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RNR666 Rádió
Újabb két 2022-es lemezről – Sörnäinen, Weird Omen
Sörnäinen : Keskity Puhuuteen (Svart Records) 2022
A Sörnäinen bemutatkozó 12″-es kislemezén szereplő négy arcból kettő biztos ismerős annak, aki valamennyire is képben van az RNR666 koncertszervező tevékenységével. Jukka (ének) és Japa (dob) ugyanis a Black Magic Six brutal-blues duo tagjai is így kettecskén. Ők már olyan 16-17 koncertet elcsepegtettek az évek során hazánkban RNR666/Fődalatti szervezésben.
A gitáros, Joonatan Kotila számomra ismeretlen, de Tapio Wilska már koránt sem! Ő már megfordult a Garay téri hadiszállásunkon mint a BM6 sofőrje. Ott derült ki, hogy ő volt a finn viking-Metal zenekar a Fintroll első énekese! Emlékszem kurvasokat kerestem a 90-es évek végén a lemezüket, mert valahol azt olvastam róluk, hogy a polkát keverik a Death Metal-al. Na, de nem lényeges ez. Az viszont biztos, hogy ő a zenekar nemzetközileg is legismertebb tagja. A Sörnäinen 2014-ben alakult, Jukkán, Jappán és Papa Wilskán kívül két, azóta kivált taggal. A stílus már akkor egyfajta country rock / RnR volt finn nyelven, nagyon finnesen! Kocsmai sztorizgatások férfiak között. Részegen, záróra környékén. Ilyen számcímek: A Sátánnak semmi sem elég, Koncentrálj a Gonoszra, Nem fogsz visszajönni, Összeesküvés elmélet. Elég jó, nem? Helsinkiben akarok kóvályogni a kikötőben nagyon besörözve, szívem felett egy laposüveg pálinkával, fejemen fülhallgató, az mp3 lejátszóban ez az album! Elvileg idén nagylemez!
Teljes, négy számos kislemez >> https://sornainen.bandcamp.com/
Sörnäinen facebook >> https://www.facebook.com/sornainen/
Weird Omen : Lows and Highs / Warsaw Ep (Beast Records) 2022
A francia dob(ének)/gitár(ének)/bariton szaxofon trio olyan tömény garage-fuzzz, primitive-beat, 60’s HARDpsychedelic súlyosságot tesz itt le két rövidke szám erejéig, hogy beszarás!
Nekem elsőre fel sem tűnt a szaxofon, úgy magával vitt az egésznek a lendülete! The Cramps és a Catholic Spray ugrott be és az, hogy ez szerintem Lavórnak mennyire tetszene! Hótbebaszva, RNR666 Buliban! A ‘B’ oldalon feldolgozzák a Joy Division legpunkabb számát a Warsaw-t! Beast Records minőség nem kétséges!
Teljes két számos kislemez >> https://weirdomen.bandcamp.com/album/lows-highs-warsaw-ep
Weird Omen facebook >> https://www.facebook.com/weirdomentheband
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The Anomalys : Glitch (Slovenly Recordings) 2022
A zenekart Bone alapította még 2005-ben Amszterdamban egy dobos haverjával. Érdekes, hogy azelőtt is egy duóban zenélt (The Bones) akkor egy lánnyal, aki manapság Sixtyniners nevű hillbilly-punk zenekar tagja (Voodoo Rhythm Records). Piros-fehér ruhában léptek fel és piros -fehér hangszereken játszottak, akár később a szupersztár White Stripes.
De vissza az Anomalys-ra. Idén lesz 18 éves a zenekar és ez a 2022-es lemez csak a második. Lusta gyerek ez a Bone, gondolhatnánk, pedig nagyon nem az! Az amszterdami RnR élet aktív alakja. Dj (hét különböző klubban és három helyi rádióban), producer, promoter, grafikus (lemezborítók, plakátok, stb) plusz ott a többi zenekara, pl.a The Sex Organs, ahol ő egy teljes testet eltakaró fasz-kosztümöt ölt magára, míg a dobos lány értelem szerűen egy puncit.
