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Subbacultcha! Magazine October 2014

The Great Elsewhere Issue

Oh, the joy of travel. Of flying away towards seemingly greener pastures, indulging in the local spirits, hiking the Himalayan trails or simply gaining a new bird’s-eye view of your quirky neighbours. In an ironic twist, a journey can also be one of the best exercises of introspection – unless it mostly involves instagramming the local cuisine. And sometimes a nice yoga sesh at home is all it takes to clear your head, to discover the undiscovered territory inside your mind. Now put on your hiking boots, take out the mosquito repellent and join us on a trip somewhere, anywhere – just elsewhere.

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Contributors: Maarten Van Nieuwenhove, Nina Strebelle, Anna Baqués, Gabriela González, Herlinde Raeman, Kasper-Jan Raeman, Marta Loubet, Sabzian, Jente Maes, Sander van Dalsum, Yana Foque, Julien Van de Casteele, Sarah Riisager, Stefanie Van Rompaey, Jolan Muylaert, Niels Latomme and Gerlin Heestermans Distribution: Brussels: Mark Zask, Peter Nelissen, Julien Van de Casteele, Kellan Smith, Anouk Jurdant, Thomas Roelens, Lola Pertsowsky, Lawrence Foley Ghent: Bart Bruneel, Sophie Dekens, Manon De Sutter, Femke Fredrix, Free Anckaert, Kato De Vylder, Isaac Barbé, Niels De Meirleir, Liza Brandt, Mattias Baertsoen Antwerp: Charlotte Devos, Karen Vantvelt, Olivier Wouters, Dries Vancauwenberghe, Line Broeckx Leuven: Hannah Smeyers Kortrijk: Thomas Vanoosthuyse Luik: Collectief Jaune Orange

Pick up Subbacultcha! magazine here (and over 250 other places) Ghent: Café Video, Cream, Faja Lobi, KASK, Robot, Think Twice, Design Museum, Hotsy Totsy, Copyright, SMAK Brussels: DNA, Beursschouwburg, Rits Café, Les Ateliers Claus, Cinema Nova, Kavka, KVS, Bozar, För, Episode, Foxhole, Roskam Antwerp: Korsakov, American Apparel, Kornel, Kavka, Cinema Zuid, Normo, Het Bos, Revista, Mademoiselle Moustache, Bar’Ac Brugge: Cactus, Bauhaus, Charlie Rockets Leuven: STUK, Depot, M Museum, Think Twice Kortrijk: De Kreun, Paul’s Boutique, Pits Hasselt: Z33, Muziekodroom, Gigaswing, Café café Luik: Le Tipi, La Zone

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Content

Lust For Youth page 14

Stellar OM Source page 20

Mittland och Leo Photo essay by Jolan Muylaert page 25

Scene Report: Brussels page 30

Recommendations 09 We Visit You 12 Featured Artist 36 Books 42 Films 44

Subbacultcha! shows 49 Agenda 59 Overview 62 Free Stuff 63

Cover image by Sarah Riisager

October Recommendations

15/10 LUST FOR YOUTH + Mittland Och Leo 22/10 PERFECT PUSSY + VVOVNDS & more ... 02/11 AU REVOIR SIMONE 11/11 CLIPPING. + Fujako 12/11 TRANS AM + Majeure 15/11 HARBINGER SOUNDCLASH with Sleaford Mods, The Urinals, Parabelles, The Lowest Form, .... 18/11 WHITE LUNG + support 20/11 NOTHING + Newmoon 22 + 23/11 SONIC CITY curated by JAMES HOLDEN Gold Panda, James Holden, Silver Apples, Dean Blunt, Torn Hawk & much more tba - tickets and info >> www.soniccity.be

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JAGA JAZZIST ZU NIHILL vs WIEGEDOOD WIFE. + Red Stars Over Tokyo

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

KETEV

Crossbeat

This is a three-in-one recommendation. Ghent trio Crossbeat is releasing its debut EP, 9160, on Voxed Recordings. Four atmospheric tracks: ‘Whispering’ features down-tempo percussion; title track ‘9160’ house-like synths; ‘Uprising’ beautiful vocal harmonies and our personal favourite, ‘The Opening’, saves its true opening up for the end. Gullfisk, the man behind Voxed Recordings, himself makes ‘smooth bass music, easy-going but intense’. His EP is scheduled for November. With his label, he’s supporting the Belgian artists he believes in: Voxed Recordings has previously released work by Oaktree, Gottland and Carlton.

With Singular Stare, KETEV, the posttechno project of Berlin-based sound artist and composer Yair Elazar Glotman, is following up the well-received debut cassette released on Opal Tapes. For that previous release he manipulated reel-to-reel tape loops with fourtrack cassette decks and created dark and cold rhythms and soundscapes, with roaring textures and slow, shifting rhythmic mantras. The new LP, released on Where To Now? Records, proves the uniqueness of his mantra. It’s up to you to give yourself over to his enthralling escapist experience.

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October Recommendations Vaadat Charigim

conducted among hundreds of women around the globe, and includes questions like, ‘When do you feel at your most attractive?’ and ‘Do you address anything political in the way you dress?’ It also features interviews and anecdotes from the likes of Tavi Gevinson, Kim Gordon, Lena Dunham, Miranda July and many more.

At Burger Records they know how to lead the way to the Great Elsewhere. Presuming that the love of music overcomes political objections, definitely give Vaadat Charigim a spin. Meaning ‘exceptions committee’ in Hebrew, this Tel Aviv trio provides you with Israeli shoegaze with just the right touch of exoticism. There’s no denying that Dan, Juval and Yuval are indebted to My Bloody Valentine for their greyish and fuzzy walls of sound, but The World Is Well Lost will prove to be a most adequate soundtrack for riding in your ’70s car.

