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Unruly Music Magazine. March 2015

The Greenery Issue

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Subbacultcha Magazine March 2015

The Greenery Issue

Give us for four walls and we’ll fill ’em with music. But as soon as we can, we’ll throw in some plants, too. Because what’s better company than a palm with gently waving fronds, a Swiss cheese plant that’s curling its way up the wall or a calathea that’s softly folding up its leaves as the night is falling over the city streets? But if you seem to be missing those green fingers, then just head out to go see one of our spring shows. That’s where we provide you with the right company. Our gift to you: a bouquet of fun nights out.

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Jessica Pratt page 14

SamuelSpaniel page 20

Scene Report Barcelona page 24

Recommendations 09 We Visit You 12 Featured Artist 30 Style 36 Books 40

Films 42 Subbacultcha shows 47 Agenda 59 Overview 62

Cover image by Suzanna Zak

March Recommendations 26 > 29 .03 BRUSSELS

LITERATUUR // LITTÉRATURE // LITERATURE

MEET 100 WRITERS FROM 20 COUNTRIES AT 30 LOCATIONS IN 15 LANGUAGES

ian mc ewan & le clézio as guests of honour

20 BELGIAN CARTOONISTS

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March Recommendations Each month our staff provides you with a selection of the finer things in life. Enjoy!

Art: Look at the Door

Music: LOTIC

Belgium hides many secrets. If you look at its doors, you’ll certainly notice one of the best-kept: the door handles. Nothing really exciting on first glance, but if you look closer, a whole world opens up to you. Each piece seems unique and like it comes from another era – probably from mid-century modernism, or something like that. Be part of the game: look for them and index ’em. Like Pokémons. Or just take a look at this Tumblr library.

With the release of Heterocetera, your month couldn’t begin in any more spectacular fashion. As the sound of the title single suggests, Tri Angle Recordssignee Lotic will bring to life a hellish world with his debut EP, in which your limbs will be excruciatingly tempted to start swivelling in ways you never believed possible. The Berlin-based Texan J’Kerian Morgan states his tracks sound a little bit like a battle, fought time and time again. With bumping, grinding beats and stuttering rhythms, it’s the sound of a ouija-board evening gone bad, dancing on a high with ecstatic demons.

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March Recommendations Art: Yves Obyn

Art: Entr’acte Entr’acte was founded in London in 1999, where it continued to operate until 2012, when it relocated to Antwerp. Its primary concern is the physical publication of music and work in other mediums (such as books and film/video). The material chosen for publication is selected from demos and other unsolicited submissions. There is no set agenda for the type of content it seeks to publish. And we kind of like that. entracte.co.uk

Music: Pale Blue

The works of Yves Obyn are monumental interpretations of historical events, cinematic and narrative stagings with a contextual twist, looking for ways to deceive the viewer, balancing on the line between fiction and reality. The projects often result in conceptual design objects capitalising on popular culture. The pieces that sprout from Obyn’s installations get a function and are reproduced in limited editions. They assume a strong aesthetic language where function is subordinate to form. The objects can be interpreted as props from a movie that is yet to be made, and are referred to by the artist as ‘three-dimensional clipart’.

NYC producer Mike Simonetti parted ways with his Italians label Do It Better, to focus on his new babies. With

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March Recommendations Art: Harriet Lee Merrion

Two Mikes Records he’ll be releasing the music he believes in together with Captured Tracks. Set for April, the first release will be The Past We Leave Behind, the debut LP from Pale Blue, Simonetti’s other new project. Ranging from melodic techno to experimental dream pop, it’ll be lush melodic warmth, topped of with Elizabeth Wight’s vocals. The debut single washes over you as a mix of euphoric triumph and melancholy. www.facebook.com/PaleBlueOfficial

Music: Leno Lovecraft What sounds as if there are fluorescent tulips popping out of your ears? That’s right, Leno Lovecraft! On Platinum Planet, the Kiwi producer creates a whimsical kaleidoscope of out-of-control melodies and over-the-top kawaii J-pop vocals. With songs called ‘Paradise Planet’, ‘Starlight’, ‘High Definition Emotion’ and ‘Holographic Waterfalls’, Lovecraft brings to life a pink sugarcoated world, filled to the brim with positive energy and funky, rainbow-coloured creatures bouncing up and down with a childlike happiness.

