2D Stars Df Zulu O MARK OUR 20TH ANNIVERSARY WE'VE picked a record from each of the last 20 Tyears that received some serious turntable/CD action over our store speakers. Why not make your own list of yearly 'heavy weight' listens and tack it up on Zulu's bulletin board. At the end of January 2002 we will award a $100 dollar gift certificate to one lucky list- maker, with four runners-up to each receive $25 gift certificates. And hey. if you weren't born yet (or were just too damn young!) - still take a stab at it and let us know what you imagine you would have listened to. Points awarded for creativity...! 1981: Gun Club-Fire Of Love 1982: Rank and File-Sundown 1983: The The-Soul Mining 1984: R.E.M.-Reckoning 1985: Slow-Against The Glass 1986: The Smiths-Queen Is Death 1987: Redd Kross-Neurotica 1988: Pixies-Surfer Rosa 1989: Stone Roses-s/t 1990: Sonic Youth-Goo 1991: My Bloody Valentine- Loveless 1992: Liz Phair-Exile In Guyville 1993: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion- Extra Width 1994: Portishead-Dummy 1995: Yo La Tengo-Electro-Pura 1996: Tortoise- Millions Now Living Will Never Die 1997: Belle and Sebastian- If You're Feeling Sinister 1998: Calexico-The Black Light 1999: Magnetic Fields- 69 Love Songs 2000: Destroyer- Thief 2001: The Strokes-Is this it THE UBYSSEY ..CiTR 101.9 fM
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From UBC to Langley and Squamish to Bellinghom, CiTR cqn be heard at 101.9 fM as well as I through all major cable systems in the Lower Mainland, except Shaw in White Rock. Call the tickets $8 I CiTR DJ line at 822,2487, our office at 822.3017 ext. 0, or our news and sports lines at 822.3017 I ext. 2. Fax us at 822.9364, e-mail us at: [email protected], visit our web site at http://www.citr.ca or just available at ZULU RECORDS I pick up a goddamn pen and write #233-6138 SUB Blvd., Vancouver, BC, V6T1 Zl, CANADA. and elsewhere, starting next week printed in canada zim&^mm TOBIAS IS INSINUATING artist to stop their work while it Tried calling you but would get hundreds of fan letters get it... where can I send a plane Sasquatch sent me an email Dear Editor, was in process under any cir rather email than leave a mes and emails every month. ticket?" Terrance who lives right about his band and the song I am writing to you in response cumstances. I made no excep sage. I really hope you'll get INinety-nine percent of them here in Vancouver asked me if I they have with the lyrics, to an art review that was writ tions to this principle at the back to me with some form of are from boys who want to have would see Jane's Addiction with "BULLSHIT NOTHING BUT BULLSHIT." He writes, "YOU ten in the Panarticon section of opening. Again, I respect Kim reply because what I read in the sex with me. This is very him. "Meet me at the will call, WOULDN'T HAPPEN TO BE Dawn's work and as far as I am November issue is driving me strange, since none of these peo baby. (I have long blonde hair ple know what I look like. Well, SINGLE WOULD YOU CAUSE I i. i the a who V concerned the problems that absolutely batty. and I'll be wearing leather shorts let me tell you, I'm hot. I LIKE THE WAY YOU opening in the main room of the surrounded the evening had On page 5, there is an arti and my I LOVE PERRY tee." Seriously, we're talking boobs WRITE... I HAVEN'T BEEN Helen Pitt Gallery on October nothing whatsoever to do with cle titled "fucking bullshit" and Ben from Seattle sent me a like mountains and lips as soft LAYED IN 3 YRS BEEN 13. While I do not wish to the artists and was a decision of I suppose what I'm desperately letter that smelled like piss. It as my ass. Everyone just falls in BABYSITTING 5 LITTLE MON argue the reviewer's position the Pitt Gallery's staff alone. hoping for is that it was printed love with me. Let me give you KEYS AND THAT'S NO about my work, I do think that Thank you for your atten as some kind of joke. If not, It's like I'm a an example: i.e. That stands for the review demands some clari tion. I trust that you can appre then you guys need to seriously wind, and when FUCKIN BULLSHIT." INSTANT ERECTION. That's fication. When the reviewer ciate the gravity of this situation address the matter of editing for I pass by, Every letter is nice and won what happens when I walk states that perhaps the reason and that some clarity needs to content and fact checking. cocks fly up in derfully well written, but my down the street. It's like I'm a heart belongs to Jimmy Rush that the Pitt Gallery staff be brought to the review. I am, Given that I do this for a living the air like wind, and when I pass by, cocks who lives in Emerson, Manitoba. stopped Ms Dawn's perfor of course, disappointed that the and that I used to contribute to birds. fly up in the air like birds. I try "Last night, dressed in black, i mance was because I was not evening has become something Discorder, the amount of griev not to look in the mirror because was doused in some sort of per convinced an old indian lady getting the same attention as the other than it was really about: ous mistakes in this article if I see myself, I get all aroused fume that wasn't supposed to that i was a hutterite. i put on performance, he insinuates that shocks me (thus the hoping it's and I can't concentrate on any smell like urine, but it did. I tried my best accent + told her i was I somehow had a hand in the Sara Graham, a joke part). Do let me know thing. So it's hard to write this to read the letter, but he wrote from 'Turkey Calf colony. She gallery's actions. I can say sim Calgary, AB what the hell Christa Min was column when I keep getting like a six-year-old with three fin ate it up like a dink taco." Jimmy ply and directly that I did not. I trying to prove. these letters that remind me how gers, so I don't know what it also told me that he was going have known Kim Dawn since / did not insinuate that you had a Much appreciated. said. Yan from Victoria sent me travelling. "I got my deutsch we were students together at liand in it. So the question remains: Some people try to win my a ring made out of the wires passport the other day so i guess the Nova Scotia College of Art why did the Pitt stop her? And Digitopolis Media Corporation love by telling me about the from his stereo and asked if I i'm officially eurotrash now. i'll and Design. I have nothing but given your stance—tvhy didn't you bands they like. Jeff from would be his wife. Killer's letter have to parade around all sun respect for Kim and her work do something about it?—tobias Calgary, Alberta writes, "I love was post-marked from burned, with my balls hanging and I was pleased to have the rell us that we're ugly. Tell us how out the sides of some tight every band you love! Does this Bellingham, and he sent me opportunity to show my work CHRISTA MIN IS TRYING much you'd like to square us in shorts." All you have to do to the nose. Send us your love. Dear mean that you could love me drawings of my name wrapped alongside hers. TO PROVE SOMETHING make me fall in love with you is Airhead, #233-6138 SUB Blvd., too? PS: I have Mudhoney's first around his cock and asked me to Dear Lyndsay [former mention your balls. I like it if As a professional artist Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1. seven inch and I'd like to give it choose the one I liked best so he you have balls. • myself, I would never ask an DiSCORDER editor],
would spend the hours merely huge and dangerous cock made they could use a couple months screaming "J-Lo is not a respon less pink and veiny and ugly of said Large Scary Scotsman sible form of art" or because of the sorrow in his With A Stick screaming at them. "Hollywood has their own voice. "Please, it hurts so There are any number of people culture much"...we've heard this much who need a good beating... and Afternoons would be "poli before.) lately there has been a lot more shock tics and queer theory" taught Anyway, back to "Mr. of them. People who begin their by a fidgety MTF with short Monday's School of Social black hair and the vestiges of Reprogramming." The nice September 11th..." Or Art anthony monday her male body in her hands and thing about the school (apart Students. There's a seriously her upper lip. It would be her from that I get to kick the shit untapped pool for the giving of MR. MONDAY ALWAYS willing to accept my problem, gramme but are captured by a job to inspire our whimpering out of irritating people 'cause abuse. Or people who write let KNOWS BEST. and this, dear readers, is the secret underground army of faggots to be pro-active and less I'd be the boss, and bosses are ters in "Dear Airhead." OR, SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND, transsexuals that hide surrepti vacuous; to care about some allowed to do that) is that it can Now, I know most of you The whole idea got me tiously outside various expen thing more than shoes and sex; apply to straight people as well. are thinking: "Ha ha, isn't this thinking. Now, I know I have sive clothing outlets. to think about the gaining Perhaps any number of those Anthony Monday character a think I am a straight man been known to have some They are then thrown in a momentum of the right-wing yuppies that head down to the nutcase! What a kidder." But, trapped inside the body of a I'm serious... if not a school, Igay man. My physical self— then some sort of public society and sometimes my mind—can't The idea is this: We start a school dedicated to the eradication of "gay" as a that goes around with a stick... seem to help being drawn cultural identity. A sort of boot camp for the idiots of homosexuality, minus the okay, maybe I am getting a little down into the arms of a boy, or off topic. But still, something two. But culturally I have noth (bizarre) eroticism of the military man. ("Ooohh, Bruce, isn't he HOT?! And he should be done. ing in common with those stu Especially with the gay pid faggots I see at the mall. kills people. And follows orders blindly. Maybe we can fuck later.") Oh, sure, I occasionally find I guess it's all about being myself jazzing it up with Nina wacky ideas in the past—like back of a windowless van and and atrocities in the world, and New Hot Spot in town—slum on the outside looking in. I sure Simone in the privacy of my that time I thought it'd be fun to said army of transsexuals drives the rip-tide of American con ming it down on the corner of don't want to be there, with the own home, wishing I was a drink ethanol (good times... them to the secret university/ sumerism. (While I am on this Abbot and Pender—could also clones and the boys dancing black woman lounge singer in a good Kuwaiti times!)—but I base somewhere in East Van. topic... has anyone else noticed be captured by our army of about with boys and the boys smoky night club, feather boa et think this idea really could On arrival they would be how many US flags there have transsexuals. Any number of who all look the same and don't al. And, sure I get bizarre gay stripped of their Hilfiger shirts been around town lately? I saw blonde bimbettes wearing noth seem to do anything productive urges like wanting to wear real The idea is this: We start a and matching pants, given one of the back of the bus ing but a spaghetti strap top in in this world but spend their ly big shoes, and those who school dedicated to the eradica rough blankets and told to go to recently, saying "We Won't November, drunk on two mar money. know me know that I am prone tion of "gay" as a cultural iden their cells and have a good long Forget"—fine, dandy, don't for tinis, pointing her boobs at any But it makes me feel lonely, to shaking my saucy booty on tity. A sort of boot camp for the think about what they had done get, but do your not forgetting thing vaguely male would be a the dance floor once in a while. idiots of homosexuality, minus wrong. in the US of A. Has everyone prime candidate for a bit of Everyone should be just But these are, I feel, minimal the (bizarre) eroticism of the The next morning, they forgotten that we're Canadian? abuse for the good of society. Or like me. I know exactly how to gay qualities that can—if a military man. ("Ooohh, Bruce, could start their year long inten You know, ironic American-hat how about those men who slide make this world a better place. greater attempt were made—be isn't he HOT?! And he kills peo sive program. Mornings would ing idiots with our own prob behind a girl when they're No. Really. I do. • eradicated from my behaviour ple. And follows orders blindly. be dedicated to the re-program lems to deal with? I don't want dancing thinking it's his prerog through a rigorous daily regime Maybe we can fuck later.") The ming of "art and culture." to see us merging into the hot ative to rub his dick on her ass, of self-affirmations, or costly candidates for my school don't Taught by a Large Scary crotch of Papa America under as if it were a dirty thing and visits to a local geneticist. I am so much as apply for the pro- Scotsman With A Stick, he the guise of commiseration, his her pants were a tissue? I think
4 jancember 2001 artists covered within are come from (AIN'T NOTHIN' What is evident is Nigne's Arovane, B Fleischmann, LIKE FUCKIN') MOONSHINE, attempt to shake people out of Harold "Sack" Ziegter, Inkblot, whose outputs in the past have their torpor and view the world radio free ISAN, Momus, Mouse on Mars, been in varying shapes and through their own eyes rather Mum, Vote Robot, and Wechsel sizes while containing a confus than the amoebic stimulus and Garland. The music reviews are ing array of Asian-American response existence so popular. press always to the point and unpre trash pop culture in comics, Interesting report on what they tentious and sport hand-drawn illustrations, oddball quotes, call World War 1984, though I'm album art by the editor himself. and a fascination with weird still confused about its supposed Sorta like a miniature Grooves toys and campy action heroes. impact and ongoing threat. I magazine for now, Thumb The Newest Moonshine is now guess I'll have to look it up some shines like a true cult favourite. in conventional magazine for t's about that time of year Crank's gears in motion like a Drive, V5N 5T5) (US$4.95 from PO Box 40572, mat while offering more acces when the world's people well-lubricated... crank. The One very fine and long-run Portland, OR 97240-0572 USA) sible material and a much more take inventory of their included art, odd diagrams, ning mini that's been leaving I For the type of reader that linear approach. Freakish ado accomplishments or hours mis quizzes, tips and self-indulgent skid marks all over the zine thinks too much about silly lescent pictures and content spent. New Year's Eve seems to ad space plus pro layout sug community for years is things, we have THE LOW remain in many ways though come earlier every year, the gest that Crank is serious about MOTORCYCHO, now on issue BROW READER (OF BASE but there's more "Control" older you get. You wanted to making this a long-term invest- #16! Highlights from this issue MENT BROW COMEDY), in where there used to be start that zine but just fell on are the interview with The standard zine presentation but unabashed "Kaos" (Get Smart your ass and now it's almost Demonics and the biker movie better than average writing and reference there). So in the mish- 2002 and all you've done is poll results. You got it, all motor attention to detail. There's an mashed mayhem of Moonshine work for that goddamned cycle culture with reviews of all overboard tribute to Car-Toons #15 you'll find features on DJ motherfucker you call your sorts of cycle related things from magazine that really delves into Q-Bert, Xu Xu Fang, The boss. Oh, what a sad tale. These the memorable quirks and Boredoms, Japan's Gregory are hard hard times when we Manuel Rodriguez, aka Spain antics while offering a great Horror Show, and tons of have such little time to take (whose biker illustrations range look at the artist Von Dutch. insane filler. Kinda like a low stock of the important things in back to the '60s) to motorcycle Editor Jay Ruttenberg eloquent rent Giant Robot Magazine and life. Perhaps this year, with clubs. I can neither confirm nor lots of fun. (Send something to ly encourages shock jock where. Information on the cur God's help, you'll get that zine deny that editor honcho hosts Bwana Spoons at PO Box 6645 Howard Stern to take a hard rent war to end all wars can be up and running again. Life is a show right after mine here Portland, OR 97228 USA or go look at Paul McCartney and found inside, too. "The War is a too short to remain on the at CiTR so don't ask. see www.grasshutcorp.com.) John Lennon and sacrifice his Sham" and some naughty Dr. wrong track, my friend. I'm http: / / ratbike.org/motorcycho. Mysteriously a few copies of career to gaze into the eyes of Seuss humour toward the back here to help. For about five years I've NIGNE issue #3 have been circu his wife instead of splitting. make Nigne a refreshingly differ Let's take a look at what the been reading E*rock's THUMB lating around some of the hipper Nice writing and well-explored ent publication in need of further go-getters have been up to, ment. In some ways Crank flirts fanzine and loving it. Mr. establishments of Vancouver. rants in Lowbrow make for an investigation. alright? Some east-side hippy with the exclusive, east side E*rock has moved Thumb from Where this little thing is from is exceptional zine. Here's issue
