starting on may 28

Here is the next result of the collaboration of Lee Scratch Perry and The Orb:

taken from More Tales From Observatory LP

After the Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, Coroner and Triptykon here is the subsequent fantastic thrash/black/death metal band from Helvetia: Bölzer. The word „stems from the German colloquial verb “bolzen”, which means executing something in a very excessive or intensive manner (…) The origin and most commonly used meaning of the word finds itself in hitting something with severity. “Bolzer”, or the Swiss-German “bölzer” is then the masculine noun that would be used to describe the person doing the aforementioned. Again, it is a colloquialism and is not widely used in Switzerland but I found it to be a beautiful word in both meaning and sound.” Very nice psychedelic space death metal between the grave and the cosmos:

Aura 12″ LP by Iron Bonehead. During the listening you think about that this is a duo.

Például Philip Glass, Steve Reich és Gavin Bryers nyomdokain haladó fiatal angol zeneszerző, Greg Haines ad koncertet május 29.-én Budapesten az Akváriumban. Minden bizonnyal most megjelent lemezét fogja bemutatni, mely szintetizátorokra és ütőhangszerekre épül. Kitűnő háttérzene íráshoz, olvasáshoz, főzéshez, sziesztához. S mivel ülő koncert lesz, csak óvatosan! Mert például:
– Hát te? Mi van a fejeddel? Hol törted össze magad?
– Greg Haines koncerten.
– Akkora volt a pogó, vagy mi?
– Elbóbiskoltam és lefordultam a székről.

The Whole from Where We Were LP

Greg Haines is a young English musician and composer, who follow in (for example) Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Gavin Bryars’ tracks. He gives a concert on 29 May at the Akvarium in Budapest. In all probability he will perform his new album which focuses on synthesizers and percussion. It’s excellent background music for writing, reading, cooking or siesta. The concert will be sedentary, so take care! Or else:
– What happened with your head? Where you broke yourself?
– On Greg Haines concert.
– Was the pogo so large, or what?
– I have dozed off and fallen from the chair.

You can find more dates on his site.

We have got a nice letter with a download link from China. Chachy ask for a review about his bands’ new split LP. The record is named Full Circle. I have listened it repeatedly, but couldn’t get bore. The American Libyan Hit Squad is on the A side. It’s a very good punk band a la NoMeansNo, and because of the voice of the singer is similar to Jello Biafra’s voice, their music comes into my mind the common album of NoMeansNo and Biafra. In the album title track Greg Ginn plays from Black Flag:

The LHS is now defunct because Chachy, the sole continuous member has moved to Shanghai (maybe to open a tex-mex bar there) and formed the Round Eye with some expat members. This phrase used by Asians to describe the white men. They play be-bop influenced hard rock and roll with alt and baritone saxophones. Their music sometimes almost power pop, but this is not disturbing. It’s a really great album by Genjing Records/ Ripping Records

A Butthole Surfers like track and video:

The Canadian Nikki Nevver has been making music under Terror Bird moniker for about nine years ago. In the beginning she was alone, but after three years a live band formed around her. In the first line up were a band mate from the synthpunk Modern Creatures (where she played bass) and the drummer of the punk Nu Sensae (Point of interest: he is the drummer and one song co-writer on the Hairdresser Blues album by Hunx And His Punx in 2012.) All the same Terror Bird is a new wave synth pop project, because Nikki Nevver has influenced by minimal wave, dark wave, and 80’s goth, for example: New Order, Depeche Mode, Alphaville, OMD, Human League, Ultravox, Gary Numan etc. The actual line up: NN – electronic drums and vocal, Liane – cello, Jen – synth.

The 3rd TB LP is out now by Nightschool Records.

Terror Bird is on Euro Tour. You can find the dates here.

„Still fighting the punk rock war” is standing on the top of the Goldblade‘ s site.

Terror Of The Modern Life LP by Overground Records

The Royal Flares, 60’s German garage rock’n’roll.

Last Time Around from Tales Of Sound & Fury LP by Copasetic. The song is free! Just click the arrow.

Vanishing Winter is the Dear Eloise‘s fourth 7” on Genjing Records (and seventh release overall), is a departure from the playful shoegaze-influenced pop purity of their earlier work, tacking down a darker path:

Li Daiguo, the acclaimed boundary-pushing musical polymath known as much for his complex compositions performed on a wide spectrum of traditional instruments as his often-bewildering live performances that have seen the American-born Chinese cavort with gypsies, tramps and other self-described lunatics alongside some of the country’s most respected avant-garde and experimental musicians. His latest effort, the seven-inch vinyl release Music for Advertisements, sees Li presenting a series of sonic advertisements for seven locations that the 32-year-old appreciated during his six years in Chengdu. „I practice a lot of different styles of music, including shona music, classical Indian, Chinese and Western classical music plus different types of Chinese opera and the like. (…) The Music For Advertisement 7″ is about emotions that I observed and had that were associated in my mind with things going on in Chengdu when I lived there—not necessarily big things or events, but just little things that you might notice and have a feeling about. (…) And how long you sit there and watch, listen and what the day is like will obviously affect the mood—like hoards of rickshaws and cars and bicycles like massive schools of fish through the smog or the dark dampness of a TB hospital where people are full of a variety of emotions while waiting in line outside under the perpetually-grey skies of  Chengdu to test their blood or do X-rays and not cough blood everywhere.”

