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Subbacultcha! Magazine December 2014 and January 2015
The Maverick Issue
Remember being the odd one out? No? Oh come on, you’ve been there. And so have we. So this issue is a tribute to all the non-conformists out there, the mavericks. First, it’s time for some DIY silk-screen printing, customising that ‘I’m different and I like it’ slogan shirt. Then skip the dip-dying, instead opting for fully cyan hair. Grab your cape-like coat with its embroidered Ming Dynasty dragons and – optional – apply some sparkly star-shaped stickers at the corners of your eyes to complete the look. Perfect, you’re gonna rise and shine. Now go rush to one of our winter shows!
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WIFE page 14
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Saint Pepsi page 27
Scene Report Berlin page 30 Recommendations 09 We Visit You 12 Featured Artist 36 Books 42
Films 44 Subbacultcha! shows 49 Agenda 59 Overview 62
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December + January Recommendations Each month our staff provides you with a selection of the finer things in life. Enjoy!
Afripedia
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Been on the look-out for some fresh inspiration? From transgender Kuduro queen Titica to all-round provocateur Nástio Mosquito, the Afripedia series will definitely provide the spark you need. Produced by the Swedish collective Stocktown, named for a visual guide to all things creative made by African wunderkinder worldwide, this fascinating TV series features five episodes, shot in Kenya, Ghana, Angola, Senegal and South Africa. Unless you live in Sweden, for now you’ll have to make do with the eye candy and food for thought the trailers provide. Soon, you’ll be able to watch the full episodes online as well.
What’s moist, warm, soft and awesome? That’s right: FOEF! It’s the new party in town, organised by long-time Subbacultcha! buddies who decided to set course to Port DIY and organise a party themselves. The wind’s in their sails, ’cause for the first edition they’re having TOPS over, the babely Canadian band that’ll surely put your sea legs to the test. Join them for a night to remember in the Bay of Gays, aka Casa Rosa, in the centre of Ghent on 13 December. Sashay! Shantay!
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December + January Recommendations Arca - Xen
develop as artists. Remaining organic and raw, like fresh meat, and focusing on instinct are the main characteristics of the collective. The events will be organised at a different venue each time. Vlees. grew from an urge for innovation, and its nomadic character is rather distinctive. Its first event, on 25 October, exhibited work by photographers Tom Callemin and Julie van der Vaart, one-man-band Bear Bones, Lay Low and more.
Arca, also known as a DJ and producer (for, among others, Kanye West and Björk’s next album), released his first LP, Xen, this November, after the successful self-produced mixtape &&&&& in 2013. This talented 24-year-old London-based Venezuelan seems to like sleek monsters and deformed bodies (visual artwork by Jesse Kanda) for a record that’s electronically complex and full of unusual time signatures. Obscure but also glowing, using several layers of synths and rhythm, Xen takes the listener on a space trip, through the stars and above the moon, like a translation of sci-fi literature into music.
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Denmark isn’t a sunny country, and listening to Copenhagen’s Hari Shankar Kishore, aka HVAD, you’ll feel every single raindrop. The Syg Nok Records boss has an insatiable thirst to reinvent him-
Ghent has a fresh, independent art collective called vlees., which offers a platform for young artists. During events, participants showcase their work and
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December + January Recommendations Aksak Maboul Ex-Futur Album
self, kicking shins wherever he goes – think Venetian Snares, Aphex Twin or Coil. His latest work for Berlin imprint Janus, aptly titled JANUS002, is so dark, disturbing and full of bass that the hairs on the back of your neck will stand on end for a week, all the while flying through an arsenal of screaming women, faraway church bells, rumbling thunder and distant memories of better times. Miraculously, he’s kept the breakcore feel, going for the slow kill in full effect. soundcloud.com/janusberlin/hvadjanus002
Nothing is more exciting than news about old cult bands bringing out new material, even if it was recorded over 30 years ago. And Aksak Maboul certainly has cult status. Founded in 1977 by Vincent Kenis and Marc Hollander (also founder of Crammed Discs records), Aksak Maboul used jazz, rock, folk and electronics to create a whole new, weird world of sounds and melodies. In the early ’80s, Aksak Maboul got absorbed into The Honeymoon Killers, but not before recording Ex-Futur Album with Veronique Vincent, The Honeymoon Killers’ future vocalist. It’s weird, avantgarde electro pop, and it gets a release at Crammed Discs. Finally!
Mischa Pavlovski Recommended to us by Lust For Youth’s Hannes, Mischa Pavlovski is definitely worth the discovery. His musical background is as diverse as his origins: he’s Russian and Swedish but based in Copenhagen. Pavlovski played in punk bands, listened to black metal and later discovered classical and electronic music. Since 2012 he’s been busy writing deep noises. The result is a stunning piece of minimal, ambient techno. Listen to Kapitel in full, a true joy of 40 heavy, desolated and paranoid minutes. soundcloud.com/selftitledmag/sets/ mischa-pavlovski-kapitel-lp
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We Visit You: Sanne De Troyer Photo by Jente Maes
22tracks and LDBK Radio. It’s easy to discover new music, but also great to rediscover older songs. I’m always drawn to music with psychedelic, lo-fi or minimal sounds to it. What’s the first record you bought? Oops, that has to be a Michael Jackson’s Best Of, back when you could still buy records in the supermarket, next to the albums of relaxing sounds. Your first ever music-related memory? The cassettes my parents played when we were going on holiday by car, which were mostly a mix of Eurythmics, Bruce Springsteen, R.E.M., Tina Turner and, yes, Bryan Adams. Any guilty pleasures? Buying Kinder eggs for myself. Any regrets recently? Not really, regrets are to do better next time. Which future Subbacultcha! show are you looking forward to? I’m curious to see Dan Bodan, on 18 December at Madame Moustache. He makes this kind of dreamy synthwave music.