PO Box 31551 Pitt Meadows, much—listening to Hiisker Du drenched pop, bringing to mind BC V3Y 2G7). Our gals The Riff and a good chunk of the SST a pastiche of '60s psych and '90s Randells (or should I say gals Records back catalog—The quirky Brit-pop a la Heavenly and guy, since there has been a Braille Drivers decided to write or The Pastels. (Contact the change to the line-up yet again) have caught the attention of Bringing it all to a close this Southern California's Lipstick could have written a song about time around will be singer/song Records, probably due to the it too, but not for the reasons writer Eleni Mandell, and fact that Lipstick Records is the they describe, even more so although I'm not really down home of similarly minded bub 'cuz I couldn't handle the with the whole solo artist thing, o ho ho and no no no, We love Wendy O Williams! So Rebels prove that less is more ble-gum bop from the likes of monotony of it all. (Hey Frankie side one of her waxing on Heart your eyes do not do seven bands on the EP "I on a single of lo-fi slop that The Bobbyteens, The Peeps, Recordings, PO Box 090629, of a Champion Records is the deceive you, it's an Was A Teenage Plasmatic," leads me to believe that if they and Candygirl, also 'cuz they Brooklyn, NY 11209-0629) choice cut, a torchlight down H knock off a great version of beat jazz number ("Turn Off extra large scoop of 7' surprises which is not covers of spent their money on rock and I almost busted a copy of waiting to be shoved into stock Plasmatics punk gems, just roll, it was money well spent. Nikki and The Corvettes' the new Lollies single before I The Lights") that will warm the ings around the fire this holiday gushing admiration for a far out (All of the above courtesy of "Girls Like Me," but mostly for managed to slap it on the soul on these cold winter days. season and we'll try to satisfy woman, who would tell them if Jonny Cat Records, PO Box 61, their greatly improved fun-in- turntable. Being pressed on 180 (Heart of a Champion, PO Box your vinyl cravings 'til we see she still were alive today that in Estacada, OR 97023 USA.) the-sun, cruisin-the-strip, radio- gram vinyl, this record should 3861 Minneapolis, MN 55403 each other again in February. their monkey suits, they look Making our way back up blastin' rock and roll. (Lipstick have a warning label stating it USA) Starting off with a prezzie the 1-5, we pause in Bellingham Records, 1154 Powell Street, ain't for the weak-limbed. Happy holidays, buy vinyl, too big to fit in the ol' sack, for a musical pit stop by The Oakland, CA 94608 USA) Luckily, the music contained and see you in 2002! • comes a 10" from a New York Mega Brats. You'll probably With the radio blastin' so therein is fairly light organ- based group calling themselves want these guys at your next The Detachment Kit. Emo-like basement brouhaha, providing tendencies abound, with sharp that you bring the beer and they K n o w s o me o ne thathis been guitar bursts and sing-shout bring the tales of living in a vocals, they try their hand in backwater 'burg set to pissed recording both in digital and off rock. (Pool Or Pond, PO Box analog formats, the latter being 2084, Bellingham, WA 98227 preferred by yours truly, just USA) this year. 'cause it sounds warmer and Home Sweet Home; greet packs a bit more bang for ing us at the door are The Spin the buck. (The Self-Starter Offs and The Riff Randells. Foundation, PO Box 1562, New Holy Harmonics, Batman! The York, NY 10276 USA) Spin Offs have certainly paid Speaking of that, bands just like monkeys. There's their respects to The Ramones from Portland seem to under drunken debauchery from the and The Queers on their nine(!) stand the meaning of bang likes of The Loudmouths and song debut, eschewing tunes of quite well, with several entries The Spits, among others. In love and the quest for it, even if from our sister city to the south fact, three of the bands on that it means accepting imperfec (props to Christeen Aebi of comp also share some wax else tions in your "Flipper Baby." Backfire zine and Runaways where; The Triggers punk it up Just don't "Daisy Miller" her. tribute band Cherry Bomb for with a four song effort, and The (Whatever the heck that the goods!). We love Portland! Nearlydeads and The Black means.) (Contact the band at somewhat surprisingly pure words. They also have a song including sweet boy harmonies and sweet on top. She sings called "All Day I Dream About and lines like, "I'm a fucking things like, "Reena they'll pay," Punk Rock," which includes the idiot, I'm a fucking goof." which strikes me as a little unambiguous line, "Corporate Another is "Anything From Vancouver creepy. In short, I'm not con punk rock sucks!" The frantic Home," where the narrator is vinced that the lyrics add much quality of their playing is remi pissed off with himself for dri to our understanding of the niscent of Suicidal Tendencies, ving 700 miles to see a girl who special issues. No one thinks that writ while the three-piece's sound is won't have sex with him. But ing in a fresh and significant remarkably spare, clean, and it's not all about chicks and way about social injustice is musically competent, relying bands: there's also a song about easy, but surely this is the chal on fast bass and guitar runs for working at a soul-destroying irst of all, an apology to THE PARIAH PROJECT year-old girl who was killed by lenge an artist has to face when its angry energy. And if you job, one called "Thalidomide," Star Collector. In Desolation a gang of kids in suburban taking on such a serious topic? want to hear a song that's about and another in which Noam September's review of (Skeptic) Victoria. Her story is horrible, www.pariahproject.com 100 times scarier than "Reena," Chomsky's name is dropped. F www.skepticrecords.CQm their CD Black-Eyed Soul, I The Pariah Project seems to be certainly. (It also has a special try "Why I Quit Drinking." What other pop band would referred to a song with a groovy all about tackling the big issues. resonance for all of us who did www.thefirstdav.ca even try? bass riff, but I inexplicably The first s< n't fit in at high school.) And it THE FIRST DAY www.thesweaters.com called it by the wrong title. The this EP (not does say something about The Triple Word Score THE SWEATERS song is in fact "When the Pill ings, mind you) is about people Pariah Project that they felt (Independent) The "Kick Me!" Generation SUBMISSION HOLD Goes Down." Sorry! And I will numbing themselves to the compelled to address this sub Here's what I like about this (Gorge) Sackcloth and Ashes try to cut down on the drug use world's problems. The third, I ject. But you have to ask your band: they recorded these 14 As you might have guessed (Ebullition) in the future. think, is about consumerism. self, what does this song really songs in three days; they sent from the CD title, frontman If you really want political, look I'm no longer surprised to But it's the second song, say about what happened to me a bio that was hammered Pete Campbell specializes in a no further than Submission "Reena," that's been getting the Reena? The track sounds very out on a typewriter; they play certain bitter/humorous style Hold. Singer Jen Throwup who sends in a CD has its own group some media attention. atmospheric and emotional, sub-two-minute-songs at a mile of songwriting. While his lyrics veers between unbelievable with Taryn Laronge's vocals a minute; and they don't mince are often edgy (if not angry) Il s(,II ,1 .lppoil It's about Reena Virk, the 14- sweetness and snarls, covering me to find out how many of and sometimes overtly political, topics like biotech conglomer these sites are bad. I'm not talk the music itself is testosterone- ates, oppression of women, ing about cheaply-produced or soaked clean-crunchy pop, giv substance abuse, even the simple sites, or even unappeal ing the impression that Pete is incredibly specific (and local) ing design. The problem is ani- being stretched in two com "The Day the Police Stole the pletely different directions. Bushes from Grandview Park." From one side of the band beck pop-ups, pages that freeze your The enclosed booklet includes ons an idealized pop music par computer or demand the latest lyrics translated into French adise, full of irresistible hooks download of something before and Spanish, woodcuts, and and catchy refrains. The pull some provocative explanatory n gel 1 olhesi from the other side is world- notes. More than music, we're all supposed to believe in weariness, disgust with current Sackcloth and Ashes is a call to the low-budget DIY ethic when events, and sour self-knowl revolution. it comes to putting out CDs, edge (with a big dose of self- vvvvw.ebullition.com why can't bands understand deprecation). One result of this (PO Box 21533 1850 Commercial that they might have fans with tension is a song-story ("The Drive, Vancouver, BC V5N 4A0) • two or even five-year-old com Morons' Song") about witness puters and a dial-up connec- ing bad behaviour at a long-ago ough bitching. 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6 jancember 2001 and the viewing of words to Network shots of other beauti hour (and all the corporate slow down the pace a little. But ful places in BC with New Age cows start cutting the hours of not all were that lucky. As an music thrown over top, perfect anyone over 500 so they can emerging genre, videopoetry ly destroying the real beauty hire new kids to do it cheaper— will have to work hard to dis outside (a simulacrum of it: and then do the same to tinguish itself from either just here's the beauty inside, on the them)—not to mention the cut video or just poetry or videoart TV, nevermind the ever- ting of one-third of all govern or new media collage. expanding Horseshoe Bay ter ment regulations, for no other minal—afterall, if there are TVs reason then, hey, one-third sure JETONE inside, perhaps it justifies the golly looks impressive—I propose Was that William Gibson gro lack of deck space outside). Not certain solutions to Mr. Your world doesn't need people. It doing little—doing nothing— 'gery, only are the TVs everywhere and Campbell. becomes a tvorld of words detached doing everything and burning teenage projects on the Big especially worse in the scenic 1. Campbell and His MLAs from bodies where theory becomes yourself out so you do little or Issues, and some were what I upper lounge, the speakers are should be paid $6 an hour for an obsession of thought, where nothing—still drinking and came for: "videpoems," most obnoxiously loud, so you just their first 500 hours of work. human reactions, emotions and smoking too much weed— notably "Damned Spots" by won't miss those Sports Then they should get minimum actions are placed neatly into their reading Baudrillard—learning Julia Burns, featuring mangled Highlights while you watch the wage. Please sign the petition own sphere of theory. Music, writ that the good oT boys are now the and discoloured trippy footage bald eagle flitting the breeze as to make this happen: ing, ideas produced by the new good oT girls. of a dog and a kennel and you wind your way through the hrtp: / /www.petitiononline.com / gods of thought, revered and uplift mumbled poetry about legs— Gulf Islands. It's like a constant fjwc/petition.html. ed, and in this way detached VANCOUVER VIDEOPOEMS the entire thing was a real mosquito—no, a swarm of mos 2. All laws regulating what is through seeing connections... Saturday, November 10th. The mindfuck—and "Elemental quitoes—that won't fuck off. illegal in regards to harming scene: Pacific Cinematheque. Reels" by Gerard Wozek which Worse, you can't swat them politicians should be removed. Old poets and bill bissett and captured surreal imagery and away or load up on Deet. So 3. One-third of Gordon AND SO HERE WE ARE young slick poets with big poetry through an expansive, here's the buzz: Adbusters, I offi Campbell should be physically WHERE WE ALWAYS ARE vocabularies and even bigger wistful, emotional aura; cially implore you to put out the removed. Start with the heart— Feeling at the end of the century sideburns mingle to absorb an "Keeping Her Cool" by Goody call to jam these damn speakers. he obviously doesn't need it. and it has already passed— evening of "videopoems." B Wiseman was the standout I can deal with the TVs, but the meeting people on Quadra Ranging from the very good to humourous selection with the speakers, the sound of Coke MIRROR MIRROR ON THE Island who also want to move the not so very good at all, the best use of teddy bears to date, being slurped, pumped through NET to Montreal—maintaining a videopoems were by no means with no sound whatsoever— Culture-jammers and WTO imper sense of decorum in the face of a disappointment—yet not and was it just me, or was the sciousness, canned from the ceil sonators The Yes Men have had the lockstep—feeling happy incredibly spectacular either. It real hashed turnover that they ing—it is too much. Enough their satirical gatt.org website shut that the government will only all comes down to the fact that were lesbians?—and "Re: FAST FERRIES STILL SUCK with obtrusive advertising! down by WTO lawyers. But they have fascist powers for five "videopoem" = video+poem, Solution" by Penn Kemp per Everyone who has ridden a aren't taking it lying down. Go years because of sunset clauses and that if you don't have both fectly portrayed the poet's per Pacificat knows how little space THE SOLUTION TO here to get your Yes I Will "paro- in Bill C-36 instead of for the you don't got any. (And this formance of sound poetry with there is. But what sucks worse GORDON CAMPBELL dyware" that will mirror any web rest of our lives—not that it was only one night of three, so inventive low-budget camera is the non-stop in-house obtru As MLAs see their wages go up, site you want, as long as you got matters anyway as the Bill is take this with a grain of salt.) angles and cuts, sneaking into sive TV system. As the ferry rubbing their hands with miser the domain and the space: grandfathered—still drinking The audience received ballots, "videopoetry" through a subtle leaves the dock, with the grand ly Scrooginess, and the public http: / / theyesmen.org/yesiwill /. and smoking too much weed— with a rating scale of one to five reconstructive editing of the majestic trees of Horseshoe Bay servants wait to see if they lose Viva la web-resistance! trying to write essays and think based upon one's "impression." videopoem's elements. Also on either side, the TVs light up their jobs just before Christmas, kudos to Scott Russell's work, about what we should be doing Impressions—some of the with Coke ads, ads soliciting and the kids get to look forward Until the end of Pax Americana! • about the whole damn thing— poems were simply a voice- using hand shadows, lighting advertisers, little Knowledge to making an entire six bucks an
Jesus are), but it's pretty insult and quiet epiphanies here. produces complex meanings. I ing to all the people who have MARINE LIFE by Linda endorse the paradox of complex religions that don't view Svendsen: if you insist on a simplicity in poetry. Oh yeah, December 25th as the one of the subtler book with a female pro this book won a big, big prize. most important holy days of the tagonist, look no further than But it is worth reading, because year. For the past two years, my Marine Life. It's a group of inter Bolster has an incredible control family and I have gone to see connected stories surrounding a of words and imagery. Who Chow Yun Fat movies on character named Adele and her cares if some uppity judge Christmas Day. No turkey din family life. The last story is a thought it was great? I think it's ner or songs about baby Jesus tearjerker. By this I mean that it great. If that's enough for me, for us. But just because I'm not was genuinely moving; there maybe it's enough for you. racialization doesn't address). person of slipping into in the spirit of giving, doesn't are no lame stories in this well It's likely the caller doesn't like racist/misogynist/homophobic If you insist on buying nov crafted book. els, go for Paul Auster. If it's >t just putting myself in a my weekly critiques of domi dialogue; I'm part of the colo E taking your feelings into con THE TOUGHEST INDIAN non-fiction you want, try Jan painful position, I'm also making nant power structures because nizing country club. Thus, sideration. I've got four books IN THE WORLD by Sherman Wong. For children, look no fur the lives of Discorder staff miser ther than Lemony Snicket and A able. Though I read Aislinn Series of Unfortunate Events. Hunter's What's Left Us and Harry Potter (the book, not the Nature's Healing Oracle by movie or the million other Ambika Wauters, I'm in no For the past two years, my family and I have gone to see Chow Yun Fat Harry products) isn't cool this shape to review them intelligent Christmas because Rowling is ly. I've had half a litre of diet holding out on us. Where is that soda and things are still getting movies on Christmas Day. No turkey dinner or songs about baby Jesus fifth book? I've read the first blurry. I'm sleepy. Ever get the four books three times already. feeling that reading over my for us. But just because I'm not in the spirit of giving, doesn't mean that Maybe I should ask for a life shoulder isn't all that much fun? outside of my apartment for Some of the time I'm whining Christmas. and not talking about books at you aren't, so I am taking your feelings into consideration. all. This behaviour isn't exclusive I feel a little guilty recom to my column. I've just as bad on mending famous writers and the air. their big publishing houses. It's to recommend as presents. Be Alexle: these short stories are not like they need my help or This past month a caller he thinks that I'm shouting my when I'm examining the evils of warned, however, that none of funny and sad at the same time. your money. Anvil Press needs told me that each week on my bullshit from the margins. North American society, I am them are novels. The upside is When I finished reading this our help though, so I must say show I "bag on whitey" (I find Really though, I'm criticizing saying "I, too, am responsible." that because they were not pub book, I wanted to drive down to once again that THE DOOR IS the use of this term—"white"— myself a lot of the time because Though I just claimed to be lished this year, they are avail Spokane in order to start stalk OPEN by Bart Campbell is my troubling because it suggests I don't think of myself as being part of the North American able in (the cheaper) paperback. ing Sherman Alexie. But pick as the best non-fiction book that a large number of people on the margins in every situa norm, I must confess that I CIVILWARLAND IN BAD because I'm lazy, Alexie doesn't published in 2001. should be relegated into a sin tion. I'm North American, I don't really celebrate Christmas DECLINE by George Saunders: need to get a restraining order Remember too that the gle, homogenous group. Just as have a degree, I have a place to in either the Christian or capi a collection of short stories des against me. independent bookstores need us "yellow" folk have separate live and more than enough food talist sense. I bristle when peo tined for someone who likes WHITE STONE: THE your help, so bypass the megas- cultural identities, those who to eat. Just because I'm an Asian ple refer to the holidays as satire and theme parks. This ALICE POEMS by Stephanie tores and go to your neighour- are branded "white" or "black" girl, doesn't mean that I can't be Christmas holidays. I don't book changed the way I view Bolster this poetry is written in hood bookseller. • possess unique cultural identi part of the evil establishment. mind so much (I grew up think the short story. No housewives a straightforward manner, but it ties that simple "us and them" I'm just as guilty as the next ing about how great Santa and 7E^gStI®SS a r t d a mag e d r a d i 0
