Subbacultcha december 2013 january 2014 be by Subbacultcha

Unruly Music Magazine. December 2013 and January 2014

The Belgian Underground issue

Free concerts, art and film ip rsh

Xxx e

At Subbacultcha! we organise uncompromising concerts, exhibitions and film screenings. We also publish this monthly magazine. The good news is you can tap in on the fun. You can become a Subbacultcha! member; for â&#x201A;Ź7 per month we send you our monthly magazine along with a membership pass which grants you free access to all our events. See page 47 for a full list of events.

Subbacultcha! Magazine December 2013 and January 2014

The Belgian Underground Issue

When we started working on The Sound Of The Belgian Underground, our new festival with Ancienne Belgique on 26 January, some folks pointed out the increasing international interest in music coming from the alternative circuit in Belgium. Resonance 104.4 FM, a London-based arts radio project, recently aired exclusive material by Lefto, Cupp Cave, GoldFFinch, LTGL, Pomrad and more, while Dalston’s Cafe OTO organised a Belgian evening in cooperation with Kraak. It was all part of the inaugural Belgium Booms electronic music festival, held in London in October. The Wire recently posted an article and a selection of tracks from the Antwerp scene – in the same week we asked Dolphins into the Future’s Lieven Martens Moana to write down his interpretation of a scene report (online soon!). Safe to say we didn’t have much trouble filling this issue; we could have made it double the size, in fact. For some initiates this will be old news; others will hopefully discover a new side of the Belgian music scene. Either way, we hope we can bring the freshmen and veterans of the Belgian underground together in Ancienne Belgique on 26 January! See you there.

F.A.T. GOLD Europe Five Years of Free Art & Technology November 11, 2013 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; January 26, 2014

mu.nl

Content Featured Artist 36 Books 42 Films 44 Subbacultcha! shows 49 Agenda 57 Free Stuff 63

Cover Illustration by Bert Huyghe

Recommendations 7 We Saw You 10 Miaux 12 Ssaliva 18 Bear Bones, Lay Low 24 Scene Report: Liège 30

Colophon Subbacultcha! Belgium: Karperstraat 26, 9000 Ghent, Belgium www.subbacultcha.be - magazine@subbacultcha.be

Editors in chief: Herlinde Raeman and Kasper-Jan Raeman Editor: Nina Strebelle Copy editors: Peter Claes and Megan Roberts Design: Marina Henao Online editors: Anna Baqués and Nina Strebelle Agenda editors: Nina Strebelle, Julien Van de Casteele and Louise Vervaet

Sales: Eveliina Petäjäaho (eveliina@subbacultcha.be) Distribution: Anna Baqués (anna@subbacultcha.be) Intern: Louise Vervaet Good Guys: Ewout Compernol, Emmanuel Van Damme and Arnaud Vanrafelghem Printing: Drukkerij Gewa, Arendonk, Belgium

Contributors: Nina Strebelle, Anna Baqués, Will Martin, Gabriela González, Herlinde Raeman, Kasper-Jan Raeman, Louise Vervaet, Bert Huyghe, Floris Vanhoof, Han Swolfs, Simon Apers, Bram Devens, Thibault Gondard, Joeri Bruyninckx, Ziggy Devriendt, Joeri Bruyninckx, Gerard Herman and Pierre Bihet Distribution: Brussels: Gertjan Rasschaert, Julien Van de Casteele, Kellan Smith, Andrea Hrzic, Anouk Jurdant, Thomas Roelens Ghent: Maarten Van Nieuwenhove, Linda Baumsteiger, Anouk Dusart, Bart Bruneel, Sophie Dekens, Louise Vervaet Antwerp: Thomas Konings, Anna Baqués, Karen Vantvelt, Charlotte Devos Leuven: Hazal Erkol Kortrijk: Thomas Vanoosthuyse Luik: Collectief Jaune Orange

PRINTING PRINTING PRINTING PRINTING PRINTING PRINTING PRINTING WITH WITH WITH WITH WITH WITH PASSION WITH WITH PASSION PASSION PASSION PASSION PASSION

December and January recommendations

▲

with with

with

this publication was printed by www.gewa.be gewadrupo this publication publication 2 3 7 0 A r e n d o n k ( B ) l H o g e M a u w 1 3 0 this Te l + 3 2 ( 0 ) 1 4 6 7 8 6 6 9 + 32 (0)14 6 7gewa 2 3 1 6 .be was printed printed by by Fa x www www was ..gewa .be w w w. g e w a . b e gewadrupo gewadrupo this publication 22337700 AArreennddoonnkk ((BB)) ll HHooggee MMaauuww 113300 Te l + 3 2 ( 0 ) 1 4 6 7 8 6 6 9 Te l + 3 2 ( 0 ) 1 4 6 7 8 6 6 9 +32 (0)14 67 23 16 32 (0)14 6 2 3 1 6 .be was printed by FaFawxwx +www .7gewa w.ggeew waa..bbee w w w. gewadrupo 2370 Arendonk (B) l Hoge Mauw 130 Te l + 3 2 ( 0 ) 1 4 6 7 8 6 6 9 Fa x + 3 2 ( 0 ) 1 4 6 7 2 3 1 6

w w w. g e w a . b e

■

▲

▲ ▲

with

■ ■ ❙❙

■ ❙❙❙❙ ● ❙❙ ● ●

●

December and January recommendations This time some Belgian artists provide you with their selection of the finer things in life!

Music: Dr Footwear

Music: Roman Hiele

by Ignatz

by Nosedrip

I first met Dr Footwear in 1997 in some bar in Hasselt. I went to the apartment that he shared with the leader of an all-female choir. He let me listen to his music: Dr Footwear. He had a secret, I assumed he had been in jail for harassment. He released one song (out of thousands recorded) on a compilation by Lébo Disques in 1999 called Desolution. You can hear him call a woman, after which there’s a part that’s Ariel Pinkiër than Ariel Pink. A true visionary mind. Dr Footwear is no longer amongst us, but if someone has that compilation, please get in touch with me.

Roman Hiele is the music project of one of Antwerp’s DIY boys. And only partially because of his awesome crest, I officially proclaim him to be the best man ever. His music consist of basslines full of romantic chaos and some lost snare and hi-hat patterns, needless to say his live performances are pure electricity. www.romanhiele.be nosedrip.tumblr.com stroom.tv

www.ignatz.be

December and January recommendations Place: Fauquez

Venue: ECHNUM

by TG Gondard

by Maan

If, like the characters of the movie Brussels by Night, you feel like taking a trip to the centre of Belgium in Ittre (the old, pre-1918 centre), you should travel a little further and explore the nearby village of Fauquez. This village used to be known for the production of marbrite, a cheap glass imitation of marble. The marbrite church is still there in all its coloured glory, but the main attraction is the remaining part of the local cinema theatre, adorned with giant marbrite letters that say ‘bien travailler, bien s’amuser’, it brings back memories of a long-forgotten utopian paternalist capitalism. Inside the ruins you can still enter the projection cabin. The theatre itself has been turned into a meadow, haunted by old movie stars.