Na, de megint vissza az eredeti témához. Szóval eleinte duó, aztán jön még egy gitáros, ez a felállás sokáig együtt marad, bár nagylemezt nem rögzít (kislemezeket igen) éééés 2019-ben kijön a Trooper Ep, új tagokkal Bone oldalán. Az új gitáros nem más, mint Looch Vibrato a The Magnetix-ből, aki kábé a császára ennek az egész fuzzz/trash/primitive-garage szemétdombnak itt Európában, de félik nevét a nagy vízen túl is! Szóval jött Looch és az új dobos Remi Lucas lett a Weird Omen-ből, aminek tavalyi kislemezéről >> ITT << írtunk.
Milyen a lemez? Nagyon odabaszós garage punk, The Gories , némi surf, Link Wray, rock-a-billy és olyan dobolás az első másodperctől az utolsóig, hogy széthalsz!!!!!!!
Idén megjelent Piss Your Sink!!! címen a zenekar legelső, eddig publikálatlan felvételeit tartalmazó kazetta, aminek producere, mint több korai The Anomalys lemezé Nils Damage (R.I.P.& RESPECT) volt, akiről >> ITT << írtunk bővebben.
‘Panic’ videóklip >> ITT << ‘Smart Patrol’ videóklip >> ITT <<
teljes lemez >> ITT <<
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bandcamp >> ITT <<
spotify >> ITT <<
The Monsters : Du Hesch Cläss Ig Bi Träsch (Slovenly Recordings) 2022
Ez a The Monsters 8. stúdiólemezének >> ITT írtunk róla << a Schwitzerdütsch, azaz svájci-németnyelvű változata, tehát a zene ugyanaz, az ének lett újra felvéve és rákeverve. Az angol verzió megvan cd-n, de ahogy meghallottam, hogy van ez a Schwitzerdütsch muszáj voltam beszerezni a Slovenly-s változatot is. De azt már bakeliten. Eleve nekem mint Spatzen Jódler (debreceni jódli-punk/metal zenekar) rajongónak (sőt inkább mint Sándor Király alattvalójának) úgy éreztem ez kötelező, + járt a lemezhez egy kurvajó fanzin + poster + annyira magával ragadóan ocsmány az album citromsárga / rózsaszín dizájnja, hogy muszáj volt, na! Ja, a insert pedig bugyi-rózsaszínű. Kezembe veszem és egy ilyen fura feszültség fog el már csak a látványtól.
Mondom, a zene ugyanaz, mint amiről már írtunk. A fanzin 32 oldalas A/4 méretű tele sok-sok érdekes képpel, infóval: The Monsters szórólap 1987-ből, a legelső The Monsters Lp hírdetése gondolom valami korabeli fanzin-ből, fotó a huszonéves Beat-Man-ről, ahogy lenyűgözve áll a legendás svájci Record Junkie lemezboltban, minden volt zenekari tag sztorizgat a régi időkről, egy hat oldalas interjú Beat-Man-el, 4 oldalnyi élménybeszámoló egy 2019-es ázsiai turnéról, szóval sok-sok érdekes dolog.
