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RNR666 Rádió
Pimps, Pushers, Thieves & More
The Tiger Lillies
present the human world
in its terrible, but natural grotesqueness
with minimal instrumentation &
maximal satirical ability
in their peculiar style
which recalls the pre-Nazi cabarets of Berlin
in Budapest on Oct 8 at MÜPA
Their songs’ themes are determined by a special circumstance. The founder, vocalist and accordionist, Martyn Jacques spent much of his early years living above a brothel in London’s Soho. His songs describe pimps, prostitutes, drug addicts, losers and other unsavoury characters in their lurid details. And these details are so commonly lurid, and the words are so vulgar, that often some audience members walk out of his shows. „It’s always funny when people are offended by what I do … after all, I’m just an entertainer” – said Jacques, who dropped out of theology and philosophy course for the sake of music.
They frequently convert literary works. For example: Hoffman – Der Struwwelpeter (as Shockheaded Peter), Brecht / Weill – The Threepenny Opera (as Two Penny Opera), or Frank Wedekind – Lulu (as Lulu – A Murder Ballad). Furthermore they have written a musical comedy about life of Mozart.
Harry is always Merry
idiotic synth sounds – twisted pop melodies – infantile costumes
JohnPaulGeorgeRingo&Yoko in One
The eccentric Dutch genius
HARRY MERRY in Budapest again
of course at RNR666 Party afresh
CORVINTETŐ: BISTRO
Oct 7, 9PM > TICKET: 500
Door: on the left side of Corvin Dept. Store. 4th floor. Use the elevator!
The story of Harry Merry has started at his aunt’s pub in Delft. As a little boy there he gazed at a juke-box. “I was hypnotized by all these vinyl-singles constantly rotating with those specifically coloured lable-etiquettes in the middle. (…) My most favourite ones were from Apple-records, Pye Records (especially the dark pink one) and CBS-records (the old orange one; not the ugly later one).”
Further determinative things of his life: piano lessons, The Beatles and Roland keyboards. “The musical genres that have been adopted by me on these keyboards are as follows: Rock’n’Roll, Rhythm & Blues, Beat, Ballads, Schlager, Latino, Chansons, Liedjes and lately also some Slovenian Pop and Serbian Turbo-folk.” Besides he is equally regularly being influenced by classical music from the likes of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Mahler and Sibelius. And works of Charles Dickens are also a source of inspiration for him. Listen!
The average, but famous Ariel Pink has covered his Steve Storm, but it matters little.
Dead Dogs & Black Candles
The next prefatory has been made originally for a psychedelic free jazz album review (which is under way), but it also goes well here in same way.
The horror has started with Iron Bonehead Records. It’s an obscure German vinyl only extreme metal label. I wrote a letter to them, that I would like to write reviews from some releases. At once I have been attached to promotion circle of the metal underground. Since then I get tons of free metal stuff. Horrible records every day from the whole world. The Swiss Bölzer was the only remarkable band with their avant-garde death metal. And I have become familiar with the Finnish Svart Records. Their range of audibility expands from free jazz to extreme metal, and there’re some good bands and records. For example
3 Fresh Finnish Hard Rock/Metal singles on Svart Records
The names speak for theirselves: Hard Action, The Black Mass, Forced Kill. The first two play 70s style hard rock and roll with this difference that The Black Mass has a smack of black metal. While Forced Kill is „such as early Sodom, beer drinking Slayer”
Space Oddity
FUTUROSCOPE is a theme park, a stupid high-tech multimedia Disneyland in France, in Vienne Departement. If you go thereabout rather choose the goat cheese and the wine! But also is a French band with perfect references. Unfortunately there’re just a little, but luckily increasing bunch of people who knows about the great little label in Texas, Monofonus Press, and the magnifique petit label in France, Cockatail Pueblo. Led Er Est, Shit and Shine, John Wesley Coleman, The Golden Boys, The Pheromoans, The Rebel, Trans Upper Egypt, XYX (is my absolute favorite there), perhaps these are the most well-known band on Monofonus. Well, I think after these, it is absolutely needless to mention the bands of Cocktail Pueblo (look those!). The Futuroscope’ records were released by them. The French trio (from Tours, with a member of Pneu) plays psychedelic ritual kraut space rock, often it twists into ecstasy
cassette by Monofonus or digital from Bandcamp
First Experience with Swans
The Swans were just a band among the highly praised unknown others for me. Of course I heard about them many times, and the opinions were in superlatives. A bad word there wasn’t! So I didn’t care. There were many great bands, unrecognized by others. The Swans came and went often, I stayed at home.