The Fresh Antwerp office-turned-underground space ECHNUM is well worth a mention in this section. Hosted by a Belgian-German-Chilean group, it neatly reflects the Belgian underground hood as it ought to be. Skilled in both alive party-construction and performance deconstruction, the fruits of this brotherhood will prove essential and will inevitably leave their unique mark on today’s below-the-radar scene. echnum.blogspot.be www.kraak.net/index.php/artist/release/ maan Photo by Mark Rietveld

www.tggondard.com

December and January recommendations Music: darkness and crossover in Belgian underground Recommended by Hantrax

When it comes to electronic music, I’m very inspired by the period from the end of the Seventies till now, but I’m also focused on song harmonies. De Brassers for example, but also by the Seventies punk and wave of Limburg and the black-shade covered stories from the kids of those days. Darkness in underground music, but also a crossover of styles is very Belgian to me. The lighter shade of new wave is very open minded, liberated in a different, maybe even sort of bisexual way. Berntholer for instance, which makes me think of Jan Fabre’s theatre plays from those days, and Wim Mertens’ Soft Verdict, which is kitsch actually, but very well done, full of emotion. Romanticism. The Same goes for Front 242’s electronic body music, that evolved into the rich culture of electronic dance music of the Eighties. Or New Beat which had its golden era in the Nineties. Many people think it’s funny and totally overdone, but there are a lot of fantastic productions if you look beyond the commercial hype. As a kid in the Nineties, I listened to Channel X, a radio station focussed on dance music, and to Radio Centraal, a non-commercial station here in Antwerp. At this moment I like Mauro a lot, Mauritz Pauwels, and Ultra Eczema, Dennis Tyfus’s label, my biggest inspiration, that hasn’t been released at all as far as I know, Bart Cammaerts or Doctor Chill. www.han-swolfs.be

We Saw You: Spotted at Subbacultcha! Photo by Nina Strebelle

What’s the first record you bought? Maybe Gorillaz’s ‘Clint Eastwood’ single or ‘Blue’ by Eiffel 65. Your first ever music-related memory? The Ecuadorian records of my father, I think… the panpipes and all that. What’s your favourite pastime? Making some beats… Seriously, I really try to get out of my bedroom with these things. What does an ideal lazy Sunday look like for you? Trying to read a book – but I never even finish the first chapter. Any guilty pleasures? Making myself sneeze. Have you experienced any regrets recently? I try to limit my choices. That prevents lots of regrets each day. What kind of music makes you cry? Minimal and suggestive music – like ‘Stone in Focus’ by Aphex Twin, for example. What makes you dance? Some classic hip hop shit: A Tribe Called Quest, The Pharcyde, De La Soul... Which future Subbacultcha! show are you looking forward to? Dean Blunt!

Name: Luca D Age: 22 Spotted at: James Ferraro at Le Bunker, Brussels Home: Brussels Keywords: Parmigiano Reggiano, Dick Annegarn, Oyster Node, Vlek Records, Hype Williams, Dogtooth, soundcloud.com/samuelspaniel, Le Colisée, swimming pool, choops Zodiac sign: Sagittarius What did you think of the show? To tell the truth, I didn’t know what to expect before the concert. What a surprise! I really enjoyed his sounds. The cold digital-synth vibe created a kind of depressive atmosphere, in my opinion. I was really into it. What’s your favourite Belgian food? The chicons au gratin [endives wrapped in ham, slathered in a rich Mornay sauce and baked until crispy on top]. I keep my own secret recipe well hidden. What kind of music are you listening to at the moment? New Cupp Cave/Ssaliva stuff. I really like all his tracks. I’ve also been into ‘beat’ for a while now, like Samiyam or Ohbliv – to name just a few.

The Belgian Underground Issue. Interview Some of the most gentle, expressive music coming from the Belgian underground surely can be found in the work of Mia Prce, a contemporary pianist who composes dreamy instrumental ballads under the moniker Miaux. For the past few years, the

Miaux Interview by Gabriela GonzĂĄlez Photos shot by Nina Strebelle in Brussels

Antwerp-based musician has sporadically released her ethereal recordings via labels such as Lieven Martens Moanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Taped Sounds and Dennis Tyfusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s essential Ultra Eczema. She tells us about dealing with the crazy as a child, her musical evolution and the incomparable appeal of the Belgian scene 12

I read that your parents are artists and that you saw some pretty crazy stuff growing up in the Antwerpian art circles. Any special anecdotes? I grew up in Wolstraat, a cosy but crazy little street in Antwerp. Once I came home from school and there was a donkey in our house. I also remember a man dressed as a woman singing, ‘Ra-ra-ra’ and I wondered why he didn’t sing it with an ‘L’. But when I’d see people go berserk or roll around naked on the floor, my parents would make me see the humour in it. How did you find yourself part of Belgium’s musical underground? I recorded my first three songs on 40 tapes and traded them with friends, but it was Dennis Tyfus who set up my first live show. I brought my keyboard wrapped in two pillowcases and people really enjoyed it. Straight after the show Dennis asked me to make a seveninch; since that first release in 2011 on Ultra Eczema everything has evolved very organically. In 2012 Lieven Martens made a tape, which also reached lots of new people. This March I released my second seven-inch on Ultra Eczema and now I’m working on my first LP. Yay! You’ve been active for about two years and you’ve played outside Belgium a lot. What strikes you about the Belgian scene? I’ve been active since 2010. I’ve played in Germany, Holland, Finland, Denmark and Ireland. What strikes me most is the way people act. When I played at the Lal Lal Lal festival in Helsinki, people applauded so politely I thought they were bored, but afterwards they told me how much they loved it and bought all the records. Weird. In Belgium we’re free and relaxed yet still have the politeness to shut up. If the song or the show is good, we’ll cheer, yell, ask for more. Personally, I love it here. There’s always something going on: people are experimenting. I’ve been looping your SoundCloud all day! There’s a sweet, otherworldly quality to your tunes, like Joe Meek played on a kiddy radio. Has motherhood played a part in your creative process? Great! Glad you like it. I don’t think motherhood has much to

Miaux. Continued

‘I recently found a VHS of myself playing a Casio when I was eight or nine and the melody was dreamy and melancholic even back then’ do with my sound: I recently found a VHS of myself playing a Casio when I was eight or nine and the melody was dreamy and melancholic even back then. When I recorded my first tape I didn’t know I’d be a mother any time soon, ha-ha. Although I did make the first 7” during my four-month-old’s naps, and two of the songs on it also refer to my daughter. The artwork for both of your Ultra Eczema releases revolves around tears. Have you ever seen anyone cry to your music? I just send the songs and Dennis instinctively makes the artwork. He says it makes him sad in a good way. It’s not my intention; I find three of the four songs on Aeronaut very happy and uplifting. There have been some incredible reactions, but I haven’t handed out handkerchiefs yet.

Miaux plays The Sound of the Belgian Underground on 26 January at Ancienne Belgique, Brussels. The show is free for subbacultcha! members.

