I told you about the music I was listening a lot last year. I have to tell you also about concerts I visited last year, cause some of the interprets started to be one of my favourites after the concert and I want to show you which ones.
I remember my trip to Prague. It was at March I guess? And it was magical experience. Bestial Mouth
One of the czech bands I saw at leat three times and was aslo forerunner for Bestial Mouth, but they played also in Hradec Králové and I think they are really great czech newborn band. Ba:zel
I don't even remember when, I think it was at spring or in summer?? I was on the concert of White Hills that everyone know from Jarmush's Only lovers left alive. I remember that I felt like in a dream and this glam awesome blonde playing bass was like an half devil half angel.
As a fan of synthesizers and czech undergound band Plastic People of the Universe, I was on concert of B4 - synth covers of PPU. The idea is something like.. "if PPU were from Germany". The concept is quite funny, but you need to know context. As music it's great!
Another great concert of MENU (they're organizing concerts in Hradec Králové) was again Ba:zel but with Julinko and I absolutely fell in love with them. The magical atmosphere that was in old factory where the concert was is written in my mind forever.
I was on Prague Gothic Treffen after 2 years of absence and the organization was pretty awesome. They added live bands, so it's not just goth discoteque, but real concert. Undertheskin were pretty good. Thanks Sancturary.cz for organization.
Autumn. One of the best unsuspected musical experience in Pardubice. It was in little music club called DUB. It was the day when I was depressed that Im not on the concert of Christian Death so I went there to listen at least something and it was really one of the best live musical experience of the last half yer. All Your Sisters. I bougth their LP!
MENU again organized concert of Xarah Dion and she is now in my cold wave playlists. It's such a great music and, as I like to say, it's my cup of tea and it's my blood type.
And that's all. I missed many concerts and I was sad about it, I was also on some bad concerts, but this is quite good number of concerts I really enjoyed last year.
Hope this year will be even better! I decided to spent most of my extra money for culture and LP's and I also want to finally do some minimal cold wave music by myself.
Hello!
Because music is always so important to me and reflects my life, i decided to do a post about what music accompanied me in last year.
So basically... I was desperetly searching for something. I had enough of happy hippie songs all my friends are into. So...At the beggining of the year I was listening a lot of atmospheric minimal experimental electro? I guess..
It wasn't enough dark for me. I'm post-punk by a heart and this has just too much sentimental. I love disharmony, deep dark bass..
I was listnening a lot of Lebanon Hanover, which is my favourite band, i guess, but you can't listen one band all the time, so I was searching for something... The Soft Moon...
Okay... Never enough. I love magical womens in music. Cosmetics are great band, but it sounds more sexual than magical. I love them, but then I found my goddess... She's dark, she's smart, she has absolutely amazing voice... and she sings about things as it was about myself. Linea Aspera /also in other bands... Zainas and Keluar.
That get me right into the todays dark wave, which uses awesome sound of synthesizers, automatical drum machines etc.. I fell in love with the sound.
Another thing I need to show you are November Növelet / Haus Arafna as another project. They are so dark and so depressive and so cold.. awww i love it.
So... I fell deep into the pit of modern goth music. I exchange my music with other goths that I know. Im checking our czech goth web about music, I'm searching and searching, I need and army of dark and cold wave bands in my youtube playlist. She Past Away. They are here for longer time, but I discovered them this year. They are pretty "oldschool", which is not my cup of tea theese days, but still... It's the best todays but classical post-punk that I've heard in a long time.
Next... Absolute Body Control. Oh my... I just need to visit their concert. I'm so in love with this band and the best thing.. my boyfriend loves them too!
Hey.. than so many cold-wave bands that I know thanks to youtube, my friends and some articles... I can't talk ybout everything...
But what really gets me is... Vólkova. Goddess of dark atmosphere again. Bass that flows in my blood system.
My newest discover is Buzz Kill.
So that's all about the music I was listening this year. I think I'm on really great way :D I need to write also about concert in 2016.
Do you have some tips for me? Cold waves, goddess singers, disharmony, dark bass pulse, nihilistic atmosphere?
Not sure how to start, but let’s take it chronological..
I’m 1994
kid and I was born in golden age of grunge. Kurt Cobain was freshly dead
and his fame was rising even more thanks to this. I was born to
“underground” family, my father was famous hardcore bass player, my
mum’s nickname was Patti Smith.
So that’s my start. I was raised in
classic rock surroundings. When I was in uterus, my mum was listening
Nirvana. The first music that I ever heard and even now, when I hear
Nirvana, it’s for one hand too
over-listened, but for another it’s still magical and usually when I
sleep and dream about some music, it’s Nirvana.
