2009

'Brother Focus': a Kenneth Anger tribute album

OTHON's song "Brave New World", sung by Ernesto with additional vocals by David Tibet, will be part of this tribute album entitled ‘Brother Focus: For the Inaugurator of the Pleasure Dome’. Produced by Tibet/Breeze, in association with Mark Logan of Durtro Jnana, it will also contain new and previously unreleased tracks by: Marc Almond, Andrew WK, Little Annie, Antony and the Johnsons, Baby Dee, William Basinski, Michael Cashmore and Bill Fay, Coil, Current 93, Andrew Liles, Othon with Ernesto Tomasini & David Tibet, Matmos, Nurse With Wound, (r), Rickie Lee Jones, Six Organs Of Admittance, The Threshold HouseBoys Choir and others. All profits from this release go to Kenneth Anger.

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Ernesto will be on the set of "
Shades of Greye", a new film starring Sir Derek Jakobi, written and directed by David Bartlett for Kewhaven Pictures.

www.kewhavenpictures.co.uk
(check out the IN DEVELOPMENT page)

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2008

27 December
Canes Venatici Live

Palumbo and Tomasini (with 3vor and Paul Beauchamp)Live at the Medieval Castle of Itri in Italy

www.caga.it

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12 December
Rise Berlin

Portrait of Ernesto by Hector De Gregorio in an exhibition on "poetic madness and the romantic imagination" at the Rise Berlin art gallery (until January). De Gregorio and Tomasini in attendance.

http://riseberlin.com/

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25 October
Trama Festival, Porto, Portugal

Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo & Ernesto Tomasini (with 3vor and Paul Beauchamp) perform "Canes Venatici" Live!

http://www.festivaltrama.org/

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10 October
Digital Angel

Available to pre-order online, released on November 1st and will hit the shops on December 5th.

www.jnanarecords.com

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16 September
London Fashion Week

OTHON & Tomasini live at the Nasir Mazhar show (by invitation only)

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5 September
Otto; or, Up With Dead People

The soundtrack out on CD Crippled Dick Hot Wax Records

http://www.crippled.de/?cat=products&subcat=0&id=188

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August 
Radio MEC FM 98.9 - Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Ernesto's tracks played on the programme "Mùsica de Invenção"

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19 July 
Wet Sounds Festival (the first UNDERWATER music festival)

London Fields Lido Nurse With Wound + Andrew Liles + special guest Ernesto Tomasini

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5 July 
"Tomasini con la O"

A special evening dedicated to Ernesto at the ExPa complex in his hometown of Palermo. On the occasion of an article about him on the July issue of the art magazine "Arte in Divenire", local artists and intellectuals welcome Ernesto back to his hometown. It will be the first time in 15 years that he makes a public appearance in Sicily and this is a very special event,taking place in the most beautiful of venues and staged as an interview with Q&A with the audience, plus a short performance.


www.expa.org

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22 June
Othon & Tomasini Live at the
Centro de Arte Contemporànea

Santiago De Compostela

www.cga.org/index.php?id=86&idn=474

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14 June
Hustlaball

Othon & Tomasini open the most decadent of 21st Century nights.

AREA@DEPOT
68-67 Albert Enbankment Vauxal London

www.hustlaball.com

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12 & 13 June
Othon & Tomasini on Siglo XXI, Radio 3, Spain

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10 June
Camurrìa!
A new show presented as part of the "Italian Theatre Season" in London.

With and by Marco Gambino and Ernesto Tomasini
Original Music by Mario Bajardi
Pre-existing song by OTHON
Directed by Massimo Marinoni


RIVERSIDE STUDIOS
www.italiantheatreseason.com
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16 May
Othon & Tomasini Live at Queer Up North Festival

Royal Exchange Theatre
St Ann's Square, Manchester, UK
www.queerupnorth.com
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21 April
Current 93/Baby Dee

with special guest singers: Marc Almond, Antony Hegarty and Ernesto Tomasini
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
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16 April
Peter Christopherson's The Threshold HouseBoys Choir

featuring David Tibet, Ernesto Tomasini, Ivan Pavlov, Othon Mataragas
play a new soundtrack to Derek Jarman's
The Angelic Conversation
Ambrosio Cinecafè
Torino, Italy
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5 April
"Otto; or, Up with Dead People" opens in London at the LLGFF

