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The Cocoon Issue

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We also publish this monthly magazine.

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Subbacultcha! Magazine March 2014

The Cocoon Issue

When you’re a kid, retreating to a comforting place is as easy as building a killer blanket fort. As an adult, cocooning often revolves around spending a lazy weekend in pyjamas binge-watching a North American TV show while exploring the fridge’s darkest corners to avoid having to put on pants. But maybe that is the ultimate buffer against collective insanity since not everyone is a jolly social butterfly. If you’re willing to break the chrysalis, however, we have a fine selection of shows and films to indulge in this month that well deserve a breakaway. We hope to see you there – preferably with pants on.

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Content Featured Artist 34 Books 40 Films 42 Subbacultcha! shows 47 Agenda 55 Free Stuff 63

Cover photo by Tonje Thilesen

Recommendations 7 We Saw You 10 Tokyo Hands 12 Eagulls 18 Hiele 24 Scene Report: Ghent 28

Colophon Subbacultcha! Belgium: Karperstraat 26, 9000 Ghent, Belgium www.subbacultcha.be - magazine@subbacultcha.be

Editors in chief: Herlinde Raeman and Kasper-Jan Raeman Editor: Maarten Van Nieuwenhove Copy editors: Peter Claes and Megan Roberts Design: Marina Henao Online editor: Anna Baqués Agenda editors: Maarten Van Nieuwenhove, Julien Van de Casteele and Louise Vervaet

Sales: Eveliina Petäjäaho (eveliina@subbacultcha.be) Distribution: Anna Baqués (anna@subbacultcha.be) Interns: Elise Dupré, Louise Vervaet, Giada Seghers and Lieve Keustermans Good Guys: Ewout Compernol, Emmanuel Van Damme and Arnaud Vanrafelghem Printing: Drukkerij Gewa, Arendonk, Belgium

Contributors: Maarten Van Nieuwenhove, Nina Strebelle, Anna Baqués, Elise Dupré, Will Martin, Julien Van de Casteele, Gabriela González, Herlinde Raeman, Kasper-Jan Raeman, Louise Vervaet, Deniz Erdem, Brecht Van Dingenen, Stefanie Van Rompaey, Tonje Thilesen, Giada Seghers, Joesra Meeusen, Daniela Castro Ramirez, Sophie Keij and Els Vidts Distribution: Brussels: Mark Zask, Peter Nelissen, Julien Van de Casteele, Kellan Smith, Anouk Jurdant, Thomas Roelens Ghent: Bart Bruneel, Sofie Dekens, Linda Baumsteiger, Hannah Vanspauwen, Nurya Doorenbos, Manon De Sutter, Femke Fredrix, Brecht De Vleeschauwer, Ewout De Cat Antwerp: Charlotte Devos, Thomas Konings, Sam De Mol, Geran Knol Leuven: Hannah Smeyers Kortrijk: Thomas Vanoosthuyse Luik: Collectief Jaune Orange

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March recommendations Each month our staff provides you with a selection of the finer things in life. Enjoy!

Music: Palmistry

Music: DJ Murlo

Sometimes a name really does say it all.

South London producer and James Ferraro collaborator Palmistry’s new EP, Lil Gem, truly is a treasure. From ‘Vapore’ to ‘In My Heart II’ and ‘Southouse Rip’, the luscious tracks move between minimalistic R&B and fine ambient tunes, and are topped off with Benjy Keating’s sensual vocals. Smoother than the shiny rims of a pimped-out car. Check out the awkward minimalist title-track video, too, featuring rapper Triad God high on incense.

London-based DJ and producer Murlo was on a tear last year, releasing his Adder and Last Dance EPs and generally pushing his beats towards instrumental grime. The man’s on top of his game, as proved by the mixtape he put together for Brackles’ weekly show at Rinse FM. Next to his own tracks and remixes, Murlo threw in some Mumdance and Spooky, as well as a club anthem from the abyss by Double Dutch. soundcloud.com/djmurlo/murlo-rinse-fmguestmix

www.plmstry.com

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March recommendations Fashion: Que onda vos

Art: Lara Gasparotto

A real nice homely cocoon is made by living in it – not just by decorating it with the right stuff. But then again, maybe the right finishing touch is just what’s needed to top it off.

Have a look at the carpets from Que onda vos, a fairtrade design label whose products are all handmade by Mayan weavers in Guatemala. Even on the move, you’ll be able to cocoon in their scarves, and your book and Chihuahua will happily stay put in their bags.

From frivolous summer swims to a one-onone with a caged gorilla that’s not amused and a girl in a bathtub with a nosebleed: Lara Gasparotto’s collection of striking images make up an ever-evolving trip – one that’s definitely worth taking. Hailing from Liège and represented by Antwerp gallery Stieglitz19, the 24-year-old photographer takes snapshots of everyday life, often with a sense of stillness. These fragments of a life of liberty take you to places you’ve never been, in oversaturated colours, undercooled tones and black and whites.

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laragasparotto.tumblr.com www.stieglitz19.be/artists/Lara-Gasparotto.htm

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March recommendations Misc.: Stroom

Film: SABZIAN A bunch of young spirits dedicate all their spare time to giving Belgian film enthusiasts what they’ve been aching for. Sabzian is a newly founded online platform gathering reflections on cinema and visual culture. They don’t write standard reviews, nor do they make top-ten lists; instead, they maintain a highly personal approach, writing about what is vital for them. On the website you can find essays or personal ponderings – mainly in Dutch – but also a calendar that might awaken the budding cinephile in you. www.sabzian.be

Misc.: Discobar Bruxelles

Our friends at Stroom never sleep... Basically, it’s a pirate internet radio station – but more accurately, it’s a whole new world: stroom. tv offers you infinite music and visuals. Conceived by two human music encyclopaedias, they claim ‘the birth is almost finished’.

