Lucky Dragons NZ Tour Announced

You'd be tempting fate not to go...

Equal parts art & music, Lucky Dragons are Luke Fischbeck (and various collaborators, [including audience members]) who collectively create warm, inclusive genre-defying music through electronic and acoustic experimentation.

Challenging the “band” and audience divide through crowd participation, Lucky Dragons laptop collage finds fleshiness through the cut and paste digital derivative of melodic memory, splintery soft glitches, anxious dada, dirty indie, ecstatic language, folk melodies, and AM radio rave ups.

Lucky Dragons shows are about creating equal-power situations in which audience members cooperate amongst themselves, to build a fragile network of digital signals connected by touching on the skin. There have been hundreds of these simple yet shifting and unpredictable instances--with audiences ranging from the intense intimacy of one person to the public spectacle of over one thousand people.

At the heart of it all is playing together--building up social collectivities, re-engaging the wonder and impossibility of technology and live performance.

Lucky Dragons... create ecstatic music that completely transcends genres. My attempts to describe what their music actually sounds like always fall short of the magic they are making. I guess you could say it sounds like—ecstatic magic. Challenging stereotypes that electronic music is cold and sterile, Lucky Dragons' live show, though conducted via computers, is a truly great celebration of the human spirit, giving real hope for the techno-future our society is racing toward.
-artforum (March 2006)

This will be Lucky Dragons first visit to New Zealand, bringing their sound-breaking collection of beautiful-danceable noise. The audience is an integral part of Lucky Dragons music making process, come and be part of the experience!

Thursday 25th September - Christchurch, High Street Project
Friday 26th September - Wellington, SFBH
Saturday 27th September - Cross Street Studios party, Auckland
Sunday 28th September - Backstage Dunedin

Tickets are $15 and on sale NOW from Slow Boat in Wellington, and Real Groovy in Dunedin and Christchurch. Apart from Auckland - which is $10 on the night at Cross St Studios. More details to follow!