Apropos Klub Soja

Klub Soja. Et tilbageblik

Årets første koncertaften i Klub Soja finder sted fredag d. 8. marts. Klubben begyndte i foråret 2014. Forleden så Mod Strømmen tilbage på Sojas første fem år.

1. Bisse - Mareridt (2015)

2. Jomi Massage - High Heels Ascending (2005)

3. The Liquid - Belfast Athens Non-Stop (2013)

4. Halasan Bazar - Magic Clouds (2014)

5. Tidlige Armbånd - Morild (2018)

6. Valby Vokalgruppe - Efter Internettet (2012)

7. Yahowa - The Future Is Spacey And Cheap (2017)

8. Orcas - Kuldskær (2016)

9. Efter Festen - Jeg Lyver For Min Psykolog (2017)

10. Vilde Græs - Giv Mig Et Kald (2018)

11. Felines - Too Tight (2018)

12. Equis - Lanes (2015)

13. Spines - Fatal Outcome (2018)

14. The Love Coffin - Blind (2018)

15. Birds In Flight - Robbery Song (2018)

16. Collider - Axis (2019)

17. P.J. Bonneman - Mig Og Henriette (2017)

18. The Courettes - I’ve Been Walking (2015)

“Hip to the grooviest sound of the ’60s but at the same time had been informed by punk rock.”

Da jeg sidste efterår læste om albummet,‘3 x 4: The Bangles, The Three O’Clock, The Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade’, første gang, tænkte jeg, at det skal jeg saftsuseme høre. Tiden gik. Som sådan glemte jeg ikke ønsket, men det røg i baggrunden til fordel for andre udgivelser. Indtil for et par dage siden, hvor jeg lyttede til en ny single fra en kommende The Dream Syndicate-udgivelse. Dén bragte mig atter på sporet.

Idéen til pladeprojektet blev undfanget tilbage i 2013, hvor de fire grupper spillede til en velgørenhedskoncert i Los Angeles. Danny Benar fra The Three O'Clock, Steve Wynn fra The Dream Syndicate og Vicki Peterson fra The Bangles begyndte så småt efterfølgende at tale om at lave en plade. En plade, der på en-eller-anden facon, skulle hylde deres fortid sammen på den såkaldte Paisley Underground-scene.

I dag betragter mange Paisley Underground, som en decideret musikgenre. Men som Steve Wynn betoner i noterne til albummet, så var Paisley Underground mest af alt en lille scene, hvor orkestrene ikke delte en særlig sound, men snarere fandt sammen om tilgangen til musikken. Med Wynns ord, var de: “Hip to the grooviest sound of the ’60s but at the same time had been informed by punk rock.”

Selvom udkastet med at lave coverversioner af hinandens sange hurtigt lå fast, så manglede de stadigvæk et pladeselskab, der gad at kaste penge efter dem. Og her måtte de åbenbart bruge nogle år før Yep Roc Records bed på.

The Bangles spiller ‘Jet Fighter’ af The Three O’Clock, ‘Talking In My Sleep’ af Rain Parade og ‘That’s What You Always Say’ af The Dream Syndicate.

The Dream Syndicate spiller ‘Hero Takes A Fall’ af The Bangles, ‘She Turns To Flowers’ af Salvation Army (The Three O’Clock hed oprindelig Salvation Army) og ‘You Are My Friend’ af Rain Parade

Rain Parade spiller ‘As Real As Real’ af The Three O’Clock, ‘Real World’ af The Bangles og ’When You Smile’ af The Dream Syndicate

The Three O’Clock spiller ‘Tell Me When It’s Over’ af The Dream Syndicate, ‘What She’s Done To Your Mind’ af The Rain Parade og ‘Getting Out Of Hand’ af The Bangles.

’Suicaine Gratifaction’ fyldte tyve år i går.

Uden at sætte det alt for meget på spidsen, så har Paul Westerberg i de seneste tyve år opereret i et spændingsfelt, som minder en hel del om dét, der blev beskrevet i denne anmeldelse af ’Suicaine Gratifaction’ fra AV Music, d. 23. februar 1999:

