February News
Filed in Albums,Ella Joyce Buckley,Illustration,Jaunted Haunts Pressings,KOOS,Music,On The Edge of Wrong,Prints,Ramon Galvan,Righard Kapp, February 13, 2009, 7:29 pmIt is by now almost a tradition on my side that February is a month that brings many developments and plans to the fore. The most immediate one is the 4th Cape Town instalment of On The Edge of Wrong (the festival also had its first Oslo outing in 2008) , set to take place [...]
SUI Studios – 07/02/2009
Filed in Music,Tech Stuff, February 7, 2009, 10:37 pmToday brought the rare privilege of being the first people to do recording in an amazing new studio in Cape Town that has taken almost two years, and a scary amount of money, to build. SUI Studios has been labour of love for Dan Manojlovic, who was one of the partners in the original SUI [...]
Noise into Punk Times Two
Filed in Albums,Music,Writing, February 5, 2009, 5:18 pmThese are both fairly old albums, which may or may not have fully slipped under the radar by now as far as general interest is concerned, but both of them, I feel, have been great in terms of demonstrating that the reductionist ethos of punk rock does not necessarily have to result in impoverishment on [...]