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Adventures of the Annoying Lil French Girl in New York
Not enough people know Anni Rossi, the singer/ songwriter/ violonist. She plays with her instrument like you’d play the guitar, indeed, she isn’t scared to strum the string, making it a perfect tool for RNR.
Meet with Anni
a place (I won’t name for some personal reason) in Williamsburg
On Friday night, following an evening of drinking cheap beer with colleagues, I joined my new roommate, Andy, a New-Yorker and member of an anarchist organization called The Base. I knew that he knew the place where I needed to be. It was his friend’s birthday, and their musician friends were playing for her. Those kinds of friends are very precious, between tours, they will certainly animate your greatest parties.
That said, the gigs were very pleasant. First line, a guitarist and a drummer nostalgic of Kurt , second, a band from the past future, I mean like the people during the eighties pretending to be from the future. ( I’m not sure if you know what I mean, I’m stoned.) Anyway, those guys freaked me out, they were really good, but I just couldn’t take it, it took me back to … a night in Budapest, it was November, We were waiting for the bus in Nyugati station, I was wearing somebody else’s hat and he loved it… I was mentally preparing for the long tricky way back home (since I live in the extremities of Bushwick, just on the border with Bedstuy…) when I heard the name of Anni Rossi, which surprised me for the reason I mentioned before. So I asked around: what about Annie? She’s here? Really??? Where? (Turned out she was there all the time.) Is she going to perform? She’s great, isn’t she? I was, let’s say, suddenly a little overwhelmed and turned straight back to shake her hand: Are you Anni Rossi? Yes, and what’s your name? Line. Line who? Line ** ******. Curious and nice, she seemed unfamiliar with this kind of devotion, yes because I confessed my passion for one of her song, it was playing in my headphones in Thailand, Scotland, and on various trips here and there.
I asked her insistingly to play it, she said she’d try as she didn’t bring her violon (maybe she was upset with it), that night she preferred an electric banjo, accompaigned by the classic bass and drum combo. The concert was like a Rob, Ryan and Anni family reunion. Her belly button proudly displayed, she performed with a nonchalant attitude and voice like a cool Cold War Kid. Sipping her whiskey in between songs, she took it slow, inspiring air, expiring it, creating beautifully contained bluesy waves.
And finally the way back home wasn’t that bad at all, walking with magical bubbles in my head. Anni Rossi is just Loveli, check it out!
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Bushwick
is located in the center of Brooklyn, where I live. It is full of brownish little 2 storey houses with flat rooftops and old factories transformed into lofts. It wasn’t such a nice neighbourhood (criiiiime) a couple of years ago, but as the rental price is cheaper than in other shiny and trendy places such as Williamsburg (headquarter of the hipster community), a lot of young and poor artists/ professionals like me are living in there. In my street seems to live many repented, retired gangsters, so it’s kind of quiet, apart from loud conversations and tooting at 2 am.
The mentioned neighbouring Bed-Stuy (Bedford-Stuyvesant) is the land of heavyweight rappers and boxers. For example Mike Tyson, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, but the chess world champion, Bobby Fischer also lived here.
From New Records
Ladywolf, nice prog bubblegum punk
digital EP and cassette on Resurrection Records (US)
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Jack Oblivian from the legendary reunited garage rock band Oblivians at home with friends. 35 minutes of pure Rock’n’Roll. Jack O and The Sheiks – Live in Memphis 12″
Secret Identity (Germany) and Red Lounge Records (Deutschland)
International Geography
Old Mate, another shitty Aussie band with a bunch of musicians, Canned Heat, Syd Barret, Devo and Ween covers, originally was a solo project of Pat Telfer from Bitch Prefect (Bedroom Suck Records), suburban blues, spleen and kangaroo boxing in false flat
Truth Boy
from the album It Is What It Is on SDZ Records (France)
From New Records
Dan Melchior (ex-Broke Revue) is a highly talented British musician. He comes from garage punk, worked together with Billy Childish, Holly Golightly (it’s her real name!) and Walker Russel (Pheromoans), and usually makes experimental other music
„All At Sea” album on No=Fi Recordings (Italy)
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Wonderful little psychedelic melancholic folk pop songs from London by Dan Carey under moniker Astronauts. He is from alt-folk band Dark Captain (formerly Dark Captain Light Captain). His solo project was born while he was in a hospital because his fractured leg.
single on Lo Recordings (UK)
Sister Morphine in Budapest
Baroness von Sacher-Masoch aka Marianne Faithfull
gives a concert in her mother’s hometown on Dec 15 at MUPA
There she presents her new album which was made in collaboration with Nick Cave, Roger Waters, Anna Calvi, Rob Ellis, Dimitri Tikovoi, Pat Leonard, Tom McRae and more, along with her famous song.
She has begun her singing career as a folk music performer in coffeehouses in 1964. Her first hit was “As Tears Go By” was written by Jagger, Richards. It was among their first original compositions. As Jagger’s girlfriend in these years she made big impression on the Stones. For example she is co-author of Sister Morphine. First it was recorded by herself with Jagger, Ry Cooder, Jack Nitschze and Charlie Watts, and was released as B-side of her single in 1969.
