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Tamizdat Dispatch #2 / December 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: Ethnocore in Eastern & Central Europe 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: LVMEN (CZ) on EUROPEAN TOUR: NOV 18 - DEC 16 If you haven't seen the Czech band Lvmen yet, go now! Blending the monumental apocalypse of Neurosis, the nervousness of Slint, the drive of Hoover, and rounding it off with a Yo La Tengo's smoothness, Lvmen are a force to be dealt with. In Germany, France, Spain, Benelux, and Switzerland. For more info, see lvmen.czechcore.cz or write info@tamizdat.org. IVA BITTOVA (CZ) in NYC for BANG ON A CAN: DEC 10 Czech avant-diva and world-renowned violinist Iva Bittova heads to the USA for The Bang on a Can Marathon, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. For more info check out the website: www.bangonacan.org. KISS ERZSI MUSIC (HU) on EUROPEAN TOUR: DEC 7 - 18 Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam, Den Bosch, Dortmund, Hannover Led by vocalist Erzsi Kiss and including members Gabi Kenderesi and Csaba Hajnoczy of of Hungary's Kampec Dolores, KEM are an energetic Hungarian experimental experience! BONDZINSKY (RU) on BENELUX TOUR: DEC 2 - DEC 10 Russian band Bodzinsky play in the Netherlands and Belgium. Hitting hard with punk drive and vocals, explosive precision-rock and jazz elements, Bondzinsky take you by storm. Rotterdam, Eindhoven, Groningen, A'dam, Utrecht, Woerden, Den Haag for venues and dates write us: info@tamizdat.org LADRONKA SQUAT SHUT DOWN BY PRAGUE POLICE Culture organization and activist squat Ladronka in Prague was closed by police recently, despite organized protests and efforts to keep its doors open to cutting edge electronic and punk music and arts. Check their website out at www.ladronka.cz for up-to-date info. TUXEDOMOON concert in St Petersburg On Nov. 27th, an unprecedented Eastern European peformance of legendary San Francisco art ensemble Tuxedomoon took place at the Estrada Theatre in Petersburg. See Tamizdat's website soon for a full post-concert interview and photos. ELECTRIC CIRCUS in Ljubljana: DEC 16 at KUD France Preseren A self-professed gathering of "freaks from all around the world", the "Cirque" is a synergistic artistic confluence of odd souls interacting, creating something new out of the connection of their various arts & acts. Burning Man, go East! DIGITAL ZOOO in Prague - festival of digital culture: DEC 14 - 16 Celebrating new Czech and Slovak art on the internet, ZOOO also features expert presenters from the USA and the Netherlands. For more info see www.nod.cz. WRO2000@kultura Wroclaw, Poland NOV 20 - DEC 10 An international exhibition devoted to changes in art, culture and everyday life in the age of digital technology. WRO2000@kultura commemorates the 1000th Anniversary of the City of Wroclaw and the 300th Anniversary of the Wroclaw University. For more info see www.wro.art.pl. NEXT 2000 in Bratislava, Slovakia DEC 7 - DEC 8 Next 2000 is a music and multi-media festival featuring internationally renowned avant-garde artists including Bob Ostertag and Phil Minton (USA, UK), Franz Hautzinger (A), Studio CH&K&K (PL), Jon Rose and Veryon Weston (UK), Peter Wajsar & Lunovis (CZ), and Irene Schweizer and Han Bennink (CH, NL). For more info see www.atrakt-art.sk/next2000.  II. FIELD REPORT: Ethnocore in Eastern & Central Europe 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! Check out these and more "ethno"-related CDs on Tamizdat RPM, www.tamizdat.org/rpm Kampec Dolores "A bivaly hatan" Trottel "Interference" Korai Orom "Recycled" Atman "Personal Forest" Project Karpaty Magiczne "Ethnocore" Auktyon "Ptiza" Uz Jsme Doma "Usi" Zuby Nehty "Lod Odplouva" Bittova/Dunaj/Fajt "Pustit Musis" * For further reading, see article by Matthew Covey in Ba Da Boom Grammaphone on the web courtesy of our friends at InSound: www.insound.com III. NEW CDS IN TAMIZDAT's ONLINE SHOP KAMPEC DOLORES "A bivaly hatan" [Sitting on the Buffalo] (HU) NEW album by Hungary's art legends SILA "Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari" Scintillating, thoughtful live-improv to the classic film BORIS KOVAC "Mirror of the Voice" Kovac's dark, pensive, extraordinary personal masterpiece BLANK DISC "IV" More madcap intelligence from these noiseshredders! GOTHART "Adio Querida" (CZ) Riveting Czech gypsy music: dark, moody, intensely melodic SABOT "120 Months" (CZ) New! book plus CD) Sabot's 10th anniversary, read how the band developed and hear their self-styled crash-jazz-bass-n-drums music as (unbelievably) covered by band-friends. An art-punk dream read! KURY "Napijmy Sie Oleju" (PL) More ripplin' post-Miles art-jazz freaki goodness from masters Kury 4 SYFON "To Prawda" (PL) Heavy rockin beats and melodic jazz riffs from 4 Syfon EWA BRAUN "Electromovement" (PL) Dark dizzyingly thoughtful industrial noise-rock ROBOTOBIBOK "Jogging" (PL) Rollicking full-out avant jazz with a Trans Am kind-a-thinkin' V.A. "Any Day" (compilation) (EST) Sweet ambient/electropop sounds from Kohvi Records 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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