Harriet Lee Merrion is a young freelance illustrator based in Bristol, UK. Detailed and yet very simple, her works hold a kind of peculiar narrative that awakens the imagination. Themes like femininity, identity, biology and philosophy are often recognisable. Her drawings feature clear references to Ukiyo-e, the Japanese woodblock prints and paintings that flourished in Japan between the 17th and 19th centuries. The beige and pastel tones bring a fragility that really speaks, making it very easy to get lost in the mysterious and organic stories that she portrays.

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We Visit You: Liesbeth Feys Photo by Adriaan Hauwaert

Child. I then named my email address after it. Your first ever music-related memory? My dad teaching me to play piano by putting stickers with the musical notes on the piano keys. W hat’s your favourite pastime? Going to concerts, dancing, watching animated films and making things. What does an ideal lazy Sunday look like for you? Doing the things I like without any pressure. Any guilty pleasures? Listening to the stories of strangers on the train. Have you experienced any regrets recently? No :^) W hat makes you dance? ‘Hatch the Plan’ by Andy Stott. Which future Subbacultcha show are you looking forward to? I’m curious about Sleaford Mods.

Name: Liesbeth Feys Age: 26 Zodiac sign: Aquarius the waterman Website: www.liesbethfeys.com Tell us, what do you do in life? I give art workshops to kids, and I love drawing. What projects are you working on? I’m currently drawing the people, flag, escutcheon, nature etc. of our imaginary land. It’s for Brussels collective Cuistax’s new zine and exhibition. W hat inspires you? Daily life, outsider art, British comedy, music, kids. W hat do you like best about your place? The bathtub in my bedroom. How many plants do you have? Which is your favourite and why? Not enough! My calathea, because he looks like a painting and he’s independent. You don’t have to water him too much. W hat kind of music are you listening to at the moment? It depends on my mood. I like to listen to the voice of Lee Hazlewood before I go to sleep. W hat’s the first record you bought? When I was 11 years old I bought The Writings on the Wall by Destiny’s

Every month we visit a Subbacultcha member’s place. If you want us to visit you, please send an email to magazine@ subbacultcha.be

The Greenery Issue. Interview With the woozy and soothing On Your Own Love Again, Jessica Pratt comes across as an angelic nymph, a tender and gentle soul who is hyper-aware of her surroundings, occasionally singing about

Jessica Pratt Interview by Gerlin Heestermans Photos taken by Suzanna Zak in Los Angeles, US

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The Greenery Issue. Interview Are you into plants? Yeah – although I’m not quite as knowledgeable about them as I could be, or would like to be. Here in LA there’s lots of different kinds of trees and flowers that I’m not used to seeing, having grown up in Northern California. I was reading a lot of Joan Didion books when I first moved here because most of them talk about LA, and her time living here. Her descriptions are obviously really insightful and beautiful. She talks a lot about the various kinds of greenery. It was cool to read about them and then look them up and recognise them around the city. How long have you been living in LA? About a year and a half. I actually lived in a different place for the first year and then last September I moved to Chinatown. It hasn’t been that long that I’ve lived here but I’m so much happier. The other place just had weird vibes, you know? It didn’t feel right. I just never settled in completely. I mean, a place can be a dump or ramshackle or whatever, as long as it has its heart in the right place. And the first one just didn’t. Do you have plants around the house? I do, but none of them are mine. It’s not that I don’t have an interest in them, it’s just that I’ve been a lot more dispersed over the last couple of years. Knowing that you’re gonna be going on tour prevents you from doing anything where you have to commit fully. You could just get a cactus. [Laughs] Well, there’s actually lots of cactuses in the wild in LA. Oh man, that’s so cool. I’ve never seen them growing in the wild. Oh yeah, I guess you don’t exactly live in the desert. It’s funny how elementary those realisations can be. ’Cause I haven’t been to Europe many times so I can’t quite imagine what it’s like there. Just recently I was in Australia and one day all these gigantic fruit bats flew by and I’d never seen that before, it was so creepy. I actually do kinda