YELLO DIABLO finally yielded to muscle and pie—the third art-dan Friday, November 2 the hood cracked free. The whatnot had drawn a capacity *>* Access Artist Run Centre testosterone team was in crowd. I snagged a perch on a David Yonge, the man behind extremis. Unable to contain coffee table next to some friends the Yellowboy alias, made his themselves, the lads rushed the while an act called Of Sex, Your singular contribution to the Camaro and had to be "booed" Body was on. Although the LIVE Biennial when he took on frontwoman used a micro the persona of an historic 1970s phone, I could barely decipher y Mexican wrestler and went a word she was saying, but it could have been something like: "I'm so strange and arty that I y y y y y y o< He slid to the ground, microphones shrieking, and attempted to +y y y y wrench off one of the doors, but the Camaro was stubborn. Testosterone simmered, car-buffs whimpered and tactical matters y y y y - were debated. ^ y y / y veil he Houdini. The early 20th ci don't bother about mic tech- «* y y y we I lee arty and seductive and talk into Carrall Street, where a Camaro my collarbone and keep run y + y y was lowered defiantly at the ning mv hand over my brush- curb. Fresh from a Showdown cut because that will give a sexy p»T touch to mv deep artiness." * y y Seattle cinema the night before, men in the process. And hang- Came with two very serious- ing in the air now, as it must y Yonge sported a deep 3 "gash in looking sidemen on musical our annual 24-hour radio his right palm but otherwise have been then, was the beauti instruments, Cabaret was horri y experimentalist blitz: ful heroic pointlessness of the bly damaged by this. Shame on lean, muscular and menacing in act itself. art! January 17, 2002 flared jeans and a glitter- After the show ended, there encrusted balaclava. seemed to be a lengthy period Things perked up with The noon 'tit noon He and a handler taped of audience disorientation. It 3 Bitches-old-school drag ®\y eight microphones to his body was as if in the heat of pure queens who have suddenly before he jumped onto the car, spectacle, Art had melted down found themselves part of the ripped off his t-shirt and struck and slunk away unnoticed, neo-cabaret scene. With every Stevil, is developing a nice bit vignette as De Suza and De further voluminized by two big a victory pose. The crowd leaving everyone to mill around show, they're a little more pol of comedy shtick as a slacker- Paula. Yonge's sinister, boxy balloons under her pullover. cheered—eager to plav along aimlessly in front of a floodlit ished and theatrical with their clad, heavily-pierced grumbler face mask nibbled at the edges Nico and her two sidemen all wore helmets and she carried a like trailer trash at a WWF gallery. material. However, these gals who disapproves of panhan of Dada and the audience visi red phallus on a stand. As she match. Bat in the first of several And me? I just wanted to turn into raging workaholics as dlers, squeegy kids and bus bly receded as the act raged against the front tables. slowly limped around with a contextual shifts that the 45- give Diablo a massage. soon as they get near a stage, transfer hawkers. At the end of his set, he strapped on an axe cane, her black-suited males fol minute performance would and reappeared so often Still, I didn't see anything and sang his catchy little that made my mind slip side lowed solicitously, providing make, audience engagement ART DAMAGED CABARET #3 throughout the evening that grunge ode to Kraft Dinner. ways until Nico Orgasmico backup to her salacious little became seriously real the Saturday, November 17 they risked diluting themselves. Man of many aliases, David took the stage. Then I knew we yelps. This was tilted, perverse moment "Diablo" leapt into the Ms T's Cabaret A few less numbers would have Yonge, played lion tamer to his were onto something. She's a and outrageous. 1 really liked it. air and came down in a full Bv 10:30, the bowels of 339 West kept us wanting more! friend's beast in a chaotic ci great, zaftige yoi Adding an MC to these body-slam onto the roof as he Pender were heaving with peo- Art Damaged regular, Evil »nings w .echoii and slid to the ground, microphones T Paul St. Marie was definitely in command as he kept things moving like a rockabilly Joel the Stubborn Camaro. Grey. He was also ready to slam Testosterone simmered, car- the audience with his own buffs whimpered and tactical potent spoken word when a matters were debated as a cou l' ''' misplaced dildo or sudden wig ple of rumble-ready lads who fc*> *i crisis caused a slight delay. probably thought they'd died and gone to heaven kept offer The producer of the series is deeply buried within the per ing to help. sona of Satina Saturnina (or is When a very high steplad- it the other way around?). This der was brought onto the scene, unit is always intense, com the crowd groaned, its own HP yr "N^ pelling and hilariously deadpan endurance already fraying. Bv about it. Their costumes are this time, the style-cramping works of art in their own right and tonight, in the ultimate act Besides, the arty embellishment of frontwoman narcisism, the of a sound collage seemed boys in the band wore prosthet unnecessary here. Floating from ic headcovers moulded after Satina's own face and hair-do. Yonge twisted in the air to land Ms. Saturnina herself was pack with a sickening thud on his ing a plush strap-on. Their side, barely making a dent in sound is slowed-down, old- the metal. As he repeated the school punk with vocals which dive, I thought of mythic fig suggest Siouxie, but listen to the ures like Sisyphus and Wile E. hypnotical] repetitive lyrics and Coyote. Then he was under the you'll know that Satina's got hood, trying to shoulder it off her own fantasies going. The its hinges, his back becoming band won many new fans on smeared with the soot of a thou this night, so get ready for #4. • sand road trips. Muscle car David Yonge in Yellow Diablo. Photo by Cedric Bomford. 8 jancember 2001 K,clc around ty^ SPECIALLY PRICED 9®^sS^Bffi THE LANGLEY SCHOOLS MUSIC PROJECT AN INTERVIEW WITH HANS FFN(;FR • that touches t n 1976, music teacher Hans Fenger recorded two albums by his three production of the albums, to sing popular rock and roll songs? you could never digitalize; it's so raw. Every song that I taught was elementary school classes in Langley, BC. While releasing albums by 5 Well, after the first album, I think that they didn't know what to for a musical reason. Lyrics like "God Only Knows" or "In My I to 12 year-old students was itself an ambitious project for the time, it make of me [laughs]. It's just as simple as that! I was in a rural part Room"... I realized that most kids like singing about that, rather teas the music Fenger chose tlutt was truly revolutionary. Rather tlian tra of an already rural community. I had a smart administrator, though. than the generic "kids' song" which is usually, "I love to sing, I love ditional elementary school fare like "Frere Jacques" or Raffi tunes, he had He realized that the kids were doing really well; they liked and music, if we could all hold hands there would be peace in the world, Ihe children singing "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys, "Rhiannon" enjoyed it. I can truthfully say, Luke, 1 never had any real hassles I would be a happy person, and I would fly in the sky and we would by Fleehvood Mac, "Desperado" by the Eagles, "Saturday Night" by the from administration or parents. all be equal..." After a certain age, most kids don't like those kinds Bay City Rollers—even "Space Oddity" by David Bowie! If I ever received any negativity, it was more from the music- of songs. I taught to all age groups, and I never said: "You don't Originally pressed exclusively for the children's families and class teaching establishment. They tended to see what I did as a little know how to sing! You can't play!" It never occurred to me that abil mates, these albums were "discovered" this year by music archivist Irwin weird, and tended to be condescending. Y'know: "This is 'nice,' but ity was important—these are eight or nine year-olds we're talking Chusid and re-released as The Langley Schools Music Project: it's not 'normal.'" I think "not normal" was the phrase they used about! If the kid couldn't play the bass with four strings, I would Innocence and Despair. This album has become an unprecedented phe the most! The second album I made, I had Danny Ross as an admin remove two or three of them! nomenon, obtaining immense populuritu, nti'c reetews, and incredibly istrator. I can't say enough good things about him; he was great at That being said, was there a way of deciding each student's role in diverse airplay. < higinul pressings are uo he great musical dance had ended for the Fred Anderson look at the way a body lies m it's actually dead or when it Trio. The audience filed out of the Norman Rothstein sleeping then that's a ho: When we stand up then that's TTheatre after the show's final piece. I stood on stage as the vertical. So all these are c images, but you project on th musicians packed up their instruments and prepared themselves for the chilly autumn night after playing a blistering two hours of When Parker is projecting on the sound, he is infusing the improvised music on October 28th. Reeds player Fred Anderson note with a spontaneous vitality, a spirit. The note can be looked stood in the foreground wearing his thick leather coat. at as a microcosm of the universe; a starting point like an atom or Percussionist Hamid Drake was nowhere to be seen, while a star, an evolution of ideas and form. His spontaneous arrange William Parker and I chatted centre stage. Parker was hunched ments are a highly ordered and complex system of emerging vari over his bass when he looked up and explained to me: "Fred likes ants that are reflective of his constant musical (re)awakening. to keep warm. I like to keep Fred happy." "It's like when you get into shamanism, you have to project I whipped around and looked in Fred Anderson's direction that when [you're] that note, you're saying 'Be healed,' you're and sprayed out, "Fred, come on! You're from Chicago, how saying 'Rise up.' You're saying 'Feel this, feel this.' You're doing a many layers do you need? It's only fall." mantra. You're really plucking and feeling. You don't worry about Fred just stared blankly at me. Parker gestured at him and whether it works or not, this is your intent. This is your intent and laughingly told me that he v\ sn't talking about that Fred, he was when music stops it stops 'til tomorrow night when we get into talking about his bass— med Fred, probably in reverence of Seattle and we see what happens there." the late, great bassist Fred Hopkins from Chicago. However, There is an apparent mysticism that abounds not only in the Parker's playing is its own statement, devoid of any overt refer musical work of Parker but in his thoughts as well. He's hide ence to Hopkins or any jazz idiom. Names like Charles Mingus, bound by pseudo-Buddhist ideas of compassion. Through music, Charles Hayden and Jimmy Garrison will get bandied about he seeks to ritually understand human suffering. when critics review his playing, but he's beyond idioms. If you "I think that's the point of not just musicians, I think that if we were to let your ears open up, if you let your eyes see his notes feel for our neighbors and we feel for other people, we feel for emanate, you would realize that his music is not reexamining jazz other people in their pain and not just share their joy, we share in history—he is acting as a medium to reach other worlds. their pain and in their suffering, then we can give them more," A decade ago Parker and his wife, dancer Pati Nicholson, founded Arts for Art, a foundation that sponsors imunity art His eyes close, his hands speed up; he is conscious of the says Parker. events from Manhattan's Lower East Side to Washington, DC. other musicians yet he sees the bigger picture, the greener pasture "I mean in a sense, monks pray everyday, and people pray Parker sees an opportunity for healing through art. that lies ahead. Parker pounds and pricks his fingers across the everyday for peace, and you look and say the world is getting "I think that the true self, I think the true calling of people fretboard in a walk pulse form. His arco work is all broad strokes worse and worse, but, if one day those monks didn't pray then is to try to seek the spirit from where we came from, and what of brilliant opaque colours. His bass playing is a frenetic land you'd really see the effect that the prayer has within... I mean, like, really guides us. I mean it's almost like that's what we were scape of textures and tonal shading of an undiscovered reality one day if you say to everybody in the world don't pray, don't do spun off of. Y'know we're a piece of clay spun off this other that he taps into and reveals for all. any good deeds, don't play any music. 1 believe if that happened piece of clay and so it's in us," recounts Parker. Parker's bass playing is very much his own style, cultivated you'd see dark clouds over the earth because that's what's keep "Y'know the strength and spirit is in us. It's just that we many moons ago under the influence of avant jazz pianist Cecil ing us, I said it a million times, I sound like a broken record, but choose to develop other areas in life all the time so we don't Taylor. In the '70s, when the two first worked together,, Parker that's what is keeping the earth balanced: is the prayer. Is the develop our higher selves—what you call your third ears your found that if he used more percussive techniques with the instru good deeds. Is the good vibrations we're putting out there." third eyes—you're higher perceptions are closed off because we ment, he could achieve a more tonally rich sound. It was from Those "good vibrations" Parker refers to are similar to the are not taught to develop them. And that is simply what music is those early Taylor sessions that Parker developed the theory and thoughts of the great jazz pianist, Sun Ra, who claimed his music supposed to do is to help develop. And that's all music is for, all technique called the horizontal and vertical continuum of flow. revealed equations that re-established the linkage between all art is for—to feed our soul." • After about 30 years of performing and 150 recorded appearances metaphysical worlds. Parker could be considered a part of what William Parker discussed his art aesthetic with DiSCORDER. Ra called the Angel Race—those artistically inclined beings that "Y'know, it's like in last section of this last piece we played, can directly communicate with other realms. y'know, I was visualizing a rice field, people working in a rice field, "We speak about the tone world but there are also worlds of , Piercing The Veil (AUM on this last piece. And it kept cutting across from China to Cuba to lots of different kinds of spirit worlds. All kinds of strange and Africa and Japan—it's like four different countries in that section," terrible characters coming and invading people's spirits," says says the Bronx-native Parker. Parker. What makes Parker's playing so superlative is that this verti In 1998, Parker released a solo bass work entitled Lifting the cal and horizontal takes place on the bass, in that he simultane Sanctions. While it seemed apparent to me that he was referring to Other notable appearances by William Parker: ously bows across and fingers up and down, creating a continu the sanctions placed on Iraq, Parker described the album as an act ous flow of music. Parker describes the musician's visualization of liberation, not limited to those affected by the UN sanction in 1973 Frank Lowe Quintet (ESP Records): Black Beings (ESP/BASE) in terms of a conceptual image that replaces the structural rigors Iraq, but for all people. 1981 Cecil Taylor: The Eighth (hat ART) of notes, scale and time signatures. It is this sense of musical free "It was about a call to lift the sanctions on creativity; to lift the 1993 William Parker: In Order To Survive (Black Saint) dom that Parker strives for. sanctions on poetic and personal freedoms; to lift the sanction on "I could see, if you look at the way a note is written on paper, the truth that had been laid down in America all these years. It's 1996 David S Ware Quartet: Wisdom of Uncertainty (AUM Fidelity) still against the law to really tell the truth and to speak the truth you know it has a stem and then a head; and if you look at a tree, 1997 Multiplication Table (hatOLOGY 516) a tree has got a stem and it's got some branches—that's a vertical. you'll be, and nowadays especially, you'd be considered unpatri If you look at the way the horizon goes and look at the way things otic if you speak the truth," says Parker. Music: Time is of the Essence, The Essense s Beyc ii Fidelityi build on the horizon, whether its buildings, whether it's clouds, However, Parker is not a musician concerned with escapism you know that's a horizontal visualization," says Parker. "If you from those sanctions placed by Earth-bound forces like politics 1997 Die Like a Dog Quartet (FMP) 1lEfr?g5S®!ffi Pinback I feel really awful for bugging a sick man. I asked this sick man a bunch of tech nerd questions, in his quite tired and confused state. Thank fully he was a nice sick man. This man's name was Rob Crow, one half of Pinback. The poor man, he passed out after the interview. DiSCORDER: Could you tell me your name, age, and hometown? What's Zach's room like? Do you have a favourite piece of outboard gear? Rob Crow: Hometown? New Jersey. Ton Zinser: Two story ceilings, all concrete cinderblock. At home I kinda like the JoeMeek [Compressor]. Zach did a lot of What previous bands have you been in? Mine is just your average bedroom. buying equipment that he couldn't really afford, and seeing that it Heavy Vegetable, Physics, Johnny Super Bad and the Bullet I noticed that you experimented with different spaces on the new didn't really do what we wanted... [we tried] to trade it back. So Catchers, Optigonically Yours, Fantasy Mission Force, Your Best album. there was a lot of eBay going on during this record. Loved Melodies, Optigonically Yours, did I say that already? Thingy. Yeah, we recorded some of the drums in our friend's garage, and Do you create your songs in the studio? Did I say that already? Pinback, uh... Snotnose and probably some some of the dmms were recorded in a real studio, just to try it out. It all depends, sometimes one of us gets a part, and we go with that. others I forget. What kind of soundcards do you use? Or sometimes we just build a drum loop in Fruityloops and go from You recorded your album entirely on a computer? Was it a Mac or i have a Gadgetiabs 8-in, and Zach has... what does there. Sometimes it just happens at once. a PC? Do one of you create an idea for an entire song? Or is it always a PC! Screw Mac, you can't play good games on those! Zach have these days? He upgraded from the collaboration? What kind of software did you use? Gadgetiabs. I don't know, some crazy thing. But we just No, Neither of us make an entire song. We always try to Acid, Vegas, and Nuendo. bought a 24 track 2" reel-to-reel and we are going to try and build collaborate as much as possible. How do you like Nuendo? I've heard it is hot shit. our own studio in this