ART + CULT ISSUE B SS 2020 your personal white space (aaaahh breathing room...) verbose və:’bəʊs adj. using or expressed in more words than are needed. 2 the_verbose issue b : bipolar spring 2020 the_verbose On the eve of this release, the world was forced to shelter in place. As I clicked “publish” and closed my laptop, little did I know what awaited me in the morning: a global crisis that would soon reveal itself as the harbinger for existential crisis (I know), and social and political movements as businesses and communities simultaneously dismantled to come together. The bipolarity of this fueled the hyper connectivity between physical and digital space which was the core of this second issue back in early 2019 as I set out to map global intersections through art. In a quest to identify the common threads in vastly different mediums, messages, cultures and geographies, we can now reflect on the creative intelligence breeding change and elevating the human spirit in an uncertain and transient world. This second issue, b, represents bipolar. Through travel and serendipitous encounters, I’ve been documenting creativity to build a narrative around the visible confluence of human interaction from polar opposite worlds. wuuuut? The result: a curation of art + culture that collectively guide us out of emotional cues and robotic reactions, adrenaline and apathy lacing swipes and likes, and towards stories inviting us to look beyond the pictures, and respond with questions, and with intention. My interviews get personal in effort to decrease the distance between people and the pages, print or pixel. May you read every line and in between them to hear some powerful voices. As I continue educating myself, I am grateful to share what I discover with those who join me on this ride. If this magazine inspires you to go do more of what you love, we’re winning. Your turn. Thank you to the musicians (Brian Eno Music for Airports remastered 2004) and photographers for your imperative art forms that had me hustle this issue in two months, dancing to a different beat every hour. with love, Angela ANGELA GLEASON KIM ELAINE creator curator . dubai curator . los angeles STEFANIA LIQUIDBLOX SHARP PRINTING curator . berlin digital . finland print. los angeles who SANCERRE PANDA YOU support . france cat . copenhagen curator . anywhere HOUDA_RAHMANISAAD_ZAALMICHEL_YORDANOVSIMONE _THORENFELDTFRANK ty JJUMBA_MARTINMELISSA_CHAULETTHOMAS_PLAFFJULIA CANAVANMARCGIOVANNI STREETCREDS issue B : spring 2020 3 heard in a club shared online found on a trip 08 24 58 volume darkmode sneaks up off on farveblind stefania tejada bleu de fes 10 26 60 reviving rave w/ soul female forward the berber in Copenhagen from Colombia rug brothers in Tangier henry loussian laurence jones jovanie philogene 122 102 74 an artist’s revival LA in photorealism un voyage in of old Beirut from London paper gifts from Haiti 4 the_verbose SIDENOTE guest contributor 06 found on a trip word on the street 58 90 sneaks phones on down SIDENOTE guest contributor 22 SIDENOTE bleu de fes marie visti hansen 60 92 guest contributor the berber economist uncovers 56 rug brothers fashion in Kampala in Tangier SIDENOTE guest contributor 88 jovanie philogene sandro giordano 74 104 un voyage in the fall, in photos paper gifts from Rome from Haiti issue B : spring 2020 5 side note melati wijsen climate activist byebyeplasticbags.org icon by Jie-eah “Dancing with politicians — it’s three steps forward, two steps back, and then again and again.” 6 the_verbose VOLUME UP issue B : spring 2020 7 the_verbose // volume up v CURATED BY TAXIS & WALNUTS mike jones los angeles dj / musician @friendofsarahconnor @brwnluxxry 8 the_verbose olume UP vimala paris v experimental @vimalamusic photo // laurent nalin akvilina dj / model lithuania @akvilinaubartaite photo // greta bernotaite olume UP issue B : spring 2020 9 the_verbose // volume up 10 the_verbose F25CM farveblind interview #25 copenhagen musicians MORTEN RYGAARD @moreten_rygaard issue B : spring 2020 11 the_verbose // volume up FARVEBLIND REVIVING RAVE W/ SOUL IN COPENHAGEN 12 the_verbose PHOTO CREDIT Roskilde ‘18 by Abdellah Ihadian I had known about Farveblind (colorblind in Danish) for two weeks before this interview. Anyone living in Copenhagen will tell you it’s impossible to avoid the music scene. From How was a new generation cultivating Roskilde to Distortion to the Copenhell metal crowds and producing music in a binge and Jazz week. The social advantage is forthcoming music capital? I reached out that these fests are shoved in your