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The Déjà Vu Issue

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Subbacultcha! Magazine November 2014

The Déjà Vu Issue

With our heads in the cloud, clicking from one epiphany to the next, we can’t help but notice that with all these open windows there’s no fresh air. Information overwhelms, and as we fail to process it fully, it sinks deep into our subconscious, resurfacing at the oddest of times.

Our synapses misfire. We see and hear things we’re convinced we’ve encountered before. In the words of TOPS’ David Carriere, ‘Shit, déjà vu.’ Instead of shrugging it off this time, we’ve decided to hold on to that tingling feeling and let it guide us through November.

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Content

How To Dress Well page 16

TOPS page 22

Ela Stiles page 28

Greys page 34 Recommendations 09 Recommended By 13 We Saw You 14 The Morning After 40 Featured Artists 42 Books 48 Fashion 50

Food 52 Music Reviews 54 New Films 56 Subbacultcha! Events 61 Agenda 73 Overview 78 Member Giveaways 79

Cover image by Kazuma Eekman

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October Recommendations

Programma: 6 november op idfa.nl, in de IDFA app en de Volkskrant. Online kaartverkoop: 11 november, 19.00 uur

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

Music: FUNKTIONSLUST

Music: Kelly Lee Owens

Seductive south-London boy-girl duo Funktionslust are emerging at a time of year that perfectly suits their rainy, mysterious sound. Minimal, subdued synths build up as their cool vocals overlap and ring through the sparse musical landscape that they’ve created for themselves. You’ll find their newest track, ‘DOTS’, is pretty great for a night-time bike ride through the concrete jungle.

Remember that serene female voice that rang through Daniel Avery’s Drone Logic last year singing ‘Noise flies high’? Her name is Kelly Lee Owens and she’s releasing some very exciting material as a prelude to what will surely be a very good debut album. Her new track ‘Lucid’ will engulf you with its shimmering, layered rhythms and a voice that is literally pure gold. Our new girl crush. Sigh.

soundcloud.com/funktionslust

soundcloud.com/kellyleeowens

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November Recommendations Music: Slow Worries

Book: Not That Kind of Girl

Amsterdam quartet Slow Worries makes the kind of music that nestles in a comfy spot somewhere in your brain, with no intention of ever getting out again. And yet it feels like they’ve always been there. If you concentrate really hard, you can almost see them seductively glancing back at the Nineties.

Total coincidence that we recommend them to you in our déjà vu issue, but fitting nonetheless. slowworries.bandcamp.com

Misc.: FOODLOGICA Lena Dunham’s long-awaited book has just hit the stands. You’ll read it at a speed of about a hundred cackles and giggles per page as she honestly describes her struggles with becoming who she is today. And if you like a bit of solid-gold, honest advice, check out Lena’s agony aunt YouTube channel #AskLena, which will tell you how to ditch your lame friends and why it’s never cool to shush someone. This book will make you happy, buy and rejoice.

Feeling guilty for ordering food and getting it delivered by a super-polluting scooter? FOODLOGICA is the answer! This brand new sustainable trans-

lenadunham.com

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November Recommendations Film: Ida

port service makes use of electric bikes to transport food around Amsterdam.

They’re at the start-up phase right now, but already partnered up with local entrepreneurs like Juice & Salad, Chocolate Makers and Willem & Drees. To be continued – let’s hope. foodlogica.com

Food: Chirps

A beautifully shot black-and-white film about a young novice’s discovery of her hitherto unknown Jewish roots and her quest to get to know her new identity, set in 1950s Poland. Accompanied by her cynical estranged aunt, the two embark on an almost silent road trip through the cold Polish countryside to question the very essence of Ida’s existence.

Made by Paweł Pawlikowski, the film won the Best Film award at last year’s London Film Festival.

We’d rather get rid of them: those tiny crawling creatures called insects. But hey, they’re the future of food (aka little protein bombs) so let’s give it a go.

Chirps might be good to start with; these crunchy chips are made with wholesome beans, rice and cricket flower. Crickets? Yup. 80% of countries and 2.5 billion people are already eating them, so it can’t be that hard.

Pre-order your bag of crawling crisps now at www.sixfoods.com

release date: 07 September 2013

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November Recommendations Bookstore: THE MAGAZINE Recommended by Josh Cheon (Dark Entries) Every month we ask someone who inspires us to share something they are passionate about. This month we turn to Josh Cheon, the man behind San Francisco’s Dark Entries, a label that mines the ‘80s for synth and wave gems long overdue for a reissue.

I had been meaning to check out THE MAGAZINE for years. It came highly recommended from many friends and I finally paid a visit during Gay Pride this past June.

The shop is located in the Tenderloin neighbourhood of San Francisco, across the street and one block up from my office. Upon walking in I was immediately drawn to the ‘adult gay male’ section. I felt the gay history oozing out from the racks of vintage magazines, books, pamphlets, calendars and videos. I spent hours sifting through a generation of men lost too soon to AIDS. My eyes flashed from page to page, stimulated by and absorbing images and designs, aware of the rich history these articles, photos and ads provided. I left that day with issues of Drummer, Honcho, Physique Pictorial, Mattachine Review and an issue of Playgirl from 1974, featuring the owner of Fox Studio, John Colletti, who sought out Patrick Cowley and used his music to soundtrack gay porn films. Since then, I’ve spent countless hours revisiting the store every week, talking to the encyclopaedic owners about the past and making connections to the gay porn soundtracks I reissued last year. THE MAGAZINE is a library full of rare treasures I will continually use for reference and guidance to navigate the lost underground world of bathhouses, cinemas and all things seedy. www.themagazinesf.com

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We Saw You: Torus Interview by Brenda Bosma, Photo by Mariska Kerpel

What’s your favourite pastime?

Listening to DJ Screw and watching American Psycho at 50% speed without sound.

What does an ideal lazy Sunday look like for you?

Buying shit on eBay while listening to Ascenseur pour l’échafaud with a blanket wrapped around me.

Any guilty pleasures?

No pleasures are guilty to me, really – but I think other people would consider my pleasure of listening to MSN bubbling remix as guilty.

What kind of music makes you cry?

Sad rap beats and instrumentals plus R&B a capellas.

What kind of music comforts you?

I put on rain sounds if I’m trying to chill.

What makes you dance?

Playing for a crowd that fucks with every song I play.

What’s your biggest influence?

T h e i n t e r n e t.

Name: Joeri Woudstra Age: 21 Spotted at: Performing with DJ Dodger Stadium at OT301 Home: The Hague Keywords: www.t-o-r-u-s.com Zodiac sign: Cannabis plant with cool shades Do you have a morning ritual?

