============ VITAL WEEKLY ============ number 466 ------------ week 11 ------------ P. MILES BRYSON - MEGALOMANIAC DECORATOR'S QUARTERLY (CD by Illegal Art) HOT TROCHE - YOPAAKUYU WITH ME (CD by Illegal Art) SHINJUKU THIEF - SACRED FURY (Cd by Fin De Siecle) 302 ACID (CD by Emit Records) KOJI ASANO - SANCTUARY ON RECLAIMED LAND (CD by Solstice) EVOL - MAGIA POTAGIA (CD by Mego) THE INVISIBLE FROG - SPACE MAKES NOISE (CD by Amanita Records) RAXINASKY - TRANSPORT DE VIANDES (CD by Amanita Records) WELTER QUARTET - RING RING (CD by Amanita Records) FREIBAND - {FLYING} (3"CD by Scarcelight) INTERTRONIK - IMPROVISATION #2 UND #3 (7" by Knistern) KLEMENS KAATZ - VERZERRUNGEN (7" by Knistern) KLEMENS KAATZ - TRANSFORMATIONEN (7" by Knistern) CHRISTIAN RIBAS - A3XX (7" by Knistern) JAN M IVERSEN - MASTERING 280 (CDR by Simple Logic Records) ENSEMBLE SP - EX. IMPLICIT (CDR, self released) PIA GAMBARDELLA - RELUCTANT DIVERS (CDR by W.MO/R) BILLY BAO - BILBO'S INCINERATOR (7" by W.MO/R) THE WESLEY KERN GUN - ROCKET TO THE ROOM (CDR by Humbug) VIÖN/MEM - 12'00/TSCH (2xCDR by Humbug) CROPCIRCLE - SOUNDTRACK FOR A PERFECT NIGHTMARE (CDR by Creative Fields Records) MECHA/ORGA - FLOAT (CDR by Echo Music) CHEFKIRK - KIK-KIK-KIKKIK (CDR by 1000+1 Tilt) TBTTBC - MIRANDA A HAIRDRESSER'S OPERA (3"CDR by To Be Announced Records) TBTTBC - LIVE IN GHENT 15-09-2004 (3"CDR by To Be Announced Records) CIVIL WAR - WHEN FACT THREATENS BELIEF (3"CDR by Longbox Recordings) MHFS - TI POINT WHARF (3"CDR by Scarcelight) P. MILES BRYSON - MEGALOMANIAC DECORATOR'S QUARTERLY (CD by Illegal Art) HOT TROCHE - YOPAAKUYU WITH ME (CD by Illegal Art) Two examples of Illegal Art's ongoing researches into the world of plunderphonica, always with a new edge to it, and the two CDs here proof that plunderphonica can be made differentely, and sounding differentely. P. Miles Bryson has a couple of diverse releases available (see Vital Weekly 245, 408 and 443) and 'Megalomaniac Decorator's Quaterly is his second Illegal Art release. Less filmic inspired than his previous release, here he finds himself with a whole bunch of songs from 1960s, mostly ballroom like music. The liner notes are called 'A Critical Examination On The Current State Of National-Socialist Guerilla Decorating' - and leaves me clueless what it has to do with the music, unless you think of the music as a form of sound decoration or muzak. Bryson knows how to put these tunes together, by matter of repetition, addition of spoken word and still sound quite smoothly. However, a whole album worths of this stuff - and with full I mean the entire sixty seven minutes - that is simply too much for a demonstration of this kind. This would have been brilliant and hilarious for say twenty-five or thirty minutes, but now I feel it's a bit over-done. Of an entirely different nature is the work of Hot Troche, aka Ryohei Kobayashi from Tokyo. So far he has released an album on Pink Rabbit, remixed Cornelius and Team Doyobi, works with Tujiko Noriko and plays out live a lot. 'Yopaakuyu With Me' is his second release and he works with rhythmmachines, samplers and sticking a microphone in his mouth and sometimes attempts to sing - even. The music has loads of energy and speed, with noise (in 'Ear Phone' for instance) and rhythm. Not exactely music to dance to, but nevertheless quite a dynamic affair. Hot Troche sound like one of those ADHD kids who got hold of a bunch of electronic devices, so it's nothing for those with weak nerves. With thirteen tracks at some fifty minutes, this too is not an easy to digest release, although in the end a bit more varied than the P. Miles Bryson one. Two different takes on plunderphonica and both of them quite alright. (FdW) Address: http://www.illegalart.net SHINJUKU THIEF - SACRED FURY (Cd by Fin De Siecle) I was quite stunned by the debut album of Australian sound artist Darrin Verhagen a.k.a. Shinjuku Thief. Released on Australian label Extreme Records (R.I.P.) back in 1992, "Bloody tourist" was an intense cinematic journey into experimental spheres of oriental ambience and environmental samples. "Sacred fury" is the fifth shot from Darrin Verhagen under his Shinjuku Thief-project this time released on Swedish