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Sadier's birthday was on May 6th so I really missed this one! I discovered Stereolab in 1999 or so when I was at the El Mocambo in Toronto to see the Belle and Sebastian side project, Looper. All of a sudden, Peng! started playing on the PA between bands and I asked the girl next to me if she knew who it was (This was before Shazam and yes I'm really dating myself!) She replied she thought it was Stereolab and I immediately bought every Stereolab album I could afford at the time.
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Full set of this weekend at Pitchfork Music Festival on The Line of Best Fit:
www.thelineofbestfit.com/photos/festival-galleries/the-st...
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Taken at the Resonance FM fundraiser in February 2023, Lætitia Sadier confidently strummed her way through some wonderfully thoughtful and melodious ballads woven from past experiences in to a tapestry of conscious flowing creativity, alive with the lessons she has learnt in her life, her stories of love and awareness, and even one about pure evil too.
“Few musicians can claim to have made such a mark on the British music scene over the last thirty years. As well as co-founding the influential Stereolab, Lætitia Sadier has also forged a remarkable solo career as a songwriter and has collaborated with the likes of Mouse On Mars, Atlas Sound, The High Llamas, Blur and Common.”
I've decided not to do an official numbered list this year. There are already too many divisive things happening and why divide a group of mainly independent musicians, some of whom struggle to express themselves or to make ends meet or both. That isn't to say there aren't a couple on this list who are more prominent (like Bjork) but I always try to support artists that aren't getting a massive amount of marketing behind them and have a great deal to offer the world. As in every year, I should also continue to put a disclaimer that quite often I find out about an album or a band or musician way after I have created this best of the year review. This happens quite frequently to me so always feel free to share your own favorites with me and to keep in mind if I didn't include one of your favorites, it might be because I just don't know about it.
The Dears: Times Infinity Volume Two
The Dears have been a favorite band of mine now since they released No Cities Left in 2003. Murray Lightburn (pictured in the above photograph) has a voice that is passionate and radiant both. There is such a depth of emotion every time he opens his mouth and a sincerity that hangs on every note. Though melodramatic popular song isn't really a genre of music people talk about, it's how I've always described The Dears because I think it fits. It's interesting how there is both a structure to his songs and yet also an evolution within each of the harmonies and the way his voice works with the voice of his wife, Natalia Yanchak, is pretty phenomenal. These are the deepest riches melodies and harmonies. They create songs you feel deeply so much that you might find even impossible after a few listens to not sing along to. There's such a gravity in the way Lightburn sees and feels each moment and his voice soars so effortlessly in expressing these moments. Well, a huge thank you to this band for existing and giving their best effort and even going on tour again. Incidentally, I have seen The Dears several times throughout the years and was ecstatic to see they are coming back to Schubas Tavern on March 21st, 2018. If you live in the Chicago area, you can find tickets here:
www.lh-st.com/Shows/03-21-2018+The+Dears
Here's a link to the album to listen to (please support all of these artists if you can by buying their life's work):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql73dvnObxk&list=PL3sSbOWtBq7...
Here's a link to their official site:
Incidentally, when I photoblogged about their 2011 album release Degeneration Street being my favorite, that photo became my most viewed photo of all time. This album is still well worth listening to as well and there are several links for this here:
www.flickr.com/photos/kirstiecat/6666672209
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Alvvays: Antisocialities
At first, I was just so annoyed with this band for the two v's thing. I know it sounds silly but I just thought that was too hipster or something but then I realized how clever it actually was when I went to do an actual Google search. Antisocialities is a work of lovely nostalgic feeling pop songs. I don't know why the music reminds me so much of growing up but it really does especially in the production of it. It's a little more polished than their 2014 self titled release but still has the same level of genuineness and feels very comforting and, at the same time, quite catchy.
Link to the album to listen to:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZqsyBiYZFQ18jd6yFr-eqZGZD...
Official site:
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Jlin: Black Origami
Jerrilynn Patton is a footwork Goddess. Hailing from the unlikely town of Gary, Indiana (though to be fair, the city was the hometown of Michael Jackson/The Jackson Five). Footwork and electronic music in particular is a genre that is heavily male dominated and so it's nice to see how adept a woman like Patton can develop unique and vibrant soundscapes that will challenge all different areas of your brain if you listen via headphones or a decent headphone system...even piecing together and finding an organization spatially in an auditory context to the sounds requires an active sort of listening. I can't think of another album this creative that came out this year. Though I enjoyed Dark Energy from 2015, this is a whole new level of mind blowing amazing consistently throughout the record. Very Highly recommended:
Listen to the whole album here on Bandcamp:
jlin.bandcamp.com/album/black-origami
Official facebook site:
www.facebook.com/jlintheinnovator/
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I initially forgot to include The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir which is literally a song for each year of Stephin Merritt's life with all kinds of wit and intellectualism. It's not for everyone but, if you like the 69 Love Songs boxset, you'll probably love this one just as much!
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Shannon Wright: Division
I really detest when I am reading a review and the reviewer compares the musician/artist to another well known musician/artist so forgive me for doing so here but Shannon Wright really reminds me of a PJ Harvey that has all the delicate qualities of White Chalk with all the edginess of Rid of Me. There's such an urgency in the way she plays guitar and in her singing style and yet also a deep and rich sense of melody. I recently saw her perform at the Hideout Block Party in Chicago this past fall and was really astounded by how amazing her live performance was as well. Wright captures melody in a way that is haunting and gets into your head more easily than you can get it out of your head but then plays with a sense that she could bring down an entire city of skyscrapers with the power of her guitar. Such an interesting force in the universe-also check out her collaboration with Yann Tiersen.
You can hear some of her songs and watch some of her videos for this and other albums on Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAjW1Hpw364
Official Facebook Site:
www.facebook.com/shannonwrightmusic
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Nhung Nguyen: Ordinary Narrative
Delicate and wondrous is Nguyen's album. There's a real carefulness to each melody and an overall reflective mood that is created. There's nothing ordinary about something as heartfelt as these songs. These mainly piano based instrumental arrangements do show a measure of technical depth but even more so it's the weighing and timing of each note that is important. So, if you are feeling thoughtful and want to meditate or just ponder all of the different moments you've lived, look no further than this album.
Official Bandcamp site:
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William Basinksi: Shadow in Time
Though this album has only two tracks, they are both ones that are brimming like an auditorium, empty for thousands of years and now suddenly filled with the weight of human emotion once again with all of the joys and sorrows that we can fit inside of us. The waves of sound that envelop the listener are cathartic and add a new weight to the air surrounding your head space. You could dance with these notes but it wouldn't be a fast tap. It would instead be a slow languid dance that you would remember for a lifetime. And though you have to wait patiently, the songs also evolve into something that seems mysterious and strange but also makes a lot of sense.
williambasinski.bandcamp.com/album/a-shadow-in-time
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Cinchel: Music For a Wedding
Full disclaimer here that I am married to this human and so I can't help but enjoy so many of the things he creates. Music For a Wedding is, like all of his music, an instrumental (no vocals) work and it has an emotional complexity and depth that brought much joy to the couple it was performed for on their wedding day. It has a great deal to do with the nature of memories but the melodies themselves are rather swirly and like a layered lullaby. I can't help but think of how Brian Eno wrote Music for Airports, for example and this music is for an occasion that shows the breadth of longing two people entering into this point in their relationship might actually feel. This may sound corny but actually there is such a brightness and such a soothing optimism here within the pieces that I think it also works if you aren't in a relationship but want that warm feeling to surround you. This is another great album to meditate to.
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Bjork: Utopia
This definitely seems like the most mainstream release on this list and, though it will do just fine without any additional promotion, I still have to admit I am always a little more than merely captivated by what Bjork still puts out year after year and how she manages to put so many unique sounds together in her songs. This album is definitely one of her brighter ones and one senses that she's in a good place emotionally when you hear these songs. They are astounding in their beauty and her voice seems the most accessible that it has ever been with layering that effectively adds another level of depth along with the instrumentation. It's always really exciting to see where these songs go as they progress and to follow this talented woman.
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Julie Byrne: Not Even Happiness
I left Buffalo, NY in 2001 thinking that just about anywhere else was better but that was before I heard music like Julie Byrne. I went to coffee shops many nights when I studied at university and was subjected to the upstate NY folk singer but none of them could ever hold a candle to Julie Byrne. Buffalo, NY is also the home of Mercury Rev (amazing band!) The Goo Goo Dolls (Oh God, my ears make it stop!) and Ani DiFranco (No, I can't take you to her house.) But there's a splendor in the way that her finger plucking works with her vocals..it's a timeless sound well mastered in this modern age but possessing a timeless quality that makes one think these tracks could have been created decades ago and will stand the test of time long after the apocalypse comes. Perhaps we'll soothe ourselves with remembering glimpses of her melodies and lyrics after all the electricity and our computers and ipads die.
Bandcamp:
juliembyrne.bandcamp.com/album/not-even-happiness
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C. Reider: Listening After the End
Using a mixture of harrowing and delightful sounds, this album takes one through quite an intriguing and sometimes tumultuous sound journey in its two lengthy tracks. There are sounds that make one think of industry and other sounds that make one think of nature being covered with a blanket of static. Between the thuds and the chimes is a kind of wonder of the power of our hearing to change our thoughts and minds and an appreciation of the range of all the sounds one might hear in any day if one only pays attention closely enough. The world is sometimes its own song.
c-reider.bandcamp.com/album/listening-after-the-end
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Juana Molina: Halo
Halo is consistent with Juana's other many stellar albums and offers up her typically innovative song constructions which are quite engaging and filled with sound textures. There's something about her voice that instantly soothes me with its enchanting Spanish lullabies. She has a way of changing up rhythms and mixing up the harmonies she does with herself that is always impressive and makes one long for more . And so, even though there are plenty of amazing Juana Molina albums to choose from already, Halo is a nice edition to the mix and will leave you feeling utterly complete and satiated with sound.
Full record on Bandcamp:
juanamolina.bandcamp.com/album/halo
Official site:
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Vagabon: Infinite Worlds
Strong soul and a sense of delicate lyrics and chords that end up turning out triumphant. The way that Laetitia Tamko sings and composes music expresses a kind of interesting versatility and shows an undeniable talent for pushing the envelope in the indie rock/folk department. The songs are poetic and still pack the kind of punch that forces you to really pay attention to what Tamko is expressing and doing with her music. For as much as it's energetic and engaging, it has its real fragile moments that draw you into the heart of the author. Tamko is indeed a mighty wonder. Also, as a real plus, if you follow Tamko's tweets and some of the mentions in interviews, it appears she might also be vegan! :)
Full record on Bandcamp:
vagabon.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-worlds
Official site:
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Eloïse Decazes / Eric Chenaux: La Bride
Decazes has such a lovely singing voice in her beautiful French. It's a little like Lætitia Sadier of Stereolab (who also put out a solo record this year called Finding me Finding You that is worth checking out) but the music accompaniment is a little stranger and also quite interesting stylistically. There's a solemn and haunting feel to the vocals but an almost sense of ceremony at times to the instruments. Definitely worth checking out if you love French female singers especially!
Some of their music on Bandcamp: eloiisedecazesericchenaux.bandcamp.com/
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Le Berger: A Somewhat Perceptible Transition
Though both of the releases Le Berger put out this year are worth listening to, I tend to prefer this EP length release which has a very warm and organic sound to me. Though it's short, it continues to grow even more on you for further listens and provides a real solace to the soul, which has definitely been needed more than a few times this year. These are gentle fulfilling wonders and gems in our postmodern consciousness searching for a sense of relief.
leberger.bandcamp.com/album/a-somewhat-perceptible-transi...
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Colleen: A Flame My Love, a Frequency
Cécile Schott is a French multi-instrumentalist who creates these intricate little surprises that enhance the collective consciousness of us all. It's impossible not to be enchanted by these treasures and by all of her albums. Like Juana Molina from Argentina, both women have led solid careers that highlight a radiant creativity that doesn't ever seen in short supply. At times, we also hear her lovely voice enveloping us and adding even more to the layers of sound. She's quite the chanteusevapor
colleencolleen.bandcamp.com/album/a-flame-my-love-a-frequ...
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Luciferian Towers
Is there any band in the world quite as powerful, as genuinely amazing as GY!BE? It's a tough call. I listen to every one of their albums and, even the ones I've heard several times each year for two decades, like F#A#infinity I am still quite transfixed by. This postmodern orchestra will revive your faith in the creativity of humanity and give you one more reason why the aliens shouldn't destroy the Earth when they ask you from their spaceship. Brilliant and unyielding, the band is as strong as ever with this new release. I'm excited to also see they are returning to Chicago with two nights at the Cabaret Metro March 18th and 19th, 2019. You can buy tickets to see them here: www.etix.com/ticket/p/6046219/godspeed-youblack-emperor-c...
Full album: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7t049ff9-c
Official website:
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This quote is actually taken from a Sloan song but I find Sloan to be quite genial really. I went to concerts just to enjoy music for years before I even decided to take photos at them and in that amount of time I've often struggled with the "fans" that can't stop talking or completely ruining the show for me. This happened most recently at Belle and Sebastian when the girl in front would not stop talking really loudly (I had paid about $50 for my ticket after service charges) or at Leonard Cohen when the people in my aisle got up every other song for drinks including "Suzanne" which is the only song Leonard sang acoustically. I paid over $100 for that ticket.
I don't think it's necessarily a Chicago thing but I have experienced this quite a bit over the years. At rougher shows, men want to ram into me for fun. At quieter shows, people want to talk as if someone like Chan Marshall of Cat Power is just background music to their personal party, for example.
But the worst thing that happened was definitely at Stereolab at the Vic, which is why I'm holding up my favorite Stereloab album. There were a group of people heavily intoxicated from early on in the night who were loudly trash talking Laetitia Sadier when she was performin in Monade. They continued to talk loudly through Le Loup's middle set when I bluntly told them that if their intention was to ruin the show for everyone, they could at least move to the back. Of course, you can't reason with people under the influence sometimes. The basic jist is that a friend stepped in to help, I got a security guard, two of them were thrown out when they became violent with the security guard.
And that's how the "fans" can really ruin a show. Those aren't fans though...those are scenesters.
Ok, how was one of your favorite shows ruined by others?
EDITED TO ADD: Oh also, if anyone has any great ideas on how to deal with these people, DO TELL!
I did not write the review for the show this time but you can check out Selena Fragassi's review here (along with some more of my photos:
venuszine.com/articles/music/live_reviews/4485/Stereolab_...
Personally, I thought it was an enjoyable show but I was really upset because of the jerks that kept talking all throughout Monade and Le Loup who I got into an argument with because they just would not stop! That got me riled up and by the time I had left the photopit, there were very few spaces for me to stand so I ended up being up front to one side for Stereolab and unfortunately, because of the way the venue's sound is in certain areas, heard a really bass heavy version of all the songs.
It was still great to see them after being a fan of theirs for eight years. I still remember finding out about them and Magnetic Fields on the same night in Toronto when a really cool girl at the El Mocambo started talking to us at a Looper show I'd driven out to see. The club had been playing Peng! which is easily my favorite Stereolab album. I like the new stuff ok but I wish I could have seen them on tour during that.
Primavera 2019 @ Barcelona
заявлено ~226 артистов и сразу бросаются в глаза: Stereolab, The Necks, Primal Scream, Julia Holter, Jarvis Cocker, Low, Deerhunter, Beak>, The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices & Lisa Gerrard, Tame Impala, Marie Davidson (Stacy Boudreault), Laurel Halo, Nina Kraviz, Robyn (Robin Carlsson), Guided By Voices, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Suede, Róisín Murphy, Helena Hauff, The Beths, Drab Majesty, Nitzer Ebb, Caterina Barbieri, Anastasia Kristensen, Demdike Stare, Pond, Myrkur, Erykah Badu, Cate Le Bon, Apparat, Modeselektor, Built To Spill, Tim Hecker & Konoyo Ensemble, Carcass, Lolina (Alina Astrova/Inga Copeland), Shonen Knife, Julien Baker, Kali Uchis, Aldous Harding, Interpol, FKA twigs, Mac DeMarco, Fucked Up, но главное что Shellac на месте!
мне нравится примерно 45 из 226, половину я не знаю, впрочем как обычно, но теперь #прояснилось, кто был замешан в reunion'е Stereolab!