I put my phone on snooze at least five times and then ten minutes before I actually have to get out of the door I jump in the shower and skip breakfast.

Do you remember the last time you experienced déjà-vu?

Actually, right now while boarding my plane to Tokyo for RBMA. It kinda felt like being in an anime.

What kind of music are you listening to at the moment?

Demos from friends, cool album leaks (sorry!), 2012 Juicy J Datpiff mixtapes, Japanese ambient tapes, jazz, nature sounds.

What’s the first record you bought?

Busta Rhymes – Break Your Neck.

Your first ever music-related memory?

Experiencing sound coming out of the radio and dancing with my dad to it and then showing my mom my moves.

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The DĂŠjĂ Vu Issue. Interview Back in June we briefly spoke to Tom Krell, aka How To Dress Well, minutes before his show in Amsterdam. Then we got the opportunity to call him up to finish the interview and discussed repetition, desire

How To Dress Well Phone Interview by Brenda Bosma Photos shot by Ryan Lowry in Chicago, USA

and some songs on his latest album, What Is This Heart?, an intense and wonderful ride made with the kind of thought and care the pop devotee extraordinaire is known for

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How To Dress Well. Continued Hi. Feel like talking déjà vu?

Sure. That feeling you have that something happening for the first time is happening again is weird, though. I have it often, that feeling where I’m talking and all of a sudden I’m like, ‘Oh, what’s going on here?’

When does it happen to you most, when you’re alone or when talking to someone?

I’m not sure if I ever had déjà vu while on my own. That would be really weird and disorienting.

How does a cycle of repetition stop being a cycle and become a broken cycle?

It’s like you have a feeling of a déjà vu and then as soon as you have that feeling, you’re already slipping away back into the present.

It has to do with noticing it in that moment. And just the experience of time as well, I guess.

Do you believe this pleasure you sing about in ‘Repeat Pleasure’ can ever turn into something more substantial – like, say, love?

Even the truest love has the same structure. True love doesn’t come by changing the nature of desire, but by dealing with that fact with someone and learning how to live with that.

There’s no desire to reject (some of) the desire?

That’s just not possible, first off. That’s like rejecting your humanness. That’s like how old people in long marriages treat each other.

What about self-control?

When you’re a monk perhaps that’s a thing. They try not to be human beings. In order to be both human and a monk you have to live in a hut on top of a hill. That kind of ascetic self-control is just the most pathological thing. That’s like trying to deny you have an animal body, that you’re a human being, that you’re on the earth and all these things.

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The Déjà Vu Issue. Interview ‘True love doesn’t come by changing the nature of desire’

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How To Dress Well. Continued In the song ‘Face Again’ you sing about not knowing who knows what’s best for you. An answer to that would be helpful.

It’s definitely not me! I think it’s other people, the world. There’s just lots to learn about from other people, a lot more than just being yourself alone somewhere.

In the video for ‘Childhood Faith in Love’ there’s these big extremes; love and curiosity vs. hate and suspicion from the adult world...

They’re going through something rather traumatic together.

There’s no way the little girl can understand what they’ve gone through. She doesn’t see them as filthy and broken like the store manager does. I think to be in this childhood world is just as bad and naive as trying to be a monk, even though I do believe there’s a lot of truth in that childhood world.

You seem to really pour your heart out onstage.

Yeah, go for it, though sometimes it can be a bit of a nuisance, exhausting.

Like a love and hate thing?

It’s kind of like sliding down a waterslide. You know how you’re, like, really in it, but that it’s a little too much and you feel you have no control over it?

And then when you’re down, you’re down. You could climb back up again, but that’s such a hassle. Does sliding down make you feel more alive?

Sometimes. It’s always extremely thrilling. And sometimes it’s just incredibly special.

You simply cannot stop in the middle of sliding down.

If you tried, you’d really hurt yourself.

How To Dress Well plays on 01 November at TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

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TOPS Skype Interview by Zofia Ciechowska Photos shot by Claire Milbrath in Montreal, Canada

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The Déjà Vu Issue. Interview Some might say that time is what prevents everything from happening all at once. But it’s not that simple for Montreal band TOPS. For Jane Penny, the band’s vocalist, time is a string of premonitions, dreams and multisensory experiences that her music evokes.

With her bandmate David, the two guide us through the labyrinthine geographies of significant places and times that make TOPS who they are. Here’s a hint: not the 1970s ‘When I make music I see it coming from a place that is beyond a time I can describe. I would never want to live in a different time’ Do you ever experience déjà vu?

Jane: It’s funny when you’re on tour because you’ll return to the same places and you get a sense of déjà vu, but there’s also a sense of returning to a place which only exists in the past but also in the now, it’s like a long-lost relationship that you’re barely retaining with a city.

Déjà vu for me is related with the uncanny, I get that feeling sometimes when I’m around people that I’m very close with. I can take a look at them and I catch a glimpse of what they’re going to look like

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TOPS. Continued ‘The narrative of my dreams differs, but they happen in the same places, not too distant from reality, but with more trapdoors, mazes and a fluidity between spaces’ when they’re old, or what they looked like when they were young, it’s like a flashback of their eternal self.

David: I experienced déjà vu recently. I was shirtless. I was putting on a yellow shirt in a sunny room. And the sun shone through the shirt and I was like, ‘Shit, déjà vu.’ Later I figured out what it was.

When I was a little kid I had a yellow soccer jersey. I felt like I was putting on my soccer jersey as a six year old. That was cool. I think a part of déjà vu is not just looking back, but forward. It borders on premonition. Its function is to separate you from the present.

What about prophetic dreams?

David: My brother calls me about once a month to tell me that, like, he dreamt of me joining a weird dog-fighting gang or that I got on a train and it blew up – it could be anything. I’m like, ‘Yeah, I’m fine, that was your dream, man.’

Jane: I like sleeping in to dream, I do that more often than I should. And the other day I woke up from a dream screaming. It was a really intense, multi-episodic dream that made me wake up in terror. I had to write it down. I don’t know if you get this, but often I’ll combine places into these new maze-like geographies and weird architectural structures that I’ll revisit a lot. The narrative of my dreams differs, but they happen in the same places, not too distant from reality, but with more trapdoors, mazes and a fluidity between

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TOPS. Continued ‘The most important thing is to not replicate something from the past, but to make something that feels emotional and overtakes your senses at this moment’ spaces. The dream I wrote down was set in a network of practice studios and odd, dirty, open spaces in Montreal, but set on the island of Bowen near Vancouver where my parents have moved. It was right before our record Picture You Staring came out, so I think there was definitely some anxiety around it.

In what way is nostalgia important to you as a band and in what way is it irrelevant?

