SMERALDINA-RIMA // CROXHAPOX presenteren:

ZONDAG 25 MAART 2012

NATE WOOLEY
(solo trompet op het randje, VS)

Smeraldina-Rima is super psyched om eindelijk Nate Wooley en z’n trompet op een kruk te mogen zetten. De man wordt tegenwoordig gevierd als een van dé trompetisten in de jazz en improv scene, en fucking terecht. Nate haalt het onmogelijke uit z’n koperen toeter, en laat z’n publiek na z’n solo performances over het algemeen een beetje verward en gedesoriënteerd achter. Highly recommended, maar verwacht niet naar huis te stappen met dat zondagsgevoel.

http://natewooley.com/

SHELDON SIEGEL
(improv om een stijve van te krijgen, BE)

Belgies freejazzcombo bestaande uit Gerard Herman (sax, etc), Gino Coomans (cello) and Erik Heestermans (percussie). Binnenkort delen ze een split LP met Nate Wooley op Smeraldina-Rima ism Croxhapox.

http://www.myspace.com/sheldonsiegel

inkom 7 euro // deur 19:30 // aanvang 20:00

CROXHAPOX
lucas munichstraat 76-82 B-9000 GENT

FACEBOOK EVENT: http://www.facebook.com/events/297216723682102/

croxhapox.org
smeraldina-rima.com

Smeraldina-Rima is extremely happy to present “Twilight Peaks” by Robbie Basho.

“Twilight Peaks” is a formal reissue of Basho’s last recordings. It was originally issued in 1984 on a tape label called “The Art Of Relaxation”. It was mastered for vinyl and CD in its entirity by Glenn Jones (of Cul de Sac fame) and Matt Azevedo, from the original demo tapes. The LP version contains one bonus track that was part of the original sessions. The CD version also has two extra live tracks, culled from the original tapes as well. Amazing liner notes by Glenn Jones and Rich Osborn. LP cut and pressed by Eldorado. Drawings by Wouter Vanhaelemeesch. Comes in an open two-colour sleeve, designed & screenprinted by Smeraldina-Rima. First pressing of 500 copies.

You can find the LP and CD versions here: http://www.smeraldina-rima.com/products-page/robbie-basho/

Downloads are available here, on our Bandcamp: http://smeraldina-rima.bandcamp.com/album/twilight-peaks

For all you Belgians out there; the second Robbie Basho “Twilight Peaks” release party will be happening next sunday, at DOKkantine in Ghent, be welcome! Special guest GLENN JONES (US) and GONZALEZ & STEENKISTE (VE/BE). Check out the event here: http://www.smeraldina-rima.com/2012/01/28/robbie-basho-record-release-party/ and here, on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/152954884820280/

Okay, that’s it for now! See ya next time!

Levi / Smeraldina-Rima

The Smeraldina-Rima Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/smeraldinarima

SMERALDINA-RIMA, SCHELD’APEN, DOK en LADDA
presenteren

ROBBIE BASHO Twilight Peaks albumvoorstelling

Op vrijdag 17 februari in Schelda’pen, Antwerpen

met als speciale gasten
GLENN JONES (VS)
JE SUIS LE PETIT CHEVALIER (FR/BE)
TRISTAN DRIESSENS (BE)

Start: 21:00

en op zondag 26 februari 2012 in DOKkantine, Gent

met als speciale gasten
GLENN JONES (VS)
GONZALEZ & STEENKISTE (VE/BE)

Deuren: 20:00
Start: 21:00

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GLENN JONES (VS)
Gitarist van cultband Cul de Sac en solo akoestische 12- en 6-string gitarist, ietwat of heel veel in de Takoma traditie van Basho en Fahey, maar volledig zwaar geniaal op zichzelf. Jones speelde een belangrijke rol bij de (her-)mastering van de originele “Twilight Peaks” tapes en was een enorme bron van inspiratie en energie voor het productieproces van de re-issue van deze onmisbare opnames uit het œuvre van Robbie Basho. THANK YOU GLENN JONES!
http://www.thrilljockey.com/artists/?id=10796

JE SUIS LE PETIT CHEVALIER (FR/BE)
oftewel ‘female forestdroner’ én francaise Felicia Atkinson, residerend in Brussel, met onlangs een plaat uit op Aguirre. Mooi!
http://jesuislepetitchevalier.bandcamp.com/

TRISTAN DRIESSENS (BE)
Ûd speler en musicoloog, in de leer bij grootmeesters van de Turkse makamtraditie.

