Pontiak plays a strange mix of psychedelic rock and proto-metal. Lack Lustre Rush

from the album, Innocence by Thrill Jockey

Euro tour in April-May

A Tree In A Field is a Swiss independent record label.
In the following days you can read about their latest 4 releases.

MIR – plays alien folk, aka UFOLK music 

In the human sphere it is like a time and space noise wave
played on un/conventional rock instruments
and lots of additional electronic and analogue equipment.
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project hadn’t so many widgets than they have,
so the sound wasn’t the real McCoy there.

The MIR was launched in 2005 under influence of the German Kosmiche Musik. The astronauts are very colourful individuals. The drummer, Daniel Buess was in the pioneer jazzcore band 16-17, is founding member of the Ensemble of Phoenix, which is specialized to contemporary music, and there are various bands and collaborations.
Papiro, the masters of strings, originally is a classical trained violinist, who plays every instrument that he can get, and had/has many projects in different styles. For example there was a mystical experience in 2003 which led him to perform music based on playing only one chord at high volume for an extended period.
MZ operates on organ, synthesizers and other electronics. He originally played guitars with different underground bands until he discovered that he was more interested in soundeffects rather than virtuosity, and developed new techniques for guitar, and started to play around with synthesizers and their modifications. When I first saw the MIR, I stared his little room size keyboard structure, and named it ‘Oh my God, what is it?’
On their Shock Your Moneymaker album two percussionists joined them. “The duo’s tabla-like playing adds a furious, repetitive element to the band’s music, an effect that becomes even more striking when Papiro brings the Indian Shehnai flute into the mix.” It’s like a Martian jungle.

The album’s producer is Alex Buess from 16-17, GOD, Phantom City, Cortex (duo with Daniel Buess) etc.

The „vintage rocker” Michael Yonkers is one of the greatest hidden underground musicians like Seasick Steve, who won the Award for Best Breakthrough Act at his age of 66, or the 81 years old bluesman, Leo Welch with his debut album. Yonkers was born in Minneapolis in 1947. He has been making music since the early 60s, self-releasing some albums in the 70s, and stayed fully unknown until 2003. Then his unreleased album, the Microminiature Love, which was recorded in 1968 was released by de Stijl and Sub Pop. And boom. Fresh, fascinating psychedelic garage rock with a very unique sound, thanks to own made effects and a reshaped Fender Telecaster. It’s „like a fusion of stripped down Black Sabbath, The Troggs, Pere Ubu, and The Cramps.” It also comes the Stooges, the Godz and Joy Division to my mind. His previous albums would be reissued one after the other beside his new and unreleased materials.  Among his new stuff there are two collabs with the garage punk band, Blind Shake.

A marvellous acoustic chamber folk album The Borders Of My Mind with Jim Woehrle from 1974 is the brand new reissue by Drag City. Look!

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Texan harsh punk on drums, guitar and electronics. Burnt Skull

Sewer Birth LP by 12Xu

Special Swiss lo-fi doom folk by the one man act Doomenfels. Jahreszithen

from Epilog EP by A Tree In A Field Records

Bruno Dorella & Stefania Pedretti from Italy play
Minimal Extreme Noise Metal under the name of OvO

„The anarcho-punk (The Ex, Dog Faced Hermans, Rhythm Activism) made an important impact on us, but we don’t belong any movements. Although our lifestyle is perfect anarchism. We haven’t workplace, travelling around the world, working together with people whose values identical with ours, doing own label, etc. We can try to live by our own ideas, it requires much discipline, I think it’s an important trick of the anarchism.” (Read the full interview in Hungarian.)

OvO plays with Mombu (I) & Paranoiz (H)
at RNR666 party on Jan 24 in Budapest at Müszi

OvO + Mombu on Jan 23 in Szeged at Jazz Kocsma

Bedroom hip-hop with taste of noise punk by the multi-instrumentalist experimental rapper, Signor Benedick The Moor, who arrived from the metal/hc scene. „The name comes from two places, both Shakespearean, Benedick is the main character in Much Ado About Nothing, and I identify with him on a personal level as someone who will in the future be jaded because of his past experiences with love. He is also very witty and I like to think the same of myself. The second, the Moor, comes from the characters Aaron the Moor and Othello, both outsiders because of their skin color. I’ve felt like an outsider since I began to form my self-awareness, because of my half-white, half-black heritage, and because I always seemed to think so much differently than everyone else.”

by the experimental noise label, Deathbomb Arc

His former old-school-like hip-hop-punk project with less noise and more music: brayne (free downloads)

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The Blank Realm is a very open minded and amazing psychedelic rock band from the fantastic Aussie underground scene. „if Lady Gaga wanted to collab with us, we would almost definitely say yes, although the result would probably make for rugged listening.”

Grass Inn LP by Bedroom Suck (Aus) and Fire Records (UK)

Hey-hey! A new Sieur et Dame video! ColléSerré (= Let’s stick together) 

from their split 7″ with Gregaldur.

Sieur et Dame are from France. They have made one of the best albums in 2013.
Their music is very special, difficult to define it. In one word: burlesque.
In more: S&D on RNR666

Jan 13  21:00  Budapest  Kolor (Király u 13)

Facebook event     Monday Session

It’s not well-known that RNR666 started as a two weekly radioshow
on an online radio station 9 years before.
These shows were on our site until the server breakdown.
The breakdown deletes the shows.
We are starting the restore now by popular request.
The first restored show:
Interrogative Broadcast / Kérdő Adás

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The 3 most wanted Elvis