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bine Did you know that, in botany, bine describes plants that climb with the shoots growing in a helix around a support? That it differs from a vine, which uses tendrils or suckers to climb? In Akkadian mythology, the bine is the guardian of hell, comparable with the three-headed Cerberus of Greek mythology. And the word is supposed to designate many more things. But, when you add a cute little snowman to it, it becomes the name of the best beats you’ve heard in a long time. From last February’s It Hurts 2 Inhale to the recent Things Will Be Better From Now On, it’s pretty spot on. Haters gonna hate, but you’re just here to love, love, love, right?

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Book: Women In Clothes After writing about female friendship in How Should A Person Be?, Sheila Heti’s new book focuses on clothes and the relationship women have with them. The book holds the results of a survey

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October Recommendations Art: Alex Thebez

App: Somebody

You should send us mail, you know. And not another email, but actual mail, delivered to us by postmen with the quirky hats – or women, for that matter. Alex Thebez did. One day it arrived, all the way from New York. A postcard with an impressive shot and cute little sticker of a hamster on the back. The Big Applebased Indonesian photographer loves ramen and Pokémon trades and shoots some pretty ace series. Definitely check out his Mara Exegesis and Rosie Rittenberry projects, with their luscious pinks, candles, palm leaves, orange smoke and some otherworldly blue foam.

Email is old, calling might be awkward, texting too easily becomes sexting. And Miranda July knows. And Lord knows we love her, thanks to the genius stories in No One Belongs Here More Than You, the awkward T-shirt dance in The Future and, basically, everything else she ever does. Now she’s invented Somebody. When you send your friend a message through this app, it goes not to your friend, but to the Somebody user nearest your friend. This person, who’s likely a stranger, delivers the message verbally, acting as your stand-in. You can always access the ‘floating messages’ to immediately see if there are any messages near you awaiting delivery. Here’s to general weirdness and unexpected friendships!

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We Visit You: Weronika Garczyk Photo by Jente Maes

Your first ever music-related memory? A Polish boyband called Just 5. My mum took me to see them in concert when I was eight. What’s your favourite pastime? Hanging out in Warsaw – so far, the best place in the world. What does an ideal lazy Sunday look like for you? Breakfast in Solarshop (we live just above), a sunny afternoon in stadspark and a bit of work on my designs or if I’m in Poland, a trip to the horse races. Any guilty pleasures? Power Puff Girls and street races in my white Audi – very guilty. Have you experienced any regrets recently? No, never! What makes you dance? My friend Afonso. When I see him moving I just need to join in. Which future Subbacultcha! show are you looking forward to? Actually, I’m moving to London, but last Wastelands was so good that I’m sure I’ll be back next year.

Name: Weronika Garczyk Home: Antwerp Zodiac sign: Capricorn

Tell us, what do you do in life? I’m constantly looking for new music. For the last few months, I’ve contributed articles to Subbacultcha!. I’ve also just launched a small collection of sweaters. What inspires you? Latin America and my multicultural neighbourhood. You’re from Poland, so how did you end up in Antwerp? I was accepted into the fashion department of The Royal Academy of Fine Arts. What do you like best about your place? My boyfriend! What kind of music are you listening to at the moment? Some really bad stuff like Latin pop songs from the early 2000s, but to keep the balance, I’m also listening to some good stuff like Hot Sugar, Spooky Black, Palmistry, Gantz and DJ Swaqqy Dolphin. What’s the first record you bought? It was some tacky mixtape from Tesco. You used to be able to buy them by weight.

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 Great Elsewhere Issue. Interview With International, Hannes Norrvide released his fourth LP in as many years. Just as any quest for the Great Elsewhere demands, it was time to make some changes. Now the post-punk outfit is a trio, and the cold, lower-

Lust For Youth Interview by Julien Van de Casteele Photos shot by Sarah Riisager in Copenhagen, Denmark.

than-lo-fi approach has been traded in for a lighter and airier electro-pop sound. We talked to Norrvide about depressing bank statements, the glitter of imagination and the sexy socialist version of Avicii 15

Lust For Youth. Continued How was your summer holiday? What have you been up to? Well, although for me the whole year is basically one big holiday, I never have any money, so I didn’t do anything special really. We played a couple of concerts at the beginning of the summer, then I partied a lot and got kicked out of work because I overslept one day and I missed another… but I only lost my job temporarily, they took me back after a few days. It was like a little punishment. I also swam a lot. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be and what would you be doing? I’d be somewhere very far away, on some tropical island on this huge yacht with a lot of people working for me. I would pay someone to create music and I would just put my name on it. Hmmm, I sound like a dictator... Basically, it’d be a mix of The Wolf of Wall Street and American Psycho. What would your ideal live show look like? It would take place on Ibiza, with Rebecca & Fiona and Veronica Maggio opening for us. Rebecca & Fiona is like the sexy socialist version of Avicii. Do you think the grass is always greener on the other side? Depends which side you’re on. Do you have any goals you’re pursuing? My goal is to make music. It doesn’t matter what name it’s under. The name is generally something you choose randomly one day and then just regret it most of the time – Lust for Youth is an example. With LFY, the band is like a learning process of making music. Even though this last record might not sound experimental at all, it is the most experimental one for me. What influences Lust for Youth’s music? Kanye West.

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Lust For Youth. Continued

Lust For Youth. Continued ‘My goal is to make music. It doesn’t matter what name it’s under’ What part of you is portrayed in Lust for Youth’s music? I actually don’t know. For instance, most of the lyrics are just words that are just passing through my head, I’m not sure they have a deeper meaning. Where are your most crowded shows? It’s really hard to say because sometimes Italy is very successful and then sometimes it’s just shit. I think it also really depends on which night of the week we’re playing. We went to Russia once and people there were really enthusiastic, it was crazy. What are your plans for the near future? We have to hire someone to manage the band’s finances because, for example, on tour we spend our money stupidly and we always end with no money left. Then we have to prepare the release of our new 7" coming out in 300 copies, which we’ll hopefully be able to take on tour with us.

