Wannes

It's about music, about one of our greatest artists we lost recently, about a documentary that I made with my friend Alex in 1977. As there are no English subtitles on the film, I'll continue my writing in Dutch, but you dont need Dutch for watching the Flamenco movie.

Rita Mosselmans was destijds de script-girl voor de Wannes docu, nu is ze regisseur bij Canvas en ze belde mij om te zeggen dat de docu zou vertoond worden tijdens de uitvaart plechtigheid in de Roma. Canvas had die - verstopt achter hun rode knop - in alle stilte uitgezonden. Velen die niet naar de Roma konden gaan en ook geen rode knop hebben zitten nu op hun honger. Zelf heb ik maar een vhs-copie van een slechte vhs maar eigenlijk stoort het mij niet. Technische beeldkwaliteit weegt niet zwaar op de narratieve balans. En Wannes kòn vertellen, met woorden, met schilderijen, met muziek ... en in stilte, met die intense blik van hem. Dank u voor alles, Wim.

Wannes, Flamenco


Wannes, George Orwell


Wannes, Zen in the art of Archery

Spot On Denmark

Let's all meet next friday 11/14 @ AB-Club, Brussels

19.00
SPOTTED ON SPOT
20 bands in a 40 minutes video

20.00
TONE


21.00
ONE-EYED MULE


22.00
SAID THE SHARK


23.00
SLARAFFENLAND


00:00 – ?
After party @ Cafe Central

Spotted on Spot

To be honest I don't live in Brazil and I also go to other festivals than Recbeat in Recife.
The Spot Festival in Aarhus, Denmark is a great festival with more than 100 bands from the cold part of our world performing in perfect conditions. I went there together with music-industry people from Belgium, Belgique, Holland and Luxemburg who had to select 4 Danish bands to perform later on in their country's. Later on is now 14 of november in the AB in Brussels. The selected bands are Tone, One-Eyed Mule, Said The Shark and Slaraffenland. The evening starts with my video 'SPOTTED ON SPOT'
I spotted a lot over there, so I finally edited 20 bands in a 40 minute video.

The promo film for Spot on Denmark at the AB 14 nov.



Nive Nielsen, from Greenland, just visiting the festival and playing for some friends in the Spot park.



Later on I'll post some more of Spotted on Spot in this blog.

Bands in the video:
1 Atoi
2 One-Eyed Mule
3 Our Broken Garden
4 The Late Parade
5 Jong Pang
6 Efterklang
7 Klezmofobia
8 Munich
9 Tone
10 No and the maybes
11 Figurines
12 Hjaltalin
13 Monkey Cup Dress
14 Marvel Hill
15 Nive Nilsen
16 Blue Foundation
17 Choir of Young Believers
18 Le Fiasco
19 Slaraffenland
20 Said the Shark

Morro da Conceição, Recife -BAR DO RAUL

Cleaning up some footage from Recbeat 2008, I found a forgotten jewel on my tapes.
Raul, always performing in front of his bar, I love it.

Same by me 'm, saimbaam.

Recbeat, more than music - the bands

Some more details:

Screening at 21.00h

Bands in order of appearance:

Julia Says
Bom Succeso Samba Club
Lucy and the Popsonics
DJ Dolores
Fino Coletivo
Maracatu Cambinda Estrela
Carnaval na rua
Pau e Corda, Calores do Passado
Isaar
boTECOeletro
Les Frères Guisé
Afoxé Oyá Acaxé
Sylverio Pessoa
Dona Cila e seus Pupilos
DJ Dolores e Santa Massa
Repentistas na Praia
Orquestra Contemporânea de Olinda
QG Imperial & Ras Bernardo
Metaleiras de Amazônia
Combo Percusivo do Norte
Panico
Alceu Valenca
Marina De la Riva
Orquesta Tipica Fernandez Fierro
Devotos

Recbeat, more than music

On saturday 26/7 at Cinema Cabaña at the Sfinks Festival in Belgium you can see the video:

'Recbeat, more than music'

52 minutes
John Erbuer 2008

A mixture of the performing bands on the Recbeat festival with impressionistic short shortfilms on Recife during it's crazy carnival make you discover the social engagement of the Manguebeat-movement.

Recbeat is the very special music festival during Carnaval in Recife, Brazil.
It started 13 years ago as the Polo Mangue, the stage with all the bands of the Manguebeat.
Meanwhile Recbeat also brings music from other parts of Brazil, South America and even Africa, as long as it fits in their concept.
The festival still breaths the spirit of the early days with Chico Science, a combination of social engagement with renewing music with respect for the musical and cultural tradition.




Download here free MP3's
of the performing bands of Recbeat 2008
To help you out with the Portuguese on the site:
"SÀBADO, DOMINGO, SEGUNDA, TERçA" are the 4 days of the festival.
So, just click on each word ...

One of these day's I'll post some video-teasers of 'Recbeat, more than music'.
To be informed, take an RSS feed on this blog.

2 days without my camera!

After recording around 30 bands at the Spotfestival I thought I kind of fullfilled the needs for my addiction.
I had to promise to Moenen not to bring my DV-cam to New York, and that was ok.
But it was unforgivable to forget the little pocket-camera when we went to see 'Desmona' at the Union Pool in Brooklyn.
Great gig, ideal atmosphere. You'll have to believe me on my word or click the hyperlinks.

And now back in Belgium, I even had a greater musical experience at the incredible 'Braakland' location in Leuven
with the special gig from 'Prima Donkey' who rehearsed during one week and served the public their beautiful result.
Let's hope for a follow up on this unique experiment.
Next time I'll cary some recording device.

Tomorrow we 'll (+Zjakki) be interviewing 'Spok Frevo' at 'Couleur Café'
Spok Frevo is from Recife and the obligatory Brazilian link for today's Mangue Belga Blog :-)



CU all tomorrow at Couleur Café
and click here for more Brazil