Friends and fellow music freaks are invited to join or plant a seed, and up until now this has resulted in some pretty awesome – and, yes, often absurd – radio shows. And by the looks of it, 2014 has a lot more in store for this baby!

The Brussels-based 54kolektiv has a new project. They’re collecting €12,000 in order to build their own high quality, mobile sound system.

Maybe you went to their benefit party in Ancienne Belgique in February; if not, you can still donate through www.growfunding.be. If you’re a DIY kind of person and interested in the technical aspect, feel free to team up and join the building workshop this summer. Best part is, 54kolektiv will lend out the sound system afterwards! ‘Cause sharing is caring...

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www.growfunding.be/bxl/discobar-bruxelles

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We Saw You: Spotted at Subbacultcha!

Photo by Nina Strebelle

compilation of the best songs from the alternative radio station in Australia.

It was just heaps of ’90s Australian grunge and rock music (which sounds like it would be terrible) but also some great classics like Hole, Massive Attack and Smashing Pumpkins.

Your first ever music-related memory?

Maybe my parents playing Duke Ellington, Anne Shelton and Ambrose in the car on cassette and driving to a little shed we had in the countryside in Australia, or my sisters playing Portishead in their bedroom and smoking cigarettes.

Any guilty pleasures?

Drinking beer in the shower.

What kind of music makes you cry?

Artists like Nico, Mazzy Star and Cocteau Twins make me feel really good!

I’m more likely to cry listening to techno and dubstep or trance, reduced to tears from the monotony of the sound...

Which future Subbacultcha! show are you looking forward to?

Seeing Planningtorock in Amsterdam at De Balie! Planningtorock is one of my favourite contemporary artists and De Balie is a great venue to have a party in.

Name: Oliver Farrell Age: Unknown Spotted at: The Sound of the Belgian Underground in AB, Brussels Home: Paris Zodiac sign: Pisces What did you think of the event?

It was really fun. I came up specifically to see Pas de deux but I got to know a few more contemporary Belgian acts over the course of the day. The AB has some real advantages as a venue – such as an excellent sound system and the size to be able to have stalls, cinema and music all going at the same time.

What’s your favourite Belgian food?

Stoofvlees and frietjes and a Palmke! Greasy and delicious!

What kind of music are you listening to at the moment?

A lot of Roxy Music and Connan Mockasin, so I guess rather theatrical male vocals, tricky lyrical word play and soundscapes of guitars, drums and synths.

What’s the first record you bought?

The first record I owned I won from a TV show. I was about seven and my sisters really wanted the album so they made me send in a letter for it. The album was the Triple J Hottest 100, 1998, a

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The Cocoon Issue. Interview It’s a Friday afternoon and we’ve just arrived at Tokyo Hands’ Berlin apartment in Neukölln. We’d been warned about his hangover but in true Berlin fashion we’ve all

Tokyo Hands Interview by Will Martin Photos shot by Tonje Thilesen in Berlin, Germany

just woken up. He pointed out a bag of weed received from a random guy at the party.

‘I woke up with that bag in my hand. I was so tired, way too much work recently.’ So we made a coffee, made it comfy and continued dreaming.

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Tokyo Hands. Continued Are you reading any of the books on the shelf up there?

I’m subletting the flat, and they all came with the room. I think the last time I read a book was right before I got to Berlin… Murikami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. But here I’ve got a reading chair, I should be using that. You can get real comfy on there, put a blanket over yourself… definitely something I need to do.

When did you move to Berlin?

Indefinitely in November, but I was here for a show and stayed for three weeks before the summer. It’s my favourite city, really beautiful, maybe it’s just how cheap it is. I wasn’t going back to school in America so I didn’t see the point in living there any more. Finally I got booked out here, my first show outside North Carolina. I spent all my money on the ticket for the summer. After I went back to the US I played a couple of shows that then paid for my ticket back here. I could still go back and study… only if it doesn’t get in the way of my music.

Do you feel you fit into the Berlin scene?

I definitely don’t feel like I’m a part of the Berlin scene, not at all.

I think I live here because it’s cheap, the people are nice and because it is a hub for everywhere else in Europe. It’s just the club atmosphere here is really cold, non-colourful for the most part, and the parts that are colourful are super expensive. To be honest, I’ve only really ever respected American techno, so listening to the stuff here, some of it is just too clean and cold for me. It doesn’t feel very welcoming to my music, but I still feel like these are friends and I can trust them, within an ‘outside-of-club-music’ type. There’s definitely an underground scene, but it’s very small in comparison to every other genre that goes through Berlin. When you try and bring in pop and ‘happy’, it’s a little rough here.

What about the North Carolina scene?

North Carolina is where I met Petey from Clicks & Whistles…

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Tokyo Hands. Continued who is basically the person who got me where I am today, through helping me with production and connections and stuff. After I left college, he hit me up randomly, got me connected to the Charlotte scene, a small bass music scene that included me, Clicks & Whistles, Chowmont, Trigzo, KT Caustic and Buckmaster… we were all just friends.

Are you trying to collaborate with other artists?

