Unruly Music Magazine. April 2014
The Fast and The Furious Issue
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Subbacultcha! Magazine April 2014
The Fast and The Furious Issue
Crushed in the second row, forearms tight to the chest in a desperate attempt to find some breathing room while being elbowed in the face by strangers, inexplicably trying to focus on strobing lights in a sweaty stupor: as much as we take pleasure in slow-building music, shows that result in hectic trance-like collective insanity and ruined sneakers are something else. And in all likelihood, a safer and more accessible way for an adrenaline junkie to get their fix than, say, drag racing or bungee jumping. With the winter days behind us we thought you might be in the market for some high-energy fun, so gulp down that fifth cup of coffee and check out this month’s agenda. Quick!
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Content Featured Artist 34 Books 40 Films 42 Subbacultcha! shows 45 Agenda 57 Overview 62 Free Stuff 63
Cover artwork by Elise Dupré
Recommendations 7 We Saw You 10 True Widow 12 Wanda Group 18 Gap Dream 24 Excepter 28
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Good Guys: Ewout Compernol, Emmanuel Van Damme and Arnaud Vanrafelghem
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Contributors: Maarten Van Nieuwenhove, Nina Strebelle, Anna Baqués, Elise Dupré, Julien Van de Casteele, Gabriela González, Herlinde Raeman, Kasper-Jan Raeman, Louise Vervaet, Stefanie Van Rompaey, Stephanie Jane, Sabzian, SOSCASTOA, Lore Horré, Simon van Parys, Louis Johnstone, Steel O’Neal, Koen van Bommel and Robbie Brannigan Distribution: Brussels: Mark Zask, Peter Nelissen, Julien Van de Casteele, Kellan Smith, Anouk Jurdant, Thomas Roelens Ghent: Bart Bruneel, Sophie Dekens, Linda Baumsteiger, Hannah Vanspauwen, Nurya Doorenbos, Manon De Sutter, Femke Fredrix, Brecht De Vleeschauwer, Ewout De Cat Antwerp: Charlotte Devos, Thomas Konings, Sam De Mol, Geran Knol Leuven: Hannah Smeyers Kortrijk: Thomas Vanoosthuyse Luik: Collectief Jaune Orange
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April recommendations Each month our staff provides you with a selection of the finer things in life. Enjoy!
Music: The 90s Button
Music: Origami Classics
Thought you’d already fully mastered the art of procrastination? Think again! This website will take your game to a whole new level. Unleash heaven just by clicking on David Hasselhoff and the two pups he’s holding on the rainbow-coloured homepage. What you get is an insane and seemingly endless stream of ’90ss hits and videos. From Ini Kamoze and French Affair to MC Hammer and Tag Team: no matter where you are, if there’s an internet connection you’ll be having a dance-off in no time.
What do you usually do on a Sunday afternoon? Once in a while you might want to change that slovenly habit of hanging around in your PJs. Together with Origami Music, Beursschouwburg presents four afternoons of classical music, freeing it from the pomp and formality that usually surrounds it. So don’t worry: there won’t be any tuxedos or grannies acting all uptight. This time, on 27 April, it’s all about the Russians. Composer, orchestra director and Royal Music Conservatory professor Michel Lysight will be your guide for this Sunday afternoon delight.
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April recommendations Food: Hangover Heroes
Music: Honneur de la Police Young Girls Records has set up a new cassette label with the bemusing name Honneur de la Police. The artwork is provided by Hendrik Hegray, aka Popol Gluant, who runs the Frederic Magazine and Nazi Knife publication. For now, the catalogue counts three tapes: Carrageenan’s minimal soundscapes full of clangs and bangs; Lyon-based Sylvia Monnier’s slowly unfolding, gentle ambient music; and Zaraz Wam Zagram’s noise for late-night encounters in shabby basements. To celebrate all this, there’s a great mixtape up on Mixcloud. honneur.bandcamp.com mixcloud.com/YGR_RADIO/honneur/
Burger, Coke or candy: whatever it takes to get rid of that splitting headache after yesterday’s crazy party night, the Hangover Heroes will bring it to you, stat. You just stay in bed with the blinds closed and call, text or mail these guys. You’ve only got to manage to open the door once they arrive. Yes, it kind of is a miracle. There’s only one catch: for now, only the people calling Ghent their hometown will be lucky enough to benefit from this service.
Venue: Studio Zaterdag
It’s an art gallery, a showroom and an occasional restaurant. On Saturdays at this cosy Antwerp spot, a super friendly and nice Dutch-German girl, a former fashion student, will treat you like a king. For the meal and drinks you pay how much it was worth to you, but bear in mind that this sweetie puts loads of effort and care into everything she does and cooks. Go say hi!
