OCCII, 17 /May, 20:30 uur

Die Lovers kommen mit ihrem aktuellen Album ‘Dark Light’ auf Tour nach Deutschland.
Am 15. Mai spielt die Band  aus Portland, Oregon im Centro Sociale.

Das queer/feministische Trio um Sängerin Carolyn Berk, das seine Wurzel in der DIY Queercore-Szene Portlands hat, veröffentlichte 2010 ihr Album „Dark Light“ – laute und melancholische Popmusik. „Dark Light“ ist das erste Album seit das Soloprojekt von Berk zu einer ganzen Band gewachsen ist.
Inspiriert vom britischen Synthesizer-Pop der 80er Jahre klingen die Songs aber keineswegs veraltet. Die drei Queers nehmen sich das beste aus Synthie-Pop, Folk und New Wave und bauen damit ihren eigenen Sound mit Percussion, Keyboards, Sequenzer und dreistimmigem Gesang.
Der melancholische und zerbrechliche Gesang von Carolyn trifft auf
treibende und tanzbare Beats von Kerby Ferris und Emily Kingan.
Auf die Frage, was LOVERS sind, antwortet die Band:: “We are like sisters. We are sisters.”
Musik für Freund_innen von The Organ, Tender Forever und Team
Dresch.
Mehr über LOVERS gibt es hier zu erfahren:
http://www.loversarelovers.com

SHOWS
03 Apr’12 NL Amsterdam Zaal 100 w/ The Ambush Party
11 Apr’12 D Berlin White Trash w/ dj RocknRolla Pigbeats
12 Apr’12 PL Krakow Alchemia
13 Apr’12 PL Poznan Kisielice
14 Apr’12 PL Warsaw Powiekszenie w/ AU
15 Apr’12 PL TBA ???
16 Apr’12 PL Wroclaw Galerie U
17 Apr’12 CH Brno Desert
18 Apr’12 CZ Prague Akropolis
19 Apr’12 D Berlin TBA
20 Apr’12 D Berlin mshecker
21 Apr’12 D Oerlinghausen JZO w/ Lushus

End of November the first Zoikle vinyl 7″ was released, on Tractor Notown. Zoikle is G.W. Sok, Lukas Simonis, Nina Hitz, and Cor Hoogerdijk. “Illusions 1&2″ is distributed by Konkurrent, but also available here.

Zea avec Xavier Charles- In june last year Zea recorded a version of Bourgeois Blues and two new songs together with the fantastic clarinet player Xavier Charles in the Next to Jaap studio. All analogue and in one take since Xavier is improvising. The songs are now put on a 7inch vinyl single which will be released on Februari 24 in OCCII on a great party (see here). Xavier and Zea will at least do three gigs in the Netherlands together. Come and see them! Buy the single in our shop!

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
Feb 29 Ecuyes, Caen, FRANCE – 21:00
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

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

DES ARK (Philadelphia)

Aimée Argote hat eine der zauberhaftsten Stimmen auf diesem Planeten! Auf der einen Seite gibt’s hier ruhigeren und oft auch düsteren Indie-Sound in Richtung AZURE RAY, PJ HARVEY oder CAT POWER zu hören, während es auf der anderen Seite zu krachigeren und ausbrechenden Songs wechseln kann! Nachdem Aimèe Argote auf ihrer letzen Tour 2009 solo unterwegs war wird sie nun wieder mit Band in Hamburg spielen. Ihre aktuelle Platte “Don’t Rock The Boat, Sink The Fucker”, die im Herbst 2011 auf dem DISCHORD Label erschienen ist wurde produziert von Kurt Ballou (CONVERGE) – der Vorgänger “”Loose Lips Sink Ships” (2008) wurde von von J Mascis (DINOSAUR JR.) produziert und erschien auf dem Hamburger Label THE COMPANY WITH THE GOLDEN ARM sowie bei dem amerikanische Label LOVITT.

Homepage: www.desark.org

SISSTERS (Berlin)

Schlagzeug, Gitarre und Gesang. Minimiert und glücklich. Eine Leichtigkeit strahlt die Musik der Berliner SISSTERS jedoch nicht unbedingt aus. Hier klingt es eher fragil und emotional. Zugleich jedoch brachial und wütend. SISSTERS spielen mit den Gegensätzen. Mal leise, mal laut. Mal melodisch, mal schräg. Am Ende kochen sie auch nur mit roten Fäden. Im Surf Sound gebettete Rock Allüren verfangen sich bestimmt in irgendeinem Post- Genre Gewand. Irgendwie Grunge. Im Herzen Punk! Glücklich zumindest in der Wahl der Besetzung. Nach jahrelanger Suche der idealen Instumentierung und eines angemessenen Ausdrucks scheinen SISSTERS nun an einem neuen Anfang geführt. Sie stolpern, aber glücklicherweise in die richtige Richtung. 2010 erschien ihr Debut-Album mit dem Titel „There’s A Party In My Mouth But You‘re Not Invited“ (Coraille).

Homepage: www.sissters-band.tumblr.com

Centro Sociale, Sternstraße 2, Hamburg, 21 Uhr

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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