Unruly Music Magazine April 2013
The Loud Issue
NĂœ Sensae, Dawn Hunger, Jay Reatard
THE CONVERSE ALL STAR WELL WORN COLLECTION
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When we asked Patten the question ‘What’s the loudest thing you’ve ever heard?, he joined hands with graphic artist Jane Eastlight to come up with this wonderful collage for an answer. Pretty loud eh? Patten is not the only artist we asked this question by the way; we shot out a bunch of emails to artists playing Subbacultcha! this month and yielded some pretty nice answers, all printed on the bottom of these pages. Start here. ’My neighbours upstairs, waking up every morning at 7am, stomping back and
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There has been a lot af haze recently. Lots of gloomy skies, lurking greyness and wavering winter woes. Abstract musical sadness and teenage anthems soaked in synth-drenched melancholy. Sounds evoked by the softer side of man. You know... soul. We understood each other and felt for each other. We told each other simple (and not-so-simple) truths. We lived gently and quietly played along the uncertain beat of time. But, everything must come to an end, my friend, and this is it. Loud is the new quiet. Hard is the new soft and You are the new You. ‘Cause there’s an animal inside that body and it sure as hell is time to let it go. Now that’s soul! Page 6
forth throughout the apartment for about 45 minutes getting ready for work.
This Months recommendations
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Who we are and what we do
Subbacultcha! magazine is made at our office in Amsterdam Da Costakade 150, 1053 XC Amsterdam, the Netherlands www.subbacultcha.nl. magazine@subbacultcha.nl We are Guest editor: Brenda Bosma Editors: Leon Caren and Bas Morsch Editorial assistant: Megan Roberts Design: Bas Morsch and Marina Henao Interns: Denise Lopes, Floor Kortman, Milou Hautus, Eva Verboon Online editor: Phil van der Krogt Good Girl: Loes Verputten Good Guys: Keimpe Koldijk, Michiel Klein Printing: Drukkerij Gewa, Arendonk, Belgium Contributors: Carly Blair, Basje Boer, Koen van Bommel, Brenda Bosma, Leon Caren, Zofia Ciechowska, Daniel Evans and Brendan Baker, Gerlin Heestermans, Marc van der Holst, Kathrin Klingner, Bas Morsch, Lonneke van der Palen, Carlijn Potma, Mandy Sharabani, Mirte Slaats, Gert Verbeek, Isolde Woudstra and David Zilber Distribution: Amsterdam: Tessel Dekker, Sandrine Mary, Fedor Oduber, Stefan Stasko, Patrick van der Klugt, Dineke Tuinhof, Agata Bar, Charlotte van Brakel, Katharina Olson, Denis Wouters Utrecht: Freyja van den Boom, Jitske de Vries Groningen: Hedwig Plomp, Marinke Kerkhoff Den Haag: Dineke Cornelissen Rotterdam: Nahry Dougarem, Lukas Dikker, Ilse van der Spoel Leeuwarden: Jan Pier Brands Leiden: Milou Laan Haarlem: Yannick Tinbergen, Bert Zaremba Nijmegen Karin van de Kamp Tilburg/Eindhoven: Kevin Jansen Deventer: Marjolein de Vliegher Delft: Daniel Enciso Breda: Vera Siemons Alkmaar: Tom Verkerk Den Bosch: Bas Heijmans Pick up Subbacultcha! magazine here (among 500 other places): Amsterdam: Kriterion, EYE, Canvas, American Apparel, Episode, CREA, De Balie, Melkweg, Paradiso, OT301, De Nieuwe Anita, Restored, Zipper, Concerto Utrecht: Ekko, ‘t Hoogt, Tivoli, The Village, Revenge, Plato, dB’s, Cafe het Hart Rotterdam: Worm, TENT, Rotown, Lantaren Venster, De Witte Aap, Willem de Kooning Academie. And: De Effenaar - Eindhoven, Het Paard - Den Haag, Patronaat - Haarlem, Extrapool - Nijmegen, Vera - Groningen Advertising To advertise in Subbacultcha! magazine send an email to magazine@subbacultcha.nl. Memberships Become a member of Subbacultcha!. For only €7 a month you get free access to all Subbacultcha! shows and the monthly magazine sent to your house. Plus, you get a fresh Subbacultcha! bag. Check the website to sign up. Cover: Photo by Lonneke van der Palen Page 8
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Concert: Dan Deacon at EKKO
Backed by two drummers and his trademark dance-inducing performance, Mr Dan Deacon turned EKKO into a raving dance party. Don’t miss his Subbacultcha! show in Trouw on 30 May.
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This month’s recommendations
New Music
RL Kelly
rlkelly.bandcamp.com
So I was in one of those selfishly miserable moods when I came across Kelly (real name Rachel Levy)’s aptly named EP, Life’s a Bummer, and duly hit play to further wallow in my self-imposed duvet-day misery. It only took a few moments to realise that Levy’s subdued crooning voice and melancholic lo-fi strums were really super fucking good and this was not one of those Bandcamp pages you wanna close after, like, five seconds. If you need a comparison, think melancholy Kimya Dawson minus the cuteness. Sometimes life’s a bummer but it’s all good, baby.
Brassica
www.musicofbrassica.com Considering that you’re probably already into kale, I see no reason why you wouldn’t try the fantastic Brassica, originally grown in London. Michael Anthony Wright, the man behind this funny musical vegetable name, produces electronic sounds that he likes to call ‘metamusic’. His songs are strong and defined, like the throbbing sweaty muscle of a Hells Angel headed for the moon on some spiralling intergalactic highway from the 1970s. Strange metaphwoar aside, Brassica is good and fun to listen to, so listen to him. some gain and some mids and highs when they put their boots on. Or imagine
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Last Night in Paris
www.soundcloud.com/lastnightinparis
Last Night in Paris is a cloud rap-slash-art collective of young London creatives who like to make music that can be loosely defined as R&B with a bit of rap and funk mixed in along the way. Think along the lines of an Instagram of a pile of Big Macs on a silver platter in a jacuzzi on a private jet washed down with champagne. LNIP make some decadently hip visuals to accompany their sounds too. Comparisons to another cloud rap collective that is on everyone’s lips will be avoided, because these dudes just ain’t it. Catch their free mixtape, Roses, on their Soundcloud and make up your own mind.
Metasplice
www.soundcloud.com/metasplice As well as being the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the birthplace of James Stewart and the Mushroom Capital of the World, Philadelphia is also home to the amazing noise/techno duo Metasplice. Philadelphia, what the hell is wrong with you!?! How in God’s name did you spawn this incredible monster of bass, glitch and white noise?! And why is it so danceable?! Be afraid, be very afraid. File under: Morphine (the label), morphine (the drug), industrial, techno, noise, kling, klang. Page 14
a herd of rhinoceros stomping all over your dreams in the middle of your sleep.’
New Music
V.Hold
www.furtherrecords.org I suspect V. Hold are a side project of one of the members of Metasplice and, unsurprisingly, operate in similar territory. So yes; more of the same, but a bit more abstract. Warm, fuzzy noise-flecked sketches rather than Metasplice’s straight-up bangers. Oh, and I said ‘I suspect’ at the start because there’s almost no information about them out there on the world wide web, just one incredible album on the Further Records Bandcamp. More mysterious noise techno from the Mushroom Capital of the World? What’s not to like?
Dalhous
www.blackesteverblack.com
The wonderful Edinburgh duo Dalhous, protégés of the elusive Blackest Ever Black, are destined for great things. Marc Dall and Alex Ander treat their tracks like questions, or explorations into the mysterious possibilities of re-sampling sound beyond recognition. The result resonates in your ears as you try to dissect the pair’s carefully intertwined layers of harmonies and synths. Catch their new release, An Ambassador for Laing, in April, available for preorder online. Fucking ace! (The Luyas) // ‘The Mantenga waterfall in Swaziland. That’ll make you have to
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We Saw You
Spotted at Subbacultcha!
Photo by Mirte Slaats
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pee really bad!’ (Sheniqua World Tour) // ‘Mogwai; annoying.’ (Autre Ne Veut)
What’s the loudest thing you’ve ever heard? ‘The loudest sound I’ve heard was the 20-minute noise piece at the end of a My Bloody Valentine show in the Effenaar. I was wearing earplugs, but the sound literally blowing through my trousers made me experience the loudness in an intense way.’