„Things are not what they seem
Please, Sister Morphine, turn my nightmares into dreams
Oh, can’t you see I’m fading fast?
And that this shot will be my last
Sweet Cousin Cocaine, lay your cool cool hand on my head”
The Stones’ version was released in 1971, but by this time she broke with Jagger, and became a drug addict homeless…
You can find an article about her life here
She is on Euro Tour in Dec-Feb
Noise Punk Factory
Entrópia Architektúra 15 Years Birthday Party
Dec 13, Budapest, R33
19.15: BASS-O-MATIC – onemanbassband
19.45: PADKAROŠDA – post punk
20.50: CSERMANEK LAKÓTELEP – dada punk cabaret
21.50: ÚJ LÁTÁSMÓD FÚZIÓ – cold wave synth pop
23.00: LYUHÁSZ LYÁCINT Bt. – ritual industrial
23.50: ENTRÓPIA ARCHITEKTÚRA – spiritual industrial
00.50: tHE sNOBS – anarcho punk
01.40: IPARI SZAKADÁROK – disco
FB Event Ticket: 1500
From New Records
Split cassette with eccentric singer/songwriter Kim House’s band, Kim & The Created: demented garage rock’n’roll goth punk; and Prettiest Eyes, just drums, bass and keys: mechanical, monotone, flustered, nervous krautrock. Guest star: AJ Davila.
Burger and Lollipop Records (US)
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After some hyperactive years there wasn’t any news about great little eclectic label Dracula Horse (US) for a long time, but now here is The New Romantics. Fascinating new wave disco
What’s the matter with that hedgehog?
Dear Jonnie,
I have listened to your new album many-many times, but I can’t write about it too much words, just this: perfect. (Dear reader, please click the play button below, and listen to fine Scotch electro-pop music. Owing to its mood I call it Trip Pop.) Recently I edited a playlist from new releases, and wanted to play one of your new songs, which can arouse the listeners’ curiosity. The task was no easy one, however this is a good album. (BBC6 also played songs from it.) And there are lots of added useful thing. Birnam Wood, the Hangman’s Tree and the little sculptures of characters of Beatrix Potter’s animal tales have come to my knowledge. And I have decided to read my first Shakespeare. Thanks indirectly to your new album. But I can’t enthuse over it. But there is your first album Master of None, happy happy joy joy.
Cheers,
szabo
ps: There’s an interlude, a woman leaves a message on your answering machine. She talks about a hedgehog, starts in English after switchs over to German and finally to Dutch – at least for my ears. I don’t understand. What’s the matter with that hedgehog?
Jonnie Common – Trapped in Amber, album on Song, By Toad Records (Scotland)
Warning: Artistic Nudity and Tomatoes!
Mind your bollocks,
here is the NUDISCO!
The brand new trend of electronic dance music,
performing by the Czech founding fathers
I Love 69 Popgeju – We Are Bizarre
from the album Let’s Gold Corridor
From New Records
Mr. Gaymer from Dartford, UK, teachs English at an university in Beijing, but after school he plays Misfits influenced blues trash as GUIGUISUISUI together with his some co-characters. He is 138, of course.
All the backing beats are composed on a Nintendo Gameboy or from found 8-bit games. Mixed and co-produced by luminary Beijing producer/sonic journeyman extraordinaire, Yan Haisong (P.K.14, Dear Eloise). Debut 7″ on Genjing Recods (PROC)
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Liam Hayes aka Plush has made various pop albums with minimal and maximal orchestration from the mid-90s. His progressive bubblegum rock and roll album is coming soon on Fat Possum (US)
Born Bad Pop
60s style French psychedelic pop with hard beats, strong cinematic feeling and Morricone influence by Emile Sornin, member of Hyperclean, under the name of Forever Pavot
Joe & Rose feat Catherine Hershey
from the album Rhapsody on Born Bad Records (France).
Pavot means papaver, it’s a type genus of poppies.
Fake Modern
Hey you, ugly bastard! Have you any know about David Shrigley? Nichevo. He’s a drunken British who living in Scotland and makes all kinds of stupid artistic trash like drawings, sculptures, poems, installations, animations, and made videos for Blur and Johnny King Billy, or who the fuck. And of course why not he also makes records. For example there was a split with Thee Oh Sees, and such musicians made music for his words, and sang his silly songs as Deerhoof, Tv On The Radio, R Stevie Moore, David Byrne, Scout Niblett, Trans AM, Dirty Projectors, Max Tundra, Franz Ferdinand, Alig Fodder and more similar dumb assholes. These were released on the album Worried Noodles.
His brand new horrible, but awful album has been made with Malcolm Middleton from the luckily disbanded Arab Strap. I’m fucking happy to listen to this shit. You will suck it totally.
Next item of his illustrated toilet paper collections
Weak Messages Create Bad Situations were released recently.
Anyway, Shrigley is illegitimate godson of Rod Stewart, and honorary president of Artists with Mental Handicap Movement.