Editorial issue n° 9.1
Dear Reader,
The Spring is halfway through, and we are gently sliding into the Summer. This is a new edition of the Avant-Guardian, covering KRAAK’s program since January. This edition is for you. You can read it when you are sitting on a terrace, nipping of you well deserved Ricard or white wine, and mesmerize about the evolutions in off-stream music we presented last months.
31 May 2017 |
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Aymeric De Tapol
Aymeric de Tapol is a versatile French sound artist, noiser and modular synth freak that once got lost in Brussels. Nowadays you can call him one of the city’s hidden gems. His most recent concerts and records (Lexi Disques, VLEK, Angström and Tanuki) show him freely steeple chasing between technoise, power drones, french pop tunes, sound art and analogue synth weirdness.
We had, in the days before his concert in In De Ruimte, a nice chat about Climatic Music, Dinosaurs and the Brussels Scene.
31 May 2017 |
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Yann Leguay
LESS AND LESS CONTROL
When I first listened to Headcrash, I thought there was something wrong with my record. Brussels based French artist and musician Yann Leguay explained me there was nothing wrong. Or maybe there was something wrong, but that should not be a problem.
31 May 2017 |
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Köhn
Luckily I moved my bike to Ghent a few weeks ago, so I was able to happily get lost while still getting somewhere. After a few wrong turns in the jungle I follow the river and arrive at Köhn’s house. A damsel in a little pre-examination distress opens the door and the coffee is already simmering. We sit down, after a short prognosis on the quality of the coffee we start talking.
31 May 2017 |
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Euro2000
HETGEEN WAAR JE AAN TWIJFELT OF JE ER WEL AANGETROKKEN TOE MAG ZIJN.
Gabber Sam Gunst startte vorig jaar met zijn techno -en acid-tapelabel EURO2000 en gaat sindsdien stevig door aan een tempo van 1 nieuwe release per maand. Daarnaast gooit hij ook als grafisch vormgever hoge toppen, getuige de cover van de Cult.-bijlage van (jawel!) De Morgen. Daarnaast is het hij de drijvende kracht achter het tweejaarlijkse event De Biënnale van België. Hij nodigde KRAAK uit om één van de avonden van zijn tentoonstelling te cureren, waarop we Afework Nigussie, Carrageenan en McCloud Zicmuse aan het Gentse publiek bekend maakten. Tijd voor een interview met de man, als één van de drijvende krachten in de Gentse Underground.
30 May 2017 |
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Will Guthrie
Will Guthrie is one of those performers who continually seem to question the boundaries of his artistic practice. His latest LP “People Pleaser” sees him expanding his drum kit with a diverse range of samples, including everything from the sound of skateboarding to religious chant. In his live performances too, Guthrie seems eager to move beyond conventions, his project “solo for one person” being an excellent case in point.
29 May 2017 |
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Katz Mulk
Deeply embedded in the Manchester underground, Katz Mulk was born out of the Human Heads crew. The trio makes warped electronics, auto tuned improv and loose pop music that combines the best of hipstertronics and hardcore avant-garde music. Their debut is soon out on the top notch Singing Knives label.
As suiting for the ‘now sound of Manchester’ we had this ‘Facebook messenger’ conversation with Ben Night, Andrea Kerney and Hugh Morris about their avant-pop and performance explorations in experimental music.
28 May 2017 |
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Transport
TRANSPORT is a trio made out of notorious names like Vomit Heat, Teks and Nicolas Wandt. You can call it Kraut rock in its most transcendental form, referring to Amon Düül, Ash Ra Temple, injected with a good dose of rattling and percussion. They play on KRAAK’s next instalment of the not so notorious Yung Sheikhs Series, so we conducted a micro bits and bytes interview with Niklas Wandt.
28 May 2017 |
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White Death
White Death is collaboration between Kelly Jayne Jones and Hannah Ellul. The Internet provided us answers by Hannah on our questions about their work. A deep conversation on improvisation, the experimental scene in Brexit Country and the greater value of Awkwardness.
28 May 2017 |
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VA AA LR
VA AA LR is the trio of Vasco Alves, Adam Asnan and Louis Rice. They are the ultimate re-imagineers and rethinkers of your daily sound environment, using non-conformist techniques and arte povera methods in contemporary music.
28 May 2017 |
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Osilasi
Osilasi is a fresh new duo that emerged out the always vibrant and ever revolting Brussels underground. They will play at that concert series that claims to have a finger on the beating pulse of undergrounds everywhere. Time for a typical Brussels multi-lingual interview with Léa Roger, harpist and half of Osilasi!
28 May 2017 |
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Artwork issue n° 9.1
By Watcharita Aroon, Lizzy Vandierendonck, Gerard Herman and Nonlocal Society.
28 May 2017 |
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De Batteries in een notedop
Yasmin Van Der Rauwelaert en Clara Lissens zagen in de lokroep van een ijzermarchand de naam voor hun band De Batteries. Ze spelen op het Yung Sheikhs Extended minifestival in Barlok, een overdreven editie van de Yung Sheikhs serie waarmee KRAAK beweert de parels uit de zwijnenstal te vissen die men al eens geringschattend de underground noemt.
28 May 2017 |
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