MottoFest

Presented by: mottomotto

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0	LONDON: New River Studios
P	Sunday 17th September, 2017
N	4:00pm

Event information

The mottomotto label was founded to provide a space for experimental pop and dance. This alldayer brings together five acts who are presenting their recent and forthcoming sounds, with VJ support from Masato Tokumaru and mottomotto DJs, including Viviana Vega from Norwegian bands Masselys and Whalesharkattacks.

Viva Sherry hail from Kyoto, Japan, and could be described as ‘prog pop’. It is definitely pop, but one that continuously surprises through its inclusions of unusual stylistic mixtures (jazz, metal, motown, chanson), time changes and the odd bit of musique concrète. As a live band, Viva Sherry are equally mindblowing: Sato (synthesizer, vocals) and Himeco (xylophone, drums) really manage to recreate their complex sound, often playing several instruments simultaneously while seemingly effortlessly delivering perfect vocal harmonies.

Making sounds with whatever they can get their hands on, now are known for their eclectic and prolific musical output. If you have the opportunity to catch them live, definitely do so more than once, because, due to their range, no two concerts will be the same. now have released a number of albums on other labels (Pickled Egg, Freaksville, flaü, TRI, Clinical Archives) and will be bringing their spacey analogue dance grooves as well as their experimental pop to mottomotto.

The Wildtracks are the new songwriting and band project by Jessica Marlowe. Before founding this band, Jessica was the singer and co-writer of the Bristol-based experimental pop group Mooz. In the Wildtracks, she is joined by Boris Exton (keys), Michael Ho (drums) and Vanessa Marlowe (bass). The band’s music is strongly influenced by Jessica’s soundtrack writing for stage and film with a view to creating dark, haunting images through music. The the additional rock, blues, Bulgarian music and pop influences contribute to an arresting and vivid sonic presence.

Rebecca Closure is pure energy. She combines the most potent genres – techno, punk, latin, electro-disco – and injects them straight into your body. Rebecca is know equally for her music as for her performance art that she sometimes uses as part of her stage show, whether solo or with her band. Rebecca will be playing tracks from her forthcoming EP \"40,000\".

Creating music that is hard to define, yet memorably catchy, Rosie Okae is a singer songwriter who experiments with pop, electronica, soul and everything outside and in between. She collaborates with musician/ producer Justin Paton to create, redraft, refine and up-end her songs (an evolution evident in the freshness of each performance of their work). The constants to be found, however, are rich vocalisation, satisfying melodies and an anthemic, though fragile lyrical style.

To find out more about the artists, come to the event and visit mottomottorecords.com .