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The Hands : Reflections (Broken Arm Records) 2022
Perpignan. Salvador Dali szerint a perpignani vasútállomás az Univerzum közepe, számomra az európai pszichedelik-punk / garage rock legfontosabb városa, na jó még Bordeaux, de az is ott van a közelben. Ebből a közegből jön a The Hands, a harmadik hullámból, ha a ’90-es éveket és a Beach Beaches-t vesszük az elsőnek, a 2000-es éveket a másodiknak (The Mighty Go-Go Players, Jack Of Heart, Sonic Chicken 4 stb.) és a 2010-es évektől számítjuk a harmadikat (Les Crotales, Crank, The Llambs stb.).
A Reflections a harmadik The Hands album és azt hiszem ez a legjobb eddig, jók a dalok és hallatszik, hogy Brian (ének/gitár) sok időt szánt a keverésre, mert nagyon szépen szól minden. Pszichedelikus garage rock ez, jó sok fuzz gitárral és meglehetősen nyers énekkel. A pszichedelikust ne úgy képzeljük, hogy hosszúra nyújtott elszállások, meg ilyenek. A tíz számból hét nem éri el a három perces hosszúságot, kettő még két percet sem. Egyszer azt írtam róluk (és ez tetszett a Hands-es srácoknak) – ősemberek párducgalócán, nem az a finomkodós cucc. Ez koncerten végképp így van. Nagy zajt tudnak csapni.
Nekem sokszor jut eszembe a korai Jack Of Heart róluk (pl. a Seven Years c. dal), ami nem véletlen, mert a zenekarból hárman is játszottak / játszanak a J.O.H.-ban. A Sweet Star- ról a torinoi Movie Star Junkies ugrik be, az akusztikus zárószámról meg Syd Barett.
Érdekes lehet még, hogy a We are so Lame c. dalt a Lame nevű zenekarnak ajánlják, akik a turné partnereik voltak pár éve mikor Budapestet is útba ejtették közösen, sőt még kis falunkat is, ahol a pajtánkban lenyomtak egy teljes koncertet meglepetésként. A The Hands közönsége akkor a három Lame zenész + Márti meg én voltunk.
Nagyon jó album és a borító is ütős, ami szintén Brian munkája!
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Top Down : Backyard Thunder (No Chance Records) 2022
Itt a harmadik Top Down nagylemez, van három kislemezük, a zenekarban is hárman vannak, úgyhogy minden három.
Velük kapcsolatban mindig, felmerül a Dead Moon (űbermegakultikus, mindenki által tisztelt garage-rock-punk zk.) párhuzam. Ami nem meglepő hisz a Top Down ezer szállal kötődik Fred Cole, Toody Cole és Andrew Loomis zenekarához:
Charlie (basszus/ének) akár, csak a Dead Moon Portland-ből származik, a felállás is klasszik ‘power trio’ váltott férfi-női énekkel, lemezkiadás saját kiadónál (a D.M.-nál a Tombstone Rec. a T.D.-nál a No Chance Rec.), Fred Cole haláláig minden felvételt vele rögzítettek, szigorúan mono-ban (akár a Dead Moon) sőt a kettes lemezre egy dalt is írt nekik a Down The Road-ot. Tournéztak együtt a Fred&Toody-val Európában és az USA-ban is. Szim (gitár/ének) adta ki a Dead Moon könyv európai változatát és még folytathatnám, de legyen elég ennyi.
Megemlítenék még két zenekart akik bár nem annyira erőteljesen mint a Dead Moon, de érezhetők a Top Down zenéjében, az egyik a portlandi Wipers, a másik pedig a Paul Caporino által 40 éve vezetett M.O.T.O.. Ütős riff, egyszerű zenei szerkezet, fogós dallam, a Top Down esetében mindez kibaszott feszesen elővezetve és semmi torzítgatás, effektezgetés. Püff, kész is egy Top Down dal.
