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From New Records
Berlin > To Rococo Rot is a no wave pop trio with jazz and classical elements and a little Velvet Underground feeling in their music. The upcoming album featuring Arto Lindsay (DNA, Lounge Lizard, Ambitious Lovers)
‘instrument’ – LP, CD on City Slang (UK)
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New York > Sex Scheme (ex-Mountain Cult) plays noisy blues with harp. Strange, but it comes Big Black to my mind.
7″+ digital + cassette + if you order either of them, then you can pick a CD-r
Dadaboum
Carcassonne is a beautiful town in the Languedoc region in France whose main attraction is a high wall that prevents Bonne Humeur Provisoire from going into the town. This duo has turned electronic musical DIY into a highly irritating tool among its neighbours, who are more interested in tasting good cheese and paté of the region than finding out how it is possible, even in the country of the grandeur, to spin in only one wash the extravagance of Tic et Tac’s way, llulabies for hiperactive children and a taste for Dadaism that makes Tristan Tzara sane in comparison. Bonne Humeur Provisoire sounds as if a poltergeist phenomenom had taken control of a Martian killer of the 80’s, and sings and swears as Robbie the Robot
When performing, the group likes to externalize their absolute lack of complexes and their still unexplained passion for blue, and they make up for their shortsightedness by pressing all the keys on their synthesizers and modified toys at the same time. The resulting cacophony is excellent and has the vigorous beauty of an automaton that goes too far if it is wind up just a little. And however, in Carcassonne, people don’t even know what’s going on. Mon dieu!
In Budapest with a French Neue Deutsche Welle band, Badaboum on next Tuesday (24 June, 9 pm) at Trafik Klub by RNR666. Ticket: 1000. Facebook
„It’s noisy, with keyboards, you wouldn’t like it”
„when people I know ask me what my band is like I tell them,
‘it’s noisy, with keyboards, you wouldn’t like it.”
Gentle Friendly started when David took some scrapped drums and guitars out of a skip in East-London. Cleaned the instruments and invited Daniel to “come and mess with the stuff” while he played his broken Casio MT-40. Eventually the guitars stayed out of use. Very playful experimental pop. Maybe like the early Animal Collective. or Deerhoof. Full album stream
KAUA’I O’O A’A LP or Digital on Fat Cat Rec
Black Metal in Soft Pink Mood
Extremity on the cube. A gay professor of literature
has made one of the most interesting cover albums ever, titled
Why Do the Heathen Rage?
(Electronic Profanations of Black Metal Classics)
The cover art looks as if it was designed by a Satanist Tom of Finland.
Because of it one of the label main distributors
has refused to carry the record.
Out now on Thrill Jockey Records (US)
The Soft Pink Truth is the solo alter ego of Drew Daniel, one half of Baltimore-based electronic duo Matmos. Mr. Daniel has taught the history of electronic music at the San Francisco Art Institute and a sound art seminar at Harvard. He now teaches in the English Department at Johns Hopkins University. He has written a book about industrial-experimental-electronic band Throbbing Gristle; released a similar album in 2004: Do You Want New Wave (Or Do You Want The Soft Pink Truth?) which consists of house covers of classic hardcore and punk songs; produced remixes for Björk, Herbert, Grizzly Bear, Dat Politics and more. And he is a black metal fan.
Black metal is a very special subgenre of heavy metal. It was born on 1 November 1982 by British band Venom. That day the band’s second album titled Black Metal was released. Strange fact, but Venom’s music was fast, harsh and primitive rock and roll rather than heavy metal at that time. It stood nearer Motörhead or Ramones, than Judas Priest or Iron Maiden. As special features their lyrics had dark, occult and devilish themes. But Venom’s music and texts were refined and gentle compared with the subsequent, more and more extreme bands. Today’s black metal bands’ music is just like a mix of noise of coffee grinders and sounds of a pig-killing. Unfortunately some bands and many fans take the Satanist rubbish seriously. But the blackest black metal bands are adherents of white supremacist and Nazi ideologies. The words beget acts. In this case their fruits: violence, church arson, suicide, murder. All these in welfare states of North-Europe mainly. And they say always: I did it only in self-defence.
And then this man resolved to make a peculiar electronic black metal tribute album. And who was the first man whom he invited to cooperate in this? Antony Hegarty (Antony and the Johnsons). By the way, the others: Jenn Wasner from indie-folk rock duo Wye Oak, Terrance Hannum from drone-metal band Locrian, his Matmos partner M.C. Schmidt, Irish composer and vocalist Jennifer Walshe and more.
