“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” – Andre Gide
Cat #: 043TZM
Lava|Ox|Sea throw down the gauntlet and challenge western rock dictatorships effortlessly pissing over anything referencing ‘rock’ in the last ten years. Move over Radiohead.
Originally released on ground breaking Shanghai label miniless (tenzenmen kindred spirits).
Xiao He, Chinese Culture Institute, NoJiJi, Raying Temple, Mafeisan, Time Out, Tongzhou, Demerit, Push Shove, Vans, Warped Tour, S.T.D., Layabozi, Joyside, Peter Baird, Suite 101, Dear Eloise, P.K.14, Altered Zones, tenzenmen, CNNGo, This Town Touring, Birdstriking, Streets Kill Strange Animals, Mr Graceless, Glow Curve, Offset Spectacles, Lonely Planet
Chatswood Youth Centre went off last night, rammed with kids!
13th May 2011 – Not sure who was playing and I was probably just passing by to grab some dinner but it was great to see kids coming out to check out the music and for a while, shows were happening there almost once a month. Picture is taken from a video of Legions playing there at some other time.
Group: ‘I Want Live Music Venues – So I Go To Gigs
A few bands headed out to Orange last year – I think folks are keen to play outside Sydney even if the audience is small.
Hmm – in the punk scene Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth have new vital music scenes and Melbourne bands travelling to there (and Sydney) say how much better it is than Melbourne. Get out of the pubs and make your own venues.
There’s a whole stack of things on tonight outside mainstream venues. I reckon I’ve been to about 6 shows in the last 18 months at regular ‘pub’ venues but I still manage to get to see bands every weekend. I love Sydney!
I’m mostly at Black Wire (blackwiretocommonground.blogspot.com) when not found in the warehouses and alleyways of Marrickville.
Red Rattler also has a good show tonight with UV Race, Holy Balm and Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys (not far from the international noise conference venues) – redrattler.org
Cat #: 057TZM
Not much good comes from Brisbane, but when something breaks through and makes an impact, it makes the city and those who pay attention to its music take an awestruck step back. During their all-too-short lifespan, Orlacs Hände was a band that did just that.
For years, the record meant to be Orlacs Hände’s debut EP laid in a state of dormancy. It saw a limited cassette release overseas and quickly became impossible to track down, and those wondering if it would ever see the light of day finally lost hope. Now, tenzenmen is proud to announce that we will be righting that wrong and releasing the EP ourselves – the way it was meant to be.
Everything that made Orlacs such a formidable and affecting live act is here: the gut-tearing screams; the shattered-glass guitars; the polyrhythmic, driving drums – but the six songs that make up the record are the real stars here. There aren’t many releases in this genre that pack so much originality and anguish into a package as compact as this one. This is a lost classic, and it’s about time it got the attention it deserves.
FOR FANS OF: Portraits of Past, Noisy Sins of the Insect, Funeral Diner, & Tristan Tzara.
31st Mar 2021 – I remember this first sentence causing some controversy with some Brisbanites but this text was actually written by a local!
Wooozy, Pangbianr, Carsick Cars, China Music Radar, P.K.14, Vietnam, Supersize Saigon, 10, Itta, Marqido, 2Kolegas, D-22, Lowbrow, Zoomin’ Night, Matthew Niederhauser, MDN Photo, Xiao He, Maybe Mars, Soviet Pop, The Offset: Spectacles, City Weekend, Liz Tung, Alok Leung, Hong Kong, Lona, Unixx, Helen Feng, Pet Conspiracy, QingDaonese, Beijing Daze, Midi Festival, Strawberry Festival, China Music Valley, Subs, Voodoo Kungfu, Suffocated, Skip Lunch, You Mei You, Flying Mantas, Rustic, Yang Haisong, New York Times, NeoChaEdge, AV Okubo, 24 Hours, HangGai, Duck Fight Goose, Mamer, Jennifer Conrad, Little Punk, Layabozi, Boys Climbing Ropes, Lucifer, Urbanatomy, Kazutoshi Chiba, Mao Live, Queen Sea Big Shark, SXSW, Converse, Italy, Xinhua
Cat #: 058TZM
The songs tell the story of a private man who is equally compelling and complex; “Chicks Dig Me” explains Michael Crafter when asked to delve deeper into his 7 inches of powerviolence glory, obviously struggling with his raw talent and the mistakes that nearly cost him everything.
Out now through tenzenmen limited to 100 hot pink and 150 black vinyl.
Recorded at 301 studios, 18 tracks of positive brutality.
Cat #: 054TZM
Recorded at Mike Gibson’s Inca Studios, the old home of the NZ SIS, the Security Intelligence Service, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.
mr sterile: Drums, lyrics, vocals, noises
Chrissie Butler: Bass, vocals
Aaron Lloydd: Bass
Jeff Henderson: Saxophone
Nell Thomas: Gender (Javanese gamelan)
Maria McMillan: Poet, words in Drought
Dean Hapeta: Recording, lyrics & vocals
Mike Gibson: Recording, mixing, mastering.
Artists:
Campbell Kneale
Tao Wells
Garage Collective
James Robinson
Stefan Neville
Jeff Henderson
Andrew Ross
Suhartono
Deborah Barton
Roger Morris
Kerry Ann Lee
For this project, all the above members, musician, word smiths, and visual artists, are included in the pantheon of members-of-mr-sterile-Assembly.
Cat #: 059TZM
2nd Apr 2021 – When I stayed at the Abbotsford Warehouse in Melbourne when organising things for China’s P.K.14 shows there I came across a box of this unreleased album and figured it wouldn’t hurt to ask Rhys and Marcus if they would like some help promoting and selling them and adding BBA to the tenzenmen catalogue. So, that’s how many copies of this album managed to avoid landfill.
Cat #: 056TZM
It’s not surprising if you haven’t heard of Dear Eloise. They are a mysterious band known by very few people. But once you have listened to their songs, they will be branded into your heart.
The band came out around 2007, no definite date. It’s just an extension from a simple idea. Dear Eloise are Yang Haisong (P.K.14’s vocal) and his wife Sun Xia (P.K.14’s former bassist). No more words are needed, you will know how fantastic they are.
In their new debut album, 8 songs, like 8 journals, are the monologue of frail, words that were burnt. Not only is the melody as pure and beautiful as a childish rhythm, but also the background is as noisy as an aged guitar factory. However, the songs have delicate fluctuations and layers similar to a possessed river, the water of which keeps flowing without stop, while rumbling in marvelous dark and light colors. After silence is demolished by noise within a second, a sweet but defenseless angel appears on the ruins with a peaceful and merciful look. She has a voice like a beam of light. Besides, her white feet moving in the darkness not only seem to be a piece of poem flowing in summer, they also sound like mumbling in cool well water or under large shades. In addition, the noise is performed magically and mysteriously appears to build up like looming rain drops. In this aural atmosphere of dimness, the swinging lights bring discomfort and anxiety .
For most people, it is a brilliant album. What is rare is that it attracts people with its’ innocence and purity. Let’s imagine a picture in which the stars scald the sky and we crouch down on the lawn, stretching out our necks putting pressure on our knees. We look up to the dim but exciting glimmer, which hurts our eyes. Will we then cry?
The world you imagine is very far away. It resembles a fading cigarette end or a scar… If you can find meaning to my voice, then you can comprehend this fairy tale. Get out of the fluttering dream, dear Eloise. I am going to take you to a lively and awesome place where there are castles and festivals and days go by with a roar.
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