teljes lemez >> ITT <<
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Az RNR666 Rádióshow nyárvégi adása:
1. Corona – The Rhythm of the Night
2. Norma Tanega – Your Dead
3. Tandoori Knights – Temple of Boom
4. Powersolo – Backstab
5. Santa Lucia – Harhaa
6. Link Wray – Fire & Brimstone
7. Wrust – God of the Insane
8. EJS – Saturday Night Sonnet 11
9. Dead Moon – 40 Miles of Bad Road
10. Surfbort – Dope
11. Monster Magnet – Negasonic Teenage Warhead
12. Donny Benet – Takin’ The Heat
13. Shilpa Ray – I’m Not Frigid… Yet
14. The Evolutions – She Cut Me
15. Model Zero – Japanese Death Poem
16. Vital Idles – Rustle Rustle
17. Hellshovel – Stealing Candy
18. Sadistic Mika Band – Dance is Over
19. Lloyd Cheechoo – James Bay
20. The Yawpers – Forgiveness Through Pain
21. Taiwan Housing Project – Vessel Creep
22. Észlelés – Jogosan félsz
23. The Raws – Hala Aciz
24. Throwaway – Revenge Society
25. Haint Blue – Mama, God
26. CR Dicks – Red Moped
27. Piresian Beach – Make You Mine
28. King Diamond – Abigail
29. Jesus Lizard – Gladiator
30. Clone Defects – Little Ms Lori
31. Weird Omen – Highway
32. Jorge Ben – Ela mora em Matogrosso fronteira com o Paraguai
33. Gil Scott Heron – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
34. Kaputt – Parsonage Square
35. Sleaford Mods – B.H.S.
RNR666 Rádióshow minden szombaton este 6-tól a Lahmacun online közösségi rádióban.
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Ja és el ne felejtsem! Kurvajó easy listening / exotica Dj is ám. Itt van pár mix feltöltve >> ITT <<
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KILLBONOCLUB # 15
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1. Experimental, kitchen-produced hybrid of folk, musique concrète and psychedelia by ODETTA HARTMAN.
She raised by pioneering parents on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, NYC, Odetta’s milieu was a “colorful culture of artistry,” that included early exposure to community activism, renegade film screenings, poetry readings and trips to CBGB’s. Inchoate punk and hip hop were aural wallpaper, as were the 45s spinning in the household jukebox featuring her dad’s extensive collection of soul and afrobeat records, as well as her Appalachian mother’s classic country selections. A classically trained violinist with a penchant for back-porch banjo, Odetta combines these variegated sounds of her childhood with her personal passion for folk music and the musicological legacy of Alan Lomax. But she never takes herself too seriously and always tries to have fun, so she went to the kitchen.
“Many of the beats on the album were recorded in the kitchen: the snare sound is actually a running faucet, or if you hear these glockenspiel bells that’s actually a set of kitchen bowls. Other percussive elements include scissors, a pepper grinder and keys on the radiator.” Anyway she loves mistakes in songwriting or recording, because they so often lead to something greater. I do not know how many songs got its final form by mistakes on this album, just know that is weird and wonderful. Her second album OLD ROCKHOUNDS NEVER DIE is slated for release on NORTHERN SPY RECORDS and MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES on August 10, 2018.
2. THE DUE DILIGENCE is a free form band of songwriter Isaac Gillespie and his friends. The new alum LIFE IS HARD is the final piece of a trilogy. It was started with the country-soul album „I Will Wreck Your Life” in 2011. It was the encapsulation of the years Gillespie spent in the antifolk scene. The second part was the frenetic Velvet Underground-infused sarcasm of 2014’s Are You Down. It’s the wild night on the town, but it’s also the morning after. A recognition of the difficulty of life.
LIFE IS HARD is largely inspired by songwriter Gillespie’s grandmother’s passing, and her perseverance through the many challenges of being a single mother and a child of immigrants in the 1950s. LIFE IS HARD is both the death album and the pop album. It provides a trash-gospel meditation on the tug of war between the lusts that drive us and the deaths to which we’re driven. It was inspired by the psychedelic soul of Sly & the Family Stone and the „plaintive mythologizing” of Grateful Dead. It will be released in June on PAPER GARDEN RECORDS (US).