Name: Sanne De Troyer Age: 28 Zodiac sign: Capricorn BF’s website: www.rvschnebelen.com Tell us, what do you do in life? I work as a press officer for a communications agency in Brussels, Be Culture. In addition to that, I love spending my time at concerts. What projects are you working on? I work on several projects at the same time, but they’re all culture-related such as concert venues, art galleries, festivals, theatre companies… What inspires you? My friends and my love; looking up instead of down while taking a walk – and listening to good music, of course! What do you like best about your place? The old leather sofa I claimed from my boyfriend, in our living room. It’s the perfect place to read a book with a coffee or to listen to music. Tell us what’s unique about you. I always try to be myself, but if there’s something unique about me, I think it’s up to others to tell me about this ‘unique’ thing. What kind of music are you listening to at the moment? I listen a lot to the mixes by
Every month we visit a Subbacultcha! member’s place. If you want us to visit you, please send an email to magazine@ subbacultcha.be
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The Maverick Issue. Interview Leaving a black-metal band to fully dedicate yourself to an electronic music project is one way of getting yourself labelled a maverick. James Kelly of WIFE is clearly adventurous and non-conformist in his own
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way. The latest addition to the Tri Angle Records roster doesn’t believe in ghosts, but does compose hauntingly beautiful songs. We talked bucket lists and living in the wild, and opted for a summery look in wintertime ‘I’d love to go on a submarine one day to take a trip into the depths of the ocean’ 15
WIFE. Continued Hey James! Have you done anything unusual lately? Well, yesterday I was in a gondola, but that isn’t particularly wild. I live in London now and I grew up on the countryside. And when I lived there I did a lot of hiking and went hunting with my father and my dog. And now instead of that, I go shopping for clothes and visit cocktail bars. It kills your sense of adventure. Would you still be able to hunt your own food, though? I would, but firing a rifle in the centre of London would get me in a lot of trouble. What are your fondest memories of living in the wild? Growing up, my friends and I would go to another farmer’s land and steal bags of crops to bring home. The farmer would chase us with a gun. I also remember we all chipped in and bought an old beat-up motorbike. We brought that into the fields and would fly around on it. Do you still have a bucket list now that you’ve grown up? I’d love to go on a submarine one day to take a trip into the depths of the ocean. I wonder how that would be psychologically. People are afraid of flying because you’re so high in the air, but this is reversed. You don’t want to be on a submarine when things go wrong. I imagine you’re a person who lives by the moment. Are you? Yeah, when you live in a city there’s a bit more room for error. Before I moved to London I actually lived in a jungle in Costa Rica for four months. I was living in a tent with no electricity or running water. On a trip like that, I had to do a lot of planning because there’s no room for error at all. Once I got to the place I wasn’t going to be taken back to a city where I could get supplies. To be adventurous, you have to watch a scary movie once in a while. What’s the most frightful thing you’ve witnessed? I’ve been to some places where you can feel an old energy. Back
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WIFE. Continued ‘A lot of people are wasting years because they become content and lose sight of the things they want to achieve in life’ in December I was recording on an island off the east coast of England with The Haxan Cloak. It’s a really creepy location, and there’s nobody there except for a caretaker. It’s used for horror films a lot and there are loads of unsettling stories about it. We were in the living room of the house and we heard this huge bang and crash. There was no logical explanation for what happened. I studied science in university, though. It trains your brain to know that there’s always a logical explanation for things. I think that keeps me from being superstitious. Do you have any demons you still have to face? I honestly don’t think I’m afraid of anything. Committing to Wife and leaving a band that was already successful was kind of a brave move. Some people think the best had yet to come but in my opinion I had to stick to my commitment. The time had come, so in my own sense that was kind of adventurous. Do you have any last advice on keeping life adventurous? Don’t overthink things, be a little bit reckless, and also don’t be afraid once in a while to take stock of what you’ve done, and who you are. A lot of people are wasting years because they become content and lose sight of the things they want to achieve in life.
WIFE plays on 12 December at De Kreun in Kortrijk. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.