new place. You're from San Diego, which has an active music scene. Any I don't like Nuendo as much, I like VegaS. But Zach loves it. Are you just going to record yourselves or other bands? notable projects right now? But there is a new Nuendo and it's supposedly easier to use. Oh, of course other bands. So far it is split up between me and Zach Not really, nothing very interesting. It is pretty boring down there. I've heard it may replace Protools as a new standard in recording. and Paul from the Black Heart Procession and Three Mile Pilot. We There isn't any good bands around right now. Well Boilermaker got We don't use Protools because that is just kinda confusing. will mostly be recording the things that the three of us do. back together, and that is the only thing I'd go see around town. I What were some of your favourite microphones during the Which is a lot of projects. used to like No Knife but they broke up. Three Mile Pilot hasn't recording? We did all the drums for the next Thingy album using it at Paul's played in a while but they are still together. Ahhh, God. It all depended on what for. Usually we use the trusty house. And hopefully they will be doing a lot more [Three Mile] Is Boilermaker putting out a new album? Pilot stuff, in the r* .tfutui Rode NT-1 on the first album. For the new album we used the NT-2 They just put out a compilation album, we have been touring with What kind of board is going in the studio? mostly. them all the way except for these two shows in Canada. It has I forget what the latest board that Zach has is. What were the rooms like that you recorded in? been fun to hang out with those guys and I watch them every night and have a really good time. They were bummed that they couldn't get into Canada. As am I! What's up with Gravity records? It all depends. The guy that runs it is an on-again-off-again heroin addict. So depending on how well he is doing he puts stuff out. So I By Jay Douillard Photos Lori Kiessling don't usually have anything to do with that guy. I'm not a big fan of heroin addicts. But he as put out some great records. Sort of a document of the San Diego scene? Not really. I like the first two Antioch Arrow records. I liked those. And Clikitat [Ikitowi]. You were on the Urban Outfitters playlist? I'm bummed that everyone mentions that! Because I didn't have anything to do with it. I don't know anything about it. I don't go to Urban Outfitters. We don't get any money from it. It means nothing to the two of us, except that I guess it is cool that people get to hear music that we do. [Sarcastic voice] It is not like we are so excited about our Urban Outfitters deal. What a great market! We're more concerned with writing music and playing shows. Do you take the live performance into account when you write a song? Every once in a while, we realize that there is no way we can play this live. But for some reason it has turned out that we can play every single song off the new album live now. Do you know if there is a story behind Armisted Burwell Smith IV's name? He is just the fourth in Armisteds. He has got a strong fam- ily togetherness thing. Any hidden meaning behind your band No. It just sounds good? s fron n a film called Dark On the photographs on the new album, there is a very eerie theme. Where did they come from? They are a small shelf of a bunch of slides that I found in a thrift store next to my house. Is it the same woman driving that car all over the place? Yeah it is this old couple. That just traveled all around together. They are really sweet pictures. I have ton of them. Anything you want to say? I'm tired! Well thank you then. I'll let you sleep. • 13E[ggSl®MB CiTR DJ PROFILE Eric Flexyourhead Flex Your Head Tuesdays 6:00PM-8:00PM Record played most often on your show: Seriously? Over close to 13 broadcast years it would have to be Out of Step by Minor Threata. Record you would save in a fire: Gonna' go with Out of Step on this one too. It's like, what?... 17 years since it came out and it still gets me stoked every time I listen to it. Record that should burn in hell: I'm not opposed to the mullet-moron masses moshing, so whatever. I'll go with any of the horrible, mindless boy bands or teen stars that the mainstream passes off as "music." Book you would save in a fire: Don't have the attention span for books. Too many years of one minute long hardcore songs. Worst band you like: Worst hardcore band? Madball. People might think Matt Monro sucks, but I think he's it. First record you bought: It was either KISS, Alive or Aerosmith, Rocks, but I can't remember. I know my first punk record was DOA's "Triumph of the Ignoroids" 12". Last record you bought: It was actually two: No Warning CD EP, Cops and Robbers Execution Style. I'm a sucker for the Bridge Nine stuff... Musician you'd most like to marry: None. Musicians are nothing but trouble. Favourite show on CiTR: Evil vs Good. Strangest phone call received while on air: Probably the "We're listening to you in Cali... South Bay, play Minor Threat" phone call. The area code even matched up. Of course it was actually Pennywise in Vancouver with irXifiHitM^ "^Vnrirnrin jflaiffij a digital cell phone fucking with me. • The Old Rinner www.theoldripper.com DIGITAL DJING: The art of DJing maintains a quaint nostalgia in the face of rapid There are already too many records: now we have tc technological advancement. As Palms and cellphones SMS your period. It's like the musical equivalent of Baudrillard's information lunch date and cancel your doctor's appointment—and Microsoft syndrome, where the more information there is, the less we know, gets set up to control not only your computer but your toaster—the and the stupider we get. This will also have major consequences on world of vinyl, turntables, and needles continues its steady course. the labels when combined with the power of internet distribution: Until now, that is—for the next step has arrived and it is called MP3.com will become the new place to get music for DJing, and not "Final Scratch." Unlike DJ able CD players and computer MP3 mix your friendly, local, independent record store, thereby once again programs, Final Scratch (FS) uses all of the existing equipment— distancing communities through technology, possibly bringing Technics 1200 turntables, needles, and a mixer—to allow you to DJ down the labels and the distributors, and hurting dedicated artists, MP3s supplied by a laptop. Two special FS records sit on the platters RITCHIE as fewer and fewer buy their records, or possibly, even their online with USB connections that go from the mixer to the laptop; then you MP3s... can do all of the things—I closely questioned Hawtin about this, and Perhaps I am elucidating a worse-case scenario. It would take this is what he claims—you can do with a normal record: scratch, many people with FS to have this sort of impact, and with a price of cue, backspin, lift up the needle to skip through the track, slow $2999 US (albeit including the laptop!), on top of the cost of turnta down and speed up the record, accidentally knock it off, etc. Simply, bles and a mixer, this won't happen anytime soon (although, given you can spin MP3s. that one no longer has to buy records at $15 a 12", this is essentially I am really suspicious of gadgets. I started learning violin years the equivalent of two year's records for the average DJ). Not to men ago, and as everyone knows, a Stradivarius violin, a couple hun tion that the end user must MP3 all of their records—as this is dred of years old, sounds and plays better than practically anything unlikely, I predict the majority will simply play their own music or made today. And so I approach the art of DJing, as a DJ, with the HAWTIN material from the Net—and be a DJ playing-out on a regular basis same feelings: that perhaps it doesn't need to technologically (prediction 2: the majority of users will split into two camps: rich advance because essentially what we have is an instrument that has white kids and professional club DJs, i.e. the Paul Oakies of the somewhat reached its holistic peak. And as much as I have ooh'ed world, who can hire people to MP3 the music/hunt it down for and aah'ed over the many gimmicks and gadgets out there, from them). As for distribution and labels, if you want to get your music EXF processors to built in samplers on mixers, when it comes down out to people, you will still need to press records, as I believe that to it, either you can DJ smooth and hard with the knowledge of the people will still want an actual art object in their hands, be it a CD or tricks of a turntablist or you can't. So with that said, I remain cau a record, despite the influence of the nominalist Net—the packaging tiously suspicious over Final Scratch, perhaps because I am inher and the presentation is part of the mystique of vinyl, be it the mini ently suspicious of technology, despite the fact that 1 often embrace malist German colours or the white label of an underground techno it—perhaps a little too quickly. Hawtin is somewhat of a futurist, A N D producer. Buying an MP3 just won't have the same feeling... which and as a stakeholder in the company that makes FS, he is avowed again leads me to think that what will happen is a glut of free, crap ly positive about the possibilities that FS opens. py music on the Net being DJed: this is perhaps the scenario of not Ritchie Hawtin: "...it really is helping to redefine things. Once you this generation of DJs, but the next, the kids right now. As Hawtin have control over digital music files, you have much more of a recognizes, it's a love/hate relationship: greater possibility for interacting with those files—when you're "A lot of artists aren't looking forwards to digital distribution. I playing CDs or vinyl, you're playing a physical form, it's locked into think this will start to pose more questions. A lot of distributors and that physical form. You really can't change the sequencing or the labels are a bit scared of final scratch, they love it and hate it at the arrangement. Now, because you are already using digital files, they same time. But the floodgates were open before FS.... I am a little bit are sitting right there in front of you, ready for manipulation. And I scared of digital distribution, I am a little bit weary of exactly what think... that at this moment, this is one of the key advances because FINAL is going to happen, but it is going to offer so much more potential, so you don't have to use the system to play back music the way it was much more possibilities for people to hear new and unheard music. originally recorded." I think I would much rather have greater accessibility to my music So it makes the whole medium much more pliable, plastic... and a little more bootlegging than the way it is now." "Exactly, and I think that's what... artists have been doing a lot more What is also necessary? According to Hawtin, nothing short of steadily over the years is trying to manipulate music as much as a shift in the way we think about owning things—property and pos possible, whether with two turntables or two copies of the record session. "Now, to own a piece of music, you have to have a physical or, like myself, drum machines or EFX boxes. Now, you can really form... I actually don't really care if I own the new Herbert CD any get into each piece, you can start to reinterpret it: extend breaks, take more. If I could really, just pay for the times that I was going to lis out sections, so it's more of your own personal version. And then ten to it, on a subscription method, and know that when I wanted to have that physical interaction with it because of the vinyl interface." SCRATCH listen to it, I could do it—driving or chilling situations—I would. Now, as somewhat of a musikal anarchist myself, I can under But none of these kinds of infrastructures are there yet" —i.e. the stand Hawtin's sentiment. By introducing the ability to DJ MP3s, point where we can have wireless broadband connections in our we are also inherently introducing the ability to easily DJ one's own cars, PDs, and toasters, with built in credit card microchips so we music, but beyond that, to DJ one's remixes of others. This will, no can pay on the spot. And, instead of the careful design of record doubt, lead to all sorts of good and bad developments. Obviously, sleeves and covers, Hawtin sees the future of design in Flash, allow this will allow a creative and deeper exploration of the music on ing a deeper and more immersive format for the artist to present behalf of the DJ. But what about DJs who take a soulful, under their message. Well? What does it all come down to? It sounds to ground techno track—say, oh, "Knights of the Jaguar," and then add me like the turntables are getting more and more lost in the increas a thumping, cheesy trance beat in behind with a big and lame break ing attention paid to the box, the screen: no longer, as I noted to down in the middle? This is exactly what happened two years ago, BY TOBIAS V Hawtin, will we feel the raised Plastikman logo on the Muzik album; and the entire electronic underground rallied behind the maker of now, I will watch the Flash vid on my glaring radiation array and be major labels, the electronic underground is often operated as a the original track—DJ Rolando—and his crew Underground happy I only paid 50 cents for this track that I will never listen to break-even (at best) venture; only the lucky few like Hawtin had the Resistance, who pursued first Sony and then BMG, who distributed again. Disposable culture: disposable, transient, virtual muzak. Will right combination of timing, luck, and talent to make a living out of a cheesy remix 12" and compilation without permission (they were we still feel any value, any emotion, for such a transient, virtual it and still stay on the underground side of the fence, (i.e. not sell denied it). We are, in many ways, resurrecting an age-old artistic "product"? Or, are we truly entering the realm of music itself, which out—witness the UK, Ibiza, etc.) Final Scratch will open the doors debate focusing upon the artist's intentions and intellectual rights to in all reality has no object, is purely only sound waves? Welcome to for DJs to no longer have to go through all that hassle of submitting his/her work, a sense of "the track is the way it is because that is the the postmodern: as music becomes more and more virtual and demos or starting up their own labels. Voila, they can play it imme way the artist wanted it," and a subsequent respect for the artist's omnipresent, it also becomes more and more inaccessible, with more diately... and we are facing similar questions: on the one hand, cer integrity in making those decisions. The digital revolution is anar- and more technology needed to hear it. Baudrillard, you were right. tainly a proliferation of excellent DJs putting out their own excellent Me: I think I will hang onto my records a little bit longer.... • music; on the other hand, however, the majority will probably be More information on Final Scratch at: http:ffwwtofiaakcratch.com. The same can be said for DJing one's own music. Unlike the 303 cheese Rebirth-made crap 24/7. General result? Music overload. ISEj^SBESS Back in the 1870s, British professor James Clerk Maxwell had math ematically proven that electric waves could be sent over distance. After Maxwell's studies, one German scientist set out to prove Maxwell's theories. In experiments that transmitted waves over a five-foot distance, Heinrich Heine proved that waves travel in a straight line across space and that they can be reflected. Radio was born. Gugliemo Marconi's Wireless Telegraph was bom in 1874 in Bologna, Italy. In 1896, Marconi created what amounted to an anten na to send and receive signals and, within a few years, he transmit ted signals across the English Channel and eventually across the Atlantic in 1901. During this remarkably significant period in histo ry some wildly influential art movements were flourishing not far from radio's birthplace. Post-Impressionists were giving way to Cubism, then Futurism and Non-Objectivism among others. During and after WWI an unsettling pessimism (Nihilism) set in throughout Europe and to some extent North America, resulting in the glory days of Dada and Surrealism. By this time radio's potential was realized and utilized for military, hobby, and emergency pur poses and, of course, it wouldn't take long for its commercial aspects to be exploited. The time and the place were right for these painters, poets and musicians to use this new medium, but access and avail ability was reserved for business and marketers. Luigi Russolo drafted his "Art of Noise" Manifesto (seems like everyone had to have a goddamn manifesto back then) in 1913. He obsessed over the wonder of noise and discovery of sounds, which led to his inventing several original instruments called "Intonarumori." While Russolo seemed to vacillate over how musical the experiments should be manifest, the Intonarumori concerts were witnessed by many and were held in high regard by composers (Ravel, Stravinsky) who were even influenced by these sounds. None of the Intonarumori survives today. Once again, the desire existed to redefine or re-organize the way we hear sound but sup pression lurked around each corner. Russolo was frustrated by the novel use of his instruments as mere sound effects. "Let us cross a great modern capital with our ears more alert | B y B1ee k | than our eyes and we will get enjoyment from distinguishing the eddying of water, air and gas in metal pipes, the gmmbling noises that breathe and pulse with indisputable animility, the palpitation of waves, the coming and going of pistons, the howl of mechanical saws, the jolting of the tram on its rails, the cracking of whips, the flapping of curtains and flags. "We enjoy creating mental orchestrations of crashing down of metal shop blinds, slamming doors, the hubbub and shuffle of crowds, the variety of din from the stations, railways, iron foundries, spinning mills, printing works, electric power stations and under ground railways" - Luigi Russolo, 1914 Germany's anti-fascist Weimar Republic arose in opposition to the political right in the 1920s, when radio was experiencing its initial popularity boom. The well-known egalitarian musician Kurt Weill identified the groundbreaking potential of the new medium stating, "...there could be no doubt that the preconditions for the develop ment of an independent artistic genre of equal stature [with the other arts] are present." Weill argued that radio should avoid the inevitable broadcasting of pre-existing arts and dramas like film, but should raise its own child, an autonomous "radio art." Unfortunately radio was controlled by the political right. Some things never change. While it is not quite fair to say that art completely escaped radio, given the massive amounts of radio dramas from the '30s, '40s, '50s, most