Jane: It’s complicated for me, because when I make music I see it coming from a place that is beyond a time I can describe. I would never want to live in a different time. My ability to experience all of the music and culture that is around me right now is facilitated by the fact that I am at the furthest point in the future that I will ever be.

I feel that the urge to compare our music to ’70s sounds, even though it’s something that we’ve never openly opposed, does not have much value. I think people confuse emotion and the physical sensation of warmth that they get from our recordings with some kind of reference to something that is meaningful to them, but that oldies vibe that they’re getting is their own doing. For me the most important thing is to not replicate something from the past, but to make something that feels emotional and overtakes TOPS play on 28 November at De Nieuyour senses at this moment. we Anita in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

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The Déjà Vu Issue. Interview The memory of your first encounter with Ela Stiles is something that will often revisit you unannounced. Her bewitching a cappella experimentation, using the only instrument readily available to all of us, feels strangely familiar, like a distant impression from time immemorial – though she asks you not to

Ela Stiles Skype Interview by Samuel Huxley Smith Photos shot by Max Doyle in Sydney, Australia

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Ela Stiles. Continued The human voice is widely recognised as the first ever instrument.

What made you look back to this primal means of music making?

Well, I think my strength is my voice. I play a lot of instruments but I’m best at singing and I love singing, it’s my favourite thing. I’m in quite a few bands – from punk bands to pop bands, heaps of different stuff – so I just had an idea of making an a cappella record. I don’t know, because I just love singing.

To conjure that kind of historic memory is pretty wild, though.

I like the idea of experimenting with the voice, creating all that drone stuff, and I like to try to push the limits of my voice, making it sound like something else.

And it also feels strangely novel because no one else is doing it.

Yeah, nobody’s really doing it, and I don’t know about the rest of the world, but in Australia I just felt like there’s so much of the same thing here, there’s real trends when it comes to music – especially in the indie scene and whatever. I think I just wanted to do something completely different that no one was doing.

Were you a Druid princess in a past life?

[Laughs] I don’t know what I was in a past life! I don’t think I’ve been a princess… Do I have to answer? Maybe I can say a siren?

Beckoning sailors to their death?

Yeah. You know, singing and hypnotising men [Laughs].

Can you recall the earliest influence that made you go, ‘Yeah, I wanna make stuff’?

I come from a family of musicians, my mother was a musician, my aunties and father were musicians so I guess I’ve always been surrounded by it. And I’ve always wanted to sing. I don’t know what inspired me – probably my mum, mostly. But aside from that, probably the biggest one is Anne Briggs. She did a lot of a cappella stuff, which is where I got the idea from. Her voice is very imperfect, it’s beautiful

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The Déjà Vu Issue. Interview ‘I don’t like this whole trend of women singing in that breathy kind of weak way. I’m in to pushing your voice and really singing’

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Ela Stiles. Continued and not polished. It’s very flawed, and that’s what I love about it. I don’t like this whole trend of women singing in that breathy kind of weak way. I’m in to pushing your voice and really singing.

Would you go back to that place for inspiration?

I get a lot of my inspiration from my friends, I have a lot of talented friends that are musicians but I try not to remember the past. A lot of inspiration for me at the moment is travelling to India, I’ve been there a few times. I’m really interested in that culture, in religion. I’m not religious but I’m kind of obsessed with the way religion makes people act. I try to think of the good things people get from religion.

I wish I believed in something, but I don’t. The song ‘Kumbh Mela’ off of my album, it’s a festival in India, the biggest human gathering in the world.

What does making music do to you?

It just makes me happy because I’m not good at anything else, so when I’m performing on stage, it’s like the best half an hour. It’s the happiest that I am in my life, because nothing else makes me happy in that way. I know that I’m meant to be there – like, it’s my purpose.

And how do you want to make people feel?

Transcendent.

Do you think music helps us remember who we are?

Yeah, I think so. Mostly everything I write about is about myself – or, like, boys or something. I’m trying to stop writing songs about boys because that’s really boring [Laughs]. I think different people want different things out of music. I think it’s spiritual to some degree – although I don’t even know what spiritual means!

Ela Stiles plays on 17 November for The Rest Is Noise in Amsterdam and on 20 November at WORM in Rotterdam. Both shows are free for Subbacultcha! members.

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The Déjà Vu Issue. Interview Interviewing Shehzaad Jiwani from Toronto rock band Greys about déjà vu was kind of creepy. First of all, he claims he frequently has the sort of super-déjà vu that wouldn’t be out of place in an episode of The X-Files.

Greys Phone Interview by Koen van Bommel Photos shot by Chelsee Ivan in Toronto, Canada

But apart from this, the entire interview felt so strangely familiar, that at times it didn’t even feel like an interview at all. Weird…

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Greys. Continued Hi Shehzaad! How are you?

I’m good, I just finished up a haircut and I was running some errands before we fly over to Europe.

What kind of haircut did you get?

The broke teenage punk-rock-boy haircut is what I got. The, uh, homeless teenage boy.

So, I’m not sure if you’ve experienced this before, but I’d like to talk to you about déjà vu. When was the last time you had one?

Interesting! I have a weird relationship with déjà vu. How would you define déjà vu yourself? It’s a feeling of familiarity, right? So with me – and I’m not making this up – I’ll have that to a very strong degree. I’ll feel like I’ve not only been to a place before, but also done the exact same action. Like, for example, last night I sat down with my girlfriend and I knew the next thing she was going to say because I remembered it from a dream that I had. And it lasts for just a few seconds, but I have that fairly often. To me, it feels more specific than just déjà vu.

Do you feel like your déjà vu is different than other people’s?

Yeah, from what I’ve heard from other people, they don’t have it as in-depth and detailed as what I go through. What they describe is more of a feeling, whereas I’m describing specific actions. I just find it very weird and I wonder why people aren’t doing studies on my brain.

What’s your explanation for what you experience?

I don’t have one! I wish there was an X-Files episode about me.

I’d love for someone to explain it to me. It doesn’t make sense that you can experience something in a dream and then experience it in real life, months or years later.

Does this change how you think about life or see the world?

No, it doesn’t, because the things that happen in the dreams are so mundane. It’s not like in a movie where I can predict someone

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getting hit by a car, it’s just very mundane and nondescript. I mean, maybe you could also experience déjà vu when you listen to our album, because we rip off so many other bands.

Do you actually call it that yourself? Ripping off other bands?

Ha-ha, no. Someone else might call it that, though.

There’s been this recent surge of interest in the ‘90s – not just in music, but also in movies that are being remade, and in fashion.

Would you call that a collective déjà vu?