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3. Atlanta’s SUBSONICS are a gutter-glam, minimal rock’n’roll trio. FLESH COLORED PAINT is their 8th album. Like all their previous works, this is a distilled hodgepodge of decades of popular culture and classic literature culminating in a collection of short and groovy shambolar: Chuck Berry, Albert Camus, AM radio rock jocks, Bo Diddley, Golden Age TV, surrealism, Mad Magazine, kung-fu flicks, Herman Melville, Little Richard, self-negating philosophy, David Johansen, The Bible, Dee Dee Ramone, Lee Van Cleef, Cornell Woolrich, advertising jingles, Dada, Carole King, Bugs Bunny, and Casablanca; the poem, not the film. The album was released by SLOVENLY RECORDS.
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4. New Yorker PARQUET COURTS is a punk band. Hard to say anything else. OK, compared to Total Punk Records style punk bands they rather play pop music. Their influences come from Velvet Underground, Ramones and Talking Heads, but I also hear The Fall and even Country Teasers in their music. I remember their first album was a big revelation for me. There the sound was more punk than on the next ones. Fortunately unlike many others they don’t write the same record year by year. And now with the new album WIDE AWAKE we arrived to New Orelans.
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5. Howe Gelb refused to cancel their first Los Angeles live gig when his band Giant Sandworms had broken up days before in Tucson, Arizona. Instead, he headed out anyway with Scott Garber, the newest member who’d only been in the band for about a year. Gelb asked fellow Tucsonan Winston Watson who lived in Los Angeles to jump in as drummer for the live date. And he did it with no rehearsal. The result was so sparked with adrenalin, that the trio set up an impromptu studio session the next day to attempt to capture the sonic thrust on tape. Later they recorded some songs to make it to a full LP with a different drummer in Tucson. The album Valley Of Rain was released in 1985 under the name of GIANT SAND.
But at the time of the recording Gelb was unacquainted with the possibilities of tube amps. So 30 some years later, now that the band had been put to sleep indefinitely, those very first songs had begun creeping into the last Giant Sand tours. It somehow seemed appropriate to give them another shot with the proper amp just to see what they could’ve been. What made the idea more approachable was the availability of both original drummers living back in Tucson. And they recorded the songs again together with the two newest member. And the sound is insane.
The album RETURN TO VALLEY OF THE RAIN on FIRE RECORDS (UK)
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6. After a few months spent abroad in Spain and her infatuation with Brazilian music, Chicago based Vivian McConnell was inspired to create a dreamy new genre she calls “nap-rock” and to assume the moniker of V.V. LIGHTBODY – the name of her piano-playing grandmother. The ocean-like tunes on the album BATHING PEACH combine the vivid lyricism of Joni Mitchell with the jazz-inflected chords of Sam Prekop’s early solo records. Unanchored in a sea of glitching mermaids, V.V. LIGHTBODY is a surreal reflection of McConnell’s experiences and influences that coalesce into an intimate narrative of self-discovery.
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7. After half year that her album with Kurt Vile was released Australian indie rock songstress COURTNEY BARNETT has released her new album TELL ME HOW YOU REALLY FEEL with contribution of Kim and Kelly Deal from Breeders on MILK RECORDS (AUS), MOM+POP MUSIC (US) and MARATHON ARTISTS (UK)
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8. So here is PALBERTA‘s new album ROACH GOIN’ DOWN on WHARF CAT RECORDS (US) soon. The best phrase which best describes the music of these girls is: wap wap wap dabbada ding ding dack dabbada.
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9. THE DREEBS have been making music in New York since 2009. Over the next couple years they would find a home in the Brooklyn noise rock community, while staying true to their specific sound palette. The best if their friend Andrew Savage (Parquet Quarts) tells you about the band and their new album FOREST OF A CREW on RAMP LOCAL RECORDS (US).
