Subbacultcha Magazine BE version June 2012

By Sofia Ciechowska Illustration bi Basje Boer

Unruly Music Magazine June 2012

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This is R Stevie Moore, ‘the godfather of home-recording’, ‘veteran progressive popster’, or ‘Pope of lo-fi’, to name but a few of his many nicknames. Buddy Ariel Pink simply calls him his ‘hero’. Whatever you call him Mr. R Stevie is probably the hardest working man in the business. Since the early ’70s he’s continuously produced and selfdistributed more than 400 recordings, mostly through his Cassette Club. That’s how it is done kids! According to R Stevie ‘Play is hard work.’ hence the body refreshment products(?). Mr. Moore is coming to Belgium. He’ll play a show at TRIX in Antwerp on 13 June. It is free for Subbacultcha members. Don’t miss.

You can read the (quite funny) interview with R Stevie on page 18.

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R Stevie Moore

Bleached

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Com Truise

Agenda

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TOP 5 NEW MUSIC WE SAW YOU R STEVIE MOORE BLEACHED MOON DUO COM TRUISE ART

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REVIEWS HOROSCOPE AGENDA SUBBACULTCHA SHOWS OTHER SHOWS FREE STUFF AFTER MIDNIGHT OVERVIEW

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We couldn’t have chosen a more fitting theme for this issue; the whole international music scene is on tour at the moment, working hard (man is it difficult to make interview arrangements!). But bless them! They’re out there, doing what they believe in. Going for it. Giving everything up, soaking themselves in music, cause that’s how it’s done, you know, no mercy.

All work AND all play. And what about ourselves? We hosted about 40 bands in May, made a Belgian and a Dutch magazine as well as photo publication, curated an exhibition, and then some. It’s been crazy but we wouldn’t have it any other way. Relax and enjoy.

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Last month at our office

The Truth: Pomrad

In our latest issue we talked about Pomrad and his penchant for samples, but we were very wrong. The absolute truth is that the man creates all the funky beats himself!

Anyway, we L.O.V.E.D. his show at Trix in Antwerp.

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TV Series: Renegade

Ever since the local garbage man evoked a flashback of Reno Raines in the American series Renegade, we got addicted to some of the episode trailers. Framed for murder, now he prowls the badlands, an outlaw hunting outlaws, a bounty hunter, a RENEGADE...

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Song: Bert Jansch - Poison

We’re probably about 43 years late with this, but you just got to listen to Bert Jansch’s ‘Poison’. The psychedelic vibe, the dubious lyrics, the hidden romance. It’s a tip from Kurt Vile, and it is a very good one.

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Free time: Walking the dog

After a long day of all-work-and-no-play, we really enjoy walking through the park with our little dog. He isn’t really into music but we don’t care. He rocks our world anyways.

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Expo: Miroslav Tichy

Last month the Pascal Polar Gallery in Brussels showed some of the early work of Miroslav Tichy who became famous for making portraits with homemade cameras constructed of garbage and reclaimed materials. On a rainy day we took a look at some of the most unique photos we’ve ever seen, and we bought the gallery’s last copy of the Tichy book. Aren’t we lucky bastards!

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New Music

Ami Dang

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Forget ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’, ‘Ami Dang’ is the perfect thing to say when you’re totally amazed. For instance, what do you say if a friend tells you stroopwafel pudding is on bonus this week? ‘Ami Dang!’ Or, what would you say if you saw a unicorn paddling down a canal? ‘AMI DANG, if that ain’t a unicorn in a canal!’ See? It totally works. Anyway, this project, started by cool chick Amrita Kaur Dang, who likes to sing and play sitar, became a bigger thing when Kate Levitt (Teeth Mountain/Dan Deacon Ensemble) and producer Schwarz joined in and made a new album called Hukam. Buckle up for an intergalactic Bollywood trance.

Boneyards

boneyaards.bandcamp.com The boisterous Boneyards come from that famed Brighton/London scene that spawned the likes of Male Bonding, Fair Ohs and Mazes. These garage-punk rock ruffians strum their guitars till their fingers bleed as they thrash out a sweaty mess of riffs and beer-breath vocals. So yeah, they have a bandcamp, some demos and a cassette release under their belt, but nothing, NOTHING beats their video for their song ‘Passed Out’, which features a really crappy Batman dancing and surfing at the same time.

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Ghibli

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Thomas Michael lives in Edmonton and likes to call himself Ghibli, maybe because it references some Japanese animation studio or maybe because he likes giggling a lot; you choose. Ghibli’s newest release Rare Pleasures is as slick as John Travolta’s Saturday Night Fever hair and I love it to death. It’s a bouncing concoction of quirky, dancey beats, stuttering soul samples and generally a lot of pep.

Download it all for free from his bandcamp before this shit becomes the new indie dancefloor summer anthem.

Kohwi

kohwi.bandcamp.com Cory Levinson is not into all that triangle-shaped, pixilated gif bullshit that tends to mask mediocrity. Sonic artist and young mathematician, this dude has pretty much dabbled in all fields of artistic expression. He’s even managed to build a ‘tangible electrophonic drumstick’! What’s that, you ask? No clue, but it sounds like a crispy chicken leg that sure knows how to dance, har-har! His latest album, Hidden Trees, released on Black Tent Press, is a bewildering concoction of warbling vocals, distorted strums, slot-machine samples and chilling hums, to be listened to in one go as you cycle upwind with no particular place to go.

