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Unruly Music Magazine. February 2014

The Go Your Own Way Issue

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The Go Your Own Way Issue

Meet Christian, the subject of photographer Lotte Reimann’s project Bis Morgen im Nassen. While researching another work, she stumbled upon his website. Peculiar part: the site shows pictures of him wearing soaking wet clothes. And not just him, but his like-minded friends as well. In fact, they even have a name – wetlook-fans – and they approach their passion as a community. Some drive thousands of kilometres to attend a wetlook party where they plunge, fully-clothed, into water. Crazy? Funny? Christian doesn’t seem to care about any of those labels. He simply goes his own way. And that’s just what we like. Also, look at his big smile.

Content Books 52 Fashion 54 Food 56 Music Reviews 59 New Films 62 Subbacultcha! shows 65 Agenda 85 Focus 89 Free Stuff 92

Cover image by Lotte Reimann

Recommendations 9 We Saw You 16 The Range 18 Karen Gwyer 24 Eyedress 30 Vincent Moon 38 The Morning After 44 Featured Artists 46

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Contributors: Anna Berkhof, Carly Blair, Basje Boer, Koen van Bommel, Brenda Bosma, Leon Caren, Zofia Ciechowska, David Brandon Geeting, Marc van der Holst, Mariska Kerpel, Floor Kortman, Phil van der Krogt, Inez Moro, Bas Morsch, Lonneke van der Palen, Amandine Paulandre, Carlijn Potma, Mandy Sharabani, Gert Verbeek, Dan Wilton, Isolde Woudstra Distribution: Amsterdam: Charlotte van Brakel, Daniel Heijl, Denis Wouters, Fedor Oduber, Ida Blom, Joao Silva, June ten Have, Patrick van der Klugt, Sandrine Mary, Soeren Schmidt, Stefan Stasko Utrecht: Erik Armust, Koen Drenth, Ilias Karakasidis, Timo Militz, Maria Alves Rebelo Groningen: Hedwig Plomp, Marinke Kerkhoff Den Haag: Dineke Cornelissen Rotterdam: Alex Christodoulou, Karolina Howorko, Jacopo Manelli, Anna Skibicka, Ilse van der Spoel, Marijn Verbiesen, Nahry Dougarem, Ozge Zaydin, Rose Nederhof Leeuwarden: Jan Pier Brands Leiden: Sean Rowlands Haarlem: Bert Zaremba, Yannick Tinbergen Nijmegen: Lubine Adema Tilburg: Luuk van Son Delft: Daniel Enciso Breda: Vera Siemons Den Bosch: Bas Heijmans Eindhoven: Eline Ceelen, Mark Brand

February recommendations

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

Music: Francis Lung

Music: ALAK

With the demise of Wu Lyf, we’ve listened to quite a few releases from the group’s disbanded members, but it’s finally Tom McClung’s new solo project that seems to ring true. The growl of his heavy pop is gone, and in its place is a lighter, more melodic sound that still exudes a mysterious harboured sadness. You’ll have to make do with his newest single, ‘A Selfish Man’, but be on the lookout for a full-length later this year.

It only took a few chords of ALAK’s EP Guardian Petted on patten’s KALEIDOSCOPE before we were smitten with Jocelyn Noir’s outsider pop vocals and synth constructions. Fascinated by ancient beliefs in the afterlife, but equally Kendrick Lamar and Captain Beefheart, Noir is exploring new terrain with this release, an abrupt turn from her work from the past decade. This baby is free for download from the internetz; you’ll love tracks ‘llial Clone’ and ‘Pass’.

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February recommendations Art: Mina, reconstruction of a decade

Music: Manse ‘Manse’ is a 15th-century word for a house. Manse also rhymes with dance. Now that we’ve cleared that up, let’s get things straight: this isn’t your average beach-bar house music and it will probably make you thrash about rather than tango. Manse’s frightfully erratic techno of the noisy, dirty kind has found refuge in the collection of Opal Tapes releases. Lying In Wait is his latest title and it’s very good. Invest in some good headphones before you hit play. soundcloud.com/manse_1

An exhibition by Dutch writer/artist Miek Zwamborn, all the way out in the little town of Diepenheim (Twente). Zwamborn based her installation on a herbarium from 1864 that was put together by a couple on their honeymoon. She constructs their story using works by other contemporary artists such as herman de vries, Ruth van Beek, Anne Geene and Eva-Fiore Kovakovsky, all of whom use nature as their central theme. Worth a trip to faroff Diepenheim, take a stroll around the city’s manmade parks and gardens and see some impressive castles while you’re there.

Art: Blood Becomes Water Not new – but very awesome – is this informal art collective from Sofia, Bulgaria, that we got to know through our open call for our appeltje p project last year. They’ve been around since 2010, engaging artists in an interactive way and making artworks and zines with their signature loud visual style. We highly recommend ordering some, because you will also receive a pile of crazy-looking stickers that’ll last you a lifetime of toilet vandalism.

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February recommendations Book: Is It My Body? – Kim Gordon

Book: Infinity Net – The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama

A selection of writings by leading lady of noise-punk legends Sonic Youth. Read her analysis of avant-garde figures like Mike Kelley and Glenn Branca and other issues within contemporary art, architecture, music. Kim Gordon rocks on and on and... Published by Sternberg Press

Book: Little Failure – Gary Shteyngart After the satirical novels The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Absurdistan and Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart is back with a memoir this time. The book chronicles Shteyngart’s emigration as a sensitive little Jewish boy from Leningrad to America in the ’70s to eventually become a writer. Why? To be loved. Hilarious and moving – not least because of his many nicknames, some made up by his mother: ‘Little Failure’, ‘Weakling’, ‘Jew-nose’ or (on account of his bad asthma) ‘Snotty’.

Have you ever loved something so much you would sacrifice everything to fo ever be able to do it? Artist Yayoi Kusama ﬂed Japan in 1957 for NYC, where she slept on a discarded door, ate discarded fish heads and cabbage leaves and painted night and day until she was on the verge of insanity. Then international fame followed. But her struggle with her mental health continues to this day. A powerful autobiography from one of the world’s most powerful female artists.

Watch the promotional trailer for the book online. It stars James Franco, of course. Published by Random House

Published by Tate Publishing

February recommendations Magazine: De Dakhaas

Film: Beat Cinema (’50s /’60s)

De Dakhaas is a new, independent magazine from Utrecht, by Utrecht, for Utrecht. It reports exciting adventures from the supermarket and other local hotspots, and even has its own cat corner. It’s also a nice example of photography, typography and art in a little booklet done right. (Even though in their first issue they forgot to print a page which then had to be reprinted and put back in but could also conveniently be used a bookmark so it all turned out for the best…)

This month’s E*Cinema, EYE’s ongoing series of experimental movies, focuses on the beat cinema of the ’50s and ’60s. As part of the movement of the beat generation, beat cinema was one effective way of rebelling against American conservatism. E*Cinema has put together an evening featuring shorts by William Burroughs/Anthony Balch, Shirley Clarke and Robert Frank. For those who enjoy a double bill, there’s a screening of John Cassavetes’ classic indie pic Shadows afterwards.

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Food: foods of love Be prepared for Valentine’s Day, but best forget about the ﬂowers, postcards and overpriced heart-shaped merchandise. Instead, turn this day into your most memorable by heading to the... supermarket! Check out with honey, oysters, garlic, figs, chocolate, basil, bananas, avocado, almonds and asparagus. Oh my, what random items, you think. Think again! These are the top ten aphrodisiac foods. Melt away, you crazy lovers!

Screening at 19.15 on 04 February, EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam. eyefilm.nl

February recommendations Art: Help! A Vagina! Recommended by Melanie Bonajo Every month we ask someone who inspires us to share something close to their heart. This month visual artist Melanie Bonajo, lauded for her wayward and fresh approach to art in our modern world, recommends a body part in its ascendancy.