A G Cook and I are working on a release for a French artist called Tielsie. It’s a bunch of hyper juke, really colourful music, very pastelle, very poppy. We’re hoping it comes out by the end of this month on #TOMCREW and PC Music. I did a beat with Young Sherman and White Armor from Sad Boys and Gravity Boys and Yung Lean was rapping on it with Thaiboy Digital and Bladee. Whenever they come to Berlin those are the people that I hook up with. I’m doing these remixes but as for getting into the studio with people, I don’t really collaborate.

I’d been sending beats to Lil B for about a year before I played with him at Festsaal Kreuzberg, back in June. I’d kind of been in contact in the sense that when you mail him a beat, he’ll either respond to you, or he won’t. If he does, it means he likes the beat. He’s been getting back on almost every one. I’ve never heard my beats on a Lil’ B mixtape yet, but it could happen sometime soon. He was really into this one beat I sent him as he sent me about four or five lines back.

‘Yo – this beat’s fucking awesome’ and then literally just other ways of saying that, then ‘keep listening – love you fam – Lil’ B for life.’ That’s why I love him, though, he’s like an enigma. He’s basically one of the things that saved me. Everything that he’s about is pretty optimistic, it makes you feel blessed. How can someone be so positive all the time? It’s a good way to be.

Tokyo Hands play Next Level Shit in Kavka, Antwerp on 22 March. The show is free for members.

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The Cocoon Issue. Interview George Mitchell claims he hasn’t left the house much since coming back from the US, so one could say he’s in full-on cocoon mode. But living and working with two other band members can make

Eagulls Interview by Julien Van de Casteele Images by Eagulls

things pretty hectic in the house – to the point where it can easily transform into a claustrophobic prison. We talked about band rituals, *that* letter and transforming from a kid into a punk who gets tattoos honouring Bill Murray ‘As a band, we also cocoon a lot when writing music’ 19

Eagulls. Continued Do you have a cocooning ritual?

I sit and draw. I like to work on the band’s artwork. As a band, we also cocoon a lot when writing music. We usually all lock ourselves away from each other, then we join up, put it together, then I’ll go away, be the king of the cocoon and write down lyrics. When we first started as a band, we wrote one song sort of together and it was disgusting. So we just leave it to me and my cocooning moments.

How was life at home as a kid?

A few years after my parents got divorced – I was four – Mom and I moved to a house that had big fields behind it. I really enjoyed being able to play in the fields, I was out there a lot. I think that’s how it goes for a lot of creative people: they’re usually the people who are going out a lot and exploring the world when they’re little and when they get old they just cocoon a lot.

When did punk music come into the mix?

I used to BMX and hang around with older people at the skate park – some of them were probably ten years older than me. All these older kids would give me their American BMX videos with this punk music on them. So we used to record music on to the tapes off the videos and listen to these really lo-fi, shit recordings. I think that at some point my mom had mentioned to my uncle that I listened to punk music, he really appreciated that and decided to give me some of his records by bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees and obvious ones like The Sex Pistols and The Clash. I just did my thing from there, finding my own sort of way.

Those bands surely influenced the music you make today?

Musically, punk bands obviously have an impact on what we produce because that’s the kind of music we’re all into at the moment.

But lyrically, it’s different. When I write, I don’t really listen to anyone vocally to get inspiration from. But it’s weird because I’m not really

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‘When we first started as a band, we wrote one song sort of together and it was disgusting’

sure where all of this comes from – probably from somewhere in the back of my head.

You’ve just come back from a trip to New York. How was it?

We mainly went to do two shows, and then we had to talk to our label, Partisan Records, located in Brooklyn. We also actually managed to get on Letterman! It was pretty surreal and good fun.

I read about that tattooing experience.

Yeah, yeah. We got pretty drunk and one of the guys at the record label thought it was a funny idea to bring one of their friends with a tattoo gun. We all decided to tattoo one another. Some of us

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Eagulls. Continued

‘I had never had a tattoo before, but yeah, it took me two beers to be convinced’ have got tattoos anyway so didn’t really care. I had never had a tattoo before, but yeah, it took me two beers to be convinced. However, my tattoo is the only one that stayed in. Everyone else’s started to fall out.

It was done pretty badly and we were all so pissed, which made the blood probably so thin that the ink just fell out. Tom [bass player] got Bill Murray tattooed on his arm to commemorate our performance on Letterman the next day. The next day at the TV studio, Bill Murray just walked through and laughed and started kissing his arm.

So now interviewers will have something to talk about other than that letter you posted on your blog a while ago...

Man, I am fucking bored of talking about that letter [an angry diatribe against ‘beach bands’ that ‘dress like a Disney character’].

The thing is that before that there was not really much material about our music online and only five pictures. Then that letter came out, and that was all people could talk about or relate to us about. So yeah, now when people ask us to talk about that we just tell them to shut up and do their research. As for the tattoo, I’m not the one who got the Bill Murray tattoo so I’ll just pass the question on to Tom and retreat to my cocoon!

Eagulls play 019, Ghent, on 01 April. The show is free for members.

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The Cocoon Issue. Photo Essay Snuggling up in nature: it’s one way of cocooning – just the way Roman Hiele likes it. No, it’s no coincidence that the cover of last years’ HIELE vinyl release featured this Antwerp DIY boy between mossy

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by Nina Strebelle tree trunks. This time our very own Nina Strebelle took him for a ride through his neighbourhood, the perfect way to get him all energised for his Essential Oils release party at Piaf, Antwerp on 14 March. Expect a night of dreamy melodies and heavily saturated drum parts.

Hiele’s Essential Oils release party is at Piaf, Antwerp on 14 March.

This show is free for members.