face so you before their tour in Hong Kong. It was a are effortlessly aware of the hottest local music cold Wednesday eve in the meat-packing tribes. Farveblind was on the lineup for Roskilde district. NoHo, that’s where we met. Great in 2018. Naturally, I googled the entire lineup lighting. Fantastic club soda. Magnus posted on a wall somewhere in Vesterbrø. There Pilgaard Grønnebæk and Jens Asger Lyk- they were. Different. Mixing genres, dodging keboe Mouritzen. Meet these crazy kids. categories. EDM. Rave. Grime. Dance. All of that, but niche. Genre-neutral? They oozed DIY (applause). issue B : spring 2020 13 the_verbose // volume up FARVEBLIND V_ Your latest track, Jewls, And if that works, it should Magnus / It’s really just a matter just came out. Congrats. It’s work live also. of if there’s enough money in the aggressive. It’s cool. I was concerts. But then, we just made listening to Indima, which was Jens / I mean it’s really, you know, some music, and and it got better, a bit softer, and then heard this about trying to take our sound to so we realised that now our track. Way more demanding, the next level – In some ways, it’s productions are just as good as but good. So, talk about this hard to be a musician nowadays. our live music, and we can do the new sound, and about how On one side you have to be the whole thing. And that’s when Jewls Jewls came together? business man and on the other side came out. Jewls is a new place and you have to be this unique icon. it was with this track, we just felt the Magnus / So actually, Jewls was You need to self-promote on social vibe all the way through. the first track we produced with media. Which is fucking hot if you’re Steve (Steve Dub - cue Prodigy, that character. Then again you need V_What’s a successful show? Chemical Brothers). And I guess to be very original. we had kind of been struggling a Magnus / It’s small steps. bit with our sound. We are a really Magnus / ...and do it all the time. For me. Success is always great live band. We’ve been playing And be ready, all the time. developing. There’s no end goal. a lot of live shows, and I guess we It’s really just, like if we showed kind of missed out on the whole up and people were there having production thing that goes before a great time, that’s success. If we the concert acts. Like, the whole get to perform at a new location, learning how to be a producer. We that’s success. And also working were a live band first, and producers with Steve for example, and these second. DJs from around the world is success. The fact that we get to Jens / The initial ground music play in Asia is success. So it’s always was done first. You know it was very evolving and developing. very basic. We started to get into V_How much of your personal this dilemma where people liked identity is your band image or Jens / It’s really a never ending it. We didn’t expect that. But they brand? thing. It’s quite healthy for an artist, did. So we needed to keep doing or not even an artist, but even a it, give it value for the audience. A Magnus / I guess it is. The thing small business, to have these ambi- performance. about when it comes to this kind tions and these realistic milestones. of niche techno EDM vibe, people Our first goal was to figure out who V_How much of your audience are always super serious. And we we are. And that’s ongoing. influences your sound. When try not to be. you know the venue, and your V_ Mixing genres. How did the crowd does the music cater to Jens / The thing is, we are not track come together so fluidly? this, or do you take a chance on people that can manage or create it just being all you? a character, because we are not Magnus / I think it was really actors. So, we need to portray a natural process for us. It’s Magnus / I think the beautiful ourselves as we are. We’re kind of definitely one of our quicker tracks. answer would be it’s all us. But the dorks. Nerds. Like the whole production was a thing is, we are that market. So it’s long process. But when we started actually not that well thought out, V_So you have this reputation from the first sample to the demo but we are trying to advance our for having great visuals in your with vocal and everything that was own music while we produce it. shows. Tell me about it. more natural than the two other So we always have this dance test. tracks. I don’t know if you’d agree: 14 the_verbose We started to get into this dilemma where people liked our sound. We didn’t expect that. But they did. So we needed to keep doing it, give it value for the audience.