Horkeškart - Nazad!

Snimak akcije ''Nazad!'' (9. jun 2006.) u izvedbi Horkeškarta

''protiv nazadnih pojava u našem društvu''



tekst i linkovi:

http://www.horkestar.org/akcije/nazad/

http://www.plastelin.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=401&Itemid=100


sa sajta:

Horkeškart - akcija Nazad

9. juna 2006. otpevali smo ovu pesmu ispred nekoliko državnih institucija od čijeg rada trenutno ima više štete nego koristi.

Ovaj nastup predstavlja direktnu kritiku nataloženih nazadnih pojava u društvu i institucija koje ih stvaraju ili makar ne sprečavaju.

Pevali smo ispred:

- Rektorata BU
- SANU
- Patrijaršije SPC
- Vrhovnog suda
- Vlada Srbije

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Horkeškart - live act Rewind

On June 9th 2006., in cooperation with Rex, we performed our Rewind! act in front of several Serbian government institutions which are more harmful then useful to people at this point.

This performance directly criticizes regressive processes in our society and institutions that support or at least don't stop such processes.

Performance took place in front of seats of these institutions:

- Belgrade University
- Serbian Academy of Science and Art
- Serbian Ortodox Church
- Supreme Court of Serbia
- Government of Serba

REWIND

Rewind to dark
they signal to us
Rewind to flaws
for ancient cause

Rewind to mud
dip calloused hand
Rewind to battle
for your motherland

Rewind to calamity
both village and city
both old and young
let’s all rewind

a little bit of self-promotion (Kerozeena & The Star-children)

(published originally on Last.fm in 2010, additions 03/2016)

Joining Last.fm, I found group descriptions like ''actually, I just wanted my own group'' funny. In April this year, I was tempted by the possibility of making one of my own, so I tried for it to be as reasonable as possible. Apart from procrastination, the group has a purpose of promoting and informing about my ''d.j.'' activities. The list of people I played with, announcements of future events, concerts, interesting links etc, all in one place: http://www.last.fm/group/star%C4%8Dajldova+%C5%A1arenica
(now defunct, as everything else on this new version of Last.fm...)

Also, a good opportunity to say something about my ''d.j.'' experience:

It all started when a couple of friends - Paspa & Strippy (members of a DJ team Riffs), one night at Indie-Go at Kalemegdan, proposed my ex, Tazza, and me to play in a club called Dollar in October 2005. Anecdote: Tazza passed out hearing the news. I started with a pseudonym The Star-Child with nights dedicated to glam rock (everything from Electric Warrior to Velvet Goldmine soundtrack, until everybody become fed up), and then Tazza took over and we played Manchester nights dedicated to Mancunian bands, as well as a couple of variations: one Joy Division special and a night dedicated to Steven Patrick Morrissey and Ian Curtis. It was the beginning of The Star-children. And I have become known as "Zvezdan".

After two months of our part-time hobby and ''job'', Xenia appeared - proposing to make a night dedicated to Croatian electro pop/trash/clash group Lollobrigida. The night was held on 24th November, one week after the proposed concert, named Elektro Centrala ("Power Station", "Kraftwerk"), and that was the first Kerozeena & The Star-children collaboration. Later on, during the winter, spring and start of the summer 2006 in club $ we played Manchester, Igranka: muzika njihove mladosti (Party: the music of their youth, 50s & 60s dance night), Kako smo preživeli TURBO! alternativna domaća scena '90-tih (Turbo! or how we survived turbo folk - Serbian 90s alternative scene)...

Our musical style became a mix of new wave, novi val (Yugoslavian new wave), post-punk and synthpop. That was our playlist (with more or less variations) in clubs Povetarac (Breeze, 2006), Akademija (Academy, where we had our regular night in the small club - Mali klub, 2006-7), Šipražje (Thicket, 2007-8), Letnja Šikara (Summer Underbrush, 2008), once in Hector and Underworld (2008), Supernatural festival (2008), kafe Šikarica (cafe Small Thicket, 2009) and Jelen pivo live festival (2009).

We also made an international NEW WAVE - NOVI VAL night at Akademija club, night devoted to 50s & 60s music and dancing at club Letnja Šikara and played many times at Šikarica. Once at Šikarica, when we had the whole club literally packed with people, a neighbor reported us to the police, which came and ended the party. I tried to play smart and while they were going away, slowly started playing Paraf's line "nijedne nema bolje od naše policije" (there's none better than our police), but was silenced by the barman and my colleagues. 

More anecdotes: we organized a new year's eve at $ 2005/06, where our main security guy was an enormous dude who introduced himself as Mrvica (Crumb). Also in $ we had many encounters with skinheads (since the club's previous incarnation was their place, as I've heard), who were not actually making problems, just asking for a football hymn every time and thinking that Joy Division were nazi fans. Still, we were intimidated every time, and once, after most of the club's visitors remained outside drinking upon encountering skinheads inside, a friend Vuk heard about it and caring about us, approached the skinheads with words "Hey dudes, you're scaring everyone off, let's go outside and grab a cheaper beer!" Luckily, he knew a couple of them and it all ended... happily?!