Luc Mastenbroek spotted at the Colin Stetson show on 08 March at Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ in Amsterdam
// ‘The loudest sound is that one inside, and it usually makes me feel terrible
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Features
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Dawn Hunger
Just like bandmate Ben Power recorded an album under the moniker Blanck Mass, Fuck Buttons’ Andrew Hung used the band’s downtime to start his own side project. With Dawn Hunger he leaves the epic drones behind and produces warped and somewhat funky electro-pop, which he doesn't play live himself. Instead, he invited vocalist Claire Inglis and multi-instrumentalist Matthew de Pulford to perform the songs onstage. We caught up with Andrew, Claire and Matthew for a quick chat about loudness and the intensity of live shows ‘Loudness is a tool really’ Andrew Hung interview by Brenda Bosma Claire Inglis and Matthew de Pulford interview by Gerlin Heestermans Photos shot by Daniel Evans and Brendan Baker in London Page 18
though sometimes – just sometimes – it makes me feel really, really great, but
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Claire Inglis and Matthew de Pulford Fuck Buttons is known to be loud, VERY LOUD. Will Dawn Hunger be just as loud? M: ‘I don’t think volume is the objective of the music really; intensity is. We want to produce a very strong effect. And it is quite loud, but that’s not the aim of it.’ Can you tell us a bit about the collaboration with Andrew? How free are you in your interpretations of his work? C: ‘Oh, it’s hell! Kidding. It’s very organic and freeform. Being a vocalist it’s a natural progress to add nuances and improvise. It’s all part of the live process.’
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Andrew Hung With Fuck Buttons you’re known to have created your own sonic universe; it's very loud and intense. What’s the attraction of loud music for you? ‘Loudness is a tool really. It’s something that allows one to be immersed in the music a whole lot more. It creates a space and therefore also a distance; it permits you to create big things. The kind of music that we as Fuck Buttons are interested in lets us feel a certain way. I compare it with swimming in a vast ocean or flying through the air. These are the sorts of images that Fuck Buttons conjures for me. That’s what we enjoy. Loudness contributes to that.’
What about quiet music? ‘I like to listen to a lot of minimal music. It’s personal music, close How does a rehearsal compare to a to you. With Fuck Buttons it’s pretlive show? ty much the opposite. We try to C: ‘A rehearsal looks like Matt and make grand gestures. Dawn Hunger I in a front room. If we’re rehearsing is much more insular, I would say. I new material, then it’s handy to have wanted to do something very differAndy around (we all bounce ideas off ent than Fuck Buttons. I wanted to one another). Live, I lose myself in the go somewhere else. Dawn Hunger music and the performance, so I have doesn’t make me feel spaced, actuno idea what it looks like to the audi- ally it makes me feel claustrophobic, ence. But I can imagine it being pretty which is something I also appreciate disorientating!’ in music.’ even so I spend most of my time trying to turn it off.’ (Sun Araw) // ‘The loudest
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What’s the loudest gig either of you have ever experienced? M: ‘I remember years ago being really sick at Glastonbury, watching David Bowie. It’s not like the whole sound was really loud but I was standing there and this guy behind me was taking a piss at the same time. Already a slightly unpleasant situation. [Laughs] There was something about the sound of the keyboard that was making me want to puke. That was penetrating and horrible. I think that’s what you get with electronic equipment. It can send out a certain frequency which is painful. In that context... Years ago I put on a show for Fuck Buttons in Canterbury in this working man’s club. That was before anyone really knew of them, but I loved what they were doing and they’re my friends. The music they were making at the time was a lot more extreme. Pure drone stuff, contact mics on, metal coils, throwing washing machine drums at the floor. I remember watching these two elderly ladies in their eighties looking at each other during the show and then they walked up right in front of them with these angry faces, gave them a look and just walked right out of the door. [Laughs] It was a nice situation set up.’ Page 22
Why did you feel the need to write and compose it for others instead of playing it yourself ? ‘The music was written for Claire really, for her voice. We got together a few years ago. She wanted to sing in a band and I happened to be making music. I love female vocals and I am a terrible vocalist myself, so it was a practical thing to get together. I’m not really interested in performing this music because it was written for someone else to perform. Things are also constantly in flux. The two of them have been playing for half a year now. I’ve been working with them for over two years. The process works really well. It’s like a conversation where they are interpreting the music and I am writing it. I love that dynamic. It’s not something that I’m used to do, but it works.’ How about their live shows? ‘They’re incredible live. Claire goes nuts onstage. She is amazing, a total frontwoman. I catch myself laughing and smiling when I see them play. I love it. She totally owns that stage, it’s very intense.’ Dawn Hunger play on 27 April at Trouw in Amsterdam and on 28 April at 013 in Tilburg. Both shows are free for Subbacultcha! members.
sound I ever heard came from a band I played a show with in college. The
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‘There was something about the sound of the keyboard that was making me want to puke. That was penetrating and horrible’
show was hosted by some girl at her parents’ house while they were there,
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Nü Sensae
Vancouver-based Nü Sensae like nothing more than causing a stir – be it by screaming straight into your ear at one of their mental gigs or having a few dogs casually lick peanut butter and jelly off their faces. Andrea Lukic, one third of Nü Sensae, talks about how she, Brody and Daniel are actually embracing silence for a change Interview by Zofia Ciechowska Photos shot by David Zilber in Vancouver
What are you hoping to experience on your upcoming tour? ‘So far, this tour is kind of stressful. Our van broke down on us in Washington on our second day. Luckily we didn’t die, but we had to cancel our San Francisco show and gun it to LA in just under 24 hours. It felt helpless but whatever; we’re still here. I hope that our Europ-ean tour can be somewhat less stressful, and at the end of the trek there’s a cheese plate and some wine. Like, a Page 24
lot of wine. I am really, really looking forward to it. How did you all meet? ‘Daniel and I went to high school together. We met Brody when we first started playing music together; he rented a jam space next to ours in another warehouse. I started jamming with Brody separately and did so till we finally asked him to join Nü Sensae. We tease each other A LOT, but we’re not cruel. We love each oth-
so everyone played in a small room in the basement, which probably couldn’t
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er very much. They tease me a lot because I speak before I think a lot, especially when I’m tired.’
you’ve gotta compete with the volume and it’s sort of transcending. I think we can all be quite loud together, but separately we are mellower. It’s easy to Nü Sensae obviously deals well with keep doing something loud because it loudness, but what about quietness? fills space, but I think there’s so much Are there moments when you take a step more space to occupy when things back and just enjoy a little bit of silence? mellow out.’
‘You know, I’m actually really quiet in person a lot of the time. I think quietness is the direction we are moving in creatively – or at least I am, for sure. Brody is a pretty quiet guy, his solo endeavours are quite calming. I can’t speak for the rest of the band but for me, if we are playing really loud the energy surfaces naturally:
Some things just need to sound loud – like cars exploding and mothers in labour. What are some sounds that you definitely think need to be loud? ‘I guess it depends. Things don’t always need to be loud. I would say 95 per cent of my life is pretty quiet. I do visual art first and foremost and feel weird in big groups. The sounds
hold more than ten people. One band brought in a couple of huge amps and
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‘I’m not striving to scream at everybody... it’s just the way that things end up sounding’ I make aren’t intentionally loud; I’m not striving to scream at everybody all the time, it’s just the way that things end up sounding.’
