LSD MARCH (JP) && IGNATZ (BE) @ ASTRA STUBE, HAMBURG
Verfasst: 02.10.2008 (14:03)LSD MARCH (JP- Hyogo Himeji-City) && IGNATZ (BE-Brüssel)
Immer wieder kommen Bands aus dem Land der aufgehenden Sonne, welche selbst altgediente Formeln wie Gitarre/Bass/Schlagzeug neu zu erfinden imstande sind. Dazu gehört sicher das von Gitarristen Michishita Shinsuke 1997 mit siebzehn Jahren gegründete Trio LSD March aus dem psychedelischen Untergrund von Tokio, nach einem Track auf dem ersten Album der Krautrocker Guru Guru benannt.
Im Verbund mit Bassisten Kawaguchi Masami, der auch bei Miminokoto als Gitarrist und Keij Hainos eigenwilliger Coverband Aihiyo aktiv ist, und Drummer Takahashi Ikuro, der die Felle und Metalle für High Rise, Maher Shalal Hash Baz und Hainos Fushitsusha bearbeitet hat, entlädt das Trio von düster-dunklen Feedback-Orgien hin zu abgedrehtem Rock'n'Roll alles, was eine musikalische Welt von den Velvet Underground der späten 60er-Jahre zu den Jam-Sessions von Acid Mother's Temple umfassen kann:
Sanfte Balladen, brutalen Lärm, seltsam losgelöst und trotzdem berührend, mitreissend, doch mit Tiefgang. Nach dem Re-Issue des auf 300 limitierten Albums «Suddenly, Like Flames» auf dem amerikanischen Label Last Visible Dog, in Europa auf dem auf Perlen aus dem japanischen Untergrund spezialisierten, französischen Eclipse-Label, und dem Beitrag zu «The Night Gallery», einer Compilation aus dem zeitgenössischen japanischen Untergund, einer Schar Eingefleischten bekannt, bringt ihre zweite Europa-Tour die Gelegenheit, sie auch live zu erleben.
http://www.myspace.com/lsdmarch
http://www.last.fm/music/LSD+March
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IGNATZ is the alter-ego of Brussels-based artist Bram Devens. Acoustic songs wrapped with effects and driven by improvisation and spontaneousness. The debut of Ignatz is still fresh in your memory, and he's already there with the follow up. On Ignatz II, he continues his road through the Appalachians in the year 2050. Stunning rootsfolk, but played by a lost and unworldly creature. His sound builds further upon his debut album, with the difference that on one of the six tracks he doesn't use any effects. He even sings and talks more and creates his own musical world around it. In the meantime he has become musical partners with Paul Labreque (Sunburned Hand of the Man) and Silverster Anfgang (Belgium), but still proves that his solo work towers above his other collaborations. If Lou Reed would have fertilized Cthulhu in 1966, he would now have had a grandchild called Ignatz. The often misplaced words "new" and "weird" can finally be
used without any doubt. II is the affirmation of Ignatz' great talent. Future weird Belgium!!
"Alien musical transmissions intercepted using an old victrola and played back by some crazy old man, sitting on his porch, armed with just an acoustic guitar, a pile of busted old wax cylinders, and a huge bank of broken and rusty effects pedals... So goddamn great!" (Aquarius Records)
"...his impassioned mantras of faith and devotion from behind the crackled veil of a prewar blues 78. But as Ignatz II again demonstrates, Devens has proven regularly able to re-interpret these
borrowed texts in his own singular fashion, his handmade bricks again gloriously shaped, baked, and thrown." (Pitchforkmedia.com)
"The Ignatz approach is to swathe rough acoustic folk-blues in an almost impenetrable blanket of fuzz, punctuating long stretches of music with improvised vocals...Comparisons with John Fahey are inevitable, but there's also the influence of Japanese psychedelix mystics such as Ghost in there somewhere, while Devens's vocals mimic the cadences of American folk and rock singers in a way that recalls the sleepy sensuality of Damo Suzuki." (The Wire)
http://www.myspace.com/ignazt
Einlass: 21:00 Uhr Beginn: 21:30 Uhr
http://www.astra-stube.de
Immer wieder kommen Bands aus dem Land der aufgehenden Sonne, welche selbst altgediente Formeln wie Gitarre/Bass/Schlagzeug neu zu erfinden imstande sind. Dazu gehört sicher das von Gitarristen Michishita Shinsuke 1997 mit siebzehn Jahren gegründete Trio LSD March aus dem psychedelischen Untergrund von Tokio, nach einem Track auf dem ersten Album der Krautrocker Guru Guru benannt.
