HR106 - The Netherlands - C60 — 1989
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Side A:
John V. - Let's Stay Together Kapotte Muziek - Audio Placio 6 Weltschmerz - Even Toothache is Better DVA Met DVA Nichts - Hoskins 1 Winter - Ik Wil Winter Comrades Creating - Charity Honeymoon Productions - Beuys' Hand and the Red Guard |
Side B:
Gorgonzola Legs - The Performance DVA Met DVA Nichts & Post Destruction Music - Treffer Excerpt 5 Splendor Solis - Religion Hate Havre - Fear and Sacrifices Bee Queen - Acteon: Koek Live Ekko 13/1/89 Odal - Untitled Y Create - Life in a Day |
REVIEW by Jerry Kranitz
The Netherlands is the third in the Harsh Reality ‘Countries’ series. There are 14 tracks with different ‘band’ names, but some crossover among the same artists.
John V. opens the set with a guitar and vocals country-punk song, shepherded along by a repetitive ambient clatter beat pulse and brief kinetic electro drumming. Nice guitar melody.
Kapotte Muziek is Frans de Waard’s long running experimental project. Frans weighs in with a minimal sound collage of rolling static, revolving tones, and clatter rhythms. Barely discernible voice samples soon join, and the whole sounds like the combination of needle spinning at the end of a record and strange organ grinder.
Weltschmerz’s contribution is a noisily grating textural piece. It’s like metal scraping against sandpaper, or churning butter in a rusty bucket with water dripping in.
DVA Met DVA Nichts is Sjak van Bussel, who also ran the Midas Tapes label. His track sounds like a chorus of drills harmoniously hard at work. As it progresses the drills intermingle with howling drones, high pitched whirring tones, and more, culminating in an intensely spooky industrial and weather-beaten drones and soundscapes fest.
Winter creates a collage of bubbling and voice buzzing patterns, soon overtaken by radio/TV samples, whistling whirls, and over-stimulated heartbeats.
Comrades Creating offer up a cool combination of musical punk-ska, haunting synth melody, explosive electronic bang-on-a-can pulses, and echoed voices.
Honeymoon Productions’ collage consists of noisily off-key free-jazz horn jamming over a repetitive clunkety-clunk beat.
Side B kicks off with Gorgonzola Legs, one of several projects from Hessel Veldman. His entry features theatrical spoken word backed by subtle ambient bang-pulses, freeform percussion, and other percussive colorings.
DVA Met DVA Nichts & Post Destruction Music is Sjak van Bussel teamed up with Frans de Waard, from a performance at the Treffer in Aalst Belgium/Doe Wat Festival. It’s an excellent spacey exploratory piece that combines soundscapes, engine room pulsations, harsh signals, rant vocals, and other fun sounds. Not unlike Throbbing Gristle’s Second Annual Report.
Splendor Solis keep the textural collage train rolling with a tape manipulated glom of grating patterns, windstorm, and whistles.
Havre contribute a very cool space rocking blend of Throbbing Gristle, The Residents, and Halloween soundtrack. One of my favorite tracks of the set.
Bee Queen is the duo of Frans de Waard and Freek Kinkelaar. This live performance recording is a noisy space-industrial excursion with a clattery rhythmic flow, moody atmospherics, and freaky effects.
Odal is sound artist Peter Zincken, who creates a busily noisy collage that feel like an electronic urban rush hour of traffic.
Y Create is another Hessel Veldman project. This short piece that closes the set is moaningly somber, includes a seductive horn melody, and is set against a minimal, melodic Residents style backdrop. Another one of my favorites and one I wish had been more fully fleshed out.
The Netherlands is the third in the Harsh Reality ‘Countries’ series. There are 14 tracks with different ‘band’ names, but some crossover among the same artists.
John V. opens the set with a guitar and vocals country-punk song, shepherded along by a repetitive ambient clatter beat pulse and brief kinetic electro drumming. Nice guitar melody.
Kapotte Muziek is Frans de Waard’s long running experimental project. Frans weighs in with a minimal sound collage of rolling static, revolving tones, and clatter rhythms. Barely discernible voice samples soon join, and the whole sounds like the combination of needle spinning at the end of a record and strange organ grinder.
Weltschmerz’s contribution is a noisily grating textural piece. It’s like metal scraping against sandpaper, or churning butter in a rusty bucket with water dripping in.
DVA Met DVA Nichts is Sjak van Bussel, who also ran the Midas Tapes label. His track sounds like a chorus of drills harmoniously hard at work. As it progresses the drills intermingle with howling drones, high pitched whirring tones, and more, culminating in an intensely spooky industrial and weather-beaten drones and soundscapes fest.
Winter creates a collage of bubbling and voice buzzing patterns, soon overtaken by radio/TV samples, whistling whirls, and over-stimulated heartbeats.
Comrades Creating offer up a cool combination of musical punk-ska, haunting synth melody, explosive electronic bang-on-a-can pulses, and echoed voices.
Honeymoon Productions’ collage consists of noisily off-key free-jazz horn jamming over a repetitive clunkety-clunk beat.
Side B kicks off with Gorgonzola Legs, one of several projects from Hessel Veldman. His entry features theatrical spoken word backed by subtle ambient bang-pulses, freeform percussion, and other percussive colorings.
DVA Met DVA Nichts & Post Destruction Music is Sjak van Bussel teamed up with Frans de Waard, from a performance at the Treffer in Aalst Belgium/Doe Wat Festival. It’s an excellent spacey exploratory piece that combines soundscapes, engine room pulsations, harsh signals, rant vocals, and other fun sounds. Not unlike Throbbing Gristle’s Second Annual Report.
Splendor Solis keep the textural collage train rolling with a tape manipulated glom of grating patterns, windstorm, and whistles.
Havre contribute a very cool space rocking blend of Throbbing Gristle, The Residents, and Halloween soundtrack. One of my favorite tracks of the set.
Bee Queen is the duo of Frans de Waard and Freek Kinkelaar. This live performance recording is a noisy space-industrial excursion with a clattery rhythmic flow, moody atmospherics, and freaky effects.
Odal is sound artist Peter Zincken, who creates a busily noisy collage that feel like an electronic urban rush hour of traffic.
Y Create is another Hessel Veldman project. This short piece that closes the set is moaningly somber, includes a seductive horn melody, and is set against a minimal, melodic Residents style backdrop. Another one of my favorites and one I wish had been more fully fleshed out.