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💾 total recall (кто мне нравился):
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Present Perfect 2020 @ St.Petersburg, Russia
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Nina Kraviz, Shadowax (Mirabella Karyanova - Ishome), PTU, Nocow, Philipp Gorbachev, Mujuice, Moa Pillar, Flaty, Kedr Livanskiy, Sofia Rodina, Kate NV, ГШ, Vladimir Dubyshkin, Buttechno, Simple Symmetry, Errortica, Kovyazin D, Полиритм, Void Of Gene
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Stereoleto 2020 @ St.Petersburg, Russia
Хадн Дадн, Земфира, Ploho, Деревянные Киты, Краснознамённая дивизия имени моей бабушки, СБПЧ, Трипинадва, Союз, Молчат Дома, Бабба [Ольга Чубарова (Cheese People) и Алла Четаева (Bajinda Behind The Enemy Lines)], Анна Ворфоломеева, Свидание
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Present Perfect 2019 @ St.Petersburg, Russia
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Demdike Stare, Andrew Weatherall, Pinkshinyultrablast, Abelle, Modeselektor, Ellen Allien, Ya Tosiba (Zuzu Zakaria + Mesak), Azymuth, Axel Boman, Chikiss, Mesak, Snork25
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Gamma 2019 @ St.Petersburg, Russia
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Rafael Anton Irisarri, Lucy Railton, Surgeon (Anthony Child), Samuel Kerridge, The Exaltics (Robert Witschakowski), Peter Kirn, PRCDRL (Stanislav Glazov), Sobranie 8 18, Schtum, monekeer + Lovozero (Anastasia Tolchneva), Lutto Lento (Lubomir Grzelak), Zll' (Igor Gorbunov), Oscar Mulero, Ivan Logos
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Flow 2019 @ Helsinki, Finland
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The Cure, Stereolab, Lena Willikens & Vladimir Ivkovic, Iisa Pykäri [Pajula] ex- Regina, Modeselektor, Dustin Muchuvitz, Огни, Father John Misty (Josh Tillman), DJ Yeboyah
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Primavera 2019 @ Barcelona, Spain
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Stereolab, Low, Robyn, Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares feat. Lisa Gerrard, Jarvis Cocker, Julia Holter, Primal Scream, Tame Impala, Swervedriver, Aldous Harding, Suede, Piroshka, Róisín Murphy, Kali Uchis, Me and the Bees play The Breeders, Shellac, Janelle Monáe, Built To Spill, June of 44, Rosalía, Drab Majesty
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Электромеханика 2019 [Electro Mechanica] @ St Petersburg, Russia
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Driftmachine, Eartheater (Alexandra Drewchin), Igor Starshinov (Игорь Старшинов исполняет музыку Сергея Курёхина), Heidi Hörsturz, PTU, Digital Moss, Margenrot (Lucy from Fanny Kaplan), Giant Swan, Gaika, Classic Electric, Crimson Butterfly, Discours Synthétique
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Roadburn 2019 @ Tilburg, Netherlands
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Triptykon & Metropole Orkest - Requiem, Lingua Ignota, Rakta, Mono & The Jo Quail Quartet, Heilung, Sleep, Anna Von Hausswolff, Hexvessel, Malokarpatan, Pharmakon, Midnight, Messa, A.A.Williams, MJ Guider (Melissa Guion), Imperial Triumphant, Marissa Nadler, Loop, Uran GBG, Wolvennest, Louise Lemón, Turia, GlerAkur, Henrik Palm, Laster, Cave In, Grails, Black Bombaim & Peter Brötzmann, Twin Temple, Emma Ruth Rundle, Crowhurst, Molasses, Seven That Spells, At The Gates, Fauna, Vile Creature (Skatepark), Mats Gustafsson's The End, Drab Majesty, Morne, Have A Nice Life, Sumac, Maalstroom, Nusquama (Turia, Laster, Fluisteraars), Jaye Jayle, Bosse-de-Nage, Bismuth (Skatepark), Cave, Mord‘A’Stigmata, Crowhurst & Gnaw Their Tongues, Lucy In Blue, Coilguns, Terzij de Horde, Fear Falls Burning
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Present Perfect 2018 @ St.Petersburg, Russia
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Broken English Club, Imatran Voima, Nina Kraviz, Lena Willikens, Larry Heard aka Mr.Fingers, Roy Ayers, SRKP (Superficial Random Knowledge Porridge), Ron Morelli, Anastasia Kristensen, Aux 88, Moscoman, Marcellus Pittman, Move D, Hoopa, El, Blawan, Nocow
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Stereoleto 2018 @ St Petersburg, Russia
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Franz Ferdinand, Chkbns, Cigarettes After Sex, Tequilajazzz, Спасибо, Bananafish, Комсомольск, Увула, Гречка, Наадя, Tommy Cash
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Sideways 2018 @ Helsinki, Finland
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Bardo Pond, Oranssi Pazuzu, James Holden & The Animal Spirits, K-X-P, Deerhunter, Dopplereffekt, Apparat, Ben Frost, Teksti-TV 666, Preoccupations, MØ, Actress, A Perfect Circle, Joni Ekman & Koira, Yamantaka feat. Sonic Titan, Cigarettes After Sex, Kaukolampi, Jane Weaver, Visible Cloaks, Siinai, The Comet Is Coming, The National
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Roadburn 2018 @ Tilburg, Netherlands
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Hugsjá — Ivar Bjørnson (Enslaved) & Einar Selvik (Wardruna), Boris & Stephen O’Malley — Absolutego, NYIÞ & Wormlust — Hieros Gamos, Minami Deutsch (南ドイツ), Godspeed You! Black Emperor (vol II), Vánagandr: Sól án varma (Misþyrming, Naðra, Svartidauði, Wormlust), Motorpsycho, Kælan Mikla, Spotlights, Godflesh, Jarboe ft. Father Murphy, Årabrot, Earthless, Horte, Wreck and Reference, Kikagaku Moyo, Zola Jesus, Kairon; Irse!, Planning For Burial, Converge (You Fail Me), Earthess & Kikagaku Moyo, Alda, Wiegedood, Harsh Toke, Weedeater, Stomach Earth, Worship, Joy (San Diego), Grave Pleasures, Mizmor (Yodh), Maggot Heart, Godspeed You! Black Emperor (vol I), Occvlta, Panopticon, The Heads, All Pigs Must Die, Watter, Bell Witch, Vampillia, GosT, Zuriaake, Hell (Salem)
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Электромеханика 2018 [Electro Mechanica] @ St.Petersburg, Russia
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Eva Geist, Alexander Robotnick, Lucrecia Dalt, Amnesia Scanner, Les Trucs, Sobranie 8 18, GhostNoir, Петроградское Гудельное Собрание [Petrogradskoe Gudel'noe Sobranie: Lunar Abyss Deus Organum, Snezhana Reizen, Kryptogen Rundfunk, Ухушуху, Мира Древо и Creation VI], Måla, Ilya Artemov, Wolffflow, LVRIN
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Present Perfect 2017 @ St.Petersburg, Russia
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Clock DVA, Dopplereffekt, Silver Apples, DJ Pierre, Unit Moebius, Actress, Daniel Avery, Planetary Assault Systems, Das Ding, Love Cult, Juju & Jordash, Simple Symmetry, Inga Mauer, Module Werk, Утро, Atom TM x Tobias
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Stereoleto 2017 @ St.Petersburg, Russia
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K-X-P, Jaakko Eino Kalevi, FM Belfast, Teksti-TV 666, Hermanni Turkki, Сплин, U.N.K.L.E., Буерак, Sonic Death, Angelic Milk, Луна, ГШ/Glintshake, Sekuoia, General Electriks, Свидание, Pompeya, Ким и Буран, Antikvariniai Kašpirovskio Dantys, 25/17, Filastine & Nova, Пасош
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Rock en Seine 2017 @ Paris, France
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At the Drive-In, PJ Harvey, Slowdive, Franz Ferdinand, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Frustration, Ulrika Spacek, Ty Segall, The XX, Black Lips, Allah-Las, MØ, Lysistrata, Fakear (Théo Le Vigoreux), The Lemon Twigs, Girls In Hawaii, Clara Luciaini, Arnaud Rebotini, George Ezra, Cypress Hill, Mac DeMarco, Karoline Rose
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Sideways 2017 @ Helsinki, Finland
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Röyksopp & Jonna Lee, The Radio Dept., Thurston Moore, Chelsea Wolfe, Demdike Stare, Huoratron, Kaleidobolt, DJ Shadow, Kairon; IRSE!, Kynnet, Mikko Joensuu (Amen 3), Ilpo Väisänen & Jimi Tenor - Mika Vainio tribuutti, The Coathangers, Editors, Tommy Cash, The Holy, Death Hawks, Sanni, U.F.Ojala, Dinosaur Jr.
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Roadburn 2017 @ Tilburg, Netherlands
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Mysticum, Ulver, Auðn, Coven, Oranssi Pazuzu, True Widow, Esben and The Witch, Chelsea Wolfe, Emma Ruth Rundle, Misþyrming, My Dying Bride, Deafheaven, Amenra, Come To Grief, Inter Arma, Magma, Subrosa, Oathbreaker, Trans Am, Aluk Todolo, Radar Men From The Moon, Rome, Les Discrets, Wolves In The Throne Room, Suma, Lycus, Alaric, Bongzilla, Naðra, Zhrine, Telepathy, Whores, Wolvennest, The Bug vs Dylan Carlson of Earth, Disfear, Ahab, Memoriam, Cobalt, Jaye Jayle, Oxbow, Pillorian, Perturbator, The Doomsday Kingdom
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OFF 2016 @ Katowice, Poland
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Lush, Mudhoney, Lightning Bolt, Jenny Hval, GusGus, Kiasmos, Pantha Du Prince — The Triad, Andrew Weatherall b2b Roman Flügel, Kero Kero Bonito, William Basinski, The Kills, Jaga Jazzist, Jambinai, Napalm Death, Minor Victories, Daniel Avery, Machinedrum, Zimpel—Ziołek, Brodka, Fidlar, Devendra Banhart, Rødhåd, Beach Slang, Mgła
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Present Perfect 2016 @ St.Petersburg, Russia
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Helena Hauff, Roman Flügel, Plaid, Kedr Livanskiy, King Midas Sound, Dasha Rush, Aux 88, Machinedrum, Panoram, Nocow
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Stereoleto 2016 @ St.Petersburg, Russia
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157667823072443
Sigur Rós, Pinkshinyultrablast (youtu.be/fboAu2MrFC0), Plutonium 74, VLNY, Есть Есть Есть, Hann with Gun, On-The-Go, Brothers Moving, Garden City Movement, SPb Percussion All Stars, DJ Messer
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Primavera 2016 @ Barcelona, Spain
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157668363430955
Lush, Air, Venom, Psychic TV, Tame Impala, Beach House, Moderat, PJ Harvey, Mudhoney, LCD Soundsystem, Cavern Of Anti Matter, Ty Segall (Apolo Live), Julia Holter, Holly Herndon, Helena Hauff, Thee Oh Sees, Lena Willikens, Beirut, Merkabah, Chairlift, A.R. Kane, Autolux, Daughter, Holögrama, Tortoise, Suede, Deerhunter, Pantha Du Prince, Deradoorian, Goat, Richard Hawley (ex-Pulp), Brian Wilson [Pet Sounds], Battles, US Girls, Sun Glitters, Dinosaur Jr., Beach Slang, Black Lips, Radiohead, Shellac
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Roadburn 2016 @ Tilburg, Netherlands
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157666935666300
Misþyrming (Úlfsmessa), Oranssi Pazuzu, Blood Ceremony, Amenra, Paradise Lost, Der Blutharsch & The Infinite Church of The Leading Hand, Abyssion (Dark Buddha Rising + Oranssi Pazuzu), Hexvessel, Skepticism, Partisan, Cult of Luna, Hell, Arktau Eos, Hills, G.I.S.M., Grafir, Black Mountain, Cult of Occultt, Of The Wand And The Moon, Alkerdeel, With the Dead, Dark Buddha Rising, Diamanda Galás, Mondo Drag, Night Viper, Atomikylä, Converge, Chaos Echoes, Dead To A Dying World, La Muerte, Russell Haswell, Tau Cross, Naðra, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, Repulsion, Pentagram, Bang, Behold! The Monolith, John Haughm (Agalloch), The Body, Neurosis
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Электромеханика 2016 [Electro Mechanica] @ St.Petersburg, Russia
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157676376847351
Damien Dubrovnik, Jan Grebenstein & Christine Seefried, Igor Starshinov, Lakker, Peder Mannerfelt
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Present Perfect 2015 @ St.Petersburg, Russia
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157656958021442
Nathan Fake, Hidden Orchestra, Moritz von Oswald, Новые Композиторы, Jimi Tenor, Xosar, Nocow, Tin Man, Radio Slave, Philipp Gorbachev
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Primavera 2015 @ Porto, Portugal
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157650964692063
Ride, Babes In Toyland, Thurston Moore, Pharmakon, Underworld, Einstürzende Neubauten, Ex Hex, Yasmine Hamdan, The KVB, Caribou, Roman Flügel, Ariel Pink, Health, Viet Cong, Patti Smith, The New Pornographers, Interpol, Baxter Dury, Shellac
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Roadburn 2015 @ Tilburg, Netherlands
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157651921034806
Skuggsjá (Wardruna & Enslaved), Claudio Simonetti's Goblin (Suspiria, Argento), Wardruna, Kayo Dot, Anathema, Wovenhand, Focus, Kandodo feat. Robert Hampson (Loop), Undersmile, Downfall of Gaia, Death Hawks, Monolord, Urfaust, White Hills, Russian Circles, Anthroprophh, Moaning Cities, Enslaved, Fields of the Nephilim, Junius, Mortals, Profetus, Robert Hampson, Sólstafir, The Heads, Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, Zombi, Mugstar (Ad Marginem), Sammal, Bongripper
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Электромеханика 2015 [Electro Mechanica] @ St.Petersburg, Russia
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157661045475069
Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Cluster & Harmonia), SØS Gunver Ryberg, Thomas Ankersmit, Moa Pillar, Interchain, Dita Redrum, Feldermelder, Anella Midd, Stayhomie, Heliact
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Primavera 2014 @ Porto, Portugal
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157644648834449
Slowdive, Mogwai, Pixies, Slint, Loop, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Dum Dum Girls, Television [Marquee Moon], Todd Terje, Ty Segall, St. Vincent, Föllakzoid, Trentemøller, Darkside, Warpaint, Glasser, Cloud Nothings, Neutral Milk Hotel, Shellac
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Primavera 2014 @ Barcelona, Spain
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157644594510306
Slowdive, Arcade Fire, Mogwai, Julia Holter, Grouper, Slint, Loop, Laurent Garnier, Pixies, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Moderat, The Haxan Cloak, Cold Cave, Jesu, Bo Ningen, Factory Floor, Astro, Jagwar Ma, Deafheaven, Föllakzoid, Cut Copy, Glasser, Chrome, Demdike Stare, Darkside, Ty Segall, Pond, Dum Dum Girls, Chvrches, Aries, The Wedding Present, St. Vincent, Neutral Milk Hotel, Girl Band, Future Islands, Warpaint, Sbtrkt, The Ex, The Twilight Sad, Nine Inch Nails, Disclosure, Haim, Shellac
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Roadburn 2014 @ Tilburg, Netherlands
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157684637707061
Terra Tenebrosa, Änglagård, Nicklas Barker (Anekdoten) + Reine Fiske (Dungen), Avatarium, True Widow, Windhand, Opeth, Aqua Nebula Oscillator, Conan, 11 Paranoias [Bong + Ramesses], The Cult of Dom Keller, Claudio Simonetti (Goblin), Papir + Electric Moon, Regarde Les Hommes Tomber, Whitehorse, YOB, Beastmilk, Loop, E-Musikgruppe Lux Ohr, Inter Arma, Lumerians, Mühr, The Body, Tyranny, Procession, Candlemass, Obelyskkh, A Storm Of Light, New Keepers of the Water Towers, Horse Latitudes, Mansion, Old Man Gloom, Carlton Melton, Promise and the Monster, Morne, Selim Lemouchi & His Enemies (tribute to The Devil's Blood), Napalm Death
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Primavera 2014 @ Porto, Portugal
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157644648834449
Slowdive, Mogwai, Slint, Loop, Pixies, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Dum Dum Girls, Ty Segall, Television [Marquee Moon], St. Vincent, Neutral Milk Hotel, Föllakzoid, Trentemøller, Darkside, !!!, Todd Terje, Warpaint, Glasser, Cloud Nothings, Shellac
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Flow 2013 @ Helsinki, Finland
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157635085479606
My Bloody Valentine, Kraftwerk, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Julia Holter, Grimes, Beach House, Disclosure, Factory Floor, Goat, Hudson Mohawke, Husky Rescue, Jaakko Eino Kalevi, Âme, Lau Nau, Circuit des Yeux, Tim Sweeney, Astral Social Club, Bat For Lashes, Austra, Azealia Banks, Haim, Love Cult
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SKIF 2013 @ St.Petersburg, Russia (in progress)
Michael Rother & Camera play NEU! & Harmonia, Kap Bambino, NoHome (Caspar Brötzmann, Marino Pliakas, Michael Wertmüller), Chelsea Wolfe, Molly Nilsson, Siinai, TR/ST, Les Rhinoсéros, Volcano the Bear, Bismuth (Arnold Van de Velde, Yuri Landman), Camera, 2:54, High Wolf (Maxime Primault), Yuri Landman, Sonic Death, Analog Sound, Pavel Dovgal, Shortparis, Velvet Breats
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Stereoleto 2013 @ St.Petersburg, Russia
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157652430137836
La Roux, FM Belfast, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Михаил Боярский, Kid Koala, Theodor Bastard, BadBadNotGood, Краснознамённая дивизия имени моей бабушки
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Primavera 2013 @ Barcelona, Spain
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157644691162073
Blur, My Bloody Valentine, The Knife, The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Breeders, Melody's Echo Chamber, Bo Nigen, Simian Mobile Disco, Camera Obscura, Nick Cave, Fuck Buttons, Godflesh, Glass Candy, Liars, Dead Can Dance, Toundra, Sean Nicholas Savage, Paus, Thee Oh Sees, Fucked Up, Do Make Say Think, OM, Merchandise, Deerhunter, La Bien Querida, Hot Chip, Jessie Ware, Neurosis, Dinosaur Jr., Shellac
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Roadburn 2013 @ Tilburg, Netherlands
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157693559783165
Michael Rother & Camera [plays Neu! & Harmonia], Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Lantlôs, My Brother The Wind, Electric Wizard, Psychic TV, Electric Moon, Les Discrets, The Psychedelic Warlords, The Pretty Things, Mr. Peter Hayden, Godflesh, Jess and the Ancient Ones, Intronaut, Gravetemple, Herder, Cough, Mournful Congregation, Primordial, Sabbath Assembly, Elder, Teeth of the Sea, The Cosmic Dead, Goat, A Forest of Stars, Sigh, Moss, Spiritual Beggars, Pallbearer
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SKIF 2012 @ St.Petersburg, Russia (in progress)
Psychic TV, Chrome Hoof, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Slugabed, Next Life, ZA!, uSSSy, Ned Hoper, Kreatiivmootor, ASTRONAFT
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OFF 2012 @ Katowice, Poland
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157637856614103
Death In Vegas, Mazzy Star, Bardo Pond, Spectrum, Thurston Moore, Swans, The House Of Love, Kim Gordon & Ikue Mori, Chromatics, Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Fennesz & Lillevan, The Wedding Present, Demdike Stare, Henry Rollins, ANBB: Alva Noto & Blixa Bargeld, Battles, Ty Segall, Jacaszek, Andy Stott, The Twilight Sad, Atari Teenage Riot, The Antlers, Iceage, Doom
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Primavera 2012 @ Barcelona, Spain
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157680746761616
The Cure, Death In Vegas, Mayhem, Justice, Saint Etienne, The Field, Mazzy Star, Godflesh, M83, Spiritualized, Beach House, The Chameleons, Grimes, Codeine, Chairlift, Chromatics, Mudhoney, Yann Tiersen, Main (Robert Hampson, Loop), Beach Fossils, Demdike Stare, Thee Oh Sees, Veronica Falls, Franz Ferdinand, Dirty Beaches, Iceage, Purity Ring, Kings Of Convience, Richard Hawley (ex-Pulp), Wavves, Kindness, The Go! Team, The Wedding Present, Sleigh Bells, Girls Names, Liturgy, Void Ov Voices (Attila Csihar), Sandro Perri, Atleta, Japandroids, Atlas Sound, Wolves In The Throne Room, Black Lips, Olivia Tremor Control, Yo La Tengo, Sharon Van Etten, Jeff Magnum, Shellac, московская группа Труд и Napalm Death.
