Take off your skin and dance around in your bones.

I so deeply wanted to comment on yesterdays' breathtaking show in de Helling, but realized that no-one, including me, myself and I, could introduce these maidens better than they do. So there you go, Katzenjammer:

'Ladies and Gentlemen!

Presenting: the queens of sultry sound, sisters of mercy, saints of scarred souls, society’s hangover and Calamity Jane’s bachelorette party. The eminent, prominent and decadent ladies of our time: Katzenjammer!

Drink, dear rebels and drink again. Katzenjammers’s musical underground cultus is conjured up through instruments like the accordion, mandolin, guitar, piano, balaika bass, xylophone, trumpet, kazoo, melodica, drums and banjo just to name a few- all played with fire in the belly, fever in the fingers, heart and throat. And then there are voices. The voices, my dear friends, are the brush strokes on the night sky where you dance your wildest dance in your fanciest clothes. Katzenjammer drives clichés so hard into your guts that they shrivel, twist, and lay a foundation for new generations with a taste for the old. Our blissful mistresses are self-taught on most of the for mentioned instruments. The animal tamed by its trainer will eventually know every nook and cranny of its cage, and eventually become calm. Katzenjammer recently arrived at their cage and are rattling about in a fruitful, creative ruckus. The animal tamer takes two steps back.'

What more can say?
Bedazzlement guaranteed!
Oh yes, I would strongly recommend you to go.
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Yes, NOW!

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Why are you still here?!

Oh, you'd like to listen to them first? Oh now, you want to see them as well? You bloody fool.

Done?

Now go!

Spring.... finally!

It's the 1st of March, the lazy sun finally won its battle with the stubborn clouds and Rue Royale's record is softly dancing along on my turntable. The honey sweet acoustic tones of Ruth Dekker and her beloved husband Brookln might even bring me to this higher state of consciousness, in believing that ís almost spring. It's a marvelous soundtrack of this transitional period, encouraging us to hum along, to open our keyed windows, to kick off your winterly socks and welcome warmer days.

As I saw them at Live in the Living in Utrecht last week, I know they're still on tour. So try to catch one of their gigs.

There is definitely love in me!

Spread the word: Four Tet released a new album just a few weeks ago. There is love in you is a brilliant compilation of ambient sounds and dreamy voices combined with the abstract, funky beats we, all know by now, Producer Kieran Hebden creates like no other. It makes you wanna dance with waving arms whilst stamping your bare feet on a solid underground. Sing will literally turn you into a background choir, if you initially only wanted to dance. With This unfolds you find yourself in right up there in the Air, but your floathing will be guided by the drums, who'll stay on your side during the entire track.

Four Tet who's been releasing material since 1998 definitely did it again with this latest album.


And I almost forgot Love Cry.... There's simply too much love on this new piece.

Just listen it and you'll be as hooked as I am.

The Sound of a Bird

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open up your ears and heart
you put a big bird in a small cage and it'll sing you a song
that we all love to sing along
to the sound of the bird that mourns
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