label "Fin De Siecle" who is also responsible for album releases from the bestial side of Darrin Verhagen alias the power electronics/noise-project E.P.A. "Sacred Fury" stays away from the noisy expressions and instead continues the style of earlier Shinjuku Thief-albums. "Sacred Fury" sounds like the soundtrack for a movie thanks to the blend of environmental sounds and cinematic soundscapes of moody, mellow, beautiful and ugly atmospheres. The interesting thing about this album is the way Darrin Verhagen manages to keep a balance between music of an almost futuristic high-technological kind and the surreal sound constellations that is the trademark of Shinjuku Thief. (NMP) Address: http://www.findesieclemedia.com 302 ACID (CD by Emit Records) After a couple of compilation CDs re-launcing the Emit Records back on the market of ambient house, it's now time to expand to one band per release, and 302 Acid is one of them. It's a band for it has Doug Kallmeyer (samples, bass), Justin Mader (samples, projections) and Andrew Reichel of Gel-sol on electronics. Musicwise they move away from the ambient sound of Emit Records in favor of a more upfront rhythmic sound. Rhythm machines are pounding all over the place, with heavy synth lines crashing at full speed against the rhythms or gliding nicely along these beats. These boys like a wide variety of music, from punk to metal, from jazz to progrock and it seems to me that all of these influences should find their place in this music. Whereas The Orb in it's more recent guises are not so much about ambient anymore, so 302 Acid busy along similar lines to break down the barriers between all sort of musics and create a richly varied dance music that never has a boring moment. I found myself playing this release a couple of times in a row, and never had the impression of hearing the same thing twice. So that's nice enough indeed. (FdW) Address: http://www.emitrecords.com KOJI ASANO - SANCTUARY ON RECLAIMED LAND (CD by Solstice) There are musicians who produce a lot of work, but mostly it's the same work over and over again (no names here). But Koji Asano is different, he produces a lot of work, in irregular intervals but you never know what to expect. He's now back in Japan, after being in Barcelona for several years and 'Sanctuary On Reclaimed Land' is CD numero 36 and was made for an exhibition in Osaka. Asano plays a grand piano in an empty warehouse and processes the recordings on his computer. The huge reverb of the warehouse still sounds through in this work, but perhaps there is also additional reverb added. In the course of fifty minutes, this work moves back and forth between 'real' piano sounds and the various processes thereof. It's a minimal work that moves in slow circles, and maybe it lacks a bit of tension to be entertaining for the full fifty minutes, but it's definetly one of the better Asano works. No noise this time, just a gentle flow of sounds. That is sometimes good enough by itself. (FdW) Address: http://www.kojiasano.com EVOL - MAGIA POTAGIA (CD by Mego) Since 2001 Roc Jimenez and Anna Ramos are active as Evol, besides running one of the nicer CDR labels, Alku. Evol has had releases on Fals.ch, Scarcelight and Alienation, and here offer a full length work. All of the sound on this CD was 100% computer generated and presented here without hardly any editing. Three lenghty pieces of computer generated noise music, coming in the form of almost classical electronic composition, but with the fury of say Merzbow. Highly cut-up in approach, this is certainly no easy music to access. Computers working overtime here and so may be the senses of the listener. Although I found each of the pieces a fascinating thing, it turned out to be simply impossible to listen to the entire CD in one go, since a certain fatigue would get hold of me. Having no problem with say two entire Merzbow CDs in one go, this is simply too much to be true. But a small dose every once in a while is certainly most appropiate. (FdW) Address: http://www.mego.at THE INVISIBLE FROG - SPACE MAKES NOISE (CD by Amanita Records) RAXINASKY - TRANSPORT DE VIANDES (CD by Amanita Records) WELTER QUARTET - RING RING (CD by Amanita Records) The