Im Verbund mit Bassisten Kawaguchi Masami, der auch bei Miminokoto als Gitarrist und Keij Hainos eigenwilliger Coverband Aihiyo aktiv ist, und Drummer Takahashi Ikuro, der die Felle und Metalle für High Rise, Maher Shalal Hash Baz und Hainos Fushitsusha bearbeitet hat, entlädt das Trio von düster-dunklen Feedback-Orgien hin zu abgedrehtem Rock'n'Roll alles, was eine musikalische Welt von den Velvet Underground der späten 60er-Jahre zu den Jam-Sessions von Acid Mother's Temple umfassen kann:
Sanfte Balladen, brutalen Lärm, seltsam losgelöst und trotzdem berührend, mitreissend, doch mit Tiefgang. Nach dem Re-Issue des auf 300 limitierten Albums «Suddenly, Like Flames» auf dem amerikanischen Label Last Visible Dog, in Europa auf dem auf Perlen aus dem japanischen Untergrund spezialisierten, französischen Eclipse-Label, und dem Beitrag zu «The Night Gallery», einer Compilation aus dem zeitgenössischen japanischen Untergund, einer Schar Eingefleischten bekannt, bringt ihre zweite Europa-Tour die Gelegenheit, sie auch live zu erleben.
http://www.myspace.com/lsdmarch
http://www.last.fm/music/LSD+March
**
IGNATZ is the alter-ego of Brussels-based artist Bram Devens. Acoustic songs wrapped with effects and driven by improvisation and spontaneousness. The debut of Ignatz is still fresh in your memory, and he's already there with the follow up. On Ignatz II, he continues his road through the Appalachians in the year 2050. Stunning rootsfolk, but played by a lost and unworldly creature. His sound builds further upon his debut album, with the difference that on one of the six tracks he doesn't use any effects. He even sings and talks more and creates his own musical world around it. In the meantime he has become musical partners with Paul Labreque (Sunburned Hand of the Man) and Silverster Anfgang (Belgium), but still proves that his solo work towers above his other collaborations. If Lou Reed would have fertilized Cthulhu in 1966, he would now have had a grandchild called Ignatz. The often misplaced words "new" and "weird" can finally be
used without any doubt. II is the affirmation of Ignatz' great talent. Future weird Belgium!!
"Alien musical transmissions intercepted using an old victrola and played back by some crazy old man, sitting on his porch, armed with just an acoustic guitar, a pile of busted old wax cylinders, and a huge bank of broken and rusty effects pedals... So goddamn great!" (Aquarius Records)
"...his impassioned mantras of faith and devotion from behind the crackled veil of a prewar blues 78. But as Ignatz II again demonstrates, Devens has proven regularly able to re-interpret these
borrowed texts in his own singular fashion, his handmade bricks again gloriously shaped, baked, and thrown." (Pitchforkmedia.com)
"The Ignatz approach is to swathe rough acoustic folk-blues in an almost impenetrable blanket of fuzz, punctuating long stretches of music with improvised vocals...Comparisons with John Fahey are inevitable, but there's also the influence of Japanese psychedelix mystics such as Ghost in there somewhere, while Devens's vocals mimic the cadences of American folk and rock singers in a way that recalls the sleepy sensuality of Damo Suzuki." (The Wire)
http://www.myspace.com/ignazt
Einlass: 21:00 Uhr Beginn: 21:30 Uhr
http://www.astra-stube.de