A 10 dal közül nem nagyon emelnék ki egyet sem én úgy vagyok velük, hogy meghallgatok egy lemezüket általában kétszer egymás után aztán meg a többit ami még van. Rám nézve elég addiktív a zenéjük.
A lemezborító grafikája is nagyon jó, Phillip Janta munkája >> https://www.instagram.com/janta.island/ << Az összetört autó rendszáma 54-40, az üzenet egyértelmű! Az iserten ott vannak a dalszövegek és a másik oldalon egy fametszet nyomat a zenekarról. Az első 50 példányhoz járt még egy eredeti arany színű nyomat! Ezt pedig Gabriela Jolowitcz készítette. Fantasztikus dolgai vannak >> https://www.instagram.com/gabrielajolowicz/ << érdemes ránézni!
Jó hír: 2023 -ban harmadjára is visszatérnek Magyarországra, május 6.-án Budapesten, május-7. én Miskolcon fognak játszani.
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Black Metal Always Die
First single from the debut album of Dutch Black Metal duo DOODSWENS. They open up the cesspit of the human condition, giving voice to our bleakest emotions through old-school Black Metal like a freshly dug grave. Proudly expressing feelings of inner negativity and depression:
LICHTVREES will be released on the 3rd of December 2021 on SVART RECORDS
Everything is a Dream
Terveet Kädet leader Läjä Äijälä and Albert Witchfinder of Reverend Bizarre collab album Centuries of Youth will terrorize you lovely:
LP on Svart Records
I Hate Algorithms
SOUTH LONDON ELECTRIC DANCE PUNK band LEG PUPPY offers a satirical attack on the modern world. Heavily influenced by classic TV shows inc Nathan Barley & Black Mirror. Behind the satire is a band with something to say, tackling issues such as gambling addiction, social media narcissism, property developers & spam bots.
They say about their new album: THE AIR IN UTOPIA IS POISON is a dark, grooving odyssey revealing an unnerving reflection of post-Brexit Britain. Despite containing a lot of humour, it’s a very dark album with some very hard-hitting themes:
That aside, we wanted to take the piss out of the music industry, where mediocrity and safeness wins.
NO FUCKIN MAKE UP!
Ultra primitive destructive Italian garage punkers SLOKS have recently released their new album A KNIFE IN YOUR HAND on VOODOO RHYTHM RECORDS. Label boss Rev. Beatman says about them:
I saw them on a local alternative festival in Italy for the first time. It was so destructive and suicidal dangerous and amazing eye catching the same time. The female singer Ivy Claudy almost killed herself in her act strangling herself with the microphone cable and screamed as loud that she spit blood on the same time, Buddy Fuzz wanked constantly his guitar overdosing totally distorting and endless feedback. They were so negative and creative the same time… It was defiantly way too much for the audience and most of them left immediately except us… and they had to open the festival anyways hahaha… I was blown away of the energy the band… Their second album is another nasty piece of trash!!!!! Enjoy and book them if you wanna experience a live madness massacre!!!!!
Dark Sings from The Finnish Countryside
Rural legend and outsider folk artist H.C. SLIM spent his formative years smoking cigarettes and playing his guitar, between distilling moonshine in an old empty factory in the Eastern-Finnish countryside. As an evangelical visionary and wayward preacher, H.C SLIM calls forth revelations of pastoral love and rustic abandoned buildings. His songs are both apocalyptic and illuminating, swelling between religious fervour and starless prophecies of biblical destruction. E.g.:
He had amassed quite a catalog of original songs he’s demoed on a tape recorder, deep in the Eastern Finnish countryside. Over the years cassettes and CDRs began to circulate with original copies selling for high prices before Svart Records drove out to his remote cabin to offer Slim a deal for his debut album.
Ember tervez, James Leg végez
FEBRUÁR 12-én a Kino Session szervezésében PÉCSett
játszik a JAMES LEG soul-blues-punk duó.
Más magyarországi koncert nem lesz, csak ez.