The Belgian Underground Issue. Interview Hailing from the outskirts of Liège, François Boulanger favours the lull of the Belgian countryside to the hectic rhythm of the city. Which is somewhat surprising considering the futuristic, syncopated electronic tunes

Ssaliva Interview by Will Martin Photos shot by Nina Strebelle in Liège

he releases as either Ssaliva or Cupp Cave, two alter egos for subtly different poles of his musical output. He gives us his take on making music on the down-lo and taking from the past to make something new ‘To me, underground is just a way to describe a genre or a scene that doesn’t have strong media recognition’ 19

Ssaliva. Continued How Belgian are you? A hundred per cent, I’d say. Not in musical way, though: I never listened to that much music from Belgium, except for my friends. But I’m Belgian born and raised. So Belgian music isn’t necessarily something you would identify yourself with? Not in a cultural way, but for a couple of years now there’ve been some people I really identify myself with in Belgium, musically speaking. The artists who release on the Brussels-based label Vlek, for instance, but also people like Dynooo (we have a label called Surf Kill together with Nosedrip), Hiele, Bepotel, Herrmutt Lobby. Those guys are the people who influence me the most right now. Would you say these artists (yourself included) are building a new Belgian underground scene? It’s hard to say in terms of musical identity, because we all make different kinds of music, but there is a strong connection between us. I think it mainly has to do with the generation. We’re all about the same age, grew up with the same video games, the same TV shows, the same music, more or less, so the similarities are inevitable. It’s also true we all share production tips, gear and so on, so it’s a mix of lots of things. What does ‘underground’ mean to you? To me, underground is just a way to describe a genre or a scene that doesn’t have strong media recognition. So you wouldn’t say it’s an attitude or production aesthetic, but more a question of the media or public recognition of a certain product? I think it used to be more of an attitude some time ago, when you think about the early days of punk or new wave, when people would trade tapes and so on, but it’s kind of weird to call anything under-

ground now in 2013. I guess the term has evolved into something different, and it’s not really something that I actively identify with. I used to listen (and still do) to lots of music that is labelled ‘underground’, but I’ve never specifically identified myself or my music with the underground. What is your musical background, actually? I started listening to music pretty late in my life, around 16 or 17. I went through a nu-metal phase, and then I got deep into hip hop and electronica. I started making music at that time, around 18. Were you ever into electronic music that was considered specifically Belgian, or at least that originated in Belgium? New Beat, for example? I got into New Beat pretty late. I’m too young to have known it back when it got popular, but some of my older friends were actually into New Beat. So I think it kind of worked on me unconsciously. Other than that, I can’t really say I got into Belgian electronic music that much.

Ssaliva. Continued

‘It’s all about doing your own thing, experimenting in the shadows’ So you never went to the Boccaccio nightclub? Nah, unfortunately not. I went to similar clubs a bit later with older friends, but it wasn’t the golden age any more. It’s hard to imagine people from all around Europe travelling to Destelbergen for a huge clubbing experience. It’s like Berlin’s Berghain being in some random Flemish town. Hard to imagine – at least for me... For me too. I actually haven’t seen the documentary [Jozef Deville’s The Sound of Belgium] yet, but from what I’ve heard it was a pretty surreal time. Do you ever see history repeating itself? In terms of music, everything repeats itself constantly. I find it exciting to see lots of genres from the past merging together into something new. It can get pretty obsessive too, in a creative way. It’s something I think about quite a lot when I make music, trying to make something new out of old influences or older genres. Does underground equal isolation? How deep do you have to go underground before you break through the centre? I think the underground does have something to do with isolation, but I don’t really think there’s a certain underground level to reach before breaking through or whatever. It’s all about doing your own thing, experimenting in the shadows. If something has to Ssaliva plays The Sound of the Belgian Underground on 26 January at Ancienne happen, eventually it will. Belgique, Brussels. The show is free for subbacultcha! members.

The Belgian Underground Issue. Interview

Bear Bones, Lay Low Interview by Gabriela Gonzรกlez Photos shot by Gabriela Gonzรกlez in Brussels

Ten years ago, the guy behind psych-drone project Bear Bones, Lay Low and Sylvester Anfang II member Ernesto González traded Venezuela for Belgium. Since then he’s made quite the name for himself in the Belgian underground scene. Ernesto and his sis chatted about his countless projects, the musical siblings he looks up to and Latinos invading the Belgian music scene

Hey, brother. I’m starting to lose track of all your projects... Well, Bear Bones, Lay Low is the outlet for all my solo stuff. At first it was all noise and guitar, but now it’s more synth-based and sometimes more structured. Sylvester Anfang II is still around; hopefully we’ll do more stuff soon. Then there’s González & Steenkiste with Glen [aka Hellvete, also from Sylvester Anfang II], which is inspired by minimalism, psychedelia and folk music. Tav Exotic with Mikey [aka Weird Dust] is more like dancey, electronic stuff in the spirit of bands like Crash Course in Science, with a German ’70s vibe. It always ends up sounding slightly Goa-trancey, though... I’m also playing a lot with my friends Tomás and Warre and we’re starting a sort of free-rock band called Jüfro. The common purpose of all of the above is just to trip out. How do you feel being called a ‘sound of the Belgian underground’ although you’re not Belgian? It doesn’t really matter to me. I’ve been making music for a while here and for me it’s just cool to be part of this. It’s not like you can tell I’m Venezuelan just by listening to my albums. There might be some

Bear Bones, Lay Low. Continued

‘I’m not looking to make some intellectual statement, nor to be groundbreaking’ exotic elements but I don’t think there’s any typical Venezuelan or even Belgian idiosyncrasy to my music. What Belgian artists have shaped or influenced you the most? It’s more like the whole of the experimental underground that inspired me. But I have to say that the dudes from Funeral Folk/Sylvester Anfang – they’re more like brothers now – were a huge influence. I remember seeing their first releases and being so inspired: the music, the artwork... and shortly after I met them I started playing with them. I feel very lucky for that. I also love the guys in Buffle; Lieven Martens with his thousands of monikers; and Laurent Cartuyvels with his label Veglia Records. I remember visiting his website every day. It was NEVER updated but I just liked looking at it! You’ve been making music for almost ten years but you’re still a young dude. Do you aim to stay experimental or are you striving towards a more accessible sound like many musicians tend to do? I don’t really think about things that way. My only aim is to stay creative and keep the train moving. I’m not looking to make some intellectual statement, nor to be groundbreaking. I want to stay experimental and play with sound as much as possible, but I also like melody and structure. It’s about getting certain feelings on tape and hoping the people listening will sense them. So you’re not looking to become a hit machine? No – fuck that! Especially nowadays when everything is instantly

Bear Bones, Lay Low. Continued

‘I just want to be able to keep making records and keep finding people who are interested in this and want to collaborate somehow. Otherwise I’ll just do it myself’ forgettable. I just want to be able to keep making records and keep finding people who are interested in this and want to collaborate somehow. Otherwise I’ll just do it myself. Do you think more Latinos should invade the Belgian underground? Yeah, we’d have fun in Spanish. But more than an invasion I’d like to see the different underground cliques getting together. I’m not like, ‘Yeah, man, bring all the far-out Latinos to Belgium.’ It’s time to develop shit in our own countries, too. There’s cool stuff going on every-fucking-where, groups of people bonding over their belief in music’s potential to be something other than just some guys recording a demo in a studio and trying to ‘make it’. I guess Belgium’s the place for you, huh? Who knows? For now, yeah – but I don’t know where the fuck I’m going. Don’t know where the fuck it’s gonna end. Seriously, who knows?

Bear Bones, Lay Low plays The Sound of the Belgian Underground on 26 January at Ancienne Belgique, Brussels. The show is free for subbacultcha! members.

The Belgian Underground Issue

Scene Report Liège

Text by Pierre Bihet Photos shot by Nina Strebelle in Liège

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. If you live in the French community of Belgium, a good Friday night hang-out spot is like gold dust – unless you call Liège home, says musician and record label owner Pierre Bihet I’m Pierre Bihet, and I run the music labels Young Girls Records and Pendant que les Champs Brûlent, as well as Venice Beach Communication. My involvement with the music scene in Liège really started around 2004-’05 at the so-called Idiolabo Festival, a freaky gathering of the Belgian underground scene, where I decorated the toilets with collages and drawings. Thanks to Maxime Le Hung from Matamore and Yannick Franck from Idiosyncratics, I met a lot of people from the Liège experimental scene at this crazy carnival. I started to play in an enigmatic band called Dolph Lundgren with some of the people I’d met at Idiolabo. Basically, we played a weird mix of Devo and Napalm Death. We performed some really wild shows wearing masks, full-on costumes and so on. Weirdly, during this period, all of us kept getting sick. We all had this stupid nasal congestion again and again. So I started to play some short and noisy solo performance under the name Congestion Nasal. I would scream into a microphone while a recording of Sylvester Stallone’s voice from Rocky 4 played through the PA. Well, we were wild and young – but that’s history. These days I perform as Dream Beverly Hills, a nonchalant keyboard project which might sound like lo-fi dream pop at first, but really isn’t that pretty upon closer inspection.

