A38 ship Programme Monthly DECEMBER 2012 free
Efterklang
three childhood friends in a ghost town
One of the most interesting bands in the post-rock scene today is Efterklang, who create music of samples from all around the world and also record their travels on film. Started out as
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Rupa & The April Fishes
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a bunch of friends having fun playing music, they performed with Sydney Symphony Orchestra on the release of their fourth album, Piramida made in a former Soviet mine town.
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Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar (DE) /// Paddy and the Rats /// Republic of Two (CZ) /// Marcel Dettmann (DE) /// Alix Perez (US) /// NoMeansNo (CA) /// Rupa & The April Fishes (US) /// Kuskus (AT) Gemini (IT) /// Krafty Kuts (UK) /// La Maison Tellier (FR) /// Bohemian Betyars /// Tale of Us (UK)
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Paddy & Marcel The Rats Dettmann
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2 Years of Technokunst
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Promoters of our NYE party, Ninjabreakz has one more big event for December: they bring you Martin Reeves aka Krafty Kuts, alongside the best breakbeat djs of Budapest. Krafty Kuts is known for massive parties and rerubbed mainstream tracks, and is back to A38 for the sixth time in seven years.
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Irish folk punk at its best! Paddy and the Rats are a more and more internationally acclaimed Hungarian band, who can definitely rock the boat and always play in front of full houses. On this night, they will celebrate the release of their new album, Tales from the Docks consisting of songs with English-language lyrics about sadness, happiness and different types of alcohol.
NoMeansNo
Technokunst, the most popular monthly series of A38 is two years old this December. Inviting the biggest names in modern techno, their guest this month will be Marcel Dettmann from Berlin, glorified resident of the legendary Berghain. If you want to hear intelligent electronic music in an industrial environment only a former Ukranian cargo ship can provide, check out Dettmann’s set with stunning visuals by Glowing Bulbs VJ team.
Bohemian Betyars, KusKus (AT)
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NoMeansNo is not the average punk rock band, as the Wright brothers are masters of their instruments and unordinary influences with a lot of seventies’ jazz and funk music. They are progressive, funny and intelligent to the extent they are often called the origin of math rock. Before them, you can hear Dereng, a supergroup of Hungary’s most celebrated contemporary rock musicians.
Fear Factory The Epic Industrialist Tour 02 sun
Fear Factory is back on a monumental tour with genius Devin Townsend and War from a Harlot’s Mouth who define themselves simply as “extreme math metal mayhem” which sounds actually good. Since teaming up again with Dino Cazares, Fear Factory made two albums, the second of which is this year’s The Industrialist, while Devin Townsend has released Epicloud. Mixing electronic music with metal, they are among the very few bands of the 90s who stayed creative and influential for today’s artists. Check out our interview with Devin Townsend on page 5!
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Have you ever heard of the Hungarian Betyars? They were bandits in the 19th century and were celebrated nationwide - kind of like Robin Hood, but they never helped anyone! Nowadays, the Betyars are young and talented musicians who redefine folk elements and add a bit of punk and rock & roll to it. Interested? Then you should also see KusKus from the neighbouring Austria, who are a bit calmer, but not less entertaining, with an enchanting female vocalist as part of our Sound/Effect series.
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Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar (DE)
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The Balkan’s most notorious disco partizans, Stefan Hantel and the Bucovina band are back for a traditonal feelgood party for the all-singing, all-dancing crowd of Budapest at the final etap of their Anarchy & Romance 2012 tour. World meets electronic, Germany producer meets Balkan, while you feel you are the guest at a wedding “Black Cat, White Cat” style!
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Rangleklods
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La Maison Tellier is kind a family business in the traces of Maupassant, the whole band called “Tellier” from the musicians to management and technicians. They are inspired by the music of cowboys and mariachis, while the Hungarian act centers around frontman Balázs Szabó and alternative rock. The show is part of A38’s Tours de France series presenting the finest of French pop music.