Lust For Youth is playing Het Bos, Antwerp on 14 October; De Kreun, Kortrijk on 15 October. Both shows are free for Subbacutcha! members.

The Great Elsewhere Issue. Interview When Christelle Gualdi isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t practicing the art of yoga, she crafts mind-altering ambient and body-jacking dance music as Stellar OM Source, taking your mind and body to undiscovered territory, time and time again.

Stellar OM Source Interview by Sander van Dalsum Photos shot by Yana Foque in Antwerp, Belgium

Transitioning from one sound to another takes time and discipline. We called the former yoga teacher to talk about Parisian ghettos, enhancing your consciousness and how idealism fits into that 21

Stellar OM Source. Continued As a kid, I thought the world would be a better place if we didn’t have to eat our veggies. Did you have any juvenile thoughts on how life could be improved? I’m not really attracted to the word ‘idealism’. I’ve always thought that if we adapted more to our surroundings, we’d be much better off. It’s better to accept what’s happening than to want to change something. Were those your thoughts on idealism as a kid as well? I don’t remember exactly what I was thinking as a child, but I do recall thinking about letting things just be. When my parents got divorced, I had two homes. My father’s home was located in the middle of a Parisian ghetto. This place was exactly like that movie La Haine. My mum lived in the suburbs of that same city – very peaceful, but super boring. There was nothing to do except ride my bike with the other children of the neighbourhood. And what did you do when you visited your dad in the ghetto? We weren’t supposed to go outside at his place, because it was pretty dangerous. There would always be guys smoking pot in the elevator, and our doors were all spray-painted. We often saw something burning – either cars in parking lots or garbage. And I saw somebody getting stabbed once. So I got confronted with reality pretty hard. You taught the art of yoga to creative people. Though you stopped teaching, I take it you still practice yoga? Yes, but I do it alone, so I can make up my own routines. In a class it’s difficult to reach a certain level of consciousness. There’s always someone who will disrupt the class, and also it’s really hard to find a good teacher. I had a fantastic teacher named Ben in The Hague, though. He had a practice called Kristallen Naald that he ran in his living room, where only eight people could fit.

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Stellar OM Source. Continued ‘It wasn’t like I came into the studio last year and made something completely different out of thin air’ Do you still have idealistic views that you learned from him? Discipline, mostly that. Ben’s classes were like one big flow, and he conducted the class from his mat, without feeling the need to correct us. His methods were cold and concentrated, and he never joked. This seriousness was really impressive; the curtains were closed and you forgot about everything happening outside of that room. So you would take discipline over recreation? Yeah, if you want to reach something with yoga, you have to. I did my teacher training in India, where discipline was very important. You couldn’t go outside, you’d have to get up at five in the morning and there was a strict diet. I liked that. Your previous records would fit real nicely in my naïve interpretation of a yoga practice. But your latest record, Joy One Mile, was more like an ecstatic club experience. How come? It wasn’t like I came into the studio last year and made something completely different out of thin air. It was made over a couple of years and the songs are like a time frame. It’s basically the same as taking a picture of you the one year and taking another some years later. Maybe you changed your hair – who knows? It’s a natural process. I always wanted to explore new sounds and I feel like I’ve really reached a place with that record. I really love it; I’ve never felt as strong about my songs as I Stellar OM Source plays Vooruit, Ghent on do about these. 10 October, together with bEEdEEgEE. The show is free for members.

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Mittland och Leo by Jolan Muylaert

First they covered ‘La Bamba’, now Mittland och Leo’s first full-length LP, Optimists, will leave you with a goofy grin on your face. The Antwerp-bred organ duo, consisting of the multifaceted Joke Leonare and Milan Warmoeskerken, will take you on a trip through all the world’s memories. The soft spuming bass, magical synths and chirping and repetitive melodies seem to have no exact age or origin. Their psychedelic exotica will keep you warm all winter long 25

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Mittland och Leo plays at De Kreun, Kortrijk on 15 October, together with Lust for Youth. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

The Great Elsewhere Issue. Scene Report

Scene Report Brussels

Text by Niels Latomme Photos shot by Niels Latomme in Brussels

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. Because the Great Elsewhere might be closer to you than you’d think, Niels Latomme – who runs the KRAAK label, inter alia – takes us for a stroll through Brussels. His series of pictures show the perverse chaos and its inherent poetry that are exemplar of the streets and atmosphere of Europe’s capital Apart from being a collector of old sheet-ghost pictures and running the Ghent-based-but-everywhere-active KRAAK label and concert organiser, I run a Brussels tape label under the moniker Beyt al Tapes. Throughout the years its output has shifted towards neo avant-garde compositions. Let’s talk bands first. Some of the most interesting, and deeply Brussels-rooted musicians, are Razen, a wonderful acoustic-trance duo who hail from various chapels in and around Brussels. At the same level stands Quentin Nicolai, blending abstract Belgian ethnic field recordings with naïve melodies and rural spheres. Quentin plays together with Xavier Garcia – curator of a great film and music programme at BOZAR – and Cool Brocoli in the brol kraut and outsider Afrobeat combo of Humus. In the same scene you have the strongholder Benjamin Franklin, the master of Casio micro-symphonies. Young peers include Bear Bones, Lay Low, a cosmic-horror wizz kid and part of neo-Goa trance outfit TAV exotic. Draaier/Frezer, the

