Peach Water and Pastis: An Afternoon with Vica Pacheco
I was late. The appointment was at Le Marseillais in Jeu de Balle; with its blue awning, decidedly gaullian façade and extensive pastis list, you could easily believe that you’re actually in the South of France. An apt location, as it turned out. She walked up to the table some ten minutes after I’d sat down. I was relieved; I was late, but she was later.
19 June 2019 |
AG 14
Embasador Dulgoon
The transmission was not a straight communication. Hydrorion Remnants, it was called. You could describe it more as a steady trickle of primordial visions, liquid imagery covering the spectrum of sensations one feels when confronted with the unseen and the unknown. In it, moments of outlandish virtuosity are layered with the materiality of physical and temporal elements, the textures evoked within feeling simultaneously uncanny and intimately familiar. The subject titles of the message allude to an alternate reality, a secret mercurial archeology, perhaps deep in the future or far in the past: Sigillaria Spacecrofts and Daedalean Escapades; Incantations of the Aethyr Macgovanias and Orkneyan Skerries, 2078. What could it all mean, these suprastral arrangements, this alien exotica? The emitter of these codes could only be one: the shapeshifting post-tellurian entity known as Embassador Dulgoon. I managed to intercept him during his current errands in the sub-Equatorian spheres of our realm. The following is a transcript of our exchange.
28 January 2019 |
AG 14
Capelo
Capelo is Michel Nyarwaya and Eve Decampo, fellow Jettois and young graduates of the ERG art school. Having first made a splash with their highly crushable debut on the highly crushable Lexi Disques label, they quickly dug a little niche for themselves in the synth pop mini-verse currently taking hold of Brussels.
20 February 2018 |
AG 11
Disposición Asoleada
Aptly referred to as a “discreet veteran of the Brussels underground”, David Jarrin and his myriad projects have been simmering beneath the cacophony for the better part of the last two decades. But the simmer is boiling over.
14 December 2017 |
AG 10.1
Zad Kokar & Les Combi Beyaz
CREATING A NEW STRASBOURG COSMOLOGY. Strasbourg: mostly unremarkable and rather unassuming, it’s pretty much the designated transit area between France and Germany. But as in all unsuspecting places, there is a rumbling beneath the surface. In this case, it comes from a clanging, echoing protean presence, materialized into a warped dadaist reverie in a hand-painted onesie. Darting unpredictably around a vortex of weirdo noise, free-hand punk and alien hip hop, Zad Kokar could easily embody a modern iteration of the Residents' spirit, equipped with the kind of boyish guilelessness that is as surprising as it is disarming.
15 February 2017 |
AG 9
Typhonian Highlife
One could easily say US experimentalist Spencer Clark is the ultimate shapeshifter. Notorious with ‘partner in drone’ James Ferraro as The Skaters or on his own under hilarious monikers like Monopoly Child Searcher, Vodka Soap and Black Joker amongst many others. Under his latest alias Typhonian Highlife he recycles the trashcans of forgotten eighties electronics and adds a heavy dose of new age mysticism and vhs-induced fever dreams. His record ‘World of Shells’ - out now on the Belgian Kraak-label - is a masterclass of dystopian exotica. Yes, that’s a genre now.
10 November 2016 |
AG 8.1
