Hypnotique is a one woman contemporary cabaret show combining songs, narratives, theatre and instrumental electronic music.

Hypnotique is an artist with a rare skill in the modern world - heart-stopping originality. Musician, producer, voice artist, actress, sonic sculptor, model, storyteller, chanteuse and performance artist - Hypnotique is a creature who defies conventional definition in her exploration of the 'total artist'.

Her electro-cabaret live shows explore the fundamentals of a good yarn: trapped within her wicked web of intrigue is a mêlée of macabre tales definitely unsuitable for children, surreal lunar musical landscapes, stories from an ultra modern world, hypnotic ether sounds and darn funky grooves which transport the voyeur from near drug induced euphoria to the obsessive despairs of high Romanticism. Hypnotique tells the tales and amplifies the sounds of a new urban industrial synergetic age - her own self defined 'suburban rural' upbringing in the East Midlands fires her 'kicking against the pricks' attitude - with real life tales of corrupt presidents, disenchanted prime ministers, child murdering witches, S&M lesbian housewives and dead media princesses. For music, take the pounding throb of an oscillator driven fairground whirr and beat in a viciously rotating blender with a dash of Berlin cabaret, film noir soundtracks & free jazz electronics, then serve in a cocktail glass of high glamour and brutal sexuality. Bottoms up!

Hypnotique seeks to explore elements of the dark side of the subconscious and ritual obsessions in her ever-confrontational work; combining Orwellian nightmares with an offbeat humour, she rides an explosive trail that leaves lesser mortals burnt out in the wake. With influences ranging from Throbbing Gristle to Kafka, Pierre Schaeffer, Ennio Morricone, Shirley Bassey, Laurie Anderson, John Barry, Lydia Lunch and Marlene Dietrich, she is a mythical space age enchantress who evokes a world and era far, far from the maddening 'Pop Idol' crowds.

Taking the electronic oddity that is the theremin and stepping far beyond the sci-fi clichés (don't even THINK about asking 'what is it and how does it work?'), she combines this with dark electronic backing and electronically processed woodwind and percussion to create a one woman show which is mysterious, unsettling, and unseen anywhere else on this earth.

A demo and press pack for this show is available specifically for promoters. To request a copy contact Hypnotique.


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