Scene Report. Continued ‘Brussels is a perverse, poetic, chaotic and fragmented city, historically a crossing point, a free state of free minds and a victim of crappy rural politics’ caustic noise outlet of Tom Vanlippenvelde, operates from artistic support platform Nest. At the beginning of the Noughties, the DIY and experimental scenes in Belgium were a source of inspiration. Labels including Imvated by Lieven Martens Moana, Puik by Jelle Crama, Ultra Eczema, KRAAK, Veglia by the then-Brussels-based Laurent Cartuyvels, the Man Generated crew in Tienen, Funeral Folk in Ghent/Maldegem and Young Girls in Liège were part of a global network and all shared the same ethos of freshness, absurdity and intuitivity, plus a good nose for music inside ‘the Other’. Nowadays they’re peers, and you can’t look up to something which you’re part of. In this post-noise environment, the avant-garde composer and artists’ scenes of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s have become an inspiration. To namedrop some influences: Mill’s College, the San Francisco Tape Music Center and the Lovely label laying out highly aestheticised avant-garde, and post-fluxus composition techniques – David Behrman, Jacques Bekaert, Robert Ashley, Pauline Oliveros and Takehisa Kosugi – are still impressive in depth; or the vocal poetry scene around the Revue OU magazine, published by Henri Chopin. Those were small groups of likeminded people, standing at the forefront of art, working on new forms of art and music, creating new, interconnected forms of poetry and distribution.

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Scene Report. Continued Brussels is a perverse, poetic, chaotic and fragmented city, historically a crossing point, a free state of free minds and a victim of crappy rural politics. Due to the city’s nature, there will always be other, hidden scenes and places. But here are some places and people I think are worthy to visit and to follow. The biggest venues

are Beursschouwburg and AB. The latter started organising small concerts in Huis 23, partly curated by Il Professore Floris Vanhoof. Les Ateliers Claus, in Saint-Gilles, is good for discovering new bands. The Antwerpian Echnum scene moved to Anderlecht into a huge anti-squad place called Het Eiland, where, amongst others, TG is continuing his concerts together with Ernesto González, Mike Weird Dust and more. At the backside of the Palace is NEST, located in a former antiquarian’s house. They run silk-screen ateliers and an exposition/concert space. You’ll find tons of small, DIY-run galleries

The Great Elsewhere Issue all over Brussels – check Hectoliter in the centre, or the new E2 at Kapellekerk. Ever active is the global underground DJ, party organiser, Mississippi Records distributor and beer lover Seb Basleer, as himself or under the guise of RebelUP. I live in Forest, and the Parvis de Saint-Gilles – an oddly shaped market with a lot of nice bars – is just around the corner. Check L’Union and Brasserie Verschueren on Saturday, karaoke night, the Brasserie de Parvis or the record store Harlequin around the corner. I’m very fond of the many Portuguese bars and restaurants, their cheap food, Super Bock beer and great coffee. For Italian, you have Momo at Place de Bethlehem; 100 metres further is La Tricoterie, which serves great brunch on Sundays. My favourite bakeries are Marléne in Sint-Gilles and the Small Portuguese bakery at Av. Wielemans Ceuppens. Have a beer in the crappy Bar a Nelson at the other side of the avenue or in the Parc de Forest. Wiels is around the corner as well. An old man in mind, I am a sucker for classic Brussels spaces like Mokafé in the Galerie du Roi, Cirios at the Beurs, Daringman and Laboureur. Back to the future, KRAAK will soon release the new Razen Brussels hang-outs and promoters: LP, new MAAN and new Floris Beursschouwburg, AB, Huis 23, Vanhoof records. And we’ve got Les Ateliers Claus, Het Eiland, a big festival called Eastern Daze NEST, Hectoliter, E2, RebelUP!, lined up on 15 November, with Beyt al Tapes Pelt and Master Musicians of Jajouka as headliners. Beyt al Tapes Essential Brussels bands: Bear will be releasing the first single of Bones, Lay Low, Razen, Quentin Nicolai, Humus, Benjamin FrankBlack Mambo, the newest Brussels lin, TAV Exotic, TG Gondard Crap Wave revelation.

Featured Artist

Lukas Verstraete Lukas Verstraete (1992) is a young illustrator and graphic novelist. His stories are populated by stereotypical fools, vile characters and maniacs. A metaphysical dimension is never far away â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and his work is certainly not devoid of humour. Following on from Tupu and Ramone, two skilfully drawn stories in which our poor human nature is put to a rather unpleasant test, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s working on a new graphic novel called Lukas. The unfortunate main character finds himself split into three parts: the psyche, the physical and the historical. What follows is a journey in which Lukas tries to reunite those three parts. The selection of drawings comes from this new story lukasverstraete.blogspot.be 36

Featured Artist: Lukas Verstraete

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Featured Artist: Lukas Verstraete

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Books Text and artwork by Gabriela González

The Book of Legendary Lands by Umberto Eco Maybe you’re an art history student and have come across the wonderful essays ‘On Beauty’ and ‘On Ugliness’. Maybe you were once a Christian Slater fan and sat through his turn as a novice monk led astray in The Name of the Rose. Or maybe you’re a semiotics freak and, well, there’s not much I can say to that. At any rate, the name Umberto Eco most likely rings a bell – the novelist and literary critic, the art historian and philosopher, the semiotician and language theorist: in short, a total touche-à-tout dude who, at 82, is still prodigious as hell. Take his latest publication, The Book of Legendary Lands. In it, he combines his love for history, literature, religious theory and art by guiding us through the real and imaginary lands that have sparked wars, inspired poets, launched

epic expeditions and demonstrated mankind’s visionary dreams of certain utopia. From the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World to Babylon, Atlantis and Thule, Eco steers us through the stories behind biblical lore, ancient reveries and age-old dreamscapes. These are laid out and explored, accompanied by lavish illustrations such as Piero Della Francesca’s chipped frescoed dementia, the surreal landscapes of the now-infamous Codex Seraphinianus and dozens of reproductions from the mythical, the fantastic and the bizarre. A Rizzoli publication, it does not come cheap. But without a doubt, The Book of Legendary Lands is an incredible object to peruse – instantly transporting readers to the most stunning places humankind has been capable of imagining.

