Stoner Central #18: All

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Op maandag 8 september 2008 18:32 schreef Gehenna het volgende:
bodoelde je deze??
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er blijken nogal wat bandjes te zijn met die naam, maar volgens mij bedoel je deze of nie?

ik had hem nog maar 1 keer geluisterd, maar ik vond hem zeker aardig, idd wel een beetje milder dan de vorige, maar zeker niet slap, tis nu meer pelican achtig geworden.

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Op maandag 1 september 2008 21:53 schreef TimoBasso het volgende:
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Russian Circles ... hun 2de meesterwerk.. Station..

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Op dinsdag 9 september 2008 00:39 schreef fs180 het volgende:

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spelen die niet in oktober in waterfront?

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Dolores
RELEASE DATE: 10/21/08

Why changes still remain

The proverbial Bohren intro is followed by a gentle slide, an enduring, slowly swelling sound and the faint echo of an organ. Film music? Only after the first, long 46 seconds of ?Staub? (English: Dust) does the drum beat finally make its mark on the acoustic flow, though it takes no toll on the tempo of the track, only to underscore it ? unusually ? in its slowness. There?s not a shadow of doubt: this is pure Bohren, brewed and bottled in Bohren country, the new 2008 album with the surprising name, ?Dolores?.

The name is not the only new thing about ?Dolores?. That?s to be expected. Bohren have a habit of producing something new. Twenty years is no flash in the pan. It?s worth taking the time to re-listen to ?Gore Motel? (1994) or ?Midnight Radio? (1995) to recap on the astonishing path which the seemingly static formation by the name of Bohren have followed since they began in 1988 and released since their debut album in 1994.

What?s that dripping noise? Orgelblut? (English: organ blood). Until now the organ has found no place in the experimental sound factory otherwise known as Bohren & Der Club of Gore. This organ communicates in a ?lively? way with the Fender Rhodes. Later a vibraphone kicks in, something which has a similar effect to the once doubling of the bass guitars in the Bohren cosmos. More proof of the precise orchestration taking place in Bohren!

Since the year dot, the quartet from Cologne and M?lheim/Ruhr has always been good for a surprise. Bohren have radically taken the tempo out of their music, until every sound that seeps out of the loudspeakers can be met in all peace and quiet with the clap of a hand. That alone, however, does not represent the musical experiments of their now six albums. Just because Bohren deconstructs the parameters of space and time doesn?t mean the band aren?t playing rock. Nor does it mean they are playing jazz. They work with another kind of virtuosity.

There?s a world of difference between reading about Bohren and listening to Bohren. Time and again critical reviews use phrases which hopelessly try to describe the confusing and unusual style of the band. The music is either ?gloomy?, ?sinister?, ?eerily beautiful?, ?hypnotic?, ?mysterious?, ?edgy?. Cinematic associations are also part and parcel of this, usually making an uninspiring connection to the films of David Lynch as underscored by the music of Angelo Badalamenti. But Bohren has never stood still long enough to warrant the same words.

When Bohren threw out the guitars after ?Gore Motel? and ?Midnight Radio? and took a saxophonist into their midst in the form of Christoph Cl?ser, the cards were reshuffled. The extremely slow but nonetheless melodious blend of saxophone, piano, organ, Fender Rhodes, vibes, bass and drums, which occasionally sounds like easy listening or bar jazz, was soon labelled ?horror jazz? by the critics. Surprise, surprise! But were they just calling it ?jazz? because radically slowed down ex-Doom Metal doesn?t work when played in minor without the slightest trace of metal? Bohren?s music is similar to the simple, experimental films of James Benning (?13 Lakes?, ?Ten Skies?): how do our senses respond when the habitual bombardment of visual and acoustic information no longer burdens us, when we?re reduced to ourselves and really get the time to see and to listen. Bohren?s music is not exactly the ideal background music for reading the Sunday paper. Bohren is the opposite of ambient. It?s an proposition to the listener to confront him or herself with the power of the essential. Each tone seems to be chosen with infinite patience.

Looking back, ?Black Earth? (2002) seems to be an attempt to expand the possibilities of new avenues explored in ?Sunset Mission? (2000) in all their splendour, while the subsequent conceptual masterpiece, ?Geisterfaust? (2005), carries the principles of reduction and compression to such extremes that it even put the fear of God into the most devoted Bohren fans. But at the same time the band used ?Geisterfaust? to experiment with new ?tone colours? (tuba, bass trombone, choir). If there?s one thing Bohren doesn?t do, it?s repeating themselves. The unconventional pace of production tells a clear story. Every step is carefully thought through.

The new album, ?Dolores?, once again reveals a new side to Bohren & Der Club of Gore. Within the band, the members are unanimous that ?Dolores? is a counterdraft to ?Geisterfaust?. But ?Dolores? is not a break with it. It?s part of the process.

