Four friends started to make music more than 30 years ago and today they are still friends who still make music, just for fun. Perhaps very naive but still with a heart for music.
These Belgians are quite popular in Germany, England, Spain, the Netherlands and Italy. In England, they are even called "the best kept Belgian secret". In Belgium almost everybody knows them.... a forest ranger, a video director, an art director and a booking agent, a strange combination that seems to work out well. Their songs are dark, romantic and pure. New Wave as it used to be but also contemporary. The rhythm is slower, the topics are up to date. Yoga Noise about how unhealthy it is to live healthily, Dark Room is about life without light and how your senses feed your worst thoughts, Phantom Chase is about the eternal search and pursuit of your archetype. Cadaver Synod is again about the absurdity of religion, with the co-operation of Blaine L. Reininger (Tuxedomoon). The music is sensual and passionate.
Our proposal to you: listen to the music and let it touch you. And don't tell anyone else.
Small anecdote: "The album "XII" is the result of, again, a "naive" idea: let's make a song every month with only the first takes and make an accompanying video with the song. Sometimes it was difficult, even impossible and yet, it worked. Or... how innocent ideas can lead to a good story."
Writer, singer and producer, Addie Brik has released a brand new single on her own Itza Music label on the 27th of September 2019.
‘I Know What I Do’ was recorded in London and is the first in a series of monthly digitally releases featuring recently re-discovered archive studio material. The follow up to last years ‘I Have a Doctor Onboard’ album, the new single features Bedouin Ascent’s Kingsuk Biswas and funk artist Menace.
Originally from Savannah Georgia, Addie Brik began writing poetry in her teens and this led to the prestigious Naropa Institute where she was mentored by Allen Ginsberg and famed CBS journalist John Steinbeck Jr. She joined a young artist’s troupe on Francis Ford Coppola’s lot at Zoetrope with such luminaries as Ed Harris and produced and acted in a production of Sam Shepard’s Cowboy Blues there.
She relocated to the UK in 1998 and taking musical inspiration from artists such as Henry Purcell, Joni Mitchell, Serge Gainsbourg, Washington Phillips, Shirley Collins, Joanna Newsom and Missy Elliott her demo recordings were discovered by Peter Gabriel which led to a deal with Geffen Records with Andy Gill of Gang of Four producing.
"The phenomenal Georgia-born Ms Brik has a ravishing vocal and tireless imagination" Daily Mirror
Since then Addie Brik has collaborated with The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Simple Minds, Plaid, Tarwater, Wendy and Lisa, Sugarhill Gang, Luke Vibert, BJ Cole, members of Funkadelic, Fishbone, Maxim Rysanov, Andrei Samsonov, HB Barnum (Aretha Franklin’s legendary writer and arranger), Kate St. John and John Philip Shenale.
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YOVA - Debut Single 'Moondog' (featuring members of PJ Harvey / Grumbling Fur / Cameron Craig)
London based via Northern Macedonia, analogue duo YOVA are set to release their debut single as a one track on the 26th ofSeptember followed by a digital bundle that includes a brand new remix on the 7th of November 2019.
‘Moondog’ was co-produced with Martin McDougall and Grumbling Fur's Daniel O’ Sullivan and then mixed by Grammy nominated Cameron Craig (Bjork, UNKLE, Annie Lennox and Joe Strummer) will be available digitally at all the usual major outlets.
Recorded by the YOVA line up of Jova Radevska (vocal & lyrics) and Mark Vernon (music) together with Alex Thomas (drums), Daniel O’Sullivan (bass, mellotron, programming), Martin McDougall (kalimba) and Rob Ellis (ondes martenot), the song will be accompanied by a stunning video created by Cristian Barnett from film-makers Fabulous Frank.
The first hint of what to expect from their forthcoming debut album, the magical, haunting and liminal whispers of ‘Moondog’ capture perfectly YOVA's mysterious and distinctive cinematic sound.The emotionally charged lyrics stir the imagination and soul while quietly illuminating a unique and brave narrative.