Yeah, absolutely. It feels like, at least in North America, we’re experiencing a cultural déjà vu, which to me is artistically bankrupt.

It seems to me that people are afraid of listening to something new,

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Greys. Continued ‘It feels like, at least in North America, we’re experiencing a cultural déjà vu, which to me is artistically bankrupt’ and they would rather watch a terrible remake of an old film rather than experience and create new history. They prefer to relive this comfortable past that they’ve already lived through. To me this is the opposite of what humans should do to progress and evolve. I think it’s dangerous and I hope it ends very soon.

Could it be escapism to a time when things were easier?

That’s exactly what it is. You selectively remember the things that were easy. And then Urban Outfitters repackages it and sells it to you. But the funny thing to me is, when you look at what they played on MTV in the ‘90s, I mean, Nirvana was the biggest band in the world and they’re not exactly the easiest band to listen to. Stuff like PJ Harvey and Beck and all these bands that were very challenging, and they sounded like nothing that came before them. And they still sold millions of records with music that was very progressive.

Speaking of music that short-circuits your brain, is this something you also want to achieve by making such loud music?

Yes, absolutely. That’s actually the best approximation of what we try to do that I’ve ever heard. We want to distort your mind with what we’re doing with our guitars and what not. We want to expand your idea of what you’re supposed to be getting from a rock’n’roll band. Because I think a lot of bands will give the audience what they want, but we prefer to give the audience Greys play on 07 November at OCCII, what we think they need.

Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

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The Morning After: Nouveau VĂŠlo Photos shot by Wessel Baarda on Sunday, 28 September at 11:47am.

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The Morning After is a monthly photo series depicting the scenes of a band’s post-slumber lodgings the day after their Subbacultcha! show. Here’s how Nouveau Vélo left their guest room after their release party at Dokzaal.

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Featured Artist

Kazuma Eekman We first got to know Kazuma Eekman’s (1989) work through our friends from Beelddragers, by whom he came highly recommended. Eekman takes his inspiration from popular culture and television, which he accumulated into his graduation series I was raised by television. At times, his use of expressionist brushstrokes is almost sentimental, betraying the personal nature of his drawings, yet counterbalanced by his humorous take. We talked to the Willem de Kooning graduate about getting in the drawing zone and not watching Game of Thrones www.keekman.com

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Featured Artist: Kazuma Eekman Interview by Floor Kortman

Who are you?

I’m Kazuma, 25 years old and living the dream in Rotterdam. My favourite stand-up comedian is Louis CK, I like to listen to A$AP Rocky or The Gaslamp Killer while working and even though I love David Lynch, my favourite movie is Shawshank Redemption. I also love to read Daniel Clowes’ comics.

How are you doing?

I’m good. Right now I’m working a part-time job at Cinerama, which is a nice movie theatre at the West Blaak. And the rest of the time I’m trying to figure out how an artist is supposed to live.

What do you like about drawing?

I like the craft of it. For me it always takes a long time to make work. And when I work long enough I get into what I call ‘the drawing zone’, which is the best zone.

Can you explain how you started with your graduation project I was raised by television?

I watched an unusual amount of television when I was a kid, I thought it was the coolest machine ever made. The project was an idea that had been floating in my head for years. I realised people talk about television series or movies

as if they are events that actually happened. Something about this interested me, but I didn’t know what to do with it. Recently I had this same conversation with my friends about Game of Thrones, but because I don’t watch Game of Thrones, the conversation always ends. That annoyed me but also reminded me of that idea that was still floating around in my head. So I decided to do something with it.

You’ve moved from a graphic aesthetic to a more subtle style of drawing. Was it a conscious effort?

It’s because I get distracted quickly; there are so many interesting things to do and I want to try them all! I used to work at the print workshop of the academy, which could explain the graphic style, but since my graduation I have a new love for gouache paint. It’s always a process of experimenting with ideas and the tools available at that time.

What’s next?

I’m working on a new film project with fashion designer Afra Engel. And I’m also super excited for the new season of Twin Peaks.

Eekman is part of a group exhibition during Le Mini Who? at Kapitaal in Utrecht.

The exhibition is on 22 November.

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Books: Self-Help Shelf No 7

By Marc van der Holst. Image by Lonneke van der Palen

Museum of the Weird

by Amelia Gray

Every month we offer a literary helping hand with the bigger questions in life Amelia Gray’s Museum of the Weird is, eh, weird. And that’s weird because usually when things are called weird, they’re not all that weird. Classic pulp magazine Weird Tales, for example, comprised stories about monsters, vampires and the undead – which is plain unweird. (The revived WT, BTW, is pretty cool, with stories by Kelly Link and Thomas Ligotti).

‘Weird Al’ Yankovic is very funny but not very weird (nor very Fat).

Weird Science isn’t weird at all: two unpopular teenagers, Gary Wallace and Wyatt Donnelly, fail in all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to ‘create’ a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, whose purpose is to boost their confidence by putting

them into situations that require them to act like men. On the road to acceptance, they encounter many hilarious obstacles, which gives the movie an overall sense of silliness – but never weirdness.

MotW, though, has stories about women who get served plates of hair on dates, wild javelinas gone, um, wild, cottage cheese diets, ‘hairball girls’ (I notice a, um, weird, um, thread there), a serial killer nicknamed God (because he/she removes a rib from his/her victims), and, judging from the cover (I haven’t finished this yet; I got weirded out a bit), a post-apocalyptic Rolex, a 90lb. watermelon, a pyx,… oh, and vulture repellent. Also, it’s not a museum. (Gray also wrote the weird but sad AM/PM, and the weird, and also sad, but also very good novel Threats. Weirdo.)

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Self-Help Shelf: N o1: I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon, by Philip K. Dick | N o2: Self-Help, by Lorrie Moore | N o3: 60 Stories, by Donald Barthelme | N o4: A New Path to the Waterfall,

by Raymond Carver | N o5: Restroom Zen, by Jimmy Chen | N o6: Personae, by Sergio de la Pava | N o7: Museum of the Weird, by Amelia Gray

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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 Baltimore-based punk conceptualist Ed Schrader’s Music Beat forms this month’s fashion inspiration for Henri Olai, freelance curator and project manager for museums.

Belgian Prime Minister, Elio Di Rupo.

Now those flamboyant pants and shoes – whoa!

I liked the pants because of the Middle Ages tapestry feel. As for the shoes, they’re just so ‘Louis XIV’.

Styling?

I wanted a customised cape, but sadly it looked like a blanket for hippies. My friend Jordi lent me the teddy fur coat to use instead.

Please describe your palace.

I’m picturing a party palace with mirrors everywhere, lots of Jacuzzis and unlimited champagne.