GONZALEZ & STEENKISTE (VE/BE)
Droners Bear Bones Lay Low en Hellvete als out-of-your-mind ruimteduo. Mis de cassette die binnenkort uitkomt op Eiderdown Records niet! FIRST SHOW EVER!
http://www.myspace.com/hellvete666
http://bearboneslaylow.wordpress.com/

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http://www.smeraldina-rima.com/
http://dokgent.be/
http://www.ladda.be/wp/

Smeraldina-Rima op Facebook!

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SMERALDINA-RIMA PRESENTEERT

Gunn-Truscinski Duo (VS)
Cian Nugent (IR)
Cam Deas & Sheldon Siegel (VK/BE)

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Gunn-Truscinski Duo (VS)

Een van de interessantste Amerikaanse gitaristen van dit moment is zonder twijfel Steve Gunn, een gitarist die bewust vermijdt om zichzelf te herhalen en constant naar nieuwe expressiemogelijkheden zoekt. Met zijn titelloze solo debuut (Onomato 2007) zette hij een koers in van ‘american primitivisme’ met marokkaanse- en raga-invloeden, om vervolgens via country blues op zijn tweede CD ‘Sundowner’, uit te komen bij de psych blues van zijn derde album ‘Boerum Palace’ (CD, Three Lobed Recordings 2009) en waarop hij met zang ook zijn songwriter kwaliteiten toonde. De volgende logische stap voor Steve Gunn was het om meer te gaan samenwerken met andere muzikanten. Nieuw is zijn samenwerking met John Truscinski, een drummer die hij al goed kende uit het drone folk trio GHQ waar hij ook deel van uit maakte. Van het Gunn-Truscinski Duo verscheen bij Three Lobed Recordings de LP ‘Sand City. Weliswaar ligt op dit album de leidende rol duidelijk bij het gitaarspel van Steve Gunn, maar bij deze vier direct in de studio opgenomen stukken is het zeldzaam om te horen hoe beiden op elkaar ingespeeld zijn. Compositie, improvisatie en intuïtie zijn hier geheel vervlochten.
(bron: http://dwars.radio6.nl/tag/steve-gunn/)

http://steve-gunn.com/

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Cian Nugent (IR)

Met zijn debuut CD ‘Childhood, Christian Lies And Slaughter’ (Incunabulum/audioMER. 2009) liet de jonge Ierse gitarist Cian Nugent al horen dat zijn instrumentale muziek weliswaar duidelijk beïnvloed was door oude countryblues en gitaar grootheden als John Fahey en Robbie Basho, maar dat hij ook wat ideeën en techniek betreft alles in huis had om verder te groeien. Deze belofte maakt hij meer dan waar op zijn tweede CD ‘Doubles’ die bij VHF Records uitkwam. Duidelijk is dat Cian Nugent zijn oor te luisteren heeft gelegd bij klassieke hedendaagse componisten. In de twee lange composities die op ‘Doubles’ te vinden zijn, onderzoekt hij de mogelijkheden om met spanningsbogen te werken en hoe hij ook andere instrumenten in zijn composities kan betrekken. Net als James Blackshaw en Alexander Turnquist vermijdt Cian Nugent overtuigend het gevaar om als gitarist in herhaling en eenduidigheid verstrikt te raken.
(bron: http://dwars.radio6.nl/2011/06/30/cian-nugent-doubles/)

http://www.myspace.com/ciannugent

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Cam Deas & Sheldon Siegel (VK/BE)

Toen de jonge Engelse gitarist Cam Deas vorig jaar zijn studie muziek aan de Universiteit van Sheffield afrondde, werd hij geïnspireerd door de vrije improvisaties van saxofonist en componist Anthony Braxton om de klankmogelijkheden van zijn gitaarspel en zijn 12-snarige akoestische gitaar onder de loep te nemen. Dit onderzoek leidde al snel tot de compositie ‘Quadtych’. In dit tamelijk abstracte vierdelige stuk past hij diverse toe speeltechnieken en zoekt tevens de grenzen op van de dynamische mogelijkheden van zijn akoestische gitaar. Daarnaast komt in de afzonderlijke delen van ‘Quadtych’ direct en indirect de invloed naar voren van de gitaarlegende John Fahey en de componisten Olivier Messiaen, Iannis Xenakis en Charlemagne Palestine. De lp ‘Qudtych Volume One’ met daarop de eerste twee delen, is een uitgave van Cam Deas’ eigen label Present Time Exercises.
(bron: http://dwars.radio6.nl/tag/cam-deas)

