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On The Road To Hellsinki
Finnish hard rock and roll blues trash raw soul duo
BLACK MAGIC SIX
new album CHOOSE DEATH out now on Svart Records
„It is mainly the acceptance of the death one way or another. Piece of rope, aging, liquor, loneliness and Pissed off. They are all going to die. Sooner or later.”
But sooner BLACK MAGIC SIX is on tour
Finland, Germany, Hungary, Denmark, Switzerland
in BUDAPEST at RNR666 PARTY on 28 APRIL
more Hungarian dates: 29 APRIL – SZOLNOK at legendary Tomi Büfé again!
30 APRIL – DEBRECEN
4 French Bands / 11 Musicians / 4 Variations / 1 EP / 100 Pages Book / 360 Degree
LA COLONIE DE VACANCES
started as a collective tour of French bands
ELECTRIC ELECTRIC + MARVIN + PAPIER TIGRE + PNEU
in the summer of 2010.
The idea of 11 musicians playing together emerged on that tour at Tours’ Festival Rayons Frais where they were invited to play at the 4 corners of Tours’ Castle courtyard. This turned into ‘LA COLONIE DE VACANCES’, a quadraphonic sound system, throwing the audience in the center of a musical ping-pong game played by two, three or four teams. This has been turned into a 10″ vinyl + a 100 illustrated pages book.
The vinyl – titled Concentric Grooves – is a very specific one because it is readable in multi-grooves. The concept was borrowed from Monty Python’s album Matching Tie and Handkerchief from 1973. It was mastered with two concentric grooves on side two so that different material would be played depending on where the stylus was put down on the record’s surface.
1 THEME, 4 VARIATIONS, each interpreted by random members
It will be released on 22 April, Disquaire Day
on KYTHIBONG and MURAILLES MUSIC and SUPER LOTO EDITIONS (F)
Andy from garage-thrash band Digger and The Pussycats
as BRAT FARRAR running a one-man-punk band
and plays surprisingly various lo-fi punk music.
He said the sound is reminiscent of early Wipers, Chrome, The Spits, Suicide, a bit like My Bloody Valentine (well just the guitars) on a few tracks and sometimes like power pop bands recorded incorrectly.
And even more like his fellow Australian TV Colours. Same feeling.
Here is a fine shoegaze one, bit like My Bloody Valentine
3rd album out now. Listen to it here
CD: Off The Hip Records (AUS). Vinyl: Kizmiaz Records (France)
Take a Nightride with The Pussywarmers
from the sunset till the sunrise
THE PUSSYWARMERS is a Swiss band. I wrote some years ago about them
„The Pussywarmers is a band of a traveling circus. They play swing for the rope-dancers, blues for the knife thrower, tarantella for the lion tamer, dixieland for the magician, cha-cha-cha for the trapezists, tango for the bears, polka for the poodles, waltz for the monkeys and criss-cross for the clowns on four languages.”
They have recently released the Nightride EP under the name of THE PUSSYWARMERES & RÉKA’S ELEKTRONISCHE ABTEILUNG via Annibale Records. And it is totally different than their previous recordings. So I have had to ask what is the story of this project?
Réka: At the beginning of the year we introduced „The Pussywarmers & Réka’s Jizz Ensemble” which represents our „Tropical Big Band”. For the new record we decided to strip down to a quartet: „Elektronische Abteilung” which means „Electronic Department”. It´s a concept for an „Alter Ego Band”. Inventing this band in a Band-Project lead to more freedom in the creative process of composing and recording.
We have a hideout in the mountains of Italy where we are only allowed to play in a low volume. These situations forced us to play around with loops which we kept on sometimes for hours. This sounds and loops created sometimes states of hypnosis. In this new found state we also started to experiment with new sounds and instruments. For „Nightride” we wanted to capture those moods and used instruments that would reflect perfectly those nights. From the sunset till the sunrise.
„Nightride” is very cinematique, so a big influence – for this new way of writing and recording music – were definitely movies. In Zürich exists the Institute of Incoherent Cinematography. Pablo Assandri – the head of IOIC – organizes silent movie events to which he invites musicians to create new film scores for these movies in a live situation. He invited us a couple of times and we loved it. To compose music to images is a very different approach. Music can be created which would never arise in normal practicing situations. Characters and scenes of the movie can become your muses. For example we played for Fred Niblo’s film The Temptress (1926).
The event series is called „The Underworld in Silent Film”. Here is an old trailer just for the feeling
Next silent film event will be on 30 March. Marena Whitcher’s Shady Midnight Orchestra will play on the film Der Geisterzug (Ghost Train, Germany/UK, 1927) by Géza von Bolváry.
NEXT PUSSYWARMERS & RÉKA SHOWS
30.3.2017 / Geneve (CH) / Bongo Joe / NIGHTRIDE RELEASE TOUR
1.3.2017 / Basel (CH) / tba / NIGHTRIDE RELEASE TOUR
1.4.2017 / Zurich (CH) / Bundeshaus Residency 68 / NIGHTRIDE
Hi Hats Are For Post Punk Heroes
TAOS HUMM is a Bristol based experimental rock trio.
Sometimes pop, sometimes jazz, sometimes punk,
sometimes psychedelic, sometimes ambient
but often nerve-rackingly funny
from the new album Flute Of The Noodle Bender
on Stolen Body and Howling Owl Records (UK)
but what is Taos Humm, id est Taos Hum?
of course
Are you don’t living in Holland?
No problem.
YOU CAN BE A FASCIST TOO
by Arizona punk band PLAYBOY MANBABY
from the album Don’t Let It Be on Lolipop (US) and Dirty Water Records (UK)
I am right. I am correct.
