Hafen2 :: maitanz

30. April 2006

Black Mountain, Pink Mountaintops; Tanz in den Mai. Mit drei Bands und anschließendem Schallplattenvergnügen in den Mai tanzen:

Black Mountain, Pink Mountaintops, Blood Meridian.

With the self titled debut album of the Canadian art collective Black Mountain, City Slang delivers one of the most extraordinary, complex and adorable records this year. Black Mountain features former and present members of The Pink Mountaintops, Blood Meridian, Jerk With A Bomb, the Black Halos, Dream On Dreary, Sinoia Caves, and Orphan. Black Mountain is Stephen McBean, Matthew Camirand, Jeremy Schmidt, Amber Webber and Joshua Wells. Their debut self-titled record, like a space probe built of erector set parts and transmitting secret and arcane messages to earth by string, charts territories unknown yet remains grounded by the roots of classic rock and roll. It is easy to discern these roots: Black Sabbath, the Velvet Underground, the Rolling Stones, Animals-era Pink Floyd, Blue Cheer, Led Zeppelin and Can. Principal songwriter Stephen McBean's vocals are a smoother, bluesier amalgam of the voices of Neil Young, Mick Jagger and perhaps a James Brown loaded on cough syrup. And when Amber Webber's voice joins Stephen's, the combination brings to mind the potency and chemistry of Richard and Linda Thompson singing together on Shoot Out The Lights, or of Meat Loaf and Ellen Foley howling together on Bat Out Of Hell. Pink Mountaintops und Blood Meridian sind Seitenprojekte dieses verwirrenden Künstlerkollektivs namens Black Mountain Army, so dass im Laufe des Abends ein gutes Dutzend MusikerInnen in unterschiedlichsten Konstellationen die Bühne erklimmt. Da sie sich danach zum Schlafen nicht in die Band-Wohnung im Obergeschoss, sondern in ihre Nightliner begeben, ist sturmfreie Bude für die anschließende RocknRoll-Party: Tanz in den Mai mit den DJs Jo van Biscoping, Bernd Thiele und Blender. Konzerte 21.30h, 13e, nach Konzert-Ende (gegen 01h) 3e.

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