Orpheus Label Night

After a couple of not so great concerts like Lack at Apperatet with way too many people and a realy shitty, lousy punkevening at Blågards Medborgerhus, yesterday at Studenterhuset was another fantastic night in the name of psyche! The evening was called Orpheus Label Night and featured Lotus Krokus, Nicolai Vilhelm Tell and Aron and the Blackbeacon Orkestra.

Lotus Krokus opened with their cute and naive folkrock. They had added flute and steel guitar with fuzz and wah which was pretty cool. Yet, the music is a little too naive and dumb to really touch your soul. Next up was Nicolai Tell and we were pushed a little more in the rock'ish way, but still with the pretty naive and hippie like expresseion. Good performance, but not anything that moved the ground after the last tune.

But then ... then the earth moved. Aron entered and gave a completely convincing lession in how psyched out horror folk has to sound. Arons lyrics is fucking brilliant and almost genious in their simple form. In the band was Henrik from On Trial on guitar making waves with his acidic playing. Garage Claus smacked up the drums and added some way out backing vocal. Soulshaking performance ...

More about Aron, Nicolai and Henrik here: >>

Orpheus Records | Lotus Krokus | Studenterhuset

Causa Sui freaking @ Daemonens Port

Causa Sui is a magnificient danish band with some really talented musicians. They started out as a quartet and put out two great records as so. They made an astonishing performance at last years Roadburn Fest and this year they are gonna play Duna Jam. They then skipped the singer and went on as a trio. Last night was the first time for them to appear in a new form - and it was to be kind of a surprise. This gig was to be held at Daemonens Port, a small underground venue located in the basement of a company building out at fucking Amager. Fucking cool place with absolutely no restrictions in any way - but also without a toilet! A big bar, cheap beers, cool atmosphere and a great stage with draped red carpets around. Way to go!

Musically this was a surprise. I had been told that they were gonna have sax and keyboards added - and they also har a percussionist. The first long set was almost pure impro jazz-rock and they really showed of their admiration for Miles Davis. The sax was really cool and blended in fine with the rest of the band. Keyboards were mainly spaced out synth and Jonas Munk made a lot of strange guitar effects with a laptop on stage. Second set was more Causa Sui as we know them. Blistering heavy psychedelic rock, but still with sax, synth and percussion.

Wow, what a great, great performance from this band - and to experience this at a place like Daemonens Port with mayby 60 people present. After that we went to the shitty Jaguaren and got kicked out when they closed

Causa Sui @ myspace | Daemonens Port | Jaguaren

Kultur Shock @ Global

Friday night we went to this place called Global just next to Sgt. Hans Torv. It's venue for world music and that night they had the US band Kultur Shock on the bill. Opening band was local J S Fuck and the Hippies From Hell. God damn cool name for a band. The music was a strange mix of mostly punk, but with elements of strange stuff like wah-wah solos, growl and funky garage rhytms. Actually the one guitarist is Cristian Olesen and the drummer is Troels Drasbech from the great band The New Artless Creatures. The main man Sune Køter is sharply dressed in white shirt and red tie and their logo is very "nazi" like. They had some really cool visuals and a great performance.

Actually the venue was pretty cool with a high cieling and therefore lots of space for visuals behind the stage. Only problem was lack of atmosphere and a pretty annoing women in the door - and the beers were too expensive for a place like this.

Anyway, the mainliners this evening was Kultur Shock and although they spell Kultur the danish way they are from Seattle. The style was balkan-punk and even though they had great energy and enegetic pulsating rhytmns I found them pretty boring half way throug the set. So I left! But hey, they are a cool band if you dig that kind of music.

Kultur Shock | J S Fuck ... | The New Artless Creatures | Global

The Sword - New video

Legal MP3: The Sword - "Fire Lances Of The Ancient Hyperzephyrians"

More about the forthcoming album here >>

Three of a kind in two days

Los Retardos: Stengade 30, March 14th
Veterans from well known danish bands like Gorilla Angreb, Hellroute 16 and Hjertestop. They play so fucking tight it's almost unbelievable. Especially Lasse on the drums is really impressive. Cool but pretty short set as they were opening for Henry Fiats Open Sore (who didn't deliver!)

Masshysteri: Stengade 30, March 14th
Next up that evening was swedish Masshysteri who played a little more indie inspired punk. Great energy and great bassplay one octave up to the guitar. Pretty catchy tunes and with a sound that was both retro and new.