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New Music

Le Pécheur

lepecheur.bandcamp.com Once a one-man project, Le Pécheur has unfurled its dragon wings to reveal that it has five heads and it’s breathing a gasoline-fuelled inferno of psychedelic garage-sounding squawks your way. Coursing somewhere between France, the UK and Hades, this bunch have released Medieval Dreams in the meantime, which is bound to make you want to whip out that moth-eaten Dracula cape and fake teeth from under the bed and play vampires with your little sister. For optimum fake blood results, we recommend ketchup and a bit of raspberry syrup.

Myths

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Canadian super-sinister electro performance artists Myths are Quinn Rogers and Leif Hall. Covered in high-end Halloween costumes and crazy face paint, this feisty duo doesn’t skimp on synth or the odd dark, harsh lyric or two. The music pounds your ears to a pulp as the girls chant and rant and writhe and wriggle to create a pop-noir earthquake. Their videos will make your browser crash and a listen to their eponymous debut might make you wanna call your mummy. Be brave and give these two a go.

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We Saw You

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Spotted at Subbacultcha!

Photo by Elies Van Renterghem

How do you put play in your work? I make play my work. That and a six-pack of beer.

Lee Swinnen, spotted at the Lower Dens show on 12 May in DOKArena, Ghent

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He’s called ‘the godfather of home-recording’, ‘a veteran progressive popster’ and the ‘Pope of lo-fi’, to name just a few of his nicknames. Whatever you call him, R Stevie Moore is probably the hardest working man in the business. Since the early ’70s he’s continuously produced and selfdistributed more than 400 recordings. The album Phonography (1976) was named one of the fifty most significant indie records by Rolling Stone magazine. Still he remains virtually anonymous, despite being ‘the one and only original gangsta composer!’ Mr Moore was so kind as to make some time in his busy touring schedule to reply to our questionnaire about playing vs. working.

‘Play is such hard work.’

Questionnaire by Brenda Bosma

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1) You probably give new meaning to bles and listens to the sound of the proverb ‘All work and no play the little balls rolling over the tiles makes Jack a dull boy’. What kind and falling into the holes, all while of boy are you? winding up loose cassette tape with a. A Harry Potter in his late twenties a pencil b. The boy who from a distance c. Other: me? A work hater! A Harry watches the other boys play marPotter hater, too. Anyone who dares Page 19

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‘Turn around, see that? That’s me back there, stealing another new song idea from behind you!

I’m the one and only original gangsta composer.’ to call me dull must work a shift at my store. A long shift. Clean and spotless. But answer ‘b’ sounds a lot like me, yeah.

2) Do you feel that what you’re doing is hard labour or is it more like an extended office lunch break with chitchats about the weather and nice hot cacao? a. It feels like a regular day job, but one where there’s no pension plan b. It has aspects of labour involved – especially when it comes to the administration – but everything else is a doozy, really c. Other: this is for me again? Okay, let me see. I hate work. That said, ‘b’ is the correct answer.

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mustard, but not during masturbation. Irony is cynicism? Eight days a week? Surely there must be mayonaise. Songs are inspired by everything. Am I alone on this?

4) I can also imagine you find ideas in silence and the air being blue.

Do you want to tell us a bit about where your ideas come from? a. Do you have a minute? b. It’s everywhere, it’s in the glance of the sandwich-bar employee when being asked if I want mustard on my bun, to the sound of a faucet leaking c. Other: I assume you are asking me, never fully certain about this. My song ideas come from everywhere.

Turn around, see that? That’s me back there, stealing another new song idea from behind you! I’m the one and only original gangsta composer.

5) You play an incredible array of styles. What kind of music would you never want to make?

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‘Love my mustard, but not during masturbation.’ a. I’d play anything, I’m an omnivore b. This hipster thing called relaxwave or something c. Other: best answer is a+b. It has been scientifically determined that rsm embraces all styles, a peculiar habit which has sadly gone extinct in the modern era. Life is a mixtape, or die. File under diversity wave. But… it’s really not that complicated!

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6) You’ve recording over 400 albums.

Do you have a number in your head that you wish to tackle? a. The first ten were quite tough, the rest came to me as a gift b. I feel I could do another 400 c. Other: surely you jest, you can’t be referring to me. Yeah? Yeah! Let’s choose answer b. I have over 400 b/c I’ve been taping sound diaries since 1066, do the math. Take the

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bad with the good. Pfftt, numerical 9) What would be a perfect non-work predictions frankly are pointless related activity? Is there even one? though, agreed? Fishing tackle can a. Everything I do is play so I can’t be complicated. Rocket science for think of any some. b. Because of my tight touring schedule, spending time with my fami7) One album is called The Future is ly feels like a job sometimes. But I Worst than the Past from 1999. Do like watching Scandinavian detecyou in the meantime think the futive series with my wife ture is looking brighter for you? c. Other: I forget. Play is such hard a. Yes, I see the world as my playwork. ground b. I see some dark clouds coming 10) What does the ‘R’ in your name ahead every once in a while, but stand for? most of the time I’m too old and a. Ruler too distracted to worry about such b. I got the letter ‘R’ from Ariel Pink a thing as a birthday gift, you know like c. Other: b. Days change. Still, I’m Jonny Greenwood got Thom Yorke 10,000 years old. 2012 Is turning an ‘H’ out +97% pure gold days. Worry is c. Other: roadkill! Or rebecca black wasted on the young. How is your history month or rihanna roosevelt future turning out today? reacharound rotisserie rosenberg religious rectal rimjob rapefest re8) As you do everything yourself, cordings. Survived by the seat of from the recording and the makmy pants, the skin of my teeth, and ing of the home videos to the have hung on by the barest thread. mailorders, do you ever get out of Catch me. your bedroom?