Everything was very all right until the day before yesterday. That day I have begun to edit a long article in reference with Swans. In the beginning I didn’t want to listen to them, but finally yesterday evening I have done it first time ever. It was the brand new album „To Be Kind”. Frightful long tracks, some of them have strange titles. One of them dedicated to the legendary bluesman Howlin’ Wolf! Among the musicians: the new alt-pop diva, St. Vincent; founder of Cop Shoot Cop, Phil Puleo; a black soul from the Canadian call center hell, Al Spx (Cold Specks); Bill Rieflin (Minisrty, RevCo, Lard, KMFDM, Pigface, REM). Come what may, play!
Since I have done it three times. I can speak only in superlatives about it. In the first place their heavy psych-ritual music came Foetus and Lydia Lunch to my mind. In the second place: Neurosis and Nine Inch Nails.
The summit is „Bring the Sun”, a 34 minutes long little symphony about the Black Napoleon, Toussiant L’ouverture, leader of the Haitian Revolution. Haiti was French colony at that time. The revolt rose against the slavery in 1791 under the impact of French Revolution. It was successful, but the free and equal blacks and mulattos had begun to massacre each others without delay in fraternal concord. Toussiant L’ouverture was captured before the final victory, and died at the White Napoleon’s prison in France in 1803.
Some bad words (for security reasons): „She Loves Us” become tedious during its 17 minutes. So if you are in a show, this is the best time to go to pee, buy a beer and smoke something. For instance in this fall on their European tour,
The World is Well Lost, But
The statistics show that soldiers are in bigger secure than the civilians in Israel. Since January 2012, more than 2,500 rockets and mortars were fired to Israeli civilian area. In 2013, altogether 1271 various terrorist attacks were listed. Between 1989 and 2008 in all 804 people were killed by suicide bombers.
„Haolam Avad Mizman” (The World is Well Lost)
by Vaadat Charigim
Yuval Haring (v/g): This is kind of like „the hit” in Israel. The world is well lost but let’s lie on the beach and have fun and fall in love because it doesn’t matter. We can just feel whatever we want.
In Cooperation of Israeli Cultural Institute of Budapest, Plaza Real Cultural Foundation and Fődalatti Association the 108th RNR666 party
“Just One Day is the World”
Vaadat Charigim (shoegaze, Burger Records)
makrohang (jazz for metalheads)
SEPT 27 BUDAPEST KONTRA KLUB 10PM
Ticket: 1500 Facebook event
Listen to Vaadat Charigim’s debut album! (New Musical Express: 8/10)
If you live in Hungary you can download 3 songs from here!
makrohang interview (in Hungarian)
VAADAT CHARIGIM EAST EURO TOUR SEPT
24: Warsaw, 25: Berlin, 26: Prague, 27: Budapest, 28: Linz, 29: Vienna
Keith Moonshine Show
The Japanese experimental electro pop musician Takako Minkewa,
and American Chinese experimental guitar player Dustin Wong’s
brand new common album Savage Imagination is out now on Thrill Jockey Records.
It’s such as great pleasure for me that I have taken out Takako’s old records.
Some classic, funny, abstract electro-pop songs by her from the second half of the 90s,
except for the first song, which has been taken from the brand new album.
Savage Imagination
songs of Takako Minekawa
1. She He See Feel 2. Micro Mini Cool 3. Milk Rock 4. Cat House 5. Brioche 6. Fabie (1,2,3 Excercise) 7. Mimi 8. Kangaroo Pocket Calculator 9. Spin Spider Spin 10.T.T.T. (Turntable Tennis) 11. Fantastic Voyage 12. Fantastic Cat 13. Lullabby of Gray 14. Flash 15. Telstar
Chat Chat (1995): 7
Roomic Cube (1996): 10, 12
Athletica (1997): 6
Cloudy Cloud Calculator (1997): 2, 3, 4, 8, 15
Fun 9 (1999): 9, 11, 14
Maxi On (2000): 5, 13
Savage Imagination (with Dustin Wong, 2014): 1
About Takako Minekawa, her brand new album with Dustin Wong,
and a short interview
End After End
Israel has been at war almost constantly since its foundation. The peace is very temporary and miraculous state in that region. The short peacetime are hot spiced with terrorist attacks. In 1991, on the occasion of Gulf War, Iraq launched 42 missiles to Israel, albeit it was not among the belligerents.