First a little catch up for the unacquainted: Every member of The Dreebs has, at some point, been a member of PC Worship (that is if the players in the notorious New York City collective could ever be called members). The Dreebs were first described to me years ago as PC Worship’s weirder side project, which immediately caught my attention because, how could a band be weirder than PC Worship. I’m not going to even attempt to quantify that because it’s utterly impossible. Though over the years, we’ve seen a sort of Dreebian declaration of independence by their increased presence in the New York City DIY and avant-garde scenes. That independence has been loudly articulated in the form of Forest Of A Crew. It’s the sum of eight songs and seven instrumentals. These pieces wash over the listener like vignettes of a fever dream, punctuated with moments of terror and beauty. It exists not in romanticized New York of old where artists could survive in squalor so long as they existed in inexpensive and undesirable locations where no squares fear to tread. Rather, the hellscape of The Dreebs is of a different variety, where even Bushwick is unaffordable and the decision to live as an artist in the city has become a perilous one.
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10. THE COMMON COLD is an English psychedelic rock band whose sound incorporates elements of Krautrock, post-punk, and northern soul. It has been formed by two friends Ajay Saggar and Mark Wareing, the duo had served time in legendary British punk band Dandelion Adventure many years before. Two years ago they took to the stage for the first time together nearly after 30 years to play a set of psych jams. Later they got three drummers, but one time just two play. They got the influence from Kaleidoscope, Neu!, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and The Fall. On their debut album SHUT UP! YO LIBERALS! on ACTION RECORDS features former drummers of Cornershop and The Fall.
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11. SECOND STILL is an LA based post-punk, cold wave wave band. Best describe them the names of the labels which release their music: Manic Depression, Weyrd Son and Sentimental Records. Their new EP EQUALS was released on WEYRD SON RECORDS (Belgium). I was so lucky that i saw them in Budapest not long before. It was a frantic night.
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12. APOSTILLE is the solo electronic project of Night-School Records‘ head Michael Kasparis. His second solo album CHOOSE LIFE will release on 8 June on UPSET THE RHYTHM RECORDS, and it’s the greatest new wave synth-pop music what I heard recently. Minimal and courageous. It’s not a simple thing. Through EBM and acid techno finally it reach to Prodigy.
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13. It’s time for mysterious cinematic pop melancholia with Scottish musician PICTISH TRAIL. He is a svelte, intelligent, adorable balladeer, trapped inside the body of an oversized, oft-bearded folk ogre. Runs Lost Map Records, up on the isle of Eig. It’s one of the Small Isles in the Inner Hebrides with a population around 100. His extraordinary vocals reveal hidden depths and have been accompanied by everything from acoustic guitar to a full-on four piece metal band to throbbing dance beats and samples, and often during the course of the same gig. The album FUTURE ECHOES originally released in 2016 on his label, but now it will be re-released with a bunch of unreleased remixes and live materials in July on FIRE RECORDS (UK)
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14. „Searching for the light in the pouring rain” is the motto of THE GOLDEN DREGS. It’s the project of Benjamin Woods with a musical approach inspired by 70’s Americana and jam bands, The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan’s The Basement Tapes, and the documentary movie about the Mussel Shoals Studio.
The debut album LAFAYETTE is jangly summer-summoning pop for the hours when the sun is disappearing below the sea. What it plays out is a rich representation of small town living; from the churn of the rumour mill to the assortment of intriguing characters that only seem to exist far away from motorways, Itsu chains and the relative anonymity afforded by city living. It was recorded with contributions from some of the town Falmouth’s best musicians – the Cleave brothers (The Red Cords), Samuel Stacpoole (Holiday Ghosts), Jake Wilbourne (The Black Tambourines) and plenty more. And released on ART IS HARD RECORDS. And good to listen to it.
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15. ONYX was the avant-garde electronic duo of American songwriter and instrumentalist Judd Stone, and British vocalist and fashion model Beveur in the early 80s. The only instruments they used are drums /percussion and synthesizers – except for a primitive drum machine track that is used on “Planet X”. All of the instruments are played, and there is no syncing or sequencers used on any of the recordings. The bass tracks are keyboard bass. And what they recorded it is still fresh.
COMPLETE WORKS 1981-83 will release in June on Osaka based Franco-Japanese label MIND RECORDS.