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April recommendations Fashion: A Cut Above
Art + Music: Geran Knol Meet Geran Knol. He’s an illustrator and musician who lives in Antwerp but was born in the Netherlands. As an illustrator, his creations feature strange little human-like figures in interesting compositions and collages. He’s got other projects going on too, like the music he makes under the pseudonym Oval Angle and the collaborative collective he co-founded with Bloeme van Bon, called Park Pardon. These two crazy Dutchmen make innovative and exciting material that’s definitely worth a look. geranknol.nl ovalangle.bandcamp.com
The Belgian media is finally waking up to one of our best-kept secrets: A Cut Above. This men’s street-wear brand was founded in 2012 by partners in crime An-Josefien Falelavaki and Robin De Flo. They ‘make clothes they would wear themselves’. Being based in Antwerp, it’s logical that they draw inspiration from that city’s fashion heritage and the diverse subcultures and nightlife found there. The collections are sporty, sometimes raw but always classy and predominantly black and white. Above all, everything fits like a glove! Growing fast and living fiercely, the duo just opened their first flagship store in Antwerp. From now on their star can only rise.
Art: Hectoliter Hectoliter is a fresh and funky art gallery in Brussels, exhibiting since 2009. Their latest exposition featured Leon Sandler’s mystifying works in Surrender by Force. There’s also a Hecto shop in which they sell loads of fun artsy goodies by artists associated with the gallery. Modern works and ways of art created by young talent: what more do you want when wandering through the streets of Brussels? hectoliter.be
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We Saw You: Spotted at Subbacultcha! Photo by Lore Horré
What’s your favourite pastime? I work for Tumult.fm, the cultural platform from Urgent.fm, which is really fun to do! It also keeps me informed of the cultural activities in Ghent. What does an ideal lazy Sunday look like for you? Listening to music, watching a movie or reading a book. Any guilty pleasures? Sudoku. Very guilty, but also very pleasant. Have you experienced any regrets recently? No. What kind of music makes you cry? Normally it depends on the mood, but Antony and the Johnsons does the trick. Always. What makes you dance? Two possibilities: good music and stress. Which future Subbacultcha! show are you looking forward to? I’ll probably go to Felix Kubin at Vooruit.
Name: Valerie Kokx Age: 20 Spotted at: Cloud Control + Dvkes Home: Stekene Key words: sudoku, Tumult.fm, K3, How To Dress Well, all things cultural Zodiac sign: Aquarius
What did you think of the evening? Cloud Control sounded really good in Charlatan. Perhaps a little too loud, but they really worked on the album which made the live experience worthwhile. What’s your favourite Belgian food? French fries, obviously. Is there any other Belgian food? What kind of music are you listening to at the moment? How To Dress Well, CocoRosie, The Knife and Thom Yorke. I like the combination of electronic music and indie rock. What’s the first record you bought? Probably an album by K3. Yes, I once was a little girl. Your first ever music-related memory? My dad is more or less a music freak, so he basically introduced me to the wonderful world of music.
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The Fast and The Furious Issue. Interview Nicole, Dan and Slim may look like they belong in three different bands, but a shared laid-back attitude binds them, making things bigger and better for True
True Widow Interview by Julien Vandecasteele Artwork by Elise Dupré
Widow with every album release. From the rhythm of the songs to the frequency of touring (and replying to emails!), this Dallas outfit always sets its own pace. We chatted with Slim – and, in keeping with the issue’s theme, finally talked about cars in the end 12
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True Widow. Continued What have you been up to since the release of your third album last year? We’ve been a little busy. We’ve tended to set our own pace when it comes to everything – from our song structures to the amount of touring that we do. Everybody’s got pretty good things going at home: Dan does handmade furniture; I work in this screen-printing shop; Nicole is very busy with her make-up stuff, DJ-ing and other musical outlets. So we aren’t a band in the sense of a ‘working band’ that’s on the road all the time. We’ve tried to put ourselves out there whenever possible. Obviously, whenever there’s a new record out it’s the best time to go. We did support for Chelsea Wolf for a month and headed out to Europe in December with Kurt Vile. So now you’ve released an album every two years. Is that a working pace that you’ve given yourselves? Does it mean we’ll have a new album in 2015? Nah, we never plotted that out per se. It’s something rather natural that just comes along. The processes through which the records evolved have been very different. In the very beginning of the band we had more time, less interest and it was more about us jamming together. It was a little escape from everybody’s day job. The second album came out as a double LP which was the result of a bunch of recorded material and lots of time together as opposed to just being a hobby. By the third record, a lot of stuff had changed for everybody personally. We did a lot more touring for the second record, which meant we were away from our homes a lot more – which also meant that when we were back home we’d be more tied to our nine-to-five jobs. So we didn’t have time to refine little things before going to the studio like we did before. I think therefore that this record is a lot more raw than the others, and the closest to seeing us live. Do you think your music, which is characterised by its slow speed,
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‘The most important thing is where you are when you’re not on the road, because that’s where you’ll be when you’re done’
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True Widow. Continued is a reflection of the rhythm of your lifestyle? Yeah. I’m probably more laid-back than the rest, but we’re all pretty relaxed people. Nicole is pretty busy – she’s always on the go, at a club or at a show or something like that – but I would consider her laid-back. Dan’s life is a bit more hectic than it used to be, now that he has the chance to build a family. We’re all very different from one another. I mean, yes: we share similar interests and have been friends for a long time, but to come together as one band can surprise people. We often hear, ‘You look like you should be in three different bands.’ I definitely think that if it wasn’t for that relaxed kind of demeanour that we all have, none of it would have happened. You all have other jobs, but which is the side job? It was more or less a consensual and conscious decision to not cross over the line and become a professional band or a full-time working band. The most important thing is where you are when you’re not on the road, because that’s where you’ll be when you’re done. It’s The Fast and The Furious issue and we haven’t discussed cars yet. A couple days ago Nicole and I were talking about this interview and she thought it was hilarious that I was the one doing the interview because, amongst the band members, I am the only one without a car or a licence...