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The Greenery Issue. Interview ‘I think I’m really sensitive to the earth. I like to be around beauty’ miss greenery myself a bit, because it’s the desert here and it’s far less dense and moist than the north where I’m from. If you’re actually in the desert then its grandeur makes sense with the feeling of the air and the heat. But in an urban sprawl, it feels like the wasteland sometimes. Did you appreciate your surroundings when you were growing up? I did, I always felt that my hometown was very beautiful. It’s a very scenic place and it definitely affects your temperament so much. Moving here I maybe even got a bit depressed because I missed that. Greenery can be soothing, just like bodies of water. There are a lot of lakes around there, too. I think I’m really sensitive to the earth. I like to be around beauty. It sometimes makes me wonder how long I can live here. It’s a really redeeming city in a lot of ways. I mean, there’s a lot happening that’s really exciting so it’s kind of just an aesthetic/ environmental compromise for now. Do you have a spirit flower? I haven’t even decided on a spirit animal, let alone a flower! I know it’s very predictable but I love roses because growing up, we had these rose bushes outside that were in between my neighbours’ yard and ours so they didn’t belong to either of us. We both took care of them and that was nice. I especially like the way wild roses look, ’cause they’re just sloppy. So I guess I’d say wild roses as my spirit flower. I do also like gardenias a lot… I guess I just haven’t considered what truly represents me. Jessica Pratt plays Botanique, Brussels on 26 March. The show is free for Subbacultcha members.

The Greenery Issue. Photo Essay

SamuelSpaniel by Nina Strebelle

Apparently, going for a walk in the park isn’t always that relaxing. Luca Derom and our photographer got kicked out by policemen with assault rifles, who thought they were planning an attack. If they were conspiring at all, it was for a chill tropical palmtree paradise party, set in an aquarium flooded by colourful neon light, exotic fishes whirling in the aquatic walls around you. It’s the vibe of SamuelSpaniel’s warm and hazy beats, of his welcoming experimental sound 21

SamuelSpaniel. Continued

SamuelSpaniel plays Madame Moustache, Brussels on 04 March, together with Palmistry. The show is free for Subbacultcha members.

The Greenery Issue. Scene Report

Scene Report Barcelona

Text by Alex Casamor Photos shot by Alex SardĂ in Barcelona, Spain

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. Guessing you’re also in need of some well-deserved rays of sun, we roam the streets of Barcelona with Alex and Alex. Forget about the mosaicadorned houses of Gaudí, because this lovely duo assures us that the hot Spanish nights are way more colourful After finishing an excruciating eight-hour shift at your job – you’re lucky if you have one in Spain – you decide to go out on a Friday night, because what else are you supposed to do? Barcelona is regularly labelled the cultural capital of Spain, but to be honest, compared to metropolises like London or Berlin, it’s more of a big village. Consequently, everybody who likes music and partying tends to end up knowing each other after a single night out. While you drink your afternoon away with cheap beer peddled by kind Pakistani street sellers and probably eat a kebab at a dodgy bar, you’ll cross paths with seven or eight friends also wandering the city. Before you know it, you’re with a group of people eager to go out and do something that evening. Apolo is a club/concert venue with the monopoly on gigs and electronic sessions due to its link with the famous Primavera Sound Festival. If you attend Primavera, you get access to that club all year round. Basically, it’s free and offers quite an eclectic music selection almost every weekend. The festival-club combo has proven to be a

The Greenery Issue ‘It’s not all big venues; we still have those bars where small bands play in tiny rooms and where the sweat drips off the ceiling’ success for local bands from the beginning, but the pitfall is that these same bands tend to expect too much when touring internationally, expecting others to do the work they should be doing themselves. On the other hand, it’s not all big venues; we still have those bars where small bands play in tiny rooms and where the sweat drips off the ceiling. These taverns – located mainly in the narrow piss-stained streets of the Raval and Gracia districts – are always on the brink of extinction, as neighbours complain about youngsters drinking and shouting in the streets. Before that and the economic recession, all we had were lousy synth-pop bands. So when people with a degree couldn’t find a decent job, they craved frantic gigs during the weekend to forget their problems for a minute by either playing in or watching bands. Rockers like Mujeres helped to increase the popularity of live music by making shows both fun and real again. People would mosh and stage dive drunkenly without a care in the world. Soon other bands followed. Most of them weren’t even from the city, but eventually they moved here from places like Vic, about an hour away from Barcelona. Four years ago there was a big musical explosion that can be traced back to Festival Hoteler, an event put on by a group of friends who were bored by the lack of music in their hometown. Their initiative nourished the city’s musical scene with its DIY philosophy, forming a varied scene made up of groups that ran the gamut from punk and shoegaze-y pop to new wave. Some of these bands have even