R Stevie Moore plays on 13 June at Trix in a. I have a toilet in my room as well Antwerp. The show is free for Subbacultcha! b. Only for touring members. c. Other: doc says I must take daily walks and stretches, preferred outdoors. I like to stay home, but… it’s really not that complicated!

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LA-based sisters Jessica and Jennifer Clavin, aka Bleached and formerly of Mika Miko, bring their unique brand of dark, girly ’60s pop to Europe this month. We caught up with them to chat about their influences, the darker side of things and how partying hard helps them work even harder...

Interview by Johanna Valdés Photos shot by Ye Rin Mok in Los Angeles, USA

Who do you admire who works hard and plays harder?

Jennifer: I watched a documentary on the making of Rumors, the Fleetwood Mac album, and it’s crazy how they wrote such an amazing record but partied so hard and did so much coke. How in the world did they do it? I get tired just going on tour.

Jessica: Sometimes I feel like I have to keep partying so I can keep up. Like, if I take a break, I’ll want to just sleep for days.

So you guys are influenced by Fleetwood Mac? Didn’t see that coming. What else inspires you?

Jessica: Well, initially we were influenced by punk bands like Ramones, Germs and The Misfits. After that we started opening up to stuff

like Fleetwood Mac. Jennifer: We got into ’60s girl groups, too. And Jess and I were really into Velvet Underground, their whole look and the music they would write.

Also, the other day I was watching these two old Brigitte Bardot movies, and they were just super dark. I’m inspired by dark things.

As musicians, what’s work and what’s play?

Jessica: It’s fun when you first start writing a song, because you get to sit down and have a glass of wine.

It becomes work when you have to go to the studio to record it. Especially if the producer is like, ‘Nobody can come in hung-over.’

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tually going well, I feel like I’m having fun. But when I’m trying to force something out or feel like I don’t know what I’m doing, it’ll feel like work.

Jessica: It’s work to unload my equipment for a show or go practice but once we actually start playing, it’s complete fun.

How does being in Bleached compare to when you were starting out with Mika Miko?

Jessica: When we first started playing in Mika Miko, we were in a garage – we didn’t even know how to play our instruments.

Jennifer: It was definitely just play. We went to shows every weekend and we wanted to see if we could start a band like the ones we loved.

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But then it got more popular than any of us ever thought it would. I think that was a major part of coming into Bleached – wanting to start a band that we are serious about.

Speaking of taking Bleached seriously, how was playing SXSW? Jennifer: We played 14 shows in four days. Like, that was work.

Jessica: But we all had a lot of fun too.

Jennifer: During the last three shows I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m dying.’ But I had to act like I wasn’t.

Bleached play on 04 June at DOK in Ghent and on 07 June at Kavka in Antwerp. Both shows are free for Subbacultcha! members.

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Before starting on their European tour, psychedelic drone-rock duo Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada went down to Berlin to mix their third album. Ripley took some time off from their busy schedule to talk to us about work time, playtime, Annie Hall and crystal pyramids.

‘For me, writing and recording music doesn’t feel like work at all.’

Interview by Gerlin Heestermans Photos shot by Miranda Lehman in Portland, USA

Last year you both quit your day jobs, to fully focus on Moon Duo. How does that feel?

At first there was a bit of anxiety but we’ve relaxed into it by now.

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down some roots. But it doesn’t affect the music at all. We travel so much that when we get home it’s fairly easy to settle into a work routine there.

Does music feel like work to you?

For, me the writing and recording doesn’t feel like work at all. Once an album is done and we have to tour to promote it, then that feels like the work part. Not that I don’t like tour-

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‘as long as I’m playing around with music, or even visual art, it counts as work.’ ing, but it feels more like a required part of the job.

I understand. Sorry that I’m a required part of your job right now! I was wondering… how do you put the play into your work? And how do you put the work into your play?

It’s a bit hard to separate the two because we now live this job almost all the time. So in that sense, the things that I consider more like work (interviews, photo shoots etc) have more to do with selling a product, and

that’s not very interesting to me. So a lot of times I try to do different kinds of promo, like mix tapes or video mixes. That’s fun for me. As far as the work in the play, as long as I’m playing around with music, or even visual art, it counts as work. Everything eventually finds its way into a song or album cover in some way. That’s the really great thing about this ‘job’.

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disciplined. Do you have certain rules you work with?

When we started we wanted to be as self-contained, mobile and flexible as possible. We wanted to be able to play shows anywhere in the world, and not have money be the limiting factor.

We can fit everything in two checked bags on a flight, and in our car with amps in the US. We plan to evolve the sound and setup over time but it will be natural, based on opportunities.

In combining your repetitive music with powerful visuals you’ve created quite a strong format for Moon Duo. Would I be going too far by calling you control freaks?

Ha! I’m a bit of a control freak when it comes to the music but Sanae is totally in charge of all of the visual stuff, so there’s a nice balance.

What film did you see most recently? Do you have a favourite you like to go back to? Whenever I wanna relax and get cheered up I always watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Never fails me!