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The Cocoon Issue. Scene Report

Scene Report Ghent

Text by Subbacultcha! Belgium and Brecht Van Dingenen Photos shot by Nina Stebelle, Sophie Keij and Els Vidts, in Ghent

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Always been curious about the music scene in other cities outside your own little cocoon? Every month we’ll feed your hunger for insights and secrets in the Scene Report.

March made us decide to retreat in our home base, Ghent. Sadly, lots of valuable artists’ cocoons – like NEST and Soscastoa – have moved or taken a break lately, but some interesting projects are popping up again! Chalk it up to springtime...

Although Ghent is one of the larger cities by Belgian standards, you’d be forgiven for asking, ‘What’s happening in this tiny hole?’

Well, there’s a lot happening – but never enough to satisfy everybody!

Imagine a playground for everybody with an idea and a City Council strong in its support of artists. Some win and some loose. Don’t get us wrong: living in Ghent is fun, but sometimes it feels like a bad episode of Friends. Conclusion: after lots of discussions in the coffee shop around the corner, trying to define happiness with peers, there’s only one rule: the ones who work hard – or are great at scheming – get their little place.

First of all, we’ve got some nice record shops, all owned by a bunch of music geeks on their own individual trip. To start with, Music Mania, pros since 1969. Other records stores – including Music Zombi, Wool-E-Shop and Vinylla – all support the local music scene.

The dusty record diggers can even go to Vinyl Kitchen and Kiekeboe.

Dig hard or impress with your knowledge by asking what they have underneath the desk. That’s how it’s done.

We don’t want to start mentioning all the second-hand clothing

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Scene Report: Ghent. Continued stores in town but we’ll make one exception! Marmod is a new and unique concept shop where you can go not only for an exclusive vintage outfit but also to enjoy a healthy soup, tea or fair-trade coffee.

If you want a basic impression of the venues and bars in Ghent, you can google for Incubate’s guide to Ghent. We’re not focusing on the regular places here; nevertheless, Vooruit is one of the biggest classical venues, and worth a mention. They recently managed to hire new and young promoters with excellent taste, who have booked Karen Gwyer, Pete Swanson, Wanda Group and Charles Cohen amongst others. One of the promoters, Wouter Vanhaelemeesch, aka Urpf Lanze, has his own record label, AudioMER, together with another small-town hero, Jeroen Wille.

019, a former industrial building at DOK Noord 5L, has been home to the label Smoke&Dust for five years. They’re busy building a concert hall for 300 people, a silk-screen atelier, artists’ spaces and rehearsal rooms. Subbacultcha! ’s annual Wastelands festival takes place in those surroundings, too.

Artcinema OFFoff opens its doors for smaller concerts, organised

by NEST, Subbacultcha and so on. We saw Molly Nilsson and Floris Vanhoof playing excellent shows and were pretty unsteady after leaving the bar manned by Dany Deprez next door.

The more underground promoters like KRAAK have been supporting and releasing all kinds of experimental music for ages now.

They have their office in Ghent. On the other end of the spectrum – but actually never far away – you’ve got Nachtlawaai/Overlast, notorious for numerous obscure live concerts and DJ sessions: think Legowelt, Neotantrik, Lorenzo Senni. They’ve even got a new baby – although she’s practically a teenager now – called Stroom.tv. Check out the website, do the research and be amazed. Internet 2014!

We can’t forget Brenda. They’ve been casting their magic dust

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‘Don’t get us wrong: living in Ghent is fun, but sometimes it feels like a bad episode of Friends’

to make venues or events into a utopian playground. And when you see DJ Nosedrip you can expect quality: this musical visionary does more for the music scene than people will ever give him credit for.

When it comes to dancing away your worries, check the Nachtvögels and Alpha parties. Subbacultcha! has hosted shows in DOK, Muzikantenhuis, NEST, 019, OFFoff and even in their small office in Karperstraat 26 (aka Beste Winkel Ooit). Last but not least, we’d like you to check out the genre-specific promoters from Oorpijn in Nieuwevaart.

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Scene Report: Ghent. Continued Most of the venues or promoters even have their own labels.

Smeltkop and Smoke&Dust are the labels related to 019; the Smeraldina Rima label is currently using a new place close to Dampoort, called KDK6; Cassette hotbed Kerm is related to NEST, whose team is preparing NEST II in Brussels at the moment. And famous chieftain of Morc Tapes, Joe Speedboot, can be connected to Kraak again…

Social Harmony (Dieter Durinck and Brecht Van Dingenen) are also organising expos, hosting shows, releasing music and publishing books. Remember the Slechte Stijl and Free Motives books? A Monopoly Child Star Searchers in-house gig with expo in the summer?

Just to name a few...

As mentioned earlier, Ghent labels: Kraak, Morc Tapes, Auis a chaotic playground for people diomer, Smeltkop, Smoke&Dust, trying to organise everything they Smeraldina Rima, KERM, Social can think of while drinking beers Harmony and having fun. Places like Zwart Wild, DOK, In de Frigo and Huis Essential Ghent hangouts and Mortier use abandoned buildings promoters: Vooruit, Art Cinema for artistic activities. From bike OFF- off, 019, KASK Cinema, Music repair meetings to photocopying Mania, Nachtlawaai/Overlast, boobs to drawing festivals and Music Zombi, Wool-E-Shop, beach parties at an old industrial Vinylla, Vinyl Kitchen, Kiekeboe, site; you name it, they’ll do it. So Stroom.tv, Brenda, Nachtvögels, dear City Council, did we mention Alpha, Marmod we’re looking for a place to shelter all these guys under one roof?