C.Aarmé: Lades, March 15th
Okay, what a surprise. Met up with Lars from Heatfarm and we just went down to Lades to see if anything interesting was going on. And yes, something was on the loose down there. This band has a stricking energy and some really cool monotonous grooves almost stoner like. The vocal is snotty and obnoxious in a style like Snapcase. Great band!

Los Retardos | Masshysteri | C.Aarme

OM - Interview before Chris Haikus left

Psychewalks of Eternal Karma

How often do you find youngsters that just loves to play music in the good old fashioned way like Blue Cheer and so on? Well, I just discovered this new danish band. This is what they have to say about themselves:

"We are a group of 4 boys at the age of 16. We met at Sejergaardsskolen in Tølløse this year. and we've been playing together ever since. The style of music is heavy, 70's inspired, downtuned, stoner rock with some psychedelic soundscapes, and a slightly overdriven hammond organ in there. Also lots of fuzzy guitars and bass, will be found throughout the whole thing."

And they fucking rocks my shoes off ...

@ myspace | Review at LowCut | Where the fuck is Tølløse ...?

Dark Room

Okay, after not seeing Peter Lundholm for decades the cool group from the stupid Facebook about Gammeltorv '81 suddenly reveals his new project. Haven't heard about anything from his hands since he left D-A-D some 10 years ago. Interesting ...

Catch them live for the first time at Huset april 4th - back to square one, so to say!

Dark Room @ Myspace | Huset i Magstræde

Mike Olenick mash ups

"Gus Van Sant’s remake of Psycho is superimposed on top of Hitchcock’s original film in Psycho 2000. The video disproves that Van Sant’s version is an exact remake and at the same time creates new narratives from repeated moments and chance juxtapositions of both films. The video began as an attempt to merge two conflicting memories of the same events into a new cinematic memory."

Mike Olenick is a filmmaker, editor, and photographer. In his work, he obsessively appropriates, remembers, restages, and re-edits other cinematic works.

Also try: "A re-editing of Planet of the Apes, leaving only those moments where Charleton Heston speaks. The film’s narrative is reduced to a single apocalyptic monologue that is often humorous and all Heston."

Mike Olenick

Art in Hanoi by way of Jes Brinch

Jes Brinch @ myspace | Jes Brinch Music | Hanoi Future Art

Ska, ska, skanking ...

I haven't been to a real ska concert since The Selecter at Loppen in '99 or something - well, maybe Duck Soup/ Napoleon Solo a couple of times ...

Fuck it! What I wanna say is, that last night we went to see The Slackers at something called at some place next to Kapelvej Medborgerhus. Didn't have a clue about the place nor the band. The venue turned out to be really great for a place not meant for concerts, the band also turned out to be great, and there was a lot of people ...? Pretty surprising in many ways.

The Slackers seems to be a kind of legendary ska band out of New York, and there they were - right in the middle of Nørrebro. The performed really cool, seemed happy and played a couple of encores.

After that we went to Bumzen - that was in some way pretty bizarre ...

The Slackers | SKAnkers Club | Støberiet | Bumzen

A meet with Troy Van Leeuwen

My friend Jon A asked me if I wanted to help him interview Josh Homme. Say what?!? Sure I did. Josh is my musical icon, so why not. He also seems like a really fun guy to interview. Unfortunately he had been a little ill and needed to rest - or something, so we got Troy instead. The stupid A&R woman from Universal made us all sit and wait for an hour because of soundcheck. Well, maybe not her fault but she could have offered us some beers and stuff. Anyway, we were the first in line and Troy was a really cool guy to talk to.

The concert afterward was great. They seemed really happy and into it. The sound was pretty poor, but thats how KB Hallen is. Nothing new about that! The article will be published in Metalized.

Metalized | Mister Enemy | Cool pix by Jacob Dinesen

The Sword - The difficult sequel ...?!

The first record "Age of Winters" was groundbreaking to me! Not at first, but after a while those monumental riffs simply paralyzed my mind. And although I had difficulties with the vocal at first - and especially the lyrics - the band won me ower for good. They are the riff-masters of the universe!

This time I'm having difficulties again. What is this? Is it metal or is it stoner that they wanna sound like? I don't really get it. The riffing on "Gods of the Earth" is much like the first time around, but there's too many metal clichés. But the record grows and the last two songs: "Black River" and "The White Sea" really redeem these guys. And one thing is for sure: the louder you play this, the better it feels ...

DOWNLOAD | The Sword | @ myspace

Bad Afro videos

There's some really cool videos from Bad Afro artists at their myspace profile ...



Bad Afro Records | Bad Afro @ Myspace