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Scene Report: Barcelona. Continued been able to tour around the US and played festivals like SXSW. Micro-labels like La Castanya, Famèlic Records or Tigre Discs have also been boosting these bands with pretty much no economic benefit while remaining self-sustaining. They also act as great promoters and organise shows in any kind of location crazy enough to try and contain their noisy sounds. Apart from that, it’s pretty safe to state that Barcelona has a potent electronic scene. Examples of its success are DJs such as John Talabot or Pional. Promoters like NITSA have been encouraging the club culture since the ’90s and have helped underground elecEssential Music: Univers, El Últronic musicians to bloom. And timo Vecino, Elsa de Alfonso y los then there’s Sónar Advanced MuPrestigio, Germà Aire, Brut, Beach sic Festival, of course – a flagship Beach, Opatov, Mourn, Wind Atlas, of electronic music in Spain that Desert, Furguson, Aliment, Gabrihad its first edition in 1994 and is el y Vencerás, Ocellot, The Zephyr renowned internationally. Bones, Wesphere, Pional, John TalSo if you’re ever visiting abot, Mujeres this so-called ‘Mediterranean paradise’, please step out of the Essential Venues: Sidecar, Bar LupiRamblas, refuse any invitation for ta, Heliogàbal, Hangar, Jazz Cava, ‘sangria and paella’ and ignore the Apolo, Barts, Moog worn-out Gaudí buildings. You’ll be doing yourself a favour. Essential hang-outs: Dodgy pakistani bars in Raval and Sant Antoni, Joaquín Costa, Squares in Gracia with street beer, Bar Vinilo, Plaça Reial, Psycho, Satan’s Coffee Corner

Featured Artist

Ramy Moharam Fouad Despite being just 15 years old, Ramy Moharam Fouad has been shooting for a long time – long enough to have truly discovered his own style of photography. In Antwerp last month, he won the photography preliminaries of youth talent contest Kunstbende. His images beautifully capture the details that are easily missed in our daily lives. Noting that most of us have our heads in the clouds, occupied with the so-called more important things, Moharam Fouad points out that it’s these small, wondrous details that are the vital elements of life, fragments that have the power to lighten up one’s day completely – moments we should all dwell on

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Style Photos and styling by Femke Fredrix

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Books Text and artwork by Gabriela González

Food of the Gods A Radical History of Plants, Drugs and Human Evolution by Terence McKenna I remember picking up my copy of Food of the Gods and catching glimpses of terms such as ‘chemical binoculars’ and ‘golden vedic enigma’ and ‘alchemy of the spirit’, instantly foreseeing a couple of months’ worth of waddling down a fibrous web of parboiled adjectives and guttural pseudoscience. Which, quite honestly, is very much my jam. But Terence McKenna’s account of his incursions into consciousness-expanding plants and substances stretches far beyond stoner verbiage. This dude covers everything: evolution, religion, biochemistry, TV, societal structures, gastronomy, metaphysics… and, of course, psychedelics. McKenna posits a theory that, regardless of your academic snobbery, is nothing short of intriguing: that mind-altering plants and mushrooms had a hand in the development of human consciousness, and that our cognisant advantage over

other creatures comes down to our incredibly resourceful ancestor: the stoned chimp. McKenna takes us to remote villages all over the globe, incessantly highlighting the harmonious bond that mankind had, until relatively recently, sustained with plants and food, and the effects of these on human relationships to nature and to one another. It’s a pretty dense work, bouncing from studies of ancient societies to excruciating studies of plant molecules to the hazards of culture, calling for the return of a free-loving, drug-taking, female-led civilisation free of the inner and outer wars of our times. In all truthfulness, this ain’t an easy read: the reasoning can be abstract, the ideas far-fetched and the themes somewhat illusory. But the magic of McKenna’s writing is that it’s all of the above and much more. In short, a trip well worth ingesting.

Films Selected by Sabzian - www.sabzian.be

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective

‘It is a popular movement, and what I wanted to show, the subject of my film, is the people. If I start singling out individual characters – just two, three, four, five characters – it would not be the story of the people any more. It would just be individual characters, and then we enter into the territory of personal dimensions, which wasn’t interesting for this film. That is why I chose a style that enabled me to have many characters, groups, masses of people in the frame at the same time – to observe their actions and movements.’ Loznitsa’s latest film, Maidan, about the Kiev uprising that ended up toppling Yanukovich’s government in February 2014, provided more insight into the events than a year’s worth of journalism. Loznitsa’s rigorous formal approach to this bloody revolution prompted Cinematek to take a closer look at this important contemporary filmmaker. His oeuvre consists of numerous documentaries as well as fiction works. Both shorts and feature-length films will be screened throughout March at Cinematek, Brussels.

