Editorial Issue n°13
Dear reader,
Do you know the moment during a show when you distance yourself from the music? It’s usually after you’ve recognized the main beat or rhythm and before the trance takes over. Three possible scenarios:
a) You can’t resist the music and the show is super good. Nodding heads, maybe a mosh pit. Raving reviews.
b) You go to the bar for a beer or join the smoking pack outside. “I didn’t feel the vibe”.
c) You’re not convinced, but you dive back into the music until the end of the show or until the next pivot point.
05 December 2018 |
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PIERRE-JEAN CROSET
Pierre-Jean Croset is an adventurer at core. He dedicated his life to study Cage’s concept “music of the spheres” and musical instruments and traditions all over the globe. He started composing pieces on a self-built 18 string lyre that are free floating and spiritual, exploring the universal overtones of just intonation improvisation. Somehow, Croset got forgotten by musical history. Luckily, music history is in 2018 a warped back and forth cycle, and his music was dug out of the cracks of history by the Brussels based
label Ångström. They will re-issue next year Croset’s debut album Danse Dans Le Néant Des Grands Dieux Agiles — Concert “ Live” In Originel Center. Another jump in history: in 1985 the USA magazine Interval Magazine interviewed Croset on this musical idea’s. For the occasion of his unique concert at the Eastern Daze Festival, The Avant-Guardian has the honor to re-publish this old interview as a fac simile — extending the splendid archival work by Ångström. Please find below an excerpt from an interview Jonathan Glasier did for Interval Magazine* in 1985.
16 November 2018 |
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METABOLISMUS
METABOLISMUS is a long running German collective that easily steeple chase over psychedelic kraut jams, french pop music, library tunes and genuine experimentation. Their music comes from a parallel universe in which the 80s, 90s, the interweb, individualism and digitalism never happened, and in which 60s optimism and freedom gradually unfolded into a beautiful post-May 68 utopism. Consistently releasing a strain of records
in the margin, their influence on the german DIY and tape scene is profound – see the like minded youngsters of Transport, the Kraut collective Datashock and many many more.
16 November 2018 |
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GOODIEPAL
The documentary 'The Goodiepal Equation' portrays a highly original and somewhat curious figure in contemporary music and art – the Danish/Faroer artist Goodiepal. He is a loyal friend, a philantrope and a hacker and his personality and mystery is an essential part of his theories. His unconventional way of living is a crucial part of his art practice, and is all about bright imagination, genuine altruism and empathy. One of his recent projects is the band Goodiepal & pals. It acts as a refugee organisation, disguised as a contemporary Tek-Rock-Band - conducted by Goodiepal. All the money that band makes goes straight to stranded refugees. The band have been active for 2 1/2 year and has toured Europe intensively.
Goodiepal is one of the guests for the Eastern Daze Festival: on the first day the documentary will be screened at KASKcinema, in presence of the film director Sami Sänpäkkilä. On the second day Goodiepal & Pals will be performing at TramZwart.
This article offers as personal take on Goodiepal’s practice.
16 November 2018 |
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KALI MALONE
Kali Malone is a young American composer and performer who has found a home in the thriving experimental music scene of Stockholm, where she co-founded the XKatedral label and is active in numerous formations, such as Upper Glossa and Sorrowing Christ.
Her solo music focuses on long-form compositions that combine modular synthesis with acoustic instrumentation; spectrally welding the worlds of church organs and wind instruments with analogue Buchla circuit sparks. The Hallow Ground-released 'Cast of Mind' (2018) stands as a culmination of her solo work, leaving a lasting impression on the listener through its fusion of pre-industrial sonics with a strongly devotional appeal.
15 November 2018 |
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HET INTERSTEDELIJK HARMONIUMVERBOND
Het Interstedelijk Harmoniumverbond (Intercity Harmonium League) is the vehicle that transports Glen Steenkiste, Brecht Ameel, David Edren and Steve Marreyt towards new horizons. Sprouted from Glen Steenkiste's desire to translate his solo harmonium offerings as Hellvete into a more acoustic and ensemble-like form, Het Interstedelijk Harmoniumverbond is a collaborative effort to create deeply interwoven quadraphonic harmonium sounds. Glen Steenkiste talks about this new league.
14 November 2018 |
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Chouk Bwa & The Ångstromers
Straight from Haiti, intense 'mizik rasin' roots music comes to us via Chouk Bwa, a band with male and female members who travel deep into the spiritual source through percussion, dance and call-and-response vocals that are immersed in original Haitian vodou.
09 November 2018 |
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75 DOLLAR BILL
The instrumental duo of Che Chen and Rick Brown is one of the most exciting bands to come from New York in the last few years. Since its formation in 2012, the guitar & wooden box combo has released a couple of cassettes and two vinyl albums, of which Wood/Metal/Plastic Pattern/Rhythm/Rock especially received critical acclaim for its twisting Mauritanian riffs and psychedelic percussion.
06 November 2018 |
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AILBHE NIC OIREACHTAIGH
Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh is a viola player based in Dublin, where she is active as a regular collaborator in Cian Nugent’s bands The Cosmos, Woven Skull and Circuit des Yeux.
In 2018 she released her first solo record ‘Oreing’ via the acclaimed Fort Evil Fruit label, highlighting her own distinctive and versatile approach to solo acoustic viola playing. Though she may refer to her own music as ‘jamming’, Ailbhe’s gutsy, tone-conscious explorations on the viola are highly evocative and feel perfect for the Eastern Daze setting.
31 October 2018 |
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