Sofarnopolis

Description

The renowned electronic music producer and DJ Matias Aguayo presents his new project, which will have several dimensions. The Desdemonas is a rock band of which Matias Aguayo is the singer (and multi-instrumentalist). It is also the fictional story of a group of teenagers in a dystopian world, a narrative developed in the lyrics of the songs, as well as in comics and videos based on Aguayo's drawings. Matias dives back into dark rock forms that inspired him when he was a teenager, and revisits them in a resolutely contemporary, shadowy, lyrical, and venomous post-electronic style. Based in Berlin, Aguayo's band will perform in Paris on 20.10 at La Maroquinerie, and will continue to tour throughout 2018. The band consists of Italian drummer Matteo Scrimali, German keyboardist Henning Specht, Colombian guitarist/bassist Gregorio Gomez, and Matias Aguayo on vocals, keyboards, etc. Born in Chile, Matias Aguayo grew up in Germany. A pioneer of electronic music since the early 2000s, he has generated a body of work that plays with genres (including several albums for the legendary German label Kompakt). Highly sought after as a DJ, he plays all over the world, in the most prestigious clubs and festivals. He also founded his own label, Cómeme (eat me, in Spanish), on which he releases his friends and associates. Matias Aguayo has always been an original and iconoclastic artist: starting as "the man who popularized and developed [minimal] techno" (Pitchfork), he gradually used his voice as a key element of his DJ sets and productions. With The Desdemonas, Matias Aguayo has taken the plunge and decided to become a singer and band leader...