"Paul Westerberg's solo career has found him in something of an impossible situation: If he were to make music that sounds too much like The Replacements, people would accuse him of repeating himself. On the other hand, everyone pretty much expects Westerberg to make music that sounds like The Replacements, and if he showed signs of mellowing into middle age, the wolves would show up at the door anyway. After two solo records that attempted to find a healthy compromise between the two extremes, Westerberg has returned with the cryptically titled Suicaine Gratifaction, an album of heartfelt material that seems to ignore the expectations of both camps. That's not to say you'll mistake it for anything but a Paul Westerberg album. "Looking Out Forever" and "Final Hurrah" both rock, in a mid-tempo kind of way, like Replacements tunes, and the album-opening "It's A Wonderful Lie" has the sort of title that only Westerberg could turn into a decent song. It's this song, with its demo-like qualities and ability to convey smoky back-porch intimacy, that also best indicates what the album is about. Sparsely co-produced by Westerberg and Don Was, much of the record finds Westerberg stripped down, sometimes because of its frequently raw sound and always because of its tone. It's the sound of the singer-songwriter succeeding on his own terms, and reason for anyone who's stopped paying attention to start all over again.”

Om pladens besynderlige titel, som anmelderen også undrer sig over, har Paul Westerberg senere sagt:  "I don't want to think about it too deeply other than the fact that it seems wrong, and therefore it's attractive to me.”

Her åbningssangen ‘It's A Wonderful Lie’:

Melting Walkmen. Playliste 21. februar 2019

1. Melting Walkmen - Time (2018)

2. Before - Sister Culture (1983)

3. Joy Division - No Love Lost (1978)

4. Chainsaw Eaters - Waiting (2018)

5. Melting Walkmen - All These Girls (2011)

6. Sonic Youth - Starpower (1986)

7. Hüsker Dü - I'll Never Forget You (1984)

8. Dinosaur Jr. - Forget The Swan (1985)

9. 0% - Original Man (2017)

10. My Bloody Valentine - I Only Said (1991)

11. Sods - Marble Station (1980)

12. New Order - Age Of Consent (1983)

13. Gorilla Angreb ‎- Bedre Tider (2006)

14. The City Kill - Leave This Place (2011)

15. Melting Walkmen - Skin (2018)

Tre minutter med Minutemen

Besked modtaget, mandag, d. 18. februar, kl. 13.40

”Er du egentlig stadig i gang med dit Minutemen-trip, HH?

I så fald har jeg dette vidunderlige klip fra et formiddags-show på UCLA. George Hurley kunne ikke være der, da han skulle på arbejde, i stedet er det D. Boons roommate Richard Derrick på trommer. Han blev senere multiinstrumentalist og avantgardist og har bl.a. lavet plader med Nels Cline.

Minutmændene og bogormene! George er på arbejde...et af de sejeste bands nogensinde.”

Melting Walkmen i Mod Strømmen

Det er efterhånden et helt år siden, at den ti år gamle kvintet Melting Walkmen udsendte deres seneste ep. Eller er det? Alt efter, hvor man søger informationer, får man forskellige release-datoer på ’Daylight Savings’, som udgivelsen hedder. Der dukker også stadigvæk anmeldelser op af pladen, rundt omkring på nettet. Den seneste, jeg har set, er vistnok på polsk, så den får jeg ikke forbandet meget ud af at læse. Jeg forstår dog, at både Sort Sol og Kliché bliver nævnt, så de orkestre må polakkerne altså have en eller anden form for kendskab til?

Uanset hvad, så er det ikke på grund af den et år gamle plade, at Melting Walkmen er inviteret på besøg i Mod Strømmen. Bandet spiller ifølge et Facebook-opslag ”et sammensurium af eksperimenterende post-punk og støjet collegerock. Et hektisk katarsis af støj, angst og selvforagt”. Hvem kan sige nej til det?

Første gang, vi skrev sammen, var allerede i november sidste år, hvor de havde en split-single på vej med Chainsaw Eaters. En 7”’er, der blev udgivet i forbindelse med et enkelt show, som blev afholdt for at fejre, det var ti år siden, at det kortlivede label/bookinggruppe/kunstnerkollektiv, Red Tape, så dagens lys. På det tidspunkt var Mod Strømmen helt booket op, så nu på torsdag tager vi revanche.

Her Melting Walkmens bidrag til split-singlen ’10 Years in the Gutter’:

Stil ind på torsdag, d. 21. februar, kl. 18.00, på enten 98.9 FM eller via Tunein eller den direkte livestream.

"There is no one who can stand in his place, not even in his shadow."

Ovenstående svar, gav Alice Coltrane, da Essence Magazine på et tidspunkt i anden halvdel af halvfjerdserne, spurte hende om, hvorfor hun ikke havde giftet sig igen efter John Coltranes død i juli 1967.

Fotografiet med Alice Coltrane og børneflokken stammer fra Ebony Magazine, november 1967.