Ah, well most recently it was The Avengers, which is kind of embarrassing. I do really enjoy a good summer blockbuster. But my go-to favorite is Annie Hall. I think it’s a perfect film.

I like a lot ’70s stuff, Elliott Gould movies, Altman, Monte Hellman, etc.

Live it’s just you two on stage. If you had all the money in the world for whatever stage props, what would you go for?

We’re so focused on being compact and thrifty (we have to carry everything with us on an airplane) that we’ve never even discussed anything like that! So I’m sure Sanae would have a completely different anTalking about balance, I imagine being swer, but I’d say something with gipart of Moon Duo can be very absorb- ant prisms and crystal pyramids and ing – especially ’cause you two also share also dancers. a personal relationship. How do you let off steam and relax?

That sounds rad!

We’re big film fans. We read a lot and listen to a lot of music – believe it Moon duo play on June 13 at Trix in The show is free for Subbacultcha! or not. But to escape a bit I really like Antwerp. members. going to the cinema. That’s one of the first things I looked into when we got to Berlin the other day.

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Com Truise Before Seth Haley’s ‘mid-fi synth-wave, slowermotion funk’ work as Com Truise propelled him to top-gun status in the blogosphere, he worked as a graphic designer in the risky business of advertising by day and recorded at night. Goed bezig, toch? We discussed visions of the future, nostalgia and how his advertising background influences his approach to music-making.

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I’ve read that you’re interested in older film depictions of the future. What’s your favourite, or which one do you most hope comes true?

I hope none of them come true.

They’re all either kind of dreary or dystopian. I just like the way people thought technology would look.

I don’t really know what happened, it doesn’t look anything like what they imagined.

It seems like everybody in our generation is obsessed with nostalgia. What’s your take on this phenomenon?

It’s probably just things recycling themselves, and everybody gets caught up in it. I’m not sure why. But my take is: really I just don’t care. People can do whatever they want. I like being nostalgic, it makes me feel human.

What’s the best job you’ve ever had?

Working in advertising, actually.

I got to work with my best friend. I think that was definitely my favourite.

I like doing that stuff. I’m a designer by trade.

Not being a musician?

It’s been my hobby for like 15 years...

So it doesn’t feel like a job?

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and I can’t just get them done when I want and make them sound best, or put the right amount of time into it.

That having to do things, having to get them done to make money, it’s this extra pressure that I don’t really like. And I really kind of miss working in advertising, honestly. I don’t mind travelling around and touring, but I couldn’t do both, so I had to quit.

Maybe you’ll figure out a better way to strike a balance.

I think I was more creative when I worked all day on nothing but design stuff. I would get home and I would only have a certain amount of time to write music so I would be more focused. Now I’m less focused. I wake up in the morning, I have some coffee, a cigarette, I noodle around on the computer, smoke another cigarette, more coffee, back and forth all day. All this extra time works against me. I’m thinking about everything too much, I think.

I read that you worked as an art director for a pharmaceutical ad agency. So are you the mastermind behind the US obsession with prescription drugs?

No, we did more internal stuff for companies. And the major company that I worked with puts out drugs for very specific diseases, for rare he-

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‘I wake up in the morning, I have some coffee, a cigarette, I noodle around on the computer, smoke another cigarette, more coffee, back and forth all day.’ reditary things and immunodeficiency stuff. So it wasn’t just recreational drugs. I felt better about doing it.

I think it can make you uncomfortable if you have ethical issues with the product.

Nowadays anyone with a bedroom and a computer can make music. When there’s so much competition, how do you stand out from the crowd? What’s your recipe for success?

I think for me it was being a designer as well as a musician. I think a lot of it is about branding, so creating that sort of thing right off the bat already puts you in a better place.

I found a blog that I really liked and sent them my music and it kind of went from there. It’s all about networking, and building something solid to start from yourself, and then if people catch on they catch on; if not, then try again or do something else.

Definitely I think using the name ‘Com Truise’ was something that turned people’s heads a little bit more.

You’re inadvertently convincing me that it’s smart for someone who’s worked in the advertising industry to go into something else that’s creative. You knew who your target market was, you knew how to package your product in a way that was visually appealing...

I have a very small firm of just myself, developing my strategies, watching the markets...

That’s not something that had occurred to me before, but now it seems to make perfect sense.

Subliminally I’ve been subjected to that stuff, so I might as well take it and use it to my advantage.

I should look for a job in advertising!

Com Truise plays on 06 June at DOK in Ghent. The show is hosted by Democrazy.

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Featured Artist

Samuel Vanderveken

Samuel Vanderveken is an artist living and working in Mechelen. In his wonderful paintings he combines realistic and abstract elements into colourful absurdistic images, full of vibrancy and life. Besides making paintings,Vanderveken also works as a graphic designer, curator, illustrator and performance artist. In July he begins an artist’s residency in Leipzig, Germany.

Upcoming exhibitions: Summer in the city III – 24 June-2 September, Cypres Galerie, Leuven Ladies and Gentlemen, we are floating in space – 28 June-1 July, kc nOna, Mechelen

www.samvanderveken.tk Artist selected, liked and approved by Ladda & Topo Copy.

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Music Reviews

New releases worth your while

By Carly Blair

Peaking Lights Lucifer

Liars WIXIW

This husband-and-wife duo caused quite a stir with the exciting mix of dreamy pop and bass-heavy dub grooves on their breakout second album, 936.