Yuval Haring (guitar/vocal): „I still remember, as a kid, sitting in our bomb shelter playing computer games while wearing a gas mask.” (Maybe was it a battle game?) „The world will end a thousand times, and we’ll still be here reading books, drinking coffee. We say, “Ze beseder” (It’s OK). That’s a very Tel Aviv sentiment. Nothing is so serious. There’s always another end after the end.” No wonder that dark visions arise.
VAADAT CHARIGIM – ODISEA
In Cooperation of Israeli Cultural Institute of Budapest, Plaza Real Cultural Foundation and Fődalatti Association our 108th party
„Just One Day is the World”
Vaadat Charigim (shoegaze, Burger Records)
makrohang (jazz for metalheads)
SEPT 27 BUDAPEST KONTRA KLUB 10PM
Ticket: 1500 Facebook event
Listen to Vaadat Charigim’s debut album!
If you live in Hungary you can download 3 songs from here!
makrohang interview (in Hungarian)
VAADAT CHARIGIM EAST EURO TOUR SEPT
24: Warsaw, 25: Berlin, 26: Prague, 27: Budapest, 28: Linz, 29: Vienna
French Kiss & Ecstasy
In all probability the notorious, legendary and cultic psycho rock and roll band The Cramps made huge impact on Vagina Town. Just their music is spiced with 60’s psychedelic beats (a la Question Mark & The Mysterians) and noise rock. The French band has taken its name from a porn movie. And the titles of their releases are also meaningful: „LSD”, „Hospital”, and the brand new one: „Ecstasy”
shameless hedonism, sex’n’drugs’n’rock’n’roll, food’n’beer’n’tobacco
7″ single on Kythibong Records
ps: Dear Vagina Town, Budapest is waiting for you with spread legs, erected cocks and ecstasy. „Ou…ha …Ouu…fff..”
Friday We’re At Roham
ÚJ LÁTÁSMÓD FÚZIÓ
Bittersweet Sunday
GUTTING REVUE
swing punk circus
CSERMANEK LAKÓTELEP
Groucho Marx and Engels with a broken Casio and bass guitar
but before this the notorious noise fanatics have to go at BOTB at HAVIZAJ Party
Takako Minekawa & Dustin Wong & Cats
Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa – Savages Imagination. Album review.
Let’s see my notes! Well, at first, who is Takako Minekawa?
Do you remember the J-pop explosion in the 90s? Exactly I think the members of shibuya-key movement, e.g. Pizzicato 5, Cornelius, Kahimi Kane, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Towa Tei, Maki Nomiya and others. Among them Takako Minekawa made the wittiest music. Her particular experimental electro-pop was influenced by the 60s French Yé-Yé and Brazilian Tropicalia movements, Pet Shop Boys and Kraftwerk, house and the fashionable electronic dance music of the 90s, for instance the Ninja Tunes’ artists. And her music was nevertheless unmistakeable Japanese. It was very playful and silly parade of sounds and moods. Between two catchy pop songs always was something peculiar, but funny abstraction, but often also inside the catchy pop melodies. Her records were released between 1995 and 2000, and there was a hit in 1996, Fantastic Cat
After 13 years silence she came back last year with a common album with Dustin Wong. He 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): Ecstatic Sunshine (2004-07), and a Deerhoofesque art rock band: Ponytail (2005-11). After the break-up he has begun solo career, and makes experimental guitar albums. And now here is the next Minekawa & Wong album. And it’s (or at least, I like it) better than the previous one. The music is very playful and silly parade of sounds and moods. Inside the songs, between two peculiar, but funny abstract electro-pop melodies, always are catchy pop tunes. Unfortunately many people averse to the phrase „pop”, and same time they consider „rock”, „metal” and „punk” as positive things, when there are many load of shit under the label of „rock”, „metal” and „punk.” This is pop, because this is not rock. Rather alternative disco a la Mouse on Mars.
And here is another strange thing. The „Savage Imagination” comes the Beastie Boys in my mind, while this is almost entirely instrumental album. And this fact has been observed after I listened to it many times! Well, their rate of creativity is equivalent with the mentioned boys.
LP and CD out on 22 September by Thrill Jockey Records (US)
CD and digital on Plancha Records (Japan)
And finally let’s see the cats!
A rabbit tail long interview with Takako Minekawa Tovább / Read more »