'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.
zondag 7 november 2010
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
donderdag 3 juni 2010
VANDAAG: Chris Forsyth, Steve Gunn & Hellvete / MORGEN: Steven H 'Ik, ...
Hallo iedereen, nieuws nieuws nieuws!
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VANAVOND in het Smeraldina-Rima Hoofdkwartier, mochten jullie het nog niet weten :D
CHRIS FORSYTH // STEVE GUNN // HELLVETE
De Facebook event link!
INKOM: 5 € of gratis bij de aanschaf van een Peeesseye + Talibam! dubbel-elpee!
DEUREN: 20:00
START: 21:00
HIER:
Smeraldina-Rima HK
Komijnstraat 1
9000 Gent
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MORGEN ziet eindelijk het Steven H-debuut 'Ik, Steven H' het licht! Hoera, dat moet gevierd worden!
Steven H maakte voor de gelegenheid alvast een Steven H Facebook fanpage aan, liken die handel!
Binnenkort organiseren we zelfs een ganse avond vol muziek, dans en plezier ter ere van Steven H's schitterende release, dus hou je mailbox in het oog!
www.stevenh.be
www.myspace.com/stevenhderapper
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Groetjes!
www.smeraldina-rima.com
www.studiomuscle.com
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VANAVOND in het Smeraldina-Rima Hoofdkwartier, mochten jullie het nog niet weten :D
CHRIS FORSYTH // STEVE GUNN // HELLVETE
De Facebook event link!
INKOM: 5 € of gratis bij de aanschaf van een Peeesseye + Talibam! dubbel-elpee!
DEUREN: 20:00
START: 21:00
HIER:
Smeraldina-Rima HK
Komijnstraat 1
9000 Gent
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MORGEN ziet eindelijk het Steven H-debuut 'Ik, Steven H' het licht! Hoera, dat moet gevierd worden!
Steven H maakte voor de gelegenheid alvast een Steven H Facebook fanpage aan, liken die handel!
Binnenkort organiseren we zelfs een ganse avond vol muziek, dans en plezier ter ere van Steven H's schitterende release, dus hou je mailbox in het oog!
www.stevenh.be
www.myspace.com/stevenhderapper
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Groetjes!
www.smeraldina-rima.com
www.studiomuscle.com
zondag 4 april 2010
NORMAN RECORDS reviews!
The awesome folks at Norman Records graced us with some fantastic feedback! Check it out!
Panicsville
A Dragonfly For Each Corpse LP+7"
This record left our Brian feeling ecstatic.
Chicago noise polluters Panicsville have been on the fringes of the confrontational theatre circuit for years now, dressing up in latex and throwing shit at their audiences, kind of a bit like Gwar or something but with better sounds. This lovingly packaged LP & 7" set is not what I was expecting. Unsettling indeed but not a barrage of squealing frequencies or the aural equivalent of clay spiked with shards of glass. It's more the sound of someone trying to fix a witches bike in a leaky haunted shed at midnight. And what I do know is the sheer quality of this pressing allows the eerie sounds & frequencies on here to strike fear into your soul, to climb into your mind, to swim around your brain fluid lakes, to pollute your very being. They sound so (dead) ALIVE! Side two has a different vibe though, a slightly medieval or pagan quality to it. The bike is still getting fixed but this time it's just dawn, there's 3ft of mist on the lawn and now SUDDENLY there's half a dozen Aphex-style nymphs running round you, playing fierce power electronics at ear shredding levels out of big black rubber cased ghetto blasters. This is fantastic.
Nate Wooley
Trumpet/Amplifier LP
This record left our Brett feeling happy.
Everyone's well into big circles at the moment. Check the new Autechre album, Sunn's Monoliths and Dimensions, that No Age 12" and now this. Circles are pretty cool I guess, but personally I'm more diggin' the net form of the dodecahedron at the moment. What this guy's doing reminds me a wee bit of Florian Hecker, albeit with a completely different tool set. Here he spends half the LP exploring the pure sound capabilities of the trumpet in a series of crazy toots which'll have you baffled with disbelief and wide-eyed with wonder at what he's managing to generate. The other half has him fiddling with an amp as it begs for sweet mercy. As a listening experience this comes off more as an exploratory noise record than anything else as the beauty of it is in the discovery of, and envelopment in, surprising and original sounds. No bad thing as far as I'm concerned but don't go jumping in expecting to be whistling along..