National Film Theatre 1
Bruce LaBruce, Othon and Tomasini in attendance.
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3 March
CANES VENATICI

A new album in collaboration with Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo
OUT ON CD
www.blossomingnoise.com
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26 February
Othon Mataragas and Ernesto Tomasini will give a short performance alongside Stav B, Pietro La Hara and Timberlina in support of the Pride Legacy Project - www.pridelegacyproject.com celebrating LGBTQ culture.
Marble Hall, TUC Congress House, Great Russell St, London, WC1
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21 January
Jinx!
A Kindle Entertainment production for ITV
(in which Ernesto played a major role)
on preview at London's BAFTA
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19 January
Othon Mataragas' pieces "Metalipsis" (sung by Ernesto) and "The L.P.R., the Ego and the Result" have been selected by Bruce LaBruce to be part of the soundtrack of his new film "Otto; or, Up with Dead People". The movie will have its world premiere on January 19 at the Sundance Film Festival. More screenings here:

Berlinale Berlin Film Festival 2/7-27
12.2. 22:30 Cinemaxx 7
13.2. 20:15 Cinestar 3
14.2 17:00 Cubix 9
17.2. 20:15 Cinestar 3

Sydney Lesbian + Gay Film Festival 2/14 -28
Istanbul Independent Film Festival 2/14 - 3/3
Paris Palais de Tokyo 2/27
Mexico City Independent Film Festival 2/19 - 3/3
More info here: www.ottothezombie.de

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2007

1st December
Paris, France
Othon Mataragas, Fabrizio Modenese Palumbo &
Ernesto Tomasini
at Les Voutes
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30 November
Helter Skelter Radio Show
France
Othon Mataragas and Ernesto interviewed.
Their music will be played during the programme.

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4 October
Copenhagen, Denmark
Othon Mataragas & Ernesto Tomasini
live at the Festsalen concert hall
Aftershow party at WAREHOUSE9
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September 25 - October 26
Do You Nomi?
An Exhibit inspired by Klaus Nomi and his work
Res Pira Lab and Galleria Aus18
Original Soundtrack
Original Music inspired by Klaus Nomi and covers and remixes of his songs by:
Christian Rainer, Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo & Ernesto Tomasini, Alice Virt & Vova Pcp, Amor Seco, Benjamin Marcantoni, Bill Brovolt & Larval, Carol Lipnik & Spookarama and many more.
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3 June
Rough Trade
London
The Vortex Vault
Andrew Liles + Ernesto Tomasini live

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1 May
Black Sea
The Vortex Vault - part 6
music by Andrew Liles, singer Ernesto Tomasini
Out on CD

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28 April
Athens
Art House
Ekvasisâ
Lost in Thyme music Festival
Baby Dee featuring John Contreras, USA
Julia Kent (Antony and the Johnsons), USA
Ernesto Tomasini sings Othon Mataragas,UK

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30 March
True or Falsetto? A Secret History of the Castrati
Special Charity Performance
The Foundling Museum
40 Brunswick Square, London
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1 March
Black Widow
The Vortex Vault - part 4
music by Andrew Liles, singer/narrator Ernesto Tomasini out on CD

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24 February
"Caprichos de Apolo"
Barcelona // Sala Apolo, live in concert
NURSE WITH WOUND
(Steven Stapleton, Matt Waldron, Andrew Liles, Colin Potter, David Tibet, Diana Rogerson) + COLIN POTTER + ANDREW LILES + ERNESTO TOMASINI

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20 February
Othon Mataragas & Ernesto Tomasini
in concert +
Lecture/demonstration on castrati and "Other Voices"
MIAAO-International Museum of the Applied Arts Today
Oratorio San Filippo Neri
Turin , Italy
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19 Jan - 11 Feb
¿Verdadero o Falseto?
Una historia secreta de los castrados
Off Teatro
Valencia, Spain

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15 January
CHILDREN OF MEN
Directed by Alfonso CuaronWith Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine.

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