Girlseeker’s debut album was so good that it was released by ten labels at the same time.
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Joeri Bruyninckx
Girlseeker, “Lonely Hours” 7″
Black Sun Roof: A Destructive Celebration
Sunroof! is now called Black Sun Roof. Feral is the first album in five years and Matthew Bower’s music still feels, as he describes it himself, “like standing under a waterfall.”
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Èl G: Pepper On the Fig & Cat Pee On the Banana
When experimental musicians use pop elements in their music, it most often sounds melancholic, retro or, even worse, cynical. Èl G, a French experimental musician living in Brussels, does not fall for that and so makes smart, relevant, authentic contemporary pop music. Mil Pluton, his new album, is proof of this.
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Keith Fullerton Whitman
If ‘Generators’ was Whitman’s minimal record, than ‘Occlusions’, his second live album for Editions Mego this year, is his free jazz one: it’s an album that tries to avoid every form of rhythm or repetition, which makes it a quite difficult but rewarding listen.
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Banana Head, “Goon House” 7″
Banana Head’s Zully Adler is a nice guy… says “nice to meet you” and “thank you” and stuff like that.
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Alkerdeel: It’s All About Creating & Releasing Energy
I drove from Vienna to Brussels on the coldest night of the year. Minus 20 degrees and over a thousand kilometers through Germany with Alkerdeel’s black metal epos ‘Morinde’ as my soundtrack. My headlights didn’t work. My heating was on 22 degrees and my six month old daugther was asleep on the backseat. Everything felt in...
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Beyt Al Tapes: Bullied by Metalheads
Two reasons to like Beyt Al Tapes: Floris Vanhoof’s Live ‘09 and Innercity’s Into The Bright World. Let’s begin at the beginning: I first got to know you around 2006, when you still were the guitar player of the indie rock band Penguins Know Why. What I like about you is that you always...
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Super Reverb: Vangelis on a Really Bad Day
Super Reverb is an amp. Super Reverb is a band. Super Reverb is Jürgen De Blonde (Köhn) and Michael Beckett (Kptmichigan). They called their second album Super Reverb II. Why not, of course.
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Razen: The Science of Sleep
‘The Confessor’ is a collaboration between free ethno psych band Razen and conceptual artist Bryan Lewis Sanders. Sanders delivers the vocals, Razen is responsible for the music. Sanders recorded his vocals while being asleep, which is part of his ambitious Stream Of Unconscious serie. Razen’s Brecht Ameel explains.
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Reijo Pami: The Constant Listener
Finnish minimalist Reijo Pami just released an album called ‘Dreaming Of Being A Tampon’, which is full of found sounds, lost sounds, accidental sounds and sometimes even almost no sound. I’ve seen you live once at Scheldapen, Antwerp and I’ve seen your concert at Gunther, Antwerp on You Tube. To me, both of those...
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Bear Bones, Lay Low: No girl wants a record collector as her boyfriend
Since the first time I interviewed Ernesto Gonzalez for this magazine, about five years ago, a lot has changed for this peer: he traded his guitar for a synth, joined Silvester Anfang, got a girlfriend and got on drugs. Way to go. And by the way, he’s also got two excellent new tapes out...
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Kevin Drumm
Fact 1: Necro Acoustic was one of the best records of 2010. Fact 2: Sheer Hellish Miasma is maybe the best noise album ever. Fact 3: It’s way easier to see Kevin Drumm play live these days. So 10 questions for Mister Kevin Drumm.
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