A38 ship Programme Monthly january 2013 free
Raveonettes
to hell and back
After a lost and lonely period of depression, the Raveonettes are back with their sixth album recorded in The Doors’ legendary Sunset Sound Studios. Written from the perspective of an unjudgmental
Riff Cohen
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Walk Off The Earth
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and thoughtful Observator, roaming the clubs and streets of Hollywood, taking notes of the fragments of alienated urban lifestyle, they still managed to keep their innocent dreaminess, which we all love.
Crystal Castles
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Glowing Bulbs
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drMáriás
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Blawan (UK) /// Wax Tailor (FR) /// Natacha Atlas (BE) /// Meshuggah (SE) /// Schmidt (DE) Cult of Luna (SE) /// Eva & Manu (FI) /// Maïa Vidal (FR) /// Mono (JP) /// Gary Beck (UK) The Ocean (DE) /// Nations Afire (US) /// Fabio & Moon (DE) /// Gin Ga (AT) /// Random Trip
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Riff Cohen
Bermuda, Eva & Manu, Blahalousiana
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The next big thing in Tel Aviv, singer-songwriter Riff Cohen builds in her various roots (Nigerian grandmother, Algerian mother, French father) into her music starting from a very young age, she being only 8. She is the manifesto of multicultural cosmopolitan lifestyle, getting the best of each culture and blending it into a powerful and unique mixture. Singing in French, Riff sings out her joy and sorrow playfully and energetically, dancing on the streets of Paris.
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Eva & Manu is an unusual couple not only making music but constantly keeping on moving, travelling through Europe and staying at strangers’ homes, working everyday for their living. This way, they get to know the real life and attitude of that environment, create songs and covers inspired by that, and write a blog about the project called ”Travel in Music”. Bermuda and Blahalousiana are two bands of the same origin: the indie band called Jacked. The singer now plays pop music with Bermuda and the others found an expelling vocalist called Barbara Schoblocher and started Blahalousiana. Be open, be curious, and give a chance to these three bands – they are worth it!
Walk off the Earth
Canadian Walk Off The Earth is for sure not another disposable product of pop industry: they gained their amazing popularity by uploading their own homemade videos to Youtube, doing such innovative things as playing Gotye’s 2012 hit “Somebody That I Used To Know” on one single guitar, but with five hands. They make both covers and originals and stay true to themselves - a company of friends from Ontario who started touring all over the world to present their fun performances and brave ideas to the masses.
Meshuggah Natacha
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26 Being the pioneer band of Scandinavian extreme metal, Meshuggah kept their experimentational flow since their formation in 1987. They made the college town of Umeå famous for good and has been an inspirational source for a whole generation of metal musicians. On this long-awaited April night they will show what they mean by saying that ”all paths leading to syncopated bliss are paved with arrhythmia.”
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02 The voice of the early Transglobal Underground is even more popular in solo, using the Arabic tradition in Western music, such as hiphop, reggae, and drumandbass. As a former belly-dancer, her character outshines every band, giving stunning performances all-over Europe’s main festivals with hits like Mon amie la rose or I Put a Spell on You. In March, you can also hear the songs from her latest album, Mounqualiba.
Technokunst pres.
Blawan jan
19 Technokunst series brings you a real ear-candy this time, just after their second birthday. Blawan was originally known for being a hardass drummer and dubstep-producer, then made a radical turn and started producing techno by himself and also with Pariah, under the name Karenn, surpirising maybe even himself. Techno fans around the world listened to his unusually tricky music with mixed feelings, but he is showing more and more passion for making tracks and dropped dubstep for life.
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Cult of Luna
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Check out this California girl who has made her way to Europe as a supercreative musician and singer-songwriter. She can play the accordion, the autoharp, the violin and every single toy she lays her hands on, however, her signature instrument is her brittle yet strong voice. On her debut album, God Is My Bike even guitarist Marc Ribot makes an appearance as a guest musician, so we can be sure that Maïa has some potential to become an international favourite.
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Coming straight from the same town as Meshuggah, they are the perfect example of metal that dares to be different. After leaving a blank of five years in their creative history, they return in 2013 with the vintage sci-fi inspired album Vertikal to conquer the world, starting with the eager European fans. Another big name for the evening is German post-metal band The Ocean, supported by Australian Lo! who are newcomers that the fans have raised big hopes about.
Jean-Christophe Le Saoût, alias Wax Tailor is France’s number one hiphop producer, who creates groovy, seductive and danceable tracks and fills large concert halls all over Europe. He has worked with Aloe Blacc, Charlotte Savary, and just lately, Jennifer Charles, and this time, brings his own live band to the ship for another full house show that is a sin to miss.
Raveonettes feb
13 Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo from Denmark founded one of our day’s best dreampop groups in 2001. Based now in the United States, their sixth album was to be wholly inspired by Los Angeles, but after Sune having health problems, and being diagnosed with clinical depression, a trip to Venice Beach did not sound a good idea anymore, and Sune ended up in the Hollywood party life, contacting, observing, and drinking with new people, and started writing songs about these acquaintances. As he says in his highly personal note on the album: „After I got back to New York City, a swathe of bleak and sad songs about lost romances and unrequited love came freely. It makes Observator sumptuous and beautiful in its sound, but bleak and sad at its heart.”
Crystal Castles feb
26 The duo of rogue punk singer Alice Glass and electro producer Ethan Kath become a cause of mass hysteria all around the world with their straightforward lyrics, the pure rage of their live shows and their music that evokes memories of the video games we played as little children. These two have changed music for life and still keep on making art to represent the feelings of a lost, confused and furious generation. Check them out in February, when they present us their III album at a torrid club show!