French Amanita label has quite reputation for forceful music, brutal, energetic music, usually played on conventional instruments. The Invisible Frog for instance is one such band. Duby plays guitar and Nicolas the drums and they come from Belgium. Their ten songs in less than twenty-nine minutes is one long orgy of sound, songs cutting into eachother with great speed and energy, full on driving. It's very punk in approach, except that these guys handle their instruments very well. The short songs are performed with great care and is basically a shot of adrenaline into the listener. Not many moments of silence or any such things, so with 200 miles per hour against the traffic. Raxinasky is also a duo of guitar and drums from Belgium and even when there are similarities in volume, speed and aggression, it's altogether something different. Raxinasky plays eleven songs in fifty-eight minutes, so much longer tracks, and they include occassionally 'vocals'. They too play songs with a lot of sudden changes and is very much free jazz inspired, with all the parameters on 10. Although this is quite heavy stuff, it made a slightly less impression on me than The Invisible Frog. Whereas they have short songs that take the listener by surprise and move on right away, Raxinasky takes more time and a more uniform in there approach. If The Invisible Frog is a tsunami, then Raxinasky is a hurricane. As the name already implies Welter Quartet is a four piece of drums, bass, guitar, violin and singing. Compared to the previous two releases, we are talking music here. Jazzy lines, avant-rock archetypes, improvisation on the violin in a strong folky tradition and the female voices singing in a cabaret style (although sometimes a bit false). Like the Christian Ribas 7" reviewed elsewhere, this not much I usually play a lot, but however it has some strange captivation on me. It's melancholic, kitschy, dreamy and funny - well enough for a couple of spins. (FdW) Address: http://www.amanitarecords.com FREIBAND - {FLYING} (3"CD by Scarcelight) Freiband had a nice techno sounding concert in Athens/Greece few days ago, on 11.march at the so called Masynergy diy festival, where also few other quite interesting Greek artists played. There I was told that this 3"EP '{flying}' is actually a cover/rework/remix of a track called 'Flying' which is the only instrumental song by The Beatles. Unfortunally I haven't heard the original song, but perhaps this is one of those cases when there is no obvious similarity between the original and the remix at all, like, for example, Fennesz's remix of the track 'Paint it black' by The Rolling Stones. Or, like Freiband's own tribute to Joy Division's producer Martin Hannett by making music with sounds taken from their songs of the album 'Unknown Pleasures'. Well, something like that. What's a similarity in remixing anyway? The sound of this 20min EP with 8 tracks is mostly in some grainy atmospheric contemporary ambient areas, sometimes vaguely loop-based, which actually reminds of Goem. That's something to be noted, the borders between Goem and Freiband are slowly melting when Frans fuses them altogether in an amusing combination, which was specially obvious on his Athens' concert where he played as 'Freiband plays Goem'. Talking about that, it's similar to Atom Tm sounding more and more like Senor Coconut's latino style on the recent releases. With it's sound '{flying}' can be compared to Fennesz's grainy ambient or to Jim O'Rourke's subtle improv styles. Actually, for now there's no need to listen the original song by The Beatles, this is fine just as it is. Packed in a great shiny-happy cover and cd design which goes well along with these short untitled ambient crackling tribute drones. Enjoy the melodic sunshine. (BR) Address: http://scarcelight.com INTERTRONIK - IMPROVISATION #2 UND #3 (7" by Knistern) KLEMENS KAATZ - VERZERRUNGEN (7" by Knistern) KLEMENS KAATZ - TRANSFORMATIONEN (7" by Knistern) CHRISTIAN RIBAS - A3XX (7" by Knistern) These four 7"s were released in the year 2004, but only recentely reached our desk. Knistern is a German word meaning 'crackling'. They want to focuss on all sorts of music, but releases only 7"s. So far the