Tracks like ?Orgelblut?, ?Faul? (Lazy) or ?Welten? (Worlds) completely conform with the continuity of the band. ?Dolores?, however, was never ?conceived? as a counterdraft (Bohren doesn?t work with concepts; they round off the final product once completed with a track title and cover design). Instead, the band discovered ? one could even say permitted - another, new side to open up while working on ?Dolores?. In an interview, Christoph Cl?ser has described pieces like ?Karin? or ?Still am Tresen? (Silent at the Bar) as ?slinky easy listening numbers?. For the first time, the album feels like it?s made up of singles, not only because of their length. By Bohren?s usual standards, the pieces on ?Dolores? are significantly shorter, only ?Schwarze Biene? (Black Bee) runs over 8 minutes. In addition, the structures of the songs are clearer, the melodies (vibes!) more tangible. To put it in a nutshell: by Bohren standards, ?Dolores? is a clear step towards pop. The pieces develop very incidentally, they seem close at hand, accessible, and yet still remain mysterious. The organ and a certain spatiality created during production give ?Dolores? a sublime, almost religious touch which has always been inherent in the idea of deceleration. This touch is now clearly audible. In this way, Bohren & Der Club of Gore has decided to reposition themselves with some tracks (and provide yet another surprise for their fans!), and so ?Dolores? remains true to Bohren. The contextualisation of the new music through track titles and cover design ? always an important aspect of Bohren?s work ? underlines this: there is ?dolor? (pain) in ?Dolores?, but Dolores also stands for the hot-blooded, sharp-tongued bar mistresses in B-Westerns south of the border. The cover design echoes Edvard Munch?s ?The Scream?, as well as anatomical copperplate engravings and ?The Silence of the Lambs? (and no doubt dozens of other references). Track titles like ?Schwarze Biene? or ?Unkerich? (a comic figure) are testament to the often whacky humour of the musicians ? something which has always been overlooked, particularly in labelling their music ?Horror Jazz?. Such dynamics between pathos and laconicism, between seriousness, silliness and coolness (also) protect the unpredictable band from generalisations in the media. Until now (fingers crossed).

Bohren?s habit of making music which often makes the listener feel like he or she is stuck in some dark room in which the oxygen is slowly and mercilessly being extracted has changed with ?Dolores?. When listening to ?Dolores?, listeners are sure to get feeling that ? after all these years ? the shutters are being raised, the windows thrown open, fresh air and sunlight are flooding into the room. Quite by chance, the most natural thing in the world, cool, crisp and brazen.


Ulrich Kriest

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Op dinsdag 9 september 2008 10:30 schreef OMG het volgende:
Ik ben een voorstander van meer vraagtekens in tekst. Komt dat goed uit met bovenstaande quote.

Ik ben benieuwd naar dat nieuwe Bohren & Der Club Of Gore gedoe. 19 oktober spelen ze in Paradiso, maar ik denk niet dat ik ga.

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Op woensdag 10 september 2008 20:04 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:
Thaumogenesis niet te vergeten!
Het zolo wek van die aiden baker is ook tof trouwens!

tjek:

Aidan Baker

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Op woensdag 10 september 2008 22:12 schreef Gehenna het volgende:

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toen ik dat clipje zag moest ik direct aan dit filmpje denken:
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/30326208 (realplayer)
machinefabriek - allengskens

ook lovesliescrushing past hier goed bij

tis alleen totaal geen stoner

om het stoner gehalte weer een beetje op te krikken toner low:
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iemand bekend met hun? ik vind het zelf erg goed te doen
is hun album nu al niet meer te verkrijgen trouwens of zoek ik gewoon niet goed?
dingen als bol etc vinden niets van hun :S

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Op donderdag 21 augustus 2008 03:39 schreef Trashcanman het volgende:
Deze al voorbij gekomen in dit topique?

vrijdag 26 september 2008 Black shape of Nexus samen met Toner Low in OCCII in A'dam.

Eens kijken of ik hier bij kan zijn

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Op donderdag 11 september 2008 20:07 schreef brother52 het volgende:
Weet iemand wat er met deze gasten gebeurt is?

Blind Dog - Beyond My Reach (Live)

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Op donderdag 11 september 2008 23:22 schreef Doc het volgende:

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Die bestaan nog gewoon: ietsjes minder stoner en ietsjes meer rock geworden, maar veel scheelt het niet

http://www.myspace.com/blinddog666

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Op donderdag 11 september 2008 23:56 schreef brother52 het volgende:

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Ik dacht dat ze al een tijdje uit elkaar waren. Het was de laatste paar jaar erg stil rond hun.


hmmmm.
Op hun myspace staat een link naar hun site, daar blijkt dat ze dus toch uit elkaar zijn.
Jammer, ik had ze erg graag nog eens live gezien. Die ene keer in Vera was geweldig.

Op hun site zijn nog wel 7 nummers te downloaden
http://www.blinddog.se/index.php

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Op vrijdag 12 september 2008 17:39 schreef Tackleberry het volgende:
Jammer, hun eerste album was echt goed... Tweede album nog niet zo heel vaak geluisterd. Meteen even hun gratis cd binnen aan het hengelen.

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Op zaterdag 13 september 2008 10:46 schreef lizardtattoo het volgende:
Tof verjaardagfeestje van Roadburn gisteren
Hoi Bosbeetle, trashcanman en sorry-ik-ben-je-naam-vergeten