True Widow play on 4 April at De Kreun in Kortrijk. The show is free for members.
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The Fast and The Furious Issue. Interview The ever so gentle Louis Johnstone, better known by his musical moniker Wanda Group, recently released the rocky but mesmerising ‘A Slab About Being Held
Wanda Group Interview by Stefanie Van Rompaey Photos shot by Stephanie Jane and Louis Johnstone in Iceland
Captive’ on NNA Tapes. We proposed a chat, after his return from Iceland, and we’re delighted he accepted the invitation. Comme d’habitude, all caps
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Wanda Group. Continued Do you like cars? I remember an old track, ‘Maserati Gruppo’, and you also made music as a tribute to your car. MY DAD LOVES CARS. HE ALWAYS WANTED ME TO BE INTO CARS. I LIKED THE CAR FROM THE MOVIE CHRISTINE AND MY OLD BANGED UP PEUGEOT. I HAD RESPECT FOR IT. MY DAD USED TO TAKE ME TO LE MANS AS A LITTLE BOY. WE WOULD CAMP NEXT TO THE TRACK, AND HEAR CARS GOING PAST ALL THE TIME. You like the sound of cars? I GUESS I LIKE ANY SOUND REALLY. I HAVE A FEW CAR SOUNDS RECORDED IN MY RECORDS. MAINLY BECAUSE THEY ARE EVERYWHERE. LIKE SEAGULLS OR CHILDREN SHOUTING. I see you as the Brighton oracle, a being without a time zone. You’re musically very productive. Do you consider yourself a slow or a fast person? WOULD LOVE TO THINK OF MYSELF AS SLOW. I AINT. I TRY TO BE PEACEFUL INSIDE AND CALM BUT REALLY, I AINT. THE MUSIC IS A COMPLETELY FREEING THING. THE ONE THING I HAVE THAT I CAN DIVE INTO AND JUST GET FREE ON. A CLEANING SORT OF ACT. Do you see music as therapy? Is it hard work or does it pour out of you? IT CAN COME IN MANY WAYS. I GO OUT AND RECORD A LOT ON MY TAPE RECORDER. I THEN BRING IT ALL BACK AND GO THROUGH IT. THE FACT THAT I AM DOING SOMETHING WITH MY TIME IS THE GOOD THING. HAVING THIS LITTLE MOMENT WHERE NOBODY CAN RUIN IT OR GET IN THE WAY. MAYBE I LIKE TO HAVE A THEME ON WHAT I WANT IT TO BE ABOUT. THE DOGS, MY DAD, GIRLFRIEND, CARS OR WHATEVER. JUST AS A BUILDING BLOCK. SOMETHING TO MAKE A PATH OR A LITTLE MAP. MAYBE SOMETHING LIKE ‘I WANT THIS THING TO SOUND LIKE SOMEONE
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Wanda Group. Continued FOUND IT IN A DRAIN AND THEN PLAYED IT.’ That’s the synopsis of a story. You’re very much a writer: I get the feeling all your words, from track titles to your Twitter feed, form one big connected narrative. AN OBSESSION WITH WORDS, REALLY. THE WAY YOU CAN MAKE AMAZING LITTLE IMAGES WITH A SENTENCE OR A WORD. PUT FEAR INTO SOMEONE WITH A WORD OR MAKE THEM FEEL POWERFUL WITH A CERTAIN PHRASE. OR YOU CAN JUST TAKE THE PISS OUT OF IT. I LIKE THINGS THAT SOUND OVERLY POETIC BUT AINT. TWITTER IS JUST A WAY OF TELLING LITTLE STORIES, IDEAS OR EVEN LIES. I WISH MORE PEOPLE USED IT LIKE THAT. LIKE A PAINTING OR A BOOK ETC. You tweet a lot about your dad. Did he or your mother influence you musically? I AM THE ONLY ONE I KNOW IN OUR FAMILY WHO HAS DONE ANYTHING WITH MUSIC. I HAD THIS LITTLE TENT IN OUR GARDEN AND I WOULD MAKE RADIO SHOWS. I WOULD DO PRETEND ADVERTS FOR COKE COLA OR PETROL AND THEN PLAY SONGS AND STUFF. AND FROM THERE I GUESS I ENJOYED MUSIC AND SINGING AND THEN MAKING SOUNDS WITH ANYTHING I COULD. JUST EXPLORING. IT BECAME THE THING I FELL IN LOVE WITH AND I FELT LIKE EVEN IF I WAS GOOD OR BAD AT IT, IT WOULD BE FUN. Are your parents proud of you? I THINK THEY ARE JUST HAPPY WHEN I AM HAPPY. THEY WORRY ABOUT ME AS I TEND TO NOT EAT MUCH. LIKE, I LOST A LOT OF WEIGHT A FEW YEARS BACK AND THEY GOT ALL WORRIED. BUT IT WAS JUST BECAUSE I WAS WALKING ABOUT FOUR MILES A DAY. Wanda Group plays Courtisane Festival on 05 April at Minard in Ghent. The show is free for members.