Films Selected by Sabzian - www.sabzian.be

Wang Bing retrospective

After BFI in London and Centre Pompidou in Paris, Cinematek in Brussels is next to invite Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing to present an overview of his work. You can see all his films, including the premiere of his latest, Feng ai. In addition to the extensive screening programme there will be a cinematic installation and an exhibition of his photographic work. Wang Bing is one of the most daring, profound and sensitive purveyors of contemporary cinema. West of the Tracks, his first film, is a three-part documentary about the decline of the Tiexi district in the city of Shenyang, testimony to the rampant economic changes in 21st century China. Throughout his oeuvre, Wang Bing patiently weaves together a world of images and sounds and tries to unfold a moment, one hour or a day – a moment of ‘truth’ – in its entirety, seemingly unhindered by accepted known codes. Screenings from 22 October to 27 November at Cinematek, Brussels

Films

Eros + Massacre

Figures of Dissent Coming up in October: two more editions of Figures of Dissent, a series focusing on the relationship between cinema and politics. First up: Eros + Massacre by Yoshishige Yoshida, a political film not merely on account of its message but because of the rearticulation of film as the very means of doing politics. Second up is Italian filmmaker Loredana Bianconi, who aims to disclose silent or silenced subjects of history, ‘opening up to the discourse of others to alert the memory’. Eros + Massacre (1969) screens at KASK Cinema, Gent, on 09 October, 20.30. The screening of Devenir and talk with Loredana Bianconi takes place at Cinematek, Brussels, on 16 October, 19.00

Leviathan

Leviathan Andrey Zvyagintsev - 2014 Zvyagintsev’s fourth film tells the story of a man’s struggles against a corrupt mayor who wants to get his hands on his idyllic piece of land by the Barents Sea. The film has been interpreted as a political allegory and a critique of the Putin administration. But, although in focusing on the corruption in a small town it deals with important issues of contemporary Russia, the film appeals to a universal kind of suffering. Leviathan won the award for best screenplay at Cannes this year. Opens on 22 October

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Music, art and film in October 2014 Those Foreign Kids: 01 September

Those Foreign Kids: 01 September

New Music: Solar Year

Film: Lydia Ainsworth

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Fat White Family + Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs

Bear in Heaven + Soldier’s Heart + Fear of Men

03 October - Botanique, Brussels 20.00 | €17 | Free for members

03 October - Beursschouwburg, Brussels 21.30 | €12 | Free for members

Naming your album Champagne Holocaust makes you sound like trouble. And that’s just what this south-London six-piece is. Smelling of cheap booze and testosterone, singing the sexual ‘Is it raining in your mouth?’, Fat White Family like to shake things up with a dirty and loud rock'n'roll set, more often than not including wheelchairs and fire extinguishers. Funny fact: their manager is called Robert Rubbish. Or so they like to say. Heavenly Recordings sweethearts Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs, meanwhile, know how to channel the mid-’70s New York artpunk vibe, making it contemporary and their own. Yep, in short: rock'n'roll that is as sexy as ever.

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Crafting their Bear in Heaven sound with psychedelic sounds, electronica and kraut, John Philpot and his Brooklyn boys walk the path between pop and rock. As Philpot stated, the recent Time Is Over One Day Old, was all about ‘breaking up with old ways of being’ and finding 'some ethereal place'. Even if you only put on your radio twice a year, chances are high you’ve heard Soldier’s Heart’s enthralling singles ‘African Fire’ and ‘New Housie’. Slyvie Kreusch & co were named ‘talent of the year’ in 2013 by the Belgian press. With Loom, Brighton band Fear of Men delivers soothing dream pop, with a lyrical fascination for all things water.

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bEEdEEgEE: 10 October

bEEdEEgEE + Stellar OM Source + Lipstick DJ’s

Vessel: 04 October

10 October - Vooruit, Ghent 21.30 | €10 | Free for members

Burnt Ones

09 October - Madame Moustache, Brussels 20.00 | €6 | Free for members They’ve been making music since 2001 and refer to their own sound as ‘sike rock’. Burnt Ones previously released stuff on Burger Records but are now hooked to Castle Face with their latest album, Gift. Here, the three San Franciscans have delved into a sunny and more psychedelic territory, though their lo-fi surf-minded garage of previous albums is anything but inferior to this new bit of dreamy magic. If you’re still looking for a perfect anthem for the end of summer or just wanna nod your head with good reason, be sure to give this band a shot.

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When NY art-rock ensemble Gang Gang Dance took a break recently, drummer Brian DeGraw focused on his solo project. Also being an artist and a DJ, the man just has too much positive energy. As bEEdEEgEE he combines disorienting rhythms, clubby basses and tribal beats into rave-like synth pop. For debut SUM/ ONE he also teamed up with Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) and Lovefoxxx (CSS). After her previous New Age-inspired ambient synth explorations, soulful esoteric techno is Christelle Gualdi’s, aka Stellar OM Source’s, present cup of tea. The 2013 Joy One Mile record got nothing but rave reviews, since there’s just no escaping the ecstatic dance-floor energy emanating from it.

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Elephant Stone: 12 October

out their way-out, voodoo 'hypno-psych'! Meakusma resident DJ SoFa is one of the most versatile DJ's we know, who's dying to show you all his new discoveries. Other musical acts are Mars Blackmon DJ, May bringing you deep electro-soul cool and 'Témé Tan', a young Congolese multi-instrumentalist.

