idiotic synth sounds – twisted pop melodies – infantile costumes

JohnPaulGeorgeRingo&Yoko in One

The eccentric Dutch genius
HARRY MERRY in Budapest again
of course at RNR666 Party afresh

CORVINTETŐ: BISTRO
Oct 7, 9PM > TICKET: 500

Door: on the left side of Corvin Dept. Store. 4th floor. Use the elevator!

The story of Harry Merry has started at his aunt’s pub in Delft. As a little boy there he gazed at a juke-box. “I was hypnotized by all these vinyl-singles constantly rotating with those specifically coloured lable-etiquettes in the middle.  (…) My most favourite ones were from Apple-records, Pye Records (especially the dark pink one) and CBS-records (the old orange one; not the ugly later one).”

Further determinative things of his life: piano lessons, The Beatles and Roland keyboards. “The musical genres that have been adopted by me on these keyboards are as follows:  Rock’n’Roll, Rhythm & Blues, Beat, Ballads, Schlager, Latino, Chansons, Liedjes and lately also some Slovenian Pop and Serbian Turbo-folk.” Besides he is equally regularly being influenced by classical music from the likes of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Mahler and Sibelius. And works of Charles Dickens are also a source of inspiration for him. Listen!

The average, but famous Ariel Pink has covered his Steve Storm, but it matters little.

The next prefatory has been made originally for a psychedelic free jazz album review (which is under way), but it also goes well here in same way.

The horror has started with Iron Bonehead Records. It’s an obscure German vinyl only extreme metal label. I wrote a letter to them, that I would like to write reviews from some releases. At once I have been attached to promotion circle of the metal underground. Since then I get tons of free metal stuff. Horrible records every day from the whole world. The Swiss Bölzer was the only remarkable band with their avant-garde death metal. And I have become familiar with the Finnish Svart Records. Their range of audibility expands from free jazz to extreme metal, and there’re some good bands and records. For example

3 Fresh Finnish Hard Rock/Metal singles on Svart Records

The names speak for theirselves: Hard Action, The Black Mass, Forced Kill. The first two play 70s style hard rock and roll with this difference that The Black Mass has a smack of black metal. While Forced Kill is „such as early Sodom, beer drinking Slayer”

The PYPY in New York

They’re from Canada, and members in Red Mass and Duchess Says.
The track is taken from their debut album (Slovenly Records, US)

Hey!Amphetamine Reptile mode Deutsch noise punk by UV Glaze

7″ single on Bachelor Records (Austria). You can find some free tracks here

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Smell swamp psych garage blues rock by The Ukiah Drag

„In The Reapers Quarters” LP and digital on Wharf Cat Records (US)

FUTUROSCOPE is a theme park, a stupid high-tech multimedia Disneyland in France, in Vienne Departement. If you go thereabout rather choose the goat cheese and the wine! But also is a French band with perfect references. Unfortunately there’re just a little, but luckily increasing bunch of people who knows about the great little label in Texas, Monofonus Press, and the magnifique petit label in France, Cockatail Pueblo. Led Er Est, Shit and Shine, John Wesley Coleman, The Golden Boys, The Pheromoans, The Rebel, Trans Upper Egypt, XYX (is my absolute favorite there), perhaps these are the most well-known band on Monofonus. Well, I think after these, it is absolutely needless to mention the bands of Cocktail Pueblo (look those!). The Futuroscope’ records were released by them. The French trio (from Tours, with a member of Pneu) plays psychedelic ritual kraut space rock, often it twists into ecstasy

cassette by Monofonus or digital from Bandcamp

The director of the music video, Viktor Horvath has already done that in Life Awaits of the Qualitons: juxtaposing the same movement of the actors, but the new video for Terrible Ted is louder than a pair of firecrackers stuck in someone’s pants.

The Swans were just a band among the highly praised unknown others for me.  Of course I heard about them many times, and the opinions were in superlatives. A bad word there wasn’t! So I didn’t care. There were many great bands, unrecognized by others. The Swans came and went often, I stayed at home.

Everything was very all right until the day before yesterday. That day I have begun to edit a long article in reference with Swans. In the beginning I didn’t want to listen to them, but finally yesterday evening I have done it first time ever. It was the brand new album „To Be Kind”. Frightful long tracks, some of them have strange titles. One of them dedicated to the legendary bluesman Howlin’ Wolf! Among the musicians: the new alt-pop diva, St. Vincent; founder of Cop Shoot Cop, Phil Puleo; a black soul from the Canadian call center hell, Al Spx (Cold Specks); Bill Rieflin (Minisrty, RevCo, Lard, KMFDM, Pigface, REM). Come what may, play!

