Images from underground/File N°012

 
Nikola Ojdanic is an amazing Serbian artist that impressed me with his works like few people did from the times of Beksinski. In common with Polish painter Ojdanic has surely the alienation of human being and some dark surreal elements. Anyway his works are extremely original and just every single piece is a pearl. You can find more of his works here and enjoy the interview. Special 
 

1. Where are you from?

I`m from Belgrade (Serbia).

2. Do you use any particular tools/materials/methods during the working process?

Yes, of course. In the beginning, it was quite sterile... however in time, the necessities have grown stronger, more pronounced... in accordance with my need to transmit to the observer my conception and the message in the best possible way... and thus, I begun my quest for new materials and methods. Clearly, the basic usual unities are still here to be upgraded and developed through the story... But in any case, nowadays when I stand in front of the canvass or an easel, I feel unspeakable need to realize my ideas in an entirely uncommon way, it has become a rule that pleases me extremely. I`ve built in nets, polystyrene pieces, threads and other stuff, used primers to give it some texture and realistic feel and experience... extreme freedom is found in the realm of digital painting, too.

Sounds from underground/File N°58

as I truly love musique concrete I couldn't not be just amazed by the records of «Vincent Eoppolo». highly expressive, deeply moving. remarkable and obligatory.

0.name
Vincent Eoppolo
1. where are you from?
Wilmington, Delaware USA

Images from underground/File N°011

continuing with our little visual festival we pass across the art of XXII Outsider art/Brut art. as the name says itself it's about wonderful outsider expression, one of my favorite form of art as you could probably understood from this blog. enjoy the interview and more works of XXII here. 

1. where are you from?
I'm from France
2. do you use any particular tools/materials/methods during the working process? how is your working process?
I use brushes, markers and acrylic paint, I work especially on A4 paper format. 
3. what do you think about the art market nowadays?
I do not know the art market, I started a short time, a few months to tell the truth in outsider art.
4. do you exhibit your works? how do you place yourself in actual art context?
I have never exhibited my works in public. But one day may be.
5. is there a common idea that go across all your works?
Yes behind each design there is an idea, a topic that stand at the heart.

Images from underground/File N°010

the fabulous art of Greg Bromley.  full of colors from inner world. I invite you to read this wonderful interview and check more works of Greg here. such surreal as outsider. dig it! 

1. where are you from?I am originally from the east riding of Yorkshire in the UK. i have lived for 10 years in London and 10 years in south wales. i am now living back in the east riding just outside of Kingston upon hull.

Images from underground/File N°009

 
we're back after a long break from visual art post and I'm happy we're back with a strong hit like this. «SoaK / MocK» is a great expression of some kind of crazy digital, urban art, with a lot of SoaK and a lot of MocK. but as I used to say music is for listening and visual art is for watching. more stuff you will find here. enjoy

1. where are you from?
I am from Linz,Austria, where i just finished art university 
2. do you use any particular tools/materials/methods during the working process?
I am working half digital/half analog. All my works are based on visible structure/pattern in combination with special aspects of human perception as pareidolia or serendipity.

Sounds from underground/File N°57

I think that there are some records that it's really rhetoric to talk about because they are actually so good that it's just better to listen, everything else is superficial. surely the last Lp of <<Skyjelly>> is one of this kind of albums. you push play and fall in love with these sounds that flies completely free in the space and with how good all this works. it's what should be happening in music in 2016. 

Echos from underground/ESMECTATONS

new wonderful release from «ESMECTATONS». Lp «Dead or Alive» is full of darkness but in contrast with great dynamic and well done composition it seem something magically surreal. dig it! 

Self portrait/angel.Wrong

<<angel.Wrong>>. BR. acrylic&trash on cartoon. 2016

angel.Wrong

Sounds from underground/File N°056

noisy freak sounds from Belarus! <<Drwiwy>> will bring us in a surreal atmospheres with the record <Live in Bar Niescierka>. love or hate but listen for sure, you must to know it.

 

0. name of the band

Vitayem! Hello! We are Drwiwy

1. where are you from?

We are from the wilds of Belarus!

2. what kind of instruments/equipment you use? do you use some particular record technique? which is your method of composition?

