Met LABEL NOT LABEL inviteert LADDA op onregelmatige basis collectieven, labels, organisaties, en andere zootjes ongeregeld die zichzelf binnen de grenzen van DOK etaleren. Op zoek naar teams, formaties, grensoverschrijdend denken en handelen, multifunctionaliteit,… naar labels die geen labels zijn of juist wel!
Voor de derde editie van LABEL NOT LABEL gaat Ladda in zee met Smeraldina-Rima. Dit collectief heeft ondertussen 18 muziekuitgaven op z'n naam staan, maar runt ook een zeefdrukatelier en grafisch bureau.
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SMERALDINA-RIMA PRESENTEERT
Gunn-Truscinski Duo (VS)
Cian Nugent (IR)
Cam Deas & Sheldon Siegel (VK/BE)
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Gunn-Truscinski Duo (VS)
Een van de interessantste Amerikaanse gitaristen van dit moment is zonder twijfel Steve Gunn, een gitarist die bewust vermijdt om zichzelf te herhalen en constant naar nieuwe expressiemogelijkheden zoekt. Met zijn titelloze solo debuut (Onomato 2007) zette hij een koers in van 'american primitivisme' met marokkaanse- en raga-invloeden, om vervolgens via country blues op zijn tweede CD ‘Sundowner’, uit te komen bij de psych blues van zijn derde album ‘Boerum Palace’ (CD, Three Lobed Recordings 2009) en waarop hij met zang ook zijn songwriter kwaliteiten toonde. De volgende logische stap voor Steve Gunn was het om meer te gaan samenwerken met andere muzikanten. Nieuw is zijn samenwerking met John Truscinski, een drummer die hij al goed kende uit het drone folk trio GHQ waar hij ook deel van uit maakte. Van het Gunn-Truscinski Duo verscheen bij Three Lobed Recordings de LP ‘Sand City. Weliswaar ligt op dit album de leidende rol duidelijk bij het gitaarspel van Steve Gunn, maar bij deze vier direct in de studio opgenomen stukken is het zeldzaam om te horen hoe beiden op elkaar ingespeeld zijn. Compositie, improvisatie en intuïtie zijn hier geheel vervlochten.
(bron: http://dwars.radio6.nl/tag/steve-gunn/)
http://steve-gunn.com/
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Cian Nugent (IR)
Met zijn debuut CD ‘Childhood, Christian Lies And Slaughter’ (Incunabulum/audioMER. 2009) liet de jonge Ierse gitarist Cian Nugent al horen dat zijn instrumentale muziek weliswaar duidelijk beïnvloed was door oude countryblues en gitaar grootheden als John Fahey en Robbie Basho, maar dat hij ook wat ideeën en techniek betreft alles in huis had om verder te groeien. Deze belofte maakt hij meer dan waar op zijn tweede CD ‘Doubles’ die bij VHF Records uitkwam. Duidelijk is dat Cian Nugent zijn oor te luisteren heeft gelegd bij klassieke hedendaagse componisten. In de twee lange composities die op ‘Doubles’ te vinden zijn, onderzoekt hij de mogelijkheden om met spanningsbogen te werken en hoe hij ook andere instrumenten in zijn composities kan betrekken. Net als James Blackshaw en Alexander Turnquist vermijdt Cian Nugent overtuigend het gevaar om als gitarist in herhaling en eenduidigheid verstrikt te raken.
(bron: http://dwars.radio6.nl/2011/06/30/cian-nugent-doubles/)
http://www.myspace.com/ciannugent
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Cam Deas & Sheldon Siegel (VK/BE)
Toen de jonge Engelse gitarist Cam Deas vorig jaar zijn studie muziek aan de Universiteit van Sheffield afrondde, werd hij geïnspireerd door de vrije improvisaties van saxofonist en componist Anthony Braxton om de klankmogelijkheden van zijn gitaarspel en zijn 12-snarige akoestische gitaar onder de loep te nemen. Dit onderzoek leidde al snel tot de compositie ‘Quadtych’. In dit tamelijk abstracte vierdelige stuk past hij diverse toe speeltechnieken en zoekt tevens de grenzen op van de dynamische mogelijkheden van zijn akoestische gitaar. Daarnaast komt in de afzonderlijke delen van ‘Quadtych’ direct en indirect de invloed naar voren van de gitaarlegende John Fahey en de componisten Olivier Messiaen, Iannis Xenakis en Charlemagne Palestine. De lp ‘Qudtych Volume One’ met daarop de eerste twee delen, is een uitgave van Cam Deas’ eigen label Present Time Exercises.