The vagina is back (and not only for feminists). In 2013 some artists tried to lift the veil on the enduring ignorance about the female body by covering the art world with vaginas. According to internet pornography statistics, 4.2 million variants of porn cover the internet. Cultural websites that cover vagina art top their articles with warning signs: Warning! Some readers may find the following content objectionable. For those not afraid of some labia, read what’s happening. ‘Freedom in society can be measured by the distribution of orgasms’ is one of the slogans of Sophia Wallace’s piece ‘Cliteracy’. She wants us to know the truth about the clitoris, such as: the clitoris (only discovered scientifically in 1998) is a large internal organ of an estimated 9-12cm long and 6cm wide, longer than the average ﬂaccid penis. Jamie McCartney’s ‘Great Wall of Vagina’ sculpture covers nine metres and consists of 400 plaster casts of vulvas, because after some 200,000 years of human vaginas on Earth people still need to be educated about what the vagina really looks like. Vaginal knitting artist Casey Jenkins created a 28-day performance called ‘Casting Off My Womb’, using skeins of wool lodged in her vaginal tunnel to knit a long passage, marking one

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full menstrual cycle. This way she records a female life in all its natural states and uses traditional craft techniques for political and social activism. Naomi Wolf wrote the book Vagina, a New Biography, in which she explains vaginas have a brain of their own and are a gateway to female consciousness. Japanese artist Rokudenashiko decided to demystify the vagina. In her home country, male genitalia is considered both familiar and sacred – like, it has Christmas tree status. By combining contrasting imagery such as a Buddha statue with a cast of her own vagina, rejuvenated after surgery, she shows how overly hidden female anatomy is. San Francisco erected The Vagina Monologues Academy of Art. Vagina Pride even made it into mainstream streetwear, with shops like American Apparel selling a T-shirt made by artist Petra Collins of a masturbating menstrual vagina… with pubic hair! Spreading the vagina love, I got myself a vagina taboo tattoo, and for those others interested, they can contact me for a personal portrait of their own – or the one they love. Bonajo’s new video Matrix Botanica – Biosphere above Nations will be shown at Art Rotterdam, 06-09 February

We Saw You: Spotted at Subbacultcha! Photo by Mariska Kerpel

Your first ever music-related memory? Me dancing in my room to the Spice Girls pretending to be Mel B. I even wore a bracelet high up my arm. What’s your favourite pastime? Drinking coffee, listening to music and meeting my friends. What is your ideal lazy Sunday like? Spending the whole day in bed with the one you love, listening to music and watching horror movies or something arthouse-y. Any guilty pleasures? I am a sucker for tacky R&B music: Ashanti, Christina Millian, Miley Cyrus… Bring it on! Any regrets recently? No, not really. I believe everything happens for a reason. What kind of music makes you cry? Music that reminds me of certain things that happened in my life. Slow songs, sad lyrics, strings and a beautiful voice. London Grammar’s album If You Wait really encapsulates that feeling for me. What makes you dance? Vodka combined with some good danceable music. Which future Subbacultcha! show are you looking forward to? Can’t wait to see Eyedress and Planningtorock!

Name: Wesley Kreukniet Age: 22 Spotted at: Mary Ocher + Fictional Boys at Worm on 20 December Home: Utrecht Keywords: Visual Art & Design Management, Dr Oetker chicken/ mozzarella/spinach pizza, bleached hair, Beyoncé, Millennium trilogy, €5 red wine, I Love Fake magazine Zodiac sign: Libra

Are you going your own way? Most definitely. For my graduation project I’d like to start my own magazine focusing on fashion, music, design and photography – a broad range that I’d like to link to a relevant social matter. You might get some extra competition! Do you remember your loneliest moment? My first day of high school. It seemed like everyone already knew each other from primary school, except for me. Walking into the cafeteria and having to decide where to sit; horrible. What kind of music are you listening to at the moment? Beyoncé’s new record. What’s the first record you bought? It’s probably the first Spice Girls album. GIRL POWER!

The Go Your Own Way Issue. Interview James Hinton, aka The Range, is not only a gifted producer, he’s also a really smart guy with a degree in physics and an obsession with philosopher Seneca – naming a track and an EP after the man. Maybe it’s because

The Range Phone interview by Koen van Bommel Photos shot by David Brandon Geeting in New York, USA

he spent most of his childhood alone, holed up in the basement of his parents’ house. Being an only child, The Range seems like the go-to guy to talk about going your own way. And about what it means to be alone. ‘I’ve definitely experienced being oversaturated with people and would prefer to be alone’ 18

The Range. Continued

The Go Your Own Way Issue On your song ‘Jamie’, there’s a sample where someone says: ‘The more people that surround me, the more lonely I feel.’ Is that something you can relate to? Yeah, that’s the reason I chose that particular sample. I grew up as an only child, and I think when you grow up as an only child, you learn to get really comfortable in your own space. I’ve definitely experienced being oversaturated with people and would prefer to be alone. I mean, the more people you interact with, the more you kind of fold into yourself. As for that sample, it’s a very simple statement, but it really encapsulates the feeling I had when I was working on that particular song. So I guess you’re good at being alone? Yeah, I think so. I mean, I just spent so much time making music, playing drums and watching movies by myself when I was a kid – clearly more time than with other people. I remember just being in the basement for pretty much my whole childhood. I liked spending that much time by myself. I think for better or for worse it’s kind of how I relate to the world now. What’s the longest time you’ve ever gone without human contact? That’s a great question! Probably, like, two weeks? One summer, when my family went on vacation and I was staying home, that was probably the longest time. Two weeks can be pretty long. Yeah, I think so. How did that make you feel? It was the summer when I graduated from high school; the first time that I had to go out and get food for myself. It gave me a sense of responsibility. I remember making a lot of music as well, and feeling, stupidly, like it was my job or something. I would go out and go to the store, get food and then record for, like, a really long time.

The Range. Continued

‘I don’t really like to make music when someone else is in the room’ Is making music a solitary process for you? Or do you work together with other people? I have, but this project is very intentionally just me and my computer. I don’t really like to make music when someone else is in the room. I just don’t like to show people too much stuff before it’s really done. I’ve tried some collaborations, and played in bands a long time ago, but it’s definitely part of the project to be by myself. Are you also alone when you’re on tour? Yeah, I only travel by myself. It’s a little lonely. Would you rather have some people with you? I’ve thought about bringing other people, but then again, I like being alone. It’s an increasingly rare time when I can actually be just by myself. Logistically it can be sort of difficult, so I’m resisting it, but at some point it might be a necessary thing. Sartre says, ‘Hell is other people.’ If I flip that around and say, ‘Heaven is the absence of other people,’ would that still be right? It’s fascinating, they’re such stark statements. There’s obviously an element of truth to both. But I think that the persistence of either flips the equation around. I think I’ve just studied too much math to know that neither is true. You know, some people will go on Twitter posting rants about how they just hate everyone and they just wanna go lie in a hole and never talk to anyone ever again. And then the The Range plays Somewhere Else on 14 February at DOKA in Amsterdam. The next day they’re posting selfies. show is free for Subbacultcha! members until midnight.

The Go Your Own Way Issue. Interview Growing up as an only child, it wasn’t all that surprising that loop-based electronic pop artist Karen Gwyer would become a solo artist rather than part of a band.

