Karfreitag, Good Friday. Two legends of underground music, still as relevant as ever, will perform at the Galerie vorn und oben in Eupen, Belgium. Glaswegian musician Richard Youngs has been defying musical expectations ever since the late 80s, conjuring up a vast and incredibly diverse body of work. Asmus Tietchens, from Hamburg, has, ever since 1980, embraced a spirit of collaboration and tonal research outside of musical academics. Self-taught as a musical stance, his work boasts some of the most poignant pieces of contemporary electronic music and beyond. We have great memories of a concert night we organized on Good Friday in 2025. Let’s do it again. Resurrections are not included in the ticket price.
 
“It was nine in the morning when they crucified him.”
from the gospels of Mark, 15:25
 

 
Richard Youngs
 
Incredibly active since the late 80s, Richard Youngs is a true underground music legend, celebrated for his remarkably extensive and varied body of work, from tender acoustic balladry to psychedelic noise to abstracted and even dubbed-out experiments. He plays many instruments, most commonly choosing the guitar, but he has been known to use other instruments, including the shakuhachi, accordion, theremin, dulcimer, a home-made synthesizer, and his own voice. He is also a keen collaborator, having performed and recorded with Matthew Bower, Simon Wickham-Smith, Jandek, Heather Leigh Murray, Neil Campbell, Stephen Todd, Makoto Kawabata, Alex Neilson, Andrew Paine, and many more. Youngs has released a plethora of solo and collaborative work on his own No Fans outlet and on labels such as VHF and Black Truffle. Youngs’ work is a trip through the defiance of expectation. An embrace of the temporary mood and a willingness to maximize a fleeting state of mind, time and time again.
 
https://www.nofansrecords.com
 
 
Asmus Tietchens
 
Asmus Tietchens’ work has defied categorization ever since he started releasing his solo work in 1980. Touching upon industrial music, musique concrète, ambient, pop, and avant-garde composition, Tietchens has brought a unique and adventurous perspective to sound that is at times serious, at times absurd. He has collaborated with such people as Thomas Köner, Felix Kubin, Thorsten Soltau, Fabio Perletta, Vidna Obmana, Dieter Moebius, Richard Chartier, and many others. His Hematic Sunsets project threw lounge music for a loop, delving into the experimental possibilities of pop music. He self-defines as always having been on the fringes of any of the genres he has supposedly worked in. Self-taught and away from academics, his perspective is one of learning by doing, with the intent of creating wholly unique sound pieces with a unique sound that is at times minimalist and reductionist, at times upfront and confrontational.
 
https://www.tietchens.de
 
 

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