Kid years are mostly about kids songs and what your parents listens.
So basically they gave me great music basics. Patti Smith, Velvet
Underground, The Doors, Alice in Chains, David Bowie, Hendrix, Janis
Joplin, Joan Jett, Jefferson Airplane, …
When I was like.. 10 years old, I started to really like some music,
that showed me my parents and I also started with finding something new by myself.
I became a big fan on Pixies, PJ Harvey and System of a Down. Especially PJ Harvey, I also infected my cousin :D
When
I was 12, we had almost the same music taste with my cousin, so we were
exchanging music that we like and it was almost like some competition
“who will find better music”. We found that the music we like is called
“alternative” and “indie”.
I loved Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arctic Monkeys, I
remember that The XX was really unknown new band, The Kills and The
Dead Weather, The Libertines and Pete Doherty…
Okay. I was 13-14, when I met metalhead guy and he was big
inspiration for me. He was the only intelligent guy in my age that i
knew. I was never metalhead, but at this period I found some awesome music that is
connected with metal. Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, The
Agonist, Deftones, more Serj Tankian..
Okay.
Next. I was 15, dating 23 years old guy who liked “soft” music. I was
still into all these old thing I was listening (when you start to like
something, it’s all your life with you. You can’t throw away your
“indie” period. It’s still with you.), but I was trying hard to find
some music that we both can like. I also started to listen dark cabaret.
So the queen for me was Emilie Autumn, of course. Than Amanda Palmer, Birdeatsbaby, Nouvelle Vague, Vermilion Lies..
Soon I discovered Siouxsie and the Banshees. I was 16, maybe 17. And
with Siouxsie, Bauhaus. My aunt was always listening Sisters of Mercy in
car and I started to love it. I also remember listening Alien Sex
Fiend, summer 2011, and my father who said “oh i was listening this when
I was your age”. Joy Division. I was also more and more depressed and
this music was just the right thing for me.
End of my first relationship. I was even more
depressed, crying daily with Nick Cave’s music. I went to Finland for
erasmus. Cure mania started. I tried to find some good post-punk and
“goth” music. Cabaret Grey, Echo and the Bunnymen, Jesus and Mary Chain,
Killing Joke, Savages, Sex Gang Children, Silent Scream,..
I started to be happy about this new “genre” i found for myself and
my parents never told me about it /and they knew many of these bands!/
It was like… patch for my bleeding. I started to look ahead for my life.
I dated the sexiest punk boy from my city and I was so proud of it.
We were listening punk mostly, but we both liked also post-punk and goth
music. Again it was like competition - who will find better music. It
was awesome period, but we were too stupid and like.. .”proud punk pair”
that was together just thanks to alcohol. So we broke up. It gave me
great music to listen! Misfits, I studied classical punk bands, also Tom
Waits, Christian Death, Black Flag…
Okay. Than the short period with jazz lover. We were listening Nick Cave together and Morphine.
Again - too much alcohol in relationship.
Even shorter period of dating with awesome and sexy goth guy, but we
started to date sooner then we could really know each others and i have to
say that this person is great friend but I need a totally different
kind of man. But he showed me some awesome bands and also he showed me
how to “find” goth concert in czech republic and that’s it’s not so
weird to visit them.
I'm listening Belgrado, Masquerade and Skeletal Family thanks to him.
Okay. I was 18 and my music taste was almost where it is right now. I
was trying to find something calm but dark at she same time. Crystal
Stilts, AKACOD, White Fence, Thee Oh Sees. Sonic Youth times. Something
between alternative, dark atmosphere and jazzy sounds.
I started to date my current boyfriend when I was 19. I was listening
my “dark” music, but he showed me jazz and I liked it. Typical Miles
Davis. Lou Donaldson, Herbie Hancock, Lonnie Smith. Than also calm
music as
Air, Can,..
But I was tired of all these stupidly “happy” sounds and I showed some of my music to my BF.
We together started to like more electronic music. I like electronic
sounds in cold wave music, he is more into normal electro or techno.
Today I like dark electronic music. I like typical old rock
legends. I like old goth legends. But now I’m examining cold wave
and dark wave and I'm not so much into deathrock as I was.
So now… it’s all about Lebanon Hanover, Xmal Deutschland, She Past
Away, Linea Aspera, Pleasure Symbols, Absolute Body Control, Beta Evers,
The Soft Moon, Gazelle Twin, Haus Arafna, etc.
But still… you can’t throw away your old times. So sometimes I just
need to listen something that I was listening while my punk period or
indie period or metal period… :)
And I have to say THANK YOU to everyone who influenced me.