‘It’s a bit of everything. I like to have my comforts, they’re really simple but they are important to me, that’s why it’s essential that I bring good books with me on tour. If I can I saw a toddler have a tantrum today. read in the van it saves me from talkHe cried and sat on the pavement and ing and potentially losing my voice. It refused to stand up when his dad picked also gives me an alter micro-universe him up. He just made his legs go all limp which makes the bustle of travel disso he slumped back to the ground. Some- appear. I’m taking some murder mystimes I wish adults were allowed to pull teries and true crime with me on our that shit too. upcoming tour.’ ‘Ha-ha! I felt like that emotionally all day yesterday. Leaving my nest You know that moment when you lisis getting harder. I definitely let my- ten to music so loud that your eardrums self pull that shit, I let myself go a lot feel like they’re going to explode? What and freak out and cry: the whole nine if they did explode and you could nevyards. I could care less about what er hear anything again – what sounds is socially acceptable about pent- would you miss the most? up emotions. I cry a lot and over re‘I would miss the weird droney, ally dumb stuff that I can easily get out-in-the-distance sounds, weird over, but it’s cathartic that way. May- construction from far away and dockbe because I don’t dance, I cry instead, ing boats. I need to go do some launthat’s how I get it out. It feels health- dry now.’ ier than bottling it up.’ Nü Sensae play on 13 April at OCCII in Am-
You say it’s harder to leave your nest. sterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! Does that refer to your house or Vancou- members. Other live dates: 16/04 - 013, Tilburg; 30/04 - Perron55, Venlo ver or something else? Page 28
played the loudest set I have ever heard. My ears didn’t stop ringing for two
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Jay Reatard
Jay Reatard was an infamous and famously prolific punk wunderkind whose live performances earned him a devoted following before his untimely death at age 29. Had he been alive today, he would have been one of the leading acts within the currently thriving (loud) garage music scene. So to honour his influential legacy, we will be screening the documentary Better Than Something, which weaves together footage of Reatard shot just months before he died; an inspiring portrait of a guy who knew he was doomed but refused to go down without a fight. Better Than Something: Jay Reatard is screening on 12 April at Melkweg Cinema in Amsterdam. Entrance is free for Subbacultcha! members.
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Art
Featured artist
Lonneke van der Palen
On the following pages you’ll find the work of photographer Lonneke van der Palen (1985). Her pristine photographs are selfreferential and stand on their own, with almost mathematical composition and colour. At the same time the images spark imagination about underlying meaning and emotions. They are gateways to a sensitive world of longing, relations and the passing of time. Her work has been published extensively. And – starting this issue – Lonneke will ‘illustrate’ our new book rubric ‘Rock ’n’ Roll Library’ (see page 40). lonnekevanderpalen.com Page 30
days which was also one of the most disconcerting things ever.’ (Octo Octa)
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By Carly Blair
New releases worth your while
Marnie Stern The Chronicles of Marnia
Music Reviews
Lost Animal Ex Tropical (Hardly Art)
(Kill Rock Stars)
The fourth album from guitar goddess Marnie Stern finds her working with a new drummer after losing long-time collaborator Zach Hill to Death Grips. The end result is sparser-sounding and more sharply focused on Stern’s vocals than her previous work. The Chronicles of Narnia books told the tale of children enlisted to protect a magical kingdom from evil. Marnie’s Chronicles catalogue the selfdescribed recluse’s battles with her own set of personal demons: making ends meet, alienation, self-doubt, creative stagnation. On ‘Proof of Life’ she sings, ‘All my life is based on fantasy/ And all the gods, they’ve stopped talking to me’ before entreating said gods to ‘Give me a sign’. To my ears, this album is sign enough that Stern’s ability to inspire remains as divine as ever.
Lost Animal’s Jarrod Quarrell grew up in Papua New Guinea, and the title of his debut album, Ex Tropical, is how he refers to himself now that he’s based in Melbourne. Facial injuries from a teenage fist fight left Quarrell with a permanently pinchedsounding voice that resembles an effeminate counterpart to Dan Boeckner’s macho snarl. His work as Lost Animal is all about juxtapositions: a band name and album title that both evoke the idea of being suspended between comfort and discomfort; primitive acoustic instruments like the marimba played off keyboard presets; stream-of-consciousness lyrics atop careful, multilayered compositions; menacing lyrics delivered with a warmth that keeps you coming back for more. These opposing elements make Ex Tropical an exciting and emotionally versatile listen.
// ‘A thunderclap right above my head. It had so much base to it and it kept
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Bed Rugs Rapids EP
Telekinesis Dormarion
(Waste My Records/Munich Records)
(Merge/Morr Music)
This group of friends from Antwerp started making music together in the mid-2000s and reached the finale of Humo’s Rocky Rally under the name The Porn Bloopers. Like so many scatalogical screw-ups, both their original hard-rock style and their original name thankfully ended up on the cutting-room floor, to be replaced by their more cerebral incarnation as Bed Rugs. The psychtinged indie-pop of their 2012 debut, 8th Cloud, was heavenly enough to earn them stage time at Pukkelpop and an opening slot on Bathazar’s tour through the Netherlands, and they ride the high into 2013 with the even better Rapids. Its colourful cover art and Beach Boy-ish harmonies remind me of bands on the Elephant 6 roster, but a couple of shoegazier jams add breadth to this promising EP.
Michael Benjamin Lerner, otherwise known as Telekinesis, is a power-pop whiz from Seattle who had two self-recorded albums under his belt by the time he was just 24, including 2011’s solid 12 Desperate Straight Lines. Though he also intended to take the DIY route with his third full-length, Dormarion, in the end he got to record it with Spoon drummer and personal hero Jim Eno; the album’s name comes from the street where Eno’s studio is situated in Austin. The music itself explores new turf as well, adding a couple of subtler, synth-driven tracks to Lerner’s travelogue. Telekinesis has always had a paranormal pop power, and Dormarion further develops his ability to telepathically tap your toes and tug your heartstrings with catchy melodies and simple but sweet and sincere lyrics.
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echoing on and on.’ (Andrew Hung - Dawn Hunger) // ‘The bassist for the band
VONDELPARK - Seabed Vondelpark’s debut album Seabed features 10 gloriously smooth tracks that are build with an expert’s patience. Pillowy textures and lush, romantic sounds run through-out the whole album.
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By Gert Verbeek and Basje Boer
New films and DVDs
Film
Spring Breakers
Midnight Son
Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine’s best effort since Julien Donkey-Boy, is a meditation on a society obsessed with both innocence and the ugly triumvirate of sex, money and violence. The story revolves around four random college girls with the annual raunch fest of spring break on their minds. Since fun costs money, they violently rob a diner and spend their hardearned cash money on partying hard in Florida. But there’s more to this place than just teenagers getting drunk. Enter Alien, a would-be gangster whose license plate says ‘BALL R’. The poor acting skills of the larger part of the cast strangely suit the superficiality of the characters they portray: these are fake people trapped in a fake world. This is, Korine suggests, what the American dream is made of. (BB) In theatres 11 April.
The only sunbeams Jacob (Zak Kilberg) is able to see are the ones he paints on canvas in his basement apartment. He saves his skin from burning by keeping himself locked inside during daytime. When it’s dark he works as a night porter. Jacob meets nightclub girl Mary (Maya Parish) and learns the truth about his strange illness. Midnight Son is no sappy Twilight romance; it’s a small independent vampire movie about loneliness and isolation without garlic or other vampire clichés. Like the Swedish movie Let The Right One In (2008), it takes a serious approach to the supernatural, only with a much smaller budget. There are too many close-ups for my taste, but the lo-fi look fits the bleakness of the story. (GV) Out now on DVD (import)
(Harmony Korine, 2013)
(Scott Leberecht, 2011)
who plays next door to us in our practice space. It feels like riding the Graviton
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Books
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Photo by Lonneke van der Palen
if it were in the subway in New York City in August while shot-gunning a warm,
By Marc van der Holst
Rock ’n’ Roll Library
Books
Rock ’n’ Roll Library No 1
Stoner
by John Williams
Hey kids, we’re gonna build a rock ’n’ roll library! Empty your shelves, ’cuz we’re gonna start from scratch here. By the end of the year you’ll have a nice lil’ collection of cool books that’ll impress your friends and in general just make you a better and cooler person. Let’s do this! Our first addition will be a book that has been topping the Dutch best-seller lists recently, Stoner by John Williams. Don’t buy (it’s pretty expensive) or steal that one, though: it looks totally gay (apparently, putting a stock photo of some deeply serious lookin’ old dude on a cover and splashing the title and the author’s name across his weary face makes for book cover design in Holland these days)... The original text was first published in 1965, after which it went out of print for decades, until thankfully someone, somewhere, paid notice and got New York Review Books Classics to reissue it in 2006. And classic it is. ‘A perfect novel’, one of the most boring life stories, most beautifully ever put to paper. About a
pretty smart, sweet but boring guy who manages to do absolutely nothing interesting with his life but be a boring English teacher at a boring Midwestern university, marry a boring wife who doesn’t love him, then later on fall in love with a girl who does love him, is happy for a while and then goes back to his boring life and dies. Eh, that doesn’t sound very rock ’n’ roll AT ALL, I know. But it is one helluva heartbreaking, bitter-sweet story, ‘so well told and beautifully written, so deeply moving that it takes your breath away’. So just think of it as a Life and How not To Live It. And hey, it’s called Stoner! Rock on. (Quotes from Morris Dickstein, NYT Book Review, 2007)
flat PBR tall boy.’ (Teen) // ‘One of the loudest but most pleasant sounds that
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Fashion
€15 outfit
By Mandy Sharabani
Every month we give €15 to someone to compose a complete outfit for a good night out. Yes, quite a challenge. Singer Molly Hamilton of Brooklyn dream-pop darlings Widowspeak actually wanted to start a creepy Disney soundtrack folk group. So we asked 24-year-old fashion stylist and illustrator Yun Sudrajat, to get inspired by a creepy Disney character. I’m getting a sense you were going for a Cruella de Vil vibe here. ‘Yes, I was! I love her, ever since I was a child she has been my favourite character. Such a fashion icon with her fur coat and always calling everybody “Darling”.’
owspeak, who have a Seventies feel and a gloomy, dark atmosphere. The shades give me such a freaky look, they add “creepiness” to my outfit.’