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The Maverick Issue. Interview On the surface, the music of Dan Bodan radiates an amorous, tender sensuality, but to go so far as to call it ‘romantic’ is reductive in the worst way. Whatever you do, don’t be fooled by the fact that his latest
Dan Bodan Interview by Deva Rao Photos shot by Martin Thacker in Berlin, Germany
full-length is titled Soft – there’s a jarring friction to his lyrical subject matter, like nails cleaving a lover’s back. With that in mind, we jumped right in and talked sacrifice, change and limitations ‘I don’t like to repeat myself in life, and I don’t want to repeat myself in music’
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Dan Bodan. Continued Do you feel you’ve ever had to make concessions artistically? Only when it comes to not having enough money to produce what I want or have it produced the way I want. But content, never. It’s never a good look to do that, and people can always tell if you’ve compromised. I recently had to scrap this big-budget video because I thought it looked terrible – or rather, felt terrible – and I have absolutely no reservations. It would have been such a huge misstep and would have muddied the vision of what I’m trying to do. What was its concept? How would it have undermined your vision? It was a big sci-fi video, and two close friends came up with a very articulate concept [for it]. Unfortunately, we hired the wrong director for the project and it became this big, un-affecting mess that no one would fix. So I dumped it. Apparently you originally intended to make Soft a dancier, EDMbased record… why’d you dump that? For the same reason: it just wasn’t working so we tried a different approach and it clicked. I don’t like to just kill projects, if something’s not working it’s an opportunity to try something new. Once we got into the studio we had all this material and it quickly became obvious that what I thought was gonna work, wasn’t. Then, when we finally decided on the album title, there was this eureka moment and we knew exactly how to finish it. Did you at any point experience a ‘no turning back’ moment in terms of pursuing music as a career? I think when I realised there was the possibility to make my living from it. Not a very comfortable living, but an exciting one. [Otherwise I would] sell my soul to the art world or work in a call centre… What are some of the most significant sacrifices you’ve had to make in the name of your art? My sanity… just kidding. I don’t party so much any more, but that
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Dan Bodan. Continued ‘I just wanted to be young, and in Berlin you could be young without it costing anything’ isn’t so much because of my art; I’m just kinda bored of partying all the time. I don’t feel like I’ve sacrificed anything. Did the desire to make art influence your move to Berlin? Does change drive creation for you? No, I was studying conceptual art in Prague and that was terrible, so after six months I hopped on a train to Berlin. I just wanted to be young, and in Berlin you could be young without it costing anything. I don’t like to repeat myself in life, and I don’t want to repeat myself in music. You have to go out and make the changes yourself sometimes. Would you consider emotional attachment to be a weakness? It’s a weakness if it’s doing you or someone else harm, but it’s incredible strength otherwise. What aspect of your personality do you feel holds you back most? I can’t really answer that; what holds me back is probably also the thing that makes me distinct. I wish I didn’t worry about money all the time but that’s not really something in me that I can change. What changes have you forced yourself to make most recently? Waking up earlier, doing things in the day. My twenties were very much ‘of the night’, and that was absolutely amazing… but I wanna see things in the sun. Word on the street is you have beef with Proust… care to elaborate? No, I just dated a jerk who was obsessed with him. I’m glad we cleared the air. Dan Bodan plays on 18 December at Madame Moustache in Brussels. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.
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Saint Pepsi by Jonas de Ruytter
Soulful, hot and sensually danceable: that’s just what Saint Pepsi’s exquisite liquiddisco tunes are. Like a true Mario Kart 64 magician, Ryan DeRobertis incorporates plenty of unorthodox sounds in ’em, all whilst sampling those wonderfully old pop songs. Making different eras collide, this 21-year-old just wants you to ride that feel-good wave, straight down Rainbow Road. After Hit Vibes and Gin City, the NYbased producer released his Fiona Coyne / Fall Harder EP this summer, as a Carpark Records signee. So we’re gonna dance like it’s 2099. You got your Miami Vice groove on already?
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Saint Pepsi plays Het Bos, Antwerp on 09 December. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.
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The Maverick Issue. Scene Report
Scene Report Berlin
Text by Anastazja Filipovna & Sarah Miles, Berlin Community Radio Photos shot by Anastazja Filipovna in Berlin
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Always been curious about the music scene in other cities outside your own little cocoon? We assumed you were! Every month we’ll feed your hunger for insights and secrets in the Scene Report. Anastazja & Sarah, from Berlin Community Radio, have been living in Germany’s capital for almost six years now, and truly are the city tour guides of your dreams We’re both DJs, and over a year ago we started Berlin Community Radio (BCR), an online radio station that now has over 60 live shows, presented by a selection of amazing Berliners. For the past four years we’ve been interviewing DJs and producers for our radio show Welcome To The Room, which we used to set up in a tiny club in Kreuzberg. At the beginning of October BCR found a new home in Mitte’s ACUD, an old squat-turned-alternative culture centre-turned-allthings-music office, club and art space. We’re very happy here, and especially enjoying reclaiming this yuppie neighbourhood with our Neukölln-born radio station. It’s difficult to write generalisations about this city, as it contradicts itself all the time. We feel the essence of Berlin is the X-turned-Y storyline, with a unique ability to change, adapt and develop. One thing that sticks is that it’s easy to get used to the quality of life – and especially the quality of going out. It also feels like a great place to be a musician, and according to those we’ve been lucky enough to interview, it’s far less competitive and exclusive than places like London or NYC. Having said that, bands in Berlin have a bit of a hard life. Because electronic music is still the predominant scene, with an abun-
