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Oceana Company
They have nobody to compare with, they
find themselves. Where have we heard that
before? But in the case of Oceana Company
that might well be true. In any case in the
Netherlands, where their woven carpet of
prog rock, psychedelia, indie/post rock and
stoner metal hasn’t been displayed before,
and certainly not in the original and organic
way they proceed.
Kleazer
This year they did cry victory at the Grote
Prijs van Twente, while one festival or club
audience after the other were left behind with
mouths hanging open. Anyway, EuroSonic will
be in for devilish, almost surreal stoner rock,
but moulded into songs with heads and tails.
Who would have thought otherwise from a
band who has a Jeroen Bosch in its ranks.
Cords
Cords
If the name Cords rings a (deci)bel(l): that’s
right. In the nineties the illustrious Deventer
noise rock band already swept through the
Netherlands, toured Europe, the USA and
Australia and garnered some due success,
until the band split up late in 1999. But the holy
noise fire is glowing again! Cords has risen
again and the explosive musical chemistry
of the band centered around singer Simone
Holsbeek doesn’t appear to have handed in
an ounce of urgency. Better even: there is a
new album coming up, ‘Collage’, and live the
band is good again for a swirling trip along
haunting psychedelia, brooding silences and
seething guitar storms - in short: Cords fever
guaranteed.
Bettie Serveert
Bettie Serveert
Life can run the strangest course. Tennis star
Betty Stöve is long served out, but Bettie
Serveert far from it. Okay, the Amsterdam
indie rock band led by singer Carol van Dyk
did take it easy in recent years, but is now
gearing up for a new blitzkrieg, which will
ruthlessly run 2010 through with their guitars:
a new cd, the ninth and apparently toughest
in the nearly 20-year history of the group,
followed by a full-blown club tour of three
months, starting at Noorderslag. Yes, that’s
the way we like to hear it. Carol’s seductive
voice, the loud guitars, that bittersweet
sound, please come on in!
Daily Bread
If Daily Bread was our daily bread, you would
not hear us complaining. No wonder, with these
young Frisian Flevo dogs, who bark and bite,
with their guerrilla punky-electro sound and
singer Kimberly’s voice, changing colour from
Siouxsie Sioux to PJ Harvey. Spearheading is
Kimberly’s authentic Philicorda-organ, with
help from noisebox and other accessories, and
who only gives away its toy tone at unguarded
moments. Combined with banging drums and
fuzz bass, arises the sexy garage dance sound
with which Daily Bread explicitly claims the
Dutch organ rock crown.
2562
Agua de Annique
There are still people who associate Anneke
van Giersbergen with The Gathering, the
progressive rock/metal which she led for
thirteen years. And a great thirteen years they
were, but they are over. Since two years the
Brabant singer is the proud front woman of
her own Agua De Annique, a band in which
the rock heart still beats somewhat but
where everything revolves around passionate
pop melodies and Van Giersbergen’s voice,
which has become only more beautiful over
the years. Indiepop with an edge. Meanwhile
Agua De Annique has also been touring the
world and received an international warm
welcome for the three so far released albums,
of which ‘In Your Room’ is still warm. Time for
Groningen applause!
Klein
Sometimes jazzy, sometimes folky, largely
acoustic, and also on the enthusiastically
received debut album ‘A Devil’s Bargain’,
despite the solid guest line-up there, always
small and intimate. May they become very big.
Blue Flamingo
Blue flamingos don’t exist, but Ziya Ertekin
does. And in Ziya you have to want to believe
too: a Dutch collector of 78 rpm records who
as a dj lets you make a miraculous journey
through time: back to the thirties, forties and
fifties. The years of oriental jazz-exotica, palm
music of the Caribbean and Latin American
dance styles like mambo and rumba, which
mixed with rhythm & blues. From Sidney
Bechet and Duke Ellington through Jelly
Roll Morton and Alphonso et son Orchestre
Typique Antillais to Charles Brown, Otis
Blackwell and Big Maybelle. Many a festival
audience already literally knuckled under,
EuroSonic will surely follow suit.
Odilo Girod
2562
If you want to know where dubstep producer
Dave Huismans lives, just look at his stage
name, which not coincidentally resembles a
postcode from The Hague. A little joke that
has nothing to do with his music, or it should
be its skippiness, a feature that can’t be traced
back to the garage roots of dubstep. Rather
2562 seems influenced by broken beats and
even the imperturbable four-to-the-floor of
techno. The latter is not surprising, given the
deep house and techno parties of Huismans’
other alter ego A Made Up Sound. So, with
2562 Huismans is also out for the dance floor.
Odilo Girod
Imagine Nick Drake being still alive and inviting
Jamie Lidell, Beck and Eels over for dinner.
That’s more or less the sound of Chop Wood, a
solo project of Amsterdam-based songwriter
Odilo Girod, known as frontman of the widely
acclaimed indie rock band Coparck.