Justice Yeldham (11 Albums, 31 Tracks)

Tour dates
* 25 April Leipzig, Germany - Skala Leipzig
http://www.skala-leipzig.de/
* 28 April Munich, Germany - Lothringer 13
http://www.lothringer13.de/halle/
* 30 April Krems, Austria - Donau Festival
http://www.donaufestival.at/
* 01 May Rotterdam - the WORM
http://www.wormweb.nl/
* 02 May Hasselt, Belgium - Kunstencentrum
http://www.kunstencentrumbelgie.com/
* 03 May Hamburg, Germany - Golden Pudel
http://www.pudel.com/
* 04 May Amsterdam, Netherlands - OCCII
http://www.occii.org/
* 06 May Brussels, Belguim - L'Ecurie
http://www.lecurie.org/
* 07 May Wetzlar, Germany - franzis
http://www.franzis-wetzlar.de/
* 08 May (my birthday) NIJMEGEN, netherlands - EXTRAPOOL
http://www.extrapool.nl/
* 09 May Utrecht - Vecht Club
http://www.vechtclub.nl/

This tour ends of a busy period for Lucas Abela (Yeldham), who has just released his latest album with Beijing pick up band Rice屎Corpse, (named after the Chinese character for shit, 屎 which itself is the combination of two characters "尸" corpse and "米" rice), which he formed during his Asialink Residency late last year. A Trio of glass, drums and piano was faeturing Yang Yang on drums, a man whose antics in his own band Mafeisan has given him the reputation of being the craziest exponent of the normally conservative Beijing scene. His ultra loud out and proud personality is in stark contrast to the mild mannered and brutally shy saxophonist Li Zenghui who came to the project as pianist. Existing for a limited time and without a common language to interrupt they managed to create six varied and strangely focused improvisations. This despondent attempt at musicality is by far Abela’s most accessible work to date as the addition of Yang and Li’s stabbing rhythm section forced the seasoned noisician to take his glass instrument into surprising new directions. Released on conjunction with SUBJAM and made possible with the kind assistance of Asialink and the Australia Council for the Arts.

Previews of the album available online here
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/RiceCorpse/

Abela's work has also been featured in the latest issue of the highly regarded US contemporary music periodical 'Signal to Noise' where writer Nathaniel Roe describes him as a "an outlier in noise history" for his ability to attract an audience "uninitiates" to noise music and "has made noise's esoteric content more accessible".

http://www.signaltonoisemagazine.org/

Full article available online at
http://dualplover.blogspot.com/2009/04/lucas-abela-article-in-signal-to-noise.html

What's been described as "a trumpet player trapped in a two dimensional universe" is in fact the unique audio work of Justice Yeldham, a maverick musician with an unhealthy obsession with sheets of broken glass. By pressing his face and lips against the glass whist employing various vocal techniques ranging from throat singing to raspberries, he turns disguarded household windows into crude musical instruments. Resulting in a wide variety of cacophonous noises that are strangely controlled and oddly musical.