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Scene Report. Continued dance of clubs – renowned around the world – there are far fewer live venues. There’s Urban Spree, which has steady line-ups and works with promoters like Shameless/Limitless, who organise regular events there. Also the good old West Germany, Bassy and our new home ACUD present good live concerts. N.K., in deep Neukölln, offers highly experimental and noise shows, and both Berghain and its smaller Kantine put on good events, But the city is still looking to fill the hole left by Festsaal Kreuzberg, a beloved venue run by Kottbuser Tor that sadly burnt down and is now being turned into offices. For bands we love, you can check out the roster of a radio show we started this year called Welcome To Berlin: Black Cracker the mystical poet-rapper; Magic Island, sparkling pop fairy; UMA, the German-Austrian duo; Dan Bodan, an incredible vocalist who’s worked with some strong local producers; Easter, the androgynous multitasking duo; Mystical Communication Service, South American folk and rock’n’roll band; and Jaakko Eino – the most recent Berlin transplant from Finland, who can make as good pop and jazz as modern dance. We feel very lucky to have some fantastic artists doing regular shows on BCR and would like to shout them out here: Stones Throw’s Anika, the charismatic vocalist & producer; KYNN, a post-punk band not to be missed live; Heatsick, the artist-turned-musician whose instruments include a Casio keyboard, his baritone and a bottle of Chanel No.5; Marlais, the experimental electronic one-man live act; Alis, the RBMA alumni producer and singer; Draveng, who is a multitalented artist also responsible for our party promo videos; Moon Wheel, the spiritual New Age techno live set; Terekke, the floaty grey-haired boy in love with drums; Laurel Halo, who recently destroyed Berghain with her live techno set; Pale Male, whose first ever performance we saw live and fell in love with the intensity of, and also shout outs to
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Scene Report. Continued ‘It’s difficult to write generalisations about this city, as it contradicts itself all the time’
Amnesia Scanner – a new live project – and TCF, another artist-musician who has been a guest on a few shows in the past. The art scene in Berlin is really strong. Berlin Art Week sees more events and parties happening than the often forgotten and ridiculed Berlin Fashion Week. Up-and-coming artists show their work in art spaces in Schöneberg, the district around Potsdamerstrasse densely populated by both galleries and street walkers. Be sure to check out urban culture-inspired artist Ilja Karilampi’s video ‘Hendrix Incident’. When we’re not manning the station we can be found on
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The Maverick Issue tour checking out these galleries, or downstairs in the bar of ACUD or playing pool at Bierbaroness in Neuköln, or watching 3D movies in the sci-fi Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz. In the summer Berlin is the best city because of the many beautiful lakes surrounding it, and in the evenings we sit outside Spaetis (late-night shops) drinking one-euro radlers. We run, walk and sit by the Landwehr canal or at the abandoned airport-turned-urban park called Tempelhof. In winter, you can go ice-skating at the super fun Neukolln ice rink. At the weekend we go to parties at OHM, Stattbad Wedding, Südblock or Berghain. Another great club is YAAM, especially if you’re into Caribbean sounds as much as Anastazja is. If you’re into bassdriven music then you should check out Chester’s Grime nights, and basically trace and follow Bass Gang, the young and dedicated Essential promoters: Creamcake, crew throwing parties around Odd Fantastic, Noisekölln, Shametown. The insanely popular club less Limitless, Unreal night Gegen at the notorious sex Essential clubs: ACUD, Stattbad club KitKat will satisfy the wildest Wedding, Sudblock, OHM, Chesparty animal’s desires. ters, Berghain And then there’s CLUB OF Essential live venues: ACUD, THE MONTH, one of our monthly YAAM, N.K., West Germany, Urban events at ACUD. Featuring two Spree, Bey Ruth floors, upstairs hosts technoEssential hang-outs: Tempelhof, house-club music and downstairs Landwehr Canal, The Bierbarona selection of BCR contributors ess bar in Rixdorf, Hamburger play anything from punk, reggae, Bahnhof, KW Berlin, outdoor iceR&B and hip hop to dub, folk and skating rink in Neukolln, Governpop. So start planning your trip ment District by night and try to make it for this feast!
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Featured Artist
Lamauntagne Besides being a Ghent, BE-based product designer and graphic artist, Lamauntagne has a strong interest in hardware hacking, experimental music and exploring the capabilities of the moving image. He also suffers from a severe but well-documented case of data addiction, as well as a fetish for obsolete media, electronics and associated aesthetics. Most of Lamauntagne’s current work is made from found footage, which he re-uses to give it a new life. His strong fascination with hacking and software results in a generative drawing style which he’s made his own. www.lamauntagne.be
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Books Text and artwork by Gabriela González
Master of the Mysteries: The Life of Manly Palmer Hall by Louis Sahagun As far as mystics and esotericists go, Manly Palmer Hall’s name is often overshadowed by the Crowleys, the Gurdjieffs and the Jodorowskys adorning our pedestals. Yet the works of a Canadian high-school dropout have undeniably permeated our collective psyche in ways unbeknownst to even ourselves. In 1928, at the ripe old age of 27, Hall produced the mammoth that is The Secret Teachings of All Ages, an encyclopedia of the wonders and mysteries embedded in the philosophies that shaped our world. Christian mysticism, Pythagorean astronomy, Freemasonic symbolism, Qabbalistic diagrams and the cult of Isis clamber out of their vaults, funnelling through the hand of a young enthusiast who went on to become one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. Louis Sahagun's biography of the man is a primer to the mythos,
guiding us through Hall's many guises. The broken child trekking down to LA seeking the mystifying mother who had abandoned him. The prolific writer and lecturer, eternally curious and resolute. The honourable Mason, urging his Brothers to employ their age-old influence in steering the course of man’s fate closer to its naturalistic origins. The authoritative founder of the Philosophical Research Society, with all the acolytes and detractors necessary to cement his prominence. The meek, self-conscious man afraid of his own laughter and of his diminutive wife. And, finally, the legend, who, at his lowest, would humbly remind his followers: ‘Human beings, experience has proved, make better human beings than they do gods.’
