NUDITY & ATROCITY, DAN BODAN’s second full-length album, is a gothic romance. The love he sings of is fraught and intense, trapped on a windswept and desolate plain, dreaming of warmer times. Its songs are lovesick, melancholic, and irresolute.
Their passion does not dissipate. Perhaps, because beyond it there is only the deceptively empty landscape: full of invisible radio waves, flying saucers, and survivalists in hidden cabins. Unlike Virginia, this is a place for lovers. Romance can only grow in the most hostile of environments.

The album’s tracks are built from this environment. As a result, NUDITY & ATROCITY feels thoroughly North American despite having been produced in Berlin. The paranoid reality, which peaks in and out of its tracks, prepares for the end of the world with tin-foil hats, not bomb shelters. Rolling thunder, barking dogs, and the ambient chatter of A.M. radio are layered over the tracks’ melodies, contrasted with the more mundane found audio and distorted to the point of being almost unidentifiable.

This sets a tempo and lends an intonation. DAN BODAN builds walls of sound around his melodies. The walls vary in their clarity and every once in a while become transparent enough to catch a glimpse of the irrational world beyond, where every weather balloon is a Reptilian spacecraft and every reggae song is an excuse to close your eyes and dream of the tropics. The tension between the paranoid environment and the amorous subject is what allows NUDITY & ATROCITY to achieve its considerable sophistication. It draws together its disparate influences as if it were absentmindedly scanning the radio. The tuner passes through the conspiracy theorists and the right-wing demagogues, the Top 40 channels and the greatest hits from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. The listener is only halflistening. His mind is somewhere else. With someone else.

NUDITY & ATROCITY is a limited edition of 250 vinyl records designed by artist SIMON
DENNY.

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Roma Publications
presenting
Marc Nagtzaam – Reissue
Aglaia Konrad – Carrara

Talks by Bart Verschaffel, Kris Kimpe & Koenraad Dedobbeleer
Music by Marc Nagtzaam & Koenraad Dedobbeleer
Signing on request

www.romapublications.org

W – Artist Songs Volume 2. Art Critics Orchestra.

Das Art Critics Orchestra begreift Musik als dialektischen Prozess. Dieser Begriff, der in so postkommunistischen wie postdemokratischen Zeiten auf dem Abstellgleis des Diskurses zu verrotten droht, beschreibt präzise die Arbeit des fünfköpfigen Ensembles, etwa bei der Konzeption ihrer bisher erschienenen CDs: Den „Artists’ Songs“, 2009, und der ein Jahr später folgenden CD „Das Summen der Teile“. Die Logik dieser Abfolge ist die eines dialektischen Umschlages auf mehreren Ebenen. So finden sich auf „Artists’ Songs“ Stücke, die Künstler/Innen der Band geschrieben haben. Z. B. Annika Stroem und Elke Krystufek, die Band setzte deren, meist mit englischen Texten versehenen Vorlagen dann musikalisch um. „Das Summen der Teile“ dagegen addiert sich aus von ACO selbst geschriebenen Liedern, zudem sind die Texte jetzt durchgängig in Deutsch. Die aktuelle Single „W“ präsentiert wiederum Artist-Songs, diesmal von Tom Wesselmann, Peter Weibel und Lawrence Weiner/Peter Gordon. Schon Dietrich Diedrichsen betonte den „konzeptionellen Charakter“ von Popmusik – ACO nimmt den Mann beim Wort.

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Little & Large Editions @ Motto Berlin. 1.12.2011
Art Critics Orchestra live
Start 8pm

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W – artist songs volume 2
performed by the Art Critics Orchestra
Micz Flor (guitar, vocals), Laura Oldenbourg (keys), Judith Raum (vocals, guitar), Andreas Schlaegel (drums, vocals) und Raimar Stange (bass)

Mixing, mastering: Alexander Ott, Paul-Lincke-Studio
Cover artwork © 2011 Silke Wagner
Edition of 500
Published by Little & Large Editions, 2011

http://www.artcriticsorchestra.com/
http://littleandlargeeditions.com/

Daniel Blumberg: Drawing Book

These drawings were drawn by Daniel Blumberg around the same time as Oupa, his solo project’s LP Forget was being recorded. Daniel Blumberg is also part of the band Yuck and is also responsible for the bands artwork and record covers.

Published By: Boiled Egg

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mono.klub #36
Launch & After Show Party
CANT DJ Gig
Release of mono.kultur #29: CHRIS TAYLOR

09 November 2011 / Wednesday / 22h
€3 [incl. mono.kultur #29]

L.U.X.
Schlesische Strasse 41
10997 Berlin / Kreuzberg

Mono.Kultur #29: Chris Taylor/Grizzly Bear

“Those times when your heart felt kind of warmed, like a glowing lightbulb was inside of you.”