artists are all from the Hamburg area. Intertronik opens the series. This band has Guy Saldanha on electric bass and Klemens Kaatz processing the sounds Guy produces. The two pieces were recorded already in 2002 at Hamburg's nicest space for experimental music, the Hörbar. In 'Improvisation #2' the two quickly built from quietness to a vicious loud feedback piece, the 'Improvisation #3' on the other side is much nicer and easier to access with its broken computer rhythms and pounding bass lines. Klemens Kaatz, of whom I never heard has two 7"s on Knistern. The first one contains eight short pieces for three bass guitars. The musicians are in the middle, the speakers at the corner and they play the basses with various techniques, like bowing, plucking or with a plectrum. The eight sketch like pieces are both minimal and rock oriented in approach and therefore sounds quite nice. A different kind of bass, the contrabass can be found on Kaatz' other 7", here in duo with electronics, meaning a whole bunch of effect pedals. Five also some shorter compositions, loosely based on improvisation, with the electronica adding slight distortion to the material. Also nice, but lesser in it's approach as the 'Verzerrungen' 7". That was crisp clear with a stronger conceptual approach. Also Christian Ribas is a new name for me. His four pieces are for 'sampler and big band' and that is very true. The big band plays some strong jazzy tunes, but there are also loops being made at the same and the whole thing blends together quite nicely. Groovy tunes, funky guitar lines and the wind-instruments are forcefully present in this. Musicwise this was for the nicest single, because it sounded so different from the usual lot at the Vital desk. Might not be stuff I want to hear all day, but in such a well-sorted small dose it's quite nice indeed. (FdW) Address: http://www.knistern.net JAN M IVERSEN - MASTERING 280 (CDR by Simple Logic Records) Things were a bit quiet for Jan M. Iversen, the man behind the Tib Prod label, but here is another of his solo recordings, for the Polish Simple Logic Records label. 'Generated from the use of guitar, flute, drum machine, rex50, microphone and some Ethiopian wood-string-thing' it reads on the cover. Don't know what a rex50 is, but hearing this work I think it's a reverb unit. All of the sounds used in this single piece (thirty three minutes) are smeared with reverb to create a dense, atmospheric piece of music. None of the other instruments are well recognizable in this blur. I'm never a big lover of the extensive use of reverb, because it seems, at least to me, too easy to create atmospheric music with this sound effect. It should be possible to generate some with similar effects but without a reverb. Now it's a blurry vague ambient industrial release. Iversen can do much better! (FdW) Address: http://www.simlog.tk ENSEMBLE SP - EX. IMPLICIT (CDR, self released) Originally the name of Ensemble SP was SALIkaPALIKAU and this duo of Darius Gerulaitis and Gytis Skundzinskas hails from Lithuania. They have been together since 1994 and there havbe been various contributions to compilations and self-released CDRs. I haven't heard any of these, so 'Ex Implicit' is my first encounter. They play music generated on laptops, me thinks. In the early parts of this composition there is some deep bass sound and some synthesized drone stuff, which sound kinda traditional, but as the release evolves, things become more abstract, with various plug ins and digital sound processing, which stay, despite some attempts to be louder and noisier, always on the friendly side of things. It's a work that sounds nice enough, but holds for those who aware of this kind of music, not enough new things. Otherwise it's a nice thirty minutes of music. (FdW) Address: http://www.dronerecords.de PIA GAMBARDELLA - RELUCTANT DIVERS (CDR by W.MO/R) BILLY BAO - BILBO'S INCINERATOR (7" by W.MO/R) The name Pia Gambardella is new to me, and he works with installations and sound performance, using test equipment, adapted and self-built electronic devices. The work 'Reluctant Divers' is based on a recurring dream while being in hospital, which I will not try to rewrite or explain. In