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Films Selected by Sabzian - www.sabzian.be
Figures of Dissent
Figures of Dissent is back. In December there’s not one, not two, but four sessions to attend of this series of lectures and screenings concerning the relationship between cinema and politics. ‘There is no politics of cinema, there are only singular figures according to which filmmakers apply themselves to bring together the two meanings of the word “politics”, through which we can consider a fiction in general and a cinematographic fiction in particular: politics as what a film speaks about and politics as the strategy of an artistic approach (…) We could say: the relation between a matter of justice and a practice of justness.’ Perhaps the most well known of Dissent’s guests is the French philosopher Jacques Rancière, who has been writing on cinema extensively throughout his life. Other sessions include Ariella Azoulay, Eric Baudelaire and Eyal Weizman. Various dates and locations in Brussels. Check Sabzian.be for more information.
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National Gallery
The Lambeth Boys
National Gallery
Free Cinema
Frederick Wiseman, 2014
Every Tuesday and Thursday Cinema Zuid in Antwerp refreshes your film history with their Filmhistories sessions. One screening particularly deserving of your attention is one of the three gems of the 1950s British Free Cinema. Reinvigorating the British documentary scene, whilst also acting as a precursor for the British new wave of the 1960s, Free Cinema sought new forms of representing the oppressed working class. Lindsay Anderson’s shorts O Dreamland and Every Day Except Christmas feature alongside We Are The Lambeth Boys by Karel Reisz. 23 December at Cinema Zuid, Antwerp.
Frederick Wiseman’s latest film takes a look at the inner workings of London’s National Gallery. No detail escapes this veteran documentarist. In his well-known observational style he directs his gaze towards board meetings, curators, restorers and public activities, all with equally keen interest. At times the film is reminiscent of that other great ‘museum’ film, La ville Louvre, by Nicolas Philibert, who will have a retrospective at Cinematek in January as well as a masterclass at KASK, Ghent. Première at Bozar, Brussels on 14 December; in theatres from 17 December.
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Music, art and film in Dec 2014/Jan 2015 Those Foreign Kids: 01 September
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New Music: Solar Year
Film: Lydia Ainsworth
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Solar Year (Ben Borden and David ErBrooklyn music lady Lydia Ainsworth tel) have become part of the eponyis simply thrilling. Lydia, if you’re readmously cool Montreal music family with ing this, come and have pizza with me! a bunch of new-age electro-pop tracks Come and have pizza with the world! under their belt, not to mention some This former student of Joan La Barbaguest vocals from the Grimes goddess ra has composed for filmmakers, visual herself. The duo have been heard to artists, poets and contemporary dance call their music ‘psalmgaze’, something groups, putting her at the epicentre probably said tongue-in-cheek but imof artistic expression, making her the mediately pounced on by rabid music coolest lady everrr. Lydia’s otherworldjournalists like myself – all because of a ly vocals are accompanied by a string Gregorian chant sample, ha! Check out quartet, drummers, keyboards and this their Brotherhood EP, available for free brilliant self-devouring fast-food collage download on the Arbutus Records webanimation. Listen and be happy. self-desite and be on the lookout for their fullvouring fast-food collage animation. length, Waverly, which is due to appear Saint Pepsi: 09 December - Het Bos, Antwerp. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members. at the end of June on Splendour.
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Film: Man Ray + Jean Epstein
A-WA
01 December - OFFoff, Ghent 20.30 | €6,50 | Free for members The American photographer Man Ray was drawn to the Parisian avant-garde and was a crucial figure to the surrealism and DADA movements. He’s famous because of the ‘Le Violon d’Ingrès’ picture, but he did so much more. He worked with a wide variety of media and considered himself a painter above all. As a filmmaker he was gifted as well, shooting sensual and innovative films like L'Étoile de mer and Emak Bakia. This night features his Les mystères du château de Dé, set in the fascinating modernist Villa Noailles in Hyères, France. Though Jean Epstein is the man behind the renowned Edgar Allan Poe adaptation La chute de la maison Usher, OFFoff treats you to his La glace à trois faces, which is rarely screened.
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02 December - Beursschouwburg, Brussels 20.30 | €12 | Free for members Though it might sound like a minor mission impossible to combine Yemenite folk singing with electronic dance music and a lot of natural groove, that’s what A-WA, pronounced Ay-wa, does. The three sisters, Tair, Liron & Tagel Haim, grew up in the small desert village of Shaharut in the southern Israeli Arava Valley. Their debut album, produced by Tomer Yosef from Balkan Beat Box, will hit stores anytime soon. They'll be interpreting women’s love and protest songs in Yemeni-Arabic dialect that were first recorded in the early ’60s by the Yemeni singer-songwriter Shlomo Moga’a. That their sound is exotically fresh seems to be the least you can say. Afterwards, the decent fellas of Beursschouwburg throw in a DJ set by The Wild, the living Brussels legend!