Imagine you really are Cruella. Shoot me your one-liner! ‘“I am FUR-ious about evHow did you go about searching erything.”’ for such a creepy outfit? ‘I wasn’t sure which character I was going for at first, until Customised sweater - €3 I found the fluffy white sweater Waterlooplein flea market at Waterlooplein flea market, so Trousers - €5 then I went for Cruella.’ H&M
Great! I see you customised it... ‘Yes, I gave it an all-over Dalmatian print, using a black textile marker. I also found some great trousers on sale and shoes at the thrift store. I simply loved the colour combination.’ And what about the shades? ‘I listened to the band WidPage 42
Shades - €2 Party House Shoes - €0.75 Thrift store Pantar
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comes to mind is when I’m lying on the floor in Lamonte Young’s Dream House
Photos by Isolde Woudstra
Fashion
€15 Outfit
Yun Sudrajat dressing up to go see Widowspeak on 24 April at OT301, Amsterdam. Budget spent: €10.75 in New York. There’s a speaker in each corner of the room emitting a drone
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Food
Cooking with...
By Zofia Ciechowska
Julie Mittens
If your music had a flavour and a texture, how would it taste, feel, look like? ‘I would say it is a huge swimming pool of strong whisky that you can float around in. You want to immerse yourself in it. It’s a momentary sensation, but at the same time you want to continue that sensation so you can swim in it for longer.’ Is there a relationship between the way you consume and make music? ‘Definitely, I actually have some theories about the relationship between food and music. I think that most improv people have fast metabolisms, they eat tons, but stay very thin. At least this fits the Julie Mittens profile well. I have a wild metabolism, I could eat all day long. I’m trying to kick the habit now – sometimes I eat twice the normal amount of food a person needs. Loud music is often not very physical actually, but mental. I’m really interested in experiencing sound through the body. The stomach is the most important region of music experience for me. I also think the shape of Page 44
your body, especially the size of your belly, has a direct relation to whether you mask your emotions. Maybe that’s why many improv musicians are really skinny because they release more emotions through their music.’ What’s the messiest meal you’ve ever had and how did it make you feel? ‘We were in Huddersfield in the UK last year. We met some girl who took us to some horrible place where we were served some horrible Yorkshire sausage. It looked like a giant poo. Totally inedible and disastrous.’ So, what have you been eating recently? ‘I’ve been making a lot of pumpkin soup lately. Similarly to experimental music, it is heavily stigmatised and only eaten by a specific subculture – noisefreaks or geitenwollensokken [roughly: hippies]. But if you try it you’ll see that it’s not so strange at all and actually quite delicious.’ Julie Mittens play on 03 April at Poortgebouw in Rotterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.
that you can feel all through your body. It’s easy to lose track of time in there.’
Food
Photo by Carlijn Potma
The Julie Mittens Pumpkin Soup
1 small pumpkin 2 carrots 1 onion 1 garlic clove 1 small knob of ginger 1 tsp caraway seeds • Peel and chop the pumpkin and carrots. Finely dice the onion, garlic and ginger. • Heat some oil in a large pot. Fry the onion, garlic and ginger until golden. Add the pumpkin and carrots and after a while add the caraway and coriander seeds. Stir well so the vegetables are coated in the herbs and oil. Add a dash of white wine, wait till it evaporates, then add the stock. • Bring to a boil, while stirring occasionally. Then turn down the
1 tsp coriander seeds ½ cup white wine 1 l vegetable stock fresh coriander salt and pepper olive oil heat, cover with a lid and let the vegetables cook until soft (about 20 minutes). Add the cream, rum, honey and cinnamon. Beat until smooth. • Once the vegetables are cooked, take the soup off the heat and use a hand mixer to blend it until nice and smooth. • Serve in a big bowl, add a drizzle of olive oil, some salt and pepper and fresh coriander leaves on top. Eat with sourdough bread, butter, goat’s cheese and ginger chutney.
(Psychic Ills) // ‘WAR. TIRED.’ (Camera) // ‘Microphone feedback; a painful
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Horoscope GEMINI
22 May–21 June
You shave your intimate parts, because you like how the breeze passes across them when you stand naked on the balcony. You feel uninhibited this month. In the supermarket you touch all the items in the freezer compartment with your hard nipples. You check out feeling kinda horny, the almond-shaped brown eyes of the cashier lingering on in your mind.
CANCER
22 June–22 July
After months of chasing this person, you finally manage to get him/her into your unmade bed. You waited for this moment for so long. Now it’s finally there. You fart. You hold his/her head under the blanket. You both laugh. LEO
23 July–22 Aug
That open relationship thing didn’t work out. He/she decides to go with the other. Life is a Pepsi Cola test. What happened? Since when did you turn out to be the inferior brand?
VIRGO
23 Aug–22 Sept
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By Brenda Bosma
buy you a beer, bring you home, do your taxes and come and tuck you in at night. Or something.
LIBRA
23 Sept–22 Oct
You are snappy and grumpy. Did you really think you could forget about this person by breathing mindfully and uttering a crazy-sounding Sanskrit word over and over again? We looked it up in Google translate. You’ve been uttering ‘tittyfucker’ on your sky blue yoga mat. Hopefully this cheers you up.
SCORPIO
23 Oct–21 Nov
It’s not that everything will get better, it’s just that you learn to cope with it better. Screw those people who always look on the bright side of life. There are 50 shades of black and the brightest one is still black.
SAGITTARIUS
22 Nov–21 Dec
Strike a pose. Hmm, no, not that one. Not that one either, sorry. Uh-uh. Nope. Damn, you just don’t have a good side this month. D’ogue!
CAPRICORN
22 Dec–20 Jan
‘How did it feel? How does it feel? How do you feel when
surprise that throws you into a sort of shell shock. I’ve been told that every time
Illustrations by Kathrin Klingner
I ask how it feels?’ You get annoyed by her questions. Then again, the way she tugs at your head reminds you of fumbling with her bra. You get aroused.
Horoscope
TAURUS
21 April–21 May
AQUARIUS
21 Jan-19 Feb
You keep waiting for The One. It’s like waiting for Godot though. You know what happened there, right? He never showed up. Then again, you’re probably not waiting for this Godot guy. Fuck him.
PISCES
The twitch in your left eye is back. You can do whatever you want, but you know there’s no quick remedy for a twitchless life. You may think you have a hand in it, but really it’s just a matter of time. But time is of the essence, you say. It is always of the essence. That’s not the point. You wish for time to have some twitches of her own. You are tired of looking ARIES like an epileptic cat. Guess what? 21 March–20 April You start labelling all of Your twitching will attract severyour things, putting your name on al people this month. Someone them in large decorative letters with will kiss your eyes while you’re graceful curls. But you cannot la- fast asleep. You awake trembling, bel a sunrise, honey. It’s not for your twitching all over. 20 Feb–20 March
You have lost the magic by talking too much about it, instead of just giving in to it. It only made you feel self-conscious. It got worse and worse and ultimately it killed the spark. When it goes, it goes, it does come back. Maybe this month the magic will give you another chance.
eyes only.
it happens you lose the ability to hear that frequency.’ (Widowspeak) END.
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Agenda
Shows in April
THEESATISFACTION FUNKINEVEN & FATIMA JESSE BOYKINS III & MELO-X: ZULU GURU DAN BODAN (DFA RECORDS) KARRIEM RIGGINS SHIGETO CHICO MANN THEO PARRISH ROB MANGA AND MORE CELEBRATING TOMORROW’S ARTISTS TODAY
15-19 MAY 2013
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This is a photo of a guinea pig in the hands of Michael Morris, also known as Octo Octa. It was taken by Bobby Doherty in Brooklyn, USA. Octo Octa plays on 04 April at Melkweg, Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.
