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Sea, Sand & Shovel
JC SATÁN
Killer Religious Psych Garage Rock from Bordeaux
from the S/T album on Born Bad Records
And there is
JC SATÁN / PIRESIAN BEACH split 7 „EP by RNR666 RECORDS. 2 x 2 songs. Exceptional beautiful cover painting by Paula H. Satán.
Taketori Monogatori by JC Satán + Baby Disorder by Piresian Beach
Few copies left. We can post it also from the UK. Order here
THE BIG MOUNTAIN COUNTY INTERVIEW
an island, close to the sea, full of sun and green
in a huge and chaotic, besides beautiful and unique city
BIG MOUNTAIN COUNTY is a relatively new but great psych garage rock band somewhere in Rome. They are blessed with ability to write hits, even in the manner of Butthole Surfers. Moreover the bassplayer Wolfman Bob is our old comrade. He played at rnr666 party in Budapest with three different bands: wild garage rock Ultra Twist, lo-fi punk Trio Banana, and of course Big Mountain County.
How you have become musicians?
As for many other musicians: listening to music at home, trying to play any instrument and finally being completely captured by the desire to play over and over.
Your hometowns are Catania, Bari, Pescara, Rome. There are long distances between these cities. How you have got together? You understand each other without problem, or there are difficulties because of the language differences?
We come from different and quite far towns, but there are no particular language differences. So no communication problems. Alessandro and Bruno have met each other in Catania, their common hometown. They met Bob in a music festival, where they were performing with their respective past bands, Bruno and Alessandro with “The Boliers” and Bob with “The Ultra Twist”. A few years later, they all moved to Rome, where Alessandro and Francesco met each as roommate. They began playing guitars and writing songs together and soon they decided to start a new band, involving Bruno as drummer and Bob as bass player. We believe that the difference between our origins is one of the keys of the band. Alessandro and Bruno come from Catania, a hot and spirited city, Bob comes from another lively and dynamic town, whereas Francesco comes from a quiet village close to Pescara. These differences reflect on our music styles. So yes, we have different languages, but just “musical languages”. However, this is not a problem, but an unbelievable resource, since playing and writing together is a continuous mutual exchange, which every time creates new songs, new sounds and new atmospheres. We definitely like to be different but to appear as a unity on the stage.
You spent a month together to produce a better sounding in a house on the base of Etna. Was the session successful? Could you use that under ground latent energy?
Definitely yes! We live in Rome, a huge and chaotic (besides beautiful and unique) city. Sometimes we need to escape from the rhythm of the city life in order to find new inspirations. Therefore, when we had to complete our first LP Breaking Sound, we decided to stay a month in a nice house on the base of the Etna, where we had more time and the right atmosphere to write new songs and find out new sounds. Those days were relaxing, inspiring and stimulant. That was the right place in the right moment.
In some songs (e.g. Brain Machine) I have discovered the strong influence of Butthole Surfers. Are there accidents, or are you also big fans of those funny guys?
We know Butthole Surfers and we like their music. Anyway, we do not know if they directly influenced some of our songs. As said before, we are four and we have various and very different musical influences.
Psychedelic music is very trendy nowadays, almost every second village has a psych fest. What do you think about this revival?
We like psychedelic music, we play psychedelic music, so we follow the trend… Psych music surely is not new, but we believe that many bands are proposing new different, modern and interesting interpretations. We think that this kind of music can be fully expressed just during live shows. Therefore, we promote the spread of psych fests and we hope every second village will have more than one psych fest. We are so sure about this that we are contributing to the organization of the first Rome Psych Fest, which will be held in next October.
As band what was your biggest show experience?
We had many unforgettable shows, but if we have to choose one, that is Sarajevo in 2013, during our first European tour. We were very far from home, not only because of physical distance, but also because of history and culture. However, we felt at home. People got really involved by our show and our music. The atmosphere was perfect, in poor words, unforgettable.
Where is Big Mountain County geographically?
As for songs, pictures, or poems, each can have its personal idea about the Big Mountain County. Therefore, we cannot say where it is. In our minds, it is probably on an island, close to the sea, full of sun and green lands. Do you know any place like this?
What are your plans for the future?
In this period, we are promoting out live CD Anachronicle, out for Area Pirata Records. In the same time, we are writing new songs to record our second studio LP, which will be more psych and experimental than “Breaking Sound”. Our idea is to record in autumn and release the album at the beginning of 2017. Meanwhile, in next October, we will share the release of a 12 inches split, out for Annibale Records with the Italian band “Lame”, a project of Stefano Isaia from Movie Star Junkies. It will contain two new tracks by Big Mountain County, one to dance and one to dream.
And for the past? What would you change in the history if you could?