Films

Courtisane preview show

Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)

Nathaniel Dorsky’s sensual and luminous 16mm films stem from a profound but modest desire to find a cinematic poetica that entrusts our everyday lives with their proper rhythm and flow. Much like his fellow independent filmmakers such as Stan Brakhage and Gregory Markopolous, Dorsky’s often silent films are meditations on light, the passing of time, the frisson between spirit and matter, nature and landscape. Screening at Art Cinema OFFoff, Ghent on 09 March at 20.00.

‘Billy, you bastard, you have disgraced the industry that made you and fed you!’ These are the words of Louis B Mayer, the single most powerful force in Hollywood, after a test-screening of Sunset Boulevard in 1959. Billy Wilder, then the single most powerful film director in Hollywood, had just finished the most famous Hollywood film about Hollywood. Wilder, known to be an artful dodger, vividly replied: ‘Fuck you.’ Screening at Buda, Kortrijk on 10 March.

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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-dePalmistry: - 04 March - Madame Brussels site and be14onFebruary the lookout for their full- Moustache, vouring fast-food collage animation. The show is free for Subbacultcha members. length, Waverly, which is due to appear Image taken from Palmistry's Projector SE5 video. at the end of June on Splendour.

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ing to a glorious future full of sweaty club evenings. After his Lil Gem EP, his Ascensión mixtape ranges from hot reggaeton tunes to poppy sweetness and true dancehall vibes, in Spanish, English and even Chinese. After giving it our all during his performance at Wastelands this summer, we’re more than ready for Part II. As SamuelSpaniel, Brusselsbased Luca Derom will also provide luscious tunes.

Until 05 April - Argos, Brussels Wed-Sun 11.00-18.00 | €5 | Free for members

A two-part exhibition based on video works from the Argos collection. The title nods to Jean-Luc Godard’s film Le Gai Savoir (1968), in which two characters ponder the meanings of sound, words and images. On show: works that encourage viewers to regard cinema as both a technique and an introspective experience.

Film: White God

06 March - Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 18.00 | €5 | Free for members

04 March - Madame Moustache, Brussels 20.00 | €8 | Free for members An old fortune teller must have seen the lines on Benjy Keating’s palms converg-

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Originally titled Fehér Isten, this Hungarian movie by Kornél Mundruczó is a wholehearted and lively opus. Critically acclaimed at the Cannes, Hamburg and Ghent film festivals, White God depicts the story of 13-year-old Lili who, after her dog Hagen is set free by her father, attempts to retrieve and save her

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06 March: Bed Rugs

07 March: Froth + Regal

Froth + Regal

07 March - Madame Moustache, Brussels 20.00 | €8 | Free for members

Bed Rugs

06 March - Charlatan (Democrazy), Ghent 20.00 | €15 | Free for members

LA-based neo-psychedelic rock quartet Froth has quickly evolved from a joke among musically unexperienced friends to a substantial chaos-minded project. Articulating their music around dreamy guitar riffs, tempo-changing rhythms and frontman JooJoo Ashworth’s soothingly nonchalant voice, Froth shows a fascinating determination to never overthink their music or take themselves too seriously. With their first LP, Patterns, out on Lolipop Records, they successfully attest that simplicity can equal efficiency. Support comes from French self-described post-garagepunk-psych-country band Regal.

Dubbed ‘Belgium’s hottest psychedelic rock band’ by the local press, Bed Rugs are on a roll. With Cycle, the 8th Cloud follow-up LP that dropped in January, they’re taking the next step. The raw nostalgic anger in the single ‘Specks’ will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, evoking memories of The Flaming Lips, Girls in Hawaii or even The Beatles. Be warned: tunes like ‘Clear Obscure’ and ‘Piles’ might be stuck in your head for a pretty long while.

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Susanne Sundfør 13 March - KERK (Democrazy), Ghent 19.30 | €14 | Free for members

07 March: BANG!

BANG!: Carte Blanche Dennis Tyfus

There’s more to Norwegian music than black metal and A-ha these days, and the rest of the world is finally starting to notice it. The 28-year-old singer-songwriter Susanne Sundfør has been one of the leading artists in the Norwegian pop scene since the release of her selftitled debut album in 2007. It’s not hard to imagine why. She’s capable of some impressive vocal gymnastics; interesting arrangements and melodies complete the picture. She never fails to reinvent herself: her new album, Ten Love Songs, is an adventurous ride.