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Roadburn 2012 @ Tilburg, Netherlands
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157667479958269
Ulver, Anekdoten, Oranssi Pazuzu, The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation, Chelsea Wolfe, Voivod, Bong, Barn Owl, Sleep, Church of Misery, Jesu, Electric Moon, Killing Joke, Om, Doom, Hexvessel, Final, YOB, Conan, Agalloch, d.USK, Orchid, Ancestors, Alkerdeel, 40 Watt Sun, Dark Buddha Rising, Electric Orange, Dragged Into Sunlight, Black Cobra, Ancient VVisdom, Year of the Goat, Gnod, Witch
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SKIF 2011 St.Petersburg, Russia (in progress)
Alan Howarth & Zombie Zombie [plays John Carpenter], KILLL, Zombie Zombie, The Ex, K-X-P, Arnold Dreyblatt, Mujuice, Gonjasufi, Есть Есть Есть, Veell, Chikiss, Paristetris, Мох, Asian Women On The Telephone (AWOTT), Sehnsucht, Väljasõit Rohelisse, Shlimmer, Schweinemaschinen, G.A.Z., Ssadina
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Flow 2011 @ Helsinki, Finland
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157677179670587
The Human League, Röyksopp, Mogwai, Kanye West, The Dø, Hauschka feat. Samuli Kosminen, Kemialliset Ystävät, Pretty Lightning, Battles, Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Magenta Skycode, Mimosa, Jimi Tenor, Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, 2562 (Dave Huismans), Matthew Dear, Twin Shadow, Janelle Monáe, El Guincho, Midlake, Hercules and Love Affair, Empire Of The Sun
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Stereoleto 2011 @ St.Petersburg, Russia
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157702630002731
Apparat Band, Tip Top Tellix, Architecture in Helsinki, Keta feat. Илья Лагутенко & AndreiOid, IfWe, 7he Myriads, Casiokids, Gender ID, Motorama, Pur:Pur, Tinavie, Chinawoman
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Primavera 2011 @ Barcelona, Spain
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157637474861104
Pulp, Mogwai, Seefeel, Suicide, Mercury Rev, PJ Harvey, Tennis, Low, Dan Melchior Und Das Menace, Prince Rama, Salem, Emeralds, Tannhäuser, No Joy, Nick Cave & Grinderman, Lüger, Belle & Sebastian, Nosoträsh, Simian Mobile Disco, Einstürzende Neubauten, Pere Ubu, The Flaming Lips, Swans, Blank Dogs, Autolux, Echo & The Bunnymen, Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500, Comet Gain, Darkstar, Moon Duo, BMX Bandits, The Black Angels, Aias, Caribou, Battles, Dj Shadow, Explosions In The Sky, Cloud Nothings, Deerhunter, Factory Floor, Glasser, Lindstrøm, Oneohtrix Point Never, The Soft Moon, Interpol, Kurt Vile & The Violators, Las Robertas, Tune-Yards, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Me & The Bees, Warpaint, Shellac
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Roadburn 2011 @ Tilburg, Netherlands
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157663825195767
Wardruna, Sunn O))), Blood Ceremony, Ufomammut, Swans, Earth, Yakuza, Ramesses, Cough, Winter, Godflesh, Acid King, Wovenhand, Year of No Light [Vampyr soundtrack], Aluk Todolo, Alcest, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Voivod, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, Dead Meadow, Keiji Haino, Circle + Pharaoh Overlord, Sabbath Assembly, Menace Ruine, Void ov Voices, White Hills, Ludicra, Candlemass, Weedeater, Shrinebuilder, Black Mountain, Black Pyramid, Sourvein, Samsara Blues Experiment
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Электромеханика 2010 [Electro Mechanica] @ St.Petersburg, Russia (in progress)
Biosphere, Christian Fennesz, Alva Noto, Xavier van Wersch, King Midas Sound, EL G, Incite, Planningtorock, Pixelord, I/DEX, Kim & Buran, Zelany Rashoho, Scaly Whale
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Rock en Seine 2010 @ Paris, France
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157643548500905
Roxy Music, Crystal Castles, Underworld, LCD Soundsystem, Massive Attack, Blink 182, Arcade Fire, The Kooks, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Ting Tings, Beirut, 2 Many DJ's, Cypress Hill, Minus the Bear
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Primavera 2010 @ Barcelona, Spain
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157683314947293
Pixies, A Sunny Day In Glasgow, The Charlatans, Gary Numan, Pavement, The Fall, Ben Frost, Cold Cave, Wire, Orbital, The Field, Beach House, Best Coast, Polvo, Sian Alice Group, Fuck Buttons, Japandroids, Los Campesinos!, Low, No Age, Health, CocoRosie, Moderat, Atlas Sound, The Big Pink, The XX, Dum Dum Girls, The Slits, First Aid Kit, Toundra, Tortoise, Broken Social Scene, Beak>, The Clean, Built To Spill, Sleigh Bells, Two Dead Cats, Ui, Florence & The Machine, Mission Of Burma, Superchunk, Pony Bravo, Atleta, The Antlers, The New Pornographers, The Almighty Defenders, Pet Shop Boys, Shellac
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SKIF 2010 @ St.Petersburg, Russia (in progress)
Circle, Jon Hopkins, Zu, The Thing (Mats Gustafsson), Sonore (Peter Brötzmann, Ken Vandermark), DAT Politics, Re'sequence, Wozzeck, Ultralyd, Filastine, Max Tundra, I.H.N.A.B.T.B., Padla Bear Outfit, Сабля, S3P, Madlene
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Электромеханика 2009 [Electro Mechanica] @ St.Petersburg, Russia (in progress)
Ben Frost, Machinefabriek & Wouter van Veldhoven, Anti-Pop Consortium, Beans, Økapi, Anti-Social Entertainment feat. Silkie & Quest, Lawrence English, Gudrun Gut, Kid606, Skinny Patrini, Andrei 0id
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Stereoleto 2009 @ St.Petersburg, Russia
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157711288011448
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Husky Rescue, Dasaev, 188910, Alina Orlova, Ларик Сурапов, НеГрузовики, Nina Karlsson, Model Reign, Кассиопея
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Primavera 2009 @ Barcelona, Spain
www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/sets/72157652065214878
My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Sunn O))), John Maus, Klaus & Kinski, Jesu, Th' Faith Healers, A Certain Ratio, Saint Etienne, Aphex Twin, Wooden Shjips, The Vaselines, Throwing Muses, Jarvis Cocker, Spiritualized, Deerhunter, Dead Meadow, Carsick Cars, Tim Burgess, Simian Mobile Disco, Vivian Girls, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Yo La Tengo, Fucked Up, The Bats, Zu, Crystal Antlers, Oneida, The Bug, Karl Blau, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Bowerbirds, Neil Young, Shellac
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SKIF 2009 @ St.Petersburg, Russia (in progress)
Shogun Kunitoki, Deerhoof, Pivot, Sir Alice, Stella, 188910, Moremoney, Кассиопея
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2024
Несладко @ Сердце, СПб 19.12.2024
Культура Курения, Береста @ The Place, СПб 07.12.2024
Конъюнктура, Хадн дадн, Труд, Деревянные киты, Последняя Вечеринка, Орнитология @ Mod, СПб 04.11.2024
Behrosth (Барнаул) @ Action, СПб 27.10.2024
Конъюнктура, Огонёк, Laavu, Нелюдимка, Хадн Дадн, Ищейка, Кауч Сёрфинг, Sexhater, Мелисса @ SMW фест, СПб 30.08-01.09.2024
Electric Crown, Мещера, Tardigrade Inferno, Variable Space @ Тьма фест, Villa Time, ЛО 25.08.2024
Таисия Краснопевцева, Андрей Березин, Владимир Волков @ Фонтанка-69, СПб 17.08.2024
Архитектурный Оркестр Благодетели, Рука Дочери, Pure Phasers @ Мачты, СПб 12.07.2024
Theodor Bastard @ Двор Гостинки, СПб 04.07.2024
DJ Assault, Ishome, Sestrica, Юрий Усачёв (Гости из будущего), Saint City Lovers, Cable Toy, The Dawless, Mary Mary @ Планета К30 фест, Бланк, СПб 01-02.03.2024
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2011.05.20 Backworld (Joseph Budenholzer) @ Шум, СПб
2011.05.21 Lawrence (Peter M. Kersten) @ Эфир клуб, СПб
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2010
03.01.2010 Н.О.М. (+Сергей Кагадеев) @ Зал Ожидания
15.01.2010 Baltic Wind @ ГЭЗ-21
19.01.2010 Sunn O))) & Attila Csihar (Mayhem) @ Tavastia, Helsinki
04.02.2010 Depeche Mode @ СКК
06.02.2010 The Field @ Декаданс
07.02.2010 Flint Glass @ Club7 (Red club)
11.02.2010 Н.О.М., Punk TV, Klever, Kirov, Скафандр, Elektromagnezia @ Rupor Fest, к/т «Прибой»
23.02.2010 Ian Brown, Bajinda Behind The Enemy Lines @ Главклуб
26.02.2010 Lætitia Sadier (Stereolab) @ Китайский лётчик Джао Да
28.02.2010 Отава Ё @ Fish Fabrique
01.03.2010 ББН Party Hard
08.03.2010 Naked But Safe @ Стирка
10.03.2010 Múm @ Зал ожидания
12.03.2010 Сказы Леса @ Зал ожидания
26.03.2010 Dottie Danger @ Цоколь
09.04.2010 Swayzak @ Gloss Cafe
10.04.2010 Аквариум @ Юбилейный
14.04.2010 Сказы Леса @ Fish Fabrique
29.04.2010 Алиса @ ДС Юбилейный
14.05.2010 (вечер) Anathema, Dominia @ Орландина
14.05.2010 (ночь) DAT Politics, Circle, Madlene, Re`sequence, Padla Bear Outfit, Сабля, S3P, K-org Komitet @ SKIF-14 (СКИФ, к/т «Прибой»)
20.05.2010 The Horrors @ Главклуб
25.05.2010 Two Dead Cats, Atleta, Toundra @ Primavera, Barcelona
26.05.2010 Los Campesinos! @ Apolo, Primavera, Barcelona
27.05.2010 Pavement, The Fall, Fuck Butons, Tortoise, Moderat, Broken Social Scene, First Aid Kit, Mission Of Burma, The Big Pink, Sleigh Bells, The XX, Edredon, Ui @ Primavera, Barcelona
28.05.2010 Pixies (с Kim Dale), A Sunny Day In Glasgow, Wire, Beach House, Cold Cave, Best Coast, Beak>, Low, CocoRosie, Japandroids, Aias, Shellac @ Primavera, Barcelona
29.05.2010 A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Ganglians @ Parc Joan Miró, Primavera, Barcelona
29.05.2010 The Charlatans, Orbital, Gary Numan, Ben Frost, Dum Dum Girls, No Age, Built To Spill, Polvo, Sian Alice Group, The Slits, The Field, Florence & the Machine, Pet Shop Boys @ Primavera, Barcelona
06.06.2010 Guns N' Roses @ Ледовый
07.06.2010 Billy Idol @ Ледовый
11.06.2010 The Digital Forks @ Цоколь
20.06.2010 Caribou @ Зал Ожидания
26.06.2010 Japandroids, Pinkshinyultrablast @ Танцы
01.07.2010 Бензольные мертвецы (муз. сопровождение немого фильма «Черный пират», 1926, в гл. роли: Дуглас Фэрбенкс) @ к/т «Родина»
29.07.2010 Fucked Up! @ Танцы
02.08.2010 Madlene, Obstacles, The Cheshire Strangler @ Танцы
04.08.2010 No Age @ Танцы
27.08.2010 Underworld, Blink 182, The Kooks, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Cypress Hill, Minus the Bear @ Rock en Seine, Paris
28.08.2010 LCD Soundsystem, Massive Attack, 2 Many DJ's, Jello Biafra, Queens of the Stone Age @ Rock en Seine, Paris
29.08.2010 Roxy Music, Crystal Castles, Arcade Fire, Beirut, The Ting Tings @ Rock en Seine, Paris
03.09.2010 Алхимия, Kim Buran @ Fish Fabrique
10.09.2010 Nadja @ Цоколь
19.09.2010 Âme Frank (Frank Wiedemann) @ Океан бар
24.09.2010 65daysofstatic @ Космонавт
08.10.2010 Raison d'être @ Шум
17.10.2010 Трипинадва @ Стирка
22.10.2010 (вечер) Simone Salvatori (Spiritual Front) @ Шум
22.10.2010 (ночь) Digital Forks @ Цоколь
28.10.2010 Therapy @ Главклуб
29.10.2010 Maybeshewill @ Танцы
09.11.2010 The Dillinger Escape Plan @ Главклуб
14.11.2010 The Residents @ Зал ожидания
20.11.2010 Калинов мост @ Главклуб
27.11.2010 Biosphere (Geir Jenssen), Christian Fennesz, Alva Noto, Xavier van Wersch, King Midas Sound @ Электромеханика, к/т «Прибой»
29.11.2010 Brian Eno - Что такое культура и зачем она нам? (лекция) @ Консерватории им. Римского-Корсакова
04.12.2010 Nathan Fake @ клуб Эфир
05.12.2010 Hot Chip @ Yota Space Fest, Универм. «Фрунзенский»
17.12.2010 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club @ Главклуб
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2009.12.26 Pinkshinyultrablast @ Пироговская наб., СПб
2009.12.21 Naked But Safe @ Грибоедов, СПб
2009.12.19 Сказы леса @ Прибой, СПб
2009.12.19 Кровосток @ XXX Московские ворота, СПб
2009.12.18 Xiu Xiu @ A2, СПб
2009.12.17 Motörhead @ Ледовый, СПб
2009.12.11 Yann Tiersen @ A2, СПб
2009.12.09 Todd Terje, Dolle Jolle @ Дружба, СПб
2009.12.09 Sasha Funke @ Стереобар, СПб
2009.12.09 Plaistow @ ГЭЗ-21, СПб
2009.12.05 Lindstrom @ Этажи, СПб
2009.11.28 Даша Люкс @ Папаклуб, СПб
2009.11.22 Алиса @ СКК, СПб
2009.11.20 A-ha @ Ледовый, СПб
2009.10.30 Soisong (Peter Christopherson, Ivan Pavlov) @ А2
2009.10.30 Den Haan @ Club7 (Лена Носова, Стас Каливас) бывш. Red club
2009.10.20 Naked But Safe - 1st gig @ City (Money Honey), СПб
2009.10.18 Crazy P @ Bubble Bar, СПб
2009.10.17 Kira Lao, Velena @ Цоколь, СПб
2009.10.15 Алхимия @ Revolution, СПб
2009.10.15 The Digital Forks @ Revolution, СПб
2009.10.11 The Prodigy @ Ледовый, СПб
2009.09.24 Театр Яда @ Цоколь, СПб
2009.09.04 Сказы Леса @ A2, СПб
2009.08.15 Колибри @ Цоколь, СПб
2009.08.01 Loshadka Party #1 @ Volga-Volga, СПб
2009.08.01 Basement Jaxx, Paul Oakenfold, Axwell, Markus Schulz, Menno de Jong, Sander Kleinenberg, Gareth Emery, Sebastien Leger, Paul Thomas, Bobina @ Global Gathering Fest, Туутари-Парк, СПб
2009.06.29 Morrissey, Doll & The Kicks @ Манеж, СПб
2009.06.24 The Frozen Orchestra @ A2, СПб
2009.06.10 Pet Shop Boys @ Ледовый, СПб
2009.06.04 Duran Duran @ Дворцовая, СПб
2009.05.10 Ladytron @ Манеж, СПб
2009.04.12 Pinkshinyultrablast @ Цоколь, СПб
2009.04.02 Mono (Japan) @ A2, СПб
2009.03.28 Desiderii Marginis @ A2, СПб