To answer this question is not easy. Everything could be better, but worse also. We think that what is done is done. Fortunately, just music and songs remain. We prefer to learn from the past in order to make the future better.
pic: Gyerage. More BMC at RNR666 Party in Budapest pics
Welcome Goodbye
It’s one of the best European garage rock/punk labels. The Italian label is focusing limited edition 7″ vinyls. Here is the first load in 2016
GB 112 – MILK LINES 7″ single. 250 copies with three different covers.
Band of Jeff Clarke and his wife. Jeff is known from Demons Claws and Hellshovel, Emily is the founder of Bum’s Trading Zone, a flea market where the only rule: do not use money. Debut album has been released last year fall on In The Red Records. Tags on their Bandcamp page (where you can download some demos songs free): country experimental folk country psychedelic rock. (Canada)
GB 113 – SICK THOUGHTS / BLACK PANTIES split 7″ EP. 300 copies.
Apropos of a previous GBB release RNR666 wrote about Sick Thoughts: „Lo-fi raw garage punk. As if the LiveFastDie and the Outdoorsmen would play at the same time. Sometimes like a lo-fi garage Motörhead.” The Black Panties are similar. The song, Shoot Me in My Head is brilliant, the best Sick Thoughts track what I have ever heard. Sick Thoughts euro tour march 2016!!! (They are from US)
GB 114 – ANDY HUMAN and The REPTOIDS – Sarcastic – 7″ EP. 250 copies with three different covers.
Pop like Devo, Roxy Music, Buzzcocks, X-Ray Spex. Debut album in early 2015 by SS Records. (US)
GB 115 – NO LIMIT 7″ single. 250 copies with three different covers.
Play Jake and Jeff !!! Jake play also Ausmuteants , Frowning Clouds, Hierophants (all was released by GBB) and Jeff in School Damage, Chugga and the Fuckheads. (Australia)
GB 116 – UFUX – III – 7″ single. 250 copies with three different covers.
UFUX is Christopher Ilth’s new band. He was in Functional Blackouts and Daily Void, and play hc-punk. As montage artist he said in an interview: „I gravitated towards Dada & Surrealism through the pioneers of the punk movement in the 70’s. Those art movements shared individuality, autonomy, rebellion. However, punk, while having a visual side through fashion, record sleeves & fliers, was mainly about music. Dada & Surrealism was not only a visual art movement, but was also a revolt of everyday life with manifestos, pranks, and revolution that made a statement against the establishment and reason.” (US)
Be fast if you want one or all of them!
You can find some free Goodbye Boozy releases from the previous years here. For example: Mikal Cronin, Outdoorsmen, Ty Segall, Useless Eaters, BBQ (Mark Sultan), River City Tainlines, King Khan, etc. If you can’t see the download link, seek it with your cursor below the “download:”
RNR666 GOODBYE BOOZY INTERVIEW
Next Frantic RNR666 Party
29 JANUARY, THURSDAY, 9 PM
BUDAPEST, CORVINTETŐ
(Blaha square, Corvin Dept. Store, left side)
SKIP JENSEN GROUP (Can) – Supersonic Rock’n’Roll
THE HANDS (F) – Hard Psych Garage ODDDS (H) – Fuzz Punk
Ticket: 1200 HUF Facebook event
Start at 9pm punctually!!! Really.
A 113. rnr666 buli
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SKIP JENSEN GROUP (Can) – Supersonic Rock n Roll
THE HANDS (F) – Hard Psych Garage
ODDDS (H) – Fuzz Punk
2015. JANUÁR 29. CSÜTÖRTÖK, 21:00
PONTOS KEZDÉS!!!
BUDAPEST, CORVINTETŐ
(Blaha Lujza tér, Corvin Áruház, bal oldal)
Jegy: 1200 – Facebook event
SKIP JENSEN GROUP
Az, hogy elhívjuk Skip Jensen-t (született Serge Gendron) koncertezni, azóta vágya az RNR666-nak, amióta az RNR666 koncert szervezéssel is foglalkozik, ennek lassan tíz éve. Skip Jensen január 29.-én három tagú zenekarával, a Skip Jensen Group-pal lép fel a Budapesten. Tavaly januárban adták ki első nagylemezüket, majd egy kislemezt, és készítettek egy videóklipet:
Saját meghatározásuk zenéjükre igen találó: Supersonic Rock’n’Roll. Bluesból, észak-amerikai folkból és persze jófajta elszabadult rock’n’roll-ból összegyúrt muzsika. Őszinte, egyszerű és tiszta, hasonlóan mint grafikai munkái, képregényei. Aki szereti az Oblivianst, a Bassholes-t vagy a The Mojomatics-et ezzel a koncerttel nem nyúlhat mellé. Ki is ő, honnan indult? Kicsit bővebben. Tovább / Read more »
113rd RNR666 Party
29 JANUARY, THURSDAY, 9 PM
BUDAPEST, CORVINTETŐ
(Blaha square, Corvin Dept. Store, left side)
SKIP JENSEN GROUP (Can) – Supersonic Rock n Roll
THE HANDS (F) – Hard Psych Garage
ODDDS (H) – Fuzz Punk
Ticket: 1200 HUF Facebook event
Start at 9pm punctually!!!