And the music? Well, it’s not an easy pop album. A Mix of electro-industrial, drum’n’bass, trip hop, house and EBM. It came Kraftwerk, Björk, Madonna and Leather Strip to my mind. Some covers are spiced with samples of house hits. The album requires a good piece of sense of humour. At first it was very strange, but as I listen to it repeatedly, so like it increasingly. But „Who in the world wants to hear this?” Nobody, basically. Black metal people aren’t going to like it because it’s faggoty disco, but actual dance music people aren’t going to like it because it’s weird people screaming about Satan.” (Drew said this in a Pitchfork interview.)
Venom + Sarcofago covers
The album not requires know of the original songs, but you can listen to those here. There you can read about some words about the bands: Venom, Beherit, Sarcofago, Sargeist, Darkthrone, AN, Mayhem, Hellhammer and Impaled Northern Moonforest.
Keith Moonshine Show
Black Originals of Soft Pink Covers
The Soft Pink Truth has made a peculiar electronic cover album of black metal classics. Here are the originals with two covers.
Tracklist and some words about the bands >
From New Records
„when people I know ask me what my band is like I tell them, ‘it’s noisy, with keyboards, you wouldn’t like it’”
Gentle Friendly started when David took some scrapped drums and guitars out of a skip in East-London. Cleaned the instruments and invited Daniel to “come and mess with the stuff” while he played his broken Casio MT-40. Eventually the guitars stayed out of use. Very playful experimental pop. Maybe like the early Animal Collective.
KAUA’I O’O A’A LP or Digital on Fat Cat
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„We’re at that point where we just don’t give a fuck about anything. We want to get a bad review. A lot of bands start off with their punk record first and then just get weaker. We want to only get better and louder.” And to play rough noise rock, like some Amphetamine Reptile artists in the 90s, for example Killdozer, Chrome Cranks or Halo of Flies.
Unholy Two – ‘Talk About Hardcore’ LP on 12XU Records
Winer Waltz
Excerpt from N1 Ear
“If I get raped it must be my fault and if get bashed I must’ve provoked it / And if I raise my voice I’m a nagging bitch and if I like fucking I’m a whore / And if I don’t want to I never want to (‘you never want to, you never want to’) / And if I love a woman it’s because I can’t get a real man or it’s for his enjoyment / And if I ask my doctor too many questions I’m neurotic and need pills / Because I still can’t get a safe birth control while some fucker’s roaming the moon”
After Velvet Underground, Lou Reed and Nico, before Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky, Leslie Winer has made the first trip hop album. Witch was released in early 1990 in London. It was simply credited to ©. It will be re-released on vinyl by Superior Viaduct on 29 April.
Leslie Winer is an American born poet, writer and musician. In the beginning she played with jazz bands as a pianist, then befriended with Burroughs and Jean-Mihel Basquiat as a university student in New York, worked as a super model in the 80s, went to London, worked together with Adam & The Ants bassist Kevin Mooney and Karl Bonnie of Renegade Soundwave, took part with her spoken words in the last song of Sinead O’Connor’s debut album in 1987, then made her first album Witch, which was released in early 1990. Her main instruments were the sampler and the desktop. (Witch was re-released in 1993. It also passed unnoticed.) She contributed to Bomb The Bass, Mekons and Holger Hiller songs and went back to America in late 1990, wrote some tracks for Grace Jones and Jon Hassel, signed to Geffen Records, but her second album 3 Bags Full which was recorded in 1993-94 stayed unreleased. Her third album Spider was recorded between 1994 and 97. It was released around 1999 in very limited series by Austrian minimalist and deconstructivist fashion designer Helmut Lang to promote one of his shows in New York.
These are raw jazzy experimental trip-hop albums with spoken words and sampled, dubbed music. Her albums remind me „Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales”, the collaboration album of Burroughs and Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. On the other hand her songs bring Velvet Underground, Lou Read and Nico to my mind.
Since then there were collaborations with French composer Christophe Van Huffel, Swedish composer and conceptual artist Carl Michael von Haushoff, British singer-songwriter and BMX champion Alice Temple, and put JJ Cale with touch with Samuel Beckett for nothing under the Cajun moon.
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She is living in France, playacting as co-editor for the Herbert Huncke estate. He was a beat poet and writer. Ms Winer reads a short story from Huncke.
You & Me Impossibility
Chris Imler a Berliner drummer. He is one of the drivers in avantgarde pop duo Driver & Driver. The other is the electronic musician Patric Catani.