07 March - W-O-L-K-E, Brussels 20.30 | €5 | Free for members While the new KultuurKaffee takes shape, activities continue at locations elsewhere in the city, with the travelling art festival BANG!, curated by drummer Teun Verbruggen. He gives carte blanche to multidisciplinary artist Dennis Tyfus (Ultra Eczema), who is inviting a merry bunch of Nordic artists: Icelandic eccentric Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson teams up with Swedish Benny Nilsen to present their Avant Garde Gasse LP, and Tyfus himself pitches in as Bazuinschal with the help of Danish artist Mette Rasmussen. Also on the bill: Musketflickan and DSR Lines.

BRNS + Le Colisée 13 March - De Kreun, Kortrijk 20.00 | €15 | Free for members

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20 March: Purling Hiss 19 March:: Tokyo Tribe

Khavn brings together a hitman and a prostitute to create an atmospheric, high -energy film, with mesmerising images and a pulsating soundtrack. With Tokyo Tribe, Japanese enfant terrible Sion Sono has made an insistently over-thetop tribute to street-wise counterculture: think martial arts moves, blood geysers and characters rapping their lines as hip-hop-loving gangsters on speed.

such as Yeasayer, Cloud Nothings and SUUNS. They released their Patine LP last fall to plenty of enthusiasm. Expanding the borders of pop music, the quartet of multi-instrumentalists weaves together tunes that are mystical, moody and catchy, forging their way in into your inner sanctum. As Le Colisée, David Nzeyimana just released his second EP called Vie Eternelle, a gem combining soft synths, acoustic guitar and warm vocals.

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Film: Offscreen Off Course - Double Bill

20 March - Het Bos, Antwerp 20.00 | tba | Free for members Purling Hiss + Singapore Sling 28 March - Beursschouwburg, Brussels 22.00 | €13 | Free for members Back in 2009, Purling Hiss started out as Mike Polizze’s solo endeavour, but after

19 March - KASK Cinema, Ghent 20.30 + 22.00 | €8 | Free for members Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore is a wordless romantic crime tale, a colourful audiovisual poem set in the backstreets of Manila. Prolific Filipino digital pioneer

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Shelter

five releases he decided it was time for some company. As a power trio comprising Polizze, bassist and drummer, Purling Hiss went for a more compact sound on their Water on Mars LP, helped by fellow Philly native Adam Granduciel from The War on Drugs. With their latest release, Weirdon, this evolution continues, with guitar riffs generating sunny melodies and weirdo pop numbers, rife with ramshackle and catchy, fuzzy psych-punk.

Game + Ictus + Spectra + Trio Mediaeval 24 March – De Bijloke, Ghent 20.00 | €22 | Free for members For American composers Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon and David Lang, teaming up has been the key to mesmerisingly enthralling projects. Over the past 27 years they’ve been redefining contemporary classical music with their multifaceted NYC-based organisation Bang on Can, building a world in which powerful new musical ideas flow freely across all genres and borders. After their collaborations The Carbon Copy Building and Lost Objects, they created Shelter together with film director Bill Morrison. Inspired by the aesthetic beauty of blueprints, the rituals of coming home and the destructive forces of nature that can put everything at stake, it’s a grand multimedia oratorio, specially written for the sopranos of Trio Mediaeval, featuring a large mixed ensemble.

Film: Port Actif

23 March - OFFoff, Ghent 20.30 | €7 | Free for members After screening Kenneth Anger’s movie Invocation of My Demon Brother in January, OFFoff presents a programme centred around the influence of Anger on contemporary filmmakers. Put together by Port Actif, the programme is based around three recurring themes in Anger’s work: homosexuality, surrealism and occultism. By projecting recent video art Port Actif wants to reveal how contemporary Belgian video artists are consciously or unconsciously influenced by Anger’s esthetic. The selected video artists include Wannes Missotten, Emelie Martens, Jonathan Paepens, Gerben Gysels, Robbert&Frank/ Frank&Robbert.

Jessica Pratt

26 March - Botanique - Brussels 20.00 | €16 | Free for members With her second LP, the woozy and soothing On Your Own Love Again, out on Drag Records, Jessica Pratt comes

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across as an angelic nymph, a tender and gentle soul, occasionally singing about praying for the rain. Boy, we’re still grateful to White Fence’s Tim Presley for releasing her first self-titled LP, which kept us company during so many nights. Once you’ve heard the beautiful, homespun lo-fi folk songs with their layered harmonies, it’s impossible to imagine a world without them. Yep, it’s in this sensitive cocoon of warm chords and poetical lyrics that we want to live.