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The Fast and The Furious Issue. Interview Since Gap Dream’s Gabriel Fulvimar relocated to Fullerton, California, shacking up at the Burger Records store, things really got up to speed. No more restaurant jobs, just jamming and getting the riffs
Gap Dream Interview by Maarten Van Nieuwenhove Photos shot by Steele O’Neal in LA, by the sunny poolside
right. He just played South by Southwest again, probably the most fast and furious week of the year. To relax, yoga isn’t an option. But as long as there’s pizza and some clean laundry, he’ll get by ‘Even if I wasn’t living at Burgers, I’d stop by every day’
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Gap Dream. Continued You guys played SXSW in March. How was it? The thing I was trying to do this year, was not to go down there with a suitcase full of dirty laundry, which I did last time. I’ve got a little bit of money too – not too much, but enough to get myself a slice of pizza or a taco every day. Last year I didn’t really have a place to stay, so I just starting sleeping wherever I could. How epic would you say SXSW is? God, it’s pretty crazy. The first time we did it we had no idea where we were, it was more or less a vacation. The second year, last year, people knew who we were, they wanted to come see us and we had lots of shows. We played ten or 12 shows. So this year Sean at Burger went easy on us and we only had to do a few nights, so nothing crazy, just to make sure we actually had a fun time. And does playing at SXSW really speed up a musical career? A lot of things came out of it last year, so it’s worth doing it. But it’s extremely difficult. There’s a lot of people, a lot of playing, a lot of partying, a lot of everything. People are buying you beer all the time, so you don’t have to worry about booze. But at the same time, you don’t wanna drink too much. It’s kind of tricky. Do you have any relaxation techniques? Do you ever meditate or do yoga? There ain’t time for that, man. I really do believe in the benefits of both, the healing aspects of it. But I’ve just never been around someone who inspired me to do it. ‘It’s running all the time’ you sing in ‘Chill Spot’. You swapped Ohio for California, but is it that easy-going? It’s definitely a lot buzzier up here. But the thing is, back in Ohio I wasn’t doing what I was put on the world to do. I worked in restaurants, time just went by without me doing what I had to. Fullerton’s right next to LA, but it’s in the suburbs. You just go see a show, stay
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out late, but you return to the quietness afterwards. Are you still living at the Burger Records store? Yeah, I’m still there. After SXSW we continue touring, like, for ever. But once we come back, I’m gonna start looking for a place. You know, an actual place. At least that’s the plan, ’cause I love it here. Otherwise I’d have to work this crappy job for 40 hours a week, just to be able to afford a place. Even if I wasn’t living at Burgers, I’d stop by every day. These guys are hooking me up with all the good stuff. Which guilty-pleasure movie, would you recommend to us? That has to be Don Dohler’s low-budget science fiction, like Galaxy Invader. At Burgers we’re watching movies all day. We’ve Gap Dream plays on 03 April at Madame Moustache in Brussels, and on 04 April at got tons of them. CPCR in Liège. Both shows are free for members.
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Excepter Interview by Koen van Bommel Photos shot by Robbie Brannigan in New York, USA
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Excepter’s new album, Familiar, is the experimental Brooklyn quartet’s 13th. With a body of work spanning more than a decade, the band has seen it’s fair share of line-up changes, going from a sextet to a quintet and finally a quartet. We caught up with the most stable element of the group, founder John Fell Ryan, to see what he thinks about bad advertising, branding, jingles and failed job interviews I was looking at your website, trying to find the merchandise section to maybe buy a T-shirt and some Excepter pens and buttons, but I couldn’t find it. What’s up with that? We made T-shirts before, but we sold them all. We do have a logo, so, uh, yeah... And how about putting that logo on, let’s say, your own bottled water? Yeah… I mean, we might make a canvas bag or something. It’s just that branding, I don’t know. Bands and brands are really kind of the same concept. Our main product is... the records. And possibly T-shirts. T-shirts are just advertisement. Well, not just advertisement – I mean, rock T-shirts are kind of like a tradition. But I remember there was a time in the ’90s when it wasn’t cool to wear them. None of the rock people would wear a rock T-shirt. Can you tell me a little about your corporate identity? Well, I make the designs for all the records, and they all look kind of the same, they all have illustrations and hand-drawn words.