Somewhere in Versaille in the 17th century would be chill.

Greetings, your royal highness.

Where did the extravaganza begin?

Their song ‘Emperor’s New Chair’ inspired me to go for a modern royal outfit. At first I wanted to go for a ‘Maxima look’. I did find a blue dress; however, I looked like a big butterfly, it was a no-go.

Where did you start your search?

I went on an adventure in secondhand stores in Waterland. That's where I found the red silky top – there was something royal about it. I had the option of turning the ribbons into a bow, but I decided to leave it so I wouldn’t look like the

Wanna go shopping for a €15 outfit?

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Henri Olai's total budget spent: €12.50 Top: €4 - Undisclosed second-hand store in Waterland #1 / Pants: €4 Undisclosed second-hand store in Waterland #2 / Shoes: €4.50 - Undisclosed second-hand store in Waterland #3 / Ring, headpiece & teddy fur cape: €0 Borrowed from his friend, Jordi Ariza Gallego

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Food: Cooking With...

By Zofia Ciechowska. Image by Carlijn Potma

Sinkane Every month we ask an artist to share a recipe for their favourite dish Ahmed Gallab of Sinkane likens the creation of his funky, tropical rhythms to making a delicious cheeseburger. You need a whole lot of flavours and colours to make something truly irresistible. What’s his secret sauce? Thousand Island by way of Russia, truly global like the style of his wild pop music.

‘I have very eclectic taste when it comes to food. I think I get it from having grown up in the United States whilst eating my mother’s Sudanese cooking. My family is Muslim, so during Ramadan my mother will cook all day and not taste a single thing because we need to fast. We eat at sunset and it will always be amazing. Her understanding of food is unparalleled.

This summer I got really obsessed with making shrimp rolls.

But I’ve been fusing them with new flavours to see if I can make

them taste a bit more surprising, as they’re a very white East Coast American thing. I go to my fishmonger’s for my shrimp, peel and de-vein it and then cook it in loads and loads of butter. I could literally eat that stuff without the bun, it’s so good.’

How to make Ahmed’s shrimp rolls • Fry shrimp on a skillet pan with 1-2 tbsp of butter. Once finished, cut shrimp into small chunks.

• In a bowl, mix mayonnaise, dijon mustard, cornichon brine, tarragon, turmeric, chives and celery. Add shrimp to the sauce, stir well.

• Serve on toasted hot dog rolls with freshly ground pepper on top.

Sinkane plays on 27 November at Rotown in Rotterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

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900g large shrimp, preferably easy-peel 3/4 cup finely chopped celery w/leaves 1/2 cup mayonnaise 1 tbsp Dijon mustard 1 tbsp cornichon brine 1/4 cup thinly sliced fresh chives

1/4 cup cornichons, chopped 1 tbsp finely chopped fresh tarragon 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice 1 tsp turmeric freshly ground black pepper 6 New England-style hot-dog rolls

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Music Reviews

By Carly Blair

Foxygen ...And Star Power

Kevin Morby Still Life

Foxygen’s impressively precocious 2013 album We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic heralded the arrival of one of this decade’s boldest and most exciting new bands. Featuring guest spots from the Flaming Lips, Of Montreal, White Fence and more, and clocking in at what they term ‘a svelte 82 minutes’, their new album doesn’t let down in the ambition department.

Foxygen have always been retrophiles and this is a sprawling, idiosyncratic album for those old-fashioned folks who still believe in the format, baby. The feeling of liberation that permeates the album renders it far more fascinating, and anyone else who’s in for an auditory adventure through the history of psych pop should be able to embrace ...And Star Power, warts and all.

Kevin Morby’s 2013 solo debut, Harlem River, was an homage to his adoptive home town of NYC written after he’d moved to LA. Since then he toured extensively and then amicably parted ways with Woods and the Babies have gone on hiatus. Morby’s new album, named after Maynard Monrow’s art piece ‘Still Life with the Rejects from the Land of Misfit Toys’, reflects both this busy transition period and the relative peace and quiet of his new home in LA. Still Life, with its rejects from the Land of Misfit Toys, its songs too easygoing and sweet to make much sense in New York, its Kevin Morby of whom we could perhaps say the same, is an admirable snapshot of Morby’s life which makes me eager to hear how he chronicles his next step.

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Music Reviews Ariel Pink pom pom

Yung Falter

4AD

Badstue Rock Records The punk scene in Denmark has been hyped for the past few years, but until now most of the attention has focused on Copenhagen bands like Iceage and Lower. Yung, a trio from Aarhus, make a convincing case for the country’s second largest city with this impressive debut, which boasts a beautifully brutal and melodic mix of garage rock, punk and pop.

Ariel Pink has always had a knack for giving classic pop music his own perverted twist, but since his proper debut album, 2010’s Before Today, his releases have become significantly more cohesive and polished sounding without sacrificing much of his trademark weirdness. His new double album is the first to be credited to Pink alone rather than Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, though he claims that it is by far the least ‘solo’ record he has ever recorded. Apparently he plays well with others. From its festive eponymous object to its unconventional side labelling (P-I-N-K instead of A-B-C-D) to its 69 minute runtime to its goofy, often joyously unrestrained atmosphere, it’s clear that Pink had fun creating pom pom, and we as listeners can consider ourselves lucky to be invited to the party.

Torn Hawk Let’s Cry And Do Pushups At The Same Time Mexican Summer

Brooklyn artist Torn Hawk first turned heads with his VHS video collages produced for artists like Ital and Autre Ne Veut, but now attention’s turning to his similarly warped musical compositions. His aptly titled new album Let’s Cry And Do Pushups At The Same Time somehow manages to sound simultaneously corroded, gorgeous, uplifting and vaguely sad.

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New Films

By Basje Boer

Mommy Xavier Dolan - 2014

Imagine, you're 25 years old, you’ve directed a total of five (!) feature films that were internationally acclaimed and won various prizes, AND your latest movie, Mommy, is a genuine masterpiece. I am of course referring to the annoyingly talented Canadian director Xavier Dolan, whose latest thrilling piece of cinematic fireworks won the Jury Prize at Cannes this year. ‘Mommy’ is Die, a widow who is singlehandedly raising her teenage son, Steve. Steve is hyperactive and unpredictable, with a heart of gold but serious anger issues. When things are about to spiral out of control, Kyla shows up out of nowhere. And she might just be exactly what Die and Steve need. Running 139 minutes, with the exceptional aspect ratio of 1:1, this is one you don't want to miss. Release: 13 November When you’ve finished this one, start watching...

