Released 10 January 2012 as a download-only, this EP contains remixes of BP songs by various Musicians and Acts with diverse musical backgrounds. Red Wig wishes the band all the best for the bands 5 year anniversary and hopes to see them play around! Please give these tracks a listen.

Excerpts from the band’s info: Five years ago, a brand new band with a provocative name of Bernays Propaganda appeared in Skopje, Macedonia. Five years later, Bernays Propaganda have released two great full-length records, Happiness Machines (2009) and My Personal Holiday (2010), did a bunch of European tours and hundreds of shows all over Europe, and consequently gained good recognition and reputation on the European independent music scene. Bernays Propaganda grew in people’s hearts with danceable high-energy post-punk, clear socio-political ideas, honest and uncompromising attitude towards music and especially restless touring.

For their fifth anniversary, Bernays Propaganda (in collaboration with Napravi Zaedno and Moonlee Records) have prepared a pleasant surprise and nice gift for all their present and future fans. The Igraj Slobodno! EP is a collection of Bernays Propaganda song remixes and covers, done by the likes of Mark Heaney (Gang of Four), Zea (the singer of The EX), Bei the Fish ft. Ida Lollobrigida, Sethstat, Anomalia Nativa, Fresh (ex-Suns, Bernays Propaganda), Duke B. and Mindless Violence. Igraj Slobodno! EP is a genre-wise pretty diverse compilation, which shows Bernays Propaganda’s work in a totally new perspective. Seems that their music can easily transform and convey the message of these Macedonian activists to different audiences, which opens a bunch of new possibilities in the future. Igraj Slobodno! EP is exactly what the name says (Play Freely!) – a manifesto of openness and freedom in music. Igraj Slobodno! EP is destroying the stereotypes regarding rebellious music and proves that important ideas and messages can be effectively conveyed through music regardless of genre. Igraj Slobodno! EP is a download-only release and download is free of charge. Download and play – freely!

Download here: http://bernayspropaganda.bandcamp.com/album/igraj-slobodno

Listen directly:

Feb 23 Festival Rencontres entre les Mondes, Chabeuil, FRANCE – 19:00
Feb 24 Marcillac-Vallon, FRANCE – 21:00
Feb 25 I-BOAT Bordeaux, FRANCE – 21:00
Feb 26 Lou Vessiou Périgueux, FRANCE – 19:00
Feb 27 Tarnac, FRANCE – 20:00
Feb 28 le temps de la Machine Joué-les-Tours, FRANCE – 19:00

Mrz 1 Point Ephemere Paris, FR – 21:00
Mrz 2 Pixi Lannion, FRANCE – 21:00
Mrz 3 Jardin Moderne Rennes (FR), FR – 21:00
Mrz 30 Festival avataria St Etienne, FRANCE – 19:00
Mrz 31 Webster Café Valence, FR – 21:00

Mai 11 Festival Mai au Parc Genève, SWITZERLAND – 19:00

SWIMMING CITY!

Zea (Amsterdam)
Release of new 7inch by Zea together with Xavier Charles on clarinet. Sounds like children songs, sirens and Ghanian funeral music. The unique Zea style with the wonderful clarinet parts of Xavier Charles.

Xavier Charles (Chalons en Champagne, France)
Birds and park sounds–faint voices, water maybe, calm traffic, softly rumbling engines are treated into held, subdued multiphonics: Xavier Charles always manages to wring something new out of his clarinet. Also known for playing very beautiful with The Ex and Getatchew Mekuria.

Smack Wizards (Glasgow, Schotland)
I saw a fantastic band at Nice n Sleazy in Glasgow last week, named Smack Wizards. What I loved about them was their completely uncompromising approach. They played a set of short instrumentals, guitar and bass overdriven to the max and feeding back but in a really controlled and beautiful way. Young (18ish?) 3 piece with brutal tribal beat female drummer, all sheepish grins and check shirts, watched by 12 friends. I have not seen a band that wrong footed me so much for years-even the alleged underground bands now are sickeningly tame.
Smack Wizards come from the Glasgow DIY music collective ?Winning Sperm Party? in Scotland.

Coma Stereo (Maribor, Slovenia)
Dark blend of live ambiental electronica and guitar driven songs. Takes inspiration from science fiction movies, early Pink Floyd, Sonic Youth and Tangerine Dream. Slavoj Zizek?s favorite backing band.

Oscar Jan Hoogland (Amsterdam)
Improviser, pianist, composer who is working actively in the field of both music and dance improvisation in Amsterdam with an itch to make music that cuts across genres, who does not take himself so seriously, but whose whimsical music has real bite and brainpower.

DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess (Amsterdam)
DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess is a resident DJ in amongst others Vienna, Hamburg and Berlin, but tonight the Amsterdam based DJ plays for the first time in a long time in her native country. Later this year she will release her third double vinyl album on the German Klangbad label, now she plays on three turntables (often simultaneously) vinyl from all over the world, from UK Funky to soukous, from cutting edge electronics to cumbia and from raw techno to feminist postpunk. `Marcelle transforms everyone´s idea of how to dance and feel great´ was written about her in New York. Let you take on a journey you couldn´t imagine that it existed!

ZEA
XAVIER CHARLES
OSCAR JAN HOOGLAND
COMA STEREO
SMACK WIZARDS
DJ MARCELLE (ANOTHER NICE MESS)

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€7 Doors open 21:00 -

24 Feb ’12 NL Amsterdam OCCII w/ Xavier Charles, Smack Wizards, Coma Stereo, Oscar Jan Hoogland
02 Mrt ’12 NL Utrecht Centraal Museum God Save The Queen
18 Apr ’12 CZ Prague Akropolis

Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, Pavillons Sauvages, Toulouse, 03/07/11
(merci a v20foisse – youtube)

‘Brik’ het negende studioalbum van De Kift, is het verslag van een roadtrip. De Kift heeft een lift gekregen van Admiraal B en reist nu samen met hem rond in een brik. Vroeger voer de admiraal met dit brik over de Caribische zee, maar nu doolt hij door de woestijn, op zoek naar geluk. De Kift zoekt met hem mee en slaat hierbij de meest uiteenlopende muzikale wegen in.

De Kift maakt nog steeds fanfarepunk, maar probeert op ‘Brik’ ook nieuwe dingen uit. Zo wordt veelvuldig gebruik gemaakt van strijkers en zet de band voor het eerst ook samples in. Daarnaast is een belangrijke rol weggelegd voor het door de band zelf gebouwde draaidrumstel, een soort draaiorgel met een grote trom in de vorm van een olievat en een stofzuiger erin. Het punkelement uit zich vooral in de DIY-mentaliteit van De Kift.

€7 Doors open 20:30 – 1:00
www.occii.org

Rae Spoon kommt mit seinem neuen Album ‘I Can’t Keep All Of Our Secrets’ auf Tour nach Hamburg. Die musikalischen Wurzeln des kanadischen transgender Singer-Songwriters Rae Spoon liegen im Country, mittlerweile bewegt er sich stilistisch zwischen Indie, Folktronica und Pop.

Do., 01.12.11, 21 Uhr, Centro Sociale, Sternstr. 2, Hamburg
www.centrosociale.de
www.raespoon.com

vendredi 2 décembre, 20h30
Les Frères Souchet (CH)
Eténèsh Wassié et Mathieu Sourisseau (F-Eth)
RM Hubbert (SCO)
Mary Hampton Cotillion (UK)

samedi 3 décembre, 21h30
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp (CH)
Zea (NL)
Orchestra of spheres (NZ)
Awesome Tapes from Africa (USA)

dimanche 4 décembre, 18h30
Dorothy Brown (CH)
Jad fair (USA)
Usurper (SCO)
Gregaldur (F)
Massicot (CH)

Théâtre de l’usine
11, rue de la Coulouvrenière
1204 Genève

http://www.festivalfacez.ch/

vr 16/09 (B) Brussel – RTT
za 17/09 (B) Rupelmonde – ‘t Gildenhuis
zo 18/09 (NL) Rotterdam – Exit
za 24/09 (D) Leipzig – ZORO festival
zo 25/09 (D) Karlsruhe – Halle 14
ma 26/09 (F) Dijon – Deep Inside
di 27/09 (F) Lyon – Buffet Froid
wo 28/09 (F) Clermont Ferrand – Raymon Bar
do 29/09 (F) Toulouse – The Petit London
vr 30/09 (ES) Barcelona – Apollo 2
za 01/09 (ES) Vic – Jazz Cava
zo 02/10 (F) Marseille – l’Enthropy
ma 03/10 (F) Metz – Sous Le Pont
di 04/10 (F) Amiens – Le Grand Wazoo
wo 05/10 (F) Lille – CCL
do 06/10 (F) Dunquerke – Le Kalvaire
vr 07/10 (UK) Brighton – The Cowley Club
za 08/10 (UK) Leeds – Musiquarium
zo 09/10 (UK) Londen – Cafe Oto

Quite a few gigs are together with: Disk Jochie Grrrt
http://jongensvandevlakte.blogspot.com

See a new video for Agrarian Daydreams here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uaknqBj93Y