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Sightings + The Julie Mittens
03 April - Poortgebouw, Rotterdam 21.00 | €5 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
A ‘sighting’ refers to an incident of seeing something that isn’t supposed to be real, such as a UFO or Bigfoot. You probably think anyone who claims to have done so is full of shit, but you also probably feel a bit on edge walking around in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. Noise trio Sightings evoke a similar feeling of irrational dread as they straddle the line between graspable melody and abstract, unpredictable cacophony. The Julie Mittens are a Dutch trio whose foreboding psychedelic free jazz has earned them a lofty reputation, even though they’ve released just a mittenful of live recordings over their ten-year existence.
Teen + Octo Octa + The Secret Love Parade 04 April - Melkweg, Amsterdam 19.00 | €11 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
Brooklyn’s Teeny Lieberson left her main gig with Here We Go Magic to form Teen along with her sisters and long-time friend Jane Herships. Teen defy girl group revival stereotypes by drawing inspiration from sources like krautrock and The Velvet Underground, and when these ladies get into a hypnotic, uptempo groove, the results can be pretty spectacular. Opener Octo Octa makes melancholic, retro-sounding house that’s among the most danceable music being spun by tastemaking label 100% Silk. Page 50
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Motel Mozaïque Unofficial Day Party 06 April - Roodkapje, Rotterdam (new nocation!) 13.00 | Free for all
During the Motel Mozaïque Festival in Rotterdam, we’re teaming up with YCR to bring you an afternoon filled with food, drinks and live music. Expect performances by Herrek, Nouveau Vélo, Yoshimi and Space Siren as well as some delicious pancakes. It’s all going down at the brand new location of Roodkapje on Tellingerstraat 128. So besides the great line-up, this is also your chance to get a glimpse of what is bound to be a future hotspot for progressive art and music.
Film: Better Than Something - Jay Reatard 12 April - Melkweg Cinema, Amsterdam 23.00 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
Jay Reatard was an infamous and famously prolific punk wunderkind whose relentless live performances earned him a devoted following before his untimely death at age 29. This documentary weaves together footage of Reatard shot just months before he died with interviews and archival concert performances, creating an intimate, tragic and ultimate inspiring portrait of a guy who knew he was doomed but refused to go down without a fight. Page 51
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Camera
12 April - WORM, Rotterdam 22.00 | €tba | free for Subbacultcha! members
Berlin-based Krautrock trio Camera played an impressive set last year at the Le Guess Who? Festival, so we’re thrilled to see them return to the Netherlands. Besides their regular live shows, these guys are also known for their ‘krautrock guerilla’ preferably performed on prohibited not-stagestages like metro stations and even the restroom at a German awards show. Tonight they will most likely appear on a proper stage, but since showtime is not until midnight, you might want to expect the unexpected.
Nü Sensae + Camera
13 April - OCCII, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
Vancouver trio Nü Sensae rekindle the incendiary sound of riot grrrlish bands like Babes in Toyland and L7, but these guys don’t beat a dead horse; they beat three dead horses called noise, punk and grunge so relentlessly that nothing really resembles its original form and you’re so traumatised you forget all about the past and simply nod your head numbed by the bloody mess in front of you. Page 52
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Sunday Noise ft. Psychic Ills + Camera
14 April - EKKO, Utrecht 20.00 | €10 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
NYC’s Psychic Ills have spent the past decade messing with minds via a musical medicine cabinet stocked with a wide variety of psychedelic substances. Their latest release, the aptly titled One Track Mind, finds them locking into a krautrocky groove not unlike that of Moon Duo, to whom they also bear an almost hilariously uncanny physical resemblance. Openers Camera, a troublemaking trio from Berlin, specialise in ‘krautrock guerilla’ preferably performed on prohibited not-stage-stages like metro stations and even the restroom at a German awards show.
Sun Araw + Deep Magic
15 April - Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam 19.30 | €10 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
SoCal seeker Cameron Stallones’ 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. In 2012 he recorded a sort of psychedelic gospel album with roots reggae legends The Congos, but his solo work, perhaps buoyed by a puff of doobage, should also elevate you to that ‘higher ground’ you’ve heard so much about.
Film: Spring Breakers
16 April - LantarenVenster, Rotterdam tba | €9 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
Starring James Franco and Bieber’s ex-baby Selena Gomez, Harmony Korine’s hyper-stylised, pulpy college caper Spring Breakers is saturated in dizzying fluorescent hues, bikini-clad beach babes gone wild, cheddar, guns, drugs and debauchery. LantarenVenster’s screening the flick on 16 April in Rotterdam. Page 53
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Mmoths + The Luyas
17 April - Tivoli Spiegelbar, Utrecht 20.00 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members Montreal’s The Luyas’ 2012 album, Animator, found them shifting away from their previous penchant for playfulness and pop melodies towards subtler soundscapes which, much like life, were ephemeral but no less affecting. Meanwhile, the enchanting electronica of Ireland’s Jack Colleran, aka Mmoths, belies his young age, and is warm and inviting enough to attract listeners like mmoths to a flame.
Echokamer
18 April - Mediamatic Fabriek, Amsterdam 19.30 | €tba | Free for Subbacultcha! members
Echokamer is a series during which composers, musicians and other soundmakers experiment with sound at Mediamatic Fabriek. Its second edition features Monoták, an Amsterdam-based collective of composers and performers, sonification of the big bang theory, a turntable installation, a subwoofer-composition and more.
PAWS
19 April - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 20.00 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members 26 April - World Skate Center, Den Bosch 20.30 | €5 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
Sometimes you’re in the mood for discussing geopolitics over roasted wild boar and a fine glass of red wine, and sometimes you’re in the mood for scarfing pizza, chugging beers, smoking shitty weed and doing doughnuts in your high school parking lot. Glasgow-based pop-punk trio PAWS make music well-suited for the latter. Similar to contemporaries like Yuck, Japandroids and Cloud Nothings, PAWS draws inspiration from the sweet riffage and raucous energy of ’90s icons like Dinosaur Jr, the Pixies and Nirvana. Page 54
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Autre Ne Veut
20 April - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 20.00 | €8 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
Living with Oneohtrix Point Never’s Daniel Lopatin inspired Brooklyn’s Arthur Ashin to make ambient music, but overthinking the production process sapped his creative urges. A sabbatical spent writing commercial jingles for a production house stimulated him to try his hand at pop music, and he’s been recording as Autre Ne Veut ever since. On his new album, Anxiety, Ashin reveals a more fleshed-out and bombastic version of the arty avantR&B of his 2010 debut.
Film: The Deep (pre-premiere) 23 April - 16 CC, Amsterdam 21.30 | €8 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
This drama tells the story of a fisherman who miraculously survived spending six hours in the freezing ocean after his crew’s ship capsized off the Icelandic coast in 1984. His incredible experience made him a national hero, and director Baltasar Kormákur’s gripping and hyper-realistic portrayal of the incident buoyed the film to the Academy Award shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film. Page 55
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Widowspeak + Beginners
24 April - OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €8 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
This Brooklyn band’s 2011 debut garnered them a lot of comparisons to various druggy ‘90s bands. Singer Molly Hamilton’s sedate vocals in particular recall Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval, but Robert Thomas’s jangly guitar lines helped make it more stimulating than a mere homage to their opiate source material. Their recently released follow-up, Almanac, is well-rounded and a definite progression from their earlier work. Support by Beginners, the new project of Susanne Linssen of Hospital Bombers.