Jova and Mark began recording the initial sonic structures of YOVA in a variety of locations with a number of like-minded collaborators. Mark via his past work with PJ Harvey, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and John Cale contacts his friend the producer, drummer and multi instrumentalist Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey, Anna Calvi, Marianne Faithfull, Scott Walker) to arrange, manipulate and shapeshift the emerging sound.
The music ignites and work quickly gets underway in Jova's native Macedonia, a cellar in Seven Sisters and a coastal bedroom in West Bay. Mark re-unites bassist Ian Olliver with Rob Ellis on drums and the rhythmic spine of the original PJ Harvey group are recording together again for the first time since the release of Polly's emblematic first single ‘Dress’ in 1991. The results of these recordings will surface on the forthcoming album in 2020.
With a strong body of songs now in place and an album ready to go, YOVA are set to take to the stage for the first time and plan to announce a number of very special live dates to coincide with the album release next year.
We are happy to announce we have succeeded once again in compiling yet another printed edition of Peek-a-boo Magazine Issue #35
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Reviews within this magazine
- AIMAPROJECT : Di AimA Il Segno
- CABARET VOLTAIRE : Chance Versus Causality
- CHEMICAL BROTHERS : No Geography
- COMBICHRIST : One Fire
- ELM : Death Of The North
- EMPUSAE : Iter In Tenebris
- FIX8:SED8 : Fïx8:Sëd8 - Warning Signs
- GRENDEL : Ascending The Abyss
- LORD OF THE LOST : 'Till death do us part
- MASSIVE ATTACK : Massive Attack vs Mad Professor Part II | Mezzanine Remix Tapes
- MOTOR!K : Motor!k
- NEW MODEL ARMY : From Here
- NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS : Ghosteen (Ghosteen/Bad Seed Ltd.)
- NUMB : Mortal Geometry
- ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO : Ménage à quatre
- PREEMPTIVE STRIKE 0.1 : Harbringer
- SAIGON BLUE RAIN : Pink Obsession
- SUICIDE COMMANDO : Hellraiser
- THE DEVIL & THE UNIVERSE : Endgame 69:
- XTORT : Nothing is real
Interviews within this magazine
Today it’s been exactly 27 years since Nine Inch Nails released Broken (EP)
Today it’s been exactly 27 years since Nine Inch Nails released its first EP Broken (September 22, 1992). The EP was produced by frontman Trent Reznor and Flood and entirely consists of new material. The synth-pop style from the band's 1989 debut album Pretty Hate Machine was replaced by a heavier sound that would act as a precursor to their second album The Downward Spiral (1994). One of the reasons for this drastic change in sound and style being TVT Records, who had signed the band, pressuring Trent Reznor to record a similar synth-pop album as follow-up after the success of the previous Pretty Hate Machine album. As a reaction to this attempt to interfere with his artistic and creative freedom Reznor secretly started recording with Flood under various monikers to prevent TVT Records from confiscating and releasing their recordings.
In the end, a deal was reached with Interscope Records to release future Nine Inch Nails releases.
The accompanying short movie Broken, filmed and directed by Peter Christopherson (Trobbing Gristle / Coil / …) and based on a scenario by Trent Reznor, was never officially released due to its extreme graphic content but was leaked as a bootleg which became heavily traded amongst fans.
Although the videos were widely censored from television airplay, the song Wish made the band win the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance (1993) while their Woodstock '94 performance of Happiness in Slavery won the same award at the 38th Grammy Awards (1996).
Broken peaked at the seventh rank on the US billboard 200 chart.
The original release of Broken was limited to 250.000 copies and included two bonus tracks on a separate 3" CD including a cover version of Physical, a song originally by Adam Ant, and Suck which Reznor had co-written with all-star industrial band Pigface.
A remix EP titled Fixed (with blue cover) was released late 1992.
Broken (EP)
1. Pionion
2. Wish
3. Last
4. Help me I Am In Hell
5. Happiness In Slavery
6. Gave Up
3" CD tracklist (Bonus)
1. Physical
2. Suck
Earlier this month NIN performed the Broken EP in its entirety on their Cold and Black and Infinite North America 2018 Tour (see video below).
