The Emeralds + Floris Vanhoof + Jean D.L triple bill is a part of the brand new AB series: The Art Of Noise. The Art Of Noise refers to the futuristic manifest launched by Italian Luigi Russolo (who also built ‘noise machines’ as instruments) in 1913 and it illuminates the (underground) noise scène in all its forms.

8:00 pm - Jean D.L. (b)
Jean De Lacoste. D.L. is a guitarist and film-maker from Brussels who deals in both intimate and noisy soundscapes. Both solo and in band form. In the latter he turned up in the band Stahlmus Delegation (Stahlmus is the publishing company with which Mauro self-released his poetry bundle ‘Tonelen Van Kalme Waan’ ) with Mauro Pawlowski and drummer Teun Verbruggen (Jef Neve). Apart from that, in ’10, Stahlmus Delegation released a live recording made in the AB. On cassette. In exactly 40 copies.

9:00 pm - Floris Vanhoof (b)
Floris Vanhoof is an experimental film-maker/‘synth-god’ who resides in Gent. His first truly official release - ‘Time Slime’ - appeared via Ultra Eczema (Dennis Tyfus' impressively tenacious label). Ruis wrote of it: “A coherent knitting of drones … and the sound of danger.” Ghent's Kraak-label call him “One of the most versatile and creatively liberated artists in Belgium”.

10:00 pm - Emeralds (us)
Be the one to do it. Having a not-so-obvious sound (read: analogue synths, volume dial to the right) and still bagging the ‘Album of the Year’ from internet zine Drowned in Sound, occupying a spot in the Top 20 of leading mag The Wire's very best of ‘10 and also landing in the Top 15 of the famous Rough Trade shops. Plus all that happening with their 'breakthrough' album ‘Does It Look Like I'm Here?’, which was released on the influential Editions Mego that had a frankly masterly year in ’10 with releases by the likes of Oneohtrix Point Never, Bill Orcutt and Cindytalk. Over the last 4 years Emeralds have made about 40 (!!!) releases. Mostly CDRs and cassettes, including a part on their own imprints Wagon and Gneiss Things. This trio from Cleveland - John Elliott, Mark McGuire and Steve Hauschildt – maintain a number of solo-projects (under their own names but also under aliases like Outer Space, Imaginary Softwoods or Coloured Mushroom). ’10 was quite simply a top year for Emeralds, touring North America with Caribou and being invited by GY!BE to All Tomorrow’s Parties, about which our on-the-spot reporter wrote: “Live imposing, loud and an immediate revelation.”