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Theatre: Confetti + Ode to the Attempt
Film: Mysterious Skin
Theatre: Confetti + Ode to the Attempt
Film: Mysterious Skin
03 December - Campo, Ghent 20.30 | €10 | Free for members
04 December - KASK Cinema, Ghent 20.30 | €5 | Free for members
Two performances, one dealing with our inner thoughts and one with the creative process. Confetti, by emerging theatre creator Micha Goldberg, balances between fantasy and reality. Goldberg focuses on contemplation and what takes place in our minds, resulting in a fragmentary representation of reality. Ode to the Attempt, by Jan Martens, shows the different stages that artists go through when creating art, which are usually not visible in the final work, celebrating this crucial part of the creative process.
Gregg Araki’s Mysterious Skin (2004) tells the story of two pre-adolescent boys who are sexually abused by their baseball coach, and how it affects their lives into their young adulthood. While one boy becomes a male prostitute, the other becomes convinced that he was abducted by aliens. This adaptation of Scott Heim’s 1996 novel of the same name presents a harsh piece of realism and drama, smoothed out by a tormented but sexy-as-always Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Add to this a soundtrack consisting of
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Saint Pepsi: 09 December
the ultimate ingredient for your night out. As Essential Oils proved, Hiele’s your man for dreamy melodies, heavily saturated drum parts, aerated acid house and flighty footwork. DJ Mills Boogie’ll make sure the feast goes on and on.
bands like Slowdive, Cocteau Twins and Sigur Rós, and you have an impressive movie that won’t leave you untouched (oh yes, we did go there).
Ekster Night: M.E.S.H. + TCF + Hiele
Saint Pepsi + Delta金Topco + Val Verde
06 December – Stockholm S., Antwerp 22.30 | tba | Free for members
09 December - Het Bos, Antwerp 20.00 | tba | Free for members
To celebrate TCF’s upcoming release on Ekster, EKS005, in early 2015, the label invites the Norwegian noise wunderkid to take you on a tour through his wonderfully complex landscapes, traversing lysergic ambient space, combining hardstyle peaks and neo-classical gestures. Having collaborated with a.o. Fatima Al Qadiri and Arca and operating at the intersection of electronic hip hop, techno and chimeric sound design, M.E.S.H. is
Get ready to have your gloomy winter mood finally lifted! New York-based producer Ryan DeRobertis’ project Saint Pepsi has the secret recipe for an unforgettable feel-good evening. Armed with an ever-refreshing, sparkling, unavoidably danceable new wave, the 21-yearold American is back with the short yet forceful two-track EP Fiona Coyne / Fall Harder, released last August on Car-
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Film: The Doom Generation
WIFE: 12 December
Puts all that ‘Teens these days!’ into quite the perspective.
park Records, bringing a whole new disco dimension to his already pop-oriented sound. Already considered the indie Pharrel Williams, Saint Pepsi is undoubtedly a gem.
WIFE + Red Stars Over Tokyo
12 December - De Kreun, Kortrijk 20.00 | €15 | Free for members WIFE, aka the one-man band James Kelly (known as a multi-instrumentalist from Irish black-metal band Altar of Plagues), recently toured with mistress of dark sounds Zola Jesus – and for the gossip-inclined, Sinead O’Connor loves his T-shirt. WIFE is coming over to De Kreun for an evening of dusky electronics and shady voices, no doubt performing tracks from debut full-length What’s Between, released in June this year and Rough Trade’s record of the month. Launched by the haunted Tri Angle records (The Haxan Cloak, How To Dress Well), WIFE will certainly offer a dreamy set, along with the minimalis-
Film: The Doom Generation
11 December - KASK Cinema, Ghent 20.30 | €5 | Free for members Drugs, (gay) sex, violence... It would be an understatement to say that American filmmaker Gregg Araki isn’t afraid to kick up a fuss. Likewise, The Doom Generation (1995) brings a whirling mix of black comedy, graphic violence, cultural symbolism and relentless eroticism. Being the second film in his ‘Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy’, Araki this time shows two troubled teens who pick up an adolescent drifter. What follows is a brutal journey through an America of psychos, Kwik-E-Marts and moral perversity.
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Film: Leviathan
Datashock & Flamingo Creatures: 13 December
Datashock & Flamingo Creatures
tic tones of Red Stars Over Tokyo, hailing from Leuven.
Film: Leviathan
13 December - Juenlingshaus (Meakusma), Eupen 20.00 | €7 | Free for members
In Russian director Andrey Zvyaginstev’s Leviathan, the monster of chaos is not a sea creature but a corrupted mayor of a small town who wants to evict Kolia and his family from their house. A fight for this little piece of land begins, in this isolated area by the Barents sea, far from Moscow. For his fourth movie, the director of The Return and Elena paints a rough portrait of contemporary Russia, a country with a constant hangover, with nothing but despair, corruption and a shit ton of alcohol. Leviathan was critically acclaimed at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and won the award for best screenplay.