30 March - OFFoff, Ghent 20.30 | €7 | Free for members

Body Talk draws attention to filmmakers whose work focuses on the human body. Art Cinema OFFoff will screen films by Stephen Dwoskin and Warren Sonbert. In Dwoskin’s works the performer seduces the camera and viewer. Sonbert’s Amphetamine, meanwhile, incorporates the human body in a different way. The film offers a view into the sexual and narcotic experiments of a group of friends. When the movie was shot, Sonberg was just 18 years old.

Theatre: Operit

28 March - Kaaitheater, Brussels 21.00 | €16 | Free for members

Festival: Eye on Palestine

Bulgarian Ivo Dimchev is quite the enfant terrible. As Lili Händel, a pale, nearly naked and almost translucent creature in between man and drag queen, he has fascinated us a few times before with his intoxicating voice and presence. As is traditional, Dimchev concludes the Performatik Festival, examining the physical strength of music and the melodies of his muscles, developing his own version of the concept of opera. It’s an unpredictable whirlwind of vocal improvisation based on classical music, with several vocalists and performers. After Operit, you’re invited to the dance floor, for the Performatik closing party.

30 March-04 April - KVS, Brussels Various times | €9 | Free for members The fifth edition of Eye on Palestine not only focuses on the Israel-Palestine conflict, but also introduces artists and image-makers from Palestine and other countries who are well aware of different possible approaches. Count on different intriguing documentaries, such as The Wanted 18, which tells the story of a group of activists, intellectuals and students during the first Intifada, and Concerning violence, a quest for the mechanisms of decolonisation.

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04 April: Part Time

There’s also theatre, like New Middle East, an increasingly absurdist dialogue between an executioner and his victim, and various debates.

background. Wiese’s new double album, Deviate From Balance, comes with a (photo)graphic book. Or maybe it’s the other way around?

John Wiese + Piotr Kurek + Pauwel De Buck

Part Time + Fabiola 04 April - Mad Café (JauneOrange), Liège 20.00 | €6 | Free for members

02 April - Vooruit, Ghent tba | tba | Free for members

The SF sweethearts of Part Time make for a night drenched in gentle nostalgia, filled with lo-fi songs about adolescent love, night drives and super-8 movies. David Speck and co open up a wormhole in time, taking listeners back to the ’80s. Think late nights you never want to end, filled with hazy tunes, a perfect house party and your best friends dancing on your kitchen table till morning. Also on the bill: the homegrown acid pop of Fabiola, with Ariel Pink influences.

American drone/noise veteran and graphic artist John Wiese has built quite a reputation among like-minded artists and enthusiasts all over the world – not only through his work with Bastard Noise, Evan Parker, Sun O))) and many other bands and projects, but also as a solo artist and live performer. Though his music could be labelled harsh, it’s always meticulous and very aesthetic, a remnant of his graphic

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Agenda. March On the following pages you’ll find a selection of concerts, festivals and exhibitions taking place during March Music: Panda Bear + Jib Kidder 05 March - Botanique, Brussels Experimental mastermind Panda Bear presents his new album in the Botanique. Instead of the grim reaper he’s bringing psychedelic disciple and occasional Julia Holter collaborator Jib Kidder.

on by, amongst others, Dave Eggers, Ful & The Knife and the Germans. Expo: The (im)Possible Road 13-21 March - Various locations, Ghent Connecting the two main venues of the (im)Possible Futures festival is the (im)Possible Road, a highway of installation art by Kim Noble, Pieter Van den Bosch and Brian Nobel.

Festival: KRAAK 07 March - Netwerk, Aalst Belgian avant-garde stronghold KRAAK celebrates the end of its group exhibit Orkest! with the yearly KRAAK festival. Must-sees include Mathieu Serruys, Sea Urchin and the infamous post-punk group Young Marble Giants.

Music: R&S label night 13 March - Recyclart, Brussels R&S used to license the hottest tunes from all over the world. Since its relaunch in 2008, when it released a number of remastered classic albums and remixes of classics, it has repositioned itself again. Expect Synkro, Nastia and Paula Temple.

Performance: Brussels Tracks 07 March-30 May Beursschouwburg, Brussels German composer and artist David Helbich releases you into the city, armed with an MP3 player, earphones and ‘tracks’ for each city location.

Music: Ariel Pink 14 March - Vooruit, Ghent Impossible-to-grasp performer Ariel Pink will certainly make you giggle with childish delight playing the slightly demented pop songs of his latest album, Pom Pom.