Well, our band equipment changes a lot from time to time, but mostly we use electric or acoustic guitars, with loads of pedals and software production. Also, samples and keys are used heavily. Plus some of the acoustic wind and percussion instruments. Filed recordings and old soviet synth were also involved on some recordings.

Pravěkfest V

this weekend from September 30 to October 1 in Prague you can attempt the very Noise Festival Pravěkfest V! In this occasion will play different bands, between them my own project Nac/Hut Report. I will also play with well known to the readers of this blog Uncle Grasha's Flying Circus. More info you can find here and the details about all the bands that will perform you can find below. Be noisy!

Sounds from underground/File N°055

a kind of very interesting record from <<Aux Luna>>, surely for the story of that's behind, quoting the artist's words: "(...) I found a large cardboard box that seemed to have no connection with my family. Amongst innumerable ephemara concerning the supernatural (books, magazines and so on) was some obscure brand of cassette tape with the single word “Hannah” written on them. The cassettes had music on them but they were not pre-recorded"  
I invite you to discover the rest. really haunting
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 0. name of the band
Aux Luna
1. where are you from?
England
2. what kind of instruments/equipment you use? do you use some particular record technique? which is your method of composition?
I found an old box in my parents' attic which contained some old cassettes of someone playing a Spanish guitar. Using Logic I made loops out of the recordings and added other found sounds from old television and radio programmes. Each album is based on a theme. The first release is based around poltergeists because in the box there were a lot of magazines and books about strange and supernatural phenomena.

Sounds from underground/File N°054

another great release of Brazilian label Meia-Vida. <Devastaçã> is a dark lp by <<Buraco Negro>> that is full of best elements of experimental music. makes me think what would happen if SPK would meet Cabaret Voltaire in 2016. absolute love
0. name of the band

PEDRO: Buraco Negro. It means Black Hole in Portuguese. We were having issues deciding the bands name and our concert was just by the weekend. I aways wanted to have a band after this name and it sort of came up in this urgency.

1. where are you from?

PEDRO We're both from the southern region in Brazil. I'm from São Paulo. Gustavo's from Curitiba. Our cities are about a six hour drive apart. We met when my other band Gattopardo went touring South Brazil and got closer as Gustavo's projects came to São Paulo for concerts.

Echos from underground/V.A. - Noise Cave na Žižkovské noci 2016

<<Noise cave>> is a compilation of international experimental artists released in occasion of Prague festival Žižkovská Noc on March 19th 2016.  
6 tracks proposed by Phaerentz, Astrální hlemýžď feat. Cicero, Uncle Grasha's Flying Circus, Kikiriki, Eine Stunde Merzbauten (Alles Gute Madhausen)  and The Prostory Revival are a tasty set of smashed sounds. Surely worth to deepen these czech noise scene that is of the most interesting cultural ferments of last years. In fact soon we gonna see another noise festival in Prague, the 5th edition of Pravekfest. More info here.

Sounds from underground/File N°053

 

dark noise from Brazil. <<Flores Feias>> is an outstanding project that last year gave a life to this wonderful album. 

0. name of the band

Flores Feias (means Ugly Flowers in portuguese)

1. where are you from?

I'm from a city called Curitiba, in the south of Brazil.

2. what kind of instruments/equipment you use? do you use some particular record technique? which is your method of composition?

I mainly use guitar and pedals (reverb, distortion, chorus, flanger, wah-wah and delay). I usually record in cassette, experimenting with the tape texture, wear and feedback. My composition as Flores Feias is very intuitive and simple. I try to ritualize the moments by repetition, dark frequencies and fluid voice. My lyrics are about to be declassed and magic in this colapsing society, so I let those feelings come lo-fi and punk.

Sounds from underground/File N°052

some of atmospheric sounds reach us from Melbourne. <<Human Pesticide>> is an Australian project that propose us a surrealistic trip into some of this lands we'd like to explore especially now when the autumn. we can fall in love with these track easily.


0. name of the band 
Human Pesticide
1. where are you from? 
We both live in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Brennan is in the city and Katherine is in Brunswick West
2. what kind of instruments/equipment you use? 
Amp, microphone feedback, pedals, screaming …..