Billedteksten lyder: ”Family of late musician still lives in his shadow, though he is gone. Mrs. Coltrane is convinced that children (l to r.) step daughter Michelle, 7, sons Oran, six months, John Jr., 3, Rabi (Ravi, ikke Rabi) 2, will retain memories of the father they lost so early”

The Foreign Resort. Playliste 14. februar 2019

1. Traitrs - Burnt Offerings (2016)

2. The Foreign Resort - Outnumbered (2019)

3. Then Comes Silence - Mothman (2013)

4. Film School - Don't Send My Love (2018)

5. New Canyons - Everyone Is Dark (2013)

6. Creux Lies - Eulogy (2018)

7. Actors - L'appel Du Vide (2018)

8. Melted Mirror - Open Wire (2019)

9. Operators - Cold Light (2016)

10. Waitress - Goblin (2017)

11. A Place To Bury Strangers - Keep Slipping Away (2009)

12. The Foreign Resort - She Is Lost (2017)

13. Prgrm - Rebel (2015)

14. Nite - Moonlight (2017)

15. Night Drive - Rise And Fall (2017)

Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso og Allen Ginsberg. Amsterdam, oktober 1957

The Foreign Resort i Mod Strømmen

I morgen bevæger jeg mig ud i et terræn, som jeg kun har betrådt ganske overfladisk. Med andre ord, så stikker min viden om den scene The Foreign Resort er en del af ikke særligt dybt. Det er en scene, der lever og har det fortrinligt udenfor mediemøllens søgelys. Et sted, så jeg, scenen omtalt som the new wave of  postpunk. Om det er dækkende ved jeg ikke. Darkwave og coldwave bliver også nævnt. Scenen er vist især stor i det tysktalende Europa, men USA og Canada kan også være med. Under alle omstændigheder er det et stykke tid siden, at jeg har hørt om et dansk orkester med så megen touraktivitet i nævnte områder.

The Foreign Resort debuterede for omkring ti år siden. Siden er det blevet til et par album, samt en række ep’er og singler. I efteråret var de i studiet for at indspille et nyt album. Udsendelsen i morgen bliver en form for optakt til den skandinaviske turné, gruppen har planlagt i samarbejde med canadiske Traitrs og svenske Then Comes Silence. Den begynder i Odense, d. 22. februar, hvorefter den kommer forbi Stengade, dagen efter, og derpå fortsætter til Gøteborg, Stockholm og Helsinki.

The Foreign Resort nye plade, der kommer til at hedde ’Outnumbered’, kommer først på gaden til april, men det fejrer bandet til gengæld med en release-tour til USA, hvor der indtil videre venter seksten koncerter.

Her titelnummeret:

Lyt med i morgen, torsdag d. 14. februar, hvor The Foreign Resort kigger forbi Mod Strømmen. Det sker, kl. 18.00, på enten 98.9 FM eller via Tunein eller den direkte livestream.

”The Cure, or Sting are negative because it’s so artificial and takes you nowhere”. I bedste poesibog stil…

Fra det kortlivede engelske musikmagasin ’Underground’. Efter en hurtig udregning må årstallet være 1987.

“1. Full name

2. Age and date of birth

3. Previous bands

4. What do you think you’re most famous for?

5. If you weren’t such a famous mega-star, what would be the job you’d least like to do?

6. Favourite hobby

7. Favourite album of your own

8. Favourite album of all time

9. Who would you most like to collaborate with (alive or dead)

10. If you could see justice done in one situation in the world, where would you choose?

11. If you don’t believe in reincarnation, what do you believe in?

12. Favourite time of the day?

13. Favourite waste of time

14. What do you love most about America?

15. What do you love most about Britain?

16. What do you hate most about what journalists say about you?

17. What would you like to eat tonight?

18. What records are you currently listening to?

19. Next release

20. Predictions for the future

Henry Rollins

1. Henry Rollins

2. 26; 13/2/61

3. Black Flag, SOA

4. I play hard, I scream loud. Black Flag, a band that might have influenced people to form at band

5. Have a boss and work from 9 to 5. The straight thing

6. Doing this, writing and being on the road

7. My new one, Lifetime

8. Funhouse by The Stooges

9. I am collaborating with Lydia Lunch already, som maybe Wagner, because he was into crash-bang-boom! Also Nietsche

10. I´d like to see policemen and police forces brought to trial and exposed for how much they break the law they’re supposed to obey. As Nietsche said, “with much justice, comes a sense of revenge”. Cops brought to trial for beating up women, smacking kids, flushing 15 year old boys’ heads down toilets, stuff like that

11. Life and Death

12. Early morning, because when I can wrench myself out of bed and can get an early start on the day and see the sun come up, I usually have a very productive day.

