Sunday September 9th, 2012
Death By Audio
49 S. 2nd Street Brooklyn, NY
Doors 8pm | $7 | All Ages
Showing posts with label colour bük. Show all posts
Showing posts with label colour bük. Show all posts
Last Nights Presents: Drainolith, SSPS, United Waters, & Colour Bük at Death By Audio
Sunday September 9th, 2012
Death By Audio
49 S. 2nd Street Brooklyn, NY
Doors 8pm | $7 | All Ages
Colour Bük - Dethkill | Album Feature
The gruesome twosome are back with some more totally left-field out of this world, scene-less onslaught that continues to lay their claim as being one of the most perverse bands operating on the east coast. It's not like they even mean to be this way. It's only nature. True outsiders living in an insiders posing as outsiders kind of world. Colour Bük bring to light a whole new side of their reality with Dethkill, a concept album for the modern age of noise-punk-underground.
I've personally been championing these guys for years and I still don't even know where they're coming from. The band recently toured the west coast with similar genre freaks Smegma, something which is some sort of testament. "Bastard Earth" may be the catchiest track they have recorded yet, to say nothing of the new found clarity in production and intent.
"Wake up you're getting fucked / you're just a machine / you don't even cry / the world's on a string / and it's a bastard earth / a bastard earth / a bastard earth/ a bastard earth / a bastard earth" these are men of many words. The rest of Dethkill follows this path so if any of the aforementioned appeals to you I would begin listening now.
Colour Bük's Dethkill is available now straight from the duo & their imprint Wir Wollen Wulle.
Weird Forest - Winter Cassette Releases: Smegma, Colour Bük, & Monterey Babe Aquarium | Album Reviews
Weird Forest have unleashed a new batch of tapes upon the world, including a sweet mix of sounds from Smegma, Colour Bük, & Monterey Babe Aquarium. There's something ot be said for eclecticism I would say. After all variety is the spice of life, & these two tapes really demonstrate that.
Smegma do what they do best here & show they live up to their reputation in the live setting as well. Rambling compositions that somehow end leaving the listener (or at least myself) with a feeling & a thought. I think you can name drop a lot of folks who have subsequently taken on a similar attitude to this now legendary crew & this performance from 2010 sees Smegma outlasting even their younger imitators.
Colour Bük are no strangers in these parts & in some respects are children of Smegma, if not literally then at least philosophically. A train of thought that sees a total disregard for cultural norms while bathing in them all the same. CB's side is as usual all over the place yet maybe the most refined approach they've yet taken. "The Good Memoir", above, is the final track on this split & is quite an eye (read ear) opener. After being led through some sonic guitar/drone sludge we are left with some moronic (read punk / child star) turntable-isms that bring a surprising bit of humanity into the whole.
Monterey Babe Aquarium were probably the brightest shining of this batch, or should I say most readily accessible, or hmm never mind it was a fun listen. "Yoyo Loach" definitely stand as one of the highlights & most immediately satisfying track on the tape. The track incorporates a drum machine workout that propels & provides structure here, while vocals & synths swarm and cascade about. I think the blown out oceanic cover art gives you a glimpse of what's to come. Do people still use the tag "chillwave"? I never understood that personally, but maybe it was just me.
The Monterey Babe Aquarium & Smegma/Colour Büktapes are out now & available via Weird Forest, along with a third split by Sagan Genesis & Waxy Tomb.
Last Nights Presents: Magik Markers // Key of Shame // Colour Bük // Michael R. Bernstein THIS SATURDAY
Key of Shame (members of Sightings & NNCK)
Michael R. Bernstein (of Religious Knives & Double Leopards)
Saturday February 18th
49 S. 2nd Street Brooklyn, NY
8pm | $7 | All Ages
Last Nights Presents: Magik Markers // Key of Shame // Colour Bük // Michael R. Bernstein
Key of Shame (members of Sightings & NNCK)
Michael R. Bernstein (of Religious Knives & Double Leopards)
Saturday February 18th
49 S. 2nd Street Brooklyn, NY
8pm | $7 | All Ages
Last Nights Presents:DJ Nat Roe
Monday July 11th
915 Wyckoff Ave Queens NY
8pm // $7
All Ages
For more info & to RSVP click here
Last Nights Presents: LIPS*
Monday July 11th
915 Wyckoff Ave Queens NY
8pm // $7
All Ages
For more info & to RSVP click here
* Unfortunately LIPS will no longer be playing this show as they are no longer touring.