Essential Ghent bands: Maan, Mathieu Serruys, Joe Speedboot, Afghan Gold, Floris Vanhoof, Urpf Lanze

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Featured Artist

Maud Van Haegenborgh This young and talented image-maker is always searching for a balance between the heaviness of existence and the lightness she would like to experience. In her work you’ll find a confrontation between heavily loaded extremes which she tries to alleviate through humour and absurdity. Her recent work, If you saw the things through my eyes you’d finally understand all the bullshit I’m so desperately trying to explain, consists of film stills of her interventions in the public space. With The fortress of descent she attempted to create the space itself. This artwork is used by those in need www.maudvanhaegenborgh.be 34

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Featured Artist: Maud Van Haegenborgh

Selected and approved by KOP vzw. www.kopvzw.be

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Books text and artwork by Gabriela González

Journeys Out of the Body

by Robert A Monroe A successful businessman living – in his words – ‘a reasonably normal life with a reasonably normal family’, Robert Monroe went for a quick nap after breakfast one day. A sudden cramp in his solar plexus was to trigger some of the most unusual and riveting experiences of his life – all occurring in his sleep. Leeching humanoids, finger-zapping sex with iridescent women, verifiable encounters with friends in their backyards and on their death beds and the wonders of the elastic ‘second body’ make up the cult classic Journeys Out of the Body. Monroe goes beyond lucid dreaming and plunges headfirst into the world of the out-ofbody experience, a phenomenon that can either be a forgettable what-the-fuck-was-that? moment or a life philosophy in its own right.

While Monroe’s experiences

as an out-of-body traveller may be due to an innate gift for body/ mind disassociation, he was able to systematise the occurrences through the use of reverberating tape loops and sensory deprivation techniques. His voyages are recorded with the diligence of a lab researcher and the flair of a seasoned journalist, providing observational statistics alongside humorous anecdotes, proving himself a guide for aspiring Second State travellers. An alternative to the churches and the preachers, the narcotics and the self-administered indoles, the joyrides and Russian roulette parties at the country club, Journeys Out of the Body epitomises an idea for all those seeking to shed their earthly restraints: every journey starts in the mind.

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Films

by Deniz Erdem

Offscreen Film Festival 05-23 March

This annual festival screens old and new films that mostly don’t get wide circulation. The erotic films of Radley Metzger are going to be the festival’s headline attraction; while a pre-screening of Spike Jonze’s story of digitised love, Her, will mark the closure. There are two very exciting evenings with live soundtracks set to French westerns (yes, French westerns), and Spanish silent film maverick Segundo De Chomón’s films. One of the weirdest experiences in recent cinema is the bloody L’étrange Couleur Des Larmes De Ton Corps from Belgian duo Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet.

Definitely recommended are the highlights of British director Ken Russell’s fantasy world. From his early TV series to the famous rock opera, Tommy; from notorious adaptations of classical texts to his as-Hollywood-as-it-canget, Altered States: his extravagant, aggressive, crazed and dream-like films can be seen on different screens.

The festival takes place at various locations. For full programme and trailers: www.offscreen.be

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Films

Yevgeny Yufit

Yevgeny Yufit: Necrorealist evenings

Child’s Pose

Child’s Pose

Humour at its blackest, non-linear absurdity, the supernatural in nature, life and humanity reexamined through death (hence the term necro-realism). Although it was made in the last three decades, it all looks like a combination of early surrealism and slapstick. Yufit is a Russian artist whose film experimentations are mostly based on improvisation revolving around mortal concepts (destruction, decay, killing, suicide), and all of them are visual manifestations in their own right.

One feature film and three shorts will be screened.

Playing on 10 and 21 March, OFFoff Cinema.

Release date 30 January.

Calin Peter Netzer - 2013 On the commercial side, Calin Peter Netzer’s third feature film, Child’s Pose, hopped on the Romanian lift with its well-crafted storytelling.

Shifting the focus back and forth from a witty social criticism conveyed through an interclass conflict to the universal theme of the mother-and-son relationship, the movie stands out in its commentary told over an upper-class drama. This Golden Bear winner has been enjoying mainstream success and offers two nice hours.

Playing on 21 March, Cinema Zuid.

This screening is free for members.

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2-6 april 2014, Gent Minard, Sphinx cinema, KASK, Paddenhoek www.courtisane.be beeld: Tina Modotti, Workers Parade, 1926

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Music, art and film in March Those Foreign Kids: 01 September

Those Foreign Kids: 01 September

New Music: Solar Year

Film: Lydia Ainsworth

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Film: The Opening of Misty Beethoven

some from San Francisco, has developed a uniquely playful and complex sound. Their latest album, Deerhoof vs.

Evil, demonstrates that they’re on top of their eclectic game. Despite their long career, they still sound like kids at heart. ‘The best band in the world’, according to Pitchfork.

04 March - KASK Cinema, Ghent 20.30 | €5 | Free for members

Meet Dr Seymour Love, the sexologist who wants to turn low-skilled prostitute Misty into a goddess of passion. As the ultimate test, she’ll have to try to seduce a homosexual artist. Featuring rainbowcoloured dildos, lavish Seventies outfits and garden parties, this 1976 cult pornography movie is an absolute must.

Thanks to KASK and Offscreen you’ll see for yourself why director Radley Metzger scored four Adult Academy Awards.