Subbacultcha! Magazine Release Party ft. Dawn Hunger + 18+ +Sheniqua World Tour 27 April - Trouw de Verdieping, Amsterdam 20.30 | €8 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
For his new Dawn Hunger project, Fuck Button’s Andrew Hung envisions an infinite electronic odyssey on which he creates music and then collaborates with a series of musicians. The first leg of the voyage features an interpretation of Hung’s work by vocalist Claire Inglis and programmer Matthew de Pulford, sounding something like a less dance-oriented Light Asylum. Openers 18+ and Sheniqua World Tour both recycle pop culture garbage into multimedia performances featuring heavy beats, warped vocals and disturbingly sexy visuals. Page 56
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Here’s Your Future
28 April - 013, Tilburg 19.00 | €10 | Free for Subbacultcha! members The programming prophets behind this minifestival foretell of a future filled with post-punk, shoegaze, noise and garage. The festival’s first edition featured then-relative-unknowns Cloud Nothings as well as a characteristically awesome performance by Ty Segall, now widely recognised as the Son of Rock God, back when he was but a humble axe slinger. So whose awesomeness will we be taking for granted in 2014? Featuring: Widowspeak – These guys often get compared to various druggy ’90s bands. Singer Molly Hamilton’s sedate vocals in particular recall Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval, but Robert Thomas’s jangly guitar lines help make it more stimulating than a mere homage to their opiate source material. Dawn Hunger – For his new Dawn Hunger project, Fuck Button’s Andrew Hung will collaborate with a series of musicians. The first leg of this electronic odyssey features an interpretation of Hung’s work by Claire Inglis and Matthew de Pulford, sounding something like a less dance-oriented Light Asylum. Cold Pumas – This Brighton postpunk trio released a few singles and splits with Male Bonding, Women,
Fair Ohs and Friendo before finally releasing Persistent Malaise, a debut with enough dynamism and soothing motorik grooves to alleviate the titular state of mind. The Feeling of Love – This French trio from Metz has shared stages with hot shit psych/garage acts like Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees and White Fence. Their druggy garage blues will keep you coming back for more. Traumahelikopter – These Grunnen garage-rock gods slapped their full-length debut down on tape in under a week, thereby preserving the energetic essence of their live shows, which are so mosh pit-inducing you might actually want to have emergency services on standby. More info: www.013.nl Page 57
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Foam Photography Museum
Open daily 10.00-18.00, Thur and Fri until 21.00 €8.50 | Free for Subbacultcha! members Foam is always free for members, and through mid-May there are several new exhibitions on display, including photos, installations, collages and ¸ sculptures by Sara Cwynar; work by Turkish photographer Maryam Sahinyan; and Canary, a surreal and unsettling 2007 series by Japan’s Lieko Shiga.
TENT
Open Tue-Sun 11.00-18.00 €4 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
Through May this Rotterdam platform for contemporary art will feature a solo show by Rotterdam- and Berlin-based artists Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson. The duo’s work examines the influence of socio-economic and political factors on the surrounding world in the form of installations, video works and neon sculptures, all produced over the last ten years.
Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam Open Tue-Fri 22.00-17.00, Sat and Sun 11.00-17.00 €9 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
Through 20 May this museum will host ‘From Holland With Love’, an exhibition that uses the work of Ed van der Elsken as a starting point for exploring the theme of love through the eyes of ten contemporary Dutch photographers, including Koos Breukel, Heddy Honigmann and Paul Kooiker. Page 58
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Shows in April
BINNENKORT O.A. ZA20APR
VR05APR
THE R UM OUR SAID FI RE
B A L M O RHE A
VR12APR
RACHEL SERMANNI + PETE ROE
DIT I S KONING: DAEDELUS + ANAMANAGUCHI E.V.A.
ZA04MEI
ZO14APR
SUNDAY NOISE PSYCHIC ILLS + CAMERA
DO18APR
MA29APR
GI RL S AGAI NST BOY S
VR10MEI
RUMOR 72: SELVHENTER
PISSING I N THE WIND # 2 O.A. MAZES + TOURIST. (LIVE) + SUIT AND TIE JOHNS
VOLLEDIG PROGRAMMA & TIJDEN:
POPPODIUM EKKO | BEMUURDE WEERD WZ 3 | 3513 BH UTRECHT | WWW.EKKO.NL
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Sounds Like Art The ‘Sounds Like Art’ exhibition focuses on all the wonderful things that happen in the grey area between music and art. With instrument displays, performances and workshops the exhibition gives an adventurous view of where music stops and art begins. We had a short chat with circuit bender and instrument builder Gijs Gieskes (one of the exhibitors) about his inventions and his antics Until 5 May - MU, Eindhoven
Have you always been fascinated by machines? Nope, I never used to do anything technical as a kid. I remember my dad took me to a junkyard once, and I was very interested in the circuit boards and stuff. So your dad sparked your enthusiasm? Yeah, he’s in a band and they have a lot of instruments, like a Juno-60 and a TR-808. Thats what I started with. I didn’t have any money to buy instruments, so I decided I would make them myself. Tell us about your ‘percussive spring reverb’. Now I know what a spring reverb is, but what does a percussive one do? It works just like a regular reverb, but this
one has a VU metre that taps against the spring, and it gives a cool effect. Kind of like the sound a guitar amp with reverb makes when you push it, but less loud. Less loud? Hmm... I noticed your devices tend to make subtle sounds. Are you not into loud noises? Loud as in volume? Not really, no. But you could play them over a huge PA, that will make them loud. If I gave you an insane amount of cash, would you be into buying CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to mess with? That’s a good one! I really like the Large Hadron Collider. I could use it to make a bunch of black holes... Page 61
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World Minimal Music Festival Judging from the rich diversity of artists at this year’s World Minimal Music Festival, the music we call ‘minimal’ might not be that minimal after all. The addition of ‘World’ underlines the festival’s international scope. At the same time it emphasises that repetitive, entrancing music is a global phenomenon, spanning history from ancient tribes to posh contemporary concert halls. 03-07 April, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ and Bimhuis, Amsterdam 03-07 April, MC Frits Philips and Effenaar, Eindhoven
Konono No 1
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by Marinus de Ruiter
Konono No 1 If you were to plunk iron strips attached to a box and amplify them to the point of distortion it would probably sound like shite, but Congolese audio guerrillas Konono No 1 turn it into highly addictive urban Afro magic. Ben Frost We remember all too well where Ben Frost held us when his album By The Throat came out four years ago. Presenting music from his forthcoming follow-up to said aural horror epic, the Australian-Icelandic guitarist and electronic music composer will reveal whether he has tightened up or loosened his grip. Kronos Quartet plays Steve Reich You’d have to be one of the most openminded composers to create life-affirming music out of tricky subjects such as the collapsing WTC towers or death trains moving towards Auschwitz. It helps that Steve Reich has composed his string quartets WTC 9/11 and Different Trains for Kronos Quartet, one of the most openminded and life-affirming music groups around. Canto Ostinato We can safely consider Canto Ostinato by Simeon ten Holt the evergreen of Dutch minimal music, especially after its resurgence last year – caused by the release of a documentary film about the hypnotic piano piece from 1976, as well as the death of its composer last November. Because we know the fans will never get Canto-weary, we can safely recommend this version by one of the best Ten Holt performers, pianist Ivo Janssen. Philip Glass’s Dracula Minimal music’s main man Philip Glass has written around 50 film scores. When it comes to conducting and producing the
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soundtracks, Michael Riesman is Glass’s go-to guy. Musical director of the Philip Glass Ensemble since 1974, Riesman regularly ventures out on his own to arrange solo piano versions of Glass soundtracks. These include The Hours and a rendition of Glass’s score for Dracula, the 1931 silent black-and-white blood curler which Riesman will accompany live at this festival. Free sideshows Every evening the festival has a free sideshow with talks, DJs, visual art and performances in a cosy festival atmosphere. Each of the five evenings will be hosted by a different independent organisation. Subbacultcha! teams up with Future Vintage for an indie electronica showcase featuring Patten (London) and Maximillion Dunbar (Washington DC). Check the other evenings as well: DNK invites semi-acoustic drone/ambient-band The Pitch; 22tracks hosts a Canto Ostinato remix project; Gonzo Circus presents Awesome Tapes From Africa; and Viral Radio brings in Lee Gamble for a DJ set. And these are just the highlights… Subbacultcha and Future Vintage present: Maxmillion Dollar + Patten Subbacultcha! and Future Vintage will cohost the side programme of the festival’s final evening. An afternoon screening of classic 1931 film Dracula soundtracked by live music might send chills down your spine, but no one will notice your timbers are shivering once Patten’s deconstructed electronica scrambles the crowd’s brain waves and everyone starts grooving to Maxmillion Dunbar’s exotic and hypnotic halfway-house music. Our programme starts at 17.00, and there will be food too, so cancel your dinner plans.