Following the tumult of a new baby, a new label and moving cross-country, they recorded (and self-produced) their new album, Lucifer. While ‘Lucifer’ most immediately evokes Satan, I feel certain the only fire and brimstone that went into the making of this record did so in the form of matches, since its hazy soundscapes and mellow vibes lend themselves quite nicely to stoned head bobbing.

While their elevated profile has allowed for cleaner production this time around, fans of their old work shouldn’t be disappointed: Lucifer follows a carbon fibre-brushed version of the 936 groove to heavenly effect.

This LA-based trio is characterised by dramatic stylistic shifts between albums and relocating for inspiration. On their latest album, they’ve changed things up once again, this time taking a more collaborative approach than in the past, and an almost entirely computer-based one at that. While the process of making the album was apparently one of the greatest challenges the band has faced, this struggle doesn’t manifest itself in the music in the way you might expect: rather than confrontationally aggressive or experimental as with much of their previous work, here Liars sound full of uncertainty, almost vulnerable.

It’s a change that suits them.

WIXIW is remarkably subtle, a dark mystery that reveals itself to be ever vaster and more labyrinthine with each successive listen.

(Mexican Summer / Weird World)

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Music Reviews

MV & EE Space Homestead

CFCF Exercises EP

Musical partners and multiinstrumentalists Matt Valentine and Erika Elder have apparently cranked out no less than 33 albums over the past decade, some as a duo, some with larger ensembles. Seeing as they hail from Vermont and trade in a noodly, psychedelic sort of folk, I envision them as a pair with a penchant for pot and back-porch jam sessions.

The unassuming, meandering folk on offer here isn’t for everyone. Whether or not this album will appeal to you seems to me to be a question of whether or not you subscribe to the attitude that ‘life is a journey, not a destination’ in sonic form: Space Homestead is pretty unconcerned with where it ends up, but the journey towards that ‘wherever’ is certainly free of unpleasantness, and at times quite beautiful.

CFCF is the alias of Montrealbased electronic musician/producer Michael Silver. His latest EP represents a departure from his more dance-oriented earlier work. Inspired by Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and neoclassical classic Philip Glass, Exercises is a series of synth- and piano-based meditations. All of the tracks are instrumental, save for ‘Exercise 5 (September)’, a reinterpretation of a David Sylvian song (arranged by Sakamoto), which in a way reminds me of James Blake’s recent forays into minimalist pop. Although this EP is as subdued and unassuming as the modest title might suggest, it’s never boring and pretty uniformly beautiful.

(Woodsist)

(Paper Bag / Dummy)

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Laurel Halo Quarantine

Led Er Est The Diver

Brooklyn-based Ina Cube was trained in classical piano, worked as a freeform collegeradio DJ, tellingly dated Daniel Lopatin and has released experimental electronic music as Laurel Halo for the past couple of years. On her full-length debut, she sets aside the dark dance beats of her 2011 Hour Logic EP in favour of more abstract, ambient exploration. Her mostly spoken, affected vocals are brought to the foreground for the first time, and to be honest I think they can be grating at times. Fortunately, the space around them is filled with otherworldly atmosphere and fleeting hints at melody that make me think of listening to the radio with the dial just slightly off the correct frequency, in a good way.

Every time we listen to this album here at the office, someone asks, ‘What band is this?’ – initially as an honest inquiry; later as a running gag. But these guys ain’t no joke. The bottom line is, The Diver really stands out from the plethora of new music that’s been blasting through our speakers lately. With pulsating rhythms, noisy guitar riffs and wavy synths, this Brooklyn-based trio might not start a sonic revolution, but their songs and sounds are all thoroughly entertaining. It’s the kind of stuff you want to hear live in a crammed underground venue, swaying your hips while drops of sweat drip from your forehead on to the broken-glasscovered floor.

(Hyperdub)

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Horoscope CANCER

22 June–22 July

You look at her from the doorstep while she is fast asleep.

You gaze your gaze with a detached sweetness. There are silences especially made for us. Your phone rings.

Oh why did you choose that ‘La Cucaracha’ ringtone?

LEO

23 July–22 Aug

Pacing up and down your bedroom you find that the best thing about living alone is that the house seems bigger. Sure, but that armchair means nothing if there’s nobody to sit down in it with her pretty lips pursed.

VIRGO

23 Aug–22 Sept

In the yard you are surrounded by plants, colourful flower beds and climbing vines that tickle your nose. Inside there are overdue bills, TV static, and what’s that weird smell? You wish there could be rhododendrons with housekeeping qualities.

LIBRA

23 Sept–22 Oct

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a broken heart, probably a Pisces, sobs in a corner next to the discount long-sleeve sweaters.

SCORPIO

23 Oct–21 Nov

When she says: ‘I’m tired, there’s an avocado wrap in the fridge’, you register her words, but can’t help but feel rejected, even though you know that an avocado wrap is really a miracle within a miracle.

SAGITTARIUS

22 Nov–21 Dec

You are so drunk you start to see double. This person standing in your hallway looks a lot like the twins from The Shining. You perceive a third person. Wait, is that an axe? You fall to the floor. A part of your brain dies.

CAPRICORN

22 Dec–20 Jan

Unhealthy relationships tend to test the depths of your strength and make you stronger. So in that sense, be glad you’re in one!

The summer will burn a hole in your sorrow.