2009.03.27 Fabio Orsi + Dima The Pilot @ ГЭЗ-21, СПб
2009.03.26 The Digital Forks @ Revolution, СПб
2009.03.25 Tesla Boy @ Bubble bar, СПб
2009.03.25 Sisters Of Mercy @ Главклуб, СПб
2009.03.20 Jimi Tenor @ Зал ожидания, СПб
2009.03.15 Оцепеневшие, Cyclofillydea @ Революция, СПб
2009.03.09 Combichrist @ A2, СПб
2009.02.21 Opeth @ Порт, СПб
2009.02.19 The Digital Forks @ Сочи, СПб
2009.01.30 +/- (Plus Minus) @ Зал Ожидания, СПб
2009.01.23 Silence Kit, Tribes Of The City, Jumbo Jet @ The Place, СПб
2009.01.16 Морэ & Рэльсы @ Цоколь, СПб
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2008.12.28 The Frozen Orchestra @ A2, СПб
Lacuna Coil @ Порт, СПб, 17.12.2008
Chicks On Speed @ A2, СПб, 11.12.2008
2008.12.10 цоколь Zelany Rashoho
The Radio Dept. @ Сочи клуб, СПб, 05.12.2008
2008.11.22 Алиса СКК
Client (Kate Holmes, Sarah Blackwood) @ A2, СПб, 21.11.2008
Kittie @ Арктика, СПб, 11.11.2008
Kira Kira @ The Place, СПб, 30.10.2008
Robin Guthrie @ Этажи, СПб, 17.10.2008
Xiu Xiu + Caralee McElroy @ A2, СПб, 11.10.2008
Marc Almond @ Манеж, СПб, 01.10.2008
Этномеханика (Птица Тылобурдо, Volga, Белорыбица, Иванова, Атлантида) @ Прибой, СПб, 26.09.2008
Sigur Rós @ ДК Ленсовета, СПб, 26.08.2008
Cказы Леса @ A2, СПб, 22.06.2008
PJ Harvey, Autolux @ Мюзик-холл, СПб, 07.06.2008
Roger Waters @ Дворцовая пл., СПб, 06.06.2008
Brett Anderson @ Винзавод, Москва, 01.06.2008
Eluvium, Explosions in the Sky, Silence Kit, Klever, Mooncake, Ртуть, Verticals @ Avant Fest, Fabrika, Москва, 30-31.05.2008
Harmonia (Michael Rother, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dieter Moebius), Pierre Bastien, ZU, F.M. Einheit & Caspar Brötzmann, Atlantida, Digital Forks, Н.О.М., Cyclofillydea, MoHa! (Anders Hana, Morten J. Olsen), Eraldo Bernocchi @ SKIF XII, Прибой, СПб, 25.04.2008
Einstürzende Neubauten @ Манеж, СПб, 23.04.2008
2008.04.06 Суперструны Цоколь
2008.03.14 NOM НОМ Place
2008.02.29 Алиса СКК
Red Snapper @ Манеж, СПб, 23.02.2008
Сказы леса @ The Place, СПб, 08.12.2007
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson (фильм + встреча) @ Дом кино, СПб, 18.11.2007
Сказы леса @ The Place, СПб, 04.10.2007
The Rolling Stones @ Дворцовая пл., СПб, 28.07.2007
Sonic Youth @ Манеж, СПб, 18.06.2007
НОМ @ Платформа, СПб, 09.06.2007
Tribes Of The City (The Movies) @ The Place, СПб, 06.05.2007
Pia Fraus @ Red club, СПб, 20.04.2006
Brian Eno, Rachid Taha @ Манеж, СПб, 24.05.2005
Franz Ferdinand @ Манеж, СПб, 18.05.2005
Violet Indiana (Siobhan de Maré, Robin Guthrie) @ Red club, 01.05.2004
Dead Can Dance @ БКЗ, СПб, 02.04.2005
Jethro Tull @ БКЗ, СПб, 24.03.2005
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27. Primavera 2019 @ Barcelona
26. Roadburn 2017 @ Tilburg, Netherlands
25. Sideways 2018 @ Helsinki, Finland
24. Roadburn 2018 @ Tilburg, Netherlands
23. Rock en Seine 2017 @ Paris
22. Sideways 2017 @ Helsinki, Finland
21. Roadburn 2017 @ Tilburg, Netherlands
20. OFF 2016 @ Katowice, Poland
19. Primavera 2016 @ Barcelona
18. Roadburn 2016 @ Tilburg, Netherlands
17. Primavera 2015 @ Porto
16. Roadburn 2015 @ Tilburg, Netherlands
15. Primavera 2014 @ Porto
14. Primavera 2014 @ Barcelona, Spain
13. Roadburn 2014 @ Tilburg, Netherlands
12. Flow 2013 @ Helsinki, Finland
11. Primavera 2013 @ Barcelona, Spain
10. Roadburn 2013 @ Tilburg, Netherlands
9. OFF 2012 @ Katowice, Netherlands
8. Primavera 2012 @ Barcelona, Spain
7. Roadburn 2012 @ Tilburg, Netherlands
6. Flow 2011 @ Helsinki, Finland
5. Primavera 2011 @ Barcelona, Spain
4. Roadburn 2011 @ Tilburg, Netherlands
3. Rock en Seine 2010 @ Paris, France
2. Primavera 2010 @ Barcelona, Spain
1. Primavera 2009 @ Barcelona, Spain
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buy from bluetapes.co.uk/product/blue-eight-katie-gately
C30 + download code
It was after hearing Katie Gately's remix of Schemawound back in February - incredibly one of the first pieces of music that she had made - that we immediately began hassling her to do a tape for us.
The result is Pipes, a piece that is both concise and ambitious. A 22nd Century pop song made out of nothing but the massed tones of the human voice, so complex that it took six painstaking months to assemble, but dropkicks the seratonin-releasing pleasure centres of the brain like the most immediate and narcotic of pop hits.
Influenced by Arthur Russell and Gregorian chant, Pipes is a kind of future choral music. In its soundworld, synthesizers have been superseded by lungs, and soundscapes are no longer programmed, but can be projected into the air at the speed of thought.
If you loved Petra Haden's classic 2005 acapella reading of The Who Sell Out, but thought it would be loads better without all The Who bits, then you'll love this. If you love pop music, but hate dumb lyrics, then this is for you. If you've ever felt a surge of energy from the sound of another human singing - whether it's opera or death metal - then this is a substation. This electric is natural and now.
Disclaimer: NO INSTRUMENTS WERE USED IN THE MAKING OF THIS RECORDING.
Praise for blue eight:
"Pipes is a stunning, cellular quilt of resonant textures, a kind of concrete chorale for vocal cords, constructed entirely from voice samples." - The Wire
"Now, I find this music mindblowing. This is my favourite track of 2013. It's really, really avant-garde. It's really leftfield. It doesn't sound like much else that's out there. And it kind of makes a mockery of this received wisdom that avant-garde music is always unapproachable." - John Doran, BBC Radio 6 Music
"There's no real competition when it comes to pinpointing the most eye-opening piece of new music to emerge from the past twelve months. Katie Gately's Pipes is it. Comprised entirely of her own, digitally manipulated vocals, it overarchingly distills the fabric of the modern human mind into one fourteen-minute blowout, searching for beauty through passages of wistful crescendoing, about-turning and quivering through hard-to-nail-down emotions, restlessly exploding with countless momentary thoughts, and all irrevocably interlocked with the omnipresent draw of technology. Pipes' cyborgian methodology is no deterministic trapping though. Gately and the machine's is a symbiotic relationship, creating a virtual sonic hall of mirrors, reflecting, refracting and amplifying her voice into every possible nook and cranny of your inner ear. The Quietus' decision to name Pipes as one of their albums of the year so far (admittedly it was released in late 2013, but only a handful of us had heard it at that point) is testament to the piece's sheer brilliance - all the more remarkable coming from an almost entirely unknown newcomer. ” - The Quietus (best tapes of 2013, and #7 best album of 2014)
"You can hear that escalation in Gately's work as you can in Parmegiani's 1990s-onwards work or in Oswald's Plexure and Grayfolded." - Simon Reynolds
“The 14-minute title piece is constructed entirely of vocals (and effects) and is one of the most stunning compositions I’ve heard in 2013. Dense layering and broken rhythms become an all-encompassing horror ride that I never want to end. My mind is totally blown. Pipes is one of 2013’s highlights.” - FACT Magazine (#2 tape of 2013)
"Gately's voice, torn asunder and reconfigured into something like an ecstatic pop song that can and does go every which way. It'd be a disservice to even describe the insane chutes and ladders game that Pipes plays." - NPR (best tapes of 2013)
"A truly dizzying and satisfying release from Katie Gately. With the exclusive use of processed, manipulated, and layered vocal tracks Katie invents a fun house mirror maze of sound that ping pongs from celestial to inebriated. There are jarring transitions from theme to theme to theme with the GPS battery totally drained. Just please check this out." - Ad Hoc/Tabs Out
"'Pipes' is a vocals-only track, a wonderful piece of ethereal breathing and crystal Pop constructed in what sound like infinite layers of dazzling landscapes, her stunning voice invading each corner of the music." - The 405
"A fantastic layering of ghostly sounds... spectacular, beautiful." - Los Angeles, I'm Yours
"Katie Gately's production for Blue Tapes at once resembles Medulla's fragmentation of mouth-centric music. It is dark, restless, unpredictably glitchy..." - No Fear of Pop
"Leftfield Katie Gately creates a weird discordant form of avant-garde Pop that keeps us coming back for more. There’s something within its ever-changing skin that keeps us listening, keeps us guessing and keeps us attempting to unravel the songs and their bewildering construction." - Bowlegs
"Blue Tapes have already released some of the most intoxicating music of the year... there is no question this is the best release yet from the label. Pipes is a fourteen-minute masterpiece of sonic exploration and, if that phrase conjures up thoughts of cold, atonal experimentation then dismiss them immediately but this is anything but. Remarkably for a work made purely from tones of the human voice, it has a defiant and heady kick and a distinct and bewitching sense of harmony, albeit harmony of a kind you'll rarely find even hinted at in the mechanic industrial factory fodder of yer average pop song. Gately strips all that away to leave something pure and brilliant and the fourteen minutes we're left with is sublime, sparse and entirely enthralling throughout." - Unwashed Territories
"Truly inspiring... Ms Gately has been busy beyond the point of insanity meticulously crafting a layer upon layer coding purely of her vocals into an exhaustive aural trip which can only be described as a kookily kissed celestial choral carousel of sorts, what first starts out shy eyed and rubbed with folky lullaby like appeal soon fuses into heavenly washes to dissipate and dissolve into dream pop arcs ushering with intricate detail towards a heightening crescendo only to re-emerge from the foggy haze into a lounge lilted lovely that playfully touches base in a most engagingly erratic fashion with Laetitia Sadier in frivolous moods out to play with Heather Duby and Takako Minekawa - it really is bizarrely beautiful and definitely worth investigation." - The Sunday Experience
"Pipes is a very pleasing mixture of ambient vocal pulsing that transitions into complex rhythmic textures. I look forward to hearing what Katie Gately comes up with next." - Cassette Gods
"...almost like a pop song, with a mass of voices providing drones, melodies, beats and all such like, and we hear Gately singing heavenly, chanting is probably a better word." - Vital Weekly
"Best thing Blue Tapes have released so far - fabulous." - Sean Hocking, Dandelion Radio
"One of our favourite new electronic experimentalists..." - Seal On Psychedelics
"What does it sound like then? Ummmm? Like a totally fucking mad drug trip I suppose. At it's root is the kind of gibbering, lunatic experimental techno I really love but it also appears Katie has invited an entire stampeding zoo of sonic unhinged-ness into her already vast arena of delirium. If you imagined Warpaint and Grouper savagely compressed into one entity, abstractedly remixed by a drunken and fried Oneohtrix Point Never and then the whole thing handed over to insane jungle-floor dwelling Finn Tomutonttu, then subsequently vomited into the lap of Squarepusher and Bogdan Raczynski at their most gabba-like deranged? Maybe then you'd have some semblance of an inkling how intensely mad this tape really is. 9/10" - Brian, Norman Records
"You’ve read the blurb, seen the rave reviews, now please restore my faith in humanity and buy this tape. For music of this quality 200 copies should be gone in an instant, but we don’t live in a just world. Sure, you only get one track on the physical tape (repeated both sides), but you also get a 9-minute download track of equal quality and the fuzzy feeling inside of knowing you’re onto something special. The track is hard to describe, all manipulated vocals in an unknown or non-language ebbing and flowing. It’s avant-garde, but accessible. The best thing to do is to listen to the extract on this site rather than me try to describe it and make your way to the checkout. 9/10" - Dan John, Norman Records
Top 200 of 2017 @ deepskyobject
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#shoegaze #dreampop
01. Slowdive - Slowdive
02. Ride - Weather Diaries
03. Black Nite Crash - Nevergreen
04. Loomer - Deserter
05. Palm Haze - Tangy Dream
06. Maw - Maw
07. Plant Cell - Flowergaze? (Rebuild)
08. The Cult Of Lip - Your Feedback EP
09. Roma - Ficciones EP
10. Airiel - Molten Young Lovers
11. The Cherry Wave - Inhale, Exhale
12. June Parker - We're Exactly Where We Are
13. Coloresantos - Tercer Paisaje
14. Weed - Born Wrong Love
15. Kindling - Hush
16. Weed Hounds - Double Life EP
17. Fun With Ether - Tanned Skin, Light Eyes
18. Deafcult - Auras
19. Taffy - Nyctophilia
20. Brief Candles - Retreater
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#dreampop #ethereal
01. Ozean - Ozean EP (1992 / 2017)
02. Pia Fraus - Field Ceremony
03. The Morelings - Same Century
04. Spirit Valley - Negatives