SUCCHIAMO
Paula H. Satan singer of French garage rock band JC Satan &
Théo Delaunay drummer of French garage rock band Lonely Walk,
but also seriously interested in techno as panoptique and Constance Chlore,
and a member of experimental/electronic label Simple Music Experience.
make music together as
SUCCHIAMO
to play cold erotic electroclash
12″ single on ANTINOTE RECORDS (France)
or download it from Bandcamp
new wave of old school disco
a girl/boy as you have the place at DISCOTHEQUE
here are the first recordings of AMOR
just 2, but more than 13 mins tracks on 12″ vinyl
by 3 Glasgowan, Richard Youngs (eg. Jandek), Luke Fowler, Paul Thomson (Franz Ferdinand and The Yummy Fur) with the Norwegian double bassist Michael Francis Duch
on Night School Records UK, Scotland
Hey Butt! What The Fuck?
a new series on RNR666 about serious questions
MOUNTAIN BIKE is a very funny and playful Belgian garage rock band. Sometimes so pop like the Blur. Please click the play button for the full experience now!
– How turned this stupid name Mountain Bike out? I’m especially curious about the circumstances of the name giving. It was during a crazy night, or was it a hangover in a café, or a lazy afternoon? How did it happen?
– Well you know, we had no ideas, picking a name is always a pain in the ass. This band wasn’t supposed to last, It was just a joke. Running out of proposals, we chose „Mountain Bike” because we saw someone wearing a Mountain Bike T-shirt. How stupid is that?! And you? How did you end up with such an original name? R’n’R 666…
– It was a beautiful May afternoon. I was walking along the boulevard Nagykörút in Budapest when my phone rang. Lavór called me and asked
– Hey, want to do a biweekly rock and roll radio show with me and Pali?
– Why not?
– Ok. Then find its name out!
I went in Csiga Pub on the Rákóczi tér and ordered a beer. I was sitting at the table, the sun was shining, the beer was cold, and my brain played the song Killed by Death by Motörhead, and RNR666 was born. Anyway, what is the story of Mountain Bike? How did it start?
– It all started as a fun side project, we all had other bands as Thee Marvin Gays or Warm Toy Machine, but we wanted something a bit different with no pressure. We soon had a couple of songs that we recorded with only two mics as equipment. Our friends really liked it so we put out a 7″ and started to play shows. Then we recorded a whole album at a friend studio, and we found the Humpty Dumpty label, that helped us to promote our record. That’s about it. Belgian and French medias seemed to like our debut album and we got to play a lot of shows in several countries as Belgium, France, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, UK, et cetera. We got very lucky and now Mountain Bike is our main band.
And it’s a very funny and playful garage rock band. Sometimes so pop like the Blur. If you have pushed the play now you are listening to their first album, but the second album out now on HUMPTY DUMPTY (Belg) and TEENAGE MENOPAUSE RECORDS (Fra).
on the road to Hellsinki
hard rhythm and raw soul
by the infernal duo of Finland
BLACK MAGIC SIX
on their 5th station on the road to Hellsinki
new album Choose Death out on 7 April by SVART RECORDS
Anyway around 1:54 in the second composition Dance with Me Satan you can hear the Hungarian equivalent of its title with perfect pronunciation by Jukka! You can find a fine article about the relation of Finnish and Hungarian languages here.
BLACK MAGIC SIX AT RNR666 PARTY IN BUDAPEST ON 28 APRIL!
Tour dates
31.03. Finland, Turku
01.04. Finland, Jyväskylä
07.04. Finland, Helsinki
08.04. Finland, Kuopio
13.04. Germany, Kamenz
14.04. Germany, Ludwigsfelde
15.04. Germany, Quedlinburg
16.04. Germany, Berlin
28.04. Hungary, Budapest
29.04. Hungary, Pécs or Szolnok
30.04. Hungary, Pécs or Szolnok
11.-12.05. TBA (Switzerland/Germany)
13.05. Germany, Karlsruhe
03.06. FInland, TBA
More dates coming up soon. If you wanna book them send private FB message,
or mail to: janne. joutsenniemi (ät) livenation. fi
Acid, Not Music
new releases by CLAN DESTINE RECORDS Scotland, UK
DJ LOSER from Greece, he has two projects as minimal techno maximum noise Body Snatchers with Raw Ambassador, and industrial ambient Magdalena’s Apathy with Penelope’s Fiance. Cassette and digital album.
MARC ASH – aka Plovdiv – is a Berlin base Italian, drawing his inspirations from electro pioneers, early new wave and „dirty industrial” (esp. mining industrial). He is the founder of Blacksilk Records. Ostracism cassette and digital album.
„existing is useless. life is pointless. throw it away. be free” is the motto of the existentialist American DJ/producer COLLIN STRANGE, founder of the early American power electronics act Intrinsic Action which started in 1984. How I Creep cassette and digital album out now.
3 punks and 1 tennis teacher
3 punks, 1-1 from Japan, France and Spain, together with
a Caribbean tennis teacher,
who unlike the others was not in a band before,
but was chosen for singing because he is a frenetic dancer, well,
they met at first at a Billy Childish gig at Dirty Water Club in London,
and soon they formed the
KING SALAMI & THE CUMBERLAND 3
influenced by the 50-60s rhythm and blues, rockabilly, rock and roll and soul,
like Andre Williams, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Bo Diddley, Sonics, Trashmen, Link Wray, James Brown and more. They play it with punk attitude in an exceptional manner.
New album Going Back To Wurstville on Dirty Water Records (Europe), Off The Hip (Aus) and Disk Union (Jap)