Dracula Lewis is the side-project soloist name of Simone Trabucchi, an identity with which, for six years, he has been cultivating an experiment in imagination embodied in the world of 'folk' music (his way of defining the current punk, hardcore, gangsta rap and industrial music). In some ways it is a personal declination of the research work he has carried out with Invernomuto in another country and other registers, and parallel to the decisive running of the Hundebiss label. Defined by critics as "lo-fi aggressive electronics with strange samples, but distinguished by a sweet and spatial melodic sound," Dracula Lewis has succeeded in attracting the attention of the industry, publishing with such credited labels as No Fun Productions and Souterrain Transmissions and circulating in the USA and Europe.
Laura Brothers aka Out4Pizza, american artist based in New York, she has exhibited work in video and digital prints in various group exhibitions in Los Angeles, Baltimore, New York, Merlino, Mexico City and Munich. One of the current post-internet, she begins with the processing of animated figures, gif, built with extreme care to achieve compositions that play on the optical variations, the limits of the perceptible, building images that evoke a fabulous technological and architectural imaginary world, including retro-futurism and art Nouveau. Out of this come small strange compositions, sophisticatedly lo-fi, surrounded by an iridescent and unlikely, but strictly minimalist, apnea.
Dracula Lewis - sounds and voice- and Out4pizza-gif animation-, a duo that has worked from a distance, is physically coming together for the first time in Bologna to present U$e Your Illu$ion$. This title that mistakenly evokes an imaginary deviant glamour, present and absent in Dracula Lewis’ way of working, with quite a taste for concealment and false leads. Dracula Lewis’ live works incorporate an abundance of pop materials, evoking, in manner and tone, a protagonist in decline. The material is total fantasy, sometimes very dark, at times shimmering, a play of light and shadow. The executional structure, very simple, mixers, sound samples and vocals used in short very dry sessions, and re-evoking the song form, together with the gif animations of Laura Brothers (Out4Pizza), form an estranged sequence-show that exudes emptiness in the middle of the density of stylistic and imaginary references. If overall there is a prevailing sense of an authentic discovery of dubbing and its current global percolation, in fact it is as if we were still facing a punk attitude that, having abandoned bass and guitar, adopts sampling and digital data for re-enacting the old game of desecration and neglect. Of course there is another awareness, historical as well as part of the repertoire, educated and disenchanted, that belongs to this generation.