It is a rare moment when a band or musician creates a sound that defies comparison – which is why American underground phenomenon Grizzly Bear have been on our wish list for some time. Creating a strange and strangely addictive sonic universe, the Brooklyn Quartet nonetheless and unexpectedly succeeded to attract not only a dedicated following, but also mainstream praise.

With bassist Chris Taylor having just released his first and irresistably groovy solo album as CANT, which turned out to be a grand surprise exercise in sloppy funk, all the more reason to make a wish come true and dedicate our latest issue #29 to the prolific and eclectic musician, producer and master cook, who was even kind enough to share the recipe for an entire dinner with us.

In a beautifully relaxed conversation, Chris Taylor talked with mono.kultur about the ,agic of making music, why perfect does not necessarily mean good and the meditative effect of motorcycling.

For this issue, Chris Taylor not only shared a dinner recipe with us, but also opened his archive of personal photographs for this issue. And since Taylor is a man of many talents, we thought it only appropriate to include a poster as cover to expand the world of Terrible into all directions.

Interview by Renko Heuer
Photography by Chris Taylor
A Dinner by Chris Taylor & Itchai Schori
Design by Pia Hartmann & Christina Taphorn

Autumn 2011
English
15 x 20 cm
28 Pages & Fold Out Poster

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KOKIN (…) SLENDRO. Julien Grossmann

Six minimalist electro-acoustic songs based on six different musical scales:
Rumanikos, Kokin, Myxolidian, Kourd Atar Todi, Pigmy and Slendro.

These also constitute the soundtrack for an installation by Julien Grossmann, where they each are played from a different turntable, while intricately modelled islands revolve in cycle, placed at the middle of the corresponding records.

With a text by James Beckett and a sleeve designed by Boy Vereecken.

http://juliengrossmann.com/

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Cine Qua Non #4

Bilingual Arts Magazine – Winter/Spring 2011 #4

Cine Qua Non is an arts magazine of the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES) built up by movements in written form that freely crisscross reflections, reviews or essays; movements that relate music to visual arts, dance to theatre, cinema to literature. This publication intends to submit its readers to a unique editorial approach that gathers artists, researchers and teaching staff, Portuguese or foreign, proposing texts of different nature about diverse artistic expressions. Cine Qua Non is, since its first printed issue, an entirely bilingual publication (Portuguese/English) that is presented in both versions: an online edition and a printed one.

INDEX
|| EDITORIAL | DISQUIET
Ana Luísa Valdeira da Silva

|| WONDERING IN HUMANITIES:
THE BELLIGERENCE OF THE BELLETRISTIC
Margarida Vale de Gato

from abroad

|| 30 DAYS OF STORYTELLING
Luísa Alpalhão

|| IMAGE DRAMATURGY
Krystian Lada

|| WAITING FOR A MISTAKE
Brian Putnam

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Essays

|| “MACHINES TO GENERATE DESIRE”: AVANT-GARDE MANIFESTOS AND GUERRILLA ADVERTISING
Julian Hanna

|| ÉTANT DONNÉS: 1º LA CHUTE D’EAU. 2º LE GAZ D’ECLAIRAGE
VS L’ORIGINE DU MONDE
Catarina Patrício

Inside of

|| MY DISQUIET, MY SOLACE
João Botelho

|| GLORIA OR HOW PENELOPE DIED OF BOREDOM
FROM THE TEXT TO THE STAGE – THE MOORED ROPE
Cláudia Lucas Chéu

|| TWENTY FINGERS ON A PIANO
Tiago Patrício

QUID JURIS
|| FACEBOOK AND THE PROTECTION OF YOUR FEATURED CONTENTS
Pedro Ramos Almeida

SPOILER
|| JAMES DEAN, EGYPT, DEOLINDA
Jorge Vaz Nande

144 pages
English / Portuguese
ISSN: 1647-4198

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Zweikommasieben Magazin #1: August 2011

Texte: Jasmina Serag, Marc Schwegler, Daf Huser, Tobias Brucker, Remo Bitzi
Lektor / Bildrecherche: Patrick Alexander
Fotographien: Judith Blum, Jose Baez, Daf Huser, Will Saul
Gestaltung: Kaj Lehmann

This issue features: Mount Kimbie, Gold Panda, Hippos in Tanks, Tim Hecker, Will Saul

All texts in German

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