Hiele Release Party 14 March - Piaf, Antwerp 22.30 | tba | Free for members

Deerhoof + Vin Blanc/White Wine

09 March - De Kreun, Kortrijk 20.00 | €17 | Free for members Over the past 15-plus years, Deerhoof, an experimental indie-rock four-

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Homegrown Belgian label Ekster proudly presents its fourth release: Roman Hiele’s eight track-album Essential Oils.

Count on this Antwerp DIY boy for a blend of dreamy melodies and heavily saturated drum parts. Bepotel, meanwhile, will open up the portal to digital emotions with their hazy sonic landscapes. Nosedrip, Stroheim and Raphael & Mills Boogie will be behind the turntables.

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Grails: 15 March

Grails + Lilacs & Champagne

15 March - Beursschouwburg, Brussels 22.00 | €12 | Free for members

The Men: 15 March

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Noise, rock, post-hardcore and garage punk: The Men from New York combine it all. Even though they’ve only been around since 2008 on, these busy bees’ fifth release will already hit the record store around your corner this month.

Previous full-lengths Open Your Heart and Full Moon featured some more country, surf rock and Americana influences. Time to find out what Tomorrow’s Hills brings.

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‘Liberty’ is definitely the code word for Grails, the four-piece rock band from Portland. Obstinately rejecting the clichés about instrumental music, they produce a heavily layered and textured sound, combining all sorts of genres under one umbrella of musical freedom.

Sure, psychedelic doom metal and world music can be mixed. Grails’ own Alex Hall and Emil Amos also team up for Lilacs & Champagne. Combining samples – from Polish hippy music to radio transmission noise – they superimpose their own sounds on them, creating something totally fresh.

15 March - Botanique, Brussels 19.30 | €14 | Free for members

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Film: Le fils d’Amr est mort!

Next Level Shit

22 March - Kavka, Antwerp 23.00 | €7 | Free for members After a wonderful party in January, Next Level Shit is back with a fresh batch of promising acts. Bringing to mind fluorescent fantasies, Tom Banks, aka Lockah, treats you to a lucid hybrid of boogie, jungle and rap. German B-JU’s dictionary only contains three perfect words: house, bass and beats.

Brighton label Donky Pitch will be exquisitely represented by Grinel and Tokyo Hands and musical omnivore Coco Bryce is bringing his eclectic hip hop beats along.

Film: Child’s Pose

Film: Child’s Pose

21 March - Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 18.00 | €5 | Free for members Take a rich mother and a spoiled criminal son and you will get nothing short of a troubled relationship. When the latter drives over a child and is faced with manslaughter charges, mother Cornelia will try everything to keep him out of jail. Romanian director Calin Peter Netzer’s third feature raises questions about justice, ethics and class differences. Winner of the coveted Golden Bear at the last edition of the Berlin International Film Festival.

Film: Le fils d’Amr est mort!

24 March - OFFoff, Ghent 20.30 | €6.50 | Free for members After the death of his partner in crime, a thief travels to Tunisia to look for his

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partner’s family. Pierre Clementi, famous from Buñuel’s Belle de Jour and Bertolucci’s Il Conformista, stars in this intriguing tale of alienation and cultural identities. Patrick Duynslaegher, artistic coordinator of Film Fest Ghent, and Belgian director Jean-Jacques Andrien himself will provide you with an interesting after-talk.

27 March - Kultuurkaffee, Brussels 20.00 | €8 | Free for members After moving from his tiny town to Tbilisi years ago, Georgia-based producer Gacha had no one around to hang out with. Which left more than enough time to play the guitar. No mental problems ensued; only great music. Gacha’s new release, When the Watchman Saw the Light, on Apollo Records features atmospheric chords, engulfing you like a most welcoming fog, combined with warm electronics and the soothing voice of Natalie Beridze.

Felix Kubin + NHK’Koyxen + Lucrecia Dalt

27 March - Vooruit, Ghent 20.00 | €17 | Free for members Seeing German cult figure Felix Kubin live definitely is a treat. Since the early ’80s this self-professed Dadaist has combined Weimar cabaret, space-age synth-pop and all round avant-gardist sounds into a thrilling and unpredictable whole. Japanese illustrator NHK’Koyxen has been exploring experimental electro for over 20 years. He’ll be serving up deconstructed acid techno; think polyrhythmic synths, drunken beats and minimalistic melodies. Last but not least, hailing from Colombia, Lucrecia Dalt creates unique melancholic loner ambient-pop with whispering vocals.

Jack of Heart + The Scrap Dealers

28 March - Madame Moustache , Brussels 20.00 | €5 | Free for members Carried by the velvet voice of charismatic Piero Ilov, Jack of Heart can be considered one of the groups of reference of the ghetto rock’n’roll genre.

This French psych-punk outfit asserts the psychedelism of Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett, the heritage of Velvet and the punk side of the Stooges, whilst imposing its proper codes of garage rock.

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Eagulls + MAAN + Ping Pong Tactics

good measure. You’ll get a hint of The Beach Boys, Velvet Underground and Animal Collective. Although Fulvimar has since said goodbye to his ‘going nowhere life’ in Ohio, he’s still a dreamer who likes to stay put in his chill spot, jamming on his vintage drums and keyboards, singing about empty days and a broken heart. Sounds like having a bright daydream in a basement.

01 April - 019, Ghent 19.30 | €8 | Free for members

The Leeds-based melodic punks of Eagulls will make their guitars swirl, whilst distorted vocals and irresistible riffs hit your eardrums. It’ll be loud and dark. The minimalistic cold-wave duo MAAN brings to life vivid images of Joy Division, but Simon Apers and Tim Depraetere do their own refreshing lofi thing. And even though everything could go wrong in today’s world, Ping Pong Tactics just wants you to stay positive and bouncy. And you will, thanks to their dizzying pop.