A JAMES LEG elektromos orgona + dob kettős aztán jött létre, hogy Reverend James Leg – született John Wesley Myers – előző zenekara, a Black Diamond Heavies feloszlott. Az szintén billentyű + dob felállású banda volt, de mivel az orgona nem volt betorzítva, így hagyományos hangzásúnak mondható, ellentétben a James Leggel, ahol sokszor hihetjük azt, hogy gitár vagy basszus szól éppen, pedig nem. Az énekhang miatt sokaknak juthat eszébe Tom Waits, viszont vele ellentétben James Leg legtöbbször egyszerűen rock’n’rollként definiálja muzsikájuk:
John Wesley Myers egy texasi kisvárosban született egy baptista prédikátor fiaként, aki nagy gondot fordított gyermeke harmonikus lelki fejlődésének zavartalanságára. Zenei nevelést is szigorúan vallásos alapon kapott. Egy napon apja, mikor rájött, hogy 14 éves fia szülei távollétében a családi lemezgyűjteményben meglapuló három darab világi zenét hallgatja (például ezt és ezt), tüzet rakott a kert végében, és a lángok közé hajította mindhármat.
Ezzel szinte egy időben érkezett a városba egy keresztény vándortársulat, mely műsorában a rockzene és a sátánizmus kapcsolatát firtatta. Apai utasításra Johnnak is mennie kellett. Az előadáson Ozzy, AC/DC, Alice Cooper, Prince, Van Halen és Rolling Stones számokkal rémítették a közönséget. A Queen “Another One Bites The Dust” című számát visszafelé is meghallgatták, mivel akkor a refrént így is lehet érteni: „marijuana, marijuana, decide to smoke marijuana”. A felvilágosító előadás után John természetesen rákapott a fűre és a rockzenére, és 17 évesen elköltözött otthonról.
Talán még érdekes lehet, hogy tagja volt a ritka állat blues punkot játszó Immortal Lee County Killersnek is a zenekar utolsó periódusában. Ha jól tudom ezen a nagylemezükön játszott.
És külön Hammer Zsaninak mondanám, hogy közreműködött ez a jóember Scott H. Biram 2009-es nagylemezén!
Black Heaven on Blue Danube
Hash Wednesday with two American eclectic psychedelic rock bands
EARTHLESS and PALLBEARER
on 8 AUG in BUDAPEST at A38
EARTHLESS is heavy psychedelic rock trio. Creating energetic, utterly unique and free thinking mainly instrumental music inspired by an eclectic semi-improvised mix of German krautrock – like Guru Guru, Amon Düül II – and Japanese heavy blues-rock bands like Flower Travelling Band or Blues Creation. But there are other stuffs which are affecting their music e.g. and especially the first three ZZ Top albums, the Aussie post-punk band Scientists, lots of jazz like old Coltrane and Thelonious Monk or some mid-60s garage rock bands. But for me their music often cites when Black Sabbath played with Jimmy Hendrix at an acid jam session in my mind.
Their new album BLACK HEAVEN released this year on Nuclear Blast Records. You can listen to it in full entirety.
The other band will be the PALLBEARER that lysergic night. They are mixing progressive rock in its classical sense, alterative rock of the nineties and the timeless weight of doom.
So the best if you accept your fate and take a psychedelic mind trip at full tilt and celebrate Hash Wednesday with them that night on the spot.
Just Leaving Footsteps in The Snow
PRIMO! is a raw minimal guitar pop band from Melbourne with the two girls from one of the most amazing Australian pop bands TERRY. Their short, beautifully simple and purposeful songs reference the 40-hour working week, the city, bureaucracy, walking, a ghost and a mirage:
They are going to European tour in August. And also there will be a TERRY tour in Europe in September.