Karen Gwyer Google chat interview by Basje Boer Photos shot by Dan Wilton in London, UK

Since having a child herself, Karen is rarely by herself any more, yet all the more lonely. ‘Now that I have a child, the biggest change in my life has been waiting days and days for a couple hours of time alone’ 25

Karen Gwyer. Continued Do you think growing up as an only child had something to do with you becoming a solo artist later on? Yes, I’m sure it has a lot to do with it. To get exactly what I want, I relish doing it on my own. I’m good at being democratic, but when I was in a band, I sometimes toed the line rather than speak up if I thought something was a bit crap. Not always, but it didn’t give me that satisfaction of owning the sound completely. What do you mean by ‘owning’ a sound? I suppose for me it’s being able to think about the sound for a long time, let it develop in my head and then get it out, play around with it, record it, play some more, hone in on it, go a bit deeper still and finish it off. All without needing to take anybody else’s opinion into account. That’s pretty satisfying! Is it hard to maintain that feeling of ‘owning’ your sound when you’re on tour? It’s like when you go to a really amazing gig and you’re totally engrossed in the music, yet there’s a part of your mind that’s ticking away, thinking, Yes, I’m going to add a bassline that feels like ‘X’ right after the drums fade out... I’ve had that a lot. I guess I’m just assuming I’ll be able to keep focused and hopefully even improve as I hear what the other guys are doing. How important is it to get feedback? And – can you handle criticism? Criticism sucks. But hey, to each his or her own. I certainly go on rants about certain pieces of music, so if I can dish it out, I can take it. Although I refuse to dish it out in public. I feel embarrassed for music critics sometimes. I wouldn’t want that job. Ever. Is it important to share your music while you’re developing it? Or is it a private process? I share it at home with my husband, because I have so much

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Karen Gwyer. Continued respect for his taste and thoughts, but the minute he says something I don’t agree with, I tell him to zip it. Other than that, no: it’s totally private. It’s almost impossible to share something that is missing half of it, and that half is in your brain still. Because there’s no way to explain how something will sound. At what times do you feel like being by yourself? If I could be by myself for two or three hours a day, I’d be a very happy lady. Now that I have a child, the biggest change in my life has been waiting days and days for a couple hours of time alone. My brain is so over-packed by the time I get it, it’s just kind of heavy reaching that point where I can say: ‘Right, now what should I do first?’ There’s so much pressure and so little time! So, no time to go out to dinner by yourself any more, I presume. Did you ever and did it make you feel awkward doing it? I don’t feel awkward, I love to people watch! On the occasions long ago when I did dine alone, I felt a little odd, but nothing a big glass of wine didn’t cure. Do you ever feel lonely any more? Or maybe you even miss the feeling of loneliness? Ha-ha, I feel enormously lonesome now. Not in a really depressing way, but I largely exist in a bubble where I’m cut off from the world. I’m with my son all day every day and he can’t talk yet, so some days I really live for that five-minute chat with another mother when I’m out and about. This is a big problem in London. It takes an hour at least to go see friends. So I just keep babbling to my kid! Karen Gwyer plays the Opal Tapes Showcase, alongside Basic House, 1991 and Lumisokea on 05 February at OT301 in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

The Go Your Own Way Issue. Interview Filipino producer Idris Vicuña, aka Eyedress, is the new mysterious kid on the international alt-synth pop circuit who’s been turning heads with his Supernatural EP, released on XL’s subsidiary Abeano. After a tumultuous year of heartbreak,

Eyedress Phone interview by Zofia Ciechowska Photos shot by Inez Moro in Manila, the Philippines

excessive drug consumption and wandering the streets of Manila by night, Idris is learning to go his own way. ‘At the time when I made my music, I was dealing with the shitty pressure of being normal, going to school, getting a job. But I don’t care about that now’ 31

Eyedress. Continued What’s it like to be an artist in the Philippines? You have to be real as an artist. The Philippines is a developing country: there are kids begging in the streets. Bombs get set off in malls. We have guards in the city carrying AK-47s. There’s a huge gap between the rich and the poor. There are many syndicates that will try to rob you. The traffic is chaotic as fuck. The recent typhoon has been a nightmare for our government because they can’t get people to work together. I sometimes feel that people don’t understand that to make a big change, you all have to contribute to make this place better. But as an artist, I would never want to put out anything that would create a negative mentality around the society I’m surrounded by. How did you find your way as an artist? When I moved back from the USA to Manila as a teenager, I realised that I could be whoever I wanted to be. Seeing extreme poverty in my extended family – but also knowing a lot of rich-ass kids who want to pursue the safest path in life – I know that all that counts is what I want to do. As a sophomore in the US I thought I’d work at Starbucks, but moving to Manila helped me discover who I wanted to be – especially after sleeping in a prison cell with crackheads for a night. That put stuff into perspective. What’s getting into trouble like in Manila? I had a gun pointed at me at an ecstasy raid when I was 16. Got invited to an E party at this girl’s hotel. It was so sketchy – two fat Persian dudes, a hooker, gay dudes, some alpha-male bros. We stood out with our coloured hair and tight pants – such fucking hipsters. There was free ecstasy. I knew something wasn’t right, so I took the Es and went to McDonald’s. I get a call saying I gotta go back. I come back, smoke a bowl, take more E. Suddenly the fucking cops storm down the door, guns pointed at us. They extorted us so this shit never came up on our records. It was a set-up to get money from the rich

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Eyedress. Continued

‘When I moved back from the USA to Manila as a teenager, I realised that I could be whoever I wanted to be’ kids throwing the party. I’ve got in trouble for tons of shit, but that was really fucked up. What motivates you to not give a fuck about what people think? Most of my friends did and I hated that. I just wanted us to be proud of ourselves and let go. At the time when I made my music, I was dealing with the shitty pressure of being normal, going to school, getting a job. But I don’t care about that now. My dad is an artist and he’s always been able to provide for the family through his art, which makes me believe that it’s achievable as long as you’re really good. Tell me about the making of your Supernatural EP. Last year was a dark time for me. I was really broken-hearted, I didn’t care about anything any more. That’s what my music was about. I would go out at night and end up coked out until noon the next day, a fucking nightmare. I just wanted to forget. So I made the EP my job. I went solo because I got tired of waiting for people in my band. How is now different to then? I’m trying to take care of myself. Back then I was just making music out of rage or misery. I found ways to complain in my music and hate myself. Recently I made three new songs that were all happy. I don’t want to be the sad guy any more. I finally found a way to genuinely be happy, blissed-out and Eyedress plays on 28 February at De learn to accept myself. Nieuwe Anita in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

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The Go Your Own Way Issue. Interview Speaking of going your own way, French filmmaker Vincent Moon might just be the living embodiment of that. Known for his music videos for R.E.M. and Caribou and his Blogothèque sessions, Moon’s been living

Vincent Moon Phone interview by Brenda Bosma Photos shot by Amandine Paulandre in Paris, France

on the road for the past few years, travelling all around the world for his Petites Planètes project, finding out about traditional music, religion and rituals – all without the limitations of money or bad days 38

Vincent Moon. Continued You put out a tremendous amount of films. Do you keep a journal to flip through all of your encounters as a reminder? I’ve been writing very few things about my trips. For me, those films are my writing, in a way. My camera is the pen. You could say I’ve been filling a big notebook with my search on culture and on how to live. All those films are different little notes adding up to this big book. Can you share some of the small letters of such a note? There’s so many. Every recording is a different story. I always make those films in an improvised way and never really try the same formula. I don’t know, they’re all very interesting adventures. How do you create your own personal space, travelling as much as you do? You need silence from time to time. I’ve been travelling non-stop the last five years. It’s very exhausting, of course, and very intense, but something keeps me going. I’m changing some things now. I’m gonna stay in Brazil this year and focus on making one longer project there. So, things evolve. I don’t know how I find my space. I just do, I guess. With improvising, trust is key between yourself and the people you work with. In your case most of the time they are locals who share your non-profit work method. You’re eliminating money that way, but what about power? Are you still the one in charge? If you’re able to motivate people, they’ll do it for pleasure and not for anything else. Of course, my work goal has always been about destroying hierarchy. I wouldn’t describe myself as a film director; I don’t know how to direct people. I’m just a guy with a camera and we do something together, no one is more important than anybody else. It’s about making special relationships with even the guy on the street who doesn’t know he’s part of it.

