French electro-pop ensemble Agar Agar has been making noise all around the world with their new album and video game ‘Play Test’. Uniting with their listeners in Istanbul once again, the duo will be performing at Salon IKSV on Friday, 23rd of September and Saturday, 24th of September. Doors open at 20:00. More information available via the official event page. Tickets for Friday, 23rd of September and Saturday, 24th of September are available via Passo.
From the organizers:
One of the greatest surprises to come out of France in recent years, Agar Agar is back with a new album and a video game, the ‘Play Test’.
Comprising Armand (26 years old, synth and drum machines) and Clara (25 years old, vocals and drum machines), Agar Agar had its beginnings at the experimental art school Beaux-Art Paris where they studied. Agar-agar is actually a jelly-like dietary product made from boiled algae. As it happens, Armand used to raise ants, feeding them with an agar-agar mix, and has always found it to be an intriguing word. They achieved great success in 2016 with their first EP ‘Cardan’, followed by their 2018 debut studio album ‘The Dog and The Future’. The album is trademark Agar Agar: Clara’s spellbinding voice layered over perfect, sultry, slow disco instrumentals. A melancholy, nostalgic, poppy, and futuristic album with themes relating to virtual reality, simulated life, love, and dogs. A little further on is single ‘Fangs Out’, including the hits, ‘Sorry About The Carpet’, inspired by the slacker universe of underground comic artist Simon Hanselmann, and ‘Gigi Song’, a grandiose pop song about a transsexual woman who finds a fetus in a letterbox. And here comes the ‘Play Test’ after more than two and a half years of absence on stage. This year, they choose to play in alternative places and small festivals that are close to their hearts, and guess where in Istanbul?
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Image sourced via the organizers.
More information available via the official event page.
İstanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfı Nejat Eczacıbaşı Binası Bereketzade Mahallesi Sadi Konuralp Caddesi, Şişhane Sk. No:5, 34433 Beyoğlu