• Jonathan Caouette’s 2003 video diary extravaganza Tarnation tells the story of the relationship between a troubled teenager (Caouette himself) and his schizophrenic mother, co-starring his crazy-ass grandparents. This whirlwind of images is completed with a suitably melancholic soundtrack.

• Go ahead and see the remainder of Dolan’s complete oeuvre, as it’s definitely worth your while. Oh, and you can YouTube his video for Indochine’s College Boy, featuring Mommy star Antoine-Olivier Pilon, if you want to be super thorough.

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White Bird in a Blizzard 20,000 Days on Earth

White Bird in a Blizzard

20,000 Days on Earth

Gregg Araki - 2014

Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard - 2014

We might as well proclaim November ‘Mommy Month’, with Gregg Araki’s White Bird in a Blizzard also dealing with a larger-than-life mother figure. This mom, played viciously

by Eva Green, disappears into thin air, leaving her teenage daughter Kat and meek husband Brock puzzling over what happened. But mostly, Kat just wants to have sex with her next-door neighbour and listen to the Cocteau Twins on her walkman. It is the ’80s, after all.

Release: 30 November

An icon if ever there was one, Nick Cave is not only a rock star; he's a novelist, a screenwriter and an actor. 20,000 Days on Earth chronicles one day in the artist's life, leaving the audience wondering which part is fact and which part is fiction. We see Cave record an album, talk to his psychiatrist, drive Kylie Minogue around and, at the end of an impossibly long day, take the stage to do what he does best: perform.

Release: 30 October

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Those Foreign Kids: 01 September

Those Foreign Kids: 01 September

New Music: Solar Year

Film: Lydia Ainsworth

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 fulllength, Waverly, which is due to appear 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.

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

Those Foreign Kids: 01 September

New Music: Solar Year

Film: Lydia Ainsworth

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Blue Hawaii: 06 November - WesterLiefde, Amsterdam length, Waverly, which is due to appear The show is free for Subbacultcha! members. at the end of June on Splendour.

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want to look into La Luz. Channelling the doo wop, surf rock, and garage four-part harmonies that took the US by storm in the 1950s and early ’60s, few bands manage to sound as authentic and comfortable with the weight of history as this Seattle four-piece. Effortlessly cool, be sure to dig out the shirtwaist dress and the vintage wingtips for a trip down nostalgia lane.

01 November - TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht 20.15 | €14 | Free for members

American singer-songwriter Tom Krell has been quietly crafting his meditative, evocative R&B pop since 2009, but it’s his recent album What Is This Heart? that’s set to propel him to fame and glory.

His spectral voice now brought to the fore has lent his shows a reverential air – it’s the converted worshipping at the altar of a man who knows exactly how love makes you feel and how to tug at your heartstrings.

Blue Hawaii

06 November - WesterLiefde, Amsterdam 20.30 | €8 | Free for members

02 November - Rotown, Rotterdam 21.00 | €10 | Free for members If looking back to (what some would call) music’s Golden Age is your thing, you’ll

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There’s a detached iciness to Blue Hawaii’s music – even the name conjures images of a wintery, melancholic paradise – that’s born of harsh Canadian winters and feeling adrift in one’s twenties.

Raphaelle Standall-Preston may be better known as one third of Braids, but

La Luz + Slow Down Molasses

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Greys: 07 November

this is no whimsical side-project; released by Montreal label Arbutus Records, the criminally underrated Untogether’s glitchy beats and chopped ’n’ screwed vocals showcase her deep love of Aphex Twin and lull you into quiet retrospection.

Ed Schrader's Music Beat

Ed Schrader’s Music Beat + TV Wonder

Greys + Katadreuffe

11 November - Dokzaal, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for members

Torontonians Greys do ‘loud rock’ but not as you know it; this is lean, mean post-punk and hardcore that wears its ’90s influences on its sleeve. Well known for their explosive and exhilarating live shows, this is one show where standing idly at the back poking at a phone won’t be an option. Instead, buckle up and get ready for a 100mph rollercoaster through an uncompromising sonic assault that will leave you dizzy, giddy and grinning wildly at the thrill of it all.

If you thought the blistering noise of, say, DFA 1979 was as brutal and minimalist as a drums’n’bass combo could get, you might want to give Ed Schrader’s Music Beat a whirl; subtle and melodic it ain’t.

The brainchild of the titular Baltimorebased punk conceptualist, songs whizz by and tumble into each other with an all-too-rare fury and energy. To be honest, anything could happen here, but it’s guaranteed to be a sweaty, no-holdsbarred riot of a gig.

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Eagulls: 13 November Yonatan Gat: 20+21 November

Stiles. Formerly the singer in rock band Bushwalking, her debut album consists of entirely a capella performances; her voice is looped, layered and incessantly toyed with, to the point where it’s hard to believe you're listening to just one person. How all this will be achieved live will be fascinating to see, but you couldn’t hope for a better setting – the Muziekgebouw is surely in for a treat.

13 November - EKKO, Utrecht 20.00 | €10 | Free for members Leeds punks Eagulls clearly don’t give a fuck. They’re a band who live together, have worked together in the past, and never tire of exhibiting that us-againstthe-world togetherness that all the best gangs have. Despite the controversies – a video of a rotting brain that prompted a police raid or dressing up as the Yorkshire Ripper – their rambunctious punk din has drawn deserved comparisons to the likes of The Clash and Killing Joke.

Yonatan Gat

20 November - WORM, Rotterdam 20.00 | €6 | Free for members 21 November - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 20.00 | €7 | Free for members

The Rest Is Noise: Ela Stiles

17 November - tba, Amsterdam 19.30 | €10 | Free for members 20 November - WORM, Rotterdam 20.00 | €6 | Free for members

As far away from the three-chord strummers as it’s possible to be, Yonatan Gat is a dizzyingly talented virtuoso guitarist whose versatility is matched by his dexterity. A former

Rarely has ‘unique’ been as aptly applied to an artist as it is to Australian Ela

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Eagulls + Bad Breeding

Subbacultcha! events. Free for members How To Dress Well Ane Brun Sign up for €8 per month at subbacultcha.nl 01.11 26.11 Timber Timbre 07.11

SoHaSo: John Talabot, Pional 29.11

Blood Red Shoes 10.11

J.Mascis 07.12

The Orwells 10.11

Metronomy 08.12

Little Dragon 14.11

FUSE: Sophie, S-Type 12.12

Emilíana Torrini 17.11

Run The Jewels (EL-P & Killer Mike) 20.12

Le Guess Who? Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Swans, tUnE-yArDs, Mac DeMarco, Owen Pallett 20-23.11

Tindersticks 09.02

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Sinkane: 27 November TOPS: 28 November

sensuous extremes mean this is one gig where dancing shoes are obligatory.