And now - collaborations! With a colleague and a friend grof Krišćanski Takač I (count K.T. I), Kerozeena and Starchild played three nights called "Mutant Pop" at Akademija club during the end of 2006 and beginning of 2007. With Brother Ray, another friend (who later played in a DJ team Betty Boops), Starchild made a night dedicated to The Velvet Underground before the Lou Reed concert in Belgrade in 2006. Other colleagues include: Vienna DJ A Nurse Called Mike (Visum Wien, Vienna Decay, Crazy Hospital), Starchild's civil army friend Dawngreeter (Cheap Velvet, Debris-Files), forum friend and a musician Mali Robot (bands Ex-Misha, Grupa Kao Takva, Čelik Promet), friends Cheshire Cat & Coin-Operated Boy (at Ventil), Blaxploited (at club Red Room), and Gypsy Wizard (band Dažd, at Ventil).

 
Also, we had our DJ set before and after concerts of several bands, such are Grupa Kao Takva, Krš (at Akademija), Stuttgart Online and Multietnička Atrakcija (at DNA SKC). Once, at Letnja Šikara, we played at an LGBTQ event, as part of accompanying Belgrade Pride events.

As time passed, Tazza dropped from team and fell in love with Ariel Pink, Kerozeena and Starchild tried making some extra cash by playing in a more commercial club called Tramvaj (Tram), testing their subverting techniques (and nerves) with the mainstream-orientated playlists adding some odd bands or/and lyrics, but it just didn't work. The group is now on a temporary hiatus. We're re-forming for weddings, crazy parties, concerts, house parties, festivals, bar nights...

Starchild was playing from time to time at bife Ventil (buffet Vent Pipe, 2009-10) mixed electrical and punk nights, circus punk and dark cabaret, while Tazza, apart from participating at multimedia poets' events called Pesničenje, played in a pub Brod (Ship) indie, lo-fi and new weird america music.
 
More about our nights with pictures, playlists and music we like(d) at: http://www.myspace.com/kerozeenastarchildren
If anybody is interested, we were regularly present at forums like Popboks, IndieGo, B92, Debris-Files. (all the flyers and posters made by Kerozeena & The Star-Children except for Akademija flyers and NEW WAVE - NOVI VAL poster made by Vanja)

Virvel - Sibir EP

Woo-hoooo!
Belgrade post-rock group Virvel (Vortex) have finally released some new material - Sibir (Siberia) EP, which was promoted with a concert held at Cultural Centre REX on the 21st May.Here's their MySpace and Last.fm bio:
Virvel was founded in 2000, in Belgrade, Serbia. Its members are: Tijana Drobac: bass, vocal, Zoran Stojičić: guitar and noise, Vlada Ocokoljić: drums, percussions, Dejan Drobac: guitar, emulator. Band members gained experience through years of work in several renowned Belgrade's bands before they have reached the top of their creativity under the name of Virvel. So far, the group has held countless successful concerts, and has recorded two albums. Virvel is a unique appearance in the region of ex-Yugoslavia. Not being afraid to search through the sound and through their own emotions, the members of the band create an authentic sensibility which they all instinctively reached the moment they got together. Experimentation with almost every musical genre makes the concert of Virvel an exceptional experience. The sound of this band, usually described by critics as postrock, actually represents the creation of atmosphere of other possibilities by using the basic rock tools. Believing in the alternative reality, members of the band principally avoid the media. They release their albums in their own record label, choosing by themselves the people to collaborate with and the way to do it.

One of my favourite live acts, with a blend of Tijana's gentle voice, sometimes almost shy and at other hand on the top of her toes singing with an emotion that grasps you instantly, and a innovative and experimental musical background, the result is enjoyment and pleasure.

Here's their new video for a song Nemački štim:

And a couple of useful links: http://www.last.fm/music/Virvel, http://www.myspace.com/virvel, http://www.rapanellirec.com/virvel/virvel.html

Fear of symmetry - Potemkin 10

A friend of mine, a d.j. and a musician, finally got herself a first video. She describes her work on MySpace as ''Experimental/Electronica/IDM'', and I would add ambient electronic. A former post-punk & new wave child, she played in a couple of bands before devoting herself to d.j. business and recording her own music. Here's her bio from last.fm:

Fear of Symmetry grew up in a small town, where she was co-founder and a bassist for a crossover band, whose music was strongly influenced by post punk, noise and shoegaze. At the same time, she played the drums for another local band. Also, during this period (late ’90s), she had her own radio show on alternative music, and worked as an organizer for a number of events as well, where she made her first DJ steps.

From post-punk, new wave, ethereal wave, shoegaze, noise, indie and such, she gradually turned to more electronic- oriented music genres, falling in love with the Bristol trip-hop scene on one side and Flying Rhino trance sound on the other.
After moving to the capital city, she embraced the electronic music more openly, and became a follower of a number of scenes, from industrial, minimal techno, microhouse, idm, and electroclash. She then began to experiment with sound in Propellerhead’s Reason Studio, which she stayed faithful to up to now. She has also worked as a DJ in several Belgrade clubs.


Last year she appeared on FEM records artist sampler 2009: http://www.femrecords.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_new.tpl&product_id=273&category_id=16&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=31&vmcchk=1&Itemid=31, http://www.last.fm/user/Tessio/journal

Here's a couple of useful links if you want to get in touch with her work: http://www.last.fm/music/Fear+Of+Symmetry, http://www.myspace.com/fearofsymmetry, http://www.femrecords.com/

Enjoy the video ;)


VIdeo directed by:
Milica Tomović
Relja Ilić
Jelena Maksimović

Director of Photography: Relja Ilić
Edited by: Jelena Maksimović

Light Animators:
Tanja Tomović
Jovana Banjanac
Stefan Pešić
Milica Tomović
Relja Ilić
Jelena Maksimović

The Girl:
Irena Canić

Inspired by:
Kaki King's "Pull Me Out Alive"