – Brooklyn, NY) On October 2nd, super producer and composer Amon Tobin will release Stunt Rhythms, his second album operating under his Two Fingers alias, via Big Dada/Ninja Tune. This week, Amon Tobin will invade New York City with a trio of events, including the latest stop of his incredibly A/V stimulating ISAM Live 2.0Tour at the Hammerstein Ballroom this Friday, September 14th, an audio/visual art exhibition opening at the Spencer Brownstone Gallery on September 15th, and a headline DJ set that evening for the Rocks Off Concert Cruise Series.
Amon Tobin has called Stunt Rhythms his love letter to hip-hop, to the early elements of the culture built around innovation and freshness. Those elements permeate throughout Stunt Rhythms, including on recent single "101 South," which was recently featured by Pitchfork and is built around heavy synths and crashing break beats. Elsewhere, songs like "Snap" bring together off-kilter, bubbling synths and quick chops, breaking down classic hip-hop production to its constituent components, while other tracks, like "Razorback" and "Defender Rhythm" are likely better experienced (and danced to) than described.
As with all of Amon Tobin's projects, Stunt Rhythms will incorporate a strong visual presence, both through unique album packaging and through his heralded visual-heavy live performances. Stunt Rhythms will be released in a limited edition lemon-yellow three-LP format with a triptych dye cut sleeve that's truly stunning and on Saturday, September 15th, Amon Tobin will celebrate the opening of Control Over Nature, an audio/visual collaboration with award-winning artist Tessa Farmer that will be hosted at the Spencer Brownstone Gallery and run through October 6th. More information on the installation can be found here. Later that evening, Tobin will spin a special set for the Rocks Off Concert Cruise Series.
To support Stunt Rhythms, Amon Tobin is currently in the midst of a string of shows that started with two headline performances at Coachella earlier this year and followed with a sold-out night at London's Brixton Academy, a tour run through Australia, and another run through Europe. This fall, Amon Tobin has been touring stateside as a part of his ISAM Live 2.0 Tour. The tour will make a stops in New York City, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, Austin, Los Angeles, and more. Amon Tobin has compared the tour's complex stage and light arrangements to that of an art installation, and recently sat down for an exclusive behind-the-scenes chat with Rolling Stone to discuss the setup.
ISAM Live 2.0 Tour Dates:
09.12 Boston, MA – House Of Blues |Buy Tickets
09.13 Montclair, NJ – Wellmont Theatre |Buy Tickets
09.14 New York, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom |Buy Tickets
09.17 Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory |Buy Tickets
09.19 Clemson, SC – Brooks Center | Buy Tickets
09.20 Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle |Buy Tickets
09.21 Orlando, FL – House Of Blues |Buy Tickets
09.22 Miami Beach, FL – The Fillmore at Jackie Gleason |Buy Tickets
09.24 Dallas, TX – Palladium Ballroom | Buy Tickets
09.25 Austin, TX – Austin Music Hall | Buy Tickets
09.27 San Diego, CA – House Of Blues |Buy Tickets
10.05 Berkeley, CA – Greek Theatre Berkeley |Buy Tickets
10.12 Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre |Buy Tickets
Please contact Michelle or Dan if interested in talking with Amon Tobin.
The Background:
Amon Tobin first emerged in 1994 with a string of 12" singles on a small London-based record label called 9Bar Records. The album that followed, Adventures In Foam, paved the way for a whole generation of electronic productions and prompted his signing to the prodigious Ninja Tune in 1996. He has since gone on to record seven critically acclaimed albums under his own name on Ninja that have since helped define the label as a force in musical innovation and diversity. In 2007 he released the album Foley Room exploring the role of found sound in modern day music culminating in a much-lauded performance at the birthplace of musique concrete, the GRM Theatre in Paris. In 2010, the famed London Metropolitan Orchestra performed selected works from a cross-section of his musical repertoire at the Royal Albert Hall and his most recent work includes, ISAM, a new Two Fingers album, and an album of remixes of his Chaos Theory soundtrack work.
Tessa Farmer was born in Birmingham, England in 1978. After receiving her MFA from the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford in 2003, her work was included in the 2004 edition of the ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’, where her installation ‘Swarm’ was spotted by Charles Saatchi and purchased for his collection. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Oxford in 2006, and at the National History Museum, London, in 2007, which was accompanied by the publication of a monograph. She has also exhibited at the Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, DE; The Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, AU; The Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY; and the Royal British Society of Sculptors, London, UK. Amon's next project is the October 2nd release of his new Two Fingers' album Stunt Rhythms and his beautiful audio and visual stimulating tour, ISAM Live 2.0.