Voor deze gelegenheid speelt Cam Deas samen met Belgische jazz-improv-legendes Sheldon Siegel! Pas maar op!

http://www.myspace.com/camdeasmusic
http://www.myspace.com/sheldonsiegel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Deas

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INKOM: 7 €
DEUREN: 19:00
AANVANG OPTREDENS: 19:30
OPTREDENS EINDIGEN STIPT OM 22:00
TOT 24:00 DJ HITSHITSHITS

LOCATIE
DOKkantine
Splitsing Koopvaardijlaan – Afrikalaan
9000 Gent

www.smeraldina-rima.com
www.ladda.be
www.dokgent.be

Smeraldina-Rima 7
RYAN GARBES Unbreakable Flower CS
first edition of 100 tapes, screenprinted in black & yellow
6.00 €

A collection of chaotic and battered freak-outs submerged in hot fat and nameless liquid. Recommended! This guy used to drum with psych-kiddos Raccoo-oo-oon, who aren’t around anymore unfortunately, but this stuff is definitely a cure for pain. (w)

http://www.ryangarbes.com
http://www.myspace.com/rgarbes

Ryan Garbes ‘Untitled’ (excerpt) by Smeraldina-Rima

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Smeraldina-Rima 8
COLBY NATHAN AS HYENA Commyn Straet CS
first edition of 100 tapes, screenprinted in green & pink
6.00 €

Colby Nathan aka Hyena handed us these recording a while before piledriving us with “Outside, the Great Drought”. On ‘Commyn Straet’ we find Hyena at his ‘rawest’, reminding us of his incredibly energenic solo live performances.

Hyena ‘Balloons’ by Smeraldina-Rima

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Smeraldina-Rima 14
JONAS RUCHENHEVER Maze/Haze CS
first edition of 50 tapes, screenprinted white on black
6.00 €

Jonas Ruchenhever combines field recordings, found sounds, acoustic samples and electronically generated and processed sounds to create audio collages, soundscapes, drone works and minimal ambient. Maze/Haze is a tribute to Ruchenhever’s father, and consists of two side-long pieces of about half an hour each. Really worth a listen, this piece is deep, emotional & intriguing. (ttt)

http://www.jonasruchenhever.be/index.html

Maze (excerpt) by Jonas Ruchenhever

Haze (excerpt) by Jonas Ruchenhever

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Smeraldina-Rima 15
SPIRIT OF THE POSITIVE WIND LP
edition of 300 LPs, open sleeve with artwork by Nate Nelson and screenprinted inner sleeve
16.00 €

SOTPW: some sort of supergroup, featuring Brian Sullivan & Nate Nelson (Mouthus), Pete Nolan (Magik Markers, Spectre Folk) and Karl Bauer (Axolotl). The LP features two side-long tracks of bubbling, meandering noise-drone collages.

Spirit of the Positive Wind “+” (excerpt) by Smeraldina-Rima

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Smeraldina-Rima 16
EXTRA SEXES Spiral Mirror LP
edition of 300 LPs, cyan & magenta screenprinted sleeve, artwork by Tessa Deceuninck
16.00 €

Formerly Boy+Girl, AG Davis created an unrelentingly aggressive disk. Stripped-down dark electro-noise sprinkled with some kinder moments… You’ll need to go outside for a minute after this one.

Extra Sexes ‘Time Thorn’ by Smeraldina-Rima

You can order any of these items on the Smeraldina-Rima website or at orders@smeraldina-rima.com.

STORES & DISTROS, please get in touch for wholesale prices.