05. Glass - Lure
06. The Luxembourg Signal - Blue Field
07. Secret Shine - There Is Only Now
08. Blonde Tongues - Safe Like Silk In Polyester Sheets
09. Trementina - 810
10. Whimsical - Sleep To Dream
11. Spc Eco - Calm
12. Electro Group - Ranger
13. Autumn's Grey Solace - Celestial Realms
14. Fawns Of Love - Who Cares About Tomorrow
15. Panda Riot - Infinity Maps
16. Slow Glows - Star Trail EP
17. Soon, She Said - The First Casualty Of Love Is Innocence
18. The History Of Colour TV - Something Like Eternity
19. Tangible Rays - Seance
20. The Stargazer Lilies - Lost
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#indiepop #slowcore #noisepop
01. Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex
02. Agent Blå - Agent Blå
03. Dayzed - Haze EP
04. Johnny Jewel – Windswept
05. The Bv's - Speaking From A Distance
06. Novella - Change of State
07. Fazerdaze - Morningside
08. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet
09. Girl Ray - Earl Grey
10. Drab Majesty - The Demonstration
11. Lau Nau - Poseidon
12. Burning Hearts - Battlefields
13. Beach Fossils - Somersault
14. Pale Honey - Devotion
15. Hoops - Routines
16. Say Sue Me - Say Sue Me
17. Star Tropics - Lost World
18. Alvvays - Antisocialites
19. BMX Bandits - Forever
20. Flotation Toy Warning - The Machine That Made Us
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#rock #postpunk #psychedelic
01. Wolf Alice - Visions Of A Life
02. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
03. Kælan Mikla - Mánadans (2013–2014)
04. Idles - Brutalism
05. Thurston Moore - Rock N Roll Consciousness
06. Overlake - Fall
07. Ty Segall - Fried Shallots
08. Wire - Silver/Lead
09. The Horrors - V
10. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Damage and Joy
11. Morrissey - Low in High School
12. Oh Sees - Orc
13. The I.L.Y's - Bodyguard
14. Crash City Saints - Are You Free
15. At the Drive-In - in•ter a•li•a
16. Pond - The Weather
17. L.A. Witch - L.A. Witch
18. UV-TV - Glass
19. Ulrika Spacek - Modern English Decoration
20. Monster Movie - Keep the Voices Distant
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#artpop #lofi #synthwave
01. Hazel English - Just Give In / Never Going Home
02. Midwife - Like Author, Like Daughter
03. Circuit Des Yeux - Reaching for Indigo
04. Susanne Sundfør - Music for People in Trouble
05. Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
06. Beaches - Second Of Spring
07. Marika Hackman - I'm Not Your Man
08. Ariel Pink - Dedicated to Bobby Jameson
09. Molly Nilsson - Imaginations
10. Chastity Belt - I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
11. Priests - Nothing Feels Natural
12. Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology
13. Future Islands - The Far Field
14. Arcade Fire - Everything Now
15. London Grammar - Truth Is A Beautiful Thing
16. Goldfrapp - Silver Eye
17. Mammút - Kinder Versions
18. St. Vincent - Masseduction
19. The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions
20. Shelling - Waiting For Mint Shower
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#psychedelic #kraut #jazz
01. Kairon; IRSE! – Ruination
02. Kamasi Washington - Harmony Of Difference
03. Videodrones - Nattens Hævn
04. Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar
05. Bardo Pond - Under The Pines
06. Moon Duo - Occult Architecture Vol. 1,2
07. New Candys - Bleeding Magenta
08. Zimpel/Ziołek - Zimpel/Ziołek
09. Dollkraut - Holy Ghost People
10. Kielov - Elektronische EP
11. Mogwai - Every Country's Sun
12. Swans - Deliquescence (live)
13. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Undoing A Luciferian Towers
14. The Black Heart Death Cult - Black Rainbow EP
15. Electric Moon - Stardust Rituals
16. The Black Angels - Death Song
17. Horte - Horte
18. Fujiya & Miyagi - Different Blades From The Same
19. Lætitia Sadier Source Ensemble - Find Me Finding You
20. Aidan Baker & Claire Brentnall - Delirious Things
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#postmetal #doom #postindustrial #atmosphericblack
01. Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
02. Wolves in the Throne Room + Anna von Hausswolff - Thrice Woven
03. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
04. Planning For Burial - Below the House
05. Blanck Mass - World Eater
06. Palehorse/Palerider - Burial Songs
07. Richard H. Kirk - Dasein
08. Converge – The Dusk In Us
09. Auðn - Farvegir Fyrndar
10. Tchornobog - Tchornobog
11. Amenra - Mass VI
12. Couch Slut – Contempt
13. Hell - Hell
14. Rope Sect – Personae Ingratae
15. Avatarium - Hurricanes and Halos
16. Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper
17. Merkabah - Million Miles
18. Paradise Lost - Medusa
19. Enslaved - E
20. Violet Cold – Anomie
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#ambient #drone #noise
01. Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks: Limited Event Series Soundtrack
02. Demen - Nektyr
03. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
04. Dean Hurley - Anthology Resource Vol. 1: △△
05. The Bug & Earth - Concrete Desert
06. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - On the Echoing Green
07. William Basinski - A Shadow in Time
08. Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts
09. Ryuichi Sakamoto - async
10. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - The Vietnam War OST
11. Brian Eno - Sisters
12. Ben Frost - The Centre Cannot Hold
13. Windy & Carl - Blues For A UFO
14. Kaukolampi - 1
15. Sarah Davachi - All My Circles Run
16. Prurient - Rainbow Mirror
17. Hammock - Mysterium
18. Iona Fortune – Tao Of I
19. The Necks - Unfold
20. Chihei Hatakeyama - Mirage
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#electronic #techno #idm
01. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
02. John Maus - Screen Memories
03. Actress - AZD
04. Bicep - Bicep
05. Fever Ray - Plunge
06. Dopplereffekt - Cellular Automata
07. James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
08. Eye (Laurène Exposito) — Cocktail Mexico EP
09. Carla dal Forno - The Garden EP
10. Colleen - A Flame My Love, A Frequency
11. Tzusing - 東方不敗
12. Karen Gwyer - Rembo
13. Daniel O'Sullivan - Veld
14. JASSS - Weightless
15. Lost Horizons - Ojala
16. Kalax - Kalax
17. Félicia Atkinson - Hand In Hand
18. Wanderwelle - Lost in a Sea of Trees
19. Hidden Orchestra - Dawn Chorus
20. Laurel Halo - Dust
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#Russia
01. Blankenberge - Radiogaze
02. Kedr Livanskiy - Ariadna
03. Спасибо - Навсегда
04. Архитектурный Оркестр Благодетели - АОБ
05. Рука Дочери - Скрежет
06. Aerofall - Forms
07. Лиловые Тюльпаны - 20 [Мы взрослеем позже, чем все] EP
08. Life on Venus - Encounters
09. Твои друзья полимеры - В чужой стране EP
10. Nika boginya - 12 заповедей богичности
11. Commis Voyageur - Le Passé Du Commis Voyageur
12. Sonic Death - Space Goth
13. Утро - Третий альбом
14. Bananafish - VIV
15. Supernova 1006 - Unique World
16. Antethic - Ghost Shirt Society
17. Буерак - Скромные апартаменты
18. Gnoomes - Tschak!
19. Shimmerance - Bright EP
20. Katya Yonder - Winter Skins
21. Chkbns - This Time EP
22. Fleece Flower - Что ты видишь
23. Cherry Candy - Singles
24. Rosemary Loves A Blackberry - Heart
25. Kittypants - Rest In Peace, baby
26. Dee Grinski (Manunkind) - Subspace EP
27. Ил - Нечисть
28. Park17 - Проснуться молодым
29. Краснознаменная Дивизия Имени Моей Бабушки - Посмертные приключения
30. Электрофорез - Quo vadis?
31. Блааӂь - Etudes Of Decay EP
32. Громыка - Нашатырь
33. Jassa - Incarnation of the Higher Gnosis
34. Ploho - Бумажные бомбы
35. Группа Женского Айкидо - Туры Выходного Дня EP
36. Малыш Камю - Никто не хочет играть со мной
37. Atariame - Fear is the World
38. Please Tokyo, Please This Is Tokyo - Карусель
39. Cosmic Triggers - Homo Fractaliens
40. Πлачь Ʒемля - Древние EP
41. Sewage Sour - OTMENA
42. Юлия Накарякова - Здравствуй!
43. Mercurium - Любовь Это Спецэффекты
44. Kirov - Тем, кого это касается EP
45. Iron Driver - Crack Of The Whip EP
46. Reverbcore - Diffusion EP
47. Fraunhofer Diffraction - Star Trails
48. Сруб - Восход
49. Фонтан - Обещание подростка EP
50. Пасош - Каждый раз самый важный раз
honorable mentions:
Pinkshinyultrablast - In The Hanging Gardens, 10" (2017), ждём альбом в мае 2018
Bearsinclouds - Antiparty (2017)
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Best Concerts of 2017
01. Anna von Hausswolff & Kristof Hahn (Swans), Fennesz & Lillevan, Maarja Nuut & Hendrik Kaljujärv, Dollkraut, Fogh Depot, Anika, Rosemary Loves A Blackberry, Громыка, VHK @ SKIF, St Petersburg, RU, 30.09.2017
02. Auðn, True Widow, Amenra, Chelsea Wolfe, Magma, Oathbreaker, Subrosa (Subdued), Naðra, Perturbator, Zhrine, Telepathy @ Roadburn, Tilburg, NL, 21.04.2017
03. Ulver, Emma Ruth Rundle, Come To Grief, Inter Arma, Radar Men From The Moon, Jaye Jayle, Les Discrets, Oxbow, Pillorian (Agalloch) @ Roadburn, Tilburg, NL, 23.04.2017
04. The Radio Dept., Chelsea Wolfe, Kairon; IRSE!, Death Hawks, Röyksopp feat Jonna Lee, The Coathangers, Ilpo Väisänen & Jimi Tenor: Mika Vainio-tribuutti, Dinosaur Jr., Sanni @ Sideways, Helsinki, FI, 10.06.2017
05. Oranssi Pazuzu, Mysticum, Wolvennest, Aluk Todolo, The Bug vs Dylan Carlson of Earth, Trans Am, Misþyrming, My Dying Bride, Disfear @ Roadburn, Tilburg, NL, 22.04.2017
06. Clock DVA, Actress, Dopplereffekt @ PPF Artplay, St Petersburg, RU, 28.07.2017
07. The Thurston Moore Group, Huoratron, Kaleidobolt, Kynnet, Editors, Mikko Joensuu: Amen 3, Demdike Stare, DJ Shadow, Tommy Cash, Iisa @ Sideways, Helsinki, FI, 09.06.2017
08. At the Drive-In, Franz Ferdinand, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Black Lips, Allah-Las, MØ @ Rock En Seine, Paris, FR, 25.08.2017
09. Slowdive, Ty Segall, Clara Luciaini, Arnaud Rebotini, The Lemon Twigs, The xx, George Ezra @ Rock En Seine, Paris, FR, 27.08.2017
10. Римский-Корсаков - Снегурочка @ Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, RU, 29.01.2017
11. The Jesus & Mary Chain, Cold Cave @ Tavastia, Helsinki, FI 10.10.2017
12. PJ Harvey, Frustration, Ulrika Spacek, Lysistrata, Fakear, Girls In Hawaii, Karoline Rose @ Rock En Seine, Paris, FR, 26.08.2017
13. Daniel Avery, Silver Apples, Unit Moebius, Das Ding, Love Cult, Juju & Jordash, Planetary Assault Systems, Simple Symmetry, Module Werk, Утро, Kausto, Inga Mauer @ PPF, St Petersburg, RU, 29.07.2017
14. Esben and The Witch, Deafheaven, Coven, Subrosa, Suma, Rome, Wolves In The Throne Room, Lycus, Alaric, Bongzilla @ Roadburn, Tilburg, NL, 20.04.2017
15. Legowelt, Silent Servant, Inga Mauer @ Artplay, St Petersburg, RU, 23.02.2017
16. Wardruna, Forndom, Nytt Land @ Kosmonavt, St Petersburg, Russia, 05.02.2017
17. Cigarettes After Sex @ Hi-Hat, St Petersburg, RU, 12.07.2017
18. Blankenberge, Wreck and Reference @ Les Villa, St Petersburg, RU, 21.07.2017
19. Oscar Powell, Alessandro Adriani, David Vunk, An-I (Douglas Lee), DJ Haus (Rupert Cogan), Module Werk, Nocow @ Artplay, St Petersburg, Russia, 23.09.2017
20. Jaakko Eino Kalevi, Teksti-TV 666, K-X-P, Sonic Death, Сплин, Uncle @ Stereoleto, St Petersburg, RU, 09.07.2017
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Top Films of 2017
01. Молодой Годар / Le Redoutable @ Michel Hazanavicius, 10/10
02. Ван Гог. С любовью, Винсент / Loving Vincent @ Hugh Welchman, Dorota Kobiela, 9/10
03. На игле 2 / T2 Trainspotting @ Danny Boyle, 8/10
04. Дюнкерк / Dunkirk @ Christopher Nolan, 8/10
05. Бегущий по лезвию 2049 / Blade Runner 2049 @ Denis Villeneuve, 8/10
06. Валериан и город тысячи планет / Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets @ Luc Besson, 8/10
07. Ветреная река / Wind river @ Taylor Sheridan, 8/10
08. Джуманджи: Зов джунглей / Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle @ Jake Kasdan, 8/10
09. Дикарь / Gauguin - Voyage de Tahiti @ Edouard Deluc, 7/10
10. Взрывная блондинка / Atomic Blonde @ David Leitch, 7/10
11. Оно / It @ Andy Muschietti, 7/10
12. Живое / Life @ Daniel Espinosa, 7/10
13. Призрак в доспехах / Ghost in the Shell @ Rupert Sanders, 7/10
14. Убийство священного оленя / The Killing of a Sacred Deer @ Yorgos Lanthimos, 6/10
15. Звёздные войны: Последние джедаи / Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi @ Rian Johnson, 6/10
16. За пропастью во ржи / Rebel in the Rye @ Danny Strong, 6/10
17. Субурбикон / Suburbicon @ George Clooney, 6/10
18. Стражи Галактики 2 / Guardians of the Galaxy 2 @ James Gunn, 5/10
19. Двуличный любовник / L'amant double @ François Ozon, 5/10
20. Джон Уик 2 / John Wick: Chapter Two @ Chad Stahelski, 5/10
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TOTAL RECALL:
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Underground French Pop: The Sound of Freaksville 2006-2016.
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You may be aware of a popular English parlour game, where contestants are asked to name 10 famous Belgians. Eavesdrop on caravans up and down the country on any given wet weekend, and you might just hear the names Rene Magritte, Hergé, Papa Smurf and Hercule Poirot being recited. Have a go yourself, it’s harder than it looks.