Festival: (im)Possible Futures 11-21 March - Campo, Ghent Campo, UGhent and Vooruit team up to present an arts festival that explores the borders of what is impossible. Expect loads and loads of concerts, lectures, performances and so

Festival: Pulse 14 March - Zuiderpershuis, Antwerp For the second time, CornerStone organises Pulse Festival, celebrating the

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Agenda. March history of electronic music. Count on a record fair, lectures and DJ sets.

bing Gristle and legendary gendercrossing performance artist GenesisP-Orridge. S/he is accompanied by video director Peter Christopherson.

Festival: Performatik 18-29 March - Various locations, Brussels Performatik is all about, well, performance, and occupies different spaces in Brussels with pieces by Joelle Tuërlinckx, the ‘grande dame’ of Spanish performance Esther Ferrer and the Bouillon group.

Theatre: Bright 28 March - Kaaitheater, Brussels Christian Bakalov has worked with big names such as Jan Fabre and Bob Wilson, but this time it’s different. In BRIGHT, his first solo show, he brings the spaces under the Kaaitheater stage to life. Some serious sensesharpening and imagination-stimulation is bound to happen.

Music: Charles Cohen + Rabih Beaini + Haco 19 March - Vooruit, Ghent Rabih Beaini and Charles Cohen agreed to redo their performance, which was one of the best concerts of Vooruit’s last season. The former discovered the latter, who is now celebrated as one of the pioneers of techno.

Festival: Courtisane 01-05 April - Various locations, Ghent Once again, Courtisane festival stretches over different venues in Brussels and Ghent with a blend of experimental fiction films and documentaries.

Artparty: Vlees.#2 20 March - KERK, Ghent Vlees.#2 invites you to contemplate art while you party (or the other way around). Boogie with online loudmouth AJ OMO and holder of potentially the most dizzying Tumblr page on the internet, Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe.

Music: Antwon + Team Panini 02 April - Het Bos, Antwerp Het Bos welcomes Antwon, the most fun performer in the cloud-rap scene. Team Panini forms the Belgian counterpart.

Music: Cian Nugent 25 March - Het Bos, Antwerp Guitarist-composer Cian Nugent mixes suburban art-blues with ’60s and ’70s songwriting and a whole lot of other things.

Film: Nacht van de Experimentele Film 03 April - 019, Ghent Experimental cinema comes to life at night, thanks to OFFOff. Movies by Werner Herzog and Andy Warhol; tunes by Helm.

Music: Psychic TV 28 March - Het Bos, Antwerp Psychic TV is the group of ex-Throb-

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Expo: Si tu veux voir le monde, ferme tes yeux: part 1 Argos, Brussels Wed-Sun 11.00-18.00 | €5 | Free for members

04 March

Palmistry + SamuelSpaniel Madame Moustache, Brussels 20.00 | €8 | Free for members

06 March

Bed Rugs + Alpha Whale Charlatan (Democrazy), Ghent 20.00 | €15 | Free for members

13 March

26 March

KERK (Democrazy), Ghent 19.30 | €14 | Free for members

Botanique - Brussels 20.00 | €16 | Free for members

13 March

28 March

Susanne Sundfør

BRNS + Le Colisée De Kreun, Kortrijk 20.00 | €15 | Free for members

19 March

Film: Offscreen Off Course Double Bill

Theatre: Operit Kaaitheater, Brussels 21.00 | €16 | Free for members

28 March

Purling Hiss + Singapore Sling Beursschouwburg, Brussels 22.00 | €13 | Free for members

KASK Cinema, Ghent 20.30 + 22.00 | €8 | Free for members

30 March

20 March

OFFoff, Ghent 20.30 | €7 | Free for members

06 March

Purling Hiss + Sick Hyenas + Teen Creeps

Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 18.00 | €5 | Free for members

Het Bos, Antwerp 20.00 | tba | Free for members

07 March

23 March

Film: White God

Jessica Pratt

Film: BODY TALK 30 March-04 April

Festival: Eye on Palestine KVS, Brussels various times | €9 | Free for members

BANG!: Carte Blanche - Dennis Tyfus

Film: Port Actif OFFoff, Ghent 20.30 | €7 | Free for members

02 April

W-O-L-K-E, Brussels 20.30 | €5 | Free for members

24 March

Vooruit, Ghent tba | tba | Free for members

07 March

De Bijloke, Ghent 20.00 | €22 | Free for members

04 April

Froth + Regal

Shelter

John Wiese + more

Part Time + Fabiola Mad Café (JauneOrange), Liège 20.00 | €6 | Free for members

Madame Moustache, Brussels 20.00 | €8 | Free for members

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