PLINKITY PLONK release
De Fabriek
Neveleiland
Plinkity Plonk plonk 17
CD only
In 1983 Dutch experimental band De Fabriek
released their second album Neveleiland on their private label
in a limited edition of a few hundred copies. Consisting of two
beautiful and delicate sides of story-telling (in the Moluccan
and Icelandic language) set in a droney, outer world landscape,
the album was a landmark in the history of Dutch experimental
music. Influenced by the Residents (circa Eskimo) and Conrad Schnitzler
this album has a somber electronic sound in which the stories
become alive. One story is about a young moluccan soldier who
came in 1951 to Holland with his family. On this record he is
telling the story of Indonesia that became independent at that
time, whilst the other story is about a farmer living high up
in the mountains of Iceland. He is living his live slowly day
after day till one day two witches are coming and destroy his
life. So the story say.
Neveleiland sold out quickly and has remained a closely guarded
secret for over 20 years. Now Plinkity Plonk records is very pround
indeed to present you this amazing album, remastered from the
original tapes in the usual gorgeous carton Plinikity Plonk cover.
Be quick to order your copy as there are only 500 copies available.
This CD is available for 16 euros including
worldwide shipping. You can pay with paypal. Send an e-mail to order
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DE FABRIEK - NEVELEILAND (CD by PLINKITY
PLONK)
De Fabriek (The Factory) hails from the Dutch City of Zwolle and
originated around Richard van Dellen, Louise Manuru van Dellen
and Simone van Dellen at the end of the seventies. Not considering
themselves a regular band (for one thing, they are a label too)
they present The Factory as some sort of workmen-union, and the
musicians they work with as labourers. Music is created through
workman tools and machinery. Neveleiland is their second album
(so not counting the cassette releases), was printed in very limited
quantity, and sold out fast. Now Dutch Plinkity Plonk records
re-releases this original 1983 album in a limited CD-edition,
remastered from the original tapes. Neveleiland consists of two
20 minute tracks, two pieces of storytelling. Zuidkant A lets
us eavesdrop a conversation (interview, maybe) in the Moluccan
language. I don't understand a word of it, but was told that it
concerns a Moluccan soldier who returned to The Netherlands with
his family, when Indonesia became independent. This was no free
choice: Moluccan people became a part of the Dutch army in Indonesia,
which forced them to leave for Holland as well, when that country
lost its colonial leadership on Indonesia. At first the spoken
word is like the relaxing, non-comprehensible drone human voices
become when packed together, but through keen manipulation of
the voices and additions of warm, dense atmospheric sound, one
gets sucked into the music as in a novel or film. The electronics
are very minimal and minimalist, resembling Tony Conrad, Kraftwerk
and Conrad Schnitzler. The second story, Noordkant B, features
an Icelandic farmer telling the story of how two witches destroyed
his life. His voice is treated in such a way that it becomes robotic
at times, to which tumultuous acoustic drumming is added in the
background, as well as other, mainly electronic drone sounds.
Only 500 copies pressed so get one while you can. This Dutch classic
will definitely disappear very rapidly again. (RT)
(Vital Weekly 424)
De Fabriek - Neveleiland (Plinkety Plonk
/ 017)
Aufnahmen von 1983 der Holländischen Experimentalband, die
irgendwie heutzutage älter klingen, aber gleichzeitig dennoch
interessant. Synthesizer, die jaulen und in nahezu klassischen
Schritten über die Tastaturen hüpfen zu flirrenden Backgrounds,
die letztendlich den Effekt haben, dass man sich irgendwo in den
50ern bei den allerersten Anfängen der Elektronik wähnt.
