November 2011
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Musicians ... stand up for a Good Cause!
Bernardamus @TheC_Barcelona
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August 2011
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ArtPride @ Go Gallery
Dejacopis @ TheC_Amsterdam Intimacy. You cannot truly describe it. It just happens and you can sense it. Feel its warmth. You can picture it though, represent it, show it. Nadine Reef knows how to portray intimacy to its most poetical height. Take ‘Kissing Darkness’, 2010: it’s the exact moment when lips get closer but are still apart. The time when the eyes are starting to close and the hands...
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Homophonix @Paradiso 04/08/11
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam 8 years ago in the city of Perth, Australia, a group of LGBT artists came together to set up a music and performance event celebrating the Pride week. Not only a one-night feast, Homophonix became a label under which the main organizers Vinn Pitcher and Nat Ripepi gathered a strong collective of unique voices and allowed them the freedom to experiment and express...
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Azucena 300 Veces + Luz Verde @ Sala Monasterio
Bernardamus @TheC_Barcelona
Original musical marriage this last Saturday of July with a fusion of PostPunk/Grunge and energetic Rock. Two live gigs for a single great night, cool crowd in a brick-wall underground venue and all this for FREE. Just in case you wonder about the city centre of Barcelona on a weekend…dig downstairs @ Sala Monasterio and you could always find some vibrant...
July 2011
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Prince @ Melkweg 26/07/11
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam What’s my name? The second night of Prince’s Amsterdam surprise concerts felt more like 1995 than ‘1999’ and for those who might have been so lucky to have attended the late Wednesday gigs back then in Paisley Park, this surely was a kind of a déjà vu. Now this may be misleading, as Prince hardly looks back at his past, but recently from the choice of setlists played,...
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2nd Fridays @ Fountainhead
Dejacopis @TheC_World
Picture a big building, just as any other big building from the outside. Imagine the red bricks, some big windows and some posters glued outside. Nothing fancy, nothing particular. Now get in and smell the fresh paint; Listen to all sorts of music being played around the halls. Get lost. Welcome to the Fountainhead Lofts, part of the Chicago Arts Districts in the East...
June 2011
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Jim Nutt @ MCA
Dejacopis @TheC_World
Simple lines, shockingly bright colors and a even more stunning red chin you cannot separate from the nose. Is that a sock covering the neck? are those band aids soaking into the swollen skin? Can you even describe ‘Her Face Fits’, 1968, as a painting? or more like a gloss-on print? None and all of the above, and that might be the reason why Jim Nutt has still to be...
April 2011
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Laser 3.14 - "This Cold Metal Future" @ Radar...
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam
The Future has happened. It is not a remote possibility or an imaginary representation of what may be. It’s in the online pages that you are checking right now; it’s in the Facebook statuses you update constantly and the tweets that define yourself. Laser 3.14 warned us already a year ago, and he is back at Radar Gallery to show what the aftermath looks like. Follow...
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Gernot & Sit for Sexy Art in Go Gallery
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam We are all animals, beasts in disguise adding shields to cover up for basic instincts and raw desires. Fashion does help to add that extra layer that allow others’ eyes to gently lay upon our bodies with kindness. Yet we cannot help it. The force underneath is driving and sometimes bubbles up to reveal true beauty. So what if the two opposites come together? The end...
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James Blake @ Melkweg 07/04/11
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam
Entering ‘The Max’ room in Melkweg to find out that the whole floor is occupied by chairs is a surprising experience; you cannot help but wonder if possibly it was the artist’s choice and a statement. Nevertheless you should have already imagined it happening: outside the entrance stands a banner that asks for silence and warns that the bar is going to be closed during...
March 2011
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Temporary Stedelijk 2
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam
The essence of things, the core of nature. The quest for the capturing of the centre of life is what welcomes you immediately at the entrance of the second Temporary Stedelijk exhibition, in the form of Dan Flavin’s neon lights installation ‘Untitled (to Piet Mondrian through is preferred colors Red, Yellow and Blue), 1986. Circles and lines as in the true...
February 2011
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Suuns @ OCCII 25/02/11
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam If there was ever such a thing as a best kept secret, Suuns’ gig at OCCII can be taken as its definition. Just judging by the queue that was awaiting even before the opening doors’ time, it was adamant that music lovers in Amsterdam were determined not to miss this end of February’s Subbacultcha event. Without much publicity nor fanfare, the Canadian band got their very...
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Funeral Party @ Paradiso 16/02/11
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam
Sometimes, unexpectedly you witness something that, like a catapult, pushes you back to the days when you were young. Young as absolutely inexperienced but stubborn and arrogant. Young as full of rage. The kind of rage that comes from living under circumstances you did not choose, quite unable yet to break out. And when that happens, when you suddenly are thrown...