Dark Spot Of Joy by Chris Imler
from his debut album Nervös on Staatsakt Records. „Imagine Alan Vega, DAF, Silver Apples, Hasil Adkins and Joe Meek being played and performed by one person!” – say the press kit. By the way, Joe Meek was an occultist paranoid innovative producer and songwriter.
saul conrad-stop-budapest
Az RNR666 ajánlásával / Recommended by RNR666
SAUL CONRAD (USA)>BUDAPEST> MÜSZI>JAN 11
A klasszikus zenei képzettséggel rendelkező amerikai Saul Conrad különleges muzsikáját szinte lehetetlen kategorizálni: hagyományos dalstruktúráktól független kamara „pop”, váratlan hangnem és képtelen ritmusváltásokkal, egymásba csúszó melódiákkal, folkos elemekkel. Saul Conrad első európai koncertkörútja során január 11.-én Budapesten a Müsziben játszik.
Amikor a zene életet ment
1940. Saul leendő nagybácsikája, egy Németországból menekült zsidó, a 15 éves Claude Frank Madridban olyan szépen zongorázott a brazil nagykövetnek, hogy ő és édesanyja megkapták a kiutazó vízumot.
Saul Conrad is a classically-trained musician from the US. Almost impossible to categorize his peculiar music: experimental chamber „pop” with surprising key changes, nonsensical rhythmic shifts, overlapping melodies and folky elements. On his 1st Euro tour Saul Conrad will play in Budapest at Müszi on 11 January.
When the music saves life
In 1940, Saul’s great uncle Claude Frank, a 15-year-old Jew fleeing Germany, played for the Brazilian ambassador in Madrid—a performance that earned him and his mother exit visas.
From New Records
„There are some happy songs, some love songs, some creepy shit. There’s everything. We got funky.”
The Growlers – Not. Psych! EP by Fat Cat
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Two idiotic versions of the song „Lambada” by the genial burlesque band Sieur et Dame
and Gregaldur, a guy who improvises on keyboard, guitar and looper and drinks beer simultaneously: La Lambaldur – feat. Charles Trenet. Trenet (1913-2001) was a French singer and songwriter. He had the greatest success between the late 30s and the mid 50s. Self-released split 7″
Keith Moonshine Show
Koncertszervező kerestetik!
A klasszikus zenei képzettséggel rendelkező amerikai Saul Conrad különleges muzsikáját szinte lehetetlen kategorizálni: hagyományos dalstruktúráktól független kamara „pop” váratlan hangnem és képtelen ritmusváltásokkal, egymásba csúszó melódiákkal, folkos elemekkel. Mindezekhez otthoni koncertjein papagájkíséret is járul, ugyanis 32 éves Chico nevű kedvence odavetett szavaival, mondataival hibátlanul képes követni a melódia változásait. Saul Conrad első európai koncertkörútja során, január közepén Budapestre is szeretne ellátogatni. Ha segítenél neki, kontaktért ide írj: magazin AT rnr666.hu
Peculiar Music of Saul Conrad
From the album Posion Packets (2012): 1-2, 4-5, 7, 9
From the album The Fancy (2013): 3, 6, 8, 10
Dear Concert Organizers in Budapest!
Saul Conrad is a classically-trained musician from the US. Almost impossible to categorize his peculiar music: experimental chamber „pop” with surprising key changes, nonsensical rhythmic shifts, overlapping melodies and folky elements. Moreover his 32 years old parrot Chico to accompany him at hometown shows. Chico pretty much always sings his name, or throws in a few phrases. He can totally follow a melody, and change keys, and he has rhythm. On his 1st Euro tour Saul Conrad would like to play in Budapest in middle of January. If you can/ want help to him, please write for more info: magazin AT rnr666.hu
From New Records
„I guess there’s quite a dark side to me. It always comes out when I’m writing songs. I love Sylvia Plath, and I love listening to songs that have that haunting darkness that really pulls you in, so it’s probably something that I want to create in my songs.” She plays every instrument on her recordings, from bass to piano, guitar to sitar. Strange bitter-sweet haunted folky pop songs or “grungy abstract folk with a playful darkness” by Marika Hackman
Sugar Blind EP by Dirty Hit
Trivia: Marika Hackman was 14 years old when played her first gig with school friend Cara Delevingne. She played drums while the supermodel played guitar and sang. But Ms Hackman also get involved in the model business. She was a sun-glasses model of the British luxury brand, Blueberry in 2012.
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If a band’s record is released by In The Red Records it’s certainly a good garage punk rock band like the Pampers. From their debut LP