That’s it for now, thanks for your attention! :D :D :D

Cheers! Levi

SAND CIRCLES (SE)
QUILTS (SE)
YANNICK FRANCK (BE)

Saturday 13 August 

at CROXHAPOX
Lucas Munichstraat 76/82
9000 Gent

DOORS: 19:00
SHOWS: 20:00
PRICE: 5 €

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SAND CIRCLES (SE, Not Not Fun)

Melancholic pop chords filtered through malfunctioning drum boxes, echo units and layers of thick tape noise. Tape out on US label NOT NOT FUN and labels KOSMISK VÄG, OH NO MORE TAPES! etc. + upcoming vinyl release.

http://soundcloud.com/sand​-circles/

A new name in our Scandinavian jam rolodex is Martin Herterich, a youngish Swede with a closet full of vintage synth rigs and drum boxes and old echo units who tracks woozy instrumental mood-grooves under the Sand Circles moniker and helps book shows in his local art hoods. Midnight Crimes is his debut EP and showcases the prism of styles he can navigate, from minor key shadow-trance soundtracking to more propulsive fog-rhythm cruiser themes to weirdo hook-heavy synth-bounce anthems (drink in “Infinity Pool” for proof). A focused language of cool sonic hieroglyphs get raked and shaped in the Sand Circles zen rock garden, quite pumped to survey what comes next. Pro-dubbed tapes with photocopied and dual-layer silkscreened J-cards, plus a hand-numbered insert.
- Not Not Fun

6 tracks full of lo-fi synth vibes and broken drum machines open up to you giving all the keys from all the doors in this world. Now you have to make a decision. Road movie melodies go on the radio while you\re passing by white castles and huge slow elephants. Their caballeros flourish hands and fire pink and yellow signal stars. Painty sound makes your moves thoughtless and spontaneous. Walking changes with flying but you do not notice this. You look. God, you love to look now.
This is amazing, absolutely fantastic!

“We’re loving this young Swede’s plastic-y and borderline-cute approach to both the beatific and ambient… when not cruising at this Matrix Metals-paced gait, the remaining quiet, misty epiphinal visions feel about as holographic as it comes”
- Altered Zones

QUILTS (SE, Hockey Rawk)

Warm, shimmering synth drones, dreamy vocal samples and ultra-slow rhythms. Has a tape out on swedish label HOCKEY RAWK.

http://soundcloud.com/quil​tland

Quilts is Frida-Li Lovgren. The songs were recorded in Stockholm and Visby. She has recorded sounds that have been going around in her head for hours, days. She has recorded the same thing for about 100 times and then the best recording is chosen. The raw and direct feeling is essential. The sounds are outerworldly, yet firmly rooted in the soil.
- Hockey Rawk

YANNICK FRANCK (BE)

Yannick Franck (°1981, Liège, Belgium) is a sound and visual artist. He lives and works in Gent, Belgium. He runs the independent label Idiosyncratics Records. He is the founder of electroacoustic project Y.E.R.M.O. (Venice Biennial 2009, Pavilion of Luxembourg) in which he’s active since 2005 with guitarist Xavier Dubois and drummer Jason Van Gulick. He has collaborated with Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert, Craig Hilton and currently works on several projects with Pietro Riparbelli / K11, Esther Venrooy, Jean-Marie Matoul, Philippe Petit, Steve Kaspar, Stuart Dahlquist, Christian Renou, alone or together with Y.E.R.M.O.. He works as a composer and sound designer for the National Theater of the French Community in Brussels and with companies Artara and Trotz Ensemble. He has exibited his artworks and performed in many countries, including Russia, United States and most of European countries.

http://www.yannickfranck.c​om/

Tonight Croxhapox is hosting a Talibam! show. For this concert Talibam! will focus on a new performance mode – a special concert where the band performs their songs and material in newly imagined constructions. More theatrical and performative. Concrete poetry merged with comic hyginx and critical theory. Like a meeting of Jim Morrison and Lacanian psychoanalysis.

http://www.myspace.com/talibam

Croxhapox
Lucas Munichstraat 76/82
9000 Ghent, Belgium

http://croxhapox.org/c/

DOORS: 20:00
ENTRANCE: 5 €

See you there!
Levi

with
JOZEF VAN WISSEM (NL)
(solo swan-neck baroque lute)
&
VANISHING TWINS (FR)
(organ & vocals)