TOPS

28 November - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 20.00 | €8 | Free for members

Sinkane

The last embers of a glorious Indian summer may have been extinguished by chill autumn winds, but we can still dream. So picture yourself in a Cadillac convertible, cool breeze blowing, the glorious sound of AM radio-pop easing you down a Californian highway in the early afternoon sun. Now picture you staring at TOPS, being gently enchanted and counting the days until cracking out the flip-flops and swimwear for summer 2015 (it’s 231, BTW).

27 November - Rotown, Rotterdam 20.00 | €11 | Free for members Londoner Ahmed Galleb has long been a musical magpie, and while his range on fourth album Mean Love is as broad as ever – bustling tropicalia, leisurely funk, and cosmic pop all feature – he’s honed it all into a beguiling mix that’s recognisably him. There’s certainly plenty to get your groove on to here, and the rich swirl of Afropop, soul and dance music’s more

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member of Monotonix, since striking out on his own he’s applied his talents to rock, psychedelic, free jazz, and African music, as well as numerous collaborations with Portuguese drummer Igor Domingues. He’s signed to Joyful Noise, which is a pretty apt description of his stunning riffs.

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Film: Sound and Chaos - The Story of BC Studio

Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio

Film: 20,000 Days on Earth

20,000 Days on Earth

+ Q&A Martin Bisi 13 November - Melkweg, Amsterdam 19.30 | €8 | Free for members Documentary Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio (2014) celebrates the legendary BC studio located in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighbourhood and its founder Martin Bisi, who has been recording music there for over 30 years.

The musicians who have recorded at BC include the likes of Sonic Youth, Swans, John Zorn, Africa Bambaataa, Cop Shoot Cop and Dresden Dolls. Paying homage to this iconic studio by the contaminated Gowanus Canal, this film features interviews with JG Thirlwell, Brian Viglione of Dresden Dolls, Michael Gira of Swans and more. Martin Birsi himself will be present this evening for a Q&A.

02 November - EYE, Amsterdam 21.30 | €12.50 | Free for members Black-haired Aussie Nick Cave is an icon if ever there was one: a rock star, a novelist, a screenwriter, an actor. 20,000 Days on Earth chronicles one day of the artist's life; an awful long day, that is. Part documentary and part fiction, the film shows Cave talking to his psychiatrist, recording an album (the acclaimed 2013 Push the Sky Away), driving Kylie Minogue and Blixa Bargeld around and, at the end of the day, taking the stage to do one of his intense performances. A poetic and beautifully shot film about the life and history of a unique artist.

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Film: Pi

Mommy

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18 November - LantarenVenster, Rotterdam tba | €9.50 | Free for members

19 November - Studio/K, Amsterdam 21.30 | €9.50 | Free for members In his career, Darren Aronofsky has been bumped up from indie director (Pi) to major studio director (Noah).

Still, his oeuvre of a total of six feature films all have one thing in common: an obsessive protagonist. See: the ballet dancer of Black Swan, the space traveller of The Fountain, the wrestler of... well, The Wrestler. In Pi (1998), which is like an ode to David Lynch’s Eraserhead set to Nineties dance music, the obsessive protagonist is a paranoid mathematician. The object of his obsession is finding a very specific number, believing it to be the key to unlocking the mystery of the universe.

Canadian director Xavier Dolan is a 25-year-old wunderkind with a total of five feature films to his name. His latest, Mommy, has earned him the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. And it’s an honour well deserved too, because Mommy is nothing if not a masterpiece; a rare and extraordinary pleasure. The film tells the story of a widowed single mother called Die. Her teenage son Steve is hyperactive and unpredictable, with a heart of gold but some serious anger issues as well. But just when things start to get out of control, Kyla shows up. And she might be exactly what they need.

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TENT

haven’t yet. Then, on 26 November, there is a new edition of Ignite which will be free for members.

Open Tue-Sun 11.00-18.00 €5 | Free for members Doubling up in November, TENT offers existing group exhibition The Value of Nothing, and opens a new exhibition at the end of the month, a showcase of this year’s Dolf Henkes Award nominees.

Some of the artists honoured this year are Silvia B, Esther Kokmeijer, Ewoud van Rijk and Lidwien van de Ven.

Adriana Bogdanova - Nocturnes

Subbacultcha! HQ, Amsterdam Open Wed-Fri 11.00-17.00 Until 14 November | Free for all Adriana Bogdanova’s Nocturnes is a beautifully dark series where the photographic subject is obscured as the photographer makes a play on the treacherous nature of monochromes. Though her work is based in photography, her series tend to move between collage, installation and experiment.

Foam

Open daily 10.00-18.00, Thur and Fri until 21.00 €9.50 | Free for members Foam is having a busy month. There’s the main exhibition Under Construction, Swedish photographer JH Engström on the absurdity of the human condition, and Anika Schwarzlose’s documentation of fake weapons. A new exhibition opens on 06 November, showcasing the recently discovered artist Vivian Maier.

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Open Wed-Sun 13:00-18:00 €5 | Free for members The exhibition Kunstformen der Nature has been extended for the rest of November, so go check out that beauty if you

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Open Tue-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat and Sun from 11.00 €9 | Free for members The large exhibition by American street photographer Mark Cohen is still on display at the Fotomuseum in Rotterdam.

And on 08 November a new exhibition opens: Dutch photographer Ilvy Njiokiktjien travelled the country capturing images of birthday celebrations in different homes and cultures.

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Agenda. November On the following pages you’ll find a fine selection of concerts, festivals and exhibitions taking place around the country Theatre: Kunst - Dood Paard 01-29 November - Amsterdam, Haarlem, Rotterdam, Utrecht Theatre company Dood Paard performs their new piece Kunst, a tragicomedy about the actual and ever cynical discourse about the relevance of art.

more so by irresistible garage groovers JC Satàn.

Music: Craft Spells 04 November - Paradiso, Amsterdam 05 November - Vera, Groningen Craft Spells’ new album, Nausea, finds them growing beyond their retro beginnings, and its high points rank amongst the band’s most exhilarating moments.

Art: Modern Times. Photography in the 20th century 01 November-11 January 2015, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam A first glimpse into the Rijksmuseum’s photography collection. The exhibition traces key developments during the 20th century and includes rare photographs by Brassaï, Ed van der Elsken, Lewis Hine, William Klein and Man Ray.

Music: Rewire Festival 07-08 November - The Hague The Hague’s finest contemporary arts and music festival rewires your expectations about art with its exciting mix of experimental electronic music.