Colour Bük
Colour Bük are a rather paradoxical duo. Adam Kastin & Brandon Wulle are infamous to some & totally off the radar for others so far. As a witness to a few shows the band has played over the years I've seen quite a few eclectic performances, some of which have included members getting completely nude while banging a large ammunition shell & a brawl that sent someone to the hospital. Add to this the mysterious, read fake, biographies they have made up some which include releasing records through their "german" label Wir Wollen Wulle & a homeless genius that took the two on as his apprentices.
Beyond all of these constructed narratives there lies a certain bent on combining high & low, beautiful & ugly, good & bad. In the process melding each together into a single inseparable unit. Colour Bük have developed a dark and quirky sound the is pretty unique. After explaining all this it may be funny that the group is only now kicking it into high gear and releasing some great music on a wider scale.
The first of these releases is Our Favorite Fucking Day of the Goddamn Year, which is seeing its physical release on cassette via Weird Forest. The album perhaps is a more light hearted affair than many Colour Bük releases without diminishing the total creep factor. It mixes weirdo tape loop experimentation with some jagged songs that combine electronics and guitars just right.
The second release, and final for now, is Licht Dinger through the band aforementioned label Wir Wollen. The album includes a more 'punk rock' (whatever that means) oriented approach. The album showcases classic Colour Bük live tracks like The Fall Suck and Stay Depress each enveloped in a much harsher atmosphere than Our Favorite Fucking Day. The album does cede one similarity in the overall song structures and concepts though, switching between abstract composition to traditional verse-chorus structuring.
Colour Bük aren't even slowing down after the release of their LP. They already have a split planned for August with Smegma & are in the middle of planning a split with Tenses. That album is due out on Weird Forest in the upcoming months.
The group have some fantastic upcoming shows in support of the releases, one of these shows will be with Smegma founders Ju Suk Reete Meate & Jackie Oblivia, each of which is at a Last Nights venue favorite Silent Barn.
June 16th - Queens, NY @ Silent Barn w/ Jooklo Duo+Bill Nace, Yeh/Ju Suk/Jackie trio, Devin Gary & Ross, DJ Nat Roe
July 11th - Queens, NY @ Silent Barn w/ Garrincha & The Stolen Elk & more
MV & EE are hitting the road this April with Mick Flower (Vibracatherdral Orchestra) for a tour of the North East. The tour has many highlights along the way that see the duo joined by special guests. While in Boston Mick Flower will also branch out from MV & EE to perform with longtime collaborator and much heralded underground percussionist Chris Corsano. Their Brooklyn show will see recent LSTN favorite Spectre Folk play as well.
LSTN is proud to be presenting 2 of their NY shows, one at SUNY Purchase & Death By Audio (BK) respectively. Check back for more info on these dates in the near future.
In the meantime the Matt & Erika recently started their own blog (sounds familiar to us over here at Last Nights) where you'll be able to get MV & EE related news straight from the source. You can check it out at MVandEE.blogspot.com
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Live Dates
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April Flower Tour
Mon 4th - Feeding Tube - Northampton, MA (w/ Willie Lane)
Tues 5th - The Arts Center - Saratoga Springs, NY
Wed 6th - The Church - Boston, MA (w/ Flower Corsano Duo & Mmoss)
Thurs 7th - SUNY Purchase - Purchase, NY (w/ Images, Jefferson High, Colour Bük)
Fri 8th - Death By Audio - Brooklyn, NY (w/ Spectre Folk, Images, Jefferson High)
Sat 9th - Brickbat Books - Philadelphia, PA (w/ Willie Lane)
Sun 10th - The Crimson Lion Hookah Lounge - Wilkes-Barre , PA
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