29 Jan 2008

(K-RAA-K)3 festival - 1 March 2008 Brussel

MARSHALL ALLEN [us] & PAUL HESSION [uk] BARDO POND [us]
CERAMIC HOBS [uk]
CHERRY BLOSSOMS [us]
DRAGONS OF ZYNTH [us]
RICHARD CRANDELL [us]
ENTRANCE [us]
HELLVETE [b]
TON LEBBINK [nl]
ALEX MACKENZIE [ca]
SEAN MEEHAN [us]
PINK REASON [us]
HENRI POUSSEUR´s "Voix et vues planétaires" [b] PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT [us]
R.O.T. [b]
SILVER APPLES [us]
UP-TIGHT [jp]

+ FILMS LAFMS: The Lowest Form of Music NOT THERE HOMMAGE AU SAUVAGE: Henri Pousseur LUC FERRARI DEVANT SA TAUTOLOGIE LABRAT MATINEE + DJ´S after midnight in recyclart + record stands

Official site kraak festival 2008

17 Jan 2008

Josh T. Pearson - Kierkegaard as a Cowboy

"The time has come that you must decide... to take two steps towards Texas tonight"


Few regions are as polarized as America's South: "either you're in the bar, or you're in church". Josh Pearson has spent quite some time in both. Born in Texas as a son of a preacher, he started to play 'devil-music' in 1996 with his band Lift to Experience, releasing just one album, the magnificent the Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads (an apocalyptic concept album about Texas as the promised land). Unfortunately, he gave his companions 'the boot' shortly after the album-release in 2001. He left Texas for Europe, trying to make a living here (or maybe just living by faith alone) and playing some concerts every now and then. A solo-album has been planned for years. Let's hope he finds the inspiration. Desperate, honest outsider-music; a beacon of hope in our times.


Josh T. Pearson - the Clash (mp3) (lofi live-registration Nantes, France, 2003)

Lift to Experience - With the World Behind (mp3) (live, Peel-session 2001)

15 Jan 2008

Cindy and Bert - DER HUND VON BASKERVILLE

the good old days of German Schlagermusic

11 Jan 2008

"My blood is clean, but the devil is in me"

Although we inevitably keep on thinking about music in traditional categories and genre-distinctions, nothing is as fascinating as witnessing young musicians doing away with this, not for the fun of 'everything goes', but because the 'old forms' have lost their urgency; because their creativity asks for a new language. Of course, this is the way 'free jazz' musicians have understood themselves from the sixties on, but even 'free jazz' has become a niche, a respectable institution with its canon, instruments and techniques.
One of these youngs guys deserving our attention here is definitely Chris Corsano. Mostly known for his collaborations with saxofonist Paul Flaherty, he takes 'free jazz' beyond the jazz-idiom, bringing some hardcore-punk energy within a jazz-setting or adding some noise-folk-psych influences together with people as Thurston Moore, Matt Valentine, Jandek... Below you find a song from his album 'The Radiant Mirror' (out on Textile Records), a performance together with Mike Flower, who plays here the shahi baaja (a japanese electric dulcimer/auto-harp).
I also added a song from a great psych album I recently discovered: Blood is clean from Valet (out on Kranky). Valet is the solo-project of Honey Owens (who has previously played with Jackie-O Motherfucker). Haunting impressionistic guitar-playing with beautiful, etheral vocals.