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„Our new record will be the perfect soundtrack for your future hangovers!”
The Come n Go Tumbling Heights / Voodoo Rhythm Records (2016)
They are my favorites from the Voodoo catalog (together with Roy & the MDC). This is their fourth album (here is the first, second and third); I was not very confident that it would get released, since they started to work on it during the summer of 2014, and I have not heard any news from them since. And then: bam! it came out. All of its hard-core 26 minutes – haha. Never mind that it is short as this is their best album so far; it has so much going on in it that it literally blows your mind. Then you keep playing it on and on so it blows your mind again. It’s got everything RnB, garage-trash, psychedelic stuff or hard core AC/DC-Rose Tattoo boogie, and such a mind blowing cover of Bad Brains (Attitude) that you will shit your pants!
Marcus Stehli (of Roy & the DMC) is responsible for the sound and all of the weird noises, so there can not be any complaints about that. The whole album has a distinct, drugged atmosphere, but in a smooth nice way. There is one 6-minute song called Lemmy, but all the rest are around one and a half to two minutes long. Oh, and one more thing: all the members love alcohol, and one of the guitarist is a fan of PALINKA in particular, except that he incorrectly believes it to be a Romanian drink. No, palinka is NOT Romanian, but a Hungarian drink!!! And here are the videos to prove it:
Anyway „Our new record will be the perfect soundtrack for your future hangovers!”
Pic: Patrcik Principe < Here you can find many great photos about Voodoo Rhythm and other artists.
From New Records
At first there was the legendary Gibson Bros. in Ohio in the mid-80s. They played a unique mix of American roots music: blues, gospel, hill- and rockabilly with punk attitude. After split of the Gibsons the Bassholes were founded in 1992 by a “Gibson”, Don Howland (guitar) and Bim Thomas (drums). They’re the best blues punk band: crude, rude and harsh
After 4 years here is a new album with three covers: The Groundhogs – Express Man (1969), Wayne County & The Electric Chairs – Paranoia Paradise (1977) and Noh Mercy – Caucasian Guilt (1978). Boogieman Stew LP by Columbus Discount Records
Beside the Bassholes Bim Thomas plays in Puffy Areolas and This Moment in Black History. His solo project is the Obnox: weird garage blues soul punk with Tricky-like remixes.
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Strange Attractor: fuzzy garage punk from a small town in Northern Ontario, Canada
„Total Shit” trilogy on the b-side. „Feel Like Total Shit” / „This is Total Shit” / „I’m Total Shit” – three songs that give you a 360 degree views from the dregs of modern life : making bad choices, feeling powerless against the will of people who make bad choices, and just generally having everything stacked against you and turning those bad vibes inwards. In the Strange Attractor land, when we point fingers we have to remember that we are simultaneously pointing at ourselves.”
Back To The Cruel World LP by Resurrection / FDH / Mammoth Cave Records
„So good to be on the road with friends”
An interview with Susi, the bass player of German noise rock trio, Don Vito about music, travelling and friendship
What was the music milieu like around you in Leipzig when you grew up? Who made the most significant impression on you in this period?
Well, we live in Leipzig since 2001. We all grew up in different cities around Magdeburg, a city 140 km north of Leipzig. That’s why it’s a bit hard to answer your question. Our guitar player used to listen to Hardcore when he was young, the drummer was a pure Punk and my own taste was chameleonic. During these years there were so many things, who influenced us, not only the music we liked/like and the bands we’ve in before, also the life itself, books, political circumstances, weather, family, friends, world… But I think the Fall of the Wall was the most significant impression in our youth.
How your music taste was being shaped by each other during the years?
As we know each other for decades it was a natural growing process. Someone came up with something new, the other liked it (or not) from the first moment, later or never ;). When you have 3 open-minded persons with different tastes of music, the individual taste grows a lot.