Following their brilliant 2011 double album Pyramiden von Giessen, the multiinstrumental collective Datashock released the splendid sequel LP Keine Oase in Sicht last May. Described as ‘nomads’ and ‘neo-hippies’ of the German experimental underground scene, these German boys and girls are striking a balance between ritualistic hypnotic sounds and electroacoustic, mixing Arabic hints with psychedelia and krautrock. So let’s embark on the cosmic caravan trip with them to experience a soothing journey to the subconscious, unveiling memories and revelations. Support comes from Flamingo Creatures, who blissfully make ‘synth-laden New Age sound’ and belong to the Datashock family.
12 December - Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 18.00 | €5 | Free for members
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jj: 15 December
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Dan Bodan: 18 December
15 December - Botanique, Brussels 20.00 | €16 | Free for members
Dan Bodan + E+E
18 December - Madame Moustache, Brussels 20.00 | €8 | Free for members
Swedish duo and couple jj make music that is hard to categorise, which is a good thing in the indie scene: dreamy and melancholic – drugged-up, even – but with a strong backbone of beats. One could call it stoner indie. They released their first EP jj n°1 in 2009, the year in which they also made a full studio album and toured the US with that other moody, double-lettered band, the XX. Everything they’ve created since then has been nothing less than celebrated by the music press. They’ve also made a name for themselves by covering R&B and hiphop tunes.
Emotional. Silent. Touching. If you’ve listened to ‘Soft As Rain’, the first single by Canadian-born, Berlin-based Dan Bodan, you’d agree with these three words. Tonight the extremely talented electronic artist presents new album Soft, a delicate, downtempo trip with sensitive vocals released by DFA Records, which was initially presented exclusively on Vogue’s website. Bodan will be accompanied by E+E, a weirdo New Age project by the faboosh Elysia Crampton.
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System_D: 19–21 December
Film Festival: System_D
19-21 December - KVS – Brussels Fri: 20.00, Sat-Sun: 13.30 | €5 | Free for members
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KVS is rolling out the red carpet for the second edition of System_D, the film festival for up-and-coming talent. From uncensored video clips to short films, animation and documentaries, everything selected for System_D was shot in our beloved capital, by directors young at heart. There was only one more rule the participants had to follow: no film studies were needed to make the film. Yep, you get it, that’s why System D is short for System_Doing your own thing. And that’s the DIY attitude we love. Go to the KVS Box at 20.00 on 19 December, at 13.30 on 20 and 21 December.
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Agenda. December + January On the following pages you’ll find a selection of concerts, festivals and exhibitions taking place during December and January Festival: Bâtard 04-06 December Beursschouwburg, Brussels ‘Shouldn’t we be angrier than we are?’ Bâtard festival throws the question in front of a mob of selected young artists, who will collectively shred it to pieces. Or make art out of it.
dirty disco beat while reciting Plato. P.A.R.T.S. alumnus Daniel Linehan takes this notion as a starting point for The Karaoke Dialogues, letting his dancers interact with philosophical texts. Music: Pizza Noise Maffia + Tav Exotic + High Wolf 06 December - Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels Busy bee Ernesto González just released his new Tav Exotic 7" on Lexi Disques, providing you with the OST for your space trips. And that’s only one part of the jolly goodness.
Music: Dawn of Midi + Xylouris White + Jozef Van Wissem 05 December - Handelsbeurs (Autumn Falls), Ghent Autumn Falls branches out to other Belgian cities and transports an update of the lute sound from the Middle Ages to the Handelsbeurs. Cretian pride Giorgos Xylouris teams up with Dirty Three drummer Jim White, while Jim Jarmusch’s buddy Jozef Van Wissem tackles the classical instrument solo.
Film: Syrian Film Days 07 December - BOZAR, Brussels The Syrian Film Days present a cinema that embodies freedom through the very act of filming. Treat yourself with a one-day film marathon and definitely watch Ghayath Almadhoun’s The Celebration, in which he combines footage of the bombed city of Berlin in 1945 with poetry about the war in Syria today.
Music: Razen + Bear Bones, Lay Low 05 December - Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels Duo Razen mixes minimal classical music with old European folk music, while Ernesto González explores a softer, dreamier and lovely side of psych and drone.
Music: A Tribute to Robert Ashley 09 December - Zaal Miry (School of Arts), Ghent Deceased American cult composer and Sonic Arts Union member Robert Ashley deserves a tribute. His work,
Dance: Daniel Linehan 06 December - Vooruit, Ghent Imagine Kafka shaking his ass to a
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Agenda. December + January Music: Origami Classics 14 December - Beursschouwburg, Brussels What you might imagine to be a fierce competition between Japanese pensioners to make the world’s largest paper crane is in fact another lovely Sunday afternoon concert. Ensemble Triolys interpretes compositions by, among others, Claude Debussy and Ernest Bloch, mixing romanticism, impressionism and techno.
mixing spoken word and minimal, is paid hommage to by baritone Thomas Buckner, Dolphins Into The Future’s Lieven Martens Moana and artist Floris Vanhoof. Music: Re-Release Party Aksak Maboul 11 December - Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels Seminal Crammed band Aksak Maboul celebrate the release of ExFuture Album, recorded in 1983. Their potpourri of Middle Eastern, cinematic French, dub and avant-garde pop sounds as exciting as 30 years ago.