Scene Report: Liège. Continued Since 2006 Venice Beach Communication has organised almost 200 different performances in Liège – from James Ferraro to Keith Rowe, from Sister Iodine to Maher Shalal Hash Baz. We’ve always been into outdoor shows, so last year we began to organise them. We started with Jooklo Duo on the top of the old fort, La Citadelle de Liège, more than a hundred metres above the Meuse valley. They played at sunset on a terrace overlooking the town, so we had a really good view of the city with an awesome soundtrack. The saxophone reverberated throughout the valley. That was pretty special. We also hosted a show in an old deserted fort. The trick is simple, just book an artist who can play acoustic, find an original venue and promote the show. If you want to do something in Liège, don’t ask; just do it. That’s our way of life, I guess... These days, there’s loads to do if you come here for the weekend. If you come by train, you’ll stop at our new UFO station, Liège-Guillemins, which comes out of nowhere. When you get off the train, you have to go to a nearby restaurant called Le Concordia brasserie and try the excellent filet Américain. Once you’ve lined your stomach, you can get the night started. If you’re looking for a basement where you can headbang in the dark, La Zone is probably the oldest and most famous venue here. I’ve seen some great shows there – from crazy crust-punk bands to silly rock’n’roll combos. It’s on the other side of La Meuse, so you have to cross a bridge to get to it, but it’s not far – and is worth the effort. The facade looks a little bit like a venue in a Williamsburg basement... Cupper Café, at the end of La rue Hors Chateau, is a small pub in front of this big red church that also has live music. Musicians’ collective Jaune Orange organised a show there recently. It’s a pretty cool place, and you can eat there too if you missed out on the filet Américain earlier.

‘If you want to do something in Liège, don’t ask; just do it. That’s our way of life, I guess...’

Scene Report: Liège. Continued If you’re still here on Sunday morning, there’s no better place to recover from your Saturday night than at Le Marché de la Batte, one of the biggest outdoor markets in Europe. Almost two kilometres long, it’s held next to the river and you can get good food and cheap clothes. Then change the pace and go and enjoy a coffee on the terrace of La Casa Ponton, a popular locals’ pub. While you’re in the area, you have to order ‘les boulets sauce lapin’ (meatballs with rabbit sauce, a Liège speciality) at Café Lequet. On summer afternoons, there are often funny rockabilly and rock’n’roll bands playing at Lou’s Bar. Les Olivettes and Le jour du Seigneur can get pretty crazy on Sunday afternoons. The first is a kind of karaoke bar – but without a PA. Instead, there’s a real piano player and some old people singing old popular Walloon and French songs. Those oldies know how to party. We like to go there when we’re drunk. If you’d prefer not to start your working week with a hangover, go straight toward the hill and climb Les Escaliers de Bueren (or turn left just before and climb the other stairs) and ask for directions to Les Terrasses des Minimes. It’s a small public garden, with one of the best views of the city. A good way to end your Sunday night is to watch a movie (it Essential Liège spots: Cercle du could be anything from CronenLaveu, Villa Verkeyn, l’An Vert, berg to Tarkowski) at Le Cinéclub Cupper café, La Zone, les Olivettes, du Laveu. They have a really good Carlo Levi bar with a nice choice of special Belgian and draft beers. I have a Essential Liège artists: Pierre bunch of friends there; tell them I Berthet, Philippe Cavaleri, Pica sent you and they’ll take good care Pica, Aurélie William Levaux, of you. Ssaliva, Cupp Cave

Featured Artist

Bert Huyghe Bert Huyghe, the Trojan Horse of art. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a part-time musician, graphic designer, heckler, zine distributor, popular attendee, centre forward, party DJ and Facebook inhabitant. But this charming man is actually a very serious painter, applying his brushstrokes with meticulous precision and without mercy, on to furiously beautiful paintings. While the thousands of projects surrounding Bert Huyghe create an unstoppable amount of fuzz and buzz, the core of his practice lies in his clean and tidy studio where, at irregular intervals, the paintings get pulled from behind the stove. Layered, inconsequential, self-cancelling: all fitting adjectives for a Bert Huyghe â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and also for Bert Huyghe himself. www.berthuyghe.be 36

Featured Artist: Bert Huyghe

Books by Joeri Bruyninckx. Image by Gerard Herman

Stop If You Notice That You Are Learning. Try Again. by Joeri Bruyninckx Although the oldest interviews took place barely ten years ago, my book seems to come from a different time. Back then Orphan Fairytale was still living in a tree house in Scheld’apen; the living room of an apartment above Café Leopold in Tienen was the place where every Belgian noise musician was first spotted; Dennis Typhus was still singing in a hardcore band in which John Olson (Wolf Eyes) played drums; Silvester Anfang was rehearsing in the attic of Hellvete’s parents’ house; and Bear Bones, Lay Low was only 17 and had just arrived from Venezuela. If you pay attention, you’ll notice that this is the story of some 25 people who are all connected in one way or another: Dolphins Into The Future, Floris Vanhoof, W Ravenveer and Partkldolg all played together in junk-noise band Dirk Freenoise. Jelle Crama

designed a cover for the tape Ignatz made for the birth of his son, which was released by Dolphins Into The Future. Ignatz also played in Silvester Anfang, along with Bear Bones, Lay Low, Hellvete and Edgar Wappenhalter, who ran the Kraak label. Kraak also started an annual festival where Dirk Freenoise was the opening act – and so it goes on… One could call this amateurism, but this ‘clumsiness’ is the work of people who cultivated this way of working and made it into a genre itself. ‘Brol’ was Belgium’s own variant of the Finnish Underground or the New Weird scene in America. I wanted to describe all this as a fan, from the first row somewhere between participant and observer. This makes it sympathetic, almost voyeuristic, perhaps even interesting... or just ‘Brol’ as well.

Films by Floris Vanhoof

Interplanetary Experiences Ludo Mich - 1971

Sunlight Forever Chris Gillis & Rufus Michielsen - 2005

When pondering films that document the Belgian underground, I immediately think of Ludo Mich. From 17 to 20 February 1971, this performer, musician, artist and underground filmmaker organised the Saturn-themed Fluxus Festival in the chapel of De Zwarte Panter gallery in Antwerp. On the fluorescent invitations, which were shaped like ringed planets, Mich described the festival as an Interplanetary Experience. What followed was four days of assemblies, performances, sculptures, improvised music, experimental films (including the premiere of Saturn) and a ‘space theatre’ play wherein grunting piglets were unleashed upon the audience. Keeping things in the family, 34 years later, Ludo Mich’s son, Rufus, and Chris Gillis documented the 25th birthday of Radio Centraal, Belgium’s best radio station. Radio producers knocking on metal buoys is the opening shot for a week of perfect radio weirdness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tGMjiPj8_A tv.radiocentraal.be/video/40941780