Schmidt mar
20 Noir is back – in films, music, theatre and fashion, the smoky charm of Marlene and Marilyn is trendy again. Femme Schmidt, arising from Berlin is the knower of all burlesque and cabaret practices and sees the whole complexity of the 1920s, regarding them not as an era but as an attitude filled with freedom, seduction and longing. She was discovered by Guy Chambers and is able to create an atmosphere of the original Berlin-style cabaret. The support will be All Mankind, an up and coming indie band from Australia.
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Glowing Bulbs Glowing Bulbs are the VJ team behind the contemporary light installation series at A38 Ship by MVM Hungarian Electricity Ltd.. They are getting more and more international recognition, so we asked member of the team, Tamás Zádor about the Bulbs’ background, methods and plans. Who are the artists behind the name ”Glowing Bulbs”? Glowing Bulbs is a VJ collective with eight basic members, but there are many artists, djs and other people in showbusiness who we collaborate a lot with. The composition of the team is permanent, though there were some changes in the last 15 years, but it’s just natural. We are all very different in knowledge and education: an architect, a graphic designer, an engineer, an applied and media artist, a naturalist… As by names: Balázs Bardák, Farkas Fülöp, Márton Noll, Gábor Kitzinger, Balázs Sarkadi Nagy, István Rittgasszer, Krisztián Megyeri and me, Tamás Zádor. Which of your works are you the most proud of? It’s hard to answer, because all the things we do are so different… Perhaps it’s the mapped video of the Manhattan bridge in New York, for which we were awarded the prize for Best Exhibiton in 2012 and the Grand Prize at Dumbo Arts Festival.
work, and party VJ-ing is also a great occasion for experimentation this way we can stay really creative. The stage visuals and installations require a lot of thinking and planning, and when it’s finished, the rest is still to be done. What’s the next big shot of the team that we should be aware of? There will be a special Bin-Jip concert in the Budapest Planetarium at the beginning of March, and we are VJ-ing at NVC’s birthday bash in January. We are also making the preparations of a few big projects abroad, either in Europe and overseas.
Photo: Márk Somay
You are popular party VJs. Is it a creative process for you still, or just routine? You can be a VJ in many different ways. We try to make something special and new every time. We need this for not getting bored with our own
Each month, you make a new installation in A38’s exhibition space. Is it easy to create something spectacular and never before seen from month to month? The preparations for these exhibitions are always a challenge, and is uneasy to make it work beside our day jobs. Behind a spectacular one or two-day installation, there is very often a few week’s work of the team, as making it last shorter doesn’t make the installations need less time to create. We brainstorm and produce together, which could make an interesting topic for research papers in group dynamincs. Regularity really is motivating, though it doesn’t make our job easier. What are you going to do next year? In 2013, we would like to continue what we are doing, trying out new things constantly. Our main goal is for A38-MVM Light Paintings to use elements that we never before did.
News
Maintenance break
Between 1 and 15 January, the concert hall and the bars of the ship will be closed for a short maintenance break. However, our info desk is open as usual, selling tickets and giving information, and you can also board the public transportation ships at A38. Our exhibition space is open for visitors during the whole period, while the restaurant reopens on 14 January.
Tripping every week One of the best news for the new year is that our permanent summer guests, Jávor Delov and DJ Q-Cee’s Random Trip will perform every Tuesday evening at A38, starting from the middle of January. From week to week, Random Trip brings you the best of Hungarian music scene: MCs, musicians and singers of the most quality bands. Each evening is unique and wallet-friendly. The team also made their unconventional second video at A38 involving the audience who submitted videos shot with their mobile phones.
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drMáriás:
Nice Pictures from the Land of Love ”DrMáriás is the true Renaissance man who never runs out of ammunition. He is familiar with every genre of art besides classical ballet (which may or may not be an exception). His effectivity and productivity blow my mind from time to time. Besides the many shows within and beyond our boundaries, and recordings of his band, Tudósok (The Scientists), he has several exhibitions of his paintings both independently and in groups, he contributes as an author for many prestigious newspapers, and produces novels one after the another. Coming from an underpriviliged background – escaping to Hungary in the early 1990s from the war ruining Yugoslavia, starting his carreer all over – he has became a major player of the Hungarian intellectual scene.” László Najmányi, contemporary artist
”My way to heal is showing scars, stigmata and shadows, and make them beautiful. I tell stories about great dictators, politicians, celebrities, and all the sick patterns burnt in our brains, then change their polarity and make people’s instincts and intelligence dissolve the ill and harmful tension as they are facing them.” drMáriás The exhibition will be opened on 22 January 20h by Gábor Gulyás, former director of Budapest Kunsthalle, and open for visitors from 23 January to 13 February from 11h to 18h. Please register at +36-1-464-3940. On the day after the opening, drMáriás’ band, The Scientists will perform in our concert hall along with 90s Hungarian punk rock legend Flash.
restaurant A38 Restaurant offers a two-course daily menu of traditional Hungarian cuisine every weekday from 12h to 15h, for only 1150 HUF. Make a reservation at +36-1-464-3946. Vegetarians, children and walk-ins are welcome.
Hungry for music? Dinners before concerts
March.20. 18:30 Pop Noir - Schmidt (DE) 6000 HUF until March 17 Pan-fried roast duck liver with cognac in rosemary cream sauce with rice Traditional Hungarian ”floating islands” dessert with Unicum served ice cold
Reserve your table at +36 1 464 3946.
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Opening hours Ticket desk, info: MON-SUN 6:30 to 23:00 or until the end of the events. Restaurant: MON-SAT 11:00 to 00:00
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.