nine tracks, lasting circa half an hour, Gambardella works with the sounds of feedback, which are perhaps processed through the computer, perhaps not. Seeing this being on Mattin's label, it's easy to see the connection, or perhaps the inspiration. However, it could hardly interest me. Feedback music can be nice, when done right, backed with a good conceptual idea, but here it works out, for me at least, in a rather pointless way. Billy Bao is the one responsible for the first vinyl release on W.m.Or, a 7". Billy Bao came from Lagos to Bilbao and discovered punk rock and formed a band with Alberto Lopez on drums and Mattin on guitar. The three tracks on this 7" were recorded in three hours and are not really the sort of the punk rock I grew up with. Kinda slow songs, recorded without much speed or energy, more like a bad version of the Swans, with some electronic processing in 'Bilbo's Incinerator'. The whole point, besides offering a manifesto that this world sucks, is missed here by this reviewer. For these two W.mo/r I must pass on. (FdW) Address: http://www.mattin.org THE WESLEY KERN GUN - ROCKET TO THE ROOM (CDR by Humbug) VIÖN/MEM - 12'00/TSCH (2xCDR by Humbug) "The Wesley Kern Gun is Steve Aylett and some machines. Aylett also writes books": this is what is written on the cover. Don't know what these machines are, but I expect them to a computer. Aylett found ways to time stretch sounds and whatever he puts into this, he stretches this into some lenghty, drone ambient sound. It's not really surprising music, but it nevertheless sounds actually quite nice, maybe like a computer generated version of Mirror or Ora. Good background sound, although that may not sound very positive... Also on Humbug is a double release by two projects from Poland, Viön and Mem. The two releases have different cataloguenumbers (017 and 018), but belong together through their covers and conceptual ideas, in both cases the manipulation of field recordings. It's unclear if these boys play together or if one delivers the input and the other the output. On both CDRs this however works out quite nicely, with sounds being gently processed into semi-droney pieces with occassional glitchy elements. Quite nice microsounding stuff going on here, but in terms of innovation, it's perhaps less interesting. However, I had a good time playing both of them. (FdW) Address: http://www.tibprod.com/humbug.htm CROPCIRCLE - SOUNDTRACK FOR A PERFECT NIGHTMARE (CDR by Creative Fields Records) Italian sound artist Francesco Testa is the man behind the Cropcircle-project originally introduced back in 1999. This CD-R titled "Soundtrack for a perfect nightmare" is the fourth shot from Cropcircle. It works as one long musical piece clocking approximately 48 minutes. The album has a lucid dreamy atmosphere. The soundscapes are first of all tranquillizing with lots of melody and orchestral expression. Functioning on different levels we have the slow waving layers of deep ambient underneath, meanwhile the upper layer first of all is melodic with a strange sort of outer-space-feeling. A mysterious and eclectic atmosphere saturates the main part of the album. The first six tracks are hauntingly beautiful and dark reminiscent of a mixture between the interstellar deep ambient expression of S.E.T.I.'s "Pharos" (1995), and the sci-fi-darkness of Lustmord's "The place where the black stars hang" (1994). Seventh and final track of the album is the only track that brutally separates from the otherworldly ambient-feeling. Based on over-the-top power electronics not far away from Swedish legend Brighter Death Now, "Welcome home" is the section on the album where the listener is being violently dragged out of the sweet dreaming back to reality with six minutes of merciless aggression. One can only ask the question whether it is the dream world or the real world that hold the worst nightmares. If you ask Cropcircle the answer apparently is quite simple! (NMP) (No Address) MECHA/ORGA - FLOAT (CDR by Echo Music) In a large disused factory building in Athens last week I saw Mecha/orga play his music to a crowd of a couple of hundred. Maybe it wasn't the right place, as his music needed carefull attention, and could