It thus proves that Belgium, a sovereign state of 11 million people, steeped in history and rich with cultural caché (and home to the European Union lest we forget), is the most arcane and unfathomable land in the whole of Europe. So it makes us wonder: just how recondite must the underground scene of Europa’s most underground country be? The answer to that question is “very”, and the purest embodiment of this almost Marxist underground ethos of creativity, is the wonderful FREAKSVILLE record label, originating in the eastern municipality of Liège and now based in Brussels.
Freaksville takes DIY punk culture and sci-fi b-movie underground culture as its inspirations, and over the last decade, it has been a living testament to how cooperation on a shoestring can reap handsome benefits. Since 2006, this artistic cooperative has been exploring lushly-arranged French pop, retro synthpop, garage rock, sunshine pop, chanson, motorik, psych rock, noise pop, library and the avant garde, to name just some of the genres on offer. To celebrate this great abundance of creativity, a retrospective triple album featuring the very best of the last 10 years of the label is about to be released september 30th.
Underground French Pop: The Sound of Freaksville 2006-2016, features 40 beautifully produced songs in all. Every track featured on the compilation has been played on Europe’s most influential radio stations, from BBC 6 Music in the UK, to France’s beloved antenne musicale éclectique, FIP radio. Quite an achievement for a small independent label that was just getting started when the music industry was being administered its last rites a decade ago. Against all the odds, this group of plucky musicians from the Wallonian region of Seraing threw caution to the wind, and pressed ahead with the raison d’etre to produce the most scintillating mutant underground pop music going. And they succeeded.
Fast forward to 2016, and Freaksville Records is in the rudest of health. Led by Benjamin Schoos - aka Miam Monster Miam (a writer, composer, producer, singer, actor, illustrator, radio entrepreneur and svengali), Freaksville is the Belgian Brill Building, The Wrecking Crew and Gold Star Studios all rolled into one. In fact there’s something Spector-esque about guru-master Schoos (with a “personnage à la réputation excentrique” according to the Belgian press). “In 2006, social network websites such as MySpace helped us to sell music and find and promote gigs,” he says. “For a French-speaking music label, we never expected the artists on our roster to tour outside of the francosphere in countries like China, Vietnam, Japan, Spain, Great Britain, Germany and even Russia. So that’s been a good surprise!”
As well as Schoos himself, the stable of artists includes cult Brusselian Jacques Duvall, French chanteuse, actress and socialite Marie France, New Yorkers April March & Aquaserge, plus a host of other Belgian artists including The Loved Drones, Phantom, Mademoiselle 19 and Goldenboy. Add to that, the galaxy of cult collaborators over the past decade, that includes: Damo Suzuki, Laetitia Sadier, Mark Gardener, Bertrand Burgalat, Jean Jacques Perrey, Alain Chamfort, Telex, Chrissie Hynde, Emmanuelle Parrenin, Coralie Clément and Barbara Morgenstern. Schoos had even lined up a duet with Emmanuelle star Sylvia Kristel for his lauded album China Man vs Chinagirl, but sadly ill health intervened. The cast is a mightily impressive one, especially in the face of the adversity that almost all independents have suffered this last decade.
“A crisis is often a period which is interesting for art, even if it’s more difficult,” says Schoos.
The highlights on this triple album are almost too numerous to mention, though there’s everything a listener seeking great underground French pop will be looking for, from the swoonsome romance and Melody Nelson-style strings of ‘Je ne vois que vous’ by Schoos and Sadier, to the catchy, almost zoonotic bizarreness of ‘What’s Up Duck?’ by Jean-Jacques Perrey & David Chazam. And while you’re waiting for Underground French Pop: The Sound of Freaksville 2006-2016 to drop, how about coming up with some more famous Belgians? Let’s see, there’s Audrey Hepburn, Stromae, Jacques Brel, Adolphe Sax…
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benjaminschoos.bandcamp.com/album/night-music-love-songs
English:
Belgian-born Francophile Benjamin Schoos doesn't sleep much. Instead he spends his nights thumbing through novels in front of the black-and-white flicker of old science-fiction movies, swimming in the stillness and hush of a world outside momentarily calm. It was in this “nocturnal ambience”, as he calls it, that his latest selection of piano-led Parisian pop songs, each one like a slow kiss amid the madness of Belleville patisserie, came to him. 'Night Music, Love Songs', is Schoos' Third solo album, and the follow-up to 2014's remarkable 'Beau Futur' – an electronic fantasia of stories of stuntmen, astronauts and sun-soaked Italian villas. This latest charge into haunting synths and melodies that glisten and waver like street lights in the Seine strips back his sound of old to bare, affecting essentials – a lilting listen full of warm, misty-eyed romance that questions what it is to love someone. “It's a very particular feeling...” explains Schoos. “One that can move and shake you as much as it can make you suffer.”
“Both women and the night are muses of this album,” says the one-time Eurovision Song Contest representative for Belgium, but that's not where his inspiration ends. The glacial minimalism of Erik Satie influences parts of 'Night Songs, Love Music'; the pre- and post-war French chanson of Charles Trenet and Henri Salvador elsewhere. “Soft jazz and sunshine pop” were other factors in its making but one record in particular convinced him to forgo some of the wild-eyed stories of his previous records – 2012's 'China Man vs China Girl' was about a broken-down wrestler, based on an action figure his son owned – to confront the twin highs and lows of love. “I really love the Lewis album 'L’amour.' It convinced me you could make a record on this theme and evoke a dream in Paris.”
That dream takes Schoos – who memorably collaborated with Laetitia Sadier on the stirring 'Je Ne Vois Que Vous', earning him a place on the BBC 6 Music A-list – here through old Elka drum machine beats ('Un Fille En Or') and lush saxophone solos ('I Love You'). It takes him on 'Le Matire Du Monde' to a smoggy den of meanies (“I've always loved songs about bastards,” he says) and on 'Le Grand Paquebot Va Sombrer', translated in English to 'The Big Ship Is About To Sink', to a gorgeous moment of serious strangeness. “That track is about a guy who disguises himself as a woman to save his own skin on the Titanic, as women and children are the first people to be saved in case of emergency,” Schoos explains. “It starts as a transgender song and then we discover the fraud.”
Written and recorded in twilight hours at Schoos' studio – “a cabinet of curiosities,” he describes it, full of dusty string simulators and old echo and reverb tape recorders – ''Night Music, Love Songs'' has an impulsive heartbeat befitting a man who once did a journey in the footsteps of the famous Arthur Rimbaud, simply because he loved the Marseille man's surrealist poetry. “I began with improvisations. I start the rhythm box and add an improvised instrumental melody on the piano,” recalls the songwriter. “Once this basis is stable, I finally build my songs. I loved the minimalist sound my strange tools were producing. Finally, everything took shape once I added the lyrics – the last step in songwriting as I always favour melody.”
“It's an intimate album,” admits Schoos – maybe his most intimate yet. “It mixes delicate flavours of nostalgia with intense sentimental reverie... Nothing would please me more than people listening to this record while driving down a dark road around 2am. My previous albums dreamed about three-dimensional pop and constantly broke the tempo within the record. This one is more personal and belongs to the slow songs album tradition. I'm very proud of it. My songwriting and I have grown in this adventure.” It's an adventure, from the opening blooms of piano on its opening track, you'll quickly find yourself swept up in. “L'amour est la poesie des sens,” famously said the 19th century novelist Honoré de Balzac – “love is the poetry of the senses.” Let the stirring and seductive 'Night Music, Love Songs' ignite your senses this winter – you won't regret it.
French:
Benjamin Schoos. Il y a chez cet homme raisonné une folie qui s'ignore. Parlez-lui du nom de scène qui l’a fait connaître au grand public (Miam Monster Miam, 7 albums à son actif), lui répond par un changement d’identité et une carrière en solo. Dites-lui qu’il s’est assagi et le voilà qui lance un projet instrumental kraut-psych avec ses Loved Drones. Quant au virage chanson française, perceptible depuis China Man Vs China Girl (2012), il est amorcé alors que l’époque est à l’autotune, au rap Youtube et autres combats de rue où les chanteurs romantiques n’ont plus leur place. Il y a donc dans la discographie de ce Schoos de quoi désarçonner le plus aguerri des cavaliers. C’est comment qu’on schizo-freine ?
Parce que comme le disait le Cardinal de Retz « on ne sort de l’ambiguïté qu’à son détriment », Benjamin fonce tout Schoos et cultive l’amour des contraires là où tant d’autres sortent des disques contrariés. Fin d’un triptyque débuté en 2012 avec China Man Vs China Girl (2012) et Beau Futur (2014), Night Music, Love Songs possède au moins le mérite de la clarté : tout est dit dans le titre. Ecrit avec deux compagnons de solitude (Jacques Duvall et Dodi El Sherbini) et enregistré la nuit au studio Freaksville autour d’un piano, d’un orgue Hammond et d’une boite à rythme Elka Drummer One (celle utilisée par François de Roubaix), ce troisième essai en solo lève définitivement le voile sur les dessous chic du compositeur belge : musique nocturne et chansons d’amour en format cinémascope. Dans la veine des chansons lentes (on dit slow dans la langue de Joe Jackson) qui balisent depuis 50 ans l’histoire de la musique anglo-saxonne.
Sans masque, ni maquillage, les sept morceaux qui composent Night Music, Love Songs sonnent comme une réponse très premier degré au cynisme ambiant, et font de cet étrange objet du désir un parfait contrepoint, encore une fois, à l’époque. Gimmicks synthétiques évoquant la bande original d’Emmanuelle, arrangements dépouillés rappelant en filigrane le Sébastien Tellier sobre des débuts, costume de Frank Sinatra entonnant Un inconnu dans la nuit en franco-belge dans le texte ; on tient assurément un french crooner revisitant l’histoire de France, et dans laquelle quelques héros à voix perchées (Christophe, Polnareff ) ont su mieux que personne faire trembler la France d’avant les quotas.
« Sur le walk of fame, on est tous les mêmes » chante Schoos sur I love you, piste d’ouverture à écouter à l’horizontale, saxophone coincé dans l’entrejambe. Ce qui est évidemment vrai est aussi faux : personne ne ressemble à Benjamin Schoos. Sa nuit à lui, au moins, ne ment pas. On tient peut-être le disque de chevet d’une discographie à dormir debout.
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released January 29, 2016
"The grand gestures of Gainsbourg and Vannier loom large... these nocturnal romances still confirm French as the language of the impossibly glamorous."
Uncut 8/10
"Belgian-born Schoos embraces hushed reflection. Just the right time. Deep, dark, affecting"
MOJO ***
"His tracks paint the most vivid of pictures using words, once you’ve translated them of course, and sings with the same truth and valour about the romance in both life, love and death"
Gigsoup ****
"Prolifique et romantique, le songwriter belge publie un nouvel album bizarroîde"
Les Inrockuptibles ****
"Ambiance Christophienne, fleur à la boutonnière, yeux faits, fauteuils en velours et plus personne dans le salon du bateau fantôme". Technikart ****
"..en sept titres majestueux, on se rend à l'évidence: avec son piano blanc, sa boite à rythmes et ses vieilles machines, il parvient à émouvoir, d'abord, puis à instaurer une ambiance racée sans discontinuer, verbe agile à l'appui, ensuite."
Muzzart
"Benjamin Schoos s’est littéralement métamorphosé. En artiste accompli, en musicien sobre, toujours exigeant. En grand ordonnateur d’une musique adulte, sérieuse, pénétrante mais encore rafraîchissante. Comme un dernier cocktail sur le pont du navire avant qu’il ne tutoie je ne sais quel glacier imminent. Qu’il ne disparaisse et fasse place à un autre chef-d’œuvre. Car celui-là en est un."
Shebam Blog Pop Wizz
"Principalement synthétiques, ces chansons romantiques et vespérales sont nées de l'amour du Wallon pour les claviers hors d'âge et les boîtes à rythmes vintage, et enrichies de quelques instruments discrets (flûte, orgue Hammond, violoncelle, bugle, trompette."
Magic rpm ****
"C’est son côté crooner sérieux et authentique que laisse parler ici Benjamin qui, sans difficulté, parvient à nous émouvoir."
Le Mad (Le Soir)
"En s’affranchissant de guitares, basses et batteries parfois un peu poussives, il laisse ainsi se sublimer d’elles-mêmes quelques magnifiques lignes de piano, plusieurs envolées de cordes et autres échappées belles de cuivres. C’est doux. Parfois un peu trouble. Mais c’est beau. Très beau, même."
Idoles Mag
"37 Minuten großes Nacht-Kino."
Sound and Image
"...Ces love songs crépusculaires et langoureuses, réunies dans un album bouleversant et sublime de bout en bout. De la très haute couture, Monsieur Schoos !"
Benzine Mag
"Un album court mais intense, aux confins de l’intimité et capable de nous faire passer par toutes les couleurs. Sept titres pour au moins mille émotions."
Branchesculture
"...Un disque de Crooning nocturne mise en mots par Jacques Duvall. Tender is The Night"
Focus Vif
"Un album mélodieux aux nuances délicates orchestrées de main de maître (du monde)."
La magicbox
"Il nous offre un album de Dandy du crépuscule au romantisme à la fois plastique et éthéré."
Metro
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Photography : Pascal Schyns.
Sleeve design : Scalp.
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Catalog number : FRVM74
Catalog number CD : FRVR55
Catalog number Vinyl LP : FRVR55
℗ Freaksville Publishing 2015
© Freaksville Publishing 2016
"my heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught"
"Since the late 1990s, Collins’ diverse practice has addressed the act of image-making itself, reflecting on the status of the individual and the collective in today’s media-dominated society. Characteristic of the artist’s approach is a close engagement with place and communities, which over the years have included disco-dancing Palestinians, fans of The Smiths across three continents, the youth of Baghdad, and teachers of Marxism-Leninism in the former German Democratic Republic. The projects are often initiated through public announcements and structured as situations
predicated on high emotional stakes. Rather than static portraits, the works resulting from these encounters articulate the nuances of relations embedded in the aesthetic regimes and economies that define our everyday existence, from news and politics to entertainment and shopping. Throughout, Collins’ work upholds his commitment to myriad forms of experience across the social spectrum, and furthers his interest in the contradictory impulses of intimacy and desire within the public sphere.
In the installation This Unfortunate Thing Between Us, Collins probes the overlap and disconnection between reality and representation. Based on his 2011 project TUTBU.TV, an alternative shopping channel which was performed in a Berlin theatre and broadcast live on German national television over two nights, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us offered viewers the chance to buy an experience and enact it live on stage the following evening. Exploiting the logic and presentation of popular teleshopping programs, TUTBU.TV was hosted by a cast of actors, porn workers and musicians, with pitches and live phone-ins, telephone operators managing calls from the public, and a soundtrack by the in-house band featuring Welsh musician Gruff Rhys and North Wales surf band Y Niwl. Two complete subtitled episodes of the original event are now presented in second-hand British caravans, which for Collins epitomize both the optimism and melancholy of the consumer age, their promise of mobility and freedom forestalled by the tedium and misery of a typical family holiday. Weaving together exhibitionism and voyeurism, authenticity and fiction, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us reassembles the language of reality television in a new bastardized grammar in order to describe the complex love affair between the camera and its subjects, with all its anxieties and expectations.
Like TUTBU.TV, the artist’s installations sometimes recall film or stage sets – frames that allow for affective encounters between viewer and subject, as well as amongst visitors themselves. Within the upstairs main gallery, six specially designed listening booths house Collins’ most recent work, my heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught, a project conceived in collaboration with guests of a survival station for the homeless in Cologne. There, Collins installed a phone booth with a free line that anyone could use for unlimited local and international calls on the agreement that the conversations would be recorded and then anonymized. The selected material was posted to a group of musicians, including David Sylvian, Scritti Politti, Lætitia Sadier, Maria Minerva and Damon & Naomi, among others, who used these recordings as source material to produce original songs presented here inside the booths as 7” vinyl records. The installation evokes the transformative potential of pop music, its ability to create and counter distance and speak to the contemporary moment. Having worked for a homeless magazine in the 1990s, Collins has a long-standing interest in issues relating to these communities. Bringing to the fore the lyrical and narrative potential of the human voice when it stands in for subjects of city life who are purposely ignored and routinely overlooked, he dramatizes the moment of communication as an intimate and ambivalent exchange.