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Excepter. Continued And other times it’s a photograph, usually of water. Or, like, a building or something. I always wanted the records to look like they belong together. Around the time Excepter started I was a big fan of Basic Channel, and all their records had the same look, a distorted, pixelated kind of mess. And I guess if you take it back to advertising, having a unified look with your records makes people feel like they have to have them all. Have you ever done design work for others? I did a logo once for another band, but they didn’t use it. And I designed a CD for William Parker, the jazz artist. It’s pretty weird, actually: that’s the only cover design I ever made for someone else. I’ve done some layout work, but that’s not really creative. It just requires that you’re able to use Photoshop. At one point in my life I tried to get advertising work, as a copywriter. That was the worst job interview I’ve ever had. Why? Basically they said, ‘If you really wanted this job, you would have it already. You can show yourself out.’ Has your music ever been featured in a commercial? One of our songs was used in the Vice television show. In the episode about Indian call centres, I think. It plays in a scene when they’re in a club, the reporter goes out and gets drunk with a call centre crew. I guess he was an Excepter fan and decided to just slip it in. But for a commercial? No. Would you want that? Well, we have a couple of songs I think would make good jingles. If it wasn’t for, you know, the beatnik postmodernism we drizzle on top of things. But some of the tracks are the kind of catchy, dorky stuff that I always like. You probably don’t know what I’m talking about, but, like, ripping off The Banana Splits theme song. It’s this
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‘Well, we have a couple of songs I think would make good jingles’ kids’ show from the late ’70s. The song goes, like: ‘One banana, two banana, three banana, four. Five banana, six banana, seven out the door.’ It had big furry guys in costumes. That sounds amazing. I only saw it once, though. I have a respect for jingles and for advertising as well, but it’s always just so terrible. There’s this ad campaign in the subway in New York, it’s for the tourism board. And it says: ‘There’s more to New York’, and they show places that aren’t New York City, and what they have to offer for tourists. And then they have, like, theatre in Buffalo. That’s a very isolated town near the Canadian border. Not a place where a tourist would go to see theatre. ‘Oh, I was thinking of going to Broadway, but I think I’ll go to a completely isolated town far away.’ Doesn’t make any sense. You can almost see how these ideas come about. You can see the boardroom. You can see the 12 people pitching out ideas. And eventually it’s their job. They have to say yes to something. Well, maybe if they had a really good jingle, it would help entice people to go all the way to Buffalo... Maybe if they hired me, so I could say: ‘Listen, idiots, this doesn’t make any fucking sense.’ But that’s from an artist’s perspective. And art has no business with advertising.
Excepter plays on 26 April at Vooruit in Ghent. The show is free for members.
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Featured Artist
Simon van Parys Simon van Parys (1986), is a sculptor who not only likes The Fast and the Furious, but also the works of classical painters such as Rembrandt. Living and working in Ghent, Van Parys finds inspiration in speed, public transport and viaducts; all of which are perceivable in his work. His body of work is nothing romantic, just vast, dark, stylised pieces measuring up to two metres long. Working meticulously, his elaborate drawings and sketches precede his sculptures. ‘In order to communicate, it is essential to develop your language,’ Van Parys states. But in the end, no anecdote remains. It fades away. The sculpture remains as such: purified, alone. And the spectator is free to pad out that space simonvanparys.be 34
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Books text and artwork by Gabriela González
Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen and Candy Stripe Nurses Roger Corman: King of the B Movie by Chris Nashawaty Offscreen Film Festival came and went, but B-movie aficionados need not despair. Film journalist Chris Nashawaty’s latest work chronicles the life and legacy of director and producer Roger Corman, king of the B movie and the single person most likely to be responsible for your favourite cult flick. Born into the frugal mindset of Great Depression America, Corman studied industrial engineering only to quit his first job after four days and jump impetuously into a dream world of teenage rebels, insectoid monsters, Edgar Allan Poe lore and freewheelin’ agents of counterculture. Crab Monsters dives deep into the Corman mythos, supplying eager film freaks with hundreds of movie stills and poster reproductions as well as images from Corman’s personal
archives. Nashawaty interviews over 60 of the man’s closest collaborators, as well as prominent alumni of the so-called School of Corman, which includes Francis Ford Coppola, Monte Hellman, Martin Scorsese and Peter Fonda. Known for his style of shooting on the cheap and cranking out dozens of caffeine-fuelled pictures, Corman built his legend on stories of hitting Big Sur for LSD with Jack Nicholson, coaxing a young actor to play both an Indian and the cowboy who kills him, shooting William Shatner’s white supremacy scenes in an actual black neighbourhood, getting the Hells Angels to give pointers for biker movies, and the singular conversations one can have with the guy in the piranha suit who’s gurgling fake blood.
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Courtisane Festival 02-06 April
This year’s edition of Ghent’s annual film, video and media art festival promises to be an especially interesting one. As always, Courtisane Festival offers a large number of screenings aiming to create a dialogue between new and old work. A cinephile’s wet dream, the festival draws attention to filmmakers on the margins of cinema, who are incessantly rethinking their craft and broadening our horizons in the process. Artist in focus this year is American experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs, and there will also be carefully selected programmes with work by Wang Bing, Mati Diop, Robert Beavers and Bruce Baillie amongst many others. Two special programmes focus on the post-colonial and the militant image with talks, performances and screenings. Music lovers will be glad to hear several (re)discoveries are to be made at Courtisane festival, with performances by Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda, Julius Eastman, Wanda Group, Christina Vantzou and more. Courtisane is held at various locations around Ghent. Have a look at the full programme and the trailers on www.courtisane.be
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Films
Otar losseliani
Otar losseliani shorts
Taste of Cherry
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Those who missed the Iosseliani retrospective at Cinematek should go see the selection of his short films this month. Apart from early fictional work there are a couple of documentaries more than worth your while. Appearing at first glance to be straightforward chronicles of disappearing ways of life, they are actually musical observations, reflecting on the obsoleteness of a rural sense of freedom that transcends the Georgia of the 1960s. Screenings at Cinematek, Brussels, on 29 & 30 April.
