H T R K — BENDIN'

BENDIN' [VIDEO DIRECTED BY NATHAN CORBIN] FROM HTRK'S NEW ALBUM WORK (WORK, WORK) RELEASED ON GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL [SEPTEMBER 6 2011]

SEE EXCERPT OF RUFUS KNIGHT'S INTERVIEW WITH JONNINE STANDISH & NIGEL YANG [HTRK] IN SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER005

HTRK IS CURRENTLY ON TOUR IN THE UK AND EUROPE

JANNIS KOUNELLIS 'EARLY PAINTINGS' AT GALERIE KARSTEN GREVE

'In this first corpus of mature works, the Greek artist, who lives in Rome, shows the precursory signs of his key attachment to the revolutionary movement Arte Povera, the first important Italian movement after 1945. Stifled in a cultural context that was strongly anchored in and influenced by Antiquity and academia and distinguishing itself from American Abstract Expressionism and the Informal European movement, Arte Povera advocated total liberation from the grandeur and elitism of art. In practice it involved banning all traditionally precious and prestigious supports, genres and materials of figurative art and to no longer refer to reality but to work with it directly. Creating situations rather than objects, Kounellis used odours, sounds and ‘poor’ materials like wool, coal, iron, clay, plants, wood, flame or living animals. The roots of this desire to trouble and upset the spectator’s expectations in the face of a very familiar genre is astonishingly present in the artist’s first paintings, throwing into question the most classic form of art, painting, right from the beginning.'

















JANNIS KOUNELLIS 'Early Paintings' September 3 - October 8, 2011

GALERIE KARSTEN GREVE / 5, rue Debelleyme F-75003 Paris


JANNIS KOUNELLIS 'EARLY PAINTINGS' PHOTOGRAPHED BY MONIKA BIELSKYTE at GALERIE KARSTEN GREVE

HTRK INTERVIEW IN SOME/THINGS CHAPTER005

SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER005 FEATURES AN IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW WITH NIGEL YANG & JONNINE STANDISH OF LONDON-BASED BAND HTRK BY RUFUS KNIGHT & PHOTOGRAPHY BY MONIKA BIELSKYTE AT SOME/THINGS SECRET GALLERY


... RUFUS KNIGHT / SEAN’S BASSLINES BEING SO FUNDAMENTAL TO YOUR SONGS TO DATE; DID HE EVER SPEAK ABOUT HIS FEELINGS TOWARD THE IDEAS EXPRESSED ON NOSTALGIA & MARRY ME TONIGHT? HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE HIS APPROACH TO MUSIC & INSTRUMENTATION?

NIGEL YANG / SEAN WAS THE PERFECT ARBITER— HE WAS VERY STAUNCH. WHO THE HELL IS STAUNCH THESE DAYS? IT WAS ONE OF HIS MOST UNIQUE QUALITIES. HE CONSISTENTLY INSPIRED AUSTERITY & MINIMALISM. TO MY DETRIMENT I TEND TO BE MORE OPEN TO NEW TRENDS IN MUSIC— SEAN WOULD ALWAYS BE THERE TO DENOUNCE THEM & KEEP ME ‘PURE’. I KNOW HE LOVED LISTENING TO NOSTALGIA. HE TEXTED ME ON A FREEZING NIGHT WHEN HE WAS IN TRANSYLVANIA [OF ALL THE PLACES!] SAYING IT JUST CAME ON SHUFFLE & WAS, IN HIS WORDS, BEAUTIFULLY EVOCATIVE. HE’D CAUGHT THE TRAIN TOO FAR & ENDED UP IN DESTITUTE OUTSKIRTS AT DAWN WITH SOME ROMANIAN PROSTITUTES CLAWING AT HIM. WHAT BETTER TIME THAN TO LISTEN TO NOSTALGIA. I LIKE THAT WE SUCCEEDED IN CREATING MUSIC THAT WE OURSELVES CAN LISTEN TO FOR PLEASURE.
SEAN HAD GREAT RESPECT FOR THE CLASSICAL TRADITION & WOULD SOMETIMES WRITE HIS BASSLINES ON A STAVE, & THINK IN THOSE FORMAL, STRUCTURED TERMS, USING OSTINATI & COUNTERPOINT. WE BOTH LIKE BACH, MAHLER, SCHOENBERG, BERG, WEBERN & SO ON. WE ARE SOMEWHAT CONSERVATIVE IN THIS WAY & WE ARE STILL DRAWN TO PATHOS IN MUSIC SO LONG AS IT IS TEMPERED WITH SOME SORT OF RESTRAINT. SEAN WOULD RESPOND MOST POSITIVELY TO MUSIC THAT REMINDED HIM OF THE EXISTENCE OF ARCHETYPES, OR NOTICEABLY AIMED FOR SOME SORT OF PLATONIC IDEAL.
SO WITH HTRK IT MAKES SENSE THAT WE WOULD AIM FOR SYMMETRY OR HARMONY MOST OF THE TIME. SEAN HATED UGLY SOUNDS FOR THE SAKE OF UGLY SOUNDS, DISCORD FOR THE SAKE OF IT. HIS APPROACH TO MAKING MUSIC IS SIMPLE— GET RID OF DISTRACTIONS, REWARD A LISTENER’S PATIENCE, & REMAIN FOCUSED ON OUR SINGULAR INTENT, WHICH IS TO PRODUCE SADNESS & SEXUAL DESIRE SIMULTANEOUSLY ...

HTRK ARE CURRENTLY ON TOUR THROUGHOUT AMERICA & EUROPE & THEIR NEW ALBUM WORK (WORK, WORK) IS AVAILABLE NOW THROUGH GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL.




HTRK FEATURE IN SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER005 BEING PRINTED ON CYCLUS OFFSET PAPER AT IMPRIMERIE COMELLI, SPECIAL THANKS TO ARJOWIGGINS GRAPHIC

PREORDERS AVAILABLE FOR SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER005 / SHE HAS NO STRINGS APOLLO AT OUR ONLINE BOUTIQUE

RESEARCH FOR SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER005

here is one image from rufus' research for SOME/THINGS CHAPTER005 which will be all about earth, decay & magic, with special focus on the middle east.



ps. i cant believe that we have barely launched CHAPTER004 & we already need to finalise the lineup of CHAPTER005, but that's what we have to do to make it all happen in time for next autumn.







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