De Nachten - friday 27 januari 06 - De Singel Antwerp

Saw:
Midaircondo
65daysofStatic
Bikini Atoll
Jimmy Edgar
Five Corners Quintet
A Brand

Was impressed by 65daysofstatic - very intense postrock with electronics

Was satisfied by the jazz of Five Corners Quintet and found out that Jukka Eskola plays trumpet with them.

Thought the Midaircondo performance was lovely and dreamy but saw too little of it to know it built up to something or not.

Next year, same time, same venue.

Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba

Thursday 26-01-2006: Punk & Poetry opening night of this year's De Nachten festival,
just arrived in time to see headliners & postpunk legend THE FALL.

With more than 30 different line-ups since 1977 & after 24 John Peel sessions the band led by Mark E. Smith still rocks on.. in true form and excellent shape.
Energizing guitars and drums, the right amount of synth and the mumbling of Mark.
Impressive.

More info about the band here
(picture taken by Ini Soyer)

Vespertina synaxis

Tonight I had the privilege to be invited to join the monks for the Vespers at the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Leffe.

The evening hour Vespers, or vespertina synaxis, is composed of four psalms, a capitulum, a response, a hymn, a versicle, a canticle from the Gospel, litany (Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison), Pater with the ordinary finale, oratio, or prayer, and dismissal (Regula Sancti Benedicti, xvii).

It was quite something to see and hear a small group of monks contemplating their religion through centuries old psalms combined with a strictly defined pattern of rituals... Impressive.

Also ate a dish involving pig's ears this evening but let's not drift away from the serenity of this post.


Vesper definition kindly taken from this website with more background on Vespers

Bookmarked: Reverso 68

Pete Herbert's new remix moniker (together with Phil Mison).
Saw him dj @ Cafe Capital in A'petown last night and it rocked.
House as it should be - uplifting and ending in absolute bliss.

On that account a quick recap of NYE @ Petrol - DJ Naughty - selection not bad, but nothing extraordinary, technique only so and so. Luckily there were an inspired Jos Lebon and Louis Katorz to set things straight afterwards.

+ kudos to the dj at Central in Brussels on friday night for still blending in some fine broken beats...