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Joan As Police Woman @Paradiso
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam
“Yes I’ll sing Winds that blow from the south” Yes she sang, with that voice of hers that is deep, and then high and then a whisper and a lament. Yes she grew and her music with her, so that now the fast guitar got faster and heavier and the haunting piano got slower and darker. Joan As Police Woman’s first records were capable of affecting you instantly, “Real...
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Noah and the Whale @ 3voor12
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam
This year, April 1st might not be just ‘April’s Fool’. It could instead be remembered as the ‘Last Night on Earth’. Be that the case, now what would you do? It is a question that’s been asked time and time again, what would happen if you knew the clock is ticking and you have only some time left? Noah and the Whale have already the answer: they intend not to...
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Anna Calvi @ Paradiso
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam
Red lipstick, red blouse, a chain drawing one name in golden letters. That’s the picture from the album cover for the first full release by Anna Calvi, and that is also the image that keeps lingering in your head after seeing her gig; same red blouse, same red lipstick and golden chains around her neck. Red as the color of blood. But do not think for a minute...
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Fata 'el Moustache' Morgana @Winston Kingdom
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam
If one had to define a style, pick up the quintessence of Amsterdam’s music scene, one genre would come first: Rock. It’s true that a typically dutch folklore, street-wise as in everyday man, Hip-Hop batch of songs, are actually dominating the charts nationwide with ‘De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig’ above all, or that a 90’s revival electro is the best you can get in...
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January 2011
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NO|Me @Van Gogh Museum Vrijdag Avond
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam If you had the chance to define pure European music, the one that draws from tradition and aims at the future, what would you choose? which language would you pick? Could a rhythmic piano accompanied by soft drums and Polish lyrics be it? or a an overtly romantic English ballad with double bass? Maybe a passionate crescendo sang in Spanish, or a jazz influenced Italian...
December 2010
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The Drums @Melkweg
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam Please do believe the hype: The Drums are truly one of the best acts coming from the Brooklyn indie scene. You might think that a slate of uptempo hits, one even backing up a car commercial, call out for phoniness, but that is not the case here. The case is serious. Serious rock and roll with lyrics that speak of angst, pain, pure desperation and rebellion. And they are...
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A night with.. Delorentos
MauBarba @TheC_Barcelona
I didn’t know Delorentos and what I could hear from Spotify wouldn’t certainly have driven me to their gig but a friend of mine caught my attention saying the magic sentence “They played with the Dave Matthews Band”. True fact, Delorentos opened the Dave Matthews band gig in Dublin in 2007. And also joined, amongst others, Sinead O’Connor and Arctic Monkeys. With such a...
November 2010
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M.I.A. in Paradiso
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam
Yesterday night Paradiso has been bombed by a constant series of sonic attacks. It seriously is a miracle that its beautifully decorated windows are still intact. On the stage, a wall of Marshall amplifiers welcomed the audience. Seconds after the start of the Sleigh Bells act, you could feel already your ears buzzing. Unexpectedly, compared to the sound of the studio...
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The Market for Creative Minds
Bernardamus & Mutuo @TheC_Barcelona
Interactive Conscience Mapping by @miroslavaM
The Creative Market MUTUO was born in Barcelona in 2010, in order to provide a platform for professional and amateur artists to promote and sell their work in a party of the coolest indie scene in the city.
This event is produced once a month with a selection of approximately 50 trendy artists...
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Gospel Viu Active Africa - The New Gospel...
@MauBarba @TheC_Barcelona
Ever thought than white men can’t sing gospel? That it only belongs to black culture and singers? Well, dudes, you are doing tha same mistake as Wesley Snipes in “White man can’t jump” and you should have been at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona yesterday night. 2200 people - sold out - were there to enjoy “Gospel Viu Active Africa -...
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Kele in Melkweg
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam
8 years on the road, or almost. It would be enough for any commercially successful and critically acclaimed artist to become, somewhat spoiled or detached. Instead Kele jumped on the stage of the Oude Zaal in Melkweg with all the freshness and enthusiasm of a newcomer. You could feel the happiness and sense of liberation of someone coming to life, coming clean for...
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Brian Eno – Another Green World
MauBarba @TheC_Barcelona
He’s been at the keyboard of one of the most revolutionary glam rock band of the 70s, Roxy Music, and left it when he found himself thinking about the next laundry to be done right in the middle of a gig. He’s been the producer of tens of milestone albums in the history of rock, from David Bowie to U2, from Talking Heads to Coldplay. He created the 6-seconds music most...
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Esperanza Spalding at Muziekgebouw aan't Ij
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam
“For I dance And drink, and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing” (William Blake, “The Fly”) Esperanza Spalding entered the stage at Muziekgebouw aan’t ij like it was her home. Turning on the light of a living room lamp, she took off her coat and shoes and poured herself a glass of red wine. Unbothered by the packed venue, she played a little with her...