Saturday may 28th 2011
at
Croxhapox
Lucas Munichstraat 76/82
B-9000 Ghent, Belgium

doors: 20:00
start: 20:30
entrance: 5 €

FB-EVENT: IMPORTANT RECORDS RELEASE PARTY with JOZEF VAN WISSEM/ VANISHING TWINS

IMPORTANT RECORD RELEASE PARTY

Jozef Van Wissem is renowned for his ability to appropriate the Renaissance and Baroque lute in the context of contemporary experimental music. By cutting and pasting classical pieces, reversing melodies, “medieval sampling” and adding processed field recordings, Jozef is able to bridge the language of 17th century music with that of the 21st century without compromising the timbre and resonance of traditional lute playing techniques. Van Wissem studied lute in New york with Pat O’Brien. He runs the Incunabulum label, lectures on ‘the liberation of the lute’ (Harvard, Wesleyan Universities, Mills College) and performs throughout the world. He collaborated and has records out with M.B. / Maurizio Bianchi, Smegma, James Blackshaw and Tetuzi Akiyama.
The cinematic Joy that never ends offers endless repetition of tortuously minimal beauty. For the brand new full length album by ‘sublime master of the lute’ Jozef van Wissem, five layered mirror image compositions are presented. Featuring legendary filmmaker, Jim Jarmusch, long time fan and friend, playing electric guitar drones on Concerning the Beautiful Human Form After Death, creating subtle, ghostly, meandering feedback. Also featuring spoken word by Jeanne Madic.
http://ubu.com/sound/van-wissem.html
www.myspace.com/vanwissem

Vanishing Twins is the musical project of visual artist Jeanne Madic, playing her minimalist & meditative accordion or her 70′s organ + singing while projecting her own Super-8 films with an old projector. She has opened shows for Julia Kent (Antony & the Johnsons), toured with Arborea in the U.K., and collaborates with Jozef van Wissem, guesting on spoken word at his shows. She has recently started a collaboration with acclaimed canadian filmdirector Guy Maddin , composing music for a series of short films named Hauntings (http://tiff.net/essential/specialcommissions/guy) She is currently working on her first EP.

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THE MORE THE MERRIER!

The guys from Sunday Smile Records invited Smeraldina-Rima’s DJ Emerald to do some wickay-wacky deejaying, while they take care of crowd-control & the signing of million-euro contracts! Way to go guys, and welcome to da family!

Check out the FB-event here, there’ll be bands playing! >> SUNDAY SMILE RECORDS LABEL PARTY

Location:
De Roerkuip
Oude Beestenmarkt 8
Gent, Belgium

Things start at 21:00!

Okay, that’s it for now, see ya’ll then!
X, Levi

Thursday April 7th 2011

STEVE GUNN (US)
EVERY BOLT RUMBLING (NL)
CITY HANDS (NL)

@ Croxhapox Gallery
Lucas Munichstraat 76/82
9000 Ghent

DOORS: 19:00
START: 19:30
SHOWS END @ 22:00!

ENTRANCE: € 7.00

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STEVE GUNN (US):
A member of the band GHQ, he caused a lot of excitement with his solo album Boerum Palace on Three Lobed Recordings just over a year ago. He’s also got an album out soon on Digitalis of his duo with John Trucsinski – the Gunn-Trucsinski Duo album, mastered by Scott Colburn, takes Gunn’s more raga-flavoured guitar and John’s Corsano-esque traps on a transcendental journey that is going to cause a whole lot of listening pleasure in 2011.
http://strangeglue.com/reviews/steve-gunn-boerum-palace
http://cowsarejustfood.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/steve-gunn-boerum-palace-three-lobed/
http://www.threelobed.com/tlr/tlr054.html
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15003-sand-city/

EVERY BOLT RUMBLING (NL):
Every bolt rumbling is Arvind Ganga, who uses guitar, effects and objects to create a chaotically oscillating mesh,
vibrating with high energy that oozes out in colliding rhythms, frantic melodies and distant slow grooves ………….
all bathing in the rays of a deep red sun.
http://soundcloud.com/everyboltrumbling

CITY HANDS (NL):
Born a punk and raised a rainbow watcher, Manuel Padding aka City Hands has been active as a music citizen and a renown butterfly observer for a few decades now. As a free-minded follower of Gustav Metzger and a reader of early science-fiction free press, M.P. believes in the creative powers of destruction and in the secret forces lying in forgotten languages. His fluid compositions aim to create rich underground communities that would stand against corruption worldwide.
- Professeur X.G.B. Bongo
http://silver-ghosts.blogspot.com/