It's the end of the year and this means not only the annual visit from an old man with a white beard who gives the kids some toys, but there's also the annual BIM Festival which takes place on the 14th and 15th December at Trix (as usual) in Antwerp.
Support your local scene, buy tickets at advance....well, you know the drill...just do it as it's important independent music (and especially the black scene) stays alive.
Peek A Boo will present you from now on (on an almost daily base) the bands and their music.
We kick off with True Zebra, a band which I once described as Nine Inch Nails. Yeah, we know....10.000 bands do sound like Trent's industrial alter ego, but True Zebra (not to be confused with Red Zebra) are special.
Well, listen to Kevin's music yourself....
Who you say? Well, some musicfans are already devoted to their postpunksound but in case you haven't heard them so far: give these boys a change!
Something like Gang Of Four mixed with a raw Editors-sound and if you can't make anything of this, discover them on Brussels as they will be the headliner of the newest edition of Fantastique.Nights.
www.lefantastique.net/a-venir/fantastique-night-xxxvii-bruxelles-8122012
The best moviequality you can find is on Blu-ray. The times that it were only Hollywoodblockbusters that were released on a blue disc are totally over.
In the Benelux Homescreen has started to release some classic must see-movies on Blu-ray for the very first time.
On their catalogue they have released so far :
GOMORRA
DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN
UN PROPHETE
LA SOLETUDINE DEI NUMERI PRINI
LEBANON
Those Blu-rays are available in all good shops (see a list on their website)
www.cinemien.nl/sites/homescreen.php?taal=nl&land=nl&page=nieuws
No one does brooding dark electropop like the Germans. I-M-R (the musical continuationof In My Rosary) have been at the forefront of this movement since the1990s with a cache of critically acclaimed albums that have earned them a loyal cult following all over the world. I-M-R is the creation of prolific singer, songwriter and producer Ralf Jesek (Vocals,various Instruments). For this remodelled edition of I-M-R Ralf has been joined by musicians who he had previously only worked With in live performance.
Their contributions have invested the intimate songs with a bitter-sweet melancholy that recalls Joy Division and The Cure at their most alluring and intense. I-W-R is composed by Ralf with friends Martin von Arndt (Keyboards, Sax, backing Vocals), a best-selling novelist and a founding member of legendary Avantgarde/Goth/Industrialband Printed at Bismarck’s Death and the two In My Rosary live-members Holger Diener (guitars) and Hansi Huenig (Keyboards).
‘Letters from the Paper Garden’ comes with an impressive list of international guests: In addition to SARA NOXX and STAN I. & M.S. (STILLIFE), with whom Ralf has already worked together on the last In My Rosary album "Retro", the guest list also includes ELENA ALICE FOSSI (SPECTRA PARIS/ KIRLIAN CAMERA), ISABELLE DEKEYSER (THE BREATH OF LIFE), the viola player DORIS KRAUSSE, the accordion player ANNETTE KOSAKOWSKI, as well as RobDVA (IT) and ALLES of the Italian Dark electro project INTO NOWHERE. And as a very special treat NICOLE RELLUM and KAI KAMPMANN, who formerly formed DERRIERE LE MIROIR together with Ralf are also welcome guests on this great album
Factory Benelux presents an expanded double disc edition of LC, the second studio set by cult Manchester ensemble The Durutti Column, originally issued in 1981 and ranked among Vini Reilly’s finest albums.
After recording debut album The Return of the Durutti Column with producer Martin Hannett in 1979, virtuoso guitarist Vini Reilly purchased a TEAC four-track recorder from Bill Nelson and set about producing his own material. These evocative, highly atmospheric demos were perfected by Reilly at Graveyard Studios with co-producer Stuart Pickering, with additional drums and percussion from Bruce Mitchell, who has partnered Reilly ever since. Originally released by Factory Records in November 1981, LC is a key album in a body of work described by David Stubbs of Uncut magazine as ‘unique in rock, with Reilly’s scampering, watercolour guitar style building a tentative bridge between post-punk and the chamber sketches of Debussy and Ravel.’
On this expanded Factory Benelux the original ten tracks are supplemented by no less than 23 bonus cuts, including rare Sordide Sentimental single Danny/Enigma, 12” EP Deux Triangles, and the three tracks Reilly contributed to A Factory Quartet in 1980, his last recordings with Hannett and featuring Donald Johnson of A Certain Ratio on drums. The remastered double disc set also includes a clutch of scare Crépuscule compilation album tracks, and demo versions of LC tracks, including a full length version of Detail for Paul