Abbas Kiarostami - 1997
The House is Black Forough Farrokhzad - 1963 Two Iranian films by two very different poets are double-billed here. Both confront us with fundamental questions about life and death, each in their idiosyncratic scripture, yet nevertheless pertain to similar grounds of documentary poetry as a continuous re- writing of the real. Kiarostami’s film won the Palme d’Or. Playing at Cinema Zuid on 24 April.
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TIM HECKER / Support: Ben Vida - Balzaal
Een krakende deur naar een andere wereld van spookachtige drones en woeste geluidsuitbarstingen.
SIR RICHARD BISHOP / CIAN NUGENT & THE COSMOS / FLOWER-CORSANO - Balzaal
Onorthodox solo gitaarspel, fingerpicking en hyperkinetische drumaanvallen en dat allemaal op één avond.
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MARISSA NADLER - Domzaal Dromerige folk die door merg en been gaat.
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EXCEPTER - Emielstudio
Exclusieve provocerende live show met een mix van improvisatie, krautrock en abstracte postpunk.
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Inch Nails show? No worries: Texan trio True Widow is here to make you forget you’re in mourning. Their heavy, slow ‘stonegaze’ music will surely take you to a moody, mysterious dream world. Ominous, and yet still soothing, Belgium’s own Inwolves provide us with an interesting and wistful support act.
03 April - Madame Moustache, Brussels 20.00 | €5 | Free for members 04 April - CPCR, Liège (Jauneorange) 20.00 | €7 | Free for members Another Burger Records babe coming your way. Frontman Gabriel Fulvimar lives inside a record store that also happens to be his label’s office. His long wavy hair and colourful Bono-reminiscent sunglasses match Gap Dream’s dreamy surfer/skater synth-pop perfectly. Prepare for a fun, hazy basement night of inert psychedelic guitar riffs and vintage synthesizer sounds.
Festival: Jazzeux
04-05 April - Beursschouwburg, Brussels 19.30 | €30 | Free for members
True Widow + Inwolves
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Jazzeux is a two-day ode to quirky crossover projects. The stage will be packed with Belgian, French and Austrian musicians, with 11 bands bringing you loads of jazz. But then again, sometimes they won’t. It’ll be jazz with a twist, that’s why it’s called Jazzeux. Get ready for an unknown mixture, for something in between – for some-
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thing entre les deux, as the French say so nicely. On the bill: Black Flower, Too Noisy Fish, Xavier Dubois, Dans Dans, Guillaume Perret and Electric Epic.
hisses. The classically schooled Christina Vantzou, meanwhile, brings her new album N°2, with dense layers of strings, synths and woodwind.
Wanda Group + Christina Vantzou
Nick Waterhouse
06 April - Botanique, Brussels 20.00 | €20 | Free for members
05 April - Minard (Courtisane), Ghent 22.00 | €10 | Free for members If someone deserves a prize for catchy and original album titles, it’s Louis Johnstone, aka Wanda Group. As Get Hypotenuse or Tense and Piss Fell Out Like Sunlight prove, the man’s creativity clearly isn’t limited to the spectre of sound. Coming in this trademark greystone album artwork, Wanda Group’s releases feature textured ambient, with mesmerising distortions, crackles and
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Snap your fingers, tap yer toes, Nick Waterhouse is in the house! (Sorry, couldn’t resist.) This Californian guitarist and singer is a refreshing new voice in the world of rock’n’roll. His jazzy guitar playing, brisk saxophones and rumbling tom-toms will always churn with the right degree of roadhouse charm. One thing’s for sure; Mr Waterhouse will surely make you boogie-woogie.
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Film: Only Lovers Left Alive
Tim Hecker: 13 April
Film: Only Lovers Left Alive
Tim Hecker + Ben Vida
11 April - Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 18.00 | €5 | Free for members
13 April - Vooruit, Ghent 20.00 | €17 | Free for members
When it comes to vampires, we can all agree that we’re fed up with Sookie Stackhouse. But do we really want to say goodbye to our cocky fanged friends? Of course not. Luckily there’s Jim Jarmusch, to whom we own Mystery Train, Coffee and Cigarettes and Broken Flowers. He’s bringing us Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as an exquisitely pale double act. A lethargic comedy about two undead who have been in love for centuries and still keep the spark alive.
In his hands, Tim Hecker holds the musical key to another world. Experimental structured ambient, electronic music for cathedrals or musically shifting tectonic colour plates: call it whatever you like, you’ll be captivated by the dissonant though melodic noise this Canadian produces. Hecker will be presenting his latest release, Virgins, whereas modular synthesizer artist Ben Vida will be creating a ceremonial wall of sound. Prepare yourself for a very powerful drone.