Film: Scott Walker: 30 Century Man 17 December - Huis 23, Brussels This 2006 documentary shines some sunlight on everyone’s favourite Sixties crooner-turned-near-psychotic hermit Scott Walker and the strange production methods behind his 2006 masterpiece The Drift.
Festival: Glimps 11-13 December - Ghent Glimps festival once again lightens up Ghent with the talent of tomorrow. The sparks in your heart are illuminated by, among others, Vuurwerk, Blaue Blume and Eaux.
Music: Ceephax Acid Crew + Hiele 18 December - Het Bos, Antwerp Squarepusher’s brother Andy Jenkinson, also known by the pseudonym Ceephax Acid Crew, is gonna drop some vintage acid techno and drum’n’bass beats in Het Bos.
Books: Stock sale 12-21 December - FoMu, Antwerp Stock up on everything print and photography related, from monographs to postcards to wooden crates (we kid you not) in FoMu, Antwerp. Check out Nick Hannes’ views of the Mediterranean while you’re there.
Lecture: SoundImageCulture 18 December - Beursschouwburg, Brussels The international SoundImageCulture workshop balances on the crosspoint between cinema and anthropology. In this yearly presentation experimental documentaries are screened on subjects as diverse as the evolution of Italian football chants and the Cuban underground religion of Regla de Osha.
Music: Kerm-Kaas 13 December - Bato Batu, Antwerp Cassette label Kerm takes wordplay to a soaring level with the releases of three new caasettes. Music by Kaastaal, Weird Cheese, Joris De Raclette, Ernesto Gorgonzola and DJ Pieter De Kerm & De Zure Jongens.
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Agenda. December + January Music: Braubfll (Materie und Laut) 18 December - KASK, Ghent The point where language ends and music begins: that’s where you’ll find Braubfll (Materie und Laut), the third edition of an event organised by KRAAK and De Player. The programme presents vocal poets and text-sound composers Stine Janvin Motland and Valeri Scherstjanoi.
spiration for 11 artists including Al Manara and Philippe Aerts. Art: The Museum of Mistakes 10 January-22 February - Wiels, Brussels The Museum of Mistakes: Contemporary Art and Class Struggle, by the French artist Pierre Leguillon, brings together tailor-made displays made of photographs, film extracts, advertisements, postcards, posters, slides, record sleeves, magazines and other types of mass media, resulting in an exhibition model that attempts to foil the hierarchies of art and to make us rethink the conditions of the reception of art.
Music: Dopplereffekt + Lee Gamble + Lowcomittee 19 December - Vooruit, Ghent Drexciya's dystopian electro and Detroit techno, featuring ambient and industrial sounds came to an end with the death of James Stinson. But with Dopplereffekt, his partner in crime Gerald Donald keeps the irresistibly dark funkyness alive.
Theatre: Mobutu choreografiert 23-24 January - KVS, Brussels Monika Gintersdorfer’s refreshingly physical and radical performance theatre shows her unique way of looking at African reality. Featuring a number of well-known faces from the KVS Congo trajectory, the play glorifies and vilifies the Zairian dictator.
Film: Be Film Festival 26-31 December - Bozar & Cinematek, Brussels Celebrating ten years with a programme that allows you to rediscover Belgian films released in 2014 together with the artists and producers such as Wim Willaert and Joachim Lafosse.
Theatre: Meg Stuart 27-28 January - STUK, Leuven The wonderful Blessed sees dancer Francisco Camacho desperately trying to scrape his house together out of soggy cardboard, while a tornado relentlessly hits his tropical paradise and turns it into a dystopian wasteland.
Festival: River Jazz 09-24 January - Marni, Jazz Station & Senghor, Brussels The three epicentres of the Brussels’ jazz scene will be hosting the first edition of this brand new festival. The route between the three venues will take you from Ixelles to Saint-Josse via Etterbeek, following the course of the former Maelbeek stream, the in-
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OFFoff, Ghent 20.30 | €6.50 | Free for members
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12 December
KVS – Brussels Fri: 20.00, Sat-Sun: 13.30 | €5 | Free for members
Film: Man Ray + Jean Epstein
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Beursschouwburg, Brussels 20.30 | €12 | Free for members
03 December
Film: The Doom Generation
WIFE + Red Stars Over Tokyo De Kreun, Kortrijk 20.00 | €15 | Free for members
Theatre: Confetti + 12 December Ode to the Attempt Film: Leviathan Campo, Ghent 20.30 | €10 | Free for members
Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 18.00 | €5 | Free for members
04 December
12 December
Film: Mysterious Skin KASK Cinema, Ghent 20.30 | €5 | Free for members
06 December
Ekster Night: M.E.S.H. + TCF + Hiele
Datashock & Flamingo Creatures Juenlingshaus (Meakusma), Eupen 20.00 | €7 | Free for members
15 December
jj + For BDK
Stockholm S., Antwerp 22.30 | tba | Free for members
Botanique, Brussels 20.00 | €16 | Free for members
09 December
18 December
Saint Pepsi + Delta金Topco + Val Verde
Dan Bodan + E+E Madame Moustache, Brussels 20.00 | €8 | Free for members
Het Bos, Antwerp 20.00 | tba | Free for members
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