We met @ ICA coffee shop in-between Travis Jeppesen’s The Suiciders reading on Saturday 26 Oct (See post 23 oct 13) = Lee Tesche and Ryan Mahan from the band Algiers (Franklin James Fisher lives in the US)
and Anthony Faramelli (lecturer) of DCR.
Punk. Arnaud
Deplechin. 80’s-90’s US hip-hop/rap. Massive
Attack. Klaus Nomi. Serge Gainsbourg. Spike Lee. Iggy Pop. Yo Soy Cuba. M.I.A. Black Panther. Samora
Machel @ Bernard Pivot’s Bouillon de Culture. Steve
Buscemi. Living in small towns with restricted access to film or music. Les Inrocks. Gay. Grunge. Brit-Pop
and Tony Blair’s conspiracy. My Bloody Valentine. 4AD. Michael Clarke. Jarvis
Cocker. Relaxed Muscle. Familly’ alienation in US and France. Youth. Young people today. Becoming
older. James Batley. Nippett...
We never met but we were boun(ce)d to meet. Quantum
Physics. Ryan and Lee (both North American) say that
there is an element of anti-colonial struggle in their band’s name Algiers = a place of freedom – sense of
resistance... and it’s their relationship to freedom that influenced the name.
For their latest video, Lee says he sat and
watched thousands of hours of images-moving images footage to put the video
together. It’s about race because there is a race issue in the United State and
both of them wanted to expand the idea of Black identity. Ryan continues in
saying that when they listened to Public
Enemy or other hip hop acts, it led them to
jazz, free jazz, the history of Black culture. It opened their minds about
their place as white men within a mixed and repressed culture. The music they
listened to might have been somehow commercial and yet very underground. They dug
the origins of everything they liked and paid tribute to it. It’s about their
joy of discovering!
Both Ryan and Lee talk about the political
element in what they do but they also feel that their work can be seen as “you can leave the politic out because they
are elements of pushing boundaries” = Klaus Nomi or Serge Gainsbourg were
not known for being leftfield propaganda(h)ists but were definitely
controversial and provocateurs.
Algiers is also influenced by ambiguity, contrasts
and contradictions, difference of experience and acceptance of others’
perspective. But as we go deeper in conversation, they definitely don’t want to
give in in processed-music-and-ready-to listen made in a pre-digested cultural
vomit environment. Since their teens, they are on a research journey in any
kind of art = graphic, street culture, films, music, photography...
DCR’s Anthony Faramelli tells me that 31-10-13 will
be a “full sensory experience.
Mysterious. Live experience. Dark. Moody. Definitely moody. And fun. The Crows will perform live ahead of
their forthcoming album out on Pop Noire
label (they are Savages’ little bros).
James Batley will show his
previously shown in Cannes short film Kneel Through the Dark, in a loop. Brad Feuerhelm-mister analogue photography-
will present a photographic flagellation of the macabre and uncanny... Lee Tesche and Andy Becker will tickle your desires through a sound installation.
DJs fighting it out for your soul will be Algiers, Jen
Schande and SALU.
Sunday 27 October, as I was writing this post,
Nick Cave came up to my mind “... and the
wind did howl and the wind did blow... and the wind did roar and the wind did
moan” I had a thought for Nippett and wondered if she was purring quietly
in her finger-made castle (Make sure you ask Sir Batley next time you see
him... on the 31-10-13!)
Monday 28 October, as I am about to post, I
read The Crows might pay a tribute
to El Maestro Lou Reed, now resting
on the wild side...
Algiers - "A band I've personally fallen in love with." Simon Raymonde
(Cocteau Twins, Bella Union) = http://vimeo.com/35896162 //
The band – The Crows on same label as Savages = http://vimeo.com/73623978 //
The Film – Kneel Through the Dark = www.jamesbatley.com
James
Batley being interviewed last week = http://london.lecool.com/inspirations/james-batley/
The Art - Brad Feuerhelm. 2013 // Unholy Passion: Abjection, a discourse for Lesser Heavens = http://bradfeuerhelm.org/
There is more...
The
event = https://www.facebook.com/events/213387242163388
The secret
organisation = http://www.facebook.com/DCRLONDON
The
place // date // time // money = Halloween - 31st October 13. Doors 7pm - 2am
Red Gallery 1-3 Rivington Street, Shoreditch,
London, EC2A 3DT =
Cheap early bird tickets £5: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/243502
or £7 @ the door
BYOB
Dress Code: The Darker The Better
Other related posts on the gang:
Other related posts on the gang:
Aleicester Crowley: http://babylondonorbital.blogspot.com/2014/12/hate-post-on-aleicester-crowley-devotees.html
Algiers @ DCR: http://babylondonorbital.blogspot.com/2013/10/algiers-dcr-haunting-311013-red-gallery.html
Travis Jeppesens: http://babylondonorbital.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/travis-jeppesens-new-novel-suiciders.html
Algiers / James Batley @ DCR: http://babylondonorbital.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/dcr-haunting-31-oct-13-ec2a-5er.html
James Batley: http://babylondonorbital.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/kneel-through-dark-short-film-screening.html
Algiers on satire
following Charlie Hebdo massacre: http://babylondonorbital.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/satire-freedomofspeech.html
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invisible friend on FB = https://www.facebook.com/babylondon.orbital
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