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Boogarins
Quilt + The Spectors
13 April - Charlatan (Democrazy), Ghent 20.00 | €12 | Free for members
17 April - Charlatan (Democrazy), Ghent 20.00 | €14 | Free for members
Sure, the boys of Boogarins are Brazilian, but don’t expect them to play samba or bossa nova. Catchy psychedelic pop is their trademark and their record Plantas que curam will make you feel all sunny inside. Take a closer look at that album title. You don’t have to be a genius to figure out these boys really love their herbs. No, there’s no denying it: after the Boogarins concert, you’ll definitely be in high spirits.
Pick the right title and believe in self-fulfilling prophecies, it’ll get you far, as Quilt proves: sophomore album Held in Splendour can definitely count on some splendid reviews. Of course, it does help that this American foursome created some pretty awesome folky psychedelica. From ‘Arctic Shark’ to ‘Tie Up the Tides’, Quilt consistently releases warm tunes that have the same dreamlike, hazy quality as Tame Impala’s, albeit with a calmer vibe.
Film: Bitches at the Movies
Prurient + Russell Haswell
17 April - KASK Cinema, Ghent 20.00 | €8 | Free for members A double bill with some nasty bitches. What more could you wish for on a Thursday night? Heck, any night for that matter! In the ’60s classic What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Bette Davis, playing a former child star, loves tormenting her disabled sister (Joan Crawford). Even in real life, these two foxy ladies couldn’t stand each other. Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn provide you with some delightful cat fights in Robert Zemeckis’ ’90s comedy, Death Becomes Her.
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25 April - AB, Brussels 20.00 | €15 | Free for members On his latest album, Through the Window, Dominick Fernow (Cold Cave, Vatican Shadow) embraces noise, metal and even doom techno, mixing it all together in a thrilling cocktail that’s blacker than black. Russell Haswell previously collaborated with Aphex Twin and Florian Hecker and brings you extreme noise that’s so intense your skull might shatter. When it comes to these two, earplugs won’t get you far.
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Quilt: 17 April
Excepter: 26 April
Film: Peter Taylor
Excepter tours Europe rarely, so you’d better grab your chance to see these guys live. The basement of Vooruit will prove to be an excellent venue for the provocative live show of this Brooklyn outfit. Combining improvisation, krautrock, dubby synth noises, abstract postpunk and electro, Excepter creates a unique vibe. Familiar, released at the beginning of this year, is no less than the musical jungle you always wanted to explore.
28 April - OFFoff, Ghent 20.30 | €6.50 | Free for members This evening Peter Taylor, curator at WORM, the Rotterdam institute for everything underground, will provide you with some adventurous movie material. Taylor is an expert when it comes to illegal movie copies, filmic curiosities and radical experiments. So beware: this ain’t going to be your regular movie night out.
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26 April – Vooruit, Ghent 20.00 | €12 | Free for members
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What else is on this month On the following pages you’ll find a fine selection of concerts, festivals and exhibitions taking place around the country. Festival: Courtisane 02-06 April - various locations, Ghent Plenty of adventurous movies and music, from Japanese shaman Akio Suzuki to Wanda Group’s ambient and a live performances of Julius Eastman’s legendary piano compositions.
find the true you together with the eight dancers on-stage. Music: Angel Olson + La Luz 04 April - STUK, Leuven Intimate songwriting, bare-bones harmonies and hypnotic rhythm acoustic guitar: Angel Olson is definitely more than Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s sidekick.
Music: Omar Souleyman 03 April - Trix, Antwerp He used to be the one and only musical choice for Syrian Weddings, but now Souleyman claps his hands to his groovy future folk on stages all over the world.
Festival: Motel Mozaïque ft. Kurt Vile + Eagulls + Angel Olson + more 04-05 April - various locations, Rotterdam Motel Mozaïque showcases the new and upcoming movements in different art disciplines and the crossovers between. On the bill: Asgeir, Nick Waterhouse and many more.
Music: Yung Lean and his Sad Boys 03 April - Kavka, Antwerp 08 April - Muziekodroom, Hasselt Inspired by a diet of chips, Pepsi and Nintendo games, Yung Lean raps about popping pills like Tic Tacs, his love for Pokémon and bucket hats. Together with his Sad Boys, Yung Sherman and Yung God, this Swede will be serving up some pretty weird beats, all whilst sipping on an Arizona Iced Tea.
Music: Veronica Vasicka + many more 05 April - Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels The lost sounds of analogue synthesizers, ’70s and ’80s cold-wave electronics and Italo disco: Vasicka collects these gems on her Minimal Wave label and presents her own music.
Theatre: The Dog Days Are Over 03-04 April - Campo, Ghent When someone’s jumping, you’ll get to see his true face – or so says choreographer Jan Martens. Be a bunny and
Festival: Sonic Protest Brussels 09-10 April - Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels French Festival Sonic Protest is in the country for two days, with cold-
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Music: Dead Coast + The Scrap Dealers 10 April - The Pit’s, Kortrijk Rolling their surf rock up in a laid-back, bluesy psych beat, Dead Coast takes you on a nostalgia trip. They’re the British counterpart to smooth SF rockers Allah-Las.