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Motel Mozaïque The motto of this ever-evolving festival in 2013 is ‘Stay over for the weekend’ – and, dare we say it, there isn’t a more hospitable festival in all the land. Whether you’re seeking out a weekend-wide blast of new music, some passionate art, experimental theatre or just looking to explore the secretly-welcoming heart of Rotterdam and its hidden treasures, Motel Mozaïque is an inspiring urban experience. 5 and 6 April, Various Locations, Rotterdam Zzzzz! Being a modern festival, there’s no camping at Motel Mozaïque. Not even chalets. But each year it hosts a unique sleeping project that invites festival-goers to get some kip in weird and wonderful places. In the past that’s included churches, hospitals and even shop windows, but for 2013 you can spend the night in Rotterdam’s very own plush concert hall, De Doelen – in actual beds, not just the chairs. Fancy. Sunnyside up While much of the main music action traditionally takes place after dark, there’s plenty going on in daytime this year. Schouwburgplein gets transformed into Plaza Mozaïque, with open-air gigs, art, sculpture and all sorts of unexpected specials. There are plenty of guided tours that walk you through some of Rotterdam’s secret spots, while the 3voor12 Stage hosts free sessions by loads of the festival’s performers. This year there’s also an extra afternoon music session in the Rotterdamse Schouwburg. Music 2013 sees the multi-venue fest expanding to even more locations, hosting bands in the likes of the refined Rotterdamse Page 64
Schouwburg, the 106-year-old Paradijskerk, BIRD (under the old railway) and the always-welcoming Rotown. Amidst all that there’s loads of independent and inspired action, including a fresh take on soulful Americana from young singer-songwriter Night Beds; the lo-fi disintegrated bass music of UK producer Lapalux; and classy indie-folk from Oxford’s Stornoway, who’ve signed to 4AD. Hopefully, the serene folk of Daughter can live up to the hype now they’ve an album to show off. Fellow talked-up duo AlunaGeorge will present their catchy but contemporary take on electro-indie-R&B. Icelandic producer and composer Valgeir Sigurdsson, meanwhile, showcases his beautiful landscape-like electro-classical works; and then there’s the weirder bits, like Norway’s Jaga Jazzist performing with local ensemble Sinfonia Rotterdam, and the eternally-experimental bassist Jah Wobble, who’ll be with his Modern Jazz Ensemble. There’s enticing Dutch sounds too, including ’60s pop revivalist Jacco Gardner, Zeeland’s folk troubadour Broeder Dieleman and DJ sets from Rats on Rafts and Palmbomen. More info: www.motelmozaïque.nl
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Sounds Like Art 22 March - 05 May - MU, Eindhoven Audio-visual exhibition centered around home-made instruments. Read more on page 61.
Sightings 02 April - Poortgebouw, Rotterdam 05 April - 013, Tilburg 28 April - OCCII, Amsterdam Noise trio Sightings evoke a feeling of irrational dread as they straddle the line between graspable melody and abstract, unpredictable cacophony. Read more on page 50.
Konono No.1 02 April - De Oosterpoort, Groningen 03 April - Muziekgebouw Frits Philips, Eindhoven 04 April - Rasa, Utrecht 05 April - Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam This Grammy-nominated Congolese ensemble combines electric lamellophones (thumb pianos), homemade percussion instruments salvaged from junkyards, and
homemade amplifiers made out of wood to produce ecstatic and hypnotic electronic jungle music. You could say it reflects the triumph of the human spirit, but if you don’t want to sound like a patronising asshole you can just shut up and dance.
Action Beat 03 April - OT301, Amsterdam This British improvisational noise band’s core lineup consists of five musicians but often expands to include several more. You can expect at least four guitarists, a bassist and baritone sax, and anywhere from one to four drummers. Inspired musically by Sonic Youth and Glenn Branca and ideologically by Black Flag and Fugazi, Action Beat evinces a sense of humour offstage and furious intensity onstage.
Ben Frost 03+06 April - Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Amsterdam (WMMF) 05 April - Effenaar, Eindhoven Following the Dutch debut of his Music for 6 Guitars back in December, Australian producer/guitarist Ben Frost is back to prove he can create equally beautiful, majestic Page 67
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and apocalyptic music on his own with a solo performance of his latest masterpiece, By the Throat.
World Minimal Music Festival 03-07 April - Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam 03-07 April - various locations, Eindhoven This year’s World Minimal Music Festival emphasises that repetitive, entrancing music is a global phenomenon, spanning history from ancient tribes to posh contemporary concert halls. Read more on page 62.
Teen + Octo Octa 04 April - Melkweg, Amsterdam Brooklyn’s Teen draw inspiration from krautrock and The Velvet Underground, and when these ladies get into a hypnotic, uptempo groove, the results can be pretty spectacular. 100% Silk signee Octo Octa, meanwhile, makes melancholic, retrosounding house. Read more on page 50.
Sonic Connections 04-06 April - De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam The 5th anniversary of De Brakke Grond’s annual tour of the Lowlands’ alternative musical landscape will be celebrated in style with three nights of performances on two stages by 12 up-and-coming Belgian and Dutch bands, made all the better by De Brakke Grond’s usual free-flowing beer and bountiful charm.
Inc. 04 April - Paradiso, Amsterdam 05 April - Motel Mozaïque, Bird, Rotterdam Usher may have reached a climax last year, but the resurgence of seductive, slow jam R&B apparently hasn’t just yet. LA’s Inc., brothers Andrew and Daniel Aged, have
worked as touring musicians with the likes of Raphael Saadiq and Cee-Lo, giving their take on the trend a more traditional twist. Their new album, no world, should fit in nicely next to contemporaries like How to Dress Well, Miguel and The Weeknd on your next afterparty playlist.
Daughter 05 April - Motel Mozaïque, Bird, Rotterdam 07 April - Melkweg, Amsterdam Daughter started out as the solo project of euphonious vocalist Elena Tonra, but it didn’t take her long to recruit Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella to join her. The indie folk trio’s first two EPs and live shows generated enough buzz to get them signed by legendary indie 4AD, who just released their dramatic and devastating debut album, If You Leave.
The Growlers 05 April - Merleyn, Nijmegen 06 April - Motel Mozaïque, BIRD, Rotterdam 07 April - Paradiso, Amsterdam These presumably stoned SoCal smartasses claim to have named their band after a member’s boisterous bowel movement, and the tunes they squeeze out are steaming hot but far from shitty. Their latest album, Hung at Heart, is rife with retro-sounding psychedelic surf pop à la the Allah-Las.
Matthew E White 05 April - Motel Mozaïque, Bird, Rotterdam 06 April - Paradiso, Amsterdam This American songwriter producer quietly founded Spacebomb Records, led the avant-garde jazz big band Fight the Big Bull, played with The Great White Jenkins and collaborated with artists like Justin Vernon and Sharon Van Etten before bursting onto the international stage with his 2012 Page 69
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solo debut, Big Inner, an effortless-sounding synthesis of soul, jazz, country and pop.
Motel Mozaïque 05 and 06 April - various locations, Rotterdam If you’re seeking to explore the secretlywelcoming heart of Rotterdam and its hidden treasures, consider Motel Mozaïque as the perfect opportunity. Read more on page 64.
Palmbomen 05 April - Motel Mozaïque, BIRD, Rotterdam 12 April - Tivoli, Utrecht Amsterdam producer Kai Hugo records as Palmbomen, Dutch for ‘palm trees’. The vintage-sounding tropical synth-pop on his 2010 debut EP, Moon Children, stirred up a mix of feverish excitement and wistful longing the Dutch normally reserve for getaways to exotic locations, and his new fulllength, Night Flight Europa, proved to be as worth waiting for as a rare and gloriously sunny day in the Lowlands.
EYE - One Year Anniversary 07-09 April - Eye Film Institute, Amsterdam From 05-07 April EYE is celebrating the one year anniversary of their amazing new location in Amsterdam-Noord. Expect screenings of some of last year’s highlights as well as some previews of brand new films. And last but not least, during the entire weekend the Johan van der Keuken exhibition will cost only €1.
Ellie Goulding + Charlie XCX 09 April - Paradiso, Amsterdam British singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding gets plenty of positive press in the UK – if only because she’s British – but she’s also
caught the attention of us highfalutin’ bloggers with her covers of ‘underground’ artists Active Child and The Weeknd. Nevertheless, opener Charli XCX’s unpredictable and occasionally outstanding electro-pop positions her as the more exciting British singer-songwriter of the pair.