AMICI will release on 13 July on UPSET THE RYTHM RECORDS (UK)
Fast & Loud
JOHNNY MAFIA hails from Sens, Burgundy (which is known more for it’s wheat and cereal production than rock ‘n’ roll) and bring a young, snotty, explosive and ferociously fun energy that drives audiences into a near-frenzy. Inspired by classics like The Ramones, T-Rex, and The Clash, they also draw heavily on contemporary acts like
Ty Segall, Jay Reatard, and the Wavves. The band have just released the video single for BIG BRAWL
after recently finishing recording and mastering their sophomore album PRINCES DE L’AMOUR with producer JIM DIAMOND – who was the bass player of Dirtbombs and produced albums for The Sonics, Andre Williams, The John Spencer Blues Explosion, White Stripes and countless others.
Jim was forced to shut the doors at his studio Ghetto Recorders in 2015 due to what can only be described as “hipsterfication in the downtown Detroit area when his landlord doubled his rent. He set up a new base in Montpellier, and continues his prolific presence across the scene, working with bands as far and wide from Cambodia to Cleveland. In recent years, Diamond has become something of an unofficial in-house label producer/engineer at DIRTY WATER RECORDS.
The album PRINCES DE L’AMOUR will release on 9 November on DIRTY WATER RECORDS (UK).
KILLBONOCLUB # 15
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1. Experimental, kitchen-produced hybrid of folk, musique concrète and psychedelia by ODETTA HARTMAN.
She raised by pioneering parents on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, NYC, Odetta’s milieu was a “colorful culture of artistry,” that included early exposure to community activism, renegade film screenings, poetry readings and trips to CBGB’s. Inchoate punk and hip hop were aural wallpaper, as were the 45s spinning in the household jukebox featuring her dad’s extensive collection of soul and afrobeat records, as well as her Appalachian mother’s classic country selections. A classically trained violinist with a penchant for back-porch banjo, Odetta combines these variegated sounds of her childhood with her personal passion for folk music and the musicological legacy of Alan Lomax. But she never takes herself too seriously and always tries to have fun, so she went to the kitchen.
“Many of the beats on the album were recorded in the kitchen: the snare sound is actually a running faucet, or if you hear these glockenspiel bells that’s actually a set of kitchen bowls. Other percussive elements include scissors, a pepper grinder and keys on the radiator.” Anyway she loves mistakes in songwriting or recording, because they so often lead to something greater. I do not know how many songs got its final form by mistakes on this album, just know that is weird and wonderful. Her second album OLD ROCKHOUNDS NEVER DIE is slated for release on NORTHERN SPY RECORDS and MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES on August 10, 2018.
2. THE DUE DILIGENCE is a free form band of songwriter Isaac Gillespie and his friends. The new alum LIFE IS HARD is the final piece of a trilogy. It was started with the country-soul album „I Will Wreck Your Life” in 2011. It was the encapsulation of the years Gillespie spent in the antifolk scene. The second part was the frenetic Velvet Underground-infused sarcasm of 2014’s Are You Down. It’s the wild night on the town, but it’s also the morning after. A recognition of the difficulty of life.
LIFE IS HARD is largely inspired by songwriter Gillespie’s grandmother’s passing, and her perseverance through the many challenges of being a single mother and a child of immigrants in the 1950s. LIFE IS HARD is both the death album and the pop album. It provides a trash-gospel meditation on the tug of war between the lusts that drive us and the deaths to which we’re driven. It was inspired by the psychedelic soul of Sly & the Family Stone and the „plaintive mythologizing” of Grateful Dead. It will be released in June on PAPER GARDEN RECORDS (US).
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3. Atlanta’s SUBSONICS are a gutter-glam, minimal rock’n’roll trio. FLESH COLORED PAINT is their 8th album. Like all their previous works, this is a distilled hodgepodge of decades of popular culture and classic literature culminating in a collection of short and groovy shambolar: Chuck Berry, Albert Camus, AM radio rock jocks, Bo Diddley, Golden Age TV, surrealism, Mad Magazine, kung-fu flicks, Herman Melville, Little Richard, self-negating philosophy, David Johansen, The Bible, Dee Dee Ramone, Lee Van Cleef, Cornell Woolrich, advertising jingles, Dada, Carole King, Bugs Bunny, and Casablanca; the poem, not the film. The album was released by SLOVENLY RECORDS.