Vincent Moon. Continued

‘I’m just a guy with a camera and we do something together, no one is more important than anybody else’ What about money? I just try to live with as little as possible. I make money when I give workshops. I don’t sell the films. It’s a very good thing to be in that economy of gifts, of simple exchange. It gives me a lot of freedom. In the documentary you made about the Japanese cult figure Kazuki Tomokawa he compares making music to being lifted into the sky. Do you ever feel lifted while filming? I feel those moments are sacred. It’s like a prayer. We are all together, we tend to forget our energies. It’s something you can’t put into words actually. It’s like a trance, like stepping on that very thin line of harmony that you can’t see, but you can step on. It’s about finding the good energy to be ‘there’. It’s certainly very exciting and intense. When do you crave a couch and some popcorn? I rarely watch films – but I like to occasionally, as a little break. Although I never watch films from a couch; I always sit on a chair, preferably one that is quite high. That’s actually very important to me. I think couches are a tool of domination. You can’t truly discuss the work you’re watching from a couch. I do try to stay up to date on the films that come out, though. To fight your enemy, you have to know your enemy, right? [Laughs] Enemies? What about love? Vincent Moon will be showing a selection I think the same about love of his From ATP series (with Q&A) on 21 February at Melkweg Cinema in Amsteras I think about revolution. You dam. The screening is free for Subbahave to make it every day. cultcha! members.

The Morning After: Raajmahal Photo shot by Isolde Woudstra on Saturday, 04 January at 11.38 am

The Morning After is a monthly photo series depicting the scene of a bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s post-slumber lodgings the day after their Subbacultcha! show. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how the duo from Raajmahal left their Amsterdam guest room.

Featured Artist

Lotte Reimann German/Dutch photographer Lotte Reimann (1982) is intrigued by the unexpected. Her newest project Bis Morgen im Nassen is a documentary narration about Christian, who has been a passionate â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;wetlookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fan for years, in that he likes to go swimming with his clothes on. Him and his friends get together for their exclusive wetlook parties, which Reimann was invited to attend. She approached her subject with curiosity and respect. Her series, with its raw footage combined with written diary entries, gives us a beautiful and personal look into an unusual world. www.lottereimann.de

Featured Artist: Artists:Lotte Iris &Reimann Katinka Diary entry by Lotte Reimann

Amsterdam, May 5th 2012 About a year ago, for the first time, I put my pants on for swimming instead of taking them off. It was early in the year and still quite cold. But I didn’t care. I was so fired up that I managed to persuade a friend to join me for a jump in the lake. ‘Briefly. I promise!’ ‘Whoa, Lotte. Are you crazy?’ I just had to give it a try, what it feels like; why he does it. Now. Immediately. Under any circumstances. I had discovered these images. Spent hours clicking through this strange archive and fell in love, mercilessly. With this tick, this passion, with an absolute devotion. So we packed our bathing things and headed to the lake. A cold stream of air blew through the gapped window into my face. I was determined, I wanted to plunge into this damp dark, wanted to feel it pressing against my body. Wanted to know how it is. This that I only saw until now. ‘Okay. Are you coming?’ I asked, even though it was freezing. She nodded. ‘Well, yeah. Actually. Why not?’ We laughed, pushed the car doors open and ran to the shore. Halt. Hesitation. Frosty, the wind blew across the shimmering disk, drew small circles here and there on the icy mirror, and snuck in pinching through the fibres of my sweater and right into my skin. I was shaking. ‘To you, Christian!’ I shouted, lunged forward, dashed into the floods and let the water pierce through my clothes, engulfing my body. Excited and insane.

Reimann’s book Bis Morgen im Nassen will be released by French publishing house RVB books in March.

Featured Artist: Lotte Reimann

Books: Rock ’N’ Roll Library No 9 By Marc van der Holst. Image by Lonneke van der Palen

Ed the Happy Clown by Chester Brown

Every month we add a rockin’ good book to our Rock ’N’ Roll Library Oh, Ed the Happy Clown, you sad sack of shit... This comic book by Chester Brown, first published in 1989, started out as a an improvised, stream-of-consciousness series of unrelated gag strips within the pages of Brown’s self-published mini comic Yummy Fur. Brown then tried to come up with an overarching, all-encompassing grand plot for the resultant shitpile, resulting in a bewildering but brilliant book that, as comics historian John Bell put it,‘defies easy summation’. Well, yes. There’s weird, there’s weirder, there’s weirder still – and then there’s this shit. On the subject of shit, there’s The Man Who Couldn’t Stop. Shitting. There’s protagonist Ed, who has the tip of his penis replaced with the head of a miniature Ronald Reagan – a penis (from Dimensions X) that is then worshipped by pygmy can-

nibals. There are sick jokes, several sub-plots and lots of loose ends. Yet it all seems to make some sort of surrealistic sense. There’s a dream-like logic to the black humour, creating a coherence laden with religous and Freudian symbolism. There’s method to Ed’s madness. It even has a happy(ish) ending, with Ed getting married. And a new, bigger and better penis. Actually, it has several endings, with Brown adding new endings to new editions. First published in 1989, later versions not only have alternate endings but different introductions and bonus appendices and endnotes as well, with the most recent edition (Drawn and Quarterly, 2012) including yet another ten-page story (‘The Door’)... All of which seems somehow funnily fitting for this circus freak of a book. Happy(ish) reading.

Fashion By Mandy Sharabani. Photos shot by Isolde Woudstra

€15 Outfit Every month we give €15 to someone to compose a complete outfit for a good night out. Yes, quite the challenge Filipino electro wunderkind Idris Vicuña produces psychedelic newwave pop with his solo project, Eyedress. He formed this month’s sartorial inspiration for Pål, a music therapist and one half of the Amsterdam DJ duo Pål/Secam.

store. It makes me look even bigger when worn over the ski suit, but I like how the outfit as a whole becomes pretty disorienting that way. I went for green striped socks to push the colour palette just a little bit further. In the end I was left with no money to buy me some shoes. It reminds me of David Byrne’s oversized suits. I’m sure I’d have an ‘interesting’ experience if I was tripping on some psychoactive substance and bumped into someone looking like this...

Reading his bio, apparently Vicuña has a ‘thing’ for Super Nintendo. That was my first lead, I started looking for overalls to create some sort of Super Mario-like costume. At first I found a pair of ski pants, with these suspender-thingies. But then I spotted this bright red ski suit (Bijenkorf Huis Collectie, probably early ’90s) I had to have it! Great find! So Mario, how did the ski suit inspire you for your other finds? I found the pink blazer at a thrift

Wanna go shopping for a €15 outfit? Email us at fashion@subbacultcha.nl. Eyedress plays on 28 February at De Nieuwe Anita in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

Pål’s total budget spent: €14.20 Ski Suit: €6.50 - Juttersdok Oost / Shirt: €2.90 - Rataplan West Jacket: €4 - Juttersdok West / Socks: €0.80 - Action

Food: Cooking With... By Zofia Ciechowska. Image by Carlijn Potma

Crystal Stilts Every month we ask an artist to share a recipe of their favourite dish No one knows how many pastries, how much candy, trail mix and yoghurt the NYC psych-pop band Crystal Stilts have collectively eaten over the past decade. But one thing is sure: no one can make yoghurt more punk than Crystal Stilts – as revealed by the band’s guitarist, JB Townsend. However, no one makes steak bordelaise better than his father, a dish he devours every time he sees his parents in France. We spoke to JB while he was enjoying the French view and looking forward to tonight’s dinner. ‘My dad became a chef as a teenager in France in the 1970s. It’s an amazing trick he keeps up his sleeve. Then he moved to the USA and met my mom and all that. I wasn’t raised on French haute cuisine though. I come from a large family; we ate a lot of spaghetti. But we always had good food. Steak

with bordelaise sauce is something that my dad has always made for me. It’s a simple, but really delicious dish.’ How to make JB’s dad’s steak bordelaise • In a large pan, heat olive oil and butter. Add shallots, garlic and parsley. Add a cup of beef bouillon. • Once the liquid has heated up, add a bit of fat from the steak for some meaty flavour. Add balsamic vinegar and red wine. Season. Lower the heat. • Heat some butter in a small pan and cook your steak. • You can add crème fraîche and more parsley to the sauce. Serve it over your steak and eat with some crusty French bread and steamed green beans. Crystal Stilts play on 17 February at Melkweg in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