The Dyne „We got together in Beijing in Spring 2012. It’s me on guitar and bass and another guy, Bai Tianke, on drums and percussion. I was in the original lineup of Beijing indie folk outfit Fragmentary Portrait from 2003-05 and a member of Rubber Phonographic Needle until 2010. Bai Tianke was the original drummer for Careless.” Minimal surf rock:

All are by Genjing Records, Beijing

from the new album: BEAST VIBRATOR by Okami Records

Ghostly You + Beast Vibrator + バッティングセンター + Magma Nobunaga

GUITAR WOLF EURO TOUR IN JUNE-JULY

Riitaoja is a Finnish band. His first album is a very quiet record. Good to listen. So much that I didn’t want write about it, but during the listening their music took me in the mood to write. Lack of something better I call this style slow country – doom folk. Sometimes they remind me of the Bohren und der Club of Gore. I understand sole word from the entire album: pizzeria. The album was recorded in the communal living room of a municipal summer house during one of the snowiest winters in recent memory.The drummer was in the one of best Finnish band, Sielun Veljet.

Mantereelle LP by Svart Records

Hungary is a very strange, surrealistic place, for example our Dear Leader is an orange midget in raised heel shoes. His newest slogan is ora et labora. Pray and Work. This is the Benedictine Order’s slogan. Apropos, order. The country is full of big propaganda posters:  + 3500 POLICEMEN. HUNGARY DOES IT BETTER. Briefly we are living here such as in a Roald Dahl novel that take place in a post-soviet state.

The Hungarian hip-hop scene consists of wide pants, baseball hats and slogans. My favourite story about them: some years back an organizer team invited 50 Cent to Budapest. He came and took the fee before the gig then went to the club. There he said that the place is big pile shit and the organizers breached of the contract so the gig is cancelled. The organizers entreated him, but he stayed unyielding and went back to the hotel. Naturally he didn’t give back the money. Thereupon the organizers called the police to one of Budapest’s most expensive hotel. You try to imagine the scene! Two policemen arrive before the Hotel Le Meridien (by the way there was the headquarters of the Budapest Police until 1997), where a team is waiting, they have on gangster rap style masquerade. The gangster rappers greeting to the policemen, explain the situation and ask help. They go into the hotel and call 50 Cent down in the hall. Thereupon the policemen don’t speak in English so the gangster rappers are translating. The policemen ascertain that there didn’t occurred crime so ask autograph and say goodbye. 50 Cent goes to the airport and flies to Amsterdam. Respect!

The best hip-hop act in Hungary is the Budapest based international Homeless Millionaires with English, American and Hungarian members. They use instruments like guitar, drums and percussions too, and play, say, experimental alt-hop. His first album has been released recently and it is very good. There you don’t find any pose, stupid lyrics and musical cliches.

You can find more tracks here, here and here and buy the album here

Bobafett, the best Hungarian language rapper is living in Amsterdam and working as a rickshaw. His third album has been released recently too. It is free to download.

The Trouble Vs Glue is a droll analogue techno no wave disco duo from Rome. They feel some kind of attraction to the German language and musical culture. His first album was called Zum Teufel (Hang It!, in Hun dialect: Az ördögbe!), the second one is Die Treuerwerde (Weeping Willow, in Hun: Szomorúfűz). But their music is not sad, rather playful and amusing. They write: „sound like the Residents with a punk drummer, in others like a weird Japanese electronic pop band from the ’80s, while some other tracks bring us back to the no-wave of Lizzy Mercier Descloux and DNA.” I tell: The Trouble Vs Glue is such as the Stereo Total in experimental mood. Die Treuerwerde is „35 mins of pleasure for Body and Mind!” Out of this is evident that they are not Germans, because there are only 33 mins and 57 secs pleasure for body and mind.

 All the Things that I want 

Toni Trouble – drums, electronics & Mrs Glue – guitar, electronics

Trouble Vs Glue – Die Treuerwerde LP. Edition of 300 black vinyl.
Release date: 10. 06. 2013. NO=FI Recordings

Toni was the drummer of the great noise rock Hiroshima Rocks Around. They played two times in Budapest in RNR666 party, Troubel & Glue was only one time, but…

Photo by Claudia Pajewski