Wanda Group + Christina Vantzou

Gap Dream

03 April - Madame Moustache, Brussels 21.00 | €5 | Free for members 04 April - CPCR, Liège (Jauneorange) tba | tba | Free for members Living in the Burger Records office and record store in Fullerton, CA, Gabriel Fulvimar can’t say he’s lacking inspiration. His latest release, Shine Your Light, features fuzzy garage rock, psych-pop melodies, surf-pop harmonies and a little glam thrown in for

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05 April - Minard, Ghent 22.00 | tba | Free for members If someone deserves a prize for catchy and original album titles, it’s Louis Johnstone, aka Wanda Group. As Get Hypotenuse or Tense and Piss Fell Out Like Sunlight prove, the man’s creativity clearly isn’t limited to the spectre of sound. Coming in trademark greystone artwork, Wanda Group’s releases feature textured ambient, with mesmerising distortions, crackles and hisses.

The classically schooled Christina Vantzou brings her new album N°2, with dense layers of strings, synths and woodwinds.

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What else is on this month On the following pages you’ll find a fine selection of concerts, festivals and exhibitions taking place around the country.

Art: Michaël Borremans Until 03 August - Bozar, Brussels In a suggestive, ironic way painter and filmmaker Michaël Borremans lays bare the absurdity of existence with puzzling images. The As Sweet As It Gets exposition features drawings, paintings and films from the past 20 years.

Party: Vicuna 08 March - A boat, Brussels Aki, Aguila and Paradise 100 will be back spinning tunes on the Vicuna super boat, laying at anchor 100m off the Sainctelette Bridge. With the new 700W speakers you’ll be getting the best of all vinyl delight. Dark, deep and dirty remain the keywords.

Festival: Offscreen 05-23 March - various locations, Brussels For the seventh edition of Offscreen, the pope of porno-chic Radley Metzger, famous for his sensual erotic art-house films, is the guest of honour.

Director Robin Hardy will be presenting the new final cut of The Wicker Man. And Offscreenings presents a wide variety of British cult films, too.

Theatre: Mush-Room 12-13 March - Vooruit, Ghent Grace Ellen Barkey (Needcompany) welcomes you into her crazy universe filled with acrobatic mushrooms, exceptional dreams and cosmic wishes, whilst the iconic American avantgardists of The Residents take care of the music. A trippy and hilarious take on anarchy.

Theatre: De Wet 14-22 March - KVS, Brussels Wunderbaum and the KVS will be presenting a theatrical triptych on the laws of boundaries and the boundaries of the law. A story of statelessness and migration, featuring a Somali pirate, a Balkan prostitute and the political lobby guarding the frontiers of Europe. Rinus van de Velde takes care of the images; Walter Hus of the music; Anton Dautzenberg and Michael Bijnens of the text.

Music: Planningtorock + Brain Rain + rRoxymore 06 March - Beursschouwburg, Brussels Janine Rostron changed her name into the gender-neutral ‘Jam’ and likes to distort her voice. Named All Love’s Legal, her new LP combines dance music with a political statement. So let’s start this dialogue about pushing the boundaries of sexuality whilst dancing!

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BOOMBOX 01/03 DEERHOOF 09/03 + vin blanc / white wine HIGHWAY JACK 14/03 + i do i do NOISEFEST V 15/03 CORROSION OF CONFORMITY 16/03

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LEAN LEFT 19/03 SOPHIA 21/03 + new found land MARBLE SOUNDS 22/03 + wolves and moons TRUE WIDOW 04/04 GRUPPO DI PAWLOWSKI 10/04 + the rott childs CHANNEL ZERO 12/04 + ostrogoth (ism. alcatraz) THE BODY 18/04 + wreckmeister harmonies volg ons op facebook.com/dekreunmusic en twitter (@dekreun, #dekreun).

What else is on this month Music: KERM release show 15 March - Bleek, Sint-Niklaas Belgian label KERM has the hots for cassette tapes and will be presenting Joris De Rycke and Weird Dust’s new releases, joined by Bear Bones, Lay Low, Athlete’s Foot and Pat Pending.

Power drone and analogue trance, only a five-minute walk from the train station.

Music: High Wolf + Chicaloyoh 20 March - Vooruit, Ghent Inspired by primitive ceremonial music, High Wolf is all about cosmic loops, fuzzy guitars, droney synths and mystic vocals. This king of the underground psych scene could just go on for ever. Frenchie Alice Dourlen, aka Chicaloyoh, will take you over with her deep, hypnotic voice.

Music: MF DOOM 16 March - Vooruit, Ghent Even though Sunday is the Lord’s Day, legendary hip hop icon MF DOOM will grace the Vooruit stage with his extravagant masked presence, for the first time accompanied by a live drummer.

Theatre: Deceptive bodies 20-21 March - Campo, Ghent The theatrical aesthetics of fits of hysteria: that’s what actress Dolores Bouckaert and dancer Charlotte Vanden Eynde will show you. Although body language tells a lot about what’s going on in one’s mind, this non-verbal communication is actually easy to manipulate.

Music: araabMUZIK 18 March - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels When it comes to playing the pads of the MPC digital drum machine, Abraham Orellana is the quickest of them all. Electronic suicide or poetry in motion? Either way, you’ll be pumped, from hip hop to arena dubstep and pop-chart trance.

Book fair: Artists Print III 21-23 March - Brass, Brussels Our favourite independent book fair in Brussels by Komplot and JAP, selling all the solutions you need for no problems.