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Music Reviews By Carly Blair

Damien Jurado Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son

Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire For No Witness Jagjaguwar

Secretly Canadian

Angel Olsen channels Loretta Lynn and Roy Orbison through a medium of ghostly alt-country. While her new album has enough delicate folk to kindle the affections of fans of 2012’s Half Way Home, the album’s slower burning, grunge-tinged tracks, fuelled by Olsen’s torch-song lyrics and fiery delivery, give Burn Your Fire For No Witness a unique staying power. On album highlight ‘Hi-Five’, she sings, ‘I feel so lonesome I could cry, but instead I’ll pass the time sitting lonely with somebody lonely too – there’s nothing in the world I’d rather do,’ before asking, ‘Are you lonely too? High five! So am I!’ This wry proclamation sums up Olsen’s MO quite nicely, and if you find yourself answering ‘Yes’ to that question, her work is among the finest places to pass the time.

This underrated Seattle singersongwriter has released a dozen albums of varied but somehow always emotionally riveting Americana. Like 2012’s Maraqopa, his latest album was produced by solo artist and Shins touring keyboardist Richard Swift. In a promo video for the album, Swift is often seen burning sage in his studio – perhaps to dispel demons, perhaps to cover up the smell of weed, or more probably both if the album’s content is any indication. A spiritual sequel to Maraqopa, Brothers is an album about disappearing, about starting over, set against a sumptuous, spacious and often groovy backdrop of psychedelia, dub, Tropicalia and folk – the perfect album to play on the road.

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Naive Set Reclining Nude

Juan Wauters N.A.P. North American Poetry

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Amsterdam’s Naive Set hereby present their full-length debut, produced by Hospital Bombers mastermind Jan Schenk. The boys may be as bashful in demeanour as their name implies, but the harmony-filled, Real Estate- and Allah-Las-channelling indie pop on Reclining Nude is lean, confident and catchy enough to have them wrestling with Apneu (naked, obviously) for the title of my favourite band in Amsterdam.

Juan Wauters followed his father from Uruguay to Queens, where they worked together in a factory to save enough money to bring their family north. A decade later it’s clear that Wauters has wholeheartedly embraced his adopted hometown, founding garage outfit the Beets and now striking out on his own with slightly goofy, charmingly imperfect folk that sounds like New York’s answer to Daniel Johnston.

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Dum Dum Girls Too True

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You may know LA musician/producer John Webster Johns from his guitar gig with White Fence, but the retrophilic weirdness he showcases on his debut as Jack Name more quickly calls to mind another collaborator of his, Ariel Pink. Single ‘Pure Terror’ may be the album’s most accessible track by a long shot, but as a whole Light Show becomes ever more oddly compelling with repeat listens.

On their third album, Dee Dee Penny and her cast of Dum Dum boys and girls raise their shoegazes heavenwards to the kingdom of ’80s goth demigods like Siouxsie & the Banshees and the Cure, making their most concerted attempt at crossover a success in the process. You’ll find Too True to be as pleasantly humdrum as a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Music Reviews CEO Wonderland

Hospitality Trouble

One of Sweden’s most remarkable exports is its music, and a few years ago it served as home to several acts that had perfected the art of making lemonade out of the country’s long and dismal winters in the form of bittersweet and sunny synth pop. Since then, most of these groups have disbanded, including Air France, Studio and the Tough Alliance. However, Eric Berglund, one half of the Tough Alliance, forges on with his solo project. The cover of Wonderland, his second album as CEO, depicts him adorned with neon flowers and face paint, mouth agape as if waiting to receive Holy Communion from some kind of Technicolor Jesus, and though the sublimely euphoric electropop it contains may not be able to turn water into wine, it can certainly transform a dull day into a festive one.

With a name like ‘Hospitality’, it’d be kind of a slap in the face if this New York trio made heavy metal or something similarly unwelcoming. Instead, they’re kind enough to treat listeners to the kind of affable indie pop you can skip through a field of flowers or wash the dishes to. Their 2012 selftitled debut was one of that year’s most unassuming but pleasant surprises. On this follow-up, singer Amber Papini’s singular, sweet but nottoo-childlike vocals form the beating heart of songs fleshed out with creative instrumentation and a worldview that seems a bit more sceptical this time around. The title hints at clouds on the horizon, but even though Trouble is indeed a bit more gloomy in tone than its predecessor, its songs are just as catchy and no less inviting than those of Hospitality’s debut.

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New Films By Basje Boer

Only Lovers Left Alive Jim Jarmusch

Jim Jarmusch, hands down the coolest independent filmmaker since the early ’80s, hits us with a vampire flick. But of course, there’s nothing Twilight about Only Lovers Left Alive. Brits Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston play Adam and Eve, an age-old couple with a serious blood thirst. They divide their time between desolate Detroit and mysterious Tangiers, hunting for victimless blood sources. But when Eve’s kid sister (a delightful Mia Wasikowska) turns up, shit, it seems, is about to go down. Jarmusch sets the mood with a great soundtrack, shots drenched in darkness and an overall beautiful aesthetic. Besides, he actually seems to have something to say about the intellectually- and emotionallybankrupt society we live in today. The title of the movie is sure to be among the most poetic of the year... Release date 06 February. When you’ve finished this one, start watching... • The unlikely trio of Tom Waits, John Lurie and Roberto Benigni escape from a Louisiana prison and quarrel their way to freedom in Down by Law (1986): Jim Jarmusch at his best. • The recent vampire movie boom may have turned you against all things Dracula, but if you’ve never seen Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark (1987), you’re missing out for sure. It’s sexy, it’s gritty and it’s fantastically ’80s. The gruesome diner scene is a definite classic.

New Films

12 Years a Slave

The Selfish Giant

12 Years a Slave

year olds in one of the more gritty parts of the United Kingdom. Arbor is fearless and unpredictable, Swifty is slow and sensitive. Both outsiders at school, the boys have no one but each other. But when they start collecting scraps to earn some money, they soon get in over their heads. Release date 30 January.

Steve McQueen - 2014 Director Steve McQueen (Hunger, Shame) directs his gaze to slavery in the 1800s with a script that was partly based on a memoir, written by Solomon Northup, New York state citizen and son of a freed slave who gets kidnapped by slave-traders and made to work on a plantation in Louisiana. There he suffers harsh treatment without his family knowing where he is. Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Northup. Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt and Paul Giamatti co-star. Release date 20 February.

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John Dies At The End Don Coscarelli - 2012 Welcome to the intoxicated mind of Dave. High on soy sauce, our hero not only has to save his pal John but the rest of the world as well. Comical and creepy, this movie is as crazy as its protagonist. UK release date 17 February.

The Selfish Giant Clio Barnard - 2014 Equal parts fable and kitchen sink drama, The Selfish Giant tells the emotional story of two scrappy 13

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On the following pages you’ll find all of this month’s Subbacultcha! events. You can buy a ticket at the door or become a Subbacultcha! member and enter for free. Join at subbacultcha.nl

Opal Tapes Showcase ft. Basic House + Karen Gwyer + 1991 + Lumisokea

you’ll be able to explore Basic House’s deceptively diverse sound, take a dip in Karen Gwyer’s sultry ‘bath house’, explore memories of yore with 1991’s nostalgic ambience and luxuriate in Lumisokea’s rich, dark fusion of techno, dub and noise.