Afrogroove: 10 October

Afrogroove: Golden Teacher + May + more 10 October - Kolpinghaus, Eupen 22.00 | €12 | Free for members

Meakusma is one of Belgium's most interesting alternative labels. Active since '98, they now mainly focus on organising events. We warmly remember their recent Foyer night in Eupen. Same town, different groove: this month they curate a room at Afrogroove. We all know it began in Africa but this lineup is so wide-ranging it would be sad to restrict them in genre tropes. Golden teacher from Glasgow is a fusion between a noise-punk band and an analogue house duo. Interesting, to say the least. It's definitely worth checking it

Elephant Stone

12 October - Charlatan (Democrazy), Ghent 20.00 | €14 | Free for members Montreal-based psych-pop group Elephant Stone’s first album, The Seven Seas, was pretty promising even before it was long-listed for the Polaris Music Prize. But third EP The Three Poisons sounds even better, being groovier than groovy. The mix of rock 'n' roll, trippy raga and the quest for the perfect song make up for fine psychedelic hindie

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Lust For Youth: 14 October

recent album, Remember I Was Carbon Dioxide, could help them on this quest. Playing without permission in underground stations and other public places has seen them dubbed ‘Krautrock Guerilla’. Though they aren’t NEU! or Can emulators, the spherical stretches, trancelike flow and psychedelic overtones that rise up from keyboards, drums and guitars definitely call for the krautrock label.

Camera: 14+15 October

rock. Yes, Elephant Stone’s central figure is Rishi Dhir, presently one of the most highly sought-after sitar players in the psychedelic music scene. As you probably figured, this is the something else we had in mind to take you to the Great Elsewhere.

Camera + Back to Whitworth

Lust For Youth + Croatian Armor + Ssaliva

14 October - La Zone (JauneOrange), Liège 20.00 | €6 | Free for members Camera + DSR Lines + Ögon Batto 15 October - Het Bos, Antwerp 20.00 | tba | Free for members

14 October - Het Bos, Antwerp 20.00 | tba | Free for members Lust For youth + Mittland och Leo 15 October - De Kreun, Kortrijk 20.00 | €13 | Free for members Lust for Youth is Hannes Norvide's dark, lo-fi one-man-band-turned-trio.

If it was up to Berlin band Camera, ‘pure and lonely’ would be a genre in and of itself. Obviously the title of their

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ny and a feminist statement in 1927: L' Invitation au voyage. Sound artist Laura Maes provides a a brand new soundtrack. MIAUX, the keyboard goddess who recently released her first LP on Ultra Eczema , interprets the scifi city symphony ‘Paris qui dort’ (1924) by René Clair live.

The grimness that reminds of Swedish winters has made room for undiscovered territory: pop music! International, the title of the recent and fourth LP, refers to the loneliness of touring. So let's make him feel at home. In Antwerp, there’s Croatian Armor – aka Loke Rahbek – who co-runs the Posh Isolation label and who traded in his music tape The Wild Palms for nude self-portraits this summer. Luckily the Belgian Sleeperhold Publications will sell you his Caviar Glowing the normal way. Our man from Liège, Ssaliva, will prepare us for our Scandinavian voyage. We secretly hope he'll bring his wonderful track ‘Arcadia’ to guide us out The Waste Land. In Kortrijk, Mittland och Leo will bring you some ace atonal synth weirdness.

Theatre: Fest

21 October - Campo, Ghent 20.30 | €13 | Free for members The Bulgarian performance artist Ivo Dimchev is quite the enfant terrible. As Lili Handel, a pale white, nearly naked and almost translucent creature existing on the border between man and drag queen, Dimchev has fascinated us a few times before with his intoxicating voice and presence. Last time he stopped by at Campo Theatre in Ghent, presenting P-Project, he asked us to write poetry, dance and to get rid of our clothes for a nice sum of money. This time he presents Fest, in which he examines the conventions of the theatre world. Set in the context of an imaginary festival in Copenhagen and featuring a performer, programmer, technician and critic, the piece quickly turns into a fantasy about sex and power.

OFFoff Extra Muros 17 October - Vooruit, Ghent 20.00 | tba | Free for members

Once again, Art Cinema OFFoff presents a special program for the Film Festival, this time with a French accent. We travel to the Parisian metropolis of the 1920s, filled with hearts longing for romantic escapades. Inspired by the poem by Charles Baudelaire, Germaine Dulac made a ‘visual sympho-

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Jerusalem In My Heart

opens up the gates to her personal paradise, where it’s forbidden to forbid. Horror, carnal energy, carnivalesque tinges and gruesome rituals reign supreme. While you’ll be hearing reverberating organ music, African rhythms and poprock melodies, Freitas rules with an iron hand over a quartet of crazed male creatures. She’s the flamboyant maestro in a torero costume that will take over your imagination. The performance is part of Transformers, the programme focused on artists that transform the human body, thoughts and reality.

23 October - JauneOrange, Liège tba | tba | Free for members Jerusalem In My Heart is a live audiovisual happening, interweaving contemporary Arabic and electronic music with 16mm film projections and lightbased deconstructions of space, with Montréal-based producer and musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh at its core. Moumneh is a Lebanese national who has been a fixture in the independent experimental music community both in Canada and Beirut. Along with Chilean filmmaker Malena Szlam and Jérémie Regnier, an electronic music producer from France, he creates relevant art, with a socio-political undertone. We can honestly say none of their performances is ever the same.

Slow Club

27 October - Botanique, Brussels 20.00 | €16 | Free for members Charles Watson and Rebecca Taylor started out ten years ago as charming teenagers and you’ll probably remember them best from their 2009 Yeah So debut. But small boys and girls get big and grow up – and so did their sound. Ranging from indie pop to folk rock, their third album, Complete Surrender, is jam-packed with catchy tunes, both uptempo and slow, with loads of soul influences that they’ve made their own. Yep, it was a successful trip down memory lane for these two, to the golden age of Stax and Motown.

