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THE BIG MOUNTAIN COUNTY INTERVIEW
an island, close to the sea, full of sun and green
in a huge and chaotic, besides beautiful and unique city
BIG MOUNTAIN COUNTY is a relatively new but great psych garage rock band somewhere in Rome. They are blessed with ability to write hits, even in the manner of Butthole Surfers. Moreover the bassplayer Wolfman Bob is our old comrade. He played at rnr666 party in Budapest with three different bands: wild garage rock Ultra Twist, lo-fi punk Trio Banana, and of course Big Mountain County.
How you have become musicians?
As for many other musicians: listening to music at home, trying to play any instrument and finally being completely captured by the desire to play over and over.
Your hometowns are Catania, Bari, Pescara, Rome. There are long distances between these cities. How you have got together? You understand each other without problem, or there are difficulties because of the language differences?
We come from different and quite far towns, but there are no particular language differences. So no communication problems. Alessandro and Bruno have met each other in Catania, their common hometown. They met Bob in a music festival, where they were performing with their respective past bands, Bruno and Alessandro with “The Boliers” and Bob with “The Ultra Twist”. A few years later, they all moved to Rome, where Alessandro and Francesco met each as roommate. They began playing guitars and writing songs together and soon they decided to start a new band, involving Bruno as drummer and Bob as bass player. We believe that the difference between our origins is one of the keys of the band. Alessandro and Bruno come from Catania, a hot and spirited city, Bob comes from another lively and dynamic town, whereas Francesco comes from a quiet village close to Pescara. These differences reflect on our music styles. So yes, we have different languages, but just “musical languages”. However, this is not a problem, but an unbelievable resource, since playing and writing together is a continuous mutual exchange, which every time creates new songs, new sounds and new atmospheres. We definitely like to be different but to appear as a unity on the stage.
You spent a month together to produce a better sounding in a house on the base of Etna. Was the session successful? Could you use that under ground latent energy?
Definitely yes! We live in Rome, a huge and chaotic (besides beautiful and unique) city. Sometimes we need to escape from the rhythm of the city life in order to find new inspirations. Therefore, when we had to complete our first LP Breaking Sound, we decided to stay a month in a nice house on the base of the Etna, where we had more time and the right atmosphere to write new songs and find out new sounds. Those days were relaxing, inspiring and stimulant. That was the right place in the right moment.
In some songs (e.g. Brain Machine) I have discovered the strong influence of Butthole Surfers. Are there accidents, or are you also big fans of those funny guys?
We know Butthole Surfers and we like their music. Anyway, we do not know if they directly influenced some of our songs. As said before, we are four and we have various and very different musical influences.
Psychedelic music is very trendy nowadays, almost every second village has a psych fest. What do you think about this revival?
We like psychedelic music, we play psychedelic music, so we follow the trend… Psych music surely is not new, but we believe that many bands are proposing new different, modern and interesting interpretations. We think that this kind of music can be fully expressed just during live shows. Therefore, we promote the spread of psych fests and we hope every second village will have more than one psych fest. We are so sure about this that we are contributing to the organization of the first Rome Psych Fest, which will be held in next October.
As band what was your biggest show experience?
We had many unforgettable shows, but if we have to choose one, that is Sarajevo in 2013, during our first European tour. We were very far from home, not only because of physical distance, but also because of history and culture. However, we felt at home. People got really involved by our show and our music. The atmosphere was perfect, in poor words, unforgettable.
Where is Big Mountain County geographically?
As for songs, pictures, or poems, each can have its personal idea about the Big Mountain County. Therefore, we cannot say where it is. In our minds, it is probably on an island, close to the sea, full of sun and green lands. Do you know any place like this?
What are your plans for the future?
In this period, we are promoting out live CD Anachronicle, out for Area Pirata Records. In the same time, we are writing new songs to record our second studio LP, which will be more psych and experimental than “Breaking Sound”. Our idea is to record in autumn and release the album at the beginning of 2017. Meanwhile, in next October, we will share the release of a 12 inches split, out for Annibale Records with the Italian band “Lame”, a project of Stefano Isaia from Movie Star Junkies. It will contain two new tracks by Big Mountain County, one to dance and one to dream.