bleed ···· (De:Bug)
Mit Neveleiland (plonk 17) legte Frans de
Waard einen Klassiker der niederländischen Noise Culture
wieder auf. Die 1983 im Selbstverlag erschienene zweite LP von
Richard van Dellens Projekt DE FABRIEK hatte eine ,Zuidkant A'-
Seite, auf der ein junger molukkischer Soldat, der 1951 nach Holland
ausgewandert war, von den Unabhängigkeitskämpfen Indonesiens
berichtet, und eine ,Noordkant B'-Seite mit einem isländischen
Bergbauern, der eine Hexengeschichte erzählt. Das für
mitteleuropäische Ohren unverständliche Storytelling
ist als reine Sprachmelodie eingebettet in elektronische Klanglandschaften,
die atmosphärisch-nebulös zwei Formen von exotischer
Ferne näher bringen. Während der Sagenton von der Nebelinsel
Thule, trollig rhythmisiert, jedoch im Rahmen einer folkloristischen
Kuriosität verbleibt, berührt die indonesische Geschichtsstunde
den Schleier aus Ignoranz und Verdrängung, mit der sich das
,Mutterland' Holland seine einstige Kolonie vom Leibe zu halten
versucht. Multatuli hatte seine Landsleute direkt des Raubbaus
bezichtigt, De Fabriek arbeitet ironischer. Die ,Fremden' im eigenen
Land halten ihre Geschichte fest und keiner versteht, worum es
geht. Was bei einem Würzburger allenfalls vage Gedanken an
Max Dauthendey weckt, der 1918 auf Java im Internierungslager
gestorben ist, etwas, das unsere exotistischen Illusionen kaum
trüben dürfte, das mag bei holländischen Ohren
an Dinge rühren, die man nicht weniger gern im Nebel der
Vergangenheit belässt wie die deutsche Kolonialgeschichte
ihre Hererokadaver im namibischen Wüstensand.
(Bad Alchemy #44)
De Fabriek - Neveleiland (CD, Plinkity Plonk)
De Fabriek sin dalla fine desgli anni '70, seppur piuttosto defilati,
sono sati presenza decisamente rilevante nello scenario industrial
e post, per quanto in loro già si distinguevano quelle
commistioni con le tradizione ambient che avrebbero più
tardi stemperato le più efferate attitudini distruttive
peculiari di quei giorni. "Neveleiland", datato '83,
fu il secondo album del collettivo olandese, che in origine si
era raccolto intorno a strumentazione trovata e di propia invenzione
e s'era poi evoluto in direzione 'musicale' come tanti contemporanei,
ed ospitava sullo sfondo di una sperimentazione dalle derive cosmiche
e dall'approccio anarchicamente progressivo, con passaggi persino
accattivanti, in Zuidkant A il racconto di un soldato trasferitosi
in Olanda dalle Molucche all'inizio degli anni '50 che rievocava
i passi dell'indipendenze indonesiana, e nella più estrema
Noordkant B, più appossionante nella sua coerenza con le
citate radici, la storia di un pastore che disperso nella solitudine
islandese era stato rapito da djue streghe. Naturalmente il lato
narrativo dei due brani di una ventina di minuti, per di più
nelle lingue natie dei due protagonisti, è più una
curiosità che altro e non costituisce fulcro determinante
dell'opera, anche perché, saggiamente, non viene mai posto
in una posizione che turbi l'ascolto. (7/8)
(Pauli Bertoni in Blow Up # 76)
De Fabriek
Neveleiland
(PLINKITY PLONK/KORM PLASTICS)
Op deze gesmaakte cdheruitgave van een onvindbare lp uit 1983,
treffen we De Fabriek in ongewone doen. Twee epische luisterspelen
met etnische vertellers vervangen de typische noiseloops. In het
eerste stuk heeft een Molukse soldaat het over de onafhankelijkheid
van Indonesië en nadien vertelt een IJslandse boer over zijn
wedervaren met twee vrouwen (om begrijpelijke redenen heksen genoemd)
die zijn leven tot een hel maken. De soundtrackachtige elektronische
muziek is zwaar schatplichtig aan de kosmische elektronicaschool,
maar af en toe tonen de makers hun afkomst in luidere passages
die klinken als een opgepoetste versie van hun noiseklassieker
'Made In Spain'. De originele lp ging onopgemerkt voorbij, hopelijk
vergaat het deze digitale versie beter! (www.beequeen.nl) (pv)
Gonzo Circus 65
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