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Wednesday 17th of February 2010
Le Club Suburbia!
During the year 2009 we had the opportunity to work with OCCII -- one of the oldest so-called "Vrijplaatsen" (independent self-organized squats) of Amsterdam and a venue for alternative and independent music. Together with the people involved with OCCII we set up an editorial board which gathered and produced content for a monthly publication with a twofold function: a documentation of current activities and a preview of the following month in the form of an agenda. Every month 1000 copies were produced of which 700 were distributed around the city of Amsterdam. The rest was saved in boxes at printshop 'De Raddraaier'. After the December issue the saved newsletters were collected, bound together and cut down, forming the body of a book. A cover was printed and attached to the body. Now 300 copies of the book are ready for dispersion.
We would like to invite you to the presentation of this book which will be available during the evening for the special price of 10,– euros. Later in the evening there is live music with Jozef van Wissem (NL), Head Of Wantastiquet (USA) and MV & EE (USA).
This project has been made possible with the support of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB). Edited and designed by Our Polite Society. Supported and printed by De Raddraaier.
ISBN 978-94-90723-01-9
www.occii.org
www.ourpolitesociety.net
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Head Of Wantastiquet
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“Head of Wantastiquet” is Paul Labrecque, who should be a household name to lovers of transcendental experimental music. Labrecque is best known for his work with Sunburned Hand of the Man. Paul currently explores many mellow solo and collaborative modes as “head of wantastiquet”.
MV & EE
(usa)
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In fact still orbiting the earth in vermont is matt 'mv' valentine, once the brawn of the tower recordings, and erika 'ee' elder, the CEO of Heroine Celestial Agriculture/The MV & EE Medicine Show, together with their dog zuma they run the child of microtones terran library of exploratory music and sing songs with fellow avatars 'the golden road'. sometimes their own lunar blues, sometimes fingerstyle noise/space, sometimes lonesome frontier volk...always environments. you will find many are one and they like to jam together within many guitar dimensions/amp realms...respectfully and yours as free folk.
Musicians:
Matt Valentine
Erika Elder.
Mick Flower
jozef van wissem
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"Composer-lute player Jozef Van Wissem is renowned for his unusual approach of the Renaissance and Baroque lute. He cuts and pastes classical pieces, reverses melodies, adds electronics and processed field recordings made at airport lounges and train stations. The unusual wedlock of composition and improvisation creates an unheard amalgam of contemporary folk and late Renaissance music. He has accomplished the strange feat of bridging the idiom of seventeenth century lute literature and twenty-first century composition. Although Van Wissem uses subtle electronic sound manipulation, he has largely stayed faithful to the particular timbre, resonance and playing technique of the lute. Van Wissem first came to be noticed a few years ago because of his radical conceptual approach to Renaissance lute music: he deconstructed existing compositions, for instance by playing them backwards. He also composes his own pieces for lute, using palindromes and mirrored structures. His music therefore does not have a traditional linear progression, nor leads to a climax, it rather stays on the same level of intensity. His music is quiet and not so much demands concentrated listening, as it will bring the listener in a state of concentrated listening. Van Wissem runs the Incunabulum record label, and performs extensively around the world. He has worked with Tetuzi Akiyama, Maurizio Bianchi and James Blackshaw. With Blackshaw he has formed Brethren of the Free Spirit ( Important Records) His solo CD entitled "It is all that is made" was released by Important Records in March 2009. He has lectured a.o. at Wesleyan Universtity, Mills College and Cambridge University on ‘the liberation of the lute”. Van Wissem has received numerous commisions and grants, most recently from National Gallery, London Van Wissem performs around 80 lute concerts per year and has performed at prestigious festivals and venues like Expo Zaragoza 2008, Spain, Kr-aa-k Festival , Belgium, ZXZW Festival, Holland, Sonorités Festival, France, Serralves em festa Festival, Portugal, Seattle Improvised Music Festival, Suono Per Il Popolo Festival, Montreal, Sintra Music and Dance Festival, Portugal, Byzantine Fresco Museum, Texas, I.C.A, London, and Glasgow, Schindler House, Hollywood. Some press clippings: “In “The Mirror of Eternal Light,” the Dutch lutist Jozef van Wissem catches his own reflection in tender, minimalist picking and gold-spray overdubs.”- - ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE " HYPNOTIC MINIMALIST FIGURES SEEM TO BREEZE ACROSS MUSICAL BOUNDARIES WITH EFFORTLESS FLUENCY' _PITCHFORK “Jozef van Wissem has been slowly reinventing the lute for the last three decades. Among the slew of fast-picking, fancy-fretting guitar players so prevalent today, his lute’s voice is a quiet oasis, and Stations of the Cross a small masterpiece”. The Wire "The way Van Wissem traces and retraces denying the listener any resolution or catharsis, is also pretty contemporary in its attitude of refusal; has there ever been a time besides now when more musicians refuted the expectations of audiences and authorities? The lack of pay-off makes the music potentially maddening; it actually stymies linear thought On an even more symbolic level, by constructing pieces that begin where they end and are therefore potentially endless, he subverts the march of time" – Dusted Magazine
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€ 7,- Doors open 20:00
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