Festival: More Music 16-19 April - Concertgebouw, Brugge An atmospheric and mind-movin’ trip, with performances by acclaimed multimedia artists Christian Marclay and Herman Kolgen; John Kameel Farah’s mixture of electro and classical piano tunes; Amatorski; Madensuyu and Mount Kimbie.
Theatre: Your Brother, Remember? 11-12 April - Beursschouwburg, Brussels Zachary Oberzan, member of Nature Theater of Oklahoma, uses the life of action star Jean-Claude Van Damme to tell his acclaimed tale of family deterioration and redemption.
Theatre: Tauerbach 16-27 April - NTGent, Gent 30 April-03 May - KVS, Brussels Inspired by a choir of deaf people and a schizophrenic woman living in a dumpster, choreographer Alain Platel shows an apocalyptic world.
Music: Kurt Vile 11 April - Vooruit, Ghent You’ll walk out of Vooruit in a pretty daze thanks to Philadelphian Kurt Vile’s soothing guitar sounds.
Music: Marissa Nadler 17 April - Vooruit, Ghent Nadler’s sixth full-length, July, spills over with dreamy folk and eerie wonder, balancing between lightness and tear-stained darkness.
Music: Hauschka 12 April - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels Modifying it with table tennis balls and rustling scraps of paper, German pianist Hauschka playfully explores the seemingly endless possibilities of this classical instrument.
Film: Elizabeth Price 17 April - Beurrsschouwburg, Brussel Being a former band member of Talulah Gosh, Price’s video art has a remarkable focus, drive and atmosphere.
Film: Tom à la ferme Release date: 16 April French-Canadian wonder kid Xavier Dolan comes up with one hell of a psychological thriller. A city boy trav-
Music: Christina Vantzou 18 April - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels Vantzou will present N°2, featuring
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What else is on this month Performance: Kuiperskaai 25 April - Art Cinema OFFoff, Ghent Art platform Kuiperskaai brings together different art disciplines. For OFFoff they’ll be curating an exclusive live performance.
spacious neo-classical compositions with dense layers of strings, woodwinds and synthesizers. Festival: Record Store Day 19 April - all over the country Cruise the streets, drop by at your favourite record stores and enjoy the gigs and overall good vibes.
Music: True Widow + Pontiak 26 April - Trix, Antwerp Lose your breath with True Widow’s stonegaze, a combination of doom, grunge and slowcore. The boys of Pontiak grow heavier and noisier with every record.
Festival: Incest 19 April - SunBakedSnowCave, Ghent Oorpijn reunites all of the SunBakedSnowCave bands: stoner, grunge and doom, powered by Mystical Sun, Atomic Vulture and GRiMWaLD.
Music: BOZAR Night 30 April - BOZAR, Brussels At BOZAR they like to mix things up.That’s why you can take in Zurbarán’s baroque art and Borremans’ mysterious images whilst tapping your foot to some outstanding beats. - those ofDracula Lewis and Sewn Leather for example!
Music: A Late Night With Laika 19 April - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels A remarkably luscious night with cult figure Jandek’s strangely atonal folk, Oneohtrix Point Never’s exquisite plus 7 beats and Adrian Utley’s Guitar Orchestra.
Festival: Mayday Mayday 2014 30 April-02 May - Campo, Ghent Art students from KASK, Rits and Sint-Lucas take over each and every corner of Campo Victoria. Everything’s possible; everything’s allowed. And it’s all free.
Theatre: Midday and Eternity (The Time Piece) 23-24 April - Vooruit, Ghent Eleanor Bauer takes you for a ride between science fiction and good old choreography. She’ll reinvent the future. Yes, triangles and shiny fabric will be involved. Expo: Anything can B_A car 24 April-27 May, Recyclart, Brussels People do whatever it takes to keep their parking spot free, and they’ll improvise the goofiest constructions when needed.
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Gap Dream 03 April Madame Moustache, Brussels 20.00 | €5 | Free for members 04 April CPCR, Liège (Jauneorange) 20.00 | €7 | Free for members
04 April
True Widow + Inwolves De Kreun, Kortrijk 20.00 | €15 | Free for members
04-05 April
Festival: Jazzeux Beursschouwburg, Brussels 19.30 | €30 | Free for members
05 April
Wanda Group + Christina Vantzou Minard (Courtisane), Ghent 22.00 | €10 | Free for members
06 April
Nick Waterhouse
11 April
Film: Only Lovers Left Alive Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 18.00 | €5 | Free for members
13 April
Tim Hecker + Ben Vida Vooruit, Ghent 20.00 | €17 | Free for members
13 April
Boogarins Charlatan (Democrazy), Ghent 20.00 | €12 | Free for members
25 April
Prurient + Russell Haswell AB, Brussels 20.00 | €15 | Free for members
26 April
Excepter Vooruit, Ghent 20.00 | €12 | Free for members
28 April
Film: Peter Taylor OFFoff, Ghent 20.30 | €6.50 | Free for members
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17 April
Film: Bitches at the Movies KASK Cinema, Ghent 20.00 | €8 | Free for members
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Quilt + The Spectors Charlatan (Democrazy), Ghent 20.00 | €14 | Free for members
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