Films

Dramarama

Dramarama Jef Mertens In 2006, following Death Petrol’s art=life experiments, Jelle Crama organised this two-day meeting of the minds in Kunstencentrum België, Hasselt. Kids beware: this was before YouTube, so I could only find QuickTime clips on Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace website documented by Taping Policies’ Jef Mertens. Starting with Electronic Magic by Kites, we then have a movie by Matt Brinkman and we end with the true Belgian underground band Hacky Pack Sac Sac: Ultra Eczema’s Dennis Tyfus playing drums with Vaast Colson and Ludo Mich on vocals! www.ecstaticpeace.com/news. php?m=01&y=2006

Jos Steen

Jos Steen Panorama A poet who completely went his own way – and the only musician who knew how to direct a chorus of cows – performing blues with a vacuum cleaner, meaning writing, painting and making music were as important as eating and drinking to Jos Steen. Please watch till the end for a very dry but interesting definition of an ‘underground artist’ as a rarity, living outside of contemporary times. www.cobra.be/cm/cobra/muziek/1.1422214

Subbacultcha! events. Free for members Sign up for €7 per month at subbacultcha.be

DE KREUN VZW · CONSERVATORIUMPLEIN · 8500 KORTRIJK DE KREUN VZW · CONSERVATORIUMPLEIN · 8500 KORTRIJK MUSIC, INFO & TICKETS WWW.DEKREUN.BE MUSIC, INFO & TICKETS WWW.DEKREUN.BE

SONIC CITY 30.11 + 01.12 CURATED BY BEAK> SONIC CITY 30.11 + 01.12 CURATED BY BEAK> MELT YOURSELF DOWN 07.12 MELT YOURSELF DOWN 07.12 SUNN O))) + SYNDROME 12.12 SUNN O))) + SYNDROME 12.12 KYLESA 05.02 KYLESA 05.02 Those Foreign Kids: 01 September

Those Foreign Kids: 01 September

MADENSUYU 07.02 MADENSUYU 07.02 JAMES PANTS + JAMESZOO JAMESZOO 08.02 08.02 New Music: JAMES PANTS +

Solar Year THE PERFECT TOOL 13.02

THEsoundcloud.com/solaryear PERFECT TOOL 13.02 NOISEFEST 15.02 Solar Year (Ben Borden and David ErNOISEFEST 15.02

Film: Lydia Ainsworth www.lydiaainsworth.com

Brooklyn music lady Lydia Ainsworth tel) have become part of the eponyis simply thrilling. Lydia, if you’re readBLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB 22.02 mously cool Montreal musicMOTORCYCLE family with ing this, come and22.02 have pizza with me! BLACK REBEL CLUB a bunch of new-age electro-pop tracks Come and have pizza with the world! CRYSTAL ANTLERS 24.02 This former student of Joan La Barbaunder their belt, not to mention some CRYSTAL ANTLERS 24.02 guest vocals from the Grimes goddess ra has composed for filmmakers, visual SOPHIA 21.03 herself. The duo21.03 have been heard to artists, poets and contemporary dance SOPHIA call their music ‘psalmgaze’, something groups, putting her at the epicentre GRUPPO DI PAWLOWSKI PAWLOWSKI 10.04 probably said tongue-in-cheek but imof artistic expression, making her the 10.04 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 FACEBOOK.COM/DEKREUNMUSIC EN VOLG ONS OP FACEBOOK.COM/DEKREUNMUSIC EN Gregorian chant sample, ha! Check out quartet, drummers, keyboards and this TWITTER (@DEKREUN, (@DEKREUN, #DEKREUN). #DEKREUN). their Brotherhood EP, available for free brilliant self-devouring fast-food collage download on the Arbutus Records webanimation. Listen and be happy. site and be on the lookout for their fulllength, Waverly, which is due to appear at the end of June on Splendour.

ic us M

Subbacultcha! events. Free for members

Things to do this month Sign up for €7 per month at subbacultcha.be

Music, art and film in December/January Those Foreign Kids: 01 September

Those Foreign Kids: 01 September

Film: Lydia Ainsworth

soundcloud.com/solaryear

www.lydiaainsworth.com

Solar Year (Ben Borden and David Ertel) have become part of the eponymously cool Montreal music family with a bunch of new-age electro-pop tracks under their belt, not to mention some guest vocals from the Grimes goddess herself. The duo have been heard to call their music ‘psalmgaze’, something probably said tongue-in-cheek but immediately pounced on by rabid music journalists like myself – all because of a Gregorian chant sample, ha! Check out their Brotherhood EP, available for free download on the Arbutus Records website and be on the lookout for their fullJessica Pratt: 18 January, Vooruit, Ghent. length, Waverly, which is due to members. appear This show is free for Subbacultcha! at the end of June on Splendour.

Brooklyn music lady Lydia Ainsworth is simply thrilling. Lydia, if you’re reading this, come and have pizza with me! Come and have pizza with the world! This former student of Joan La Barbara has composed for filmmakers, visual artists, poets and contemporary dance groups, putting her at the epicentre of artistic expression, making her the coolest lady everrr. Lydia’s otherworldly vocals are accompanied by a string quartet, drummers, keyboards and this brilliant self-devouring fast-food collage animation. Listen and be happy. self-devouring fast-food collage animation.

Including all Subbacultcha! events 47

M us ic

New Music: Solar Year

Subbacultcha Events Music

co nc ert s co co nc nc ert ert ss

meron - Vincent Philbert

meron ©Kmeron - Vincent - Vincent Philbert Philbert

summer •••kurt (01.12) (01.12) summer summercamp camp camp(01.12) kurt kurt vile vile vile& &&the the theviolators violators violators-- -scout scout scout (02.12) • glasser (03.12) • niblett (02.12) (03.12) niblett niblett(02.12) ••glasser glasser(03.12) •• + moaning Jacco gardner moaning Jacco Jaccogardner gardner++moaning (04.12) (20.01.14) • • the virgins cities New Music: Film: (04.12) (04.12) (20.01.14) (20.01.14) ••the thevirgins virgins •• cities cities Solar Year Lydia Ainsworth (11.02) •••www.lydiaainsworth.com au dorian Wood soundcloud.com/solaryear (11.02) dorian dorian Wood Wood(11.02) au aurevoir revoir revoir (15.02) rebel simone Solar Year (Ben Borden and • ErBrooklyn music lady Lydia Ainsworth (15.02) (15.02) •David •black black black rebel rebel simone simone tel) have become part of the eponyis simply thrilling. Lydia, if you’re read(21.02) mously cool Montreal music family with ing this, come and pizza with me! motorcycle club • have Willis (21.02) (21.02) •Willis motorcycle motorcycle club club Willis a bunch of new-age electro-pop tracks Come and have • pizza with the world! (22.02) under their beal belt, not to mention some … This former student of Joan La Barbaearl (22.02) …… earl earlbeal beal(22.02) Those Foreign Kids: 01 September

Those Foreign Kids: 01 September

guest 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 onscan the Arbutus Records animation. Listen and be happy. deze codeweben check onze website scan scan deze deze code code enen check check onze onze website website site and be on the lookout for their fullop jouw smartphone ! opop jouw jouw ! ! length, Waverly, which is smartphone duesmartphone to appear at the end of June on Splendour.