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4. New Yorker PARQUET COURTS is a punk band. Hard to say anything else. OK, compared to Total Punk Records style punk bands they rather play pop music. Their influences come from Velvet Underground, Ramones and Talking Heads, but I also hear The Fall and even Country Teasers in their music. I remember their first album was a big revelation for me. There the sound was more punk than on the next ones. Fortunately unlike many others they don’t write the same record year by year. And now with the new album WIDE AWAKE we arrived to New Orelans.
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5. Howe Gelb refused to cancel their first Los Angeles live gig when his band Giant Sandworms had broken up days before in Tucson, Arizona. Instead, he headed out anyway with Scott Garber, the newest member who’d only been in the band for about a year. Gelb asked fellow Tucsonan Winston Watson who lived in Los Angeles to jump in as drummer for the live date. And he did it with no rehearsal. The result was so sparked with adrenalin, that the trio set up an impromptu studio session the next day to attempt to capture the sonic thrust on tape. Later they recorded some songs to make it to a full LP with a different drummer in Tucson. The album Valley Of Rain was released in 1985 under the name of GIANT SAND.
But at the time of the recording Gelb was unacquainted with the possibilities of tube amps. So 30 some years later, now that the band had been put to sleep indefinitely, those very first songs had begun creeping into the last Giant Sand tours. It somehow seemed appropriate to give them another shot with the proper amp just to see what they could’ve been. What made the idea more approachable was the availability of both original drummers living back in Tucson. And they recorded the songs again together with the two newest member. And the sound is insane.
The album RETURN TO VALLEY OF THE RAIN on FIRE RECORDS (UK)
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6. After a few months spent abroad in Spain and her infatuation with Brazilian music, Chicago based Vivian McConnell was inspired to create a dreamy new genre she calls “nap-rock” and to assume the moniker of V.V. LIGHTBODY – the name of her piano-playing grandmother. The ocean-like tunes on the album BATHING PEACH combine the vivid lyricism of Joni Mitchell with the jazz-inflected chords of Sam Prekop’s early solo records. Unanchored in a sea of glitching mermaids, V.V. LIGHTBODY is a surreal reflection of McConnell’s experiences and influences that coalesce into an intimate narrative of self-discovery.
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7. After half year that her album with Kurt Vile was released Australian indie rock songstress COURTNEY BARNETT has released her new album TELL ME HOW YOU REALLY FEEL with contribution of Kim and Kelly Deal from Breeders on MILK RECORDS (AUS), MOM+POP MUSIC (US) and MARATHON ARTISTS (UK)
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8. So here is PALBERTA‘s new album ROACH GOIN’ DOWN on WHARF CAT RECORDS (US) soon. The best phrase which best describes the music of these girls is: wap wap wap dabbada ding ding dack dabbada.
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9. THE DREEBS have been making music in New York since 2009. Over the next couple years they would find a home in the Brooklyn noise rock community, while staying true to their specific sound palette. The best if their friend Andrew Savage (Parquet Quarts) tells you about the band and their new album FOREST OF A CREW on RAMP LOCAL RECORDS (US).
First a little catch up for the unacquainted: Every member of The Dreebs has, at some point, been a member of PC Worship (that is if the players in the notorious New York City collective could ever be called members). The Dreebs were first described to me years ago as PC Worship’s weirder side project, which immediately caught my attention because, how could a band be weirder than PC Worship. I’m not going to even attempt to quantify that because it’s utterly impossible. Though over the years, we’ve seen a sort of Dreebian declaration of independence by their increased presence in the New York City DIY and avant-garde scenes. That independence has been loudly articulated in the form of Forest Of A Crew. It’s the sum of eight songs and seven instrumentals. These pieces wash over the listener like vignettes of a fever dream, punctuated with moments of terror and beauty. It exists not in romanticized New York of old where artists could survive in squalor so long as they existed in inexpensive and undesirable locations where no squares fear to tread. Rather, the hellscape of The Dreebs is of a different variety, where even Bushwick is unaffordable and the decision to live as an artist in the city has become a perilous one.
