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THE UNHYPED GENIOUS

KC Vooruit | Fr 30 NOV '07 (20u30)
"These sonic transgressors are not for everyone, but if you're a fan of free-form improvisations, free jazz, weird drones, pagan folk, whimsical acoustic pieces, disjointed percussive riffs, crackling electronics and actually own more than one record by either the Sun City Girls, This Heat, Faust, Residents, or Captain Beefheart, than you owe it to yourself to check them out"
- Mats Gustafsson (over Volcano The Bear), Terrascope 		There's a world, far away from all the Pitchforks and NME's, where splendid music stays elusive to exposure. It's a cruel and unjust world of musicians that suffer from a bad or non existing promo campaign, a wrong choice of haircuts or being overwhelmed by bigger bands in their neighbourhood. Their albums are among the favourites of so-called connoisseurs, but the road to a wider audience is often a hard one. They get cut-off by a large stinking bunch of bland rock bands that are on the right place at the right time with their untalented crap. Well, that's more or less how a frustrated concert promoter would describe it. Luckily, cynicism and frustration have never been part of the Pauze Festival. To the contrary, the idealistic principles of the festival make the bands that need some thorough (re)discovery or revaluation appear on stage. People who are fond of slogans like "If they would be that good, they would be well-known" better come and have a look around. Tears will be in their eyes for saying ugly things like that.
VOLCANO THE BEAR [uk]
It was May 1995 when Volcano The Bear was let lose from it's cave by Daniel Padden, Laurence Coleman, Nick Mott and Aaron Moore. The four British artists sought their way out of conservative and traditional music. Volcano The Bear became a platform for total artistic freedom and personal expression. This shared musical ideology resulted in what one could call a solid cross section of extraordinary artists England had to offer (Robert Wyatt, This Heat, Nurse With Wound,...). Moreover Volcano The Bear can be seen as one of the pioneers of a new innovative British scene that replaces pretension by humour and the joy of playing.
NOAH HOWARD QUARTET [us/b/fr]
American alto saxophone player Noah Howard counts as an icon within the free jazz genre. In the mid sixties he made his debut on the acknowledged ESP imprint. Quickly he became a much invited and well respected artist and shared the stage with people such as Sun Ra, Archie Shepp, Leroy Jenkins, Art Ensemble of Chicago,... In 1969 he released "The Black Ark", an album that is now considered to be a milestone in jazz history. It has been reissued recently by Bo Weavil. Inspired by the avant-garde movement in Europe, he moved to France, where he recorded with Frank Wright, Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg among others. Although he stayed active as a musician, his discography became rather irregular, with a decreasing interest In his music as a result. That was until the nineties, when a slow revaluation of his work began. For a couple of years Howard has been based in Brussels, where he plays with drummer Calyer Duncan. For the Pauze Festival he also brings along Bobby Few (piano) and Harry Swift (double bass) to prove once more why he is a jazz pioneer.
CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS [usa]
It's a trio from Seattle and it's not Nirvana, nor the Sun City Girls... Climax Golden Twins of course! Good friends of the latter and often quite similar in aesthetic approach, since the mid nineties these guys are working on sounds that reach from instrumental guitar music, to cut-up collages with field recordings and experiments using old 78 rpm records. The band has influenced many American bands that are now called new, psychedelic and experimental. But still they don't have the status they deserve. It's our pleasure to convince you by putting this trio on stage. You'll see we're right. The twins also bring some of their audiovisuals that will be screened on screens near the Brugzaal.