02 02 02218 218 21837 37 3732 32 32 mo .be .be ue ue.be niq nique ta taniq bo bota @ @bo re re@ mo more

ic us M

Subbacultcha! events. Free for members Sign up for €7 per month at subbacultcha.be

On the following pages you’ll find all of the next two months’ Subbacultcha! events. You can buy a ticket at the door or become a Subbacultcha! member and enter for free. Join at subbacultcha.be

oOoOO + Butterclock

Walter Swennen

01 December 2013 - 26 January 2014 - WIELS, Brussels Open Wed – Sun 11.00 – 18.00 €8 | Free for members Each year WIELS devotes one of its main exhibitions to a major Belgian artist, this year they chose Walter Swennen, born in Brussels in 1946. After his early activity as a poet in the 1960s, and in the aftermath of the visually reductive conceptual and fundamental art, Swennen decided in the 1980s to examine the lyrical possibilities of painting. The exhibition So Far So Good combines a careful selection of his paintings from the early 1980s until now.

Under the bubbly oOoOO alias (pronounced ‘oh’), San Francisco’s Chris Dexter has been one of the pioneers in shaping up the infamous witch house sound along with other acts such as Salem and Balam Acab. After releasing a couple of self-titled EPs on the progressive NY label Tri Angle, Dexter eventually put out his debut album, Without Your Love, earlier this year via his own Turkey-based imprint Nihjgt Feelings. The newborn label claims to release ‘heartbroken night music’, and we can’t think of a better term to describe oOoOO’s atmospheric ambient pop. With support from Parisian Butterclock and Nosedrip deejaying.

M us ic

30 November - Charlatan (Democrazy), Ghent 20.00 | €15 | Free for members

Subbacultcha! Events. Free for members Sign up for €7 per month at subbacultcha.be

Glasser: 03 December

notic glory thanks to the goldmine of a blog-turned-record label Sahel Sounds. Highly recommended.

Lonnie Holley: 02 December

Lonnie Holley + Mammane Sani

Glasser

02 December - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels 19.00 | €12 | Free for members

03 December - Botanique, Brussels 19.30 | €16 | Free for members

Sixty-three-year-old acclaimed sculptor and painter Lonnie Holley has added another craft to his bag of tricks with a collection of holistic sound poems that archival folk label Dust-to-Digital sought to issue along with the equally great Keeping a Record of It and Just Before Music. Holley shares the bill with the equally fascinating Nigerien experimental organ player Mammane Sani, whose 1978 instrumental recording, La Musique Electronique du Niger, is now available in all its psychedelic, hyp-

Glasser is the groundbreaking indietronica solo project of Boston-based Cameron Mesirow. She creates intimate, luxurious soundscapes reminiscent of Björk’s and weird conceptual video clips; she takes risks and succeeds.

Disappears

01 December - Magasin4, Brussels 19.00 | €8 | Free for members This repetition-loving Chicago group have described theirs as ‘music for re-

ic us M

Subbacultcha! events. Free for members Sign up for €7 per month at subbacultcha.be

Jacuzzi Boys: 07 December Pink Narcissus: 09 December

gy punk shriek for a cleaner, breezier production that allows their melodies to shine through.

Film: Pink Narcissus 09 December - Art Cinema OFFoff, Ghent 20.00 | €6,50 | Free for members

Jacuzzi Boys

Pink Narcissus is a 1971 arthouse film by New York filmmaker James Bidgood, and was shot in the director’s small apartment over the span of seven years. The film, which visualises the fantasies of a male prostitute, has served as a source of inspiration for visual artists such as Gilbert & George and David LaChapelle.

07 December - Madame Moustache, Brussels 20.00 | €5 | Free for members The three Jacuzzi Boys from Miami have been churning out plenty of warm, summery garage tunes since joining forces in 2007. For their self-titled third album they traded the high-ener-

M us ic

cord collectors’. Although they had to say goodbye to Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley a while back, they still know how to create their steady and unmatched synthesis of post-punk and krautrock. After releasing their excellent third album Pre-Language last year, the band released the new full-length Era this summer, still via the Chicagobased Kranky label.

Subbacultcha! events. Free for members Sign up for €7 per month at subbacultcha.be

The Wicker Man: 18 December

Film: The Wicker Man

Jessica Pratt: 18 January

at New York’s Beacon Theater in 2006, shedding light on their restless energy and extraordinary status. With cameos by Jack White, Buddy Guy and even Bill Clinton.

18 December - Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 20.00 | €5 | Free for members

In 1973’s The Wicker Man – not to be confused with the seemingly disastrous 2006 Nic Cage remake – a police sergeant is sent to a Scottish village to investigate the disappearance of a girl who seems to have never existed. This eerie occult thriller is one of a kind.

Jessica Pratt + Samara Lubelski

18 January - Vooruit, Ghent 20.00 | tba | Free for members We came across the music of Jessica Pratt on the recommendation of White Fence’s Tim Presley and instantly fell in love with her wonderful voice – just like he did. Presley became so enchanted, he ventured into the label world and founded his own imprint, Birth Records, with the sole purpose of releas-

Film: Shine A Light

18 December - KASK cinema, Ghent 20.30 | €5 | Free for members Martin Scorcese’s 2008 concert documentary follows The Rolling Stones during two intense days of performances

Subbacultcha! events. Free for members Sign up for €7 per month at subbacultcha.be

Karen Gwyer: 02 February

Hantrax: The Sound Of The Belgian Underground

ing Pratt’s self-titled debut. Indeed, the San Francisco songstress’s delicate folk takes cues from the timeless melancholic simplicity of the ’70s folk revival to create a pure and bright album.

Opal Tapes Labelnight ft. Basic House + Karen Gwyer + more 02 February - Vooruit (Balzaal), Ghent tba | tba | Free for members

Led by Stephen Bishop in the UK, the newcomer Opal Tapes label flirts with house, techno and some of the most cutting-edge experimental electronic music around. Home of new acclaimed acts such as Huerco S., Wanda Group or 1991, the young label is on everyone’s lips right now and we’ve been amazed by the quality of the releases they’ve put out so far. This very special Opal Tapes night features Stephen Bishop himself as Basic House, the electroglitch of London’s Karen Gwyer, the lofi electronic producer Axel Backman from Sweden and the Belgo-Italian duo Lumisokea.

The Sound Of The Belgian Underground

26 January - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels 16.00 | €13 | Free for members Subbacultcha! and Ancienne Belgique are launching a unique festival, ‘The Sound Of The Belgian Underground’. On 26 January 2014, the Belgian cultural platform presents ten national acts from the alternative circuit together on stage at the AB in Brussels. More info on page 55.

Ping Pong Tactics

Ssaliva

Bear Bones, Lay Low

Le ColisĂŠe

Miaux

Ignatz

ic us M

Subbacultcha! events. Free for members Sign up for €7 per month at subbacultcha.be

The Sound of the Belgian Underground

26 January - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels 16.00 | €13 | Free for Subbacultcha! members Since it was established in 2011, Subbacultcha! has been promoting the most progressive independent music and art of the moment. Using their unique membership scheme, monthly magazine and concerts, the organisation has found an ideal working model to support exciting national and international acts on the cusp of success. Now Subbacultcha! and AB are bundling together all the local musical talent active on the edges of the scene – bands that emphasise artistic freedom and don’t necessarily focus on a broader audience – for The Sound Of The Belgian Underground festival. From enjoyable, introverted blues to adamant noise, from indie-rock to idiosyncratic electronica. Featuring Ignatz & De Stervende Honden – Belgium’s most underrated blues guitarist brings along his live band

Ping Pong Tactics – Dizzying lo-fi pop from Meetjesland Tg Gondard – Obscure pop with a wink to R&B and hardcore

Bear Bones, Lay Low – Futuristic electronica with dub and noise influences from Brussels

Ssaliva – Idiosyncratic beatmaster from Luik who can count the likes of Oneohtrix Point Never among his biggest fans

Going – Brussels quartet led by Pak Yan Lau, which mixes psychedelica and electronica with jazz influences

Maan – Minimalistic cold-wave duo from Ghent

Le Colisée – Tropical synth-pop from Louvain-La-Neuve Hantrax – Progressive synth music from Antwerp

Fe st iv al

Nosedrip will be the in-house DJ on duty and in the AB-agora various labels will have a stand with vinyls, CDs, cassettes and more. Video clips from past decades of the Belgian underground scene will be screened and there’ll be an exhibition too.