Peeesseye + Talibam! 2xLP
This record left our Business Lady feeling happy.
Ok, here we got ourselves a collaborative effort from then insane improvers Talibam! and the Gothic Junk folk experimentalism of Peeesseye, both emperors of the NYC improv scene playing in all sorts of outfits including the outstanding Storm and Stress. Anyway, after years of mutual friendship and touring activity they decided to get together and rock some purist improv fun and the results are mint. Matt Mottel's skronking keyboard drives these sessions into unlikely territories with his funk influenced, distorted organ tones and Kevin Shea is on fine form here playing blistering drums dictating the ambiance and flow of each development in the tracks. A rare vocal contribution brings things to ahead on the opener and makes for a lively intro to a consistently interesting, if slightly perplexing improv wigout. Should also note the significant contribution from the Peeeseye boys who provide an ambient framework of synth tones and guitars from which new ideas evolve. Definitely one of my favourite Talibam! albums i've heard so far and an excellent introduction to the power of Peeesseye. Please observe.
Panicsville
A Dragonfly For Each Corpse LP+7"
This record left our Brian feeling ecstatic.
Chicago noise polluters Panicsville have been on the fringes of the confrontational theatre circuit for years now, dressing up in latex and throwing shit at their audiences, kind of a bit like Gwar or something but with better sounds. This lovingly packaged LP & 7" set is not what I was expecting. Unsettling indeed but not a barrage of squealing frequencies or the aural equivalent of clay spiked with shards of glass. It's more the sound of someone trying to fix a witches bike in a leaky haunted shed at midnight. And what I do know is the sheer quality of this pressing allows the eerie sounds & frequencies on here to strike fear into your soul, to climb into your mind, to swim around your brain fluid lakes, to pollute your very being. They sound so (dead) ALIVE! Side two has a different vibe though, a slightly medieval or pagan quality to it. The bike is still getting fixed but this time it's just dawn, there's 3ft of mist on the lawn and now SUDDENLY there's half a dozen Aphex-style nymphs running round you, playing fierce power electronics at ear shredding levels out of big black rubber cased ghetto blasters. This is fantastic.
Nate Wooley
Trumpet/Amplifier LP
This record left our Brett feeling happy.
Everyone's well into big circles at the moment. Check the new Autechre album, Sunn's Monoliths and Dimensions, that No Age 12" and now this. Circles are pretty cool I guess, but personally I'm more diggin' the net form of the dodecahedron at the moment. What this guy's doing reminds me a wee bit of Florian Hecker, albeit with a completely different tool set. Here he spends half the LP exploring the pure sound capabilities of the trumpet in a series of crazy toots which'll have you baffled with disbelief and wide-eyed with wonder at what he's managing to generate. The other half has him fiddling with an amp as it begs for sweet mercy. As a listening experience this comes off more as an exploratory noise record than anything else as the beauty of it is in the discovery of, and envelopment in, surprising and original sounds. No bad thing as far as I'm concerned but don't go jumping in expecting to be whistling along..
Peeesseye + Talibam! 2xLP
This record left our Business Lady feeling happy.
Ok, here we got ourselves a collaborative effort from then insane improvers Talibam! and the Gothic Junk folk experimentalism of Peeesseye, both emperors of the NYC improv scene playing in all sorts of outfits including the outstanding Storm and Stress. Anyway, after years of mutual friendship and touring activity they decided to get together and rock some purist improv fun and the results are mint. Matt Mottel's skronking keyboard drives these sessions into unlikely territories with his funk influenced, distorted organ tones and Kevin Shea is on fine form here playing blistering drums dictating the ambiance and flow of each development in the tracks. A rare vocal contribution brings things to ahead on the opener and makes for a lively intro to a consistently interesting, if slightly perplexing improv wigout. Should also note the significant contribution from the Peeeseye boys who provide an ambient framework of synth tones and guitars from which new ideas evolve. Definitely one of my favourite Talibam! albums i've heard so far and an excellent introduction to the power of Peeesseye. Please observe.
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