Moses & The Firstborn 11 April - Rotown, Rotterdam 13 April - Paradiso, Amsterdam 24 April - Merleyn, Nijmegen Even though the average age of these Eindhoven- and Antwerp-based garage rockers is only about 18, they’ve already got the skiiiiiiills to make it over your threshold and on to your turntable, the lyrics to make it impossible not to sing-along and the poise of much older men. Their full-length debut came out in March on Top Notch.
Pien Feith 12 April - Asteriks, Leeuwarden 13 April - Merleyn, Nijmegen 19 April - Supermarkt, Den Haag Much of Pien Feith’s early work was stripped-down, emotionally bare folk music, but over time she’s collected band members and incorporated more electronic elements into her sound. Though the title of her new album, Tough Love, means treating someone you love coldly or harshly, Feith for sure isn’t referring to the experience of taking in its warm and slick synth-pop goodness.
Nü Sensae 13 April - OCCII, Amsterdam 16 April - 013, Tilburg 30 April - Perron55, Venlo Vancouver trio Nu Sensae rekindle the incendiary sound of riot grrrlish bands like Babes in Toyland and L7 with their ferocious mix of noise, punk and grunge. Read more on page 52. Page 71
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Sunday Noise ft. Psychic Ills + Camera 14 April - EKKO, Utrecht Ekko’s Sunday Noise series stretches your ear drums’ limits once again with ill psychedelic kraut from NYC’s Psychic Ills and krautrock guerilla from Camera, a troublemaking trio from Berlin. Read more on page 52.
Sun Araw + Deep Magic 15 April - Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam Cameron Stallones’ 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. Read more on page 53.
Mmoths 17 April - Tivoli Spiegelbar, Utrecht w/ The Luyas 19 April - Sugar Factory, Amsterdam The enchanting electronica of Ireland’s Jack Colleran, aka Mmoths, is warm and inviting enough to attract listeners like mmoths to a flame, while Montreal indie-pop collective The Luyas dazzle listeners with their endearingly odd and increasingly sophisticated take on the genre. Read more on page 54.
The Soft Moon + Majical Cloudz 17 April - Melkweg, Amsterdam With his 2010 debut as The Soft Moon, Luis Vasquez created a post-apunkalyptic wasteland filled with claustrophobia and darkwave dread. Though it wasn’t originally intended for others’ ears, this wasteland had quite some tourist appeal, so Vasquez hit the road with a full band. Its follow-up, Zeros, is stylistically similar, but its greater
sonic variety and sharper focus seem destined for sharing in a communal setting. Ontario/Montreal’s Majical Cloudz bring the odd sonic lushness you’d expect from a Grimes collaborator, albeit imbued with way more emotional depth – the most exciting opening act of the month!
King Krule 17 April - Paradiso, Amsterdam Ginger singer-songwriter Archy Marshall, also known as Zoo Kid, has stolen many English hearts with his Dennis the Menace teez and his uncertain but precociously soulful croon, but his 21st-century urban pop melds together elements of jazz, hip hop and downbeat electro skillfully enough to appeal to city dwellers worldwide.
PAWS 19 April - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 26 April - World Skate Center, Den Bosch Similar to contemporaries like Yuck and Cloud Nothings, PAWS draws inspiration from the sweet riffage and raucous energy of ’90s icons like Dinosaur Jr and the Pixies. Read more on page 54.
Bourgeois Leftovers 20 April-16 June - De Appel, Amsterdam Every year, De Appel arts centre takes six young curators under its wings for an intensive professional development programme, and Bourgeois Leftovers is their exhibition of early 20th-century paintings which failed to become part of the Eindhoven’s van Abbemuseum’s permanent collection.
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making arty avant-R&B pop music as Autre Ne Veut. Read more on page 56.
Minus The Bear 21 April - Melkweg, Amsterdam While the early work of this Seattle band leaned heavily on guitar-driven melodies and intricate, math rockish song structures along the lines of Don Caballero, over time they’ve adopted a slicker and more arena-friendly style, apparently aspiring to the heights reached by mainstream prog acts like Foals or even Incubus.
Widowspeak 24 April - OT301, Amsterdam 27 April - Vera, Groningen 28 April - Here’s Your Future#2, 013, Tilburg Widowspeak singer Molly Hamilton’s sedate vocals recall Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval, but Robert Thomas’s jangly guitar lines help make their music more stimulating than a mere homage to their opiate source material. Read more on page 56.
The Walkmen 25 April - Tivoli, Utrecht Even at their most negative, this NYC indie-rock band has a comforting ‘que sera, sera’ attitude, and at their most positive they serve up proper fucking anthems. They rank in my top three bands to inadvertently sing along to like an idiot while cycling, and if they stay this damned good I’ll be getting funny looks for many years to come.
Haim 26 April - Bitterzoet, Amsterdam If there’s one thing I learned from The Virgin Suicides, it’s that a girl’s hotness is exponentially related to how many attractive sisters she has. Case in point: LA’s Haim, a trio
of sisters Este, Danielle and Alana Haim, whose skin-baring, manic pixie dream girlesque video antics and, to a lesser extent, Fleetwood Mac and Cyndi Lauper-channeling soft rock, propelled them to the top of BBC’s Sound of 2013 poll and into the fantasies of hipster boys worldwide.
Dawn Hunger 27 April - Trouw de Verdieping, Amsterdam 28 April - 013, Tilburg (Here’s Your Future) For his new Dawn Hunger project, Fuck Button’s Andrew Hung collaborated with vocalist Claire Inglis and programmer Matthew de Pulford, sounding something like a disorienting and less dance-oriented Light Asylum. Read more on page 57.
Here’s Your Future #2 ft. Widowspeak + Dawn Hunger + Traumahelikopter + more 28 April - 013, Tilburg The first edition of Here’s Your Future featured Ty Segall, now recognised as the Son of Rock God, back when he was but a humble axe slinger. So whose awesomeness will we be taking for granted in 2014? Read more on page 57 to find out.
Tim Hecker 29 April - Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam This Montreal-based experimental electronic musician and sound artist recorded as Jetone before shifting towards a more personal style of recording under his given name. His brand of blown-out digital shoegaze is among the most instantly recognisable and distinctive ambient/drone music being released today. Most recently, he collaborated with Daniel Lopatin of Oneohtrix Point Never on Instrumental Tourist, a spontaneous but cohesive and highly pleasurable fusion of their respective sounds. Page 75
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Overview of all Subbacultcha! shows in April
03 April
Sightings + The Julie Mittens
Poortgebouw, Rotterdam 21.00 | €5 | Free for members
04 April
13 April
Nü Sensae
Occii, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for members
14 April
Sunday Noise
23 April
Film: The Deep
16 CC, Amsterdam 21.30 | €8 | Free for members
24 April
Widowspeak
Teen + Octo Octa
EKKO, Utrecht 20.00 | €10 | Free for members
OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €8 | Free for members
06 April
Sun Araw
15 April
26 April
Melkweg, Amsterdam 19.00 | €11 | Free for members
Motel Mozaïque Day Party Roodkapje, Rotterdam 13.00 | Free for all
07 April
Maxmillion Dunbar + Patten WMMF Side Programme Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam 16.30 - 19.00 | Free for all
12 April
Film: Better Than Something - Jay Reatard
Melkweg Cinema, Amsterdam 23.00 | €7 | Free for members
12 April
Camera
WORM, Rotterdam 22.00 | €tba | Free for members
PAWS
Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, World Skate Center, Den Bosch Amsterdam 20.30 | €5 | Free for members 19.30 | €10 | Free for members
16 April
Film: Spring Breakers
27 April
Magazine Release Party
ft. Dawn Hunger
LantarenVenster, Rotterdam tba | €9 | Free for members
Trouw, Amsterdam 20.30 | €8 | Free for members
17 April
28 April
Tivoli Spiegelbar, Utrecht 20.00 | €7 | Free for members
013, Tilburg 19.00 | €10 | Free for members
19 April
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De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 20.00 | €7 | Free for members
€8.50 | Free for members
Mmoths + The Luyas Here’s Your Future
Paws + Apneu 18 April
Echokamer
Mediamatic Fabriek, Amsterdam 19.30 | €tba | Free for members
20 April
Autre Ne Veut
De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 20.00 | €8 | Free for members
Foam
TENT
R’dam | €4 | Free for members
Nederlands Fotomuseum
R’dam | €9 | Free for members
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