radio has been as experimental or as groundbreaking as the Big Mac. Imagine, though, broadcasts from the Dadaist events-such as evenings at the Cabaret Voltaire! It seems obvious, given Cocteau, Bunuel and Man Ray's interest in film and Breton or Tzara and Eluard's interest in avant-garde writing, that radio, if readily avail able, would have been used to wonderful effect by the Surrealists, other performance-art pioneers-and Lord knows who else-if the instruments had only been in the hands of creative visionaries. According to Tristan Tzara, for instance, Dada was capable of an "elegant and unprejudiced leap from a harmony to the other sphere; trajectory of a word tossed like a screeching phonograph record." Eventually the Surrealists adopted a healthy disdain for radio and its content, specifically music. "And ever since I have had a great desire to show forbearance to scientific musing, however unbecoming, in the final analysis, from every point of view. Radio? Fine. Syphilis? If you like. Photography? I don't see any reason why not. The cinema? Three cheers for dark ened years. War? Gave us a good laugh. The telephone? Hello. .Youth? Charming white hair. Try to make me say thank you: 'Thank you.' Thank you." —Andre Breton, Manifesto of Surrealism 16 jancember 2001 Dziga Vertov, known as a Russian filmmaker, intended to create art through sound until moving on to film as sound recording tech niques were far too primitive in 1916. Vertov envisioned a "Laboratory of Hearing," and was compelled to record and edit non-musical sounds for editing. "1 had the original idea of the need to enlarge our ability to organize sound, to listen not only to singing or violins, the usual repertoire of gramophone disks, but to tran scend the limits of ordinary music. I decided that the concept of sound included all the audible world. As part of my experiments, I set out to record a sawmill." The Examples, theories, stories of pioneers, etc., go on for miles, but we get a glimpse here of the rich tradition of art through sound and vice versa. Through "24 Hours of Radio Art" we celebrate these ideas and remember the visionaries. In a way I think we could feel a sense of obligation to use the equipment available to us today in order to realize and further these dreams and visions. "Poetic modernism, Italian Futurism, English Vorticism, French Dadaism, American Precisionism, all the avant-gardisms of the early century, were obsessed with the representation of noise." —CBC's Lister Sinclair's IDEAS: "TICK TOCK BANG: NOISE IN MODERN ART" first broadcast January 27,1999 Every year, for some time now, a few independent and college radio stations around the globe have worked to finally give mod em art a transmitter. The concept of giving art a birthday was intro duced by French born artist/peacenik Robert Filliou (associate of John Cage, by the way) who in 1963 asserted that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day—on the 17th of January to be pre cise—Art was born when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Filliou had lofty ideas floating around inside his skull about "relative permanent creation," an exercise in inner peace to be directed outward and into world peace. A continuing playful anarchy as a way of rejecting "the fascism of the square world;" the world which refuses to break free of conventional wisdom and the inevitable war it falls into again and again. Interestingly, through plan or coincidence, war and the horrors of fascism tend to be recur rent themes in many of the 24 Hours of Radio Art's sound collages. These audio-art projects bring to mind other vividly surrealist elements, namely the interactive game known as "Exquisite U Corpse." This was an activity that usually involved three or more [24HQ ^ artists (generally visual types) that would start a drawing or mon tage on a piece of paper. When that artist was finished the paper was folded back or covered so that the next participant could not m see what image came before. When the entire piece is finished, an amazingly bizarre picture is presented for the enjoyment of the group. When several stations (or even multiple people in the radio I y RapiO EEft 7* studio) are involved in radio-art and sharing audio over the internet, we have in essence, an audio version of an "Exquisite Corpse." Combined with the Surrealist's interest in random or spontaneous creations... well, I'm sure the tie-in is all too obvious. Not to say that 24 Hours of Radio Art is all about noise. The day is about art and other arts have been known to broadcast. Poets and live musicians have graced the studio with their original contribu tions. The familial links of the creative arts are concrete and incon trovertible. CiTR's involvement in 24 Hours of Radio Art has its roots pri marily in the sound experimentations of Peter Courtemanche. Peter hosted the weekly program The Absolute Value of Noise from 1988 to 1992. "This program featured a wide variety of radio-art and exper imental audio—often generated live on the air. This radio show developed into the annual 24 Hours of Radio/ART program (1992- 96)—a collaborative event that explored the concept of a "radio-art" station; an event that posed the question: What would happen if your local FM pop-rock station suddenly decided to go to an all audio-art format? The answer may be available on January 17th again. Then again, 24 Hours of Radio Art may also be the answer to the question of "What do space aliens listen to at home?" Our dear and former CiTR Programme Coordinator Anna Friz acted as curator for the 24 Hours of Radio Art project. Her enthusiasm was evident and she continues to work in the field as a sound artist, performer, producer, and curator. Since moving to Montreal, Anna has curated and performed in sonic events for Studio XX, The Silophone, and Winnipeg's Send + Receive festival of sound—and she is the founder of The Thereminions theremin orchestra. Much of Peter and Anna's experiments in sound can be found archived at http://www.kunstradio.at. Thanks to these forerunners the Celebrations have continued each year and past broadcasts have had contacts in Japan, Austria, Holland, France and Australia. Listen in from noon, January 17th till noon the next day as CiTR's audio artists bring you the festivi ties, commercial free. Happy birthday to Art! • i7®tg&umm "I feel what you want me to feel. I don't feel myself when you feel me. Wrap your mouth around my mouth. I close my eyes. I don't feel myself when you hold me down." -Swans, "Sealed In Skin" (1984) "You put your eyes in my head, you put your voice in my mouth, you put your mind in my mind, you put your blood in my blood." -Angels of Light, "Two Women" (2001) Maybe I was wrong to contemplate a feminist analysis of Mr. Micltael Gira. As I stepped into the impersonal and awkward process of initiating an email interview with the man behind the Swans et cetera, I felt a surge of righteous applicability—/ could stick my undergraduate theories all over him, and he wouldn't even care'. The day after I sent my questions off, I felt the first tremors of uncertainty. My careful wording and double-doublethink self-repression notivithstanding, I thought that for sure he would spot me for ivliat I am: a) a university student b) a very big fan c) a woman who lias trouble with men, and who finds intervieius extremely intimidating. As it goes, I never really asked him anything remotely approaching my real questions, which were all about bodies and the things humans communicate through them: love, power, powerlessness, hate. Bodies are what toe are, after all. Bodies, real and imaginary, have been the singular fixation ofGira's lyrical universe in everything I've ever heard by him. I really wanted to dig up those bodies and talk about them, cuz most people who write love songs talk about togetherness in terms of "feelings." How's this for togetherness: you put your eyes in my head, wrap your mouth around my mouth, I'm sealed in your skin. It's violent, and maybe that's why many writers oflove songs don't like dealing with bodies (except in terms of aesthetic appreciation and genital bliss): they don't want to admit that humans are corporeal and mortal, because they want their love to last forever. But still, listening to Holy Money, Swans' 1986 album, hearing deadly-serious lines like"Your body's private. Your body's sacred. You should be violated. You should be raped. Someone weaker titan you should rape you," made me think. His music and writing has always dealt with the intersection of sex and violence. Even the Angels of Light's most recent release, the spectacular How I Loved You (released on Giro's own Young God record label), while more tender than usual, opens up this wound. "My True Body" documents the young Gira's experience in an Israeli jail, where he listened, night after night, to the sounds of a young Palestinian boy being raped repeatedly by his captors. I saw in these fragments a hint of the insight that evades so many people: that power has many outlets, many cours es of action. Our bodies are not private at all. This is an insight sliared by feminists, and 1 wanted Gira's opinion on it. Ultimately, though, I chickened out. The following interview has no bodies in it, only words. I've been listening to tlie Swans and tlie Angels of Light and the Body Lovers way too much lately. I'm afraid I've become one of those religious people who is always talking about ]esus and tries to get other people to lumg out with him. Well, the Angels of Light are coming to Vancouver on Sunday, December 9th at the Picadilly Pub. You heard me right. Miss it at your own peril. DiSCORDER: The band you're bringing on tour with the Angels of Light is quite pared-down, compared to the ensembles on the albums. What does this do to the songs and the way they are performed live? Michael Gira: Well I think the songs are good, so it'll work in any context. I guess it's more than with a large group because the energy is more concentrated. Our instru mentation is really odd for this tour—whatever we can all play, really. So Larry Mullins is playing a Farfisa organ, electronic vibes, and a drum kit, all at once. Thor Harris is playing a piano, hammer dulcimer, auto harp, acoustic vibes, singing, and percussion, again st all at once. Dana Schechter is playing bass and piano and melodica and singing. I'm playing my guitar and singing. It's like Pink Floyd as performed by a traditional American mountain music group! On "New York Girls," you seem to be addressing an audience—from the stage—but it's one of the most intimate songs on How I Loved You. Have you performed it in New York yet? Does the song work differently there than in other cities? The first time we played it here was really surprising. The response was like at a football game. It's I lous. There is a certain archetype to whom it's addressed, as well as specific memories, but maybe Sheboigan Girls to diffuse the specificity. A lot of early Swans strikes me as distinctly political. You often focussed, lyrically, on powei mating or abusing another—and on economic and sexual exploitation. At the same time, yo not interested in "preaching" to your audience about politics. Have your views era Dve songs, like the kind the Angels of Light specialize in, can be political? In the past I might have addressed certain themes as you described, that might be interpi shied away from being polemical in any way. I'm selfish enough to not want to kill a so YOUNG GOD MIX TAPE associating myself with any doctrine—I don't like crowds! I suppose a love song could Have computers changed the way you compose or produce music? They haven't changed a thing 88 far as Angels of Light is concerned, as it's based ent more possibilities in terms of editing. As for other projects such as the Body Lovers SWANS "STUPID CHILD" GREED/HOLY MONEY fade and collage had a great deal to do with the final piece. On both those proje SWANS "SEALED IN SKIN' KILL THE CHILD On your website, it states that you will be doing "reworkings of Svi couple of years ago? Probably not, bu: in this instance there's enough distance so that I fe sound of the maerial anyway. It's just a source. Soundtracks forthe Blind and the Body Lovers/Body Haters release: it a phase that has passed, or is that kind of sound manipulation s I intend, when ime and money allow, to do another installment of tl 18 jancember 2001 MICHAEL GIRA ON THE AN6ELS OF LIGHT AND OTHER LUMINOUS NAGICAL THINGS. kind of ridicu- I should change it listen to Gorecki's Symphony Number Two (which is quite violent and expressionist), then easily listen to Dylan's Nashville Skyline the next moment, and neither one takes on any more relevance :and control—one person dom- importance musically, but both contain a core of commitment to the passion of the perform u stated in a 1984 interview that you ance, which is the essential thing, in the end, to me. inged over the years? Do you think that You've said elsewhere that "Inner Female" [from the Angels of Light's New Mother] is writ- i from the point of view of Francis Bacon. Could you elaborate on this? (It's one of my •eted as political by extension, though I've always favourites, and I had a completely different interpretation...) mg by limiting its scope. Also, I'm extremely leery of Well, I've always been a huge fan of his work, as well as the amazing, almost superhuman I be political, but don't consider mine to be so. ability he exhibited in living both a sybaritic, extremely debauched life, coupled with an unflag- ,., nu „„ a. „•, ging dedication to his work. I don't know how he did it: drinking and other sensual pursuits irely on the perfc nC of the song, tliough of course there s ., , .», , , . ,. ., , , . , or even Swans circa Soundtracks for the -••J tu urt ss untirepeatinl four AMg th,e theprocessn workin. It's greall in yth heroice studi, oin untia wayl noo. Anywayn or so, ,I thewasn readinsleeping gsevera a fewl differenhours, tthe biogn ?cts some of the sound s were culled from perf( raphies and interviews with him, and the song came out from the sensibility I gleaned from ultaneously in a new "perfc " Also, on occasion, the comput that, and of course his work. It's not a specific account by any means, though. o explode—the engineer wce d leap at the controls to stop it, but I had What does the name the Angels of Light signify to you? ?as showing "personality" 20 jancember 2001 WAYNE HORVITZ P 0 N G A BY LUCAS TDS original version. How does your CD player. music and work my way back and the tunes of that time, that make you feel? (I meant "record" in the wards. For example Charlie indicating that the erosion of I've thought about this really "album" sense of the word... Parker led me to Lester Young barriers between 'jazz' and hard, and I realize that I feel anyways...) and soon I was listening to other forms is increasingly exactly the same as 1 did 10 On my turntable—Michael Teddy Wilson and then stuff accelerating." Do you think minutes ago. Hurley. In my CD player—a from the '20s. A Merce this is true? Or more generally, That's interesting. In general, copy of Tonga's Psychological Cuningham show I went to had what do you think about the how much does the media because I just got new copies John Cage and David Berman usefulness of "categories" in influence you? I'm assuming and I was checking that the and David Tudor all making a you've probably been criti pressing sounded decent. bunch of noise which was I think the reviewer in the cized at some point in your You mentioned the Meters ear incredible and quite beautiful. above statement is both right career, how do you deal with lier. I personally love the I'm a big fan of Captain and also should find more inter it? Do you just ignore it? Met . I v Beefheart and Sly Stone and all esting things to think about! Honestly, I try not to read terms of your own personal the greats The Wailers and the I heard through the grapevine reviews—although I need to journey in music, how did you Stones. I like Chic and still pull that there were some problems from time to time. Criticism can come to play the stuff you are out their record once in a while. with you calling your last be unpleasant, and often misdi playing today? What stuff did Just like most of America, album "American Bandstand." rected. 