This is a new project I’ve been building up to include my favorite creatives. In many cases inviting them as featured guests to the core of the band which is currently Lukas König, Nick Dunston and Mona Matbou Riahi.
The biggest news is that Marc Ribot will be joining Piled Up for a concert in bee-flat im PROGR, Bern -Switzerland!!
The premiere was on August 19th in Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2021 featuring:
Simon Jermyn on guitars Nick Dunston on double bass and electronics & Lukas König on drums and electronics
The set was organised around the theatrical absurdity and the guilty pleasure of porn: the individual and communal experience and its complexity in one of the most controversial industries of the world. Is there an ideal world where it can be completely safe for everyone involved or is it impossible to separate it from any other controversy around sexuality in other mediums…
One thing that makes this project quite different from my other bands is that there’s a long pre-production phase before the concerts. Next to a lot of synth and guitar playing from yours truly I am basically composing and producing multiple content to be used on the set including fake country songs about body image, radio ads on chastity belts with GPS tracking options, instructions for building the safest film set for 2 non-binary people and 1 cup and an original composition in there called “Save a Horse Ride A Cowbell” and so on… The project performed in Serious Series Berlin and for that concert I have sampled speeches from notorious abusive giants of the industry including Andrew Tate.
Since 2021 Piled Up appeared in multiple festivals in Italy, Germany and Austria in varying set-ups (Arne Braun on guitar and James Banner on double bass). The project is flexible for variety in it’s constellation including inviting guests.
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