Music: Felix Kubin + Miaux 26 March - Beursschouwburg, Brussels With his new electronic pop release Zemsta Plutona, Felix Kubin is ready to kick some intergalactic butt. Germany’s finest self-professed Dadaist takes revenge because sweet little blue Pluto is no longer considered a planet. Keyboard virtuoso Miaux will make your melancholic hearts melt.

Festival: In Movement 18-29 March - Les Brigittines, Brussels This dance festival takes place once every two years and focuses on a variety of choreographers. It’s going to be a colourful mix of styles and backgrounds, but one thing they all have in common is their commitment to the body in movement and their love for Brussels.

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FELIX KUBIN (D) / NHK’KOYXEN (JP) / LUCRECIA DALT (CO)

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Noisefest V The name explains it all: a celebration of noise music. From across Europe and America, only the best, loudest and most twisted noise musicians gather at The Kreun, Kortrijk on 15 March. Don’t miss out!

15 March – De Kreun, Kortrijk

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Puce Mary

Consumer Electronics The legendary Philip Best formed this band when he was only 14. His hateful screaming, reminiscent of the angry British teachers on the Pink Floyd track ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ and mixed with mysterious experimental backdrops, will guarantee you a weird and wild party experience.

LR LR is Loke Rahbek’s brisk, vociferous solo project. This Danish dude plays in bands like Sexdrome, Vår and Lust for Youth. He’s also best mates with Elias Ronnenfelt from Iceage. Reason enough to check this post-punk out!

David Phillips This noisy musical concept is unique, because of its political nature but also because of the estranging form it comes in. Morbid and obscure sounds like farting, squawking and gagging are incorporated in Phillips’ freaky, dissonant works of art.

Urpf Lanze Layering guitars and growling unintelligible sounds through a microphone, you’d think it would get messy, but Wouter Vanhaelemeesch actually has a way of perfecting his road-trippy soundscape into something really natural and relaxing.

Bruital Orgasme A dark and mysterious married couple from Belgium. Fil and Nath give intense performances to pair with their surreal, organic, erotic soundscapes.

Puce Mary Puce Mary is Frederikke Hoffmeier, a Copenhagen-based musician whose distorted and demonic sounds can be found on the Danish record label Posh Isolation.

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Courtisane An adventurous trip through the world of cinema – a cinema that all too often remains unseen, well hidden inside the cocoon and margins of the underground. That’s what the 13th edition of Courtisane Festival is all about. Expect plenty of room for thought – and plenty of music as well.

02-06 April – Minard, Sphinx cinema, KASK, Paddenhoek, Ghent

Akio Suzuki

Julius Eastman

Akio Suzuki + Aki Onda He once threw a bucket filled with garbage down the stairs of a railway station. ’Cause why wouldn’t that create an interesting rhythm?

This Japanese inventor and shaman will open up a musical dialogue with Aki Onda, the composer and visual artist famous for his field recordings and Cassette Memories project.

Wanda Group + Christina Vantzou Ever since he named one of his releases Get Involved in my Throat, Louis Johnstone can count on plenty of support from us. Wanda Group isn’t your regular ambient act: it’s all about texture and atmosphere.

Christina Vantzou, a composer, artist and filmmaker based in Brussels, is supporting.

Ken Jacobs + Aki Onda Ken Jacobs is one of the founding fathers of experimental American cinema. Playing with light and moving images, Jacobs will bring his ‘Nervous Magic Lantern’, a performance of moving images conjured live by Jacobs using a single projector, a shutter and myriad filters to the live music of Aki Onda.

Julius Eastman The late legendary composer Julius Eastman was a prominent figure of the New York Downtown scene of the ’70s and ’80s. Few recordings of his challenging and radical oeuvre are left – and performances of them are even rarer.

Thus, this is an extraordinary night, featuring three compositions for four pianos: ‘Evil Nigger’, ‘Crazy Nigger’ and ‘Gay Guerilla’.

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21 March

Film: The Film: Child’s Opening of Pose Zuid, Antwerp Misty Beethoven Cinema 18.00 | €5 | Free for members KASK Cinema, Ghent 20.30 | €5 | Free for members

09 March

Deerhoof + Vin Blanc/ White Wine De Kreun, Kortrijk 20.00 | €17 | Free for members

14 March

Hiele Release Party Piaf, Antwerp 22.30 | €tba| Free for members

15 March

The Men Botanique, Brussels 19.30 | €14 | Free for members

15 March

Grails + Lilacs & Champagne

22 March

Next Level Shit Kavka, Antwerp 23.00 | €7 | Free for members

24 March

Film: Le Fils d’Amr est mort!

28 March

Jack of Heart + The Scrap Dealers Madame Moustache, Brussels 20.00 | € 5 | Free for members

01 April

Eagulls + MAAN + Ping Pong Tactics 019, Ghent 19.30 | €8 | Free for members

OFFoff, Ghent 20.30 | €6,50 | Free for members

03 April

27 March

Madame Moustache, Brussels 20.00 | € 5 | Free for members

Gap Dream

Felix Kubin + NHK’Koyxen + 04 April Lucretia Dalt Gap Dream Vooruit, Ghent 20.00 | €17 | Free for members

CPCR, Liège (Jauneorange) tba | tba | Free for members

27 March

05 April

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Kultuurkaffee, Brussels 20.00 | €8 | Free for members

Beursschouwburg, Brussels 22.00 | €12 | Free for members

Wanda Group + Christina Vantzou Minard, Ghent 22.00 | tba | Free for members

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