1 September 2024 – 01 January 2025
Juan Casamayor is an Asturian creator who started out in industrial sounds in 2007, when he formed the experimental synth band SuitTiger. In 2016 he released his first LP, ‘Distancias’, edited by the Madrid label Contubernio Records, and for which he had the collaboration of Pablo Und Destruktion. A cold and rough work based on pop electronica. A starting point that combined analogue synthesizers, drum machines and dark melodies.
After the release of ‘Viento Ep’, Contubernio Records 2019, and the subsequent period of pandemic, in 2023 he releases his third work ‘Amor fatal’, this time with Ferror Records, a Galician label based in the city of Ferrol. This work is closer to the pop sound but without moving away from post punk, an album described by the press as ethereal and precious, with catchy riffs and melodies that are close to bands like ‘El último vecino’.
Project in residence
OCTUVRE is a research and sound experimentation project by Juan Casamayor that aims to provide the cultural legacy of Arnao (Castrillón) with the sound that emerges from the interior of a mining gallery submerged in the seabed between the silence of the rock, the crystal of saltpetre solidified between the coal seams and the taste of salt from the seepage that the sea caused in the mine of this town.
As part of this project, a visual piece with sound will also be produced to capture the landscape of the history of this Asturian village. To this end, both archive images and original resources recorded during the period of residence will be used, tracing the course from its beginnings as the epicentre of industry in the Castrillón region (mid-19th century) to the present day, when the town has become a destination for visitors due to its unique historic industrial complex. From the black and white images of the first miners descending into the shaft equipped only with a beret as a safety element and a candle as the only guide in the darkness of the underground galleries to the present day, where the environment has been recovered in a unique heritage space for leisure and recreation for locals and visitors to the area.