1 never minded that you listen to early on in your Nirvana sounded killing to What happened? Did you get someone didn't like my music, playing years? I ask because me—Kurt Cobain seemed to the old cease and desist from I do mind when they need to you hear bands like Medeski find that same place emotional Dick Clark? Is there anything I fired off a convoluted list of ques focused on the sections with rationalize it in terms that don't Martin and Wood, who are ly that Billie Holiday and Al you can tell me about that or is tions by email to keyboardist heavier grooves because it have anything to do with what I obviously funk-influenced, Green seem to find. I like Yo La all legal stuff our readers Wayne Horvitz the other day and made sense for our first record. do. But good reviews are the and then you hear bands like Tengo. Honestly probably even wouldn't care about? more important than all the asked him if he might be able to On your most recent Ponga worse. Any artist that starts Metalwood, where all the Exactly right. Dick Clark above were people like Otis answer them by the copy deadline album, Skerik is credited with believing their press is in real members say they play groove claimed copyright infringe Spann and Muddy Waters and for this paper. Wayne Horvitz is a playing "Saxophonics." What trouble. ment. We did not agree and when I was young The New prompt guy though, and lie exactly does that mean? I ask 1 should say there are some background. What was your frankly we felt we could win Lost City Ramblers and plenty responded the next day. This gave this because I noticed occa writers I really love. Peter joumey? but it would be too costly and of Mountain Music. My wife, me time to fire off another list of sionally it sounded like Skerik Guralnick. Ralph J Gleason, Sorry—but I could write a book, time consuming. I decided life Robin Holcomb, has influenced questions. He responded to those a was playing and then I'd hear who really understood jazz his just like everyone else I listened was too short to worry about it, me profoundly, she can really couple of hours later. What follows another saxophone and I'd ask tory, loved the avant-garde, to a lot of music and certain so we agreed to re-release it write a melody. A friend of is a reconstructed version of an myself if you had a cool saxo wrote the liner notes to the things just stuck. I get asked with a new title, as long as they mine said to me once, "You email conversation. I didn't change phone keyboard setting on Jefferson Airplanes' first record, this a lot, and usually some of know how you listen to Korean agreed to a few details we felt any of Mr. Horvitz's tvords, but I your keyboard or if Skerik is and loved Levon Helm! [Also,] the people I mention are The music and you hear a John Lee strongly about. The ironic thing did change some of mine. Why, activating samples as he's Witney Balliet, who I rarely Band, Dylan, all the San Hooker lick." It seems to me was that the title was meant in you ask? Firstly, I did it to make playing...? agreed with but really under Francisco bands like Quicksil people are always talking about such an iconic way. American stood music and musicians, and the text feel a little more like a nat Skerik uses a lot of electronics ver and the Dead and Jefferson how different music is, and I Bandstand to me was just pay ural conversation. Secondly, I am on his saxophone—and sam Airplane. Pharoah Sanders don't really get that. ing homage to popular music in embarrassed about my lack of ples a bit. With Ponga divided in half in moved me into a whole other There are a lot of blurs general—and a whole period of spelling facility. And to think that As a bit of a jazz buff, I've terms of ages, two from the area of music including history. Unfortunately, now people give me their school essays noticed that in some "jazz cir younger generation and two Coltrane, Cecil Taylor who was between music genr . One when I hear the phrase I just to proofread... cles" there are often some neg from the older generation, do a major influence, and especial comment that stuck out at think of this sorry legal hassle. ative attitudes towards you ever notice a clash of ly the AACM and the Art when I was researching v Frankly I wonder if Dick Clark DiSCORDER: Where exactly, electronics in general—sam ideas? Ensemble of Chicago. Bartok e CD r who v ever listened to the music. do you get your band names? ples and DJs and stuff. Now, Hey watch it—who you calling and Stravinsky opened the "There is not as much of a gap Somehow I doubt it. • "Zony Mash;" "Ponga;"... obviously, your group [Ponga] "older generation"? doors for me to a lot of classical between Ponga and modern See Wayne Horvitz and Ponga live where do they come from? doesn't carry these attitudes You're living in Seattle now. music. Just like in jazz I tended popular music as there was December 13 and 14 at the Anza Wayne Horvitz: You can blame because you're heavily elec As I understand it, [drummer] to start with the more modern between electro-period Miles Club. me for Zony Mash (in fact it is tronic in instrumentation and Bobby Previte is living in the title of a Meters tune) but because your first album was NYC. What's it like to have Ponga is entirely Skerik's fault. remixed by a group of DJs, but band mates living on all cor Skerik is the sax player for I was wondering, what sort of ners of the continent? Ponga. About that group—I decision was reached in terms I see Bobby more than I see read that your first Ponga of letting your music be Skerik! album was gleaned from remixed? How much of a say Besides Ponga, what's some around 20 hours of recorded did you guys have in what the stuff you're working on that material. Is that the case? What mixes would sound like, or did you're excited about? was the process like in select you just, for example, hand Just finished the Zony Mash ing what material you would your music over to Amon Live in Seattle CD. [There's a] be releasing? Was it a con Tobin and tell him to "Do what film score CD for Tzadik I am scious decision to make a lot of nil...' wrapping up. Our new acoustic the songs short (as compared Absolutely... the re-mixer is the CD, Sweeter Titan The Day, will to, say, some 22-minute jam), artist—I, for one, didn't hear a be out on Vancouver's own or is that just the way it turned note of it until it was released. Songlines label this January. Etc. out? Speaking of Amon Tobin, I What sort of stuff do you listen The way I look at it, [studio] was reading a review of the to when you're not playing? records and live [recordings] Ponga Remixes CD, and the What's in your record player are two very different experi reviewer said that he enjoyed ences. We grabbed sections that the remix of "Pieces of Saturn" I think you mean what's on we felt made "a piece." We also by Mr. Tobin more than the your record player, or what's in 21®S^3J®2B the sounds of one of the finest Doiron in the girl-next-door cad lamenting about past, pre Cuban big-bands around. I'll role, singing the wet dream- sent and future love. The album look like a loser, but the music'll inspiring words that Serge— also delves into dark down- be good. Besides, looking like a that classy ol' coot—would tempo drumloops and the occa loser has never stopped me have been proud of. sional sloppy jazz instrumental So as I listen to this one for making it all the more like Lucas TdS the umpteenth time, with the Bufallo 66. This may be only for headphones on, all I can say to fans of Vincent's work but it JULIE DOIRON Julie is: "I don't know what the also retains a fuzzy sentimental Desormais hell you're singing about, but quality that most indie rock APPLESEED CAST each other beautifully, and the changing, undergoing the (Endearing) thank you for adding a little kids would love and maybe Loiv Level Owl Volume One Council should be happy to crackling fires of granular syn Oh, man. This is the stuff of reality to my fantasy." even some hip hop heads too. (Deep Elm) know that they got their thesis, subsuming to the parti many of my best adolescent wet Spike For those that wish to hear Of course the local music store money's worth. cle, the crackling landscape, dreams. more check out his early '80s only ordered in Volume One so and from there, the emotional This CD, Julie Doiron's VINCENT GALLO band Grey, with John Lurie that now I have to specially topography of the dub chord, third solo outing, is an audio When and JM Basquiat. order Volume Two at an over- DAN BERN the trace of Kit's foundational equivalent of the attractive girl- (Warp) Morgan Tanner inflated price. Damn their oily New American Language sound, begins to emanate, to next-door, who's just moved This review comes a bit late see hides! Personal vendettas aside, (Messenger) bring itself into being, only to over from Quebec, and has ing as Vice has already written GOLDFRAPP Appleseed Cast released The one problem I have with dissolve in the sudden light of o come over unexpectedly, just to on the actor, director, writer, b- Utopia Volume One and Two separate Dan Bern's albums is that they tensioned ambient patch, lie on the bed next to you to boy, and musician's new album. (Genetically Enriched) revealing the high, microsound ly, but they're meant to go are never as good as his live sing in your ear. Slowly, softly However, their summary of The cover is perfect, white static peals, bell-like, radio together as one album. That shows. There is something and passionately, she coos the Gallo's album consisted of but bunny against a pink back changing, that were always said, Volume One is terrific. about seeing a folk singer in most alluring French-Canadian one word: surprising. The fact ground, splash-pink CD inside already present. Beauty never Their previous album, Mare front of a captivated crowd gig ballads I've ever heard. It all that Gallo has put out another a bright yellow case. Lollipop sounded so embracing and Vilalis, saw them take great gling to every line of his songs culminates in a mad fit of wild album doesn't seem surprising pink, fuzzy bunnies, soft. The warm, as the enveloping wave, strides to rise above the ranks of that y .iptur lovemaking, which—I must at all when in fact it only seems music inside tastes sweet, flows deep sea, underwater, washes being just another emo band. a CD. sadly admit—I haven't seen natural that he would follow up like burlesque cabaret on the over; then, like driftwood, ris Low Level Owl sees them take Having said that, by no much of during my waking on the underground success of tongue, this light voice, sexy, ing from the tide, the atmos many more and leave the realm means are his albums bad. In hours, lately. Bufallo 66's soundtrack that he breathy, in a dress of pink of emo so far behind that you phere touches the senses, and fact, his 1998 release Fifty Eggs Doiron, the soon-to-be ex- scored (with the exception of sequins a slit up the thigh, this can barely see it in the rear-view far off, on that distant island of is probably one of my favorites. Eric's Trip female lead and some tracks by King Crimson, is for sure. But this performance mirror. Alternating between the horizon, approaching, per I was quite excited to pick up bassist, finally honed that Yes, and his father Vincent is in a space bar, neon lights quiet songs, rockin' songs, and forms the dub echo, crawling his new CD New American sweet-pop thing with Ottawa's Gallo Sr.). On When Vincent flashing, disco ball spinning cir instrumental songs, Volume One closer and tentatively, until, like Language. From what I gather Wooden Stars, climaxing in a writes, produces, arrange, and cles on the moon floor, the band is, as stated in the liner notes, a the orgasmic bliss of two long some of the costs of its release Juno for last year's Julie Doiron performs everything, making on echoing silver synths, trum headphones album. The pro lost lovers, the beat unifies the were paid for by fans preorder- and the Wooden Stars as Best this album like a diary on life, pet riffs, violin strings quiver duction by Ed Rose is amazing sound into the structure of the ing via mail. That's pretty neat. Alternative Album. Now, solo love and alienation. The content ing, music machines of pretty as the band uses a variety of dif- soul. She's crying to you, and New American Language is Doiron has pulled an unexpect of the songs along with the plastic, the light side of me, and her tears leave us with easily Dan Bern's darkest ed hairpin-left, right through stripped down guitar pluckings Bladerunner, smoke slowly ris only the traces, the folds altogether unique album. They album to date. It is still filled my dream world, along a road and shrill vocal tones give this ing through the haze, mysteri between map and territory, make use of everything from with the same sharp wit and life paved with a very sweet and work a similar feel and sound ous. Beautiful girls and boys mental reality stripped down to organs, to xylophones, to syn commentary that his fans are sexy folk-pop confection, a la to Bufallo 66. The music is a per flutter eyes at each other in the frequency manipulation, the thesizers and even leaves blow accustomed to, but this time the Serge Gainsbourg, but with fect soundtrack for a lovesick semi-darkness, bodies move subtlest of spirits from the ing outside the studio. This is a content is more serious. Gone world of wires and codes. lush, dense album that requires are songs about aliens fucking Should be listened to with monkeys or Marilyn Monroe repeated listening. And as soon Fennesz's Endless Summer on marrying Henry Miller—now as I hear Volume Two, I'll recom Mego. Quite possibly the defining we get lines like "And then we mend that as well. Wait a album of both dub techno and bombed the embassy we minute. "Low Level Owl" back microsound. thought was something else/ wards is... "Low Level Owl." tobias v Ha, I get it now. No, wait. "Low We might get to see World War Level Owl" backwards is actu Three by Thanksgiving Day/ ally "Lwo Level Wol." I guess I But as long as the turkey's gold iCUBANISMO! en brown it's all gonna be don't get it after all. jmucho gusto! (Best of) okay." Most people will say that (Hannibal) this album is more mature. It's amazing how much you can Quick ha-ha laughs are KIM BARLOW tell about a CD based on its replaced with darker humour Gingerbread liner notes alone. Open up the that works on a number of lev (Caribou) liner notes on this disk and you els. I think the changes are Some time back, the Council of can tell it's bound to be a good interesting and refreshing, but the Arts gave Veda Hille a listen. The centre spread is a the old Dan Bern fan in me real grant to go up to the Yukon picture of the band—a huge ly misses the silly humour with a group of Canadian Cuban big-band—decked out in found in Fifty E^'s or Smartie artists. The goal was to record their spiffiest threads and hold Mine. I still enjoy New American life in the Yukon musically. ing their horns. The young guys Language, but it didn't quite Veda Hille's Field Study, are wearing red suits, yellow grab me like his previous released last summer, was the suits, shiny suits, normal suits. first of the group's work to see One of the older guys is in a the limelight. Kim Barlow's white suit complete with white Gingerbread is the second. poorboy cap, white belt, white Barlow paints a vivid picture of KIT CLAYTON shoes and the finisher—a big life in the Yukon with her banjo, Lateral Forces black bow tie. C'mon—when guitar, and voice. The beauty of (Surface Fault) you see a guy dressed like that this work is comparable to that Kit Clayton, seminal agent of and holding percussion instru of Hille's, which was stunning. dub techno, leavener of granu ments, either the album is going Their influences are the same, lar synthesis, fulcrum of San to really really suck or it is their execution quite different. Francisco techno—all of these going to be too hot to handle. Barlow's lyrics are of a lower lit titles mean nothing in the face Thankfully, this album of stuff erary caliber than Hille's, but of the expansive, orchestral, from jCubanismo! packs a wol- they are more honest. She is daring work of Lateral Forces. lop of the latter. The only reason from the Yukon after all. This Deleuze's smooth space is soni- it hasn't seen more play in my release is steeped in Barlow's cally translated, clear, translu disc player is that it isn't really a love and understanding of her cent, the fractalized genesis winter album. I can't wait till home and, unlike Hille's work, without origin, created at the summer though. You'll see me which primarily documents outset as the space for creation cruisin' round town in my '89 nature, Gingerbread documents to begin. The music rises from Honda Accord with the sunroof human interaction. Gingerbread open, running my fingers the foundation of the darkest of ^WIIM!* Mondays @ Mesa Luna. Se and Field Study complement rumbling beats, morphing, through my hair while blasting 22 jancember 2001 slowly, utopia of Goldfrapp, Cat Power, Destroyer, Pedro the got really guilty and ended up SLEEPYTIME GORILLA lulls. Lion, Mogwai, The Fucking in Nashville, where their wor MUSEUM Cafe Champs, The Vue, Sigur Ros, ries went quiet but stayed resi Grand Opening and Closing Apples in Stereo, The Beatles, dent in all the mounting (Seeland) J MAJIK Marine Research, Saves the Day, sentiments that would eventu One of my rare impulse ^gg{Al? er Drum'n'Bass Mix Dub Narcotic Sound System, ally bring us Alan Jackson buys. According to the liner (DMC) Love as Laughter, Oysterhead, singing "I'm crazy 'bout a notes, many of the songs arose This is a stock D&B compilation Belle and Sebastian, Bardo Mercury." What of this hell? To "out of group improvisation," with a few outstanding tracks Pond, Godspeed You Black make exceptions only makes it and were then carefully and—the real strength—little to Emperor, The Strokes, Daniel worse. The Silver Jews are revised. Godspeed fans * so choose / IQ^OW no filler. For those not in the Johnston, and Bis. going for the gold at the irony rejoice! No, don't, you'll hate p*iW &\Royal Trux and it sounds thing completely different from s(op AM^Y ro&£ genre is young and vital big pile. So the Rock*a*Teens like Nashville. What is the what that painfully overrated s enough that producers still are a little better than that. accomplishment here? Sounds Montreal band churns f *VAI\,*\A YKCZ '~i£%\ *(£T(6V\n4re^uPric) r\?u)?»v looT.v \ like Vince Gill? Check. Sounds out. Metal, funk, and ambient Ma rue. rv\orA STEREOLAB their past drone-jam rock style, end of their set. Davey's Locker Founder and Composer Thursday, October 25 but this is the exact "druggy" had uninspiring cock rock glam SPIRITUALIZED sound that I wanted to hear. wannabe written all over them, Wednesday, November 7 Even their newer material but it sounded like they MERCURY REV sounded good that night. brought their own following, as Friday, November 30 I wish I could say the same cheers for them were more than Commodore Ballroom about Mercury Rev, but I can't. modest. John Ford doesn't need DGNIZ TGK Wow, what a way to finish off a The band has often reinvented to bring their own following, as year of rock gods. Three bands everyone in Vancou-ver seems that have reached cult status to love their infectious brand of over the past decade all hit Beatles-inspired blues-rock. and the Vancouver recently and drew One bad thing about seeing capacity (or near capacity) a solo gig by someone who was crowds on their respective once in a band you used to love, nights. Five years ago these is that one brings with them all Golden Breed would have been dream gigs, the high expectations that had and for the most part these been nurtured by years of fol bands have aged well. Except lowing that band. Thrush for the Revs. Hermit was one of my all-time Chronological order of favourite Halifax bas-ed bands, shows coincided with the qual next to Plumtree and Hard itative order. They ranged from ship Post. Clayton Park is one of nice job indeed (Stereolab), sur my top 10 all-time greatest prisingly good (Spiritualized), Canadian rock albums of all and mediocre crap (Mercury time. Smart Bomb is somewhere Rev). But how do I really feel in my top 50. The Hermit's live about these shows? Mmmmm. gigs, though not always consis I'm a fan of Stereolab, and hav tent as far as musicianship was ing seen them on their last tour concerned, were always solid. I expected more greatness. I On this night, former Hermit was not disappointed. In fact, songwriter and co-frontman, this tour was superior com Joel Plaskett, delivered his pared to their last one, due to soulful brand of rock to a fairly two things: The Lab's latest full full house that materialized their sound (they sound drasti length, Sound Dust is the best from out of nowhere following cally different from when they work they've done in a while, the numerous openers' sets. first started) and have managed and technically, they've im The lanky Plaskett inter proved since two years past. to stay interesting over the wove quirky road stories and Drawing primarily from their years. Unfortunately, their live banter with his backing band, 'post-transitional' work (post show was anything but. the Emergency (which included Emperor Tomato Ketchup), their Jonathan Donahue's rock pos former Thrush Hermit bassist, latest tracks mixed seamlessly turing (complete with bird flut Ian McGettigan). The songs with the rest of the play list. So ters and Jesus Christ poses) were almost exclusively from seamlessly, that at times they completely distracted me from his second