And for the past? What would you change in the history if you could?
To answer this question is not easy. Everything could be better, but worse also. We think that what is done is done. Fortunately, just music and songs remain. We prefer to learn from the past in order to make the future better.
pic: Gyerage. More BMC at RNR666 Party in Budapest pics
Ninni Forever
Finnish Lunatic Synth Pop
Ninni Forever Band
The Best
Kuustoista nollakolme
from the album „Lätäkössä” will be released in the fall 2016 on Svart Records
Ninni Forever Band is Ninni Luhtasaari of Tampere. She makes hats too.
UPCOMING SHOWS
09.06.2016 Tavastia, Helsinki /w Räjäyttäjät, U.F. Ojala
29.06.2016 Lepakkomies, Helsinki /w Neiet
13.08.2016 TBA Pori
Post Plague
Canadian chaos brigade Odonis Odonis has come back with his psychedelic electro industrial post punk music
New album Post Plague by Felte Records (US/EU), Telephone Explosion (Can), Geertruida (NL)
IN EUROPE Jul 16 Patronaat, Haarlem, Netherlands – Jul 17 Centrum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands – Jul 19 Kinky Star, Ghent, Belgium – Jul 20 The Waiting Room, London, United Kingdom – Jul 22 Super Sonic, Paris, France
„DE-evolution has truly arrived”
Round Eye is weird ex-pat punk band with two sax in Shanghai. Their brand new video about what they think about America today. The band was founded by Chachy, who has moved there from Orlando, Florida in 2010.
He said an interview on Dangerous Mind
„It’s funny, Chinese media is using what’s happening with Trump and America as an example of why Democracy doesn’t work. ”
„I get a good earful of global opinions on how America is presenting itself and trust me, it’s universally laughed at. (…) Everyone sees the social nightmare he’s dredged up and they start to realize that what was once an American issue is now getting dangerously close to becoming an international one. Not laughing as much anymore.”
„DE-evolution has truly arrived. ” Because We the People
Anyway “the best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter” as per Winston Churchill.
An interview with Chachy about China on RNR666
Trouble Vs Glue
Trouble Vs Glue is an Italian duo from Rome where usually Toni plays on drums, and Lady Maru trifles with keys and sometimes strings.
They said „sound like the Residents with a punk drummer, in others like a weird Japanese electronic pop band from the ’80s, while some other tracks bring us back to the no-wave of Lizzy Mercier Descloux and DNA.” I tell: Trouble Vs Glue is such as the electro-clash duo Stereo Total in experimental mood.
A song from the third album featuring David Lemoine from French electro punk band Cheveu
This Age will be released this June on No=Fi Recordings (I)
You can find a pretty different musical background behind the members. Toni has a noise rock band Hiroshima Rocks Around, and his solo project Mai Mai Mai is an experiment based on Italian Occult Psychedelia, which is rooted in Italian horror movies, giallo films, spaghetti westerns and local folklore. His debut album was mixed by Jamie Stewart, aka Xiu Xiu.
Lady Maru is a techno and deep house musician and DJ. Very interesting her collaborative no wave nu disco project with Cascao (who also is a contributor on the new album of T Vs G). They have a deep house cover of Death Valley 69, a masterpiece of Sonic Youth and Lydia Lunch. Find it!
mr sterile & co, nz
New Zealand, I like it. Home of some great artists like Axemen, Heart Attack Alley, Delaney Davidson, Stomping Nick, and
mr sterile and his company, a bunch of various musicians who working together under the name of mr sterile Assembly from 2004. They have made their latest album as drum and bass duo, so the music is pretty minimal punk
which bring the very early NoMeansNo to my mind when it consisted of the two Wright brothers only. And also bring the Minutemen and English anarcho-punk group CRASS, not just because
„the title track to the album It’s All Over, an anthem to and for the protesters at the front-line of the climate crisis; for Black Lives Matter, for Refugees are Welcome, for No one is Illegal; for resistance, for persistence; for workers struggling to obtain a living wage, decent conditions, a dignified workplace; Occupy, Anonymous, BDS, frontline communities; the opposers of the corporate wars, the oil wars, the water wars, the cyber wars; those fighting for transparency, equity, liberation; old folk connecting with young folk in affinity; for those fighting for potential and hope in health, education, housing; for fighting for freedom of expression from medieval thinking; for the radicals, for the first-timers; for us, for It All, for Everywhere, for freedom, for life!” – said mr sterile.