(bron: http://dwars.radio6.nl/tag/cam-deas)
Voor deze gelegenheid speelt Cam Deas samen met Belgische jazz-improv-legendes Sheldon Siegel! Pas maar op!
http://www.myspace.com/camdeasmusic
http://www.myspace.com/sheldonsiegel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Deas
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INKOM: 7 €
DEUREN: 19:00
AANVANG OPTREDENS: 19:30
OPTREDENS EINDIGEN STIPT OM 22:00
TOT 24:00 DJ HITSHITSHITS
LOCATIE
DOKkantine
Splitsing Koopvaardijlaan – Afrikalaan
9000 Gent
www.smeraldina-rima.com
www.ladda.be
www.dokgent.be
woensdag 19 oktober 2011
zondag 6 februari 2011
zondag 7 november 2010
'Realms of the Unstable' opening in Tokyo
'Realms of the Unstable' is an exhibition wich opens in Tokyo, Japan and is curated by Wouter Vanhaelemeesch and Ryo Kuramoto. It features a selection of Belgian and Japanese contemporary artists whose work is based on drawing or collage.
Artists included are Dennis Tyfus, Fia Cielen, Wouter Vanhaelemeesch, Tessa De Ceuninck, Manor Grunwald, Eva De Leener, Karel Wouters, Gerard Herman, Bert Huyghe, Jan Op de Beeck, Gen Hiraki, Ryo Kuramoto and Phillip Metten.
A series of silkscreened zines by all the artists involved, made especially for the exhibition will be presented October 12th and available through www.warszawa.jp or through the artists themselves.
The exhibition is being shown in different locations all over Tokyo.
October 12th- 20th at Super-Deluxe, B1F 3. 1. 25 Nishi Azabu, Minato-ku Tokyo, Japan.
November 8th - 14th at Vacant, 3 - 20 - 13 Jinumae Shibuya Tokyo, Japan
December (date will be anounced) at Forest Limit, Tokyo, Japan.
Monday November 8th the opening will include shows by
Ducktails (us)
Woods (us)
Non Horse (us)
Topping Bottoms (jp)
Shows start at 18h30.
Artists included are Dennis Tyfus, Fia Cielen, Wouter Vanhaelemeesch, Tessa De Ceuninck, Manor Grunwald, Eva De Leener, Karel Wouters, Gerard Herman, Bert Huyghe, Jan Op de Beeck, Gen Hiraki, Ryo Kuramoto and Phillip Metten.
A series of silkscreened zines by all the artists involved, made especially for the exhibition will be presented October 12th and available through www.warszawa.jp or through the artists themselves.
The exhibition is being shown in different locations all over Tokyo.
October 12th- 20th at Super-Deluxe, B1F 3. 1. 25 Nishi Azabu, Minato-ku Tokyo, Japan.
November 8th - 14th at Vacant, 3 - 20 - 13 Jinumae Shibuya Tokyo, Japan
December (date will be anounced) at Forest Limit, Tokyo, Japan.
Monday November 8th the opening will include shows by
Ducktails (us)
Woods (us)
Non Horse (us)
Topping Bottoms (jp)
Shows start at 18h30.
donderdag 14 oktober 2010
Review: EDWARD ARTEMIEV 'Mood -Pictures' cd on Electroshock Records
EDWARD ARTEMIEV 'Mood -Pictures' cd on Electroshock Records
A must for all those people like me, who are huge fans of the cinema of Tarkovski, Edward Artemiev is the man responsible for the soundtracks of classics like Solaris and Stalker. A pioneer of electronic music who influenced many lesser synthwielding composers. This collection combines snippets of his work from many different movies and features some fantastic pulsating synths and an eerie sense of space that feels like a breath of fresh air in these kraut-influenced times. Anyone who's into Klaus Schulze or more recent updates of that sound (like Emeralds or that latest Jurgen Deblonde record) should check this out.
www.electroshock.ru
A must for all those people like me, who are huge fans of the cinema of Tarkovski, Edward Artemiev is the man responsible for the soundtracks of classics like Solaris and Stalker. A pioneer of electronic music who influenced many lesser synthwielding composers. This collection combines snippets of his work from many different movies and features some fantastic pulsating synths and an eerie sense of space that feels like a breath of fresh air in these kraut-influenced times. Anyone who's into Klaus Schulze or more recent updates of that sound (like Emeralds or that latest Jurgen Deblonde record) should check this out.
www.electroshock.ru
donderdag 30 september 2010
BURIAL HEX (us), MAURO ANTONIO PAWLOWSKI (be), THE URPF LANZE (be) LIVE!
BURIAL HEX (us)
this ain't your granny's horror electronics
MAURO ANTONIO PAWLOWSKI (be)
the wicker dude himself
THE URPF LANZE (be)
10 minutes worth of material by now
LIVE at Smeraldina-Rima HQ in Ghent.
WHEN: Sunday October 10th
WHERE: Smeraldina-Rima HQ
Komijnstraat 1
Gent, Belgium
DOORS: 20:00 - First show at 20:30
ENTRANCE: 7 €
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RESERVATION ONLY -- LIMITED CAPACITY
Please email us at shows@smeraldina-rima.com for reservations
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this ain't your granny's horror electronics
MAURO ANTONIO PAWLOWSKI (be)
the wicker dude himself
THE URPF LANZE (be)
10 minutes worth of material by now
LIVE at Smeraldina-Rima HQ in Ghent.