AQUARIUS

21 Jan-19 Feb

You wish you could forget last night when you danced to Sisqo wearing nothing but a tanktop

Illustrations by Kathrin Klingner

made into a thong. You even ended up with the DJ who kept whistling the tune of ‘La Cucaracha’ while groping your buns. Luckily the peep in your ear drowns out that infectious melody.

Horoscope

GEMINI 22 May–21 June

PISCES

20 Feb–20 March

You crave tea and oranges but it’s just not the season nor the time. Wait some more and you will touch a perfect body with your mind real soon.

ARIES

21 March­–20 April

Could this month be trashed like an email that went to your spam folder? Well, if you compare it with a shriveled penis in dire need of some enlarging, by all means delete that nuisance. Then again: why not try pumping up that pickle?

TAURUS

21 April–21 May

Look at this picture taken of you both on an all-inclusive holiday somewhere in the Mediterranean. There’s a scrap of sea, a dog running out of the frame and your names written in the sand. Pretty soon the waves will come.

Snooping around in your roommate’s closet you find a beanie.

You stand in front of the mirror holding it in your hands, looking at it, soaking up its essence.

You put it on. ‘Hi, I’m Fred, I’m a whole new person with a whole new life ahead of me, will you join me? We could be happy together.’ You immediately pull it off, it frightens you, you want to be free and unattached, or at least you like to play hard to get. Then you catch a glimpse of a black bandana with luscious-looking strawberries on it. Oh, how you would like to be smothered by that thing. ‘Hi, I’m Samantha.’

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Bleached

04 June - DOK (Ladda), Ghent (with Those Foreign Kids) 20.00 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members 07 June - Kavka, Antwerp 20.00 | €5 | Free For Subbacultcha! members

Bleached’s Jennifer and Jessica Clavin cut their teeth in LA’s Mika Miko, a fixture of the scene revolving around legendary venue The Smell (along with No Age, Abe Vigoda and many others), and with their new band Bleached they make messy and melodic punk à la the Ramones and Blondie. Support in DOK comes from Holland’s bright new noise hopes Those Foreign Kids, who grind up ferocious sonic barrages that we think you’ll love.

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R Stevie Moore + Moon Duo + Mikal Cronin

13 June - Trix, Antwerp 19.30 | â‚Ź13 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

R Stevie Moore is something of a DIY legend, producing 400+ lo-fi records, tapes and whatever else since the late ‘60s. Coming from another generation you may never have heard his cuts, but trust us, his uncompromising productions have inspired entire scenes. Support from the primeval psych jams of Moon Duo (Ripley Johnson of Wooden Shjips and Sanae Yamada) and garage rocker (and Ty Segall collaborator) Mikal Cronin.

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Thee Oh Sees

20 June - De Kreun, Kortrijk 20.00 | €12 | Free for Subbacultcha! members Thee ever-untrippable Oh Sees are back! Though were they ever gone?

Few of their peers are as prolific as these savage San Franciscan art punks, who seem to be perpetually making new records. Primal, energetic bursts of noise are what they’re renowned for, whipping themselves and everyone around them into a full-on frenzy, but don’t underestimate the power of their ramshackle pop.

Sand Circles + Quiltland + Pacific Games 24 June - La Compilotheque, Brussels 20.00 | €5 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Stockholm-based Sand Circles is signed to the prolific Not Not Fun label. His latest release Motor City CS is a fine collection of ambient drones and soundscapes, made up of primitive drum machinery and deep synth chords. His music is both compelling and surprisingly groovy. Also hailing from Stockholm is Quiltland, the musical alter ego of Frida-Li who plays ambient pop music that calls to mind the likes of Julia Holter and Julianna Barwick. Pacific Games’ deals in quiet beauty: birds, lazy flutes, acoustic guitar, wind and weird sounds. Dreams come true... truths becomes dream.

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OFF! + TRASH TALK 12 JUN MIKAL CRONIN + MOZES AND THE FIRSTBORN 14 JUN MOON DUO 30 JUN CEREBRAL BALLZY 08 JUL DISAPPEARS 07 JUN

kijk voor ons volledige programma op www.effenaar.nl

Agenda

Shows in June

Lairs play on 09 June in AB in Brussels

Tu Fawning 02 June - Botanique, Brussels Portland’s Tu Fawning, a four-piece featuring Joe Haege (31Knots, now also of Menomena) and Corrina Repp, makes a sort of tribal freak folk that’s totally distinct from their main projects and will likely appeal to fans of Yeasayer’s early work.

De:tuned (incl. Cj Bolland) 02 June - Petrol, Antwerp Techno shows that it’s alive and well at this gathering of past, present and future beat programmers and rave acts. Some of the guests include Ben Sims (Hardgroove, UK), Dave Angel (R&S, Rotation, UK), Mike Dred (R&S, Rephlex, UK), CJ Bolland and Mark Archer (ex-ALTERN-8, UK).

Shit and Shine 02 June - Magasin 4, Brussels There’s noise rock and there’s FUCKING NOISE rock. On the go since 2004, this screaming baby of Craig Clouse (also of riff-heavy monsters Todd) continues to crush ears on tape and live. Particularly live.

If you felt Sunn o))) were a tonal attack on your guts, the multi-drummer percussive fury and all-surrounding guitar static of Shit and Shine is an assault to every nerve in your body. Thrilling if somewhat dangerous.

Gonjasufi 03 June - Cactus Club, Bruges San Diego’s Sumach Ecks, aka Gonjasufi, is a former drug addict-cum-yoga teacher and a staple of the San Diego hip hop scene since the early ’90s. The patchwork of genres he pieces together – ranging from hip hop to funk, folk and vintage psychedelia – make a dazzling backdrop for Ecks’ croaky-voiced and compelling protagonist.