Miaux – Creator of wonderfully beautiful exotic piano compositions

Agenda: November 2013

11.02 BILL CALLAHAN +

29.01 POLIÇA

ALASDAIR ROBERTS

30.01 CONNAN MOCKASIN 06.12 | JESSY LANZA (HYPERDUB) 06.12 | ALL CONNECTED # 2: KASSEL JAEGER : SOUND OF THE COUPIGNY SYNTH @ HUIS 23

21.12 | CHRIS CUTLER ON LOOPS : CONCERT + LECTURE @ HUIS 23

18.01 | SON LUX 26.01 | THE SOUND OF THE BELGIAN UNDERGROUND 2014 25.01 | THY ART IS MURDER + HEART OF A COWARD + AEGAEON + AVERSIONS CROWN

02.03 MIDLAKE 11.02 | 13.02 | 16.02 | 17.02 | 17.02 | 24.02 | 05.03 | 07.03 | 10.03 | 19.03 |

DAPTONE RECORDS PROUDLY PRESENTS… THE COMO MAMAS

MINERAL FOREST SWORDS HANGGAI ST. VINCENT HAIM MODERAT TRUCKFIGHTERS JOHN MURRY ELVIS PEETERS & DE LEGENDE

What else is on this month On the following pages you’ll find a fine selection of concerts, festivals and exhibitions taking place around the country. Art: F.A.T. Gold Europe until 26 January - MU Witte Dame, Eindhoven F.A.T. Gold Europe showcases the work of The Free Art & Technology Lab, through an exhibition of work by the collective’s 25 artists, hackers, engineers, musicians and graffiti writers.

European tour ever at 73 years old. Sharing the bill is Brussels-based pianist Forest Bath. Music: Kurt Vile 02 December - Koninklijk Circus, Brussels Philly’s resident childish prodigy specialises in acoustic-driven psychfolk, and the jams on his latest album, Walking on a Pretty Daze, are as laidback and breezy as ever.

Art: Grafixx 30 November-01 December De Studio, Antwerp A weekend filled with lectures, performances, exhibitions and a zine fest featuring the most exciting graphic artists and independent publishers from Belgium and beyond.

Music: Yo La Tengo 02 December - Het Depot, Leuven Cult indie-rock trio Yo La Tengo are back in our little corner of the world for the second time this year, as solid as ever.

Music: Sonic City 30 November-01 December De Kreun, Kortrijk Curated by Geoff Barrow’s Krautrock trio Beak>, this year’s Sonic City chalks up another eye-popping lineup featuring Dirty Beaches, Pharmakon and Forest Swords, to name but a few.

Music: Ty Segall + White Fence + Mountain Bike 04 December - VK, Brussels SF musician Ty Segall began his recording career in various underground bands. His latest, more acoustic album, Sleeper, is soothing, sedative and perfect for lazy hazy mellow chillin’.

Music: Ed Askew + Forest Bath 01 December - SHINDIG, Brussels Painter and songwriter Ed Askew, author of the 1968 weird-folk masterpiece Ask the Unicorn, is on his first

Music: Felix Kubin 04 December - Les Brigittines, Brussels German synth-pop composer and

Agenda: November 2013 DO 05 december 2013 MA 02 December 2013 WOE 11 DECember 2013 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< tot DO 23 JANUARI 2014 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< TRY-OUT GEPPETTO <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< PAUL DETHIER (USA - Ninja Tune) & THE WHALES (13/7/1959): << LIVE >> OVERZIChTS+ NADIEM SHAH TENTOONSTELLING | COPROD. VK* CONCERTS

BLOCKHEAD

info & tickets : www.kultuurkaffee.be

Join Subbacultcha! for €7 per month and access all our shows for free (see page 49 for a full list of concerts)

What else is on this month Music: The Oscillation 10 December - Beursschouwburg, Brussels The Oscillation is the krauty psych-rock project of UK producer Demian Castellanos. His latest full-length From Tomorrow was released this year by newcomer label Hands In The Dark.

self-proclaimed ruler of the syndicate of counter-noise Felix Kubin rocks the bowl haircut and the sci-fi electronics like the truth is right there. Music: Wooden Shjips + The Cosmic Dead 06 December - T.A.G., Brussels Lead by Moon Duo’s Ripley Johnson, San Francisco quartet Wooden Shjips creates thick, slow-building, psychedelic rock that’ll make you want to get your blaze on.

Music: Dum Dum Girls 11 December - Muziekodroom, Hasselt Dee Dee Penny and her cast of Dum Dum boys and girls gaze into the past as much as they gaze at their shoes, but their soulfulness and songwriting chops keep their retro sound relevant.

Music: Jessy Lanza 06 December - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels Ontario’s jazz-trained pianist Jessy Lanza is hitting the nail on the head with her chilly, R&B-inflected electropop debut, Pull My Hair Back.

Music: Sunn O))) 12 December - De Kreun, Kortrijk The Seattle drone metal band’s epic live shows are quite the sensory experience. Don’t bring earplugs if you like to live life dangerously.

Film: L’Empire des Sens 08 December - Cinema Nova, Brussels 23 December - Cinematek, Brussels As part of their latest programme, Cinema Nova pairs a lecture on censorship in film with a screening of the torrid and highly controversial 1976 Nagisa Ôshima highbrow porno L’Empire des Sens.

Music: Glimps Festival 13-14 December - Ghent For two days, Glimps strives to offer visibility to upcoming bands and artists, who perform in a multitude of venues all over the city of Ghent. Art: Closing Night of My Family’s Fossil Collection with Lieven Martens Moana 14 December - Hectoliter, Brussels If you haven’t checked out Floris Vanhoof’s solo exhibition yet, the closing night, featuring a performance by Dolphin Into the Future’s Lieven Martens Moana, is the perfect (and last) moment to do so.

Music: Vex Ruffin 10 December - Madame Moustache, Brussels This native Californian untrained musician with roots in hip hop and postpunk uses a few basic instruments in uncomplicated ways. He calls the style ‘minimalist’; we approve.

DI 03 DEC ZA 07 DEC DI 10 DEC ZA 14 DEC

Agenda: November 2013

NIGHT BEATS SELIM LEMOUCHI & HIS ENEMIES KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS + TRUE WIDOW DUTCH GARAGE ROCK EXPLOSION: JC THOMAZ & THE MISSING SLIPPERS + BEYOND LICKIN' +

HOFSTAD GROUP + DE STEKKERS + ET EXPLORE ME

VR 20 DEC

MOZES AND THE FIRSTBORN

06.12

20-21. 12

21.12

10.01

17.01

Sons Of Disaster

30.01

Cold Cave

15.02

Crystal Antlers

Wooden Shjips + The Cosmic Death Bas Nylon

Liesa Van der Aa The Oscillation

Nixie’s

concerts

beursschouwburg .be

kijk voor ons volledige programma + locaties op www.effenaar.nl

What else is on this month Music: Frankie Rose 17 December - Trix, Antwerp After brief stints drumming for Crystal Stilts, Dum Dum Girls and Vivian Girls, Frankie Rose fronted her own garagerock group as Frankie Rose and the Outs. Her latest album is her darkest and poppiest destination yet.

filled with deformed warehouse techno sounds. Music: Son Lux 18 January - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels 28 January - Vooruit, Ghent Son Lux’s Ryan Lott, a classically trained composer and electronic musician from Denver, layers electronic elements with orchestral flourishes with stunning results.