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10. THE COMMON COLD is an English psychedelic rock band whose sound incorporates elements of Krautrock, post-punk, and northern soul. It has been formed by two friends Ajay Saggar and Mark Wareing, the duo had served time in legendary British punk band Dandelion Adventure many years before. Two years ago they took to the stage for the first time together nearly after 30 years to play a set of psych jams. Later they got three drummers, but one time just two play. They got the influence from Kaleidoscope, Neu!, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and The Fall. On their debut album SHUT UP! YO LIBERALS! on ACTION RECORDS features former drummers of Cornershop and The Fall.
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11. SECOND STILL is an LA based post-punk, cold wave wave band. Best describe them the names of the labels which release their music: Manic Depression, Weyrd Son and Sentimental Records. Their new EP EQUALS was released on WEYRD SON RECORDS (Belgium). I was so lucky that i saw them in Budapest not long before. It was a frantic night.
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12. APOSTILLE is the solo electronic project of Night-School Records‘ head Michael Kasparis. His second solo album CHOOSE LIFE will release on 8 June on UPSET THE RHYTHM RECORDS, and it’s the greatest new wave synth-pop music what I heard recently. Minimal and courageous. It’s not a simple thing. Through EBM and acid techno finally it reach to Prodigy.
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13. It’s time for mysterious cinematic pop melancholia with Scottish musician PICTISH TRAIL. He is a svelte, intelligent, adorable balladeer, trapped inside the body of an oversized, oft-bearded folk ogre. Runs Lost Map Records, up on the isle of Eig. It’s one of the Small Isles in the Inner Hebrides with a population around 100. His extraordinary vocals reveal hidden depths and have been accompanied by everything from acoustic guitar to a full-on four piece metal band to throbbing dance beats and samples, and often during the course of the same gig. The album FUTURE ECHOES originally released in 2016 on his label, but now it will be re-released with a bunch of unreleased remixes and live materials in July on FIRE RECORDS (UK)
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14. „Searching for the light in the pouring rain” is the motto of THE GOLDEN DREGS. It’s the project of Benjamin Woods with a musical approach inspired by 70’s Americana and jam bands, The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan’s The Basement Tapes, and the documentary movie about the Mussel Shoals Studio.
The debut album LAFAYETTE is jangly summer-summoning pop for the hours when the sun is disappearing below the sea. What it plays out is a rich representation of small town living; from the churn of the rumour mill to the assortment of intriguing characters that only seem to exist far away from motorways, Itsu chains and the relative anonymity afforded by city living. It was recorded with contributions from some of the town Falmouth’s best musicians – the Cleave brothers (The Red Cords), Samuel Stacpoole (Holiday Ghosts), Jake Wilbourne (The Black Tambourines) and plenty more. And released on ART IS HARD RECORDS. And good to listen to it.
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15. ONYX was the avant-garde electronic duo of American songwriter and instrumentalist Judd Stone, and British vocalist and fashion model Beveur in the early 80s. The only instruments they used are drums /percussion and synthesizers – except for a primitive drum machine track that is used on “Planet X”. All of the instruments are played, and there is no syncing or sequencers used on any of the recordings. The bass tracks are keyboard bass. And what they recorded it is still fresh.
COMPLETE WORKS 1981-83 will release in June on Osaka based Franco-Japanese label MIND RECORDS.
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South London Calling
Now you can listen to the split CD single of two strange South London bands. On the one hand H0NKIES play a blend of South-London scuzz incorporating elements country, electronic, post-punk and lo-fi. File next to bands such as these South London fellows: Goat Girl, Meatraffle, Warmduscher and Peeping Drexels, but also Rebel and Country Teasers of course. And thye are really just “like a drunken boat.”
On the other part PEEPING DREXELS play sleazy melodies with sloppy beats from South London scum. It’s music for horrible people like you.
It is released on PERMANENT CREEP RECORDS. Order here.