Installed in the side gallery upstairs, Collins’s short film the meaning of style offers a poetic look at constructions of identity through the examination of a specific subculture. Filmed with a group of young anti-fascist skinheads the artist encountered in Malaysia, this work takes its title from British theorist Dick Hebdige’s study Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979), an influential interpretation of the cultural styles shaped by Britain’s post-war youth. Here, Collins looks at the local adoption of skinhead subculture, originally a black and white working class movement, in the form of a cinematic reverie set to an original soundtrack. Incorporating a rich collage of cultural symbols and architecture from both East and West, the film provides a delicate frame for reflection on the relationship between British colonial history and contemporary subcultures in this region of the world. "
"This Unfortunate Things Between Us"
"Since the late 1990s, Collins’ diverse practice has addressed the act of image-making itself, reflecting on the status of the individual and the collective in today’s media-dominated society. Characteristic of the artist’s approach is a close engagement with place and communities, which over the years have included disco-dancing Palestinians, fans of The Smiths across three continents, the youth of Baghdad, and teachers of Marxism-Leninism in the former German Democratic Republic. The projects are often initiated through public announcements and structured as situations
predicated on high emotional stakes. Rather than static portraits, the works resulting from these encounters articulate the nuances of relations embedded in the aesthetic regimes and economies that define our everyday existence, from news and politics to entertainment and shopping. Throughout, Collins’ work upholds his commitment to myriad forms of experience across the social spectrum, and furthers his interest in the contradictory impulses of intimacy and desire within the public sphere.
In the installation This Unfortunate Thing Between Us, Collins probes the overlap and disconnection between reality and representation. Based on his 2011 project TUTBU.TV, an alternative shopping channel which was performed in a Berlin theatre and broadcast live on German national television over two nights, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us offered viewers the chance to buy an experience and enact it live on stage the following evening. Exploiting the logic and presentation of popular teleshopping programs, TUTBU.TV was hosted by a cast of actors, porn workers and musicians, with pitches and live phone-ins, telephone operators managing calls from the public, and a soundtrack by the in-house band featuring Welsh musician Gruff Rhys and North Wales surf band Y Niwl. Two complete subtitled episodes of the original event are now presented in second-hand British caravans, which for Collins epitomize both the optimism and melancholy of the consumer age, their promise of mobility and freedom forestalled by the tedium and misery of a typical family holiday. Weaving together exhibitionism and voyeurism, authenticity and fiction, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us reassembles the language of reality television in a new bastardized grammar in order to describe the complex love affair between the camera and its subjects, with all its anxieties and expectations.
Like TUTBU.TV, the artist’s installations sometimes recall film or stage sets – frames that allow for affective encounters between viewer and subject, as well as amongst visitors themselves. Within the upstairs main gallery, six specially designed listening booths house Collins’ most recent work, my heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught, a project conceived in collaboration with guests of a survival station for the homeless in Cologne. There, Collins installed a phone booth with a free line that anyone could use for unlimited local and international calls on the agreement that the conversations would be recorded and then anonymized. The selected material was posted to a group of musicians, including David Sylvian, Scritti Politti, Lætitia Sadier, Maria Minerva and Damon & Naomi, among others, who used these recordings as source material to produce original songs presented here inside the booths as 7” vinyl records. The installation evokes the transformative potential of pop music, its ability to create and counter distance and speak to the contemporary moment. Having worked for a homeless magazine in the 1990s, Collins has a long-standing interest in issues relating to these communities. Bringing to the fore the lyrical and narrative potential of the human voice when it stands in for subjects of city life who are purposely ignored and routinely overlooked, he dramatizes the moment of communication as an intimate and ambivalent exchange.
Installed in the side gallery upstairs, Collins’s short film the meaning of style offers a poetic look at constructions of identity through the examination of a specific subculture. Filmed with a group of young anti-fascist skinheads the artist encountered in Malaysia, this work takes its title from British theorist Dick Hebdige’s study Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979), an influential interpretation of the cultural styles shaped by Britain’s post-war youth. Here, Collins looks at the local adoption of skinhead subculture, originally a black and white working class movement, in the form of a cinematic reverie set to an original soundtrack. Incorporating a rich collage of cultural symbols and architecture from both East and West, the film provides a delicate frame for reflection on the relationship between British colonial history and contemporary subcultures in this region of the world. "
"This Unfortunate Things Between Us"
"Since the late 1990s, Collins’ diverse practice has addressed the act of image-making itself, reflecting on the status of the individual and the collective in today’s media-dominated society. Characteristic of the artist’s approach is a close engagement with place and communities, which over the years have included disco-dancing Palestinians, fans of The Smiths across three continents, the youth of Baghdad, and teachers of Marxism-Leninism in the former German Democratic Republic. The projects are often initiated through public announcements and structured as situations
predicated on high emotional stakes. Rather than static portraits, the works resulting from these encounters articulate the nuances of relations embedded in the aesthetic regimes and economies that define our everyday existence, from news and politics to entertainment and shopping. Throughout, Collins’ work upholds his commitment to myriad forms of experience across the social spectrum, and furthers his interest in the contradictory impulses of intimacy and desire within the public sphere.
In the installation This Unfortunate Thing Between Us, Collins probes the overlap and disconnection between reality and representation. Based on his 2011 project TUTBU.TV, an alternative shopping channel which was performed in a Berlin theatre and broadcast live on German national television over two nights, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us offered viewers the chance to buy an experience and enact it live on stage the following evening. Exploiting the logic and presentation of popular teleshopping programs, TUTBU.TV was hosted by a cast of actors, porn workers and musicians, with pitches and live phone-ins, telephone operators managing calls from the public, and a soundtrack by the in-house band featuring Welsh musician Gruff Rhys and North Wales surf band Y Niwl. Two complete subtitled episodes of the original event are now presented in second-hand British caravans, which for Collins epitomize both the optimism and melancholy of the consumer age, their promise of mobility and freedom forestalled by the tedium and misery of a typical family holiday. Weaving together exhibitionism and voyeurism, authenticity and fiction, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us reassembles the language of reality television in a new bastardized grammar in order to describe the complex love affair between the camera and its subjects, with all its anxieties and expectations.
Like TUTBU.TV, the artist’s installations sometimes recall film or stage sets – frames that allow for affective encounters between viewer and subject, as well as amongst visitors themselves. Within the upstairs main gallery, six specially designed listening booths house Collins’ most recent work, my heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught, a project conceived in collaboration with guests of a survival station for the homeless in Cologne. There, Collins installed a phone booth with a free line that anyone could use for unlimited local and international calls on the agreement that the conversations would be recorded and then anonymized. The selected material was posted to a group of musicians, including David Sylvian, Scritti Politti, Lætitia Sadier, Maria Minerva and Damon & Naomi, among others, who used these recordings as source material to produce original songs presented here inside the booths as 7” vinyl records. The installation evokes the transformative potential of pop music, its ability to create and counter distance and speak to the contemporary moment. Having worked for a homeless magazine in the 1990s, Collins has a long-standing interest in issues relating to these communities. Bringing to the fore the lyrical and narrative potential of the human voice when it stands in for subjects of city life who are purposely ignored and routinely overlooked, he dramatizes the moment of communication as an intimate and ambivalent exchange.
Installed in the side gallery upstairs, Collins’s short film the meaning of style offers a poetic look at constructions of identity through the examination of a specific subculture. Filmed with a group of young anti-fascist skinheads the artist encountered in Malaysia, this work takes its title from British theorist Dick Hebdige’s study Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979), an influential interpretation of the cultural styles shaped by Britain’s post-war youth. Here, Collins looks at the local adoption of skinhead subculture, originally a black and white working class movement, in the form of a cinematic reverie set to an original soundtrack. Incorporating a rich collage of cultural symbols and architecture from both East and West, the film provides a delicate frame for reflection on the relationship between British colonial history and contemporary subcultures in this region of the world. "
"This Unfortunate Things Between Us"
"Since the late 1990s, Collins’ diverse practice has addressed the act of image-making itself, reflecting on the status of the individual and the collective in today’s media-dominated society. Characteristic of the artist’s approach is a close engagement with place and communities, which over the years have included disco-dancing Palestinians, fans of The Smiths across three continents, the youth of Baghdad, and teachers of Marxism-Leninism in the former German Democratic Republic. The projects are often initiated through public announcements and structured as situations
predicated on high emotional stakes. Rather than static portraits, the works resulting from these encounters articulate the nuances of relations embedded in the aesthetic regimes and economies that define our everyday existence, from news and politics to entertainment and shopping. Throughout, Collins’ work upholds his commitment to myriad forms of experience across the social spectrum, and furthers his interest in the contradictory impulses of intimacy and desire within the public sphere.
In the installation This Unfortunate Thing Between Us, Collins probes the overlap and disconnection between reality and representation. Based on his 2011 project TUTBU.TV, an alternative shopping channel which was performed in a Berlin theatre and broadcast live on German national television over two nights, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us offered viewers the chance to buy an experience and enact it live on stage the following evening. Exploiting the logic and presentation of popular teleshopping programs, TUTBU.TV was hosted by a cast of actors, porn workers and musicians, with pitches and live phone-ins, telephone operators managing calls from the public, and a soundtrack by the in-house band featuring Welsh musician Gruff Rhys and North Wales surf band Y Niwl. Two complete subtitled episodes of the original event are now presented in second-hand British caravans, which for Collins epitomize both the optimism and melancholy of the consumer age, their promise of mobility and freedom forestalled by the tedium and misery of a typical family holiday. Weaving together exhibitionism and voyeurism, authenticity and fiction, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us reassembles the language of reality television in a new bastardized grammar in order to describe the complex love affair between the camera and its subjects, with all its anxieties and expectations.
Like TUTBU.TV, the artist’s installations sometimes recall film or stage sets – frames that allow for affective encounters between viewer and subject, as well as amongst visitors themselves. Within the upstairs main gallery, six specially designed listening booths house Collins’ most recent work, my heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught, a project conceived in collaboration with guests of a survival station for the homeless in Cologne. There, Collins installed a phone booth with a free line that anyone could use for unlimited local and international calls on the agreement that the conversations would be recorded and then anonymized. The selected material was posted to a group of musicians, including David Sylvian, Scritti Politti, Lætitia Sadier, Maria Minerva and Damon & Naomi, among others, who used these recordings as source material to produce original songs presented here inside the booths as 7” vinyl records. The installation evokes the transformative potential of pop music, its ability to create and counter distance and speak to the contemporary moment. Having worked for a homeless magazine in the 1990s, Collins has a long-standing interest in issues relating to these communities. Bringing to the fore the lyrical and narrative potential of the human voice when it stands in for subjects of city life who are purposely ignored and routinely overlooked, he dramatizes the moment of communication as an intimate and ambivalent exchange.
Installed in the side gallery upstairs, Collins’s short film the meaning of style offers a poetic look at constructions of identity through the examination of a specific subculture. Filmed with a group of young anti-fascist skinheads the artist encountered in Malaysia, this work takes its title from British theorist Dick Hebdige’s study Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979), an influential interpretation of the cultural styles shaped by Britain’s post-war youth. Here, Collins looks at the local adoption of skinhead subculture, originally a black and white working class movement, in the form of a cinematic reverie set to an original soundtrack. Incorporating a rich collage of cultural symbols and architecture from both East and West, the film provides a delicate frame for reflection on the relationship between British colonial history and contemporary subcultures in this region of the world. "
"This Unfortunate Things Between Us"
"Since the late 1990s, Collins’ diverse practice has addressed the act of image-making itself, reflecting on the status of the individual and the collective in today’s media-dominated society. Characteristic of the artist’s approach is a close engagement with place and communities, which over the years have included disco-dancing Palestinians, fans of The Smiths across three continents, the youth of Baghdad, and teachers of Marxism-Leninism in the former German Democratic Republic. The projects are often initiated through public announcements and structured as situations
predicated on high emotional stakes. Rather than static portraits, the works resulting from these encounters articulate the nuances of relations embedded in the aesthetic regimes and economies that define our everyday existence, from news and politics to entertainment and shopping. Throughout, Collins’ work upholds his commitment to myriad forms of experience across the social spectrum, and furthers his interest in the contradictory impulses of intimacy and desire within the public sphere.
In the installation This Unfortunate Thing Between Us, Collins probes the overlap and disconnection between reality and representation. Based on his 2011 project TUTBU.TV, an alternative shopping channel which was performed in a Berlin theatre and broadcast live on German national television over two nights, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us offered viewers the chance to buy an experience and enact it live on stage the following evening. Exploiting the logic and presentation of popular teleshopping programs, TUTBU.TV was hosted by a cast of actors, porn workers and musicians, with pitches and live phone-ins, telephone operators managing calls from the public, and a soundtrack by the in-house band featuring Welsh musician Gruff Rhys and North Wales surf band Y Niwl. Two complete subtitled episodes of the original event are now presented in second-hand British caravans, which for Collins epitomize both the optimism and melancholy of the consumer age, their promise of mobility and freedom forestalled by the tedium and misery of a typical family holiday. Weaving together exhibitionism and voyeurism, authenticity and fiction, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us reassembles the language of reality television in a new bastardized grammar in order to describe the complex love affair between the camera and its subjects, with all its anxieties and expectations.
Like TUTBU.TV, the artist’s installations sometimes recall film or stage sets – frames that allow for affective encounters between viewer and subject, as well as amongst visitors themselves. Within the upstairs main gallery, six specially designed listening booths house Collins’ most recent work, my heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught, a project conceived in collaboration with guests of a survival station for the homeless in Cologne. There, Collins installed a phone booth with a free line that anyone could use for unlimited local and international calls on the agreement that the conversations would be recorded and then anonymized. The selected material was posted to a group of musicians, including David Sylvian, Scritti Politti, Lætitia Sadier, Maria Minerva and Damon & Naomi, among others, who used these recordings as source material to produce original songs presented here inside the booths as 7” vinyl records. The installation evokes the transformative potential of pop music, its ability to create and counter distance and speak to the contemporary moment. Having worked for a homeless magazine in the 1990s, Collins has a long-standing interest in issues relating to these communities. Bringing to the fore the lyrical and narrative potential of the human voice when it stands in for subjects of city life who are purposely ignored and routinely overlooked, he dramatizes the moment of communication as an intimate and ambivalent exchange.
Installed in the side gallery upstairs, Collins’s short film the meaning of style offers a poetic look at constructions of identity through the examination of a specific subculture. Filmed with a group of young anti-fascist skinheads the artist encountered in Malaysia, this work takes its title from British theorist Dick Hebdige’s study Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979), an influential interpretation of the cultural styles shaped by Britain’s post-war youth. Here, Collins looks at the local adoption of skinhead subculture, originally a black and white working class movement, in the form of a cinematic reverie set to an original soundtrack. Incorporating a rich collage of cultural symbols and architecture from both East and West, the film provides a delicate frame for reflection on the relationship between British colonial history and contemporary subcultures in this region of the world. "
"my heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught"
"Since the late 1990s, Collins’ diverse practice has addressed the act of image-making itself, reflecting on the status of the individual and the collective in today’s media-dominated society. Characteristic of the artist’s approach is a close engagement with place and communities, which over the years have included disco-dancing Palestinians, fans of The Smiths across three continents, the youth of Baghdad, and teachers of Marxism-Leninism in the former German Democratic Republic. The projects are often initiated through public announcements and structured as situations
predicated on high emotional stakes. Rather than static portraits, the works resulting from these encounters articulate the nuances of relations embedded in the aesthetic regimes and economies that define our everyday existence, from news and politics to entertainment and shopping. Throughout, Collins’ work upholds his commitment to myriad forms of experience across the social spectrum, and furthers his interest in the contradictory impulses of intimacy and desire within the public sphere.
In the installation This Unfortunate Thing Between Us, Collins probes the overlap and disconnection between reality and representation. Based on his 2011 project TUTBU.TV, an alternative shopping channel which was performed in a Berlin theatre and broadcast live on German national television over two nights, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us offered viewers the chance to buy an experience and enact it live on stage the following evening. Exploiting the logic and presentation of popular teleshopping programs, TUTBU.TV was hosted by a cast of actors, porn workers and musicians, with pitches and live phone-ins, telephone operators managing calls from the public, and a soundtrack by the in-house band featuring Welsh musician Gruff Rhys and North Wales surf band Y Niwl. Two complete subtitled episodes of the original event are now presented in second-hand British caravans, which for Collins epitomize both the optimism and melancholy of the consumer age, their promise of mobility and freedom forestalled by the tedium and misery of a typical family holiday. Weaving together exhibitionism and voyeurism, authenticity and fiction, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us reassembles the language of reality television in a new bastardized grammar in order to describe the complex love affair between the camera and its subjects, with all its anxieties and expectations.