Rangleklods is a one-man project from Copenhagen, who is the favourite up-to-date live act of European electronic festivals, playing 1960s moods with 2010s effects with several live guest musicians. Now based in Berlin, Rangleklods has still kept his chilled northern style and elegance, but his music is also brave and new. Hear it for yourself!
Rupa & The April Fishes 03 mon
Rupa Marya and her multicultural band is back again in Hungary to make people dance crazily with their music and think globally with their lyrics. The members have very different ethnicities, but share the same thoughts about the world and how it should be. They are now touring with their first English language album, Build.
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“Our friendship is centered
around Efterklang” We have a very special band playing on the ship on 1 December. Efterklang made an album discovering the ghost town of Piramida in an arctic island and now they presenting the material to the Budapest audience. Rasmus Stolberg bassist replied to our questions. Tell us something about the new film, The Ghost of Piramida which was screened also at A38 on 22 November. The Danish director Andreas Koefoed followed us on our 9 day trip to Piramida on Spitsbergen where our new album took its start last year. His film documents our visit to this former Russian mining town and it also beautifully tells the story of the ghost town through the eyes of a former resident. We think Andreas has managed to make a very beautiful film and are happy to see it screened before our concert in Budapest. You indicate yourself on your homepage as “childhood friends”. After several albums, tours and movies, can you still keep it intimate and familiar? It is of course a challenge to the original friendship to suddenly be so busy with a career and music - and it is true to say that these days our friendship is centered around Efterklang. We spend so much time together via the band, but 99% of the time we have a really good time together and we make things together and feel good about this and I think our old friendship plays a very big role in this. We share a story and an adventure together that so far is about 15 years old - and that is something I value very much.
Tell us something about the guest musicians you’re playing with on the Piramida tour. We have Peter Broderick in the band - we love him and he is a very big part of Efterklang. We also have Katinka Fogh Vindelev in the band - she is an incredible singer with a classical background and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to tour with her. Finally we will have a new drummer for this concert. His name is Tatu and we think is an amazing drummer, but we yet have to get to know him properly and vice versa. I just saw on your Facebook that you were involved in a hotel fire in October. What happened and were the band in danger? Nothing bad happened. Two cars started burning in the basement under the hotel and at 3 in the morning the whole hotel was evacuated. After two hours of waiting we were allowed to go back to our rooms. It was a weird night with lots of smoke and no sleep, but luckily no one were hurt. You collected sounds for your new album, Piramida in a former Soviet mine town and now you’re going to play on a former Ukrainian cargo ship. What are your feeling towards scenes like them? We love to change our live shows. Sometimes we change the line-up or play with orchestras - or sometimes we play in special venues like A38. We try to make every concert we do special and a special location is always a nice inspiration. This will be our first concert in Hungary ever - so we are quite excited about the concert in fact.
News
2012 year of awards A38 has been awarded several times this year. We became the favourite party venue of the readers of the biggest Hungarian drumandbass site ImpulseCreator, and soon we got noticed that we are among the 100 best bars in the world in Lonely Planet’s contest. Furthermore, we were selected the best one in February, thanks to our visitors who voted for us more than 13 000 times. In spring, we received best of Budapest & Hungary awards and won people’s choice award from antropos.hu. Finally, we won two Voltfolios: one from the jury and one from the audience as “Best club in Budapest!” Thank you all! Next year, we are aiming to be even better...
NYE, the biggest party of the year
Budapest’s 3 finest electronic music bands team up to make New Year’s Eve memorable. Bladerunnaz will drop the city’s biggest drumandbass party with Alix Perez and the best djs from all around Hungary, while our fancy restaurant turns into a panorama party room where Ninjabreakz’s guests will play the finest breakbeat and electro, while in our VIP rear bar, which is rarely open to the public, Budapest Bass Music have an exclusive line-up of garage and house djs. Spend your midnight on the ship!
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Devin Townsend
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Devin Townsend was kind to answer our questions about the current events in his carreer via Skype at the Bordeaux stop of the Epic Industrialist Tour. December 2 will be your first time in Budapest. What are your feelings towards the show?
over the top, needs a lot more skill and production, as I’ve been writing it for two years now. I just saw your new video, Lucky Animal, which is quite funny.