Bleached 04 June - DOK, Ghent 07 June - Kavka, Antwerp Californian girls Jennifer and Jessica Clavin cut their teeth in LA’s Mika Miko, a fixture of the scene revolving around legendary venue The Smell. With their new band Bleached, they make messy and melodic punk à la the Ramones and Blondie. Read more on page 50.

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Agenda

Shows in June

The Oh Sees play on 20 June in De Kreun in Kortrijk and on 21 June in VK in Brussels. The show in De Kreun is free for Subbacutcha members.

Com Truise 06 June - DOK, Ghent With a spoonerism of Tom Cruise for a stage name, track titles like ‘VHS Sex’ and ‘Futureworld’ plus ’80s-inspired album art, it should come as no surprise that New Jersey’s Seth Haley is a chillwaver by trade.

Though his music is as nostalgia-inducing and waterlogged as one might expect, his self-dubbed ‘mid-fi synth-wave, slow-motion funk’ is varied, well-executed and demented enough to stand out from the hypnagogic hordes.

Zombie Zombie 08 June - Beursschouwburg, Brussels This French electronic duo (Etienne Jaumet and Cosmic Neman) love to go vintage. Not just in terms of the classic synths they’ve been collecting over the past decade but also in regards to their material, producing an uneasy mixture of krautrock, sci-fi and horror-movie soundtracks. Their most impressive international breakthrough so far came from an EP of John Carpenterinspired covers, such as the themes from Halloween and The Thing, but they’re way

better than simply a more terrifying Nouvelle Vague.

Harvey Milk 09 June - DOK, Ghent Named after the famously gay, assassinated politician, this experimental noise rock band from Athens, Georgia is known for slow, heavy Melvins-esque riffs as well as for riffs of the humorous sort: they once played the REM album Reckoning in its entirety while fellow Athens resident Michael Stipe was in attendance.

Chromatics 09 June - Filmfestival, Brussels If you caught the movie Drive last year, you’ll already have a solid idea of the stylised electronic indie this icy Portland outfit generate. Strip away the aloof vocals of Ruth Radelet and you have a minimal club sound that’s built for lounging (or posing), but throw all the elements together and the works become mesmeric. Set to build on their new-found international success, thankfully new album Kill For Love doesn’t Page 57

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disappoint, balancing cool coyness with shimmering bursts of pure pop.

Mikal Cronin 09 June - Zaal Zwerver, Leffinge 13 June - Trix, Antwerp If you were to hear San Francisco’s Mikal Cronin for the first time, you’d probably think to yourself, ‘Gosh, this guy’s so young and precocious and psychedelic, I bet he’s totally BFFs with Ty Segall!’ And you know what? You’d be right. Except that Cronin’s take on neo-psych is a bit more wistful and poppy, the sweet jam to Segall’s crunchy and perpetually top-billed peanut butter.

Liars 09 June - AB, Brussels This LA trio is characterised by dramatic stylistic shifts between albums, relocating for inspiration, and stubbornly refusing to give demanding fans what they want. They use vicious guitars and experimental soundscapes, and alternately snarling and ominous vocals to create an unsettling, oppressive sense of doom. Their upcoming album WIXIW is their subtlest yet, more cohesive than 2010’s Sisterworld and more delicately creepy than 2006’s masterpiece Drum’s Not Dead.

Austra 10 June - VK, Brussels Austra combine the theatricality of Kate Bush with the dark atmosphere of The Knife in a way that’s irresistibly danceable and totally spellbinding. Since last summer these girls have struck it big, balancing great festival slots with low-key indie shows and arena support gigs with Arcade Fire.

Back in their native Canada, their debut album Feel It Break is already an indie crossover monster – a feat they seem destined to repeat in Europe.

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A$AP Rocky + Star Slinger 11 June - AB, Brussels A$AP Rocky, born Rakim Mayers, is living a specific version of the American dream: his rough childhood in Harlem, NYC inspired him to become a rapper at age eight, and now at just 23 this underground hip hop darling’s swag stylings and sick production team have him on the verge of hitting the big time. The complementary aesthetic of UK hip hop producer Star Slinger should get the party started right.

Cold Specks 12 June - Huis 123, Brussels This young Canadian is signed to Arts & Crafts, yet she isn’t quite the typical indie pop grandeur the label is most renowned for. Instead she labels her sound ‘doom soul’, blending slow acoustic blues with a towering voice that seemingly tears through the universe from another time and place, spreading her messages with an epicness that recalls Bill Callahan and Tom Waits.

R Stevie Moore + Moon Duo + Mikal Cronin 13 June - Trix, Antwerp Moore’s fiercely independent DIY approach has influenced generations of DIY artists, ranging from Guided by Voices to Ariel Pink and John Maus. Read more on page 51.

Lou Reed 14 June - AB, Brussels 15 June - AB, Brussels This legendary guitarist/vocalist of the Velvet Underground hardly needs an introduction. His recent work with the Metal Machine Trio and 2011 collaboration with Metallica, entitled Lulu, indicates that he’s not ready to lounge in cashmere sweaters and live off his royalties just yet.