Like TUTBU.TV, the artist’s installations sometimes recall film or stage sets – frames that allow for affective encounters between viewer and subject, as well as amongst visitors themselves. Within the upstairs main gallery, six specially designed listening booths house Collins’ most recent work, my heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught, a project conceived in collaboration with guests of a survival station for the homeless in Cologne. There, Collins installed a phone booth with a free line that anyone could use for unlimited local and international calls on the agreement that the conversations would be recorded and then anonymized. The selected material was posted to a group of musicians, including David Sylvian, Scritti Politti, Lætitia Sadier, Maria Minerva and Damon & Naomi, among others, who used these recordings as source material to produce original songs presented here inside the booths as 7” vinyl records. The installation evokes the transformative potential of pop music, its ability to create and counter distance and speak to the contemporary moment. Having worked for a homeless magazine in the 1990s, Collins has a long-standing interest in issues relating to these communities. Bringing to the fore the lyrical and narrative potential of the human voice when it stands in for subjects of city life who are purposely ignored and routinely overlooked, he dramatizes the moment of communication as an intimate and ambivalent exchange.
Installed in the side gallery upstairs, Collins’s short film the meaning of style offers a poetic look at constructions of identity through the examination of a specific subculture. Filmed with a group of young anti-fascist skinheads the artist encountered in Malaysia, this work takes its title from British theorist Dick Hebdige’s study Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979), an influential interpretation of the cultural styles shaped by Britain’s post-war youth. Here, Collins looks at the local adoption of skinhead subculture, originally a black and white working class movement, in the form of a cinematic reverie set to an original soundtrack. Incorporating a rich collage of cultural symbols and architecture from both East and West, the film provides a delicate frame for reflection on the relationship between British colonial history and contemporary subcultures in this region of the world. "
"This Unfortunate Things Between Us"
"Since the late 1990s, Collins’ diverse practice has addressed the act of image-making itself, reflecting on the status of the individual and the collective in today’s media-dominated society. Characteristic of the artist’s approach is a close engagement with place and communities, which over the years have included disco-dancing Palestinians, fans of The Smiths across three continents, the youth of Baghdad, and teachers of Marxism-Leninism in the former German Democratic Republic. The projects are often initiated through public announcements and structured as situations
predicated on high emotional stakes. Rather than static portraits, the works resulting from these encounters articulate the nuances of relations embedded in the aesthetic regimes and economies that define our everyday existence, from news and politics to entertainment and shopping. Throughout, Collins’ work upholds his commitment to myriad forms of experience across the social spectrum, and furthers his interest in the contradictory impulses of intimacy and desire within the public sphere.
In the installation This Unfortunate Thing Between Us, Collins probes the overlap and disconnection between reality and representation. Based on his 2011 project TUTBU.TV, an alternative shopping channel which was performed in a Berlin theatre and broadcast live on German national television over two nights, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us offered viewers the chance to buy an experience and enact it live on stage the following evening. Exploiting the logic and presentation of popular teleshopping programs, TUTBU.TV was hosted by a cast of actors, porn workers and musicians, with pitches and live phone-ins, telephone operators managing calls from the public, and a soundtrack by the in-house band featuring Welsh musician Gruff Rhys and North Wales surf band Y Niwl. Two complete subtitled episodes of the original event are now presented in second-hand British caravans, which for Collins epitomize both the optimism and melancholy of the consumer age, their promise of mobility and freedom forestalled by the tedium and misery of a typical family holiday. Weaving together exhibitionism and voyeurism, authenticity and fiction, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us reassembles the language of reality television in a new bastardized grammar in order to describe the complex love affair between the camera and its subjects, with all its anxieties and expectations.
Like TUTBU.TV, the artist’s installations sometimes recall film or stage sets – frames that allow for affective encounters between viewer and subject, as well as amongst visitors themselves. Within the upstairs main gallery, six specially designed listening booths house Collins’ most recent work, my heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught, a project conceived in collaboration with guests of a survival station for the homeless in Cologne. There, Collins installed a phone booth with a free line that anyone could use for unlimited local and international calls on the agreement that the conversations would be recorded and then anonymized. The selected material was posted to a group of musicians, including David Sylvian, Scritti Politti, Lætitia Sadier, Maria Minerva and Damon & Naomi, among others, who used these recordings as source material to produce original songs presented here inside the booths as 7” vinyl records. The installation evokes the transformative potential of pop music, its ability to create and counter distance and speak to the contemporary moment. Having worked for a homeless magazine in the 1990s, Collins has a long-standing interest in issues relating to these communities. Bringing to the fore the lyrical and narrative potential of the human voice when it stands in for subjects of city life who are purposely ignored and routinely overlooked, he dramatizes the moment of communication as an intimate and ambivalent exchange.
Installed in the side gallery upstairs, Collins’s short film the meaning of style offers a poetic look at constructions of identity through the examination of a specific subculture. Filmed with a group of young anti-fascist skinheads the artist encountered in Malaysia, this work takes its title from British theorist Dick Hebdige’s study Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979), an influential interpretation of the cultural styles shaped by Britain’s post-war youth. Here, Collins looks at the local adoption of skinhead subculture, originally a black and white working class movement, in the form of a cinematic reverie set to an original soundtrack. Incorporating a rich collage of cultural symbols and architecture from both East and West, the film provides a delicate frame for reflection on the relationship between British colonial history and contemporary subcultures in this region of the world. "
"my heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught"
"Since the late 1990s, Collins’ diverse practice has addressed the act of image-making itself, reflecting on the status of the individual and the collective in today’s media-dominated society. Characteristic of the artist’s approach is a close engagement with place and communities, which over the years have included disco-dancing Palestinians, fans of The Smiths across three continents, the youth of Baghdad, and teachers of Marxism-Leninism in the former German Democratic Republic. The projects are often initiated through public announcements and structured as situations
predicated on high emotional stakes. Rather than static portraits, the works resulting from these encounters articulate the nuances of relations embedded in the aesthetic regimes and economies that define our everyday existence, from news and politics to entertainment and shopping. Throughout, Collins’ work upholds his commitment to myriad forms of experience across the social spectrum, and furthers his interest in the contradictory impulses of intimacy and desire within the public sphere.
In the installation This Unfortunate Thing Between Us, Collins probes the overlap and disconnection between reality and representation. Based on his 2011 project TUTBU.TV, an alternative shopping channel which was performed in a Berlin theatre and broadcast live on German national television over two nights, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us offered viewers the chance to buy an experience and enact it live on stage the following evening. Exploiting the logic and presentation of popular teleshopping programs, TUTBU.TV was hosted by a cast of actors, porn workers and musicians, with pitches and live phone-ins, telephone operators managing calls from the public, and a soundtrack by the in-house band featuring Welsh musician Gruff Rhys and North Wales surf band Y Niwl. Two complete subtitled episodes of the original event are now presented in second-hand British caravans, which for Collins epitomize both the optimism and melancholy of the consumer age, their promise of mobility and freedom forestalled by the tedium and misery of a typical family holiday. Weaving together exhibitionism and voyeurism, authenticity and fiction, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us reassembles the language of reality television in a new bastardized grammar in order to describe the complex love affair between the camera and its subjects, with all its anxieties and expectations.
Like TUTBU.TV, the artist’s installations sometimes recall film or stage sets – frames that allow for affective encounters between viewer and subject, as well as amongst visitors themselves. Within the upstairs main gallery, six specially designed listening booths house Collins’ most recent work, my heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught, a project conceived in collaboration with guests of a survival station for the homeless in Cologne. There, Collins installed a phone booth with a free line that anyone could use for unlimited local and international calls on the agreement that the conversations would be recorded and then anonymized. The selected material was posted to a group of musicians, including David Sylvian, Scritti Politti, Lætitia Sadier, Maria Minerva and Damon & Naomi, among others, who used these recordings as source material to produce original songs presented here inside the booths as 7” vinyl records. The installation evokes the transformative potential of pop music, its ability to create and counter distance and speak to the contemporary moment. Having worked for a homeless magazine in the 1990s, Collins has a long-standing interest in issues relating to these communities. Bringing to the fore the lyrical and narrative potential of the human voice when it stands in for subjects of city life who are purposely ignored and routinely overlooked, he dramatizes the moment of communication as an intimate and ambivalent exchange.
Installed in the side gallery upstairs, Collins’s short film the meaning of style offers a poetic look at constructions of identity through the examination of a specific subculture. Filmed with a group of young anti-fascist skinheads the artist encountered in Malaysia, this work takes its title from British theorist Dick Hebdige’s study Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979), an influential interpretation of the cultural styles shaped by Britain’s post-war youth. Here, Collins looks at the local adoption of skinhead subculture, originally a black and white working class movement, in the form of a cinematic reverie set to an original soundtrack. Incorporating a rich collage of cultural symbols and architecture from both East and West, the film provides a delicate frame for reflection on the relationship between British colonial history and contemporary subcultures in this region of the world. "
"my heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught"
"Since the late 1990s, Collins’ diverse practice has addressed the act of image-making itself, reflecting on the status of the individual and the collective in today’s media-dominated society. Characteristic of the artist’s approach is a close engagement with place and communities, which over the years have included disco-dancing Palestinians, fans of The Smiths across three continents, the youth of Baghdad, and teachers of Marxism-Leninism in the former German Democratic Republic. The projects are often initiated through public announcements and structured as situations
predicated on high emotional stakes. Rather than static portraits, the works resulting from these encounters articulate the nuances of relations embedded in the aesthetic regimes and economies that define our everyday existence, from news and politics to entertainment and shopping. Throughout, Collins’ work upholds his commitment to myriad forms of experience across the social spectrum, and furthers his interest in the contradictory impulses of intimacy and desire within the public sphere.
In the installation This Unfortunate Thing Between Us, Collins probes the overlap and disconnection between reality and representation. Based on his 2011 project TUTBU.TV, an alternative shopping channel which was performed in a Berlin theatre and broadcast live on German national television over two nights, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us offered viewers the chance to buy an experience and enact it live on stage the following evening. Exploiting the logic and presentation of popular teleshopping programs, TUTBU.TV was hosted by a cast of actors, porn workers and musicians, with pitches and live phone-ins, telephone operators managing calls from the public, and a soundtrack by the in-house band featuring Welsh musician Gruff Rhys and North Wales surf band Y Niwl. Two complete subtitled episodes of the original event are now presented in second-hand British caravans, which for Collins epitomize both the optimism and melancholy of the consumer age, their promise of mobility and freedom forestalled by the tedium and misery of a typical family holiday. Weaving together exhibitionism and voyeurism, authenticity and fiction, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us reassembles the language of reality television in a new bastardized grammar in order to describe the complex love affair between the camera and its subjects, with all its anxieties and expectations.
Like TUTBU.TV, the artist’s installations sometimes recall film or stage sets – frames that allow for affective encounters between viewer and subject, as well as amongst visitors themselves. Within the upstairs main gallery, six specially designed listening booths house Collins’ most recent work, my heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught, a project conceived in collaboration with guests of a survival station for the homeless in Cologne. There, Collins installed a phone booth with a free line that anyone could use for unlimited local and international calls on the agreement that the conversations would be recorded and then anonymized. The selected material was posted to a group of musicians, including David Sylvian, Scritti Politti, Lætitia Sadier, Maria Minerva and Damon & Naomi, among others, who used these recordings as source material to produce original songs presented here inside the booths as 7” vinyl records. The installation evokes the transformative potential of pop music, its ability to create and counter distance and speak to the contemporary moment. Having worked for a homeless magazine in the 1990s, Collins has a long-standing interest in issues relating to these communities. Bringing to the fore the lyrical and narrative potential of the human voice when it stands in for subjects of city life who are purposely ignored and routinely overlooked, he dramatizes the moment of communication as an intimate and ambivalent exchange.
Installed in the side gallery upstairs, Collins’s short film the meaning of style offers a poetic look at constructions of identity through the examination of a specific subculture. Filmed with a group of young anti-fascist skinheads the artist encountered in Malaysia, this work takes its title from British theorist Dick Hebdige’s study Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979), an influential interpretation of the cultural styles shaped by Britain’s post-war youth. Here, Collins looks at the local adoption of skinhead subculture, originally a black and white working class movement, in the form of a cinematic reverie set to an original soundtrack. Incorporating a rich collage of cultural symbols and architecture from both East and West, the film provides a delicate frame for reflection on the relationship between British colonial history and contemporary subcultures in this region of the world. "
"my heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught"
"Since the late 1990s, Collins’ diverse practice has addressed the act of image-making itself, reflecting on the status of the individual and the collective in today’s media-dominated society. Characteristic of the artist’s approach is a close engagement with place and communities, which over the years have included disco-dancing Palestinians, fans of The Smiths across three continents, the youth of Baghdad, and teachers of Marxism-Leninism in the former German Democratic Republic. The projects are often initiated through public announcements and structured as situations
predicated on high emotional stakes. Rather than static portraits, the works resulting from these encounters articulate the nuances of relations embedded in the aesthetic regimes and economies that define our everyday existence, from news and politics to entertainment and shopping. Throughout, Collins’ work upholds his commitment to myriad forms of experience across the social spectrum, and furthers his interest in the contradictory impulses of intimacy and desire within the public sphere.
In the installation This Unfortunate Thing Between Us, Collins probes the overlap and disconnection between reality and representation. Based on his 2011 project TUTBU.TV, an alternative shopping channel which was performed in a Berlin theatre and broadcast live on German national television over two nights, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us offered viewers the chance to buy an experience and enact it live on stage the following evening. Exploiting the logic and presentation of popular teleshopping programs, TUTBU.TV was hosted by a cast of actors, porn workers and musicians, with pitches and live phone-ins, telephone operators managing calls from the public, and a soundtrack by the in-house band featuring Welsh musician Gruff Rhys and North Wales surf band Y Niwl. Two complete subtitled episodes of the original event are now presented in second-hand British caravans, which for Collins epitomize both the optimism and melancholy of the consumer age, their promise of mobility and freedom forestalled by the tedium and misery of a typical family holiday. Weaving together exhibitionism and voyeurism, authenticity and fiction, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us reassembles the language of reality television in a new bastardized grammar in order to describe the complex love affair between the camera and its subjects, with all its anxieties and expectations.
Like TUTBU.TV, the artist’s installations sometimes recall film or stage sets – frames that allow for affective encounters between viewer and subject, as well as amongst visitors themselves. Within the upstairs main gallery, six specially designed listening booths house Collins’ most recent work, my heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught, a project conceived in collaboration with guests of a survival station for the homeless in Cologne. There, Collins installed a phone booth with a free line that anyone could use for unlimited local and international calls on the agreement that the conversations would be recorded and then anonymized. The selected material was posted to a group of musicians, including David Sylvian, Scritti Politti, Lætitia Sadier, Maria Minerva and Damon & Naomi, among others, who used these recordings as source material to produce original songs presented here inside the booths as 7” vinyl records. The installation evokes the transformative potential of pop music, its ability to create and counter distance and speak to the contemporary moment. Having worked for a homeless magazine in the 1990s, Collins has a long-standing interest in issues relating to these communities. Bringing to the fore the lyrical and narrative potential of the human voice when it stands in for subjects of city life who are purposely ignored and routinely overlooked, he dramatizes the moment of communication as an intimate and ambivalent exchange.
Installed in the side gallery upstairs, Collins’s short film the meaning of style offers a poetic look at constructions of identity through the examination of a specific subculture. Filmed with a group of young anti-fascist skinheads the artist encountered in Malaysia, this work takes its title from British theorist Dick Hebdige’s study Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979), an influential interpretation of the cultural styles shaped by Britain’s post-war youth. Here, Collins looks at the local adoption of skinhead subculture, originally a black and white working class movement, in the form of a cinematic reverie set to an original soundtrack. Incorporating a rich collage of cultural symbols and architecture from both East and West, the film provides a delicate frame for reflection on the relationship between British colonial history and contemporary subcultures in this region of the world. "