05 February - OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €8 | Free for members

Girls Names + Sexton Creeps

Started in mid-2012, UK label Opal Tapes has rapidly risen to become one of the most successful and highly regarded labels within today’s underground cassette scene and beyond. Founder Stephen Bishop aims to bridge the gap between techno and house and experimental ambience and noise by releasing the work of artists whose creative interests lie somewhere in between. Early signees such as Huerco S, 1991, and Karen Gwyer have already gained much higher profiles, reflecting Bishop’s curatorial skill. At this showcase night,

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07 February - WORM, Rotterdam 19.30 | €6 | Free for members The fourth release from Belfast’s Girls Names, last year’s somewhat ironically titled The New Life, finds them dropping in on the recent wave of post-punk revivalism. Formed specifically to open for Wavves at a 2009 gig in Belfast, over the last four years Girls Names have grown from a duo to a four-piece and have expanded greatly on the sonic scope of their music.

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The Range: 14 February

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Somewhere Else

ft. The Range + patten + Malawi 14 February - DOKA, Amsterdam 23.00 | €8 (before midnight) / €10 (after midnight) | Free for members till midnight

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17 February - Melkweg, Amsterdam 19.00 | €14 | Free for members Over the past decade this retro-gazing outfi t from NYC has mastered the art of stitching together scraps of proto-punk, soul, folk, psych and country into a postpunk patchwork quilt that at times calls to mind the Clean, Joy Division and the Velvet Underground, as well as fellow top-shelf revivalists like The Fresh and Onlys. On their latest full-length their usual infl uences are sewn together

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Crystal Stilts: 17 February

Hieroglyphic Being: 18 February

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Hieroglyphic Being + Robert Bergman

18 February - Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam 20.30 | €10 | Free for members Chicago experimental composer, sound artist, DJ, and label owner Hieroglyph-

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with a more nakedly emotional thread, adding an extra layer of warmth that ensures Nature Noir is an album you’ll fi nd comfort in late at night. Amsterdam’s own Naive Set will get your night off to a snuggly start with their sunny but cerebral, Real Estate- and AllahLas-channelling indie pop. Giving their debut album, Reclining Nude, a listen whilst reclining nude comes highly recommended.

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Teengirl Fantasy: 19 February

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and juke, marinating them in ethereal R&B and house, then smoking it all in a heavy weed haze before serving up the bubbly, bass-heavy stew to hungry dancefl oors. Not ones to be upstaged, openers Teengirl Fantasy will whet your appetites with some chopped ’90s infl uences sandwiched between layers of jammy electronica.

(Plafonddienst x Subbacultcha!) 19 February - OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €8 | Free for members Like two chefs preparing for a gourmet smorgasbord, Chicago’s Mike Perry and Austin Keultjes select the supremest cuts of hip hop, particularly footwork

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connections between these disparate genres is remarkable. Find the possibility of hearing Laurie Anderson in the same set as Excepter AND Le Chic intriguing? Yeah, us too. Let’s go get our minds blown together.

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Marius: 20 February

The Sweet Release of Death: 22 February

(Les Animaux x Subbacultcha!) 20 February - Tivoli Spiegelbar, Utrecht 21.00 | €7 | Free for members The long list of pseudo-genres applied to Brooklyn duo Teengirl Fantasy – ‘psych dance’, ‘bedroom house’, ‘dream wave’ etc – doesn’t give much of an idea of what they sound like, but does indicate how tough these guys are to pin down. Last November they dropped their Nun EP; it’s short but sweet and certainly not celibate, showing them continuing to fool around with a variety of infl uences in new and interesting ways. NON Records’ Marius will ensure

all your teengirl and teenboy fantasies come true by kicking off the night with his slick and sexy retro electro.

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Release Party ft. Kleinindustrie + Cusack 22 February - Roodkapje, Rotterdam tba | Free for all Rotterdam trio the Sweet Release of Death celebrates the release of debut album Bulb with a wonderfully consis-

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Kelley Stoltz: 23 February

tently curated night fi lled with dark, dismal and driving rock’n’roll. Much like its namesake, Bulb is fi lled with brooding but sweet noise pop that needs only the sweat of an audience to burst out and blossom. Amsterdam kindred spirits Kleinindustrie will wake you up with their menacing and propulsive post-punk, while Rotterdam’s Cusack will try not to upstage the headliners with their own brand of heavy but groovy post-punk.

Cloud Boat: 25 February

a multi-instrumentalist and home-recording guru who worships at the altar of hallowed ’60s bands like The Beatles and The Kinks, and is considered something of a godfather to the garage-psych scene in San Francisco for helping defi ne the signature sound of bands like Thee Oh Sees, The Fresh & Onlys and Sonny and the Sunsets. On his new album, Double Exposure, he pens a pleasurably laid-back and charmingly sincere love letter to Nuggets-era garage rock, new wave, power pop, cosmic rock and Krautrock. Lead single ‘Kim Chee

Kelley Stoltz + Beginners + William Tyler

23 February - Tivoli Spiegelbar, Utrecht 20.00 | €10 | Free for members Cut from the same cloth as the AllahLas and Jacco Gardner, Kelley Stoltz is

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Torus: 25 February

Taco Man’ – and the delightfully goofy video that accompanies it – have defi nitely got me feeling hungry for more. Tera Melos: 26 February

(REWIRE presents) 25 February - Zaal 3, Den Haag 20.00 doors | €7 | Free for members

Tera Melos + Katadreuffe

26 February - OCCII, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for members

Cloud Boat offers up an even more singer-songwriter-y take on the post-dupstep of fellow Londoners James Blake and Vondelpark. The tracks on their majestic debut, Book of Hours, are more ornamental than fundamental, since the limelight is fi xed fi rmly on singer Tom Clarke’s stately vocals reminiscent of the late Jeff Buckley. Young Dutch beatmaker on the scene Torus will get the crowd in the mood with his beautiful, glacial hip hop-tinged electronica.

With a sound characterised by the aggression of punk, the melodic intricacy of prog rock and the occasional arena-ready guitar histrionics, these math-pop wizards from Sacramento have built a cult following in the US and beyond, touring and/or sharing a label (Sargent House) with much of the avant-garde of contemporary progressive rock music, including artists

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Cloud Boat + Torus

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Katadreuffe: 26 February

Eyedress: 28 February

Eyedress

28 February - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 20.00 | €8 | Free for members If you’re like me, you probably don’t know a whole lot, if anything, about the music scene in the Philippines. If the

music of Idris Vicuña, aka Eyedress, is any indication, then we’ve defi nitely been missing out. This production wunderkind grew up in the US before moving back to Manila as a teen. Since then he’s become a sort of musical alchemist, using that simplest of production software, Fruity Loops, on a handme-down laptop to turn his raw ideas into musical gold in the form of dark and alluring synth-pop. While his early tracks most closely evoked witch house artists like oOoOO or Balam Acab, his new Supernatural EP fi nds him shifting his sound towards something more reminiscent of a slowed-down and druggier Chromatics.

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like Zach Hill, Deafheaven, Marnie Stern, Minus the Bear, These Arms Are Snakes, Melt Banana, Hella and Maps & Atlases. Culminating in last year’s X’ed Out, over the past decade they’ve honed their ability to balance ingenuity with accessibility. Throw in some delightfully trippy videos and oddball antics like touring with a giant, anthropomorphic hot dog, and it seems safe to say these dudes know how to geek out almost as well as they know how to rock out.

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Only Lovers Left Alive: 11 February

Nederlands Fotomuseum: Kyle Tryhorn

Only Lovers Left Alive

Robert Walser Special

11 February - LantarenVenster, Rotterdam tba | €9 | Free for members

(The Quay Brothers Exhibition) 14 February - EYE, Amsterdam 19.15 | €10 | Free for members

Jim Jarmusch’s stylish vampire fl ick stars Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as a couple of bloodsuckers with morals. He – Adam – is stuck in desolate Detroit, while she – Eve – hangs out in Tangiers. When Adam gets depressed, Eve rushes over to console him. But their lovers’ reunion is cut short when her sister shows up and starts ransacking the fridge for some premium blood. Jarmusch, famous for cult classics such as Down by Law and Dead Man, proves he hasn’t lost his touch yet with this lovely little take on the vampire genre.