Music: Wagner 200 Years: Kundry 19 December - Recyclart, Brussels This three-acts walking concerts night will take place in three different location around the Chappelle station of Brussels; with performances by Maria Jonas, Angelika Niescier and Niobe.

Music: Steve Gunn & De Stervende Honden 23 January - Vooruit, Ghent On his latest full-length album, TimeOff, the New York guitar master strayed from his previous solo work to deliver a more song-based version of his American Primitivism-inspired folk music, surrounding himself with De Stervende Honden again.

Music: The Cosmic Dead 19 December - L’Escalier, Liège These four psychedelic warlords from Glasgow will take you on a wicked journey. Just hop on your crazy horse and float into the hazy sunset with them.

Music: Vooruit en Kraak: Morphosis - Charles Cohen - Laser Poodle Tav Exotic 31 January - Vooruit, Ghent Vooruit and Kraak are teaming up again for a great night with adopted Belgians and our personal local favorites Johann Kauth and Ernesto Gonzalez amongst others.

Art : Slechte Stijl book release + expo 20 December - mOgelijk, Ghent Expo open on 21-22 and 28-29 December from 14 till 19h featuring works from Ssaliva, Ruud Ruttens, Olivier Smets, Eva Vermeiren, Gerhard Herman, Dieter Durinck, Dynooo, Bert Huyghe, Johann Kauth, Ernesto Gonzalez and more

Art: Anger Ram Herd Until 23 March - M, Leuven Anger Ram Herd is the first solo exhibition of Antwerp-based artist Gerard Herman, whose multidisciplinary work touches broad social issues with a dose of poetry and naive humour.

Music: Pete Swanson 16 January - Vooruit, Ghent Relentless noisemaker and ex-Yellow Swans member Pete Swanson’s last release is Punk Authority, an album

All Subbacultcha! events in Dec/Jan See all these shows for free. Join at subbacultcha.be

30 November

18 December

oOoOO + Butterclock

Film: The Wicker Man

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

Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 20.00 | €5 | Free for members

02 December

18 December

Film: Shine A Light

Lonnie Holley + Mammane Sani

KASK cinema, Ghent 20.30 | €5 | Free for members

Ancienne Belgique, Brussels 19.00 | €12 | Free for members

18 January

Jessica Pratt

03 December

Vooruit, Ghent 20.00 | tba | Free for members

Glasser Botanique, Brussels 19.00 | €16 | Free for members

26 January

The Sound Of The Belgian Underground

07 December

Jacuzzi Boys

Ancienne Belgique, Brussels 16.00 | €13 | Free for members

Madame Moustache, Brussels 20.00 | €5 | Free for members

01 December - 26 January

09 December

Walter Swennen

FILM: Pink Narcissus

WIELS, Brussels Open Wed – Sun 11.00 – 18.00 | €8 | Free for members

Art Cinema OFFoff, Ghent 20.00 | €6,5 | Free for members

w iec urvs vMe O

Free tickets and goodies To win, sign up to our mailing list on www.subbacultcha.be. 5x1 tickets Kurt Vile

3x2 tickets Jessie Lanza

02 December Cirque Royal, Brussels

06 December AB, Brussels

5x2 tickets Wooden Shjips

5x1 passepartouts State-X New Forms

06 December Beursschouwburg, Brussels

13-14 December Paard Van Troje, The Hague

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also giving away tickets for Grafixx at De Studio, P-Project at Kaaitheater, Cheap Time, Terakraft and more.

13+14 13+14 13+14 december 13+14 december december 2013 december 2013 2013 Sunn O))) 2013 Sunn O))) Sunn O)))

The Child lOv experienCe featuring )))Of Sunn O featuring The Child Of lOv experienCefeaturing The Child Of lOv experienCe The Child Of lOv (world premiere), featuring The Child Of lOv experienCe The Child Of lOv (world premiere) , The Child Of lOv (world premiere) , dOOm, TwO inCh punCh, Sun paTzer The Child Of inCh lOv premiere) , paTzer dOOm, TwO inCh(world punCh, Sun paTzer dOOm, TwO punCh, rejjie SnOw, COnkwake &Sun liSa king dOOm, TwO inCh punCh, Sun paTzer rejjie SnOw, COnkwake & liSa king rejjie SnOw, COnkwake & liSa king The Orb:25Th anniverSary TOur / amenra rejjie SnOw, COnkwake & liSa king The Orb:25Th anniverSary TOur / amenra The Orb:25Th anniverSary TOur / amenra paTriCk wOlf / dean blunT / daughn gibSOn The Orb:25Th anniverSary / amenra paTriCk wOlf / dean blunT daughn gibSOn paTriCk wOlf / moon) dean blunT/TOur / daughn gibSOn fred & TOOdy (dead / dakhabrakha paTriCk wOlf / dean blunT / daughn gibSOn fred & TOOdy (dead moon) / enSemble dakhabrakha fred TOOdy (dead moon) / dakhabrakha niCad && new eurOpean (world premiere) fred && TOOdy (dead moon) / dakhabrakha niCad new eurOpean enSemble (world premiere) niCad & new eurOpean enSemble (world premiere) xOSar & legOwelT & Orgue eleCTrOnique (world premiere) niCad & new eurOpean enSemble (world premiere) xOSar &zwei legOwelT & Orgue (world premiere) xOSar & legOwelT & OrgueeleCTrOnique eleCTrOnique (world premiere) einS & The parallel Cinema / dOnSO xOSar & legOwelT & parallel Orgue eleCTrOnique (world premiere) einS zwei && The Cinema / dOnSO einS zwei The parallel Cinema / dOnSO meridian brOTherS / riChard buCkner einS zwei & The parallel Cinema / dOnSO meridian brOTherS / riChard buCkner SelvhenTer / brOTherS xenia rubinOS / eSmerine meridian / riChard buCkner meridian brOTherS / riChard buCkner SelvhenTer / xenia rubinOS / eSmerine len OrCheSTra Of /SphereS / g▲rTm/ ▲ SelvhenTer xenia rubinOS eSmerine SelvhenTer /Of xenia rubinOS / eSmerine ▲ rTm ▲▲ len OrCheSTra SphereS /g filOSOfiSChe STilTe / SanTa Cruz ▲ rTm len OrCheSTra Of SphereS / g rTm▲len OrCheSTra OfSTilTe SphereS / g▲Cruz filOSOfiSChe / SanTa + many more bOmbay ShOw pig filOSOfiSChe STilTe / SanTa Cruz filOSOfiSChe STilTe / SanTa Cruz + many more bOmbay ShOw pig + many more bOmbay ShOw pig + many more bOmbay ShOw pig

www.sTaTe-xnewforms.nl www.sTaTe-xnewforms.nl www.sTaTe-xnewforms.nl www.sTaTe-xnewforms.nl

Paard van Troje Paard van Troje THe Hague Paard van Paard van THe Hague cTroje 25,– dayTickeT :Troje THeHague Hague THe dayTickeT : c:25 TwodayTickeT c,– 35,– dayTickeT c:25 c25 ,– dayTickeT :: TwodayTickeT c,– 35,– TwodayTickeT c35 TwodayTickeT :: c35 ,–,–