Since I have done it three times. I can speak only in superlatives about it. In the first place their heavy psych-ritual music came Foetus and Lydia Lunch to my mind. In the second place: Neurosis and Nine Inch Nails.
The summit is „Bring the Sun”, a 34 minutes long little symphony about the Black Napoleon, Toussiant L’ouverture, leader of the Haitian Revolution. Haiti was French colony at that time. The revolt rose against the slavery in 1791 under the impact of French Revolution. It was successful, but the free and equal blacks and mulattos had begun to massacre each others without delay in fraternal concord. Toussiant L’ouverture was captured before the final victory, and died at the White Napoleon’s prison in France in 1803.
Some bad words (for security reasons): „She Loves Us” become tedious during its 17 minutes. So if you are in a show, this is the best time to go to pee, buy a beer and smoke something. For instance in this fall on their European tour,

in Budapest on October 15.

about himself
„songwriter punk skater poser”
„TRASH POET SONGWRITER”

1-1 single by Urinal Cake and Windian Records, and an album on Burger Records

Chicken Woman The Love That You Own I Feel Like a Sad Clown

& another good news, the new Golden Boys album is under work

JWC’s bandcamp

The statistics show that soldiers are in bigger secure than the civilians in Israel. Since January 2012, more than 2,500 rockets and mortars were fired to Israeli civilian area. In 2013, altogether 1271 various terrorist attacks were listed. Between 1989 and 2008 in all 804 people were killed by suicide bombers.

„Haolam Avad Mizman” (The World is Well Lost)
by Vaadat Charigim

Yuval Haring (v/g): This is kind of like „the hit” in Israel. The world is well lost but let’s lie on the beach and have fun and fall in love because it doesn’t matter. We can just feel whatever we want.

In Cooperation of Israeli Cultural Institute of Budapest, Plaza Real Cultural Foundation and Fődalatti Association the 108th RNR666 party

“Just One Day is the World”

Vaadat Charigim (shoegaze, Burger Records)
makrohang (jazz for metalheads)

SEPT 27  BUDAPEST  KONTRA KLUB  10PM

Ticket: 1500     Facebook event

Listen to Vaadat Charigim’s debut album! (New Musical Express: 8/10)

If you live in Hungary you can download 3 songs from here!

makrohang interview (in Hungarian)

VAADAT CHARIGIM EAST EURO TOUR SEPT
24: Warsaw,  25: Berlin,  26: Prague,  27: Budapest,  28: Linz,  29: Vienna

The founder of notorious British alternative punk band Country Teasers (which was somewhere between The Fall and Fat White Family), Ben Waller says about the beginning of his musical carrier: “I envied the guys in the school band. They didn’t invite me to join, so I formed my own band. I wanted to play the Cure’s guitar melodies, so that’s how I learnt, playing along. I learnt by ear. I had learnt piano to Grade 3, which I failed; I learnt sax for a year or two at school too. Fucking hated it. But I could play the solo at the end of Pink Floyd’s ‘Two Suns in the Sunset’, the tragic climax of The Final Cut.” * His next cut under his pseudonym The Rebel

„KROT” LP on Monofonus Press (US). It is just like the Country Teasers with minimal orchestration and experimental country songs. It was recorded in Texas. On the label’s site you can listen to the whole album for a limited time!

Free download: Country Teasers          The Rebel

* The cited interview

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The promised „more grown up, well polished” new album by the acid beach boys Growlers. “There are some happy songs, some love songs, some creepy shit. There’s everything. We got funky.”

„Chinese Fountain” LP, CD, digital on Everloving (US), Fat Cat (EU) and Smack Face Records (Aus)

The Swiss Music Prize was awarded for the first time on 19 September.

Amazing short movie with collaborative music of the nominees:

Reverend Beat-Man, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Hans Kennel, Norbert Möslang,
Julian Sartorius, Andreas Schaerer, Steamboat Switzerland, Marcel Oetiker,
Irene Schweizer, Franco Cesarini, Corin Curschellas, Erika Stucky,
Franz Treichler, Mama Rosin, Dragos Tara

& the winner is

AUSMUTEANTS have been started as a synth’n’drums punk duo, but within a short time it evolved with a bassists and a hardcore „non guitarrist” into a full band, and they do it so good, that such big international labels want them as: Goner, Goodbye Boozy and Total Punk.

6  tracks from 4 fresh releases

1-3 tracks: „Order Of Operation” upcoming LP by Goner (US) and Aarght Records (Aus). The 3rd song also on a 7″ single by Goodbye Boozy Records (Italy). 4-5: „It’s Alive”, cassette on Welcome In The Shit Records (Italy). The 4th song also on the LP. 6th: upcoming 7″ single by Total Punk Records (US)

And there everyone is called on this beautiful German name: Kurt. Very strange that it’s a female name – according to the Wikipedia. (Was, meanwhile it would be revised.)