Chachy in China
Craig „Chachy” Englund is an American musician who living in Shanghai for 3 years. His home punk rock band the Libyan Hit Squad is hibernated now. His Chinese band the Round Eye has formed in 2012 by a bunch of ex-pat. Their music is more complex than the LHS. There are rhythm’n’blues and doo wop elements beside punk rock:
Round Eye: slang used by Asians to describe the white man.
Recently released: Libyan Hit Squad / Round Eye 12″ split record
An interview with Chachy
with lots of Chinese music
Your Chinese tour has ended now. Whereabouts you were? What was it? Did you see and experience interesting things?
Toropical Circle (After Roomic Cube)
I have heard of him already, but didn’t know about him too many things until this album that he has made with Takako Minekawa. I have caught sight of her name and pounce on the record immediately so I had to know him:
Dustin Wong is a Hawaiian born half Chinese/half American guitarist. He grew up in Japan and went to college to the US. There he founded an experimental guitar duo with Matthew Papich (nowadays: Co La), the Ecstatic Sunshine (2004-07) and the Deerhoofesque art rock band, Ponytail (2005-11). After the break-up he has begun solo career and made experimental guitar albums. He lives in Japan again.
Takako Minekawa is a Japanese musician. She was active in the 90’s as the most interesting shibuya-kei artist. The term comes from Tokyo’s Shibuya ward. The district is the centre of the Japanese fashion and pop culture. Shibuya-kei (literally: Shibuya system) is described as a mix of jazz, pop and synthpop. Takako Minekawa’s music is experimental shibuya-kei. She loves cats, clouds, Kraftwerk, French pop and vintage instruments.
They have met in Tokyo in 2011 after a Dustin Wong gig and become working together. The outcome of their labour is the recently born Toropical Circle album. It’s Takako Minekawa’s first work for 13 years. Her weird synth sounds and dreamy singing voice meets his strange guitar sounds
The record is rather experimental with ambient, gamelan and oriental moods than pop, but there are some shibuya-kei moments too. It’s a really nice, pleasant album.
Released by Plancha Records, Vinyl from Thrill Jockey
Some useful links
Free Music Archive Dustin Wong Ponytail
Live at Shea Stadium Dustin Wong Ecstatic Sunshine
Soft Moon in Budapest
The Cuban origin Luis Vasquez grew up in California’s Mojave Desert near the Death Valley. He started The Soft Moon in his flat in San Francisco, seeing it first as a solo project. But bass player Justin was enthralled when he saw the first Soft Moon gig – so much so that he went backstage to convince Luis to let him help bring his insular personal vision to life on stage in future. He introduced Luis to multi-instrumentalist Damon, and Ron – Luis’ friend from way back – completes the current line up.
It all started with Prince. That’s probably the first artist I listened to and didn’t just hear. And from Prince I went to Slayer, then into jazz and then psychedelic rock, and then krautrock.
I like the genres like post-punk and post-industrial for my music because those feel like they work. Every track that I write is more of a soundtrack to my emotions. Or sonic photographs of how I am feeling at that moment. Memories.
The initial reason why I started the project, I wanted to figure out why I feel so fucked up in my head. Why I feel so much paranoia and anxiety and suffer from depression.
I’m a big fan of David Cronenberg and his fascination with body horror. I too have a fascination with biology and how the human body functions. It’s amazing and weird as hell. Biologic themes always make their way into my songs. I’m also a big fan of David Lynch and Gaspar Noe. The visual style took on a Russian constructivist feel, sort of Dada or Bauhaus influenced.
I want to bring in more of a Neubauten approach and start banging on things…
If I am home I get really depressed and stare at walls and drink a lot. When we are on tour I feel like there is purpose to my life.
APRIL 7. 21:00 BUDAPEST A38
Ticket price in advance: 2000 That day: 3000 Facebook event
ps My publicist just e-mailed me and was like ‘Trent Reznor gave you the go ahead to do a remix’ and I was like ‘What?