solo effort Down at turned into medleys. In the their sound. However, the the Khyber, which I found a little forefront, Laetitia Sadier and Commodore was mostly filled disappointing. He hadn't hit Mary Hanson sang in angelic with aging hipsters who Vancouver while touring his tones, while Tim Gane shook seemed happily fooled by the solo debut In Need of Medical his head to his guitar rhythms. band's Tea Party-like display. Attention and we got almost no Laetitia even brought out the The sound was good, and content from that album... At fhe Picadilly Pub trombone, much to the audi sounded like their CDs, but except for a couple of songs, ence's pleasure. Regrettably, shouldn't we expect just a little which luckily included a per "French Disco" was their only bit more? Plus, I thought sonal fave "When I Have My 60 w. pender Vancouver older track, but with such an Donahue's copying of former industrious group as the Lab I band mate David (Shady) could see why they wouldn't Baker's vocals on older tracks Despite the fact that 604-669-1556 want to play older material. If was shameful. Plaskett threw a couple of you missed them, don't fret, Robert Robot Clayton Park tracks into the mix, they're bound to be back soon. including the anthemic "Oh My THE JOEL PLASKETT EMER Soul!", it did not make up the w. Guests Like Mercury Rev, Spirit- GENCY fact that this was not a Thrush ualized's latest release doesn't JOHN FORD Hermit gig. Gone was the really make my peanut brittle. DAVEY'S LOCKER quirky chemistry and jokester- Jay Spaceman seems, in my STARFLY ism shared between Plaskett humble opinion, to have gotten Thursday, October 25 and co-lead Rob Benvie. It was progressively worse since the Starfish Room an absence that was made fantastic, Lazer Guided Melodies One good thing about loaded much plainer during the awk album. However, my faith in bills is that the music usually ward between-song pauses, Spiritualized was definitely has to start earlier than if the when Plaskett was left looking WITNESS restored by their performance show were simply a double-bill. a little intimidated by the that night. Boasting way too It means you don't have to stare throng hanging onto his every PROTECTION many members on stage, into your beer, as your friend word. There was simply silence t^#S' * Spiritualized was defiantly attempts to "talk" to you over while Plaskett tuned his guitar, sonic. A few tracks lasted more the din of (usually bad) canned or while McGettigan struggled ffcOfrtAft than 20 minutes—with the dis music. When I arrived at this for something witty (not) to say. tinctive organ drown from the, quadruple-bill, the first band Although the music was solid, Pure Phase album bridging Starfly who I was curious to the complete package that was tracks. Some audience members check out had finished and fol Thrush Hermit had me longing seemed a bit befuddled by the low-up act, Davey's Locker for those Hermit gigs I saw in band's tendency to revert to were two songs away from the late '96, when the late great 25E^gSSEtgB band was at the top of its game. a cat playing with a ball of viola and, despite a ridiculous Spike strings. You cannot clap until "pump up the volume" vocal the Kronos Quartet bend their sample (for the Dance Mix fans HALOU spines and untie their bows. in the house), Loco managed to PEOPLE'S BIZZARE It sounded like a CD; crisp pull off more than a few awe Thursday, October 25 and contained except I couldn't some tracks that were intelli Element Sound Lounge turn it up. I wished it were gent and danceable. There was At around nine o'clock the louder. It felt like 1 was sitting a healthy lack of barking, fitted People's Bizzare string trio took on the CD while it spun, and if I cap-wearing meatheads around the stage. People's Bizzare con had moved, it would've a rare and impressive feat for a sists of a cellist, violinist, and skipped. It would have been Vancouver nightclub. Kudos iNcKgr upright bass player and they ruined. But, really, there wasn't Sonar. Particularly successful play what one could only much to ruin. The best piece were the female vocal tracks was Arvo Part's "Pari Inter- Loco spliced in: they were well- CONGRATULATONS TO arrangements; a perfect compli vallo." The worst was the suite matched to the rhythm, neatly ment to Halou's own experi from Requiem for a Dream. avoiding the trap so many other mental electronic arrangements. Somewhere in the curves of the DJ's fall into in creating little They started with a fast piece walls or the gold plates of the better than insipid R&B songs ceiling fixture hid the Quartet's with an original beat. My friend THREE INCHES OF BLOOD between the violin and cello, enthusiasm. who's in the know told me the which at times verged on high studio tracks - especially on his speed fiddle. They continued to SHINDIG 2001 WINNERS! roll through a number of slower HAMID DRAKE, WILLIAM ending with a song that PARKER AND n the FRED ANDERSON .cllis VVInl •nrich- Sunday, October 28 ERIC'S TRIP Norman Rothstein Theatre Sunday, November 4 Three renowned improvisers Starfish Room THANKS ALSO TO THE RAILWAY CLUB, from the American creative JULIE DOIRON music scene Fred Anderson, Monday, November 5 William Parker and Hamid Sugar Refinery ALL THE PARTICIPATING BANDS, Drake jointly displayed their Remember this show? I heard musical talents in the highly you jaded folks talk. "Oh yeah, engaging performance on the second reunion tour," they SPONSORS, JUDGES, ORGANIZERS, October 28. said. Wrong. Thev never made it here the first time. To nu hor ror they cancelled due to injury. GUESTS AND OUR LONG-SUFFERING "It's not fair!" I yelled. of the Ass mg n Thankfully I had seen them once already. But guess what? MC, BEN LAI. in, enhanced by the live Musicians (AACM), All was not lost. They did not of the People's Bizarre. J a thick tenor sound forget us. They came back and usic was totally immer- with a buoyant melodic sense. there was much rejoicing. I nd lead singer Rebecca He performed brilliantly, would purposely forget just so Offl's voice swam beau- encompassing his capability of uld i SEE YOU IN 2002!!! through the dramatic merging the contemporary with Although the traditional. Bassist and com r again. poser, William Parker presented But enough of my pre-show himself as a formidable impro iu want to know about how they did. Maturity stage orgy, vising musician and an inven suits them well. They played all .-*s_ chart flfa^ $0OTi ive other tive bassist. His ability as a really enhanced the music, and composer was felt throughout the favourites including some the audience's enjoyment. the show. Drummer Hamid of Julie's angry songs. Actually, if not for the visualiza Drake incorporated pattern- Personally I was hoping for tions projected behind the band, based drumming through reg some of Julie's softer stuff a melange of video clips and backed up by the magnitude nnne ra ms:r gae to world music to free jazz. that is known as Eric's Trip, but sections of lyrics currently The highlights of the per northbynortheast •••*: ffiHJ^PAci I was far from disappointed. I being sung, I may have suc- formance were the numbers UHlilfiitt-'fr'- STUDIC bounced around the room; I mbed the "Joyous Dance," "In Praise of belted out the tunes. The 18- ed n drift c the One," and "Spirit Rejoice" 111 ''^ - ayonedrums.com Nevertheless, Halou proved to arousing heavy applause from my fists pounded the air. There be a fresh electronic band with the audience. The performance vmwmm was even a mosh pit, but I was creative, moving music that has that evening at the Norman n't ready to digress that much. definite pop potential. Now if Rothstein Theatre was sheer The only complaint I did only they could get a live show delight. have was their lack of the trippy happening... Raj Endra Matluir Paul Lambert experimental stuff a la "Purple Blue." It seemed that they were KID LOCO really trying to get somewhere, KRONOS QUARTET OTAKU stretch their boundaries of Sunday, October 28 Tuesday, October 30 Chan Centre noise. But it was a reunion tour. I love this band and I'm com When you see a show at the Not that I particularly like jazz pletely fascinated by their histo Chan Centre, you have to hold or jazz with "Latin influences" ry and dynamic. It was your breath. The venue is or both of them blended togeth- wonderful to see them talking designed like the hollow of a in doi shake. cello. If you breathe, the fibers to each other. It was wonderful French Dj/lionime dope Kid to see them looking out at the of your sweater will move, the Loco pulled it off so well that cilia in your nostrils will I'm gonna give him a good vibrate. Everyone will hear it. review anyway. Otaku was all You can only hold vour breath right, a little sparse on the stvle, for so long. When your lungs but the smoky rhythms com ir mouth open, a cough bined with Sonar's impressive /ery will c . The Halloween decorations brought j)[^ Not Just Another Music Shop BeatStreet that c Ugl, V ill s me back to my boyhood days - less what was happening jellyfish barbecues on the 28 jancember 2001 Wigftux Radio Mondays, 7:30-9rtOPM Degree-"Spotlight" Johnny Clarke-"Age is Growing" el RL Phelps and the Downe Uton Green- "Jah Jah Question" Mevision, Joel RL Phelps and Prince Alia, Iration Steppas vs Ki \ellac-Live at the Knitting Fa Damian Marley-'More Justice- Keith Rowe-"Groovy Situation" Delroy Wilson-"Don't Give Up" Tanya Stephens-'Hang Ups" Freddie Mcgregor-Get Involved" ie 5 of the ALDS at Safec( Mondays at Midnight African Rhythms Rise Againsl-T/ie Unraveling Alternating Fridays, 6-:00-9:00PM Propagandhi-TouViy's Empires. Tomoni V/A-The jazz Dance sessions Thrice-Identity Crisis Marcos Valle-Online/Bar Ingles" Ensign-Thc Price of Progression Randy-THf Human Atom Bombs Gamits-/4 Small Price lo Pay Real McKenzies-Lixh'it and Loaded Tiger Army-The Poxoer of Moonlight Bigwig-An Invitation lo Tragedy Mondo Grosso-4 Zeke-Death Alley The Silent Poets-"Pris. 4 Hero-Crrotinj; Puller [,ip,mi-1 •Pufferfish C lenome Decoded " Brenrier.S.EIgar.Cet a 13th Inter latton, Genome Sequencing and Analyst Syndicate-T/iP DaysofW, "Roll Your Own Nantubes." Schmidt. O. Kberl. S.2001 ie Funk Back Out" d Supports Global VI arming " Sagar n, R and M F. Science, October 26, 2001. "Bacteria Mate with M mmal Cells." Water December, 2001. "Pigs Expressing Saliva y Phytase Produce ow-Phosphoro s Manure 'Goto an, SP et 4, p. 741-745, 2001. "Taming Lake Nyos Killer C02, Cameroon " Halbwachs, A. et al. Sa France. February 7, 2(W1 "Land Size Limits Body Size of Biggest Anim Diamond, and P annery.T. Proceedings of the Naliona Academy of Sciences 27. 2001. The Be Good Tanyas-B/ur Horse Wednesdays 1-2PM "Nitrogen Cycling by Soft-rot Fungi g Mid s Tomb,' Jerk with a Bomb-T/ie OM Note Top 10 Culinary Delights Gordion, Turkey." Filley, T.etal. Proceedings of I ' ',.,'.,-,, ' t-:!< ;:,• ' ,'S 48. . 123-321, Stars-The Cmu-rut* Rack of Lamb-Ui Cutiiin 2001. V/A-Maximum )azz Presents Live til Ihe Cellar "Desert Beetles Stand o n Head .0 Collect W Iter on Backs." Parker, A a id Law rence, C. The Buttless Chaps-Dffl/n Sarin / // //( Rheostatics-NixW of the Shooting Slurs The Planet Smashers-No Self Control Rhymes and Reasons DJ Serious-Dim Sum Thursdays, 3-SPM Swollen Members-iM Drama Awol-One and Daddy K ev-'Rhythm" SoiarbabyAnother Suit-Milks Blmlu Dmwi Hennessey-Life on AM Radio Daddy Key and Mikkah 9-"First Things Last' Atmosphere-The Worn Pacific Pickin' Marz III--Raw Material' Tuesdays, 6:30-8AM Isosceles-"Sign Language" V/A-0 Brother. Where An Thou' Nobody f/Freestyle Fel Ralph Stanley ,md l-m-nd-i imh Mountain Siveelht Living Legends f/Slug- Apani B Fly Emcee-"A V Karl Mullet! and HigC'ountrv Show-In FullColor Asheru and Blue Black- Elevator Music" Cinny Hawker-Letters/rom My Father Slowdrag-Wou.v/im' if Ki.v'" lolhf Feme Ono.nafopoeifl Doyle Law-son and Qui. k-.ilv er-CinspW Canute Thursdays, 2-3PM Robin's Top 5 Cartoons for Girls Rhonda Vincent-The Storm Hull Rages lent and the Holograms Daria Caught m the Red PoioerpuffCirls Fridays 8-10AM Zen Cuerilla-S/iiu/reiis of the Sun Top 10 Local CDs reviewed in Vancouver The White Stripes- While bloo.1 Cells Graham Brown-Gwti 'n Broke V/A-NuggcisBoxVol.2 Coal-Beautiful Afterbum Mickey and the Salty Sea Dogs-Ssft W Panurge-Erectangle V/A-DW Thai Uranium Rat! Papillomas-W/ra Years Were Bee Stings "' krCity Devils-T/iWenui Pepper Sands-Wi'/come to... Pepper Sands Ralph-T/lis is for Ihe Night People Hit List Magazine Readymade-On Point and Red IU Chao-Prou'mn Estacion Esper Nebula-Ciiur\>iij Swank-Puppy's Corn Squeeze's Saturday Night Routine: Picadilly Pu: Transvestimentals-D<#icu/I Loves V/A-Team Mint Vol. 2! Folk Oasis Wednesdays. 9-10:30PM Replica Reject Ten Best Local Roots Bands I Saw Li Wednesdays, 7:30-9PM Ray Condo and his Ricochets Zubot & Dawson The Faint-Dnnsc Mmufirc Bocephus King Le Tigre-Ffmin/sl Sioeepslakes Rocket from the Crypt-Group Sounds Bughouse Five g Kevin Blechdom-T/ic InsiuV Story Scared of Chaka-Crossme with Sa'ikhhladrs Pete Turland Band Unwound-Lraws Turn Inside You Les Sexareenos-H Frrnzifii Sliakers Buffy,he Vampire Slayer Red Planet-Let's Degenerate White Stripes-W/iite Blood Cells Old skool Spidernum cartoons on Teletoon New Town Animals-Is Your Radio Active? Black Halos-T/ie Violent Years The Red £yt Dirtbombs-Ultraglide in Black Alternating Saturdays. 1-4AM Top 10 UK Oarage Classics YourHea GabneUe-"Roy Davis )R" Dann I Marcus Intalex-Taking Over Me" ?u Don't Stand t\- Horse Power-Triple 7" Quasi-Siiwiio/Coi/ Bis Project-Girls Like Us" Of Montreal-Coijui'/itot, Asleep in the •Killed Luck and Neet-'Bit of Luck" Radiohead-Amnesiac ve 0 Paradox Theati Seattle Raiwa-'Walk Right Through" Tori Amos-Strange Utile Cirls ET.A.-No Failh Mr. Maiic- A Deep Thing- Puffy Ami Yumi-Spite f-Minus-Suburban Blight Herb 1 i- Cool Down- Whte Stripes- While Blood Sells Holier than Thou?-Tfif Hating of the Cuts Mi Cole-'S.ncere" Four Corners-Suy Vou'n? il Scream Reserve 34-Knin City Cumes Kaito-You'w Seen Us... You Musi'veSeen Us What Happens Next?/Life's Halt/Tear It Up/Fast Tim. >x Theatre, Seattle Breakfast Fridays, 10-12PM Mondays, 8-11 AM Tuesdays, 5:00-6:OOPM Top Five Albums Choice Reading Material Chris Murray-4-Tracty<;iinzi? A Scries of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket TheSlackers-Wusti'ii Duys LemonJelly-Lemon/W/y.lry B«roi(Kf-/4-Noiw by Kevin Chong Planet Smashers-No Self Control VerbrilK Sound-Mimy Coloured Butterflies Coming Home by jada Gabriel Pape Mad Bomber Society-zWnmuM-Go-Go V/A-Barcfeat Present's Tlie Door ft Open by Bart Campbell NY Ska Jazz Ensemble-L/tv in Europe Tipsy-Uh-Oh! House oftttsh. House ofSlor.e by E. Morgen Jahnke Top Five Events Makeout Club ill: Morning Glory by Trish Kelly Ska-T's 30th Birthday Bash Poets of Rhythm-Discmt/De/jne Skylab by Htiabeth Bchinsky Planet Smashers, Peacocks, Subb at the Pic-P Stereolab-Sounir Dust Tlie Tom Skirt by Rebecca Godfrey Geared to Go-Go Silver Mt. Zion...-Born into Trouble... Turf Bedside Companion by Bonny Day Press Festering Octoberscoot (Seattle) Twilight Suites by Erin Peck NY Ska Jazz Ensemble Show at Maritime Lat our Centre 30 jancember 2001 what's being played at citr Jancember Long Vinyl Jancember Short Vinyl Jancember Indie Home Jobs 1 tennesse twin these thoughts are occcupied 1 riff randalls how 'bout romance lipstick 1 langley schools... innocence and despair bar none 2 the vultures alcoholic lady dirtnap 2 six block radius kill to hide the selection drone youi- best guess psychocat 2 radio berlin 3 tijuana bibles mexican courage trophy 3 deadcats 3 dears orchestral pop noir... 4 ming 15 beers shipbuilding 4 new town anima Is lose that girl mint 4 einsturzende neubauten 111:1991 -2001 mute 5 hummer latest thing 5 the flash express who stole the soul revenge 5 various artisfs better than the beatles a inima l world 6 three inches of blood conquerors... 6 common rider am i on my own lookout! 6 downway defeat songs sessions 7 mister nobu c'mon wid your c'mon 7 the spinoffs breakout! independent 7 julie doiron desormais endearing 8 soressa gardner dear liza 8 marmoset/firtips s/t animal world 8 music for mapmakers grenadine 9 ether's void stereo s/t 9 the cleats save yourself longshot 9 various artists lookout freakout lookout! 10 the epoxies need more time 10 the evaporators honk the horn mint 10 sweaters kick me generation i ndependent 11 the radio la dolce vita 11 butchies where r we mr.lady 11 le tigre feminist sweepstakes mr. lady 12 the horizontalist twenty feet behind horizontal 12 the organ we've got to meet 12 fugazi argument dischord 13 the locust s/t gsl 13 askmasters willing 13 operation makeout firstbase mint 14 the exploders what's what and... teenage usa 14 too hectic slaves like us 14 strokes is this it rca 15 victims family calling dr... alt. tentacles 15 red hot lovers fuck or fight 15 hayden skyscraper national park hardwood 16 red hot lovers s/t redline 16 frihaven blues musik 16 beat happening crashing through sampl er k 17 clem snide song for bob crane self starter 1 7 Victorian pork i just wanna beer 17 leonard cohen ten new songs Columbia 18 the lollies channel heaven evil world 18 cheerleader turn it on 18 wontons hex appeal bloody banner 19 the triggers s/t jonny cat 19 z28 rope you down 19 shikasta idependent gold ir 20 neafy deads/black rebels split jonny cat 20 three inches of blood tonight we rejoice 20 international noise... a new morning, changing. epitaph 21 bis return to central spin art 22 Horca new comer f 23 other people pbce lifestyles of laptop cafe warp 24 dj spooky under the influence six degrees HOW THE CHARTS WORK) 25 soundtrack songs for Cassavetes 1Defte r looking c 26 set fire to flames sings reigns rebuilder alien8 27 bebel gilberto tanto tempo remixes six degrees The monthly charts are compiled based on the number of times a CD/LP 28 death cab for cutie the photo album barsuk ("long vinyl"), 7" ("short vinyl"), or demo tape/CD ("indie home jobs") on 29 silver jews tennessee drag city CiTR's playlist was played by our DJs during the previous month (ie, 30 various artists team mint vol. 2 mint "Jancember" chart:^ reflect airnl av over Novemberl. 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It's your fist to the wrist—you know today's "Big Band." punk rock, baby! Gone from the Dec. 17: The last show of 2001 charts but not from our ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS 4:00- will pay tribute to Christmas with hearts—thank fucking Christ. 