Theatre: Paradise – Private Collection

24 & 25 October - Beursschouwburg, Brussels 20.30 | €12 | Free for members A baroque aesthetic and surreal images are what make up Marlene Monteiro Freitas’ work. The Cape Verdean dancer, gladly known as another enfant terrible of contemporary choreography,

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Tabacco: 30 October

Peaking Lights: 30 October

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Peaking Lights

30 October - KultuurKaffee, Brussels 20.00 | €10 | Free for members

30 October - Beursschouwburg, Brussels 20.30 | €12 | Free for members

Guided by influences from strange dark places, Black Moth Super Rainbow front man Tom Fec makes digital psych-funk under the moniker Tobacco. Compared to BMSR, this solo project sounds a lot darker and sleeker. The Pittsburgh local is pretty fond of analogue synthesizers and tape machines. He uses those to melt down beauty and ugliness into the same primordial bass. Or, as Fec himself stated once: ‘I want to make you feel paranoid in a good way.’ For the live show, he’ll be bringing along some friends.

If there’s one husband and wife duo we truly love to pieces, it’s Peaking Lights. After 936 and Lucifer the LA based dub-noise psych-pop outfit is treating us to a new batch of undoubtedly lovely tunes with their new record, Cosmic Light. A pretty adequate name, no? The LP is set to be released on 06 October on Domino’s sub-label Weird World, and the first single, ‘Breakdown’, only makes the waiting tougher. Whilst counting the days, listen again to ‘Beautiful Son’ and ‘Dream Beat’ on

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Film: Violet

Lord Tang: 01 November

Foyer: Lord Tang + Tim Berresheim + more

that beautiful light-blue vinyl and drift off to the epic vibe lands on these luscious layers of synths.

01 November - Juenlingshaus, Eupen 20.00 | €7 | Free for members

Film: Violet

31 October - Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 18.00 | €5 | Free for members

We can’t give away too much yet, but make sure to keep that spot in your agenda open: get yourselves to Eupen on 01 November. In between Liège and Aachen, the informal capital of Germanspeaking Belgium, all-round collective Meakusma presents Lord Tang, Tim Berresheim and more. There’s a timeless quality to Lord Tang’s sounds, reflecting the moonlight of a future time, floating along in a twilight haze. Being a contemporary German visual artist, Berresheim doesn’t mind taking a trip to the Great Elsewhere of the spheres of audio.

Violet is the impressive debut fulllength of Bas Devos, a very promising young Belgian director. And we seem to have quite a lot of those (#proudness). After seeing his best friend get killed, 15-year-old Jesse becomes more and more isolated from his friends and family, talking less and less. In accordance with the teenager’s condition, Devos limits the dialogue to a minimum. Using the power of the image with an almost hypnotic force, he paints the portrait of Jesse’s emotions.

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FIFTY FOOT COMBO

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BEAR IN HEAVEN + SOLDIER’S HEART

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15.10

COCAINE PISS + BRUTUS

24.10

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Agenda. October On the following pages you’ll find a selection of concerts, festivals and exhibitions taking place during October Art: Lee Friedlander Until 14 December - Fondation A. Stichting, Brussels Friedlander began photographing the American social landscape in 1948. His work, included in the highly influential 1967 New Documents exhibition at the MoMA, has the ability to organise a vast amount of visual information in dynamic compositions, in a humorous and poignant way.

Music: Mittland och Leo 03 October - Het Bos, Antwerp 10 October - Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels Go to the LP release of Optimists and Joke and Milan’s psychedelic organ pop and atonal synth weirdness will keep you warm all winter long. Expo: Dennis Tyfus 03 October - Beurrschouwburg, Brussels Antwerp’s human centipede Dennis Tyfus has been given carte blanche by Beursschouwburg, in the context of its Transformers programme, .“He means well” rarely means something good is his first solo exhibition in Brussels.

Art: Mark Leckey Until 11 January - Wiels, Brussels London-based artist Mark Leckey will include a panorama of both new and older work, in all the variety of media in which he has worked, from his iconic Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore to the sculptures related to his film, On Pleasure Bent, as well as an entirely new project, an artist-curated exhibition within the exhibition.

Music: SpaceGhostPurrp + Yung Simmie 03 October - Trix, Antwerp Miami producer and founder of RVIDXR KLVN, SpaceGhostPurrp is one of the hottest tickets in hiphop town.

Festival: UAMO Art 02-05 October - OPEK, Leuven The free UAMO Art Festival features 13 interdisciplinary artists presenting work around the topic Pretty/Ugly. Along with San Francisco, Berlin, Linz, Zurich, Accra and Florence, Leuven is part of the UAMO City Tour 2014. Selected works will come together later this month in Munich.

Festival: Transformers 03 October-29 November Beursschouwburg, Brussels Beurrschouwburg proves to be an unmissable part of your October agenda. Nicolas Provost’s The Painters is just one of the events presented by

Agenda. October Beursschouwburg in the context of Transformers, a programme focused on artists who build their dreams from transformed facts, shifting the parameters to create new realities. The Black Box programme with looped screenings is all about post-internet art.

Music: Burnt Ones + Tomorrow’s Tulips 08 October - Het Bos, Antwerp On Gift these San Franciscans delved into a sunny and more psychedelic territory, creating the perfect anthemic album for the end of summer.

Music: Wooden Wand + Josephine Foster 04 October - Vooruit, Ghent Weird Americana and outsider folk alert! Count on Wooden Wand’s outlaw country, loner folk and blues; Josephine Foster is there for the fans of Vashti Bunyan, Karen Dalton and co.

Music: Ping Pong Tactics 09 October - Vooruit, Ghent Rebelliousness, DIY attitude and disdain for noise regulations: you know what to expect from this post-punk trio. Art: Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel 10-30 October - Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Brussels Dewar and Gicquel's works redefine the medium of sculpture through narrative structure and craftsmanship, and mismatching references as diverse as hunting, skateboarding and Japanese manga comics.