Oh. really? This whole tour we go to places where we don’t play often and Hungary is one of them. I heard very nice things about the country, I think it is nice to show what we musically do to different people.
The song itself is kind of a silly song, I’m aware of that. The offbeats has been part of what we’ve done for a long time, to have everybody involved together, I think it makes it a cool statement and not only for the record. It is something that seemed to be a good solution and a really logical progression for us.
Tell me how you made your new album Epicloud and how did the whole thing started.
How is it like to tour with Fear Factory and what was your reaction hearing that Sylosis has dropped the tour?
The way that I always write every record is that I just tend to constantly play guitar, and then songs just came out as the result of that and I pick the songs I find the most interesting. Epicloud is no different from Ziltoid or The Hummer. Epicloud is just the newest music from me I suppose.
They had to do it, and that’s fine, I was a little disappointed, but I didn’t spend much time thinking about it. Fear Factory, we’ve been friends for many years and I think they are a great band, but the amount of snoring and farting going on in that bus is pretty immense. My initial feelings about the tour was that we will get along well, and it’s not bad at all.
What’s next? Are you ever going to continue Ziltoid? Casualties of Cool will be next, but it’s not gonna be focused, not a big release. It’s just something I had in my system. Ziltoid will be a lot more
For how long do you want to keep the DevinTownsend Project going? There’s no real plans either way.
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Bazil Duliskovich: Parallel Stories
Csaba Károlyi literary critic: “You always turn down people who try to find autobiographical elements in your novels. But they seem to be there, however indirect they are. For instance, all your novels have a character whose life story has the most similarities with yours.” Péter Nádas, internationally acclaimed Hungarian writer: “Can I ask you something? How can I possibly avoid this?” Bazil Duliskovich’s upcoming exhibition not only shares the title of Nádas’s latest novel but also the mentality. The narrative of his paintings has become the more personal, the more collective during the years or the other way down: the more collective, the more personal. Do we
feel the eastern regions of our heart throbbing standing in front of his paintings? Can we fill his Propp-like folk tale themes with meaning? Can we put together a story only seeing characters without characteristics? Do we feel comfortable in this familiar chaos where possibility overshadows reality so often? The exhibition can be visited from 11 December to 13 January from 11h to 18h. Please register at +36-1-464-3940.
restaurant
Hungry for music? Dinners before concerts
01.sat.18:30 Efterklang (DK) 6000 HUF until Nov 28 Frikadeller (Danish meat dumplings) with traditional potato salad Danish cinnamon roll with castor sugar 12.wed.18:30 KFT (HU) 6500 HUF until Dec 9 Ox Cheek & Egg Barley – Steamed Ox Cheek with Shiitake Stew and Egg Barley Homemade walnut cake 19.THU.18:30 Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar (DE) 6000 HUF until Dec 16 Turkey medallion with salty chestnut sauce and potato croquettes Gingerbread with honey and vanilla latte whip
Reserve your table at +36 1 464 3946.
A38 Restaurant offers a two-course daily menu of traditional Hungarian cuisine every weekday from 12 to 3 PM, for only 1150 HUF. Make a reservation at +36-1-464-3946. Vegetarians, children and walk-ins are welcome.
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HISTORY A38 is the reincarnation of ‘Tripolie’, a Ukranian stone-carrier ship, built in 1968. The name comes from Artemovsk, which is the ship prototype, and this one was the 38th unit of the ‘Artemovsk’ class. The re-building project lasted for one and a half years. Architects, ship engineers, acoustic designers, electricians, musicians and promoters contributed their skills and experience to make it a both artist and audience friendly place. After years of constant development, A38 has become a cultural entertainment centre with international programme, a restaurant, five bars, one main concert hall, open-air terraces and lounges - all in one aboard as one of the most fascinating venues in Budapest. Since its opening it became the flagship of Budapest nightlife, a must-see spectacle on the Danube with scenic view and one of Europe’s coolest clubs, which has been voted ‘The World’s Greatest Bar’ – according to the poll of Lonely Planet in 2012.