EYE extend their exploration of The Quay Brothers’ Universum with a robust side programme that digs beyond the twins’ dark and enigmatic body of work to expose the roots of their creations. Like Stan Lapinski’s Kafka and Film lecture, the Robert Walser Special hones in on another source of inspiration for the Quay pairing. This time it’s the Swiss ‘outsider’ author and his infl uence on three short animations and the fi rst ever Quay Brothers full-length feature, This Dream People Call Human Life.

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From ATP: 21 February

Her: 25 February

From ATP + Q&A

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25 February - Melkweg Cinema, Amsterdam 20.00 | €9 | Free for members

Paris-based fi lmmaker Vincent Moon will attend this screening of From ATP. Known for his music videos for the likes of R.E.M., Bon Iver and Caribou, Moon shot this series of four experimental documentary shorts during the several editions of music festival All Tomorrow’s Parties. From ATP, in which Moon tried to capture the atmosphere of the innovative festival, features performances by artists such as Mogwai, My Bloody Valentine, Les Savy Fav, Fuck Buttons, Sunn O))) and GZA. Afterwards there’s a Q&A with the man himself.

In this latest effort by Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Where the Wild Things Are) we catch a glimpse of the near future, in which technology plays an integral part of our lives and, apparently, we wear super high-waisted trousers and pastel colours. Joaquin Phoenix plays a lonely writer who falls for his personal computer operating system, voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Though Her may depict a future practically devoid of human contact, it’s a warm and funny movie, with excellent performances all around.

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21 February - Melkweg Cinema, Amsterdam 20.00 | €9 | Free for members

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Foam: William Klein

Faceless

Until 13 April Mediamatic, Amsterdam Open Wed–Fri 13.00-18.00 €6 | Free for members

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rapher and fi lmmaker William Klein, using different rooms to show the different sides of Klein’s work. Just like the troublemaker photographer himself, this exhibition is loud, colourful and intriguing.

Masked faces, blue faces, deformed faces, digitally enhanced faces… The exhibition Faceless is all about the fi rst thing you look at (normally) and focuses on the trend to hide, alter or mask the face. An investigation on seduction, surveillance and privacy.

TENT

Witte de Withstraat, Rotterdam Open Tue-Sun 11.00-18.00 €4 | Free for members

Foam Photography Museum

TENT reopens in 2014 with a solo exhibition of Danish artist Anne Wenzel. Her exhibition The Opaque Palace transforms the museum rooms into one big sculptural piece in which all the different works form a single installation.

Keizersgracht, Amsterdam Open daily 10.00-18.00, Thur and Fri until 21.00 €8.75 | Free for members

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Museum of Broken Relationships

Museum of Broken Relationships Nederlands Fotomuseum: David Claerbout

Nederlands Fotomuseum

Wilhelminakade, Rotterdam Open Tue-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat & Sun 11.00-17.00 €9 | Free for members

Spotlighting the detritus of relationships gone bad, this travelling exhibition, which began in Zagreb, features the sometimes moving (and often bizarre) artefacts left behind when relationships end. Additionally, American artist Julianne Swartz made a large-scale sound landscape specifi cally shaped to the environment of the church, while artist Sara Vrugt has been working on an on-site embroidered installation, in which she involves locals to re-fabric the 118 church chairs.

Het Nederlands Fotomuseum has two new exhibitions this month. David Claerbout’s Grey shows an installation in which the artist combines fi lm techniques with photography and challenges the concepts of screen time and real time. Also on view is Anneke Hilhorst’s Hier ben ik, a series in which she contrasts portraits of children with selfportraits they drew themselves.

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until 02 March Oude Kerk, Amsterdam Open Mon-Sat 10.00-18.00, Sun 13.00-17.30 €7.50 | Free for members from 03-09 February

Agenda: September 2013

COMING UP

Charles Cohen Synthesizer pioneer 01 February 2014

Hieroglyphic Being Experimental House producer 18 February 2014

Jóhann Jóhannsson + Bill Morrison + Belgian Brass The Miners’ Hymns 21 February 2014

PAN Label Night Bill Kouligas, Helm and Helena Hauff 13 March 2014

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What else is on this month On the following pages you’ll find a fine selection of concerts, festivals and exhibitions taking place around the country. Art: Golden Years / Rob Hornstra’s Russia Until 09 March - Huis Marseille, Amsterdam Exhibition of Rob Hornstra’s extensive photographic research into the controversial site of the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Music: Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks 02 February - Bitterzoet, Amsterdam The former Pavement frontman and his merry backing band bring their stoner goofball antics back to Amsterdam in support of their new album, the delightfully titled Wig Out at Jigbags. Music: Fading Trails Festival ft. Lower + Steve Gunn + Swearing at Motorists 02 February - Utrecht Brought to you by Belmont Bookings, the masterminds behind Le Guess Who?, this travelling festival tips its hat to Magnolia Electric Co’s second album, Fading Trails, with a rewarding line-up that wanders well off the beaten path.

Art: The Quay Brothers’ Universum Until 09 March - EYE, Amsterdam Step into the wonderfully creepy world of stop-motion animators the Quay twins. Their films are on view, as well as their homemade dioramas and other items, including curiosity cabinets and drawings by psychiatric patients. Art: Dan Graham - Models and Beyond 01 February-25 May - De Pont, Tilburg An overview exhibition of the legendary American conceptual artist Dan Graham. On view are some architectural pieces, video works and photos.

Music: Cross-Linx Festival ft. José González + Patrick Wolf + more 05-08 February - various locations This open-minded and innovative festival crisscrosses the Netherlands over the course of a few days, linking together musical genres and avant-garde artists ranging from indie rock to classical music.

Music: Unknown Pleasures ft. Twin Shades + Kleinindustrie + Sväva 01 February - MC Theater, Amsterdam Perhaps better titled ‘Lesser-Known Pleasures’, this evening organised by The Daily Indie and 3voor12 Amsterdam will showcase a handful of up-andcoming Dutch indie bands.

Art: Art Rotterdam 06-09 February - Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam The annual art weekend in Rotterdam collects the finest local artists and gal-

Agenda: February 2014 leries. This year the location is the impressive Van Nelle Fabriek.

er, transferred to a liberal arts college campus. In other words, WE WANT IN.

Art: Frode Bolhuis & Anne Forest 08 February-22 March - Galerie Bart, Amsterdam Duo exhibition including last month’s featured artist Anne Forest, where she’ll be showing some of her intriguing carpet paintings.

Art: Surreal Worlds 15 February-09 June - Centraal Museum, Utrecht Overview of the svurrealist tradition in Holland, with early works from JH Moesman, but also some more modern takes on the genre, with pieces from Aernout Mik and Philip Akkerman.

Music: Thee Irma & Louise + Anaheim + Frankenberries + Those Foreign Kids 09 February - OCCII, Amsterdam Brought to you by dearest Geertruida and Open Series, tonight you can pump your fists and shake your moneymakers to a slew of country- and noise-tinged garage-punk bands from Switzerland and NL.

Music: St Vincent 15 February - Paradiso, Amsterdam On her new self-titled follow-up to last year’s collaborative album with David Byrne and 2011’s Strange Mercy, the queen babe of indiedom sounds as virtuosic and clever as ever.

Music: Bill Callahan + Alasdair Roberts 10 February - Paradiso, Amsterdam Fourteen albums into the game, Bill Callahan (aka Smog) continues to hone his own heavy-hearted take on the American folk tradition. Scotsman Alasdair Roberts’ somber but lovely folk will gently ease you into the night.

Music: Grasnapolsky 15-16 February - Radio Kootwijk, Apeldoorn Drinking warme chocomel met slagroom is a great way to pass those cold winter nights, but I daresay watching a ton of lovely, folky bands in a monumental former radio station in the middle of the Veluwe forest would be even better!