13. Daydreaming, like you’re riding to a show and you just space out. I’ve made my head a very nice place to go.

14. Probably the convenience aspect - everywhere stays open all the time and I don’t have to walk a mile to a phone that works, like in Britain. Also the geography - if you want desert, or swamp, or forest, you’ve got it.

15. What the geography has done to the people in it. You lot don’t get enough sunshine, fresh air, fresh fruit and vegetables. You can’t stretch your arms here. Also, in the urban parts, it’s very hellish and depressing. I’m surprised you don’t have more youth gangs, youth murders and youth suicides.

16. When they say I’m negative, which is the last thing I am. To me, The Cure or Sting are negative because it’s so artificial and takes you nowhere. When I wrte a song about feeling like I wanna blow myself off, and dealing with that feeling, I’m seen as negative, just because I don’t believe in hope, but in going out and making things happen.

17. A righteous vegetarian meal

18. Lightning Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Madonna, Sonic Youth, Hendrix, Velvet Underground, Gun Club.

19. The collaboration with Lydia, and many more

20. A general swing to the right in America. We’re going to go back to Lenny-Bruce-in-handcuffs times.

Eugene Chadbourne

1. Eugene Alexander Chadbourne

2. 33; 4/1/56

3. The Moslems, Daytop Village, Colorado Boys, The Chadbournes, Western Music Improvisation Co., 300 Statues, 400 Statues, Twins, Shockabilly, Son Of Shockabilly, Psychedelic Basement

4. The invention of the electric rake

5. The army

6. Gardening

7. My next album, Camper van Chadbourne

8. Bitches Brew by Miles Davis

9. Willie Nelson

10. … …. the Eastern European countries …. in open economic exchange system, plus have the American government apologize to Fidel Castro

11. I believe in reincarnation. The lady said to me I had been executed in the French revolution in a previous life

12. Four o’clock in the morning because if you’re awake, no-one else is.

13. Going through immigration and custom an passport control

14. Probably the landscape in the West

15. ….. …. Margaret Thatcher, she’s pretty …. …. immigration control reflects her …..

16.

17. My own cooking, because I’ve been away from home. Nice fresh vegetables and …..

18. Polish Country & western records. ….. radio, the sound of USSR and USA joining each other’s broadcast. Great montages of sound.

19. A …. record, called Kill Eugene, plus an …. …. all my songs and half Tim Buckleys recorded with some Camper Van Beethoven.

20. That home taping will not destroy the music industry

Alex Chilton

1. William Alexander Chilton

2. 36; 28/1/50

3. The Deviles, The Box Tops, Big Star, Panther Burns

4. Singing The Letter

5. I’ve probably done it - janitor , dishwasher, and cab driver…I don’t think I can go much lower than that

6. Reading

7. The new one, High Priest

8. The genius of Ray Charles

9. Wreckless Eric, I just love his live stuff on that Live Stiffs LP

10. South Africa

11. Astrology

12. The morning - you wake up in the morning and …. Fresh and the air is clean

13. Hanginmg around the house

14. The sprawl of the place, plus the variety, so many different kinds of climate. The fact that it’s not so crowded.

15. The fact that English people in general can be …….. snotty and snobby to Americans

16. When they use the words ‘shimmering’ or ……… or ‘textured’ when talking about Big Star records - their lack of being able to write about music without using those terms. The way that if you’re working with somebody, and you decide to work with someone else, writers tend to make it into big hassle or falling out, like when Chris Bell left Big Star. It’s so often not the case at all

17. Lamb chops

18. Nelson Riddle’s Theme From Route 66, the TV show, and nothing to do with the other song. Chanson D’ Amour by Art and Doddy Todd. No favourite album though

19. Good question

20. Calfornia will fall into the sea, nuclear war, economic disaster"

Alice vinter/forår 2019. Spilleliste 7. februar 2019

OBS! Hvor andet ikke er angivet, finder koncerten sted på Alice, Nørre Allé 7, 2200 N.