best be enjoyed by sitting down, closing your eyes and simply listen. But that was not possible, so for the listener the proceedings might seem to have taken a long time. For the lucky few it was possible to obtain this self-released CDR (sold out at the end of the night) of five pieces of, let's say this for the sake of convience, ambient music. Mecha/orga, by day Yiorgis Sekellariou, uses the sounds of urban life and treats them inside the computer and plays around with the resulting feedback of it. In his concert he played one piece that started out being barely there until it extremely loud, with a few simply, almost Kozo Inada, changes. Here the material is more straight forward. A piece starts out on a certain level and maintains there, with very subtle changes. The first track is a simply too easy time-stretched piece, but the other four are really nice low end rumbles that slowly develop insect like sounds, just as in the second piece. Mecha/orga may be seen as someone who took inspiration from say Francisco Lopez, but all of his material is much more audible than Lopez' work, and that's at least one big different change. (FdW) Address: CHEFKIRK - KIK-KIK-KIKKIK (CDR by 1000+1 Tilt) Roger H Smith, aka Chefkirk, wants to be, it seems, to be the Merzbow of the CDR world, with yet another release. In his usual rhythm 'n noise vein, he produces seven tracks, of around thirty minutes (his albums are never Merzbowian in length!), that slowly develops into something much more enjoyable. His rhythms are becoming steady, the noise around it also, and even manages to incorporate musical elements, or dare I say, some ambient elements in his music. 'Kik-kik-kikkik' is perhaps one of his musically more varied enterprises thus far. Still probably a long way to come, but with all these small and subtle changes, he might be getting somewhere one day. (FdW) Address: http://www.geocities.com/tiltrecordings TBTTBC - MIRANDA A HAIRDRESSER'S OPERA (3"CDR by To Be Announced Records) TBTTBC - LIVE IN GHENT 15-09-2004 (3"CDR by To Be Announced Records) To Be The To Be Continued is what TBTTBC stands for and these two small releases follow Layer's solo release of last week. 'Miranda, A Hairdresser's Opera', is probably the shortest opera ever made, nineteen minutes with three acts and in total twelve scenes. TBTTBC are a sort of guitar group, but also keyboards and vocals. They play rather short songs, which are all linked together via the story of a girl remembering a dream about a opera, and meeting the composer of the opera. Rather weird story, but the execution of the opera is quite nice. The Residents meeting Der Plan or some such. The vocals are sped up, so they sound a bit Teletubbies like. Weirdness through. The cover, drawn by Dennis Tyfus, is beautiful, almost Trevor Brown (see Whitehouse) like. Very nice small opera. 'Live In Ghent' is also a 3"CDR but less organised around a theme or concept. It sees these boys also in a somewhat different musical approach, with more noisey and droney sounds, no vocals only wordless vocal sounds. Apperentely they play only laptops here, altering the sounds of themselves as a rock band. They improvise loosely around the sustained sounds and do this quite nicely. As said, different from their opera, and maybe less worked out, nevertheless nice stuff indeed. Limited to twenty-five copies, which was about the size of the audience. (FdW) Address: http://www.tbttbc.tk CIVIL WAR - WHEN FACT THREATENS BELIEF (3"CDR by Longbox Recordings) The band Civil War is a trio of Amy Cimini on viola, Adam Sonderberg on bass drum and Katherine Young on bassoon. This short release was recorded in abandoned grain silo, adding some spacious textures to the music. If understood correctely each track is a solo track from each of the members. Cimini's viola piece is very nice, juxtaposing the overtones in the sound. Sonderberg's piece is high piercing feedback like, in which I didn't recognize a bass drum at all, and Young's piece is one of lenghty sustained sounds on the bassoon. This is the first release by Civil War and is a nice introduction to each of the players, now bring on the joint stuff. (FdW) Address: http://www.longboxrecordings.com MHFS - TI POINT WHARF (3"CDR by Scarcelight) Mark Sadgrove is the man behind MHFS, and he hails from Auckland, where he is a physicist, working on a doctorate in experimental quantum dynamics. In whatever spare time he has, he works with open source software tools to make music, and he had two previous releases on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon. 