Red Bull Music Academy Line-Up Revealed - Wellington Artists

16 September, 2015

-For Immediate Release-

The 2015 Red Bull Music Academy Line-up Has Arrived.

++ Month-long series of concerts and talks celebrate Paris standing at the forefront of contemporary culture ++

The Red Bull Music Academy 2015 is nearly upon us! After heading east in 2014 for a month-long sensory overload in Tokyo, this year the Academy lands in the vibrant metropolis of Paris to celebrate the French capital's contribution to culture in the past, present and future.

From October 25 to November 27 at the Gaîté Lyrique, RBMA will curate a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary culture program of music events, workshops, public lectures, and art exhibitions.A studio team featuring Modeselektor, Thundercat and Just Blaze will work around the clockmentoring 61 participants from 37 different countries.

For the first time ever, two New Zealand participants will be attending the Academy, including Race Banyon/Lontalius (Eddie Johnston) and k2k (Katherine Anderson) – both reigning from our creative capital Wellington. K2k will join the RBMA cast in term one, October 25 – November 6, and Race will join the second term from November 15 – 27, working on music in state-of-the-art recording facilities.

For the rest of us, though, there's an eye-popping line-up of events, installations and lectures. To celebrate the Academy's first appearance in Europe since 2011, the 17th Red Bull Music Academy features some huge names. Notable artists who'll be lecturing and performing are Gallic techno pioneer Laurent Garnier, Parisian disco legend and recent star of GlastonburyCerrone, and a man who gave the electronic-music revolution new impetus way back when, Jean-Michel Jarre.

Keeping things home-grown, Laurent Garnier’s much-loved Rex Club will be throwing a night that pitches house-music joker Mr Oizo alongside New York's L.I.E.S. imprint and wintry synth-pop obsessives Minimal Wave. Sexy Boy and one half of Air Nicolas Godin will be joined in a double bill by Stereolab's refined synth-pop ace, Lætitia Sadier.

From further afield comes Stephen O'Malley's doom merchants Sunn O))), south-central LA's modern jazzer Kamasi Washington and thrilling, post-rock-infused saxophonist Colin Stetson. That's just the tip of the iceberg, too.

You can buy tickets for all events right now from redbullmusicacademy.com/paris.

But there's more – there always is. Keep your eyes peeled, too, for short film series Paris Now!, which tells the story of the city's many music scenes; daily.redbullmusicacademy.com will be returning with more insightful long-form journalism; and RBMA Radio celebrates 10 years of broadcasting with shows every Thursday between 6–8pm CET. Tune in at www.rbmaradio.com.

For the full list of events, shows and exhibitions, visit redbullmusicacademy.com.

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