Obskure Interview
May 24, 2012 Leave a comment
Back home
April 20, 2012 Leave a comment
So I made it back home and worked my ass off to get all those things I had no time for. But it looks I’m back on track. The great news is that the tour didn’t make money, but the LP/CD is out (I still have a few to sell). Also a tour 3″CDR by The Tobacconists is still available, as well as a few copies of the Sonic Protest double CD which they released for their festival.
This sunday I will speak at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht about home taping – how did we do that in the early 80s. About cassettes, recordings and i’ll be showing a slide show of interesting letters from labels. Also I’d be selling CDs, records and tapes – all at 5 euro a piece. Only this sunday and in exchange for real money.
On may 4th I play in Brussels and although I don’t like to pure laptop concerts, I plan to perform the piece that I worked out last year as a live rendition of my LP for Ini.itu. They are from Brussels, so the perfect occasion. I post the name of venue when I know it. Its a new thing. Mecha/orga and Martiensgohome are also plaing. Its their opening night.
Never waste a day’s work
April 10, 2012 1 Comment
Our date in Antwerpen was moved one day ahead so we couldn’t record on sunday in Nijmegen, but staying at Dennis from Ultra Eczema we recorded some harsher work perhaps for his label. We shot this little video of the session:
Tobacconists Tour Schedule
March 28, 2012 Leave a comment
The Tobacconists
Smoking Is Green 2012 Tour
Performing Smoking Is Green, a radiophonic opera as a staged drama
April 4th Extrapool, Nijmegen
also with Truus de Groot
April 5th Worm, Rotterdam
also with Truus de Groot
April 6th Tape, Arnhem
April 7th Melkweg, Amsterdam
also with Minny Pops, The Tapes, Plus Instruments and more
April 9th GUNTHER, oudaan 15, ruimte 33, antwerpen
April 10th Sonic Protest, France
April 11 Bristol, Cafe Kino, Stokes Croft
April 13 London, The Victoria, Daltson – with Call Back The Giants! http://www.wegottickets.com/event/160182
April 14 London, Cafe Oto, a small piece at the end of the evening, but not the opera! Surprise act, so its not on the website<
Smoking Hot Video
March 18, 2012 Leave a comment
In two weeks from now I’ll be sitting down with Scott Foust and Mike Popvich to rehearse our Smoking is Green ‘opera’, and to warm you all up, Scott did a great video of it:
Mutatis Mutandis
March 7, 2012 Leave a comment
from the forthcoming issue of Vital Weekly, kindly donated by its editor in chief:
Of course I am not the right person to say anything about Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf’s ‘Mutatis Mutandis’, since a little silly thing from me as Freiband was the basis of this. An one minute piece released on a cassette, which people could use to remix, preferably using a four track cassette. There is an unreleased piece by Z’EV, but only Mirko Uhlig has spend a lot of time with it. He’s back to using his old bandname, Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf, and there are three pieces here. One seems a straight remix of the original, followed by the title piece, which takes up thirty eight minutes. Here Uhlig takes the hiss of the original apart, adds sound effects, time stretches bits into long form drones, making an absolute great piece, ending a nice up in your face drone bit and even a short noise bit at the end – but hey of course I am not the right person to write such things. Close to the fire and such things. But to know such a short and hissy piece of loosely formed sounds can make such a great piece, I didn’t know. Excellent, but of course I am not etc. And, best coup about it, its also released on cassette. Now there is something to bring to your four track machine. I know I will!
get it here
Ultra start…
March 1, 2012 Leave a comment
I will head out in an hour or so to Amsterdam (yes I know) to pick up a copy of the 2012 issue of Vinyl. I contributed an article on the current state of cassettes and a bunch of reviews. Plus a copy of Harold Schellinx’ boek on Ultra. This will be the start of the Ultra 10 days – with five evenings of live music next week. I will play with Roel, as Wieman (our first concert as such after changing our name), doing a Minny Pops special. Wally is singing on ‘Dolphin’s Spurt’ if all goes well. Thursday march 8th at Extrapool, most likely we are the act to start at 21:00. So don’t be late. For now, the first thing is this, picture above…
Villa Fiasco
February 13, 2012 Leave a comment
I have no idea actually why this is called Villa Fiasco, but this is a limited CDR release, subtitled ‘The Act Of Sampling’. A small booklet with a text by Herman van den Muijsenberg, Jos de Mol and me (the only one in Dutch, but in my defense, I thought it was all in Dutch). The CDR contains works based on a sample from a Vietnamese record. I have three remixes and last week I melted all of my samples into a live set, which I played at the presentation. Since I decided it all quite last minute its not on the poster (above). Who cares anyway? Classic click and cut music! You can listen to it here