1. Söndörgő - Marice (2014) (Bremen Teater / 9. maj)

2. Dreamers’ Circus - Then We Waltzed (2017) (Bremen Teater / 9. maj)

3. Alasdair Roberts - The Fair Flower Of Northumerland (2018) (Christianshavns Beboerhus / 9. februar)

4. Mute Swimmer - Some Examples (2011) (1. april)

5. The Mekons - The Hope And The Anchor (2007) (9. april)

6. The Mekons - Lawrence Of California (2019) (9. april)

7. This Heat - Makeshift Swahili (1981) (5. + 6. marts)

8. The Invisible Hands - The Same (2013) (25. marts)

9. Maurice Loucas Elephantine Band - Laika (2019) (1. marts)

10. Ghédalia Tazartès - Orient Calling (2016) (4. april)

11. Monsieur Doumani - Hey You (2018) (Spectacle Festival / Sankt Johannes Kirke / 26. + 27. april)

12. Heather Leigh - Days Without You (2018) (Spectacle Festival / 26. + 27. april) 

13. Sarah Davachi - For Organ (2017) (Sankt Johannes Kirke / 15. marts)

14. Kokoko! - Azo Toke (2018) (11. februar)

15. Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band - Mantcha Mantcha (2018) (26. marts)

Vinter/forår på spillestedet Alice i Mod Strømmen

Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, Alasdair Roberts & Völvur, Kokoko!, Kogekunst + Himmelrum, Maurice Louca’s Elephantine, This Is Not This Heat, Samba Touré, The Mekons, Fire! og Housewives er blot en forsvindende lille del  af de navne, Alice præsenterer de næste måneder, som jeg kraftigt overvejer at dukke op til.

1. februar fejrede det lille spillested bag Skt. Hans Torv et års fødselsdag. Et år spækket med koncerter. Jeg har hørt alt fra freejazz, afrobeat, ja, jeg magter nærmeste ikke at remse alle de genrevarianter op, som jeg har været vidne til i den gamle gymnastiksal på Nørre Allé. Her efter fødselsdagen, fortsætte Alice med ufortrøden styrke, der er såmænd også kommet en festival med navnet Spectacle på programmet.

Lyt med, når bookerne Andreas Korsgaard Rasmussen og Peter Hvalkof, nu på torsdag, d. 7. februar, kl. 18.00, tager på ekskursion i vinter- og forårsprogrammet 2019. Stil ind på enten 98.9 FM eller via Tunein eller den direkte livestream.

Note til mig selv. Før og efter Fofoulah. Alice, d. 2. februar 2019

Før:

Abdel Al Aziz Al Mubarak - Ma Kunta Aarif Yarait

Ruth Brown - I Don’t Know

Bembeya Jazz National - Petit Sekou

Jingo - Fever

C.A. Quintet - Bury Me In A Marijuana Field

Tsehaytu Beraki - Ilkanere Beantebo

Philip Cohran And The Artistic Heritage Ensemble - Malcom X

The Great Unwashed - Can’t Find Water

The Velvet Underground - I Love You (demo)

Ofege - It’s Not Easy

Jean-Francois Pauvros - Waiting For Alice

La Cumbia Moderna De Soledad - Shacaloa

Kris Kristofferson - Quinn The Eskimo

Iceage - Plead The Fifth

Jack McDuff - Who’s Pimping Who

Ifi Jerry Crusade - Everybody Likes Something Good

Thomas Mapfumo - Chii Chati Go-o!

Marie Daulme - Pour Le Blues

Efter:

Wilbert Harrison - Let’s Stick Together

Goatman - Hum Bebass Nahin

Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras & The Congos - Happy Song

Jess Sah Bi & Peter One - African Chant

Linval Thompson - Mariguana

Gyedu-Blay Ambolley - Akoko Ba

Kokoko! - Longola Ye Kupe

Mekons - Cocaine Lil

Sons Of Kemet - My Queen Is Angela Davies

Butthole Surfers - Mexican Caravan

Nora Dean - Angie La La

Dr. Didg - King Tut

Meridian Brothers - Poema Del Salsero Resentido

Dana Gillespie - Weren’t Born A Man

Journey Fest. 2019 / Yung. Playliste 31. januar 2019

1. Bo Ningen - Slider (2014)

2. Yung - Creeps (2014)

3. Night Beats - One Thing (2019)

4. Weed - Heal (2013)

5. Communions - Here And Now (2018)

6. Human Abfall - 14 Tage Urlaub (2014)

7. Yves Tumor - Noid (2018)

8. Wipers - Wait A Minute (1980)

9. Yung - The Regulators (2015)

10. Black Midi - Bmbmbm (live) (2018)

11. Devo - Gates Of Steel (1980)

12. Angelo De Augustine - Time (2019)

13. Fleetwood Mac - Book Of Love (1982)

14. Homeshake - Like Mariah (2018)

15. Ought - The Combo (2015)

16. The Murlocs - Comfort Zone (2019)

17. Yung - Pills (2016)