SKIP JENSEN GROUP (Can)
We want to organize SKIP JENSEN for 10 years, since from the established of RNR666. And the dream comes true now. Born as Serge Gendron and comes from Montreal, Canada. The city was one of the most important places of underground rock’n’roll in the first decade of the XXI. century. King Khan also comes from this scene. Its special vigorous sound is represented by the album Symphatetic Sounds of Montreal. Two bands of Skip Jensen appeared on it, Scat Rag Boosters and The Stack O’Leas. After the break-ups he continued his music career as a classic one-man-band under the name of Skip Jensen & His Shakin Feet, meanwhile he was the drummer of Demon’s Claw for 2,5 years. Later his one-mand-band became a duo with Seb Normal (The Feeling of Love, Normals, Delacave etc.) from France. Finally it has became a trio. They have made an album, a single and a video last year:
The style is self-described as Supersonic Rock’n’Roll. It’s spiced with blues and other American folk elements. For the fans of Oblivians, Bassholes, Mojomatics. Skip Jensen also a fine graphic artist
111th RNR666 Party
CRANK is a French supergroup with members of Jack of Heart, Sonic Chicken 4, The Liminanas. They play 60s style psychedelic garage rock with organ
in Budapest on Dec 6 at Corvintető with Amazonas Delta Blues Trash One Man Band XTREME BLUES DOG from Brazil and Hungarian primitive rural rock and roll and urban blues band HÚRKÚRÓK
+ Underground Music Market
Ticket as tombola: 1500 FB Event
Psych Garage Rock Auction
Piresian Beach has made her first official video for the song
Diggin’ for Gold
from collaborative cassette of the Slovenian Matthias von Stumberger and the Hungarian Piresian Beach.
Also buy her split 7″ EP with JC Satán here
From New Records
Dope Body. Noise rock. It’s exactly like the picture
„Lifer” album on Drag City (US)
Euro Tour: Jan-Feb. Vienna: 5 Feb
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Acid Baby Jesus: noisy, jingling psychedelic garage pop with strong rock sensibility, influenced by complex folk history of Greece
„Selected Recordings” album on Slovenly Recordings (US)
a good girl’s guide to bad music – Wild Books from Warsaw
Even though I’m not too much familiar with the 2014 Polish music scene, I still bet (or hope) that the first full length album of Wild books will make it to most end-of-the-year lists there and without any over-argumentation this is simply because their self-titled LP is insanely good!
Ever experienced listening to an album and saying to yourself ‘oh these guys clearly have their own musical influences, let’s see which bands …’ ? And suddenly finding yourself in a dead end as soon as you realize that you are listening to something great and there’s no need to compare it to anything else. And hey, music freaks, I bet you also recognize when you are listening to music made by another music freak… I think you all see my point by now: Wild books knows how to write good songs and they also have their own prescription for sound. I hate to be snobbish but I appreciate this approach most of all – even though the band consists of only two guys, the music is not lacking anything and they do not sound minimalistic at all (if you want to read more about the recording process and their previous bands, read this bilingual interview here).
If you are not scared away by genre labels like garage, surf and noise pop (I might even say grunge, sorry) then give it a listen and feel the inexplicable waves of nostalgia rushing all over your body, get a nice ear massage from the crispy fuzz, press replay at the end of the album and consider a name-your-price donation for Wild books.
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For Record Store Day # 1
This is a day for the people who make up the world of the record store – the staff, the customers, and the artists – to come together and celebrate the unique culture of a record store and the special role these independently owned stores play in their communities. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day, hundreds of artists make special appearances and performances since 2007. Record Store Day will be on April 19 this year.
Thee Oh Sees announced their hiatus in December, but there happened something because the new album „Drop” will be released on Record Store Day by Castle Face Records. 70s psychedelic rock from Beatles to Black Sabbath via glam station.
The band formed as a side project in 1997 by John Dwyer. Then he was in the Coachwhips (wild garage punk, disbanded, re-united this year), The Hospitals (noise rock, quit) and Pink and Brown (noise punk, disbanded). Maybe John Dwyer is an hyperactive person, because there was a solo album under the name of Damaged Bugs in February.
Why is the Latin American psychedelic scene so strong?
Because it is in their blood.
The Mexican Lorelle Meets The Obsolete plays amazing haunted psych garage rock songs about the uncertain. Sealed Scene
from the album Chambers on Captcha Records
Euro tour is under way. There are French, German and English dates yet.