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Tamizdat Dispatch #1 / Oct-Nov 2000 [01.12.2000]
post-rock/avant garde/electronic/indie-pop/ethnic/jazz/punkDispatch is a newsletter about independent music from Eastern and Central Europe. For more info, please write us: info@tamizdat.org I. Music news: News, Tour Dates and Festivals II. Field report: Avant Poland & the Free Music of "Yass" III. New cds! on our rapidly growing Tamizdat RPM Catalogue IV. Tamizdat distributors: a growing team of great distributors we work with I. MUSIC NEWS: SUNSHINE Oct-Nov 2000 in the USA (CZ, Day After CZ/Big Wheel and GSL USA) Is it artrock? punk? neosynthcauterwaul? noiserock? electrorock? Whatever you want to call it, SUNSHINE's music is great and they put on a fucking great show. Don't miss their extensive American tour dates from Oct-Nov definetly in a city near YOU! Organized by Big Wheel Records, with great bands like At the Drive In, Murder City Devils, Botch, International Noise Conspiracy, and No Knife. Current tour dates find below, and drop an email for more info: info@tamizdat.org. OCTOBER 25th Wilkes-Barre, PA tba 26th Pittsburgh, PA 31st St Pub 27th Cleveland, OH Euclid Tavern 28th Detroit, MI Magic Stick 29th Columbus, OH, Bernie's Distillery 30th Louisville, KY The BRYCC House 31st St Louis, MO Creepy Crawl NOVEMBER 1st Iowa City, IA Gabe's Oasis 2nd Milwaukee, WI Globe East 3rd Chicago, Il Fireside Bowl 4th Knoxville, TN Pilot Light 5th Atlanta, GA EyeDrum 6th New Orleans, LA tba 7th Conway, AR The Needle 8th Houston, TX University Of Houston 9th Austin, TX Emo's 10th Phoenix AZ tba W/No Knife 11th San Diego, CA Che Café W/No Knife 12th LA Troubador W No Knife 13th SanFran tba W/ No Knife 14th Portland, OR tba 15th Seattle, WA tba 16th Boise, ID tba 17th Salt Lake City, UT tba 18th Denver, CO Double Entendre 19th Omaha, NE Cog Factory 20th Chicago, IL tba 21st Cleveland, OH Speaking in Tongues SOMETHING LIKE ELVIS Nov in Germany (PL, Antenna Krzyku) The first of a series of tours by Antenna Krzyku bands this fall and spring, SLE heads off with a full roster of shows all throughout Germany and Switzerland. SLE fuse punk with accordion-sustained melodies, yeah go on and say it, "squeeeeeezcore"!!! Drop us an email for current tour dates near you: info@tamizdat.org FESTIVAL ALTERNATIVA 2000, Nov 27 - Dec 9 2000 One of Prague's coolest cutting-edge music festivals, ALTERNATIVA brings in avant-garde, electronic, world music, jazz, and cross-genre talent from around the globe. This year, featured guests include JOHN ZORN & MASSADA, CHRIS CUTLER, ROBERT POSS, ZU, VERSHKI DA KORESHKI, MASFEL, TROTTEL, KISS ERSZI MUSIC, OLE LUKKOYE, AUKTYON, ZGA, FRANCOIS ROSSE, LAURENT DAILLEAU, SCHOONER, DJ AI, and much much more. All events take place in Prague venues. For more info, write us: info@tamizdat.org  II. FIELD REPORT: Avant Poland & the Free Music of "Yass" In recent years the strength of ethnic influences upon contemporary music has noticeably increased in the new music of Eastern and Central Europe. What characterizes this trend is how artists combine local sounds with avant-garde, electronic, or rock elements to create a plethora of new musical modes. The term "Ethnocore" implies a fusion of old and new, resulting in daring, bold musical incarnations. From Hungary, KAMPEC DOLORES have been seamlessly fusing Eastern melodies and rhythms with avant-rock and avant-jazz for many years. An exciting new group, the DANUBIANS brings together Kampec Dolores members with the Californian artist AMY DENIO and Czech drummer PAVEL FAJT, for experiments including vocal sampling. Meanwhile, Budapest legend TROTTEL incorporates Hungarian rhythms and melodies into their own punk-progressive-rock. And Hungary's ambient-ethno masters KORAI OROM powerfully intertwine ethnic sound with DJ beats. In the heart of Poland, former members of ATMAN have reformed into a brazen new ensemble KARPATY MAGICZNE. From their travels from Tibet to the Amazon, they have collected inspiration and instruments and combined them now with ambient electronics, mesmerizing rhythms, and Polish lyrics. Pomo folk-rockers, Russia's FARLANDERS bring together ancient sounds from the steppes with folk guitar, bumpin' bass, and rich acoustic and synth sounds. And AUKTYON from St Petersburg fuse David Byrne-style art-rock with historic Russian melodies, theatrics, and rhythms to create one hell of a live show and sound. Czech ethno tends to keep a foot squarely in the door of very rhythmic punk, best exemplified in the music of legendary CZ art-rockers UZ JSME DOMA, or of UJD sister band ZUBY NEHTY (all-girl Czech avant-punk). In live performances, artists sew together ancient and new: witness recent Alternativa concert by Czech drummer PAVEL FAJT and Yakustsk singer STEPANIDA BORISOVA, in which Fajt merged triggered electronics with Stepanida's deep Sacha singing. Or see what happens when Czech legend IVA BITTOVA hits the stage with DJ JAVAS, layering classical/gypsy vocals with Javas' beats. There is so much out there in this field, we can barely introduce the topic in a brief paragraph. So, if you would like to know more, and if you are interested in a promotional sampler CD featuring some of this excellent music, just write to heather@tamizdat.org and of course, check our website for more!
III. NEW CDS IN TAMIZDAT's ONLINE SHOP MORDY, "Model 120" a tenderloin of Polish post-rock SUNSHINE, "Velvet Suicide" Sunshine are on tour now in the USA, check em out! Info below JARBOLI, "Samo Ponekad" fist-tight indie-rock from Belgrade (unsigned-rare release!) WAAWE, "Timestorm Was the Signal" searing post-prog-punk BLOW, "Rolls Royce in the Dance Club" electrotechno from Prague GRIZZLYBEARUNDERWEAR, (self-titled) (ecclectic noise, rock, mayhem from (East) Germany IV. TAMIZDAT DISTRIBUTORS AND SALES PARTNERS: Argentina: Mr Floyd Benelux: Lowlands France: Orkhestra Taiwan: Avant Garden Switzerland: RecRec UK: Shellshock USA: Revolver, Southern, Other Music Online: InSound, Clamazon |
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