Monday May 24th in Berlin >> SIC ALPS (US) + CURLY LOU (SE) + MAG (SE)
Twisted Robot in collaboration with Koloni presents:
live:
SIC ALPS (US, Drag City)
CURLY LOU (Sweden)
MAG (Sweden)
Dj: Christian Pallin (Koloni)
Monday 24 May @ Westgermany,
Skalitzer strasse 133, Berlin
9pm (first act starts 9pm)
8€
The event on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121859867836778
SIC ALPS (US, Drag City)
Rock songs, as viewed far too often, are a dying breed. Not even talking
about - not even noticing - reports of rock’s death, the form in itself,
The aesthetic, the approach, is seldom acknowledged as being treated
intelligently, creatively, progressively. This is total bullshit, of
course, but you can’t really help but understand some of the folks that could
be lead to think that way. There’s only so many stories you can tell with a
guitar, there’s so many years and sides of great rock music, there were so
many breakthroughs in the 60s up until now, that the rock and roll song
could be mistaken for a corpse, fetishized only by the genre’s
enthusiasts, collectors & suburban dreamers.
The Sic Alps, though, are a different matter. While you can see rock’s
evolution throughout the 70s, with the Swell Maps, Sonic Youth in the 80s
and 90s, or people like Sightings nowadays, rock, in its swinging,
hip-shaking, daydreaming, bar and bedroom ruckus universe has been
apparently stagnant to most people for a number of years, save for some
notable exceptions (the Hospitals, Comets On Fire, the Black Lips, a ton
Of stuff on In The Red). If it ain’t crazy it ain’t rock’n'roll and that’s just the
way it is (that & yr dad has to be able to boogie to it).
This duo (now trio) out of San Francisco are the perfect hybrid for this rock idiom -
wild boys when they gotta be wild; rock scientists and genre scholastics
with a - huge - heart and a true passion for the game. They remanufacture
rock’s narrative, its metrics, adapt it to their musical and verbal
phrasing, demolish rock recording conventions, resituate it as being
dangerous (in some other new way). They have the freedom, the damage, the
will and the craft, and boy they pull it off.
If you haven’t seen’em live but you love the records (’Descriptions of the
Harbour’ 12″, ‘Pleasures & Treasures’ and a ton of singles and
limited-release editions recently compiled on ‘A Long Way Around a
Shortcut’, just released on Drag City records) it’s pretty much mindblowing how
they’are able to reproduce such rich deviant sound onstage, but they do and it’s
such truly fresh shit. The energy ever bursting, the narrative never lost (though reality’s forgotten), freedom unquestioned, fire continuous. True heavy delivery from one of contemporary rock’s visionaries, flying high since day one, flying high right now, wanting to bring the storm and the goodness near you.
- Pedro Gomes
http://www.sicalps.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHdYSlbB7Lw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUEF5quy4LI
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11976-a-long-way-around-to-a-shortcut/
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12263-us-ez/
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CURLY LOU (SE)
Curly Lou has been reinterpreting Swedish popular music from 1920-40’s since 2005 (in the tradtion of music hall and chansons). Working in the borderland between music and the history of cinema, she’s been able to catch the feeling and sound of this era and bring it to life today. The repertoire is a cultural heritage,both timeless and modern.
She has previously performed in France, Spain and Italy. In Sweden, she’s performing at cultural institutions as well as at theaters and clubs
including Swedish Museum of Modern Art, the Culture Centre, Göteborg Konsthall, Röda Sten, Orionteatern, Atalante, Klubb Berlin, and Klubb Koloni. Besides being an artist, she’s a project manager for several historical film projects in Stockholm and Göteborg.
http://www.myspace.com/vocalissa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZzUVg0wkHI&feature=related
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MAG (SE)
MAG works with live samplings of trombone, megaphone, voice, guitar, sound and noise around her. The music is built up from scratch. From the smallest simple element it grows to a gigantic dystopian lo-fi orchestra that sometimes is restrained and suggestive, sometimes chaotic and wild.
MAG aka Magdalena Ågren is a musician/performer and stage designer that lives in Gothenburg. Since 1995 she has been involved in many different bands such as
Surplus People, Good Morning Sweden, Maggot and Jurassic Jesus and toured around in Scandinavia and in Europe. At the moment she is most involved with her solo project. But she is also playing in three other band project, SORK, Trapped in a loop and Snöft. the projekt MAG has been plaing in 3 years, and she toured US, Canada and scaninavia.
http://www.myspace.com/magagren
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Koloni + Twisted Robot
http://www.kolonigbg.se
http://www.myspace.com/kolonigbg
http://www.twistedrobot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/twistedrobot