Music: Vessel + Wife 04 October - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels NYC label TRIANGLE throws a party with multi-instrumentalist James Kelly aka Wife and Vessel’s inventive tunes, situated in between electronica and dance, with dub and techno influences.

Theatre: Miet Warlop, Dragging the Bone 10-11 October - Vooruit, Ghent What meaning can prophecies have in this day and age? Warlop’s mix of humour and frightening ecstasy takes a dive into your imagination to reveal its biggest secrets.

Art: BORG 05 October - Borgerhout, Antwerp The biennial event for contemporary art at Borgerhout will have a splendid finissage. It’s your last chance to follow the track along the several exhibitions and artworks in the public space of the ’hood.

Music: Golden Teacher + JD Twitch 11 October - Bonnefooi, Brussels Celebrating its sixth birthday, Bonnefooi hosts an evening with Golden Teacher’s disco-not-disco and wild tribal dance moves.

Music: Sean Nicholas Savage 08 October - Botanique, Brussels Montreal indie guru Sean Nicholas Savage has won us over once again with his falsetto on new LP Bermuda Waterfall. We can’t wait to see this lovely moustachioed fellow live again.

Film: Film Fest Ghent 14-25 October - Ghent For its 41st edition, Film Fest Ghent

Agenda. October focuses on French cinema and organises a major exhibition of the Italian maestro Federico Fellini in the Caermersklooster.

demia in Venice) from the man who thinks that design ‘is a profession without a rule book’. Film: Film with Otarkino 23 October - Het Bos, Antwerp Food collective Otark, film curator Vincent Stroep and Het Bos team up for a menu based on the visuals, concepts and ideas from the selected movie that screens while you’re eating – yum!

Music: Gazelle Twin 15 October - DNA, Brussels The solo project of composer and visual artist Elizabeth Bernholz is the sonic equivalent of the better kind of witchcraft. Music: DRS Lines + Ögon Batto 18 October - Nest, Brussels Enter an analogue-synth microcosm, giving way to a rush of foamy euphoria and nightmarish, fever blues.

Film: Film with Legowelt 24 October - Vooruit, Ghent Legowelt’s Danny Wolfers composed a new soundtrack for one of his favourite films: Werner Herzog’s Aguirre’s, Der Zorn Gottes. After-party with Chris Ferreira, Nosedrip and Legowelt himself.

Film: Film with Goblin 18 October - Vooruit, Ghent The baroque and surrealistic late Seventies Suspiria is a true horror classic. The soundtrack by the Italian progrock band Goblin was primordial to its success. Now Goblin’s Claudio Simonetti will perform the soundtrack live during the screening.

Music: St. Vincent 27 October - Trix, Antwerp From Polyphonic Spree member to queen of the indie scene: gotta love Annie Clark’s siren songs and sonic fairy tales.

Music: Shabazz Palaces 21 October - AB, Brussels The Shabazz Palaces collective blends an intriguing mix of hip hop, sci-fi rap and Afro-futurism into one seductive whole.

Music: Kelela 30 October - AB, Brussels Future soul, rich and experimental R&B: whatever you call it, LA beauty Kelela Mizanekristos creates soulful bass music.

Lecture: Tobia Scarpa 21 October - Bozar, Brussels In an event co-produced by A+, Bozar is bringing Italian architect and designer Tobia Scarpa to Brussels. Expect a talk focused on his latest project (the renovation of the Galleria dell' Acca-

Music: How to Dress Well 31 October - AB, Brussels Though What Is This Heart? must be Tom Krell’s lightest and most melodic album so far, you’ll still feel your heart aching to his falsetto.

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03 October

Fat White Family + Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs Botanique, Brussels 20.00 | €17 | Free for members

03 October

Bear in Heaven + Soldier’s Heart + Fear of Men Beursschouwburg Brussels 21.30 | €12 | Free for members

09 October

Burnt Ones Madame Moustache, Brussels 20.00 | €6 | Free for members

10 October

14 October

23 October

La Zone (JauneOrange), Liège 20.00 | €6 | Free for members

JauneOrange, Liège tba | tba | Free for members

14 October

24 + 25 October

Camera + Back to Whitworth

Lust For Youth + Croatian Armor + Ssaliva Het Bos, Antwerp 20.00 | tba | Free for members

15 October

Camera + DSR Lines + Ögon Batto Het Bos, Antwerp 20.00 | tba | Free for members

bEEdEEgEE + Stellar Om Source + Lipstick DJ’s

15 October

Vooruit, Ghent 21.30 | €10 | Free for members

De Kreun, Kortrijk 20.00 | €13 | Free for members

10 October

17 October

Afrogroove: Golden Teacher + May + more Kolpinghaus, Eupen 22.00 | €12 | Free for members

12 October

Elephant Stone

Lust For youth + Mittland och Leo

OFFoff Extra Muros Vooruit, Ghent

Jerusalem In My Heart

Theatre: Paradise – Private Collection Beursschouwburg, Brussels 20.30 | €12 | Free for members

27 October

Slow Club Botanique, Brussels 20.00 | €16 | Free for members

30 October

Tobacco

KultuurKaffee, Brussels 20.00 | €10 | Free for members

30 October

Peaking Lights Beursschouwburg, Brussels 20.30 | €12 | Free for members

31 October

Film: Violet

20.00 | tba | Free for members

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

21 October

01 November

Theatre: Fest Campo, Ghent 20.30 | €13 | Free for members

Charlatan (Democrazy), Ghent 20.00 | €14 | Free for members

Foyer: Lord Tang + Tim Berresheim + more Juenlingshaus, Eupen 20.00 | €7 | Free for members

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