WHEN: Sunday October 10th
WHERE: Smeraldina-Rima HQ
Komijnstraat 1
Gent, Belgium
DOORS: 20:00 - First show at 20:30
ENTRANCE: 7 €
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RESERVATION ONLY -- LIMITED CAPACITY
Please email us at shows@smeraldina-rima.com for reservations
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donderdag 16 september 2010
Review: ILIOS 'Kenrimono' LP (PAN) and NICHOLAS SZCZEPANIK 'Sundries' CDr
As promised, we're planning to post reviews here of stuff we think is worth checking out.
ILIOS 'Kenrimono' LP
At the end of Alfred Hitchcocks 'Strangers on a Train' comes a disturbing and compellingly beautiful scene where in the two leading characters wrestle aboard a carousel, wich due to a technical malfunction, goes berserk and starts spinning faster and faster out of control. Meanwhile the typical merry-go-round music is accelerated and becomes a rather frightening piece, especially since now the shrieks and cries of bystanders and riders are piercing right through it.
When I started spinning the A side of ILIOS 'Kenrimono' LP, this image almost instantly sprung to mind. But instead of this being a climactic end of a spun out story, here the carousel seems to be stuck in time, turning away in a loop that doesn't seem to have neither beginning nor end, depriving us of an ending to tie up all loose ends thus becoming something more eternal.
While in that whirlpool of noise, the organ keeps being scooped up to the surface.
Definitely one of the better releases of last year, this one comes in a great looking silkscreened pvc sleeve, like all of PAN's releases. Check it out!
www.pan-act.com
NICHOLAS SZCZEPANIK 'Sundries'
I think it's been two years since I got this CDr, but over the course of 2010 I have gotten back to it regularly and it finally started to click with me. All of the tracks on 'Sundries' apparantly were made on a very old, barely operable turntable. What comes out of this isn't as much a mad scientist trying out different things, but more like a shrink dissecting a patient.
Needle scratches surface, layers are being scraped and peeled off. The turntable is being flayed and turned inside out, the sounds that come from this are like tiny fragments that are being cut off and examined.
What's so great about this recording is that the turntable doesn't come across as much as the instrument, but more as a living thing who's being interrogated and coerced into some sort of confession. Thus the whole thing feels like a weird form of punishment or more like a retrieval of information. The element 'playing with' as opposed to 'playing' the turntable feels like something a kid would do on a rainy sunday afternoon, not knowing how to actually work this thing, but fucking with it (while mom and dad aren't paying attention). Somehow 'Sundries' seems to hint at distant memories that are being partially retrieved by this technical device, like it was a silent witness to something. But given the rather ominous atmosphere of the work here, it might not be an all too pleasant memory either. Highly recommended.
www.myspace.com/naszczepanik
ILIOS 'Kenrimono' LP
At the end of Alfred Hitchcocks 'Strangers on a Train' comes a disturbing and compellingly beautiful scene where in the two leading characters wrestle aboard a carousel, wich due to a technical malfunction, goes berserk and starts spinning faster and faster out of control. Meanwhile the typical merry-go-round music is accelerated and becomes a rather frightening piece, especially since now the shrieks and cries of bystanders and riders are piercing right through it.
When I started spinning the A side of ILIOS 'Kenrimono' LP, this image almost instantly sprung to mind. But instead of this being a climactic end of a spun out story, here the carousel seems to be stuck in time, turning away in a loop that doesn't seem to have neither beginning nor end, depriving us of an ending to tie up all loose ends thus becoming something more eternal.
While in that whirlpool of noise, the organ keeps being scooped up to the surface.
Definitely one of the better releases of last year, this one comes in a great looking silkscreened pvc sleeve, like all of PAN's releases. Check it out!
www.pan-act.com
NICHOLAS SZCZEPANIK 'Sundries'
I think it's been two years since I got this CDr, but over the course of 2010 I have gotten back to it regularly and it finally started to click with me. All of the tracks on 'Sundries' apparantly were made on a very old, barely operable turntable. What comes out of this isn't as much a mad scientist trying out different things, but more like a shrink dissecting a patient.
Needle scratches surface, layers are being scraped and peeled off. The turntable is being flayed and turned inside out, the sounds that come from this are like tiny fragments that are being cut off and examined.
What's so great about this recording is that the turntable doesn't come across as much as the instrument, but more as a living thing who's being interrogated and coerced into some sort of confession. Thus the whole thing feels like a weird form of punishment or more like a retrieval of information. The element 'playing with' as opposed to 'playing' the turntable feels like something a kid would do on a rainy sunday afternoon, not knowing how to actually work this thing, but fucking with it (while mom and dad aren't paying attention). Somehow 'Sundries' seems to hint at distant memories that are being partially retrieved by this technical device, like it was a silent witness to something. But given the rather ominous atmosphere of the work here, it might not be an all too pleasant memory either. Highly recommended.
www.myspace.com/naszczepanik
Rounding up some Nate Wooley reviews!
Here are some really nice reviews for the Trumpet/Amplifier LP:
http://jazztimes.com/articles/26196-trumpet-amplifier-nate-wooley
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=36168
http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?which=5620
http://jazztimes.com/articles/26196-trumpet-amplifier-nate-wooley
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=36168
http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?which=5620
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