5:00PM A chance for new some seasonal jazz plus the PSYCHEDELIC AIRWAVES SUNDAY QUEER FM 6:00-8:00PM 2:00AM Join us in practicing CiTR DJs to flex their musical famous Christmas Eve session 3:00-6:30AM Dedicated to the gay, lesbian, the ancient art of rising above muscle. Surprises galore. with Miles Davis, Milt Jackson bisexual, and transsexual com common thought and ideas as ARE YOU SERIOUS? MUSIC WENER'S BARBEQUE 5:00- and Thelonius Monk. Best wish TUESDAY munities of Vancouver. Lots of your host, DJ Smiley Mike lays 9:00AM-12:00PM All of 6:00PM Join the sports dept. es for the holiday season from human interest features, back down the latest trance cuts to time is measured by its art. This for their coverage of the T-Birds. The Jazz Show\ PACIFIC PICKIN' 6:30-8:00AM ground on current issues and propel us into the domain of the show presents the most recent EVIL VS. GOOD alt. 6:00- Jan. 7: Happy New Year! Our great music mystical. SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Cf= conscious and funky • Ch= children's • Dc= dance/electronic • Ec= eclectic • Gi= goth/industrial • Hc= hardcore • Hh= hip hop Hk= Hans Kloss • Ki=Kids • Jz= jazz • Lm= live music • Lo= lounge • Mt= metal • No= noise • Nw= Nardwuar • Po= pop • Pu= punk Re= reggae • Rr= rock • Rts= roots 32 jancember 2001 BLUE MONDAY ah. 11:30 AM- POP GOES THE WEASEL 6c3O-7J0PM 1:00PM Vancouver's only indus- AND SOMETIMES WHY alt. THE LEO RAMIREZ SHOW 2:00- triaklectronic-retro-goth program. 7:30-9:00PM 3:30PM Music to schtomp to, hosted by (First Wednesday of every NARDWUAR THE HUMAN SERVI month.) ETTE PRESENTS... 3:30- ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSES REPLICA REJECT alt. 7:30- 5:00PM alt. 11:30 AM- 1:00PM 9:00PM Indie, new wave, punk, CITR NEWS AND ARTS 5:00- PARTICLE 1:00-2:00PM noise, and other. 6:00PM (On hiatus 'til January.) Incorporated into the soul are the FOLK OASIS 9:00-10:30PM FAR EAST SIDE SOUNDS alt. remnants of digital sound. Roots music for folkies and non- 6:00-9:00PM Unleashed, cryptic economies folkies... bluegrass, singer-song- AFRICAN RHYTHMS alt. 6:00- accelerate the sound particles rldbeat, alt. country 9:00PM David "Love" Jones through states of Becoming, s. Not a lirage! brings you the best new and old breaking the flesh, whirling, :[email protected]> jazz, soul, Latin, samba, bossa, hydra-head, rhizomatic sky. STRAIGHT OUTTA JALLUND- and African music from around www.shrumtribe.com HAR 10:30PM-12:00AM Let the world. CPR 2:00-3:30PM DJs Jindwa and Bindwa immerse HOMEBASS 9:00PM-12:00AM from IncUcL, htdudtttf fitfi&i; buh bump... buh bump... this is you in radioactive Bhungra! Hosted by DJ Noah: techno, but x the sound your heart makes "Chakkh de phutay." also some trance, acid, tribal, when you listen to science talk HANS KLOSS' MISERY HOUR etc. Guest DJs, interviews, retro <)«dte* moote* from tAe i$30 4. and techno... buh bump... 12:00-3:00 AM spectives, giveaways, and more. FILL-IN 3:30-4:30PM FIRST FLOOR SOUND SYSTEM BREAKING WAVES IN YOUR putent, ctsMfad tK44tc. temt-doMfad ELECTRIC AVENUES 3:30- 3:00-6:00 AM HEAD 12:00-2:00AM 4:30PM Last Tuesday of every month, hosted by The Richmond THURSDAY SATURDAY mmic 4uc& 04 $4afa& and S&t^***, FRI DECEMBER 7 TUES 25 dos@sugar refinery fun/da/mental@anza club; ember swift, cherry bomb@wise hall; jp rickey henderson (greatest self-proclaimed baseball player of all time) TUES 22 carter@sugar refinery; atlas strategic, moons, shark force, regional born this day, 1958 superstar: the karen carpenter story@blinding light hats (oxfam benefit)@ms t's cabaret; soul brains@commodore; m WED 26 WED 23 mccollum's hybrid@blinding light ('til wed); threat from outer blockhead vs meathead johnny wisdom@sugar refinery; beauty and the grotesque@blinding space@pic pub THURS 27 light SAT 8 blackalicious@commodore; human hilite reel@sugar refinery THURS 24 international noise conspiracy, hives, smugglers@richards; green FRI 28 e.o.n plays conspirators of pleasure@blinding light room@wise hall; frog eyes@sugar refinery; angels of light, virgil jazzmatic@sugar refinery FRI 25 shaw@graceland (seattle); me infecto@indusrial coffee (seattle); kip- SAT 29 jj72, stereophonics@commodore; radiohead vs the mafr/x@blinding pur, xac/osn@cinematheque jp carter@sugar refinery light SUN 9 SUN 30 SAT 26 angels of light, virgil shaw and the killer views@pic pub; snailhouse, sam petite@sugar refinery; mulholland drive, elephant man@ridge inner space (Vancouver new music)@first nations longhouse (ubc); aaron booth@sugar refinery; x-mas off the streets@wise hall; pu-san, MON 31 radiohead vs the matr/x@blinding light woman who touched /egs@cinematheque; nazi germany macbeth@st. CiTR PRESENTS CARIBBEAN AND LATIN NEW YEAR'S EVE SUN 27 James hall (held over 1 night only); vnv nation, icon of coil, urceus DINNER AND DANCE@HILTON HOTEL(metrotown); xiu xiu@sugar refinery; art school confidential@b\\nd\ng light exit@rage colorifics@sugar refinery; kinnie starr, the molestics, diez, ana bon MON 28 MON 10 bon@waldorf hotel; kent 3, rc5@comet tavern (seattle); famous players manic mondays@sugar refinery • yom yom, <;/ppur@cinematheque; tinka's new dress@cultch; alexander new year's@commodore; ray condo & cousin harley@wise ha!l;new TUES 29 : rodchenko photography@presentation house gallery ('til sun) year's sonic 2002: 12djs@lotus rene vienet's can dialectics break bn'd AESOP ROCK-Labor Days 2LP/CD APHEX TWIN-Druqks 4LP/2CD BELLE & SEBASTIAN-i'm Waking Up to Us 7H/I2"/CDEP 1 SGOT1 & CHRISTMAS: a short line to the good times/W BEULAH-The Coast is Never Clear LP/CD BUCK HALOS/BUBBLE-Xmas EP 2001 CDEP BONNIE PRINCE BILLY-Ease Down The Road LP/CD CANNIBAL OX-The Cold Vein 2LP/CD 'tis tfje season for our giant CEX-Oops I Did It Again CD CHICKS ON SPEED-Rereleases off '* CIRCULATORY SYSTEM-s/t CD (ex CIRCUS DEVILS-Ringworm Interiors (Bob Pollard/GBV) BOXING WEEK SALE THE CRAMPS-six new reissued classic albums LPs/CDs THE DEARS-Nor the Dahlias: The Dears 1995-98 CD DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE-The Photo Album LP/CD OUT NOW ON SCRATCH: DESTROYER-Streethawk: A Seduction LP/CD DECEMBER 26th to THE FAINT-Danse Macabre LP/CD ' FILTHY THIEVING BASTW!D$-A Melody of Retreads A Broken Quis LP/CD DECEMBER list FOUR TET-Pause LP/CD FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP-Temptations 2LP/CD FUGAZI-lnstrument DVD FUGAZI-The Argument LP/CD GET UP KIDS-Eudora 2LP/CD EVERYTHING GUESS WHO-Shakin'AII Over 2LP/CD THE HIVES-Barely Legal LP/CD will be JIM O'ROURKE-lnsignificance LP/CD JULIE DOIRON-Desormais CD (ex-Eric's Trip) JERK WITH A BOMB VOTE ROBOT LE TIGRE-Feminist Sweepstakes LP/CD 20% to 50% „ff/ The Old Noise • LP/CD In Meorm NA* CD MOGWAI-MjF father the King import CDEP (30 Dims extra!) 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Nitro Records are distributed in Canada by Scratch Distribution Turbo A.C.s, the Offspring, and more. 3SE^gSg®ES IN ZULU'S NEW DEI HEY. we've expanded to the building next door at 1976 West 4th Ave! Featuring an extensive selection of vinyl (new. used & rare collectors items). as well as extra room between both buildings to check out some amazing new specialty CD sounds. Stop by and spend the afternoon with a record of your choice! MARK KOZELEK BLACK HALOS/BUBBLE White Christmas CD XmasCDEP AFF TOP 10S OF THE YEAR! A fter a series of lengthy phone calls we finally managed to holidays for if not for spending time with oid friends? This »particular order) Msecure some copies of this limited edition recording from EP features three previously hard-to-find tracks by Vancouver's Red House Painters impresario MARK KOZELEK. Released on wBLACsK HALOS . You get one Christmas song, one rocker, & one acoustic Sub Pop for the holiday season, MARK gives us some acoustic ballad (!) from Hopeless & Co., as well as three others, in the same • by and check out these picks renderings of his RHP classics, plus one Christmas song — a Christmas spirit, from L.A. super group, BUBBLE. st haunting version of White Christmas! Needless to say, his songs CDEP 10.98 10% off'til January 31 2 are in the process of becoming timeless — don't wait for the car commercial to discover their fragile beauty! BULLFROG BARBARA- NIC- Against Architecture III Available December 15th While supplies last! 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Le Tigre- Feminist Sweepstakes JASON- Noriko Tujiko- Shojo Toshi Restiform Bodies- Restiform Bodies he title is instructive: The Ends Against The Middle dissects The New Year- Newness Ends Various Artists- Nuggets 2 Box CD 16.98 Chris T-T-The 253 TANTI-POP's distinctive "block-rock Papa M- Papa M Sings The Strokes-Is This It JoelRLPhelps- ing avant garde hip-hop" sound into SIGUR ROS White Stripes-White Blood Cells STEVE- two distinct halves in a bold attempt to Restiform Bodies- Restiform Vue- Find Your Home Old Time Relijun- Witchcraft Rebellion avoid crowd-pleasing homogenization. Bodies Svef n-g-englar CDEP ,: I Oneida-Anthem Of The Moon Buck 65- Man Overboard This seven-track EP alternates between For many this EP served an CHRISTINE- Brian Jonestown Massacre- Bravery Clinic- Internal Wrangler unusually funky rap battles and to the brooding dynamics of this enigmatic Icelandic quar The Strokes-Is This It Repetition And Noise The Shins- Oh. 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For more details see the inside front cover of this issue of Discorder! www.zulurecords.com I.r-Mer^eafvA (Vagrant) request and behest of she who THE SILVER MT ZION Before listening to Smog's Well, the cover art and layout can no longer tolerate binary MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA newest release Rain on Lens, are real nice. Cover art can't language. It begins with this AND TRA-LA-LA BAND you'll want to set the mood just save an album that is this bor joke that was probably passed Born Into Trouble As The right. First, buy a brush and ing. This album takes all the O around through the circles of Sparks Fly Upward some paint, then soak your out of EMO and adds a lot of R bitter, wealthy men for decades (Constellation) walls in a thick coat of black. before it slipped into the wrong (Take care about the corners). which gets us REM. Not the I always feel ill-equipped to demographic. It goes: How Next, draw the blinds shut, .A, Atlanta, Georgia REM, but review anything out of the ; about instead of getting mar close your door tight, and cover Rapid Eye Movement, ex- Godspeed You, Black Emperor! : wu~*^ members of Braid. On the same ried, you buy a house and give your table with old pictures of camp. I always, always enjoy note, the Get Up Kids want it to someone you hate? an ex-partner. There it is, you're the music, but I never feel like I done. Now lay back, hit play on your lunch money so they put Here are some town names: fully understand the message. your stereo, and keep the out this CD full of songs that Forest Hills, Oak Hill, (H) \S*M\ All I ever seem to get is that life Prozac flowing like wine. they put out already. Exciting. Brentwood, Scottsboro, is terrible. This album seems to With Rain on Lens, Bill Jay Douillard Columbia, Sur rtown, Mt. > J«M.M.rt(. A;( have a similar aim, even going Callahan has produced a slight Pleasant, Ch: Arrington, s so far as to include a long dia ly depressing recording. (g) 7a?.c-«^?r "V,o MIGALA Rockvale, Pleasant Vie tribe entitled "On the Failure of Slightly, that is, in the way Juliet. Bon Aqua, Marrowbone, S® S»^£it? (tA) One Small Community in Vancouver is a slightly wet city. (Sub Pop) Sugar Grove, Water Valley, Both literally and figuratively, Cumberland Furnace, Loretto, Achieving its Own Ill-Defined The fourth song on this album there is rain on the lens in this L% CO' ^c-s v'M Minor Hill. That very last one Dreams and/or Goals..." The is so beautiful. But for some rea album; "the boom is in frame." spent 80 years to get their last Silver Mt. Zion album was son Migala put in samples of Our view is obstructed and •trc-VVTi CK^O.^\ P ki , -\ Baptist church from the blue unbelievable but it always left screeching tires and crashing. something is askew. Well you see I was driving print to the corner of Main and me feeling down. This new Indeed, this LP is drenched along in Cloverdale after the Templeton. Perhaps if the idiot album, though, doesn't leave in conflict. Songs like "Dirty dog show when I had to pull a who founded the place had me sad at all. In fact, strangely- Pants" feature Callahan dron driving n called a U- decided to give his name fur enough, it fills me with a sense ther west, nearer the Natchez of hope. Maybe it's the beauti ing lines like, "Then I walk out turn. This w a pretty moder- to your house/And I let myself ate U-turn Trace, there would have been a ful last track "The Triumph of greater urgency, what with all Our Tired Eyes" that features in/Back you into the corner/ And screeching n ?r the I multiply/I could toll endless song. We v all ii ;, did the traders taking the long walk the lyrics "There's beauty in this home from New Orleans, where ly/into the bottomless night." that dangerous land but I don't often feel it..." they'd have sold their river In "Short Drive" the singer's screech with my very conserva Maybe it's the kid in the open barge for enough to cover pros venom seethes through the tive U-turn? Then there was a ing of "Built Then Burnt r"*;V satA" S«H^•IHUnr H (gWiNvei? titutes, typhus, and the hackney verses as he steers us through a crash. We were all fine. It was (Hurrah! Hurrah!)" whose \ !v^ « tar \m> spr^AP JAA shit that they would have writ tour of his foes. just the CD. Take my advice: breathless, colourful reciting ten off as provisions if they had The interesting portraits of ir- r-.n ^ AV rZ n«» buy this CD, but don't drive to always brings a smile to my an at had a chance to file income tax. strife on this release, however, the fourth song—it's hard on face because he is so passionate. By the time Minor Hill came by, emerge when Callahan turns the nerves. Maybe it's the way the album ^«r«WAt* ,-k^OTi there would be a real need to his sardonic eye inward. "Song," Jay Douillard begins as it slowly fades from a confess—what with Nashville one of the best on the album, is A W UfWn, o p» r> JJnr-.rU, looming not 10 days away. A quiet sound in the distance into a mounting paradox in which THE ROCK*A»TEENS trader could confess feeding a grand, loud melody. Or the singer laconically dise- Noon Under the Trees sap to little babies, or at least to maybe it's simply the bird on quates himself to a soldier, "In (Moodswing) taking that sap, firing it up until the back cover carrying a sign the way I wear no uniform /And The following bands suck: it got soft, putting a mosquito in that says simply "Please choose not to fight/And fight Stereolab, For Stars, Sublime, it and then selling it hard as fos Believe." Highly recommended, all night/For some other Bob Marley and the Wailers, silized amber to some suck at maybe as much or even more cause." A snapshot of "beauty" Bluetip, Bratmobile, Shannon Colbert Ferry. But the town than any other Godspeed-relat is tersely explored in "Dirty Wright, Death Cab for Cutie, wasn't there, and neither was ed album ever. Pants" which brings us to a Call and Response, Unwound, the church. All those bad people Caley home where, "I dance in dirty Quasi, Zeke, The Promise Ring, pants/A drink in my hand/No 23E[£§SI®2£ shirt and broken tooth/Barefoot undeniable genius i there might really dig it, and beaming." spheres—the swoon o though. The Wontons might not one fast-living, tomb be original enough (or commer cial enough, depending how optimism on this album as well. cynical you are) to break out of Meditations on companionship, their Austin hometown scene for instance, surface on songs they sound like they'd be pretty like "Keep Some Steady Friends TREMBLING BLUE STARS fun to see live. If they ever Around," A sweet, romantic Alive To Even/ Smile appear on a bill locally, I'll prob (Sub Pop) ably go see them. As far as actu Trembling Blue Stars' previous ally buying the record goes, mgh, I think that I'll pass. albums of 2000, mainly because Mike nszkis it included the incomparable drops merge/Then there is the V/A bip-hopgeneration lv.4] i Alice iniile. (bip-hop) Experimental techno derives its disappoint me. A wee bit more essence from several different on the upbeat side than its pre foundations: Detroit techno and decessor, Alive To Every Smile is house, Jamaican dub, electro, no less beautiful. The entire contemporary minimalism, album is chock full of songs musique concrete, electro- about lost love, unrequited Tht 1 Rain on Lens is music, John Cage, etc. and etc. love, and any other form of love Bip-Hop is a label that recog in the words, words. that just leaves you going nizes the diversity of influences And in that wc nderfully weird "What the...?" From the friends and sounds possible from the horn s do at he end of the unwilling and unable to pursue furtive junctures between these album. a further relationship in "Until musical worlds, and their Ian Sonslun the Dream Gets Broken" to the couple who just can't make the Generation series has spotlight STARS connection in "Little ed the extremes and experi Tlie Cor neback EP ments of this aural strain, lv.4] Gunshots," Trembling Blue (Le Gra nd Magistery/Darla) features the work of a host of ,' Iron Take t ie bet t elements of hasi Khingly bea, talented artists, including mira Stereol ab's Ei ro-techno beats calix, whose abstract drum and kev boards, the Beatles' best riffs, , and heartfe ballads written eerie, distanced chorus sets the he Britpop new tone for the productive weird- sounding "Broken By ness that follows, from si- Order ind yi u get tins, the Whispers." The cut.db's FSOL-esque tracks of third EI and fo irth album from er, fuller sound and songs HIS M cave-echoing beats and rain- that seem more epic and impor le/male-fronted soaked, compacted grooves to tant. There is no better way to ly brazenly cut- twine's rhythmic cascade of spend a lonely, rainy e\ ting-edge in th >ir genre-blend- "K harmonic clicks and drones. than curling up in bed with a lo, art-wrenchingly "Experimental" often means of blankets and headphones 'huvre mil In "barely listenable" but, with playing Alive To Every Smile thespai Of five songs, Stars tip- this compilation, this is certain- while you dream of a less heart toe the •dge of love and moves along the plane of chal breaking day. [undansathfinliou88 tattoo] both s lenging the ears and the mind Caley with im stifyingly grand results. without challenging the limits THE WONTONS of musical engagement or fre Vancouver, n.c. "Krush ' could not only be the Her Appeal quency comprehension, at e to t (Bloody Banner) times warm and supple, such as woman but al 0 me^Onadlan Hailing from Austin, Texas, the in the case of si-cut.db and Vs^ 604-675-9227 Wontons play fuzzed-out freak- Price's granular dub broken id am smarts about loTkfii out pre-punk garage rock and beats, and other times complex roll. While this in itself is noth- and difficult, such as datach'i's www.teenaaepampaoerecopd8.com ,, the\ tched H.lll/ what thev do, judg- scythe-like frequency-beats and NEW STORE HOURS! mon-sat:11-6/sun: 124 fact that they wear Cray's crackling, popping, 964-era Beatles style abstract sonic landscapes. In the rive a vintage white in store now. Spike compilations, this one really • Mitt hops conspiracy the Im photo: stands out from the pack in its BILLY-BOB THORNTON quality, scope, and breadth. 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