Music: Black Bananas 08 November - Paradiso, Amsterdam Jennifer Harrama’s new project Black Bananas is a 30% goofy, 70% badass Technicolor fusion of psych, funk, primal synth pop and trash metal.

Music: White Lung 02 November - Paradiso, Amsterdam 14 November - Vera, Groningen Vancouver’s White Lung spit out aggressive, uncompromising feminist punk that bursts at the seams with passionate but rational lyricism, contagious energy and addictive melodies.

Music: Eagulls 12 November - Stroomhuis, Eindhoven 13 November - EKKO, Utrecht Read more on page 65

Music: Ty Segall + JC Satàn 03 November - Paradiso, Amsterdam Garage-rock demigod Ty Segall will grace his musical minions with another mind-blowing show, rendered all the

Music: Courtney Barnett 13 November - Merleyn, Nijmegen The way this Aussie singer-songwriter deftly delivers her razor-sharp lyrics

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Festival: Crossing Border Festival 13 November - Koninklijke Schouwburg, The Hague Crossing Border takes its name from its exploration of the boundaries between literature and other arts, specifically music, film and visual arts, with a special emphasis on new artists.

Music: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard 16 November - Paradiso, Amsterdam 18 November - Merleyn, Nijmegen 19 November - Vera, Groningen United by a shared house and a shared love for Pavement, Thee Oh Sees and Nuggets Compilations, these Melbournites are cranking out top-shelf neopsych at a breakneck pace.

Music: Set It Off Tour 13 November - Patronaat, Haarlem Following last year's sellout, this showcase for sometimes melancholic, sometimes energetic but always stonerfriendly electronic pop music is back for another go-round.

Music: Adult Jazz 18 November - Paradiso, Amsterdam These Leeds-based art rockers’ playfully experimental take on pop assimilates bits of prog, folk and electronic music with an oddball swagger that recalls Dirty Projectors and Wild Beasts.

Dance: Here We Live and Now From 13 November - Korzo & Nederlands Dans Theater, The Hague The Hague is a breeding ground for fresh dance talent and the melting pot for local and international dance professionals. With Here We Live and Now, Korzo celebrates the wealth of choreographic talent in the city.

Music: Nothing 18 November - Dynamo, Eindhoven 27 November - OCCII, Amsterdam Call it unusually heavy shoegaze, call it unusually soft metal; either way Deafheaven threw down a gauntlet with last year’s Sunbather, and Philadelphia’s Nothing are here to fight alongside them.

Music: Zola Jesus 15 November - Melkweg, Amsterdam Goth-pop goddess Zola Jesus returns with her ambitious and surprisingly poppy follow-up, Taiga, in tow.

Film: IDFA 19-30 November, Amsterdam One of the largest festivals of its kind in the world, IDFA focuses not only on social issues but also on emerging styles within the documentary genre.

This year their theme programmes include Of Media and Men and The Female Gaze, each more exciting than the other.

Art: Bob Eikelboom - Moonshine 15 November-20 December BoetzelaerNispen, Amsterdam The youngest ever Royal Academy graduate, Eikelboom’s winning all

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Agenda. November Music: Perfume Genius 19 November - Bitterzoet, Amsterdam With his strikingly vulnerable and brutally honest storytelling and a terrific new album, Seattle’s Mike Hadreas has established himself as one of today’s most compelling musicians.

Music: Mdou Moctar 24 November - OCCII, Amsterdam After rising to fame in West Africa, this Tuareg guitarist known for pushing the genre’s limits caught the west’s attention after appearing on the compilation Music from Saharan Cellphones.

Festival: Le Guess Who? Festival 20-23 November - Utrecht The highest quality and gezelligste festival in NL hits the charming streets of Utrecht with another typically exciting lineup, including a programmes curated by the revered Michael Gira.

Art: Tony Oursler - I/O Underflow 26 November-29 March 2014 - Oude Kerk, Amsterdam The famous Tony Oursler belongs to the second generation of video artists and explores the complex relationships between high and low culture using humour, irony and fantasy.

Music: Sharon Van Etten 20 November - Vera, Groningen Sharon van Etten’s songwriting has gradually evolved from timid and damaged-sounding to cathartic and empowering. Her self-produced new album, Are We There, is her bravest and most immediate yet.

Art: Amsterdam Art Weekend 27–30 November – Amsterdam A whole weekend of celebrating the lively circle jerk that is the Amsterdam art scene. There are lots of special performances and openings and we are a little cynical, true, but most of it is actually quite fun and worthwhile.

Music: Sleaford Mods 21 November - Merleyn, Nijmegen 22 November - Melkweg, Amsterdam Nottingham duo Sleaford Mods does one thing, very well: exasperated rants about the current state of England and society in general spat out atop crude but undeniably cool post-punk.

Music: Merchandise 28 November - Paradiso, Amsterdam Tampa noise-pop trio built a name for themselves in the local hardcore scene before bringing their wide-eyed, romantic take on new wave overseas.

Music: Amen Dunes 22 November - Rotown, Rotterdam Damon McMahon makes stunning music as Amen Dunes, and his new album, Love, is the most focused and confident-sounding backdrop he’s created for his remarkable, bewitching voice.

Art: RijksakademieOPEN 29-30 November - Rijksakademie, Amsterdam The open studios at Rijksakademie are one of the most exciting things happening in the art weekend, but honestly, we’re hoping for another edition of their famously sloppy parties.

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01 November

How To Dress Well

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13 November

Film: Sound and Chaos - The Story of BC Studio

02 November

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17 November

La Luz + Slow Down Molasses 02 November

Film: 20,000 Days on Earth

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06 November

Blue Hawaii

WesterLiefde, Amsterdam 20.30 | €8 | Free for members

07 November

Greys + Katadreuffe OCCII, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for members

11 November

Ed Schrader’s Music Beat

Dokzaal, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for members

13 November

Eagulls + Bad Breeding

EKKO, Utrecht 20.00 | €10 | Free for members

The Rest Is Noise: Ela Stiles

tba, Amsterdam 19.30 | €10 | Free for members

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Film: Mommy

LantarenVenster, Rotterdam tba | €9,50 | Free for members

19 November

28 November

TOPS

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Nocturnes by Adriana Bogdanova

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Film: Pi

Witte de Withstraat, Rotterdam Open Tue-Sun 11.00-18.00 €5 | Free for members

20 November

Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam

Studio/K, Amsterdam 21.30 | €9,50 | Free for members

Ela Stiles + Yonatan Gat

WORM, Rotterdam 20.00 | €6 | Free for members

21 November

Yonatan Gat

De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 20.00 | €7 | Free for members

27 November

Sinkane

Rotown, Rotterdam 20.00 | €11 | Free for members

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