'Ti Point Wharf' is a rather lo-fi recording of songs, covered rather than uncovered with hiss. Seven rather short tracks of hiss, static crackle and some guitar playing and singing in the fourth track, but that one is also being drowned in this curious hissy backdrop of sound. It's a rather excentric sound he puts on, seemingely not caring about the quality of the sound, but rather adding more curious shaped distortion to the music. Lo-fi drone music with occassional folk qualities. Strange combination, but it works. (FdW) Address: http://www.scarcelight.org correction: The Andrew Duke Cd 'Dead Air Alive' was actually released by the label petite sono] and not Andrew's label. The web address for petite sono] is www.petitesono.com 1. From: mindlobster STRAIGHT DOWN TO IT: This is what mindlobster's doing: Wednesday 23/3/2005: Laptop Music Nite 2, The Hat On Wall, 24-28 Hatton Wall, London EC1. Bar open from 5pm, live sets from 7.30-12. Thursday 31/3/05: VJing at The Spitz, London. Bands appearing: Monade, Rothko, Caroline Ross, Compute. See www.spitz.co.uk for more info. Friday 15/4/05: Sounds Expo, Wembley, London, 3.15pm - a 45 minute live set/seminar in association with M-Audio. See www.sounds-expo.co.uk for more info. Saturday 23rd July: Truck Festival, Oxfordshire, see www.truckfestival.org for more info. AND...currently editing videos of earlier mindlobster performances to go online soon. AND...making arrangements for download sales of mindlobster mp3s. - As always, see www.mindlobster.com for the latest info! 2. From: "Alexander Rishaug" Dear all friends and colleagues Alexander Rishaug / Pure / DJ Jason Forrest Ausland, Berlin Friday the 18th of March Starts at 22:00 For more info: www.ausland-berlin.de or alexander@randomsystem.org 3. From: info@digitalkranky.de Thursday, 17.3.2005. Ab 20 Uhr. [plein], Jessnerstrasse 35, Bln-Fhain MARCEL FORRER MARSVENUSKONFUSION 19.03.2005, 23:00 Golden Gate, Jannowitzbr¸cke, Stadtbahnb?gen 77/78, Dircksen Ecke Schicklerstrasse live: the buddy system (notenuf // usa) marsvenuskonfusion (plattfon // ch) djs: dj stealth (stillavailable // ger) klaus zimmermann (digital kranky // ger) philip schwarz (plattfon // ch) an evening with advanced hiphop, weird electronica and scientific breakcore music. 4. From: mattin *GIGS: **17th March Belaska + super especial guest: '' '' [sic] Goldie . Red Rose 129 Finsbury Road. London* **________________ 19th March *The LMC presents /Immaterial,/ a new series of improvised music concerts. Chapel of the Oxford House 7pm to 10pm Free* *z'ev* (percussions) *Mattin* (computer feedback) *Masahide Tokunaga *(saxophone) / *Samatha Rebello *(flute) Oxford House *Address: *Derbyshire Street, 3^rd floor, E2 6HG *Tube:* Bethnal Green *Buses:* 8, 388, 253, 106, D3, D6 _____________ 24th March. Bohman Brothers , Clive Graham , Mattin. Cyrk. , Stoke Newington Road. 7:30pm-1am. London _____________ 27th March. Eddie Prevost & John Butcher, " " [sic] Goldie & John Edwards, Mattin. Olirgarch Shit Transfussion. Foudry. London _____________ 1st April. Mattin. Foundry.Open Lab. London _____________ 11th April. Lucio Capece & Mattin. Kule. Berlin ____________ 12th April. Mattin. Kap arkona . Berlin kap arkona e.v. am arkonaplatz / granseer str. 6/ swinemünder str. (an der grenze zwischen berlin-mitte und -prenzlauer berg) http://www.Berlin.de/stadtplan/map.asp?sid=4ff3fe47795d0c376ed0c9dd6aa84018& id=3722=6 ____________ 16th April. Cremaster & Mattin. Impro IBA (espacio de can felipa). Barcelona ________ 20-22 April. Mattin working on ZET (info Below). Apo33.org. Nantes _____________ 25th April. Tim Barnes & Mattin. True Vine. Baltimore, MD __________ 27th April. Tim Barnes & Mattin. Gameboy Records House. Columbus, OH _______________ 31th April. Tim Barnes & Mattin Project Room. 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