Music: Tera Melos 11 February - Merleyn, Nijmegen 26 February - OCCII, Amsterdam Read more on page 77.

Music: Damien Jurado 18 February - De Duif, Amsterdam This underrated Seattle singer-songwriter has released a dozen albums of emotionally riveting Americana. His brand new one, Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son, is terrific, and though I’ve been late to hop on the Jurado bandwagon, now I want to ride with him wherever the hell he’s headed.

Music: Happy Jawbone Family Band 13 February - Patronaat, Haarlem These Vermont oddballs make indie folk that’s rough around the edges, endearingly gleeful and unpretentious. They remind of that cult from Easy Rid-

What else is on this month Music: Wooden Shjips 18 February - Doornroosje, Nijmegen 19 February - Bitterzoet, Amsterdam Back to Land, this SF psych quartet’s latest album, finds them adding terrestrial touches like acoustic guitar to their usual spaced-out sound, resulting in their brightest and most universally appealing album yet.

Music: Warpaint 24 February - Paradiso, Amsterdam Despite their bellicose name, the sultry, atmospheric art-rock that the ladies in this LA quartet churn out makes them seem more like lovers than fighters; their hot looks presumably have the crowd hoping just the same. Music: Speedy Ortiz + Eagulls 25 February - Bitterzoet, Amsterdam Though this Massachusetts indie-rock outfit wear their love for ’90s legends like Pavement and Liz Phair on their sleeves, their intimate lyrics and inventive melodies help them add up to far more than the sum of their influences. The melodic punk of Eagulls (Leeds, UK) is worth showing up early for.

Music: Real Estate 22 February - Paradiso, Amsterdam These Brooklyn-by-way-of-New Jersey chill bros may or may not have bothered to graduate college, but they’ve definitely earned PhDs in good vibrations by playing catchy psych pop that’s so sunshiney and relaxed, it can transport you to summers past all year round.

Music: The Ex Festival ft. The Ex + Thurston Moore + Space Siren + more 26 February - Vera, Groningen 27 February - Doornroosje, Nijmegen 28 February - Paard van Troje, Den Haag 01 March - Paradiso, Amsterdam 02 March - Tivoli, Utrecht Dutch DIY legends The Ex burst out of the squat scene in the late ’70s, and their tenacious curiosity and passion have kept them charging forward. They’ve invited like-minded new bands, improv legends and Ethiopian musicians and dancers to join them on this adventurous set of shindigs.

Art: Susan Kooi & Boris de Beijer U.F.O. 23 February - Kunstenaarsinitiatief Beyoncé, Amsterdam Artists Susan Kooi and Boris de Beijer have a duo exhibition at the rough exhibition space of Kunstenaarsiniatief Beyoncé. What exactly will happen at this exhibition is still a bit of a mystery, but in a space named after the queen of pop, we expect nothing short of fabulousness. Music: Willis Earl Beal 23 February - Bitterzoet, Amsterdam This Chicago outsider has come a long way since his early days of busking and homelessness, but his ramshackle blues-folk and soulful croon remain haunted by a sense of alienation that’s hard to imagine but easy to enjoy.

Agenda: October 2013

music Ásgeir (IS) Wild Beasts (UK) Liars (US) Angel Olsen (US) Daryll-Ann (NL) Thumpers (UK) Erlend Øye (NO) Girls In Hawaii (BE) Moss (NL) Johnny FLynn (UK) Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 (NG) La Luz (US) Eagulls (UK) Omar Souleyman (SY) Matthew & The Atlas (UK) Nick Waterhouse (US) Quilt (US)

Dagkaarten & passe-partouts beschikbaar via motelmozaique.nl

performance/art Ivo Dimchev (BE) Emke Idema (NL) Authentic Boys (NL/CH/D) Pim Palsgraaf (NL) Joris van Oosterwijk (NL) & many more!

music, art & performance festival 4 – 5 april 2014 rotterdam

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Where The Wild Things Are Much like its namesake children’s book, this festival invites you to let your inner wild thing out to play – in its luxurious bungalow accommodations (hot tub, anyone?), on its gloriously green grounds, in its self-described ‘swim paradise’ (featuring a 154-metre water slide!), and most of all, on its dancefloors. 07-09 March – Center Parcs De Eemhof, Zeewolde

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Crystal Antlers

Trentemøller This versatile Danish producer/DJ has plenty of tricks up his sleeve. With a live band of lovely assistants in tow, he may just make your dancefloor inhibitions magically disappear.

all-female four-piece seems possessed by the ghosts of the Pop Group, Joy Division, and the Slits. of Montreal On their latest album, this beloved Athens indie-pop band scaled back the weirdo funk of their last few releases and made a welcome return to their ’60sloving lo-fi beginnings.

Moderat In this Berlin supergroup, Apparat’s soulful techno and Modeselektor’s eclectic experimentalism form a dancefloor alliance whose orders you’ll be happy to obey all night.

Crystal Antlers Label switched and lineup streamlined, this Long Beach band’s hard-hitting and cathartic organ-driven psych punk continues to both thrill and elude easy classification.

Jon Hopkins This UK producer’s breakthrough 2013 album, Immunity, offered a rare glimpse into his world – one replete with organic sounds and his most danceable take on techno yet.

Other highlights include: Thomas Azier and Young Fathers.

Savages With their straightforward but intensely delivered post-punk, this London

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Agenda: October 2013 EEN DOODGEWOON FESTIVAL OVER DE KRACHT VAN DAGELIJKSE DINGEN

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18 February

Oude Kerk, Amsterdam Open Mon-Sat 10.00-18.00, Sun 13.00-17.30 €7.50 | Free for members

Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam 20.30 | €10 | Free for members

Museum of Broken Relationships

05 February

Opal Tapes Showcase OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €8 | Free for members

07 February

Hieroglyphic Being + Robert Bergman

19 February

Supreme Cuts + Teengirl Fantasy

(Plafonddienst x Subbacultcha!) OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €8 | Free for members

Girls Names

20 February

11 February

(Les Animaux x Subbacultcha!) Tivoli Spiegelbar, Utrecht 21.00 | €7 | Free for members

LantarenVenster, Rotterdam tba | €9 | Free for members

21 February

WORM, Rotterdam 19.30 | €6 | Free for members

Film: Only Lovers Left Alive 14 February

Film: Robert Walser Special

EYE, Amsterdam 19.15 | €10 | Free for members

14 February

Somewhere Else

ft. The Range + patten + Malawi DOKA, Amsterdam 23.00 | €10 | Free for members till midnight

Teengirl Fantasy + Marius

25 February

Cloud Boat + Torus

(Rewire Presents) Zaal 3, Den Haag 20.00 | €7 | Free for members

25 February

Film: Her

Melkweg Cinema, Amsterdam 20.00 | €9 | Free for members

26 February

Tera Melos

OCCII, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for members M

28 February

Eyedress

De Nieuwe Anita, AmsterdamCM 20.00 | €8 | Free for members

All month

Film: From ATP

Foam

(with Q&A) Melkweg Cinema, Amsterdam 20.00 | €9 | Free for members

Open daily 10.00-18.00, Thur CMY and Fri until 21.00 €8.75 | Free for members

22 February

TENT

The Sweet Release of Death Release Party Roodkapje, Rotterdam tba | Free for all

23 February

Kelley Stoltz

Tivoli Spiegelbar, Utrecht 20.00 | €10 | Free for members

17 February

Open Tue-Sun 11.00-18.00 €4 | Free for members

Nederlands Fotomuseum Open TueFri 10.00-17.00, Sat and Sun from 11.00 €9 | Free for members

Faceless

Mediamatic, Amsterdam Open Wed–Fri 13.00-18.00 €6 | Free for members

Crystal Stilts

Melkweg, Amsterdam 19.00 | €14 | Free for members

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