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Shows in June

Sunn 0))) + Aluk Todolo 15 June - Scheld’apen, Antwerp I used to have a boyfriend who was into this here American doom metal/drone/noise band, and this experience taught me two things: 1) this is metal for stoners, not aggro douchebags, 2) there are actually some pretty hot metal heads out there. Need I list other reasons to attend?

dÉbruit 15 June - Magasin 4, Brussels Parisian dance floor controller dÉbruit is a weird one, but in a delightfully exotic way.

Wonky grooves, glitched rhythms and cool dance sounds line him up alongside Daedelus, Flying Lotus and Modeselektor. Yet the quirkiest tricks in his armoury see those crucial Western elements mixed up with African melodies and Middle Eastern twists.

Klankson II 16 June - Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels The latest edition of Klankson, featuring a dazzling array of sound installations, listening booths and bizarre explorations of unknown sonic universes.

Light Asylum 19 June - Charlatan (Democrazy), Ghent Come witness the powerful voice of Shannon Funchess and the sharp electronics of Bruno Coviello. This New York-based duo is coming over to Ghent to smash the dance floor to pieces with their elegant-but-rough mix of Italo disco and synth pop.

Thee Oh Sees 20 June - De Kreun, Kortrijk 21 June - VK, Brussels Thee ever-untrippable Oh Sees are back!

Few of their peers are as prolific as these

savage San Franciscan art punks, who seem to be perpetually making new records. Read more on page 53.

Sun Araw Band 23 June - Netwerk, Aalst SoCal seeker Cameron Stallones is a founder of the experimental psychedelic rock collective Magic Lantern, but his work as Sun Araw goes beyond the galaxy of psychedelia to a cosmos whose planets drip with a primordial ooze of dub, desert rock, raga, Afrobeat and free jazz.

Naast De Kwestie ft. Miaux + Maan + Dream Beverly Hills 23 June - B50, Ghent A celebration of underground Belgian sounds, from loud to quiet, electronic to rock. As well as a diverse range of experimentalists, there’ll be pancakes, top beers, film screenings and a mini music fair.

Sand Circles + Quiltland + Pacific Games 24 June - La Compilotheque, Brussels Sand Circles’ latest release is a fine collection of ambient drones and soundscapes, made up of primitive drum machinery and deep synth chords. Read more on page 53.

Xiu Xiu Larsen + Modern Witch 26 June - Les Atelier Claus, Brussels Jamie Stewart’s Xiu Xiu recently passed through this way, touring his latest album Always. Now he’s back in the recurring guise of Xiu Xiu Larsen (aka, XXL), a collaboration with Italian experimental outfit Larsen, which sees them forming an altogether more progressive sound, gleefully deriving complex structures out of lengthy acoustic jam sessions. Support from art/ music collective Modern Witch.

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To win, sign up to our mailing list on www.subbacultcha.be 2X2 TICKETS SHIT AND SHINE

2X2 TICKETS COM TRUISE

2X2 TICKETS A$AP ROCKY

02 June Magasin 4, Brussels

06 June DOK, Ghent

11 June Ancienne Belgique, Brussels

2X2 TICKETS SUNN O)))

2X2 TICKETS LIGHT ASYLUM

2X2 TICKETS XIU XIU LARSEN + MODERN WITCH

15 June Scheld’apen, Antwerp

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26 June Les Atelier Claus, Brussels

We’re also giving away free tickets to De:tuned, Harvey Milk, Mikal Cronin, dÉbruit, Klankson II, as well as 3 Peaking Lights albums.

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Overview of all Subbacultcha shows in June/July

04 June

24 June

Bleached + Those Foreign Kids

Sand Circles + Quiltland + Pacific Games

DOK (Ladda), Ghent 20.00 | €7 | Free for members

La Compilotheque, Brussels 20.00 | €5 | Free for members

07 June

20 July

Bleached

Nite Jewel

Kavka, Antwerp 20.00 | €5 | Free for members

Charlatan, Ghent 20.00 | Tba | Free for members

13 June

31 July

R Stevie Moore + Moon Duo + Mikal Cronin

Expo: De Esthetiek Van De Fotoautomaat

20 June

13 August

Trix, Antwerp 19.30 | €13 | Free for members

Botanique, Brussels €6,50 | Free for members

Future Islands + Fair Ohs

Thee Oh Sees

De Kreun, Kortrijk 20.00 | €12 | Free for members

DOKArena, Ghent 19.30 | €9 | Free for members

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tentoonstelling

achter het scherm. de esthetiek van de fotoautomaat 13.06 – 19.08.12

tot cindy sherman, van de surrealisten met een zijsprong naar andy Warhol.

Koningsstraat 236 • 1210 Brussel 02.218.37.32—www.BotAniqUE.BE Een tentoonstelling van Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne

Editeur Responsable | Verantwoordelijke Uitgever: A. Valentini, Rue Royale | Koningsstraat 236 _ 1210 Bruxelles | Brussel • Dick Jewell, Found Photos © Courtesy Rachmaninoff’s

Genk - Limburg - Belgium The Deep of the Modern

June 2 – September 30, 2012

The European Biennial of Contemporary Art · De Europese Biënnale voor Hedendaagse Kunst La Biennale Européenne d’Art Contemporain · Die Europäische Biennale für Zeitgenössische Kunst

www.manifesta9.org Initiators:

Supported by:

Maarten Vanden Eynde, Plastic Reef (detail), 2008–2012, copyright en foto: Maarten Vanden Eynde, supported by Mondriaan Fonds, Manifesta9, Vlaamse Gemeenschap