October 2010
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Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti in Bitterzoet
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam
Have you ever surfed Ariel Pink’s music videos on YouTube while having a bong party with your friends? Surely you were staring at the slow, then fast, then magical then broken rhythm of the images. Well his music is quite the same: a stoner’s favourite. No sense, no logic; he mumbles the words, barely sings and yet it all comes together flawlessly and if you let...
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Handsome Poets and Hurts
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam
Image from @theohurts Twitter account.
10/10/10 and Amsterdam had the luck to host two new acts that are bound to resonate for a long time. Handsome Poets; what’s in a name? Singer Tim van Esch has got the smile and the contagious energy to bring a wonderful but tough venue such as Paradiso on its knees and after launching the concert with the first song “Be...
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A parallel project with parallel cities:...
Cristina Fernández Crespo @TheC_Barcelona
”Bicha 2” by Andrés valdovinos (picture by Stefan Thurmann)
SektorBerlin is a young project born with the aim of bringing Berlin to the Barcelona culture through a series of events based on the exchange of the most cutting edge items of fashion, music and art of both cities. As an inauguration proposal SektorBerlin opens its doors...
September 2010
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Kraakverbod
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam
It does not take much to lose the differences and become like any other. Some may say it is a good thing to be equal, I say this is not the case. Amsterdam is a beautiful city. Now sit down for a second and try to make a list of the reasons why you too think it is. I would go for: The architecture: Everywhere you walk, Amsterdam is a perfectly balanced combination...
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The Temporary Stedelijk
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam
A place. it can be in the past. Forever. Yet in the here and now. Defining the time as place is the very first thing you are going to witness when entering the newly reopened Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam right in its ‘Hall of Honor’. ‘Past/Present/Future’ by the New Jersey artist Barbara Kruger is accomplishing this very task with the instant power of words. ...
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Opening of Robert Listwan @ G.A.P.
by Bernardamus (@TheC_Barcelona)
www.graciaartsproject.com
Until 19th of September!
August 2010
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Ninette & The Goldfish & their sonic Goldmine
by Bernardamus ( @TheC_Barcelona )
Are you in search for some outstanding Folk Music? Do you want to breathe the Mediterranean breeze of Barcelona while your mind is sweetly blown away across the ocean? Just go and check them out, this great acoustic duet will please your ears and warm up your souls.
Ninette & The Goldfish pick up the concept of “three chords & the truth”...
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ArtCore Candy
Dejacopis @TheC_Amsterdam
A police hat with a ‘No Dogs’ sign falling on the side of the Klit Kat’s head covered in a tiger white print spandex costume. One hand like a pawn. The gesture of licking the back of it, only the mouth is a vagina. In the background there are the bright pink neon lights of a metropolis where the metal fences are ripped open. We are all born with only so much. It is...
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Naughty but Nice
Dejacopis - TheC_Amsterdam
An elder woman, without clothes, finger on the lips in an evocative pose. There is sweetness in her eyes, and shyness. You could see playfulness instead. A touch of silly. I see bravery. I see what it’s like to be a sexual human being without the props to tantalize fantasy. A sexual human being like all of us, for we are all sexual. Such is one of the portrait by...
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Pink with Pride at Go Gallery
by Stefano Loiacono - twitter.com/thec_amsterdam twitter.com/dejacopis A Parade is not exactly a march. A Parade is a spectacle, a display of music, colors, all for an audience to stare at, in amusement or shock. A Pride Parade has though a peculiarity: you can jump in, join it and be part of the show. Sure it is meant to remind the public that there is a constant fight out there, the...
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July 2010
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"Low Cost" & No-Cost Festivals
by Bernardamus twitter.com/TheC_Barcelona @Bernardamus starring like Fan de John Boy with Santi Balmes (Love of Lesbian) - Playa de Ocata, BCN Right now it was happening in Benidorm, the so called “Low Cost” Festival a fresh cheap alternative to all the overrated mainstream summer festivals taking place all over the world. For an affordable price of approximately 30 euros you can...
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Nada Surf Live in Melkweg, Amsterdam 14 July
“Cats and dogs are coming down”, Amsterdam “is gonna drown, everyone else rushing round”. “I’ve got blonde on blonde on my portable stereo, it’s a lullabye”, it’s personal.
Yeah, this is personal.
You put on an album by Nada Surf, any of their albums, and you have to get ready to get close and personal. To listen to the kind and at ...
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Pute
There are the thoughts you communicate, you nurture and want everyone around you to know. You want them to define you.
These thoughts are molded by the society, aiming at acceptance and integration.
And then there are other thoughts, the ones you try to keep secret. They might reflect an image of yourself that might stir trouble, rejection. Most of the time these thoughts are based on hate...
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Streets of Amsterdam
Fark Have you ever bumped into a graffiti artist spray painting a wall in a street at night?
It must have been at night.
And most probably it was in a side street, in an area you were not comfortable walking by.
Did you feel like an intruder?
Like a witness of a splendid crime, you must have suddenly felt the magic; the magic of seeing colors taking over the grey and dirt of the ordinary ,...