On their previous album in 2011 there was a bigger assembly with a pretty eclectic music
There come the English avantgarde experimentalist Fred Frith, Dutch anarcho-punk-folk-jazz The Ex, Hungarian psych rock band Másfél and art punk Ápolók to my head. But I could say Captain Beefheart or the Bez Ladu a Skladu from Slovakia too. Or there is the Belgian Morzelpronk, but anyway „they have a distinctive, South Pacific sound based on unusual and urgent time signatures, repetitive heavy rhythms, and angular lyrics.” And it is highly entertaining.
You can find more music on their bandcamp page.
inspired by heartbreak, mortality, and financial struggle
Monster Treasure is a punk noise rock band sometimes with a very little black metal feeling in Stockton, California. In its very early years in the middle of the 19th Century the city was called Mudville.
Their songs are inspired by heartbreak, mortality, and financial struggle
Debut album by Leisure & District Records (UK)
Some shows in UK in May
Thurs 19th – LONDON at The Old Blue Last with Living Hour (CAN)
Fri 20th – NORWICH at The Owl Sanctuary
Sat 21st – LONDON at The Lock Tavern, FREE ENTRY
Mon 23rd – LONDON at The Lexington with NOTS (US, Memphis, Goner Records)
A free download song from the debut album
Blue Thunder from Brazil
Galaxie 500 was an influential American indie rock band between 1987 and 91, and released three albums. Somebody said their music is such as if Jonathan Richman (The Modern Lovers) would be backed by The Velvet Underground.
The Blog That Celebrate Itself Records in Sao Bernardo, Brazil just has released a „name your price” tribute album. You can find there indie, dreamy, psychedelic rock, for example also by a big favourite, the Mexican psychedelic rock duo Lorelle Meets The Obsolete. While I was listening to the album just lay on my bed, sometimes dropped off a little, sometimes sipped my beer, and said: so good. Because it is long enough, it is perfect for longer snoozes too.
One man industrial punk techno
by Nicolas Belvalette of Headwar under alias Usé
who can even beat two guitars at same time
album on Born Bad Records (France)
He is the head of Parti Sans Cible (Party Without Target)
YOU ARE THE MAYOR, YOU ARE THE FIST!
The party got 2,17 % on Amiens’ local election in 2014.
murder rape torture
anybody by self-interest, occassionally – it’s a crime
institutionally, on ideological base, en masse – it’s a policy
from the new album of French garage rock band Sapin
on Howlin Banana Rds & Beast Rds
„you want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages — they haven’t ended yet.” – Kurt Vonnegut
OK MFs, Tit Wrench Is Here Again!
TIT WRENCH Chula Vista Hardcore Technoise Punk Band.
Their music evolved from hc/punk to noise during the 90s.
After a long hiatus they have reformed recently, and new album is on the way.
Another new song, now from their noise side
Life Is Beautiful
but Life Sucks Do Me
TIT WRENCH Interview with special playlist on RNR666
Our Black Godfather Is Here Again
bad motherfucker wanna go back to Detroit
where his career has started in a talent show at his age of 15 right after he was bad conduct discharged from US Marine Corps because of fraudulent enlistment in 1951.
New album I Wanna Go Back To Detroit in June by Bloodshot Records. Full of low-end heavy funk. With guitarists Matthew Smith (Outrageous Cherry, Rodriguez) and Dan Kroha (Gories, Demolition Doll Rods), with drummer Jim White (Dirty Three, Cat Power) and more.
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Q: Speaking of Jewish people, we hear you are a recent convert to Judaism. How did that come about?
AW: Well, I met a lady who I like real well and she’s from the Naftali tribe, she’s Jamaican. She’s a lawyer and she said „Well, Andre. If we gonna do something, you’ve gotta skin down!” [Laughs]
Q: Was it err.. painful?
AW: Well, it was an experience! I went to the doctor’s office and more in his best interview ever