Editorial issue n° 3
Eastern Daze... Een veelbelovende, exotische naam voor een nieuw festival dat KRAAK samen met Vooruit op poten zet. Op het programma: zes transglobale acts die hun heil zochten in oude Europese tradities, etnische muziek of in oeroude trance.
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Spacing out in a timeless setting on a hilltop near the Rif Mountains.
THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JOUJOUKA FESTIVAL 2013
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Joshua Abrams
Joshua Abrams is a bass player and composer with over 15 years of experience in Chicago’s vibrant avant-garde jazz scene. A few years back Abrams turned to the guembri, a traditional lute-like string instrument mainly found in North-and West Africa and played by the Gnawa people. In 2012 he released the stunning album Represencing on Eremite records, a reissue on cd soon followed. On this and previous releases he builds on free jazz and interweave it with African-Arabian traditional folk music. He generates a harsh sounding, repetitive and highly hypnotic sort of music, open-ended but highly trance inducing.
Abrams has worked alongside luminaries like Matana Roberts, Henry Grimes and Roscoe Mitchell, Bonnie ‘Prince ‘Billy, Godspeed, You Black Emperor, Jandek, Tortoise and many, many more.
For the Eastern Daze festival he comes over with his band Natural Information Society, which are Chicago improv percussionist Frank Rosaly and Lisa Alvarado on gong and harmonium.
Wouter Vanhaelemeesh, the Leopold II of the abused acoustic guitar outlet Urpf Lanze questioned him about his deeds and merits.
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Pelt
EMAILS INSTEAD OF POST- CARDS: MIKE GANGLOFF OVER AUTHENTICITEIT IN EEN DIGITALE WERELD EN DE MUZIKALE ZOEKTOCHT VAN PELT.
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Razen
On the 15th of November, Razen presents their first double LP. Razen is the duo of Brecht Ameel and Kim Delcour. After a split-lp with Sheldon Siegel and the debut-cd Rope House Temper (both on Kraak), a number of tapes and the album Reed Bombus LFO (Deep Distance), the duo retreated to various chapels and churches in the countryside around Brussels. They started exploring the practices of deep listening and acoustic research during a series of recording sessions. Using largely forgotten or ignored instruments such as shawm, church organ, Ondes Martenot, bombus and baroque flute, Razen forged and refined their sound into a form of contemporary minimalist classicism, albeit one that completely bastardises Early Music traditions.
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Norberto Lobo
The first time I saw Norberto Lobo playing was almost by accident. Hectoliter asked me to help them out with
some musical gear for this Portuguese musician I never heard of. I met on that day a shy, but friendly small guy who blew me away with intense acoustic finger picking. During his set, he scorched his way through traditional solo guitar playing by incorporating instrumental fado and American Primitive-style finger picking. Out of the blue, he started to whisper, moan and sing nonsense sounds on top of it, switching between whistling and Mongolian throat singing.
It was like he tapped in directly to an unknown ethnic tribe, reverberating their music through his.
Later I discovered that Norberto Lobo is one of the most renowned guitar players in the underground and experimental scene in Lisbon— he released more then 5 solo albums and worked with people like Joao Lobo and Pak Yan Lau. Over a virtual beer, through skype, we spoke with him about his new record (released in November) the importance of Portugese music and folklore for him.
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Toad
Yann Gourdon, founding member of La Nòvia collective and other collaborative music projects such as Toad, France or La Baracande, is a representative figure in contemporary French music. His practice stems from traditional French instruments and music, especially from the area of Massif Central but also from his interest in drone, circularity and intensity of sound. He plays the hurdy gurdy in an ecstatic way, which inevitably will drag the listener out of his ego. He made some time in his busy schedule to answer some questions regarding his vision and practice.
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