PLINKITY PLONK release

BEEQUEEN - SELTENTURM - THE BEESIDES
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2CD set - 300 copies only
It has been something of a wait, but Beequeen has opened up
their Vaults once more. After the succesful release of A Touch
Of Brimstone in 2003, we now very proudly present SELTENTURM
- BEESIDES (1989-2000). This brand new collection takes in many
previously released but now unobtainable Beesides in the double
CD format. A treasure-trove of the past!
While Beequeen recently finished recording 'Sanddancing' (their
next excursion into the world popmusic - a journey beginning
with 'Ownliness' and 'The Bodyshop'), which will be released
early 2008 by Important Records, it was time to clear out the
vaults; and this time for good. While 'A Touch Of Brimstone'
saw the release of many unreleased pieces from the archive, 'Seeltenturm
- The Beesides' takes a good look at the released output from
Beequeen, ever since they started to release music in 1989.
SELTENTURM (a fine double CD) consists of the following releases:
'Mappa Mundi' (cassette, with bonus tracks), 'Fond' (one sided
LP), 'Split' (split LP), 'The Surrough Gate' (10"), 'Vault'
(7"), 'White Tusk' (7") and 'Dovidzdane Vanja' (7").
All of these releases were made in editions smaller than 250
copies, and all long out of print. All tracks have been lovingely
remastered by Raymond Steeg in the warm winter of 2006-2007 and
they have never sounded better.
A real treasure box for old and new fans alike. Limited edition
of 300 copies in gorgeous printed artwork. Design by Meeuw.
This CD is available for 18 euros including worldwide shipping.
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Artist: BEEQUEEN [ info {at} beequeen {dot} nl ]
Title: Seltenturn Beesides - 1989-2000
Format: 2CD (double CD)
Label: plinkity plonk [ info {at} beequeen {dot} nl ]
Rated:
Trip peacefully along with this 130-minute collection from the
cult duo Beequeen - Freek Kinkelaar (also playing solo under
the name Brunnen) and Frans DeWaard (Goem, Kapotte Muziek, Shifts,
Quest, Freiband ...). Seltenturn is a double cd collection of
remastered oldies unavailable for a long a time : 'Mappa Mundi'
(cassette, with bonus tracks), 'Fond' (one sided LP), 'Split'
(split LP), 'The Surrough Gate' (10"), 'Vault' (7"),
'White Tusk' (7") and 'Dovidzdane Vanja' (7"). "The
Surrough Gate" was released on Ant-Zen (!!!) in 1997 and
shows them dealing both with concrete sounds and then in a terrific
ambient tracks with conversation pieces on the background. The
Mappa Mundi cassette was recorded on 1989 and has the lovely
psychotic calmness of Cranioclast's first works, alternating
typical droney compositions to more abstract ones - "Land
above us" is possibily the best track here, slowly exposing
the core of the drone with throbbing
analogue bubbles. "Dovidzdane Vanja", which means "The
Death Of Beequeen", was a 7" out in 2000 that is the
farewell to their melanchonic soundscapes. (The duo recorded
many other dronework s under the name Wander - http://www.beequeen.nl/wander.htm
). This awesome collection is both the best starting point for
the new listeners that want to know about the more experimental
side of Beequeen and absolutely necessary for completists. Ltd
Edition of 300.
Review by: Andrea Vercesi for Chain DLK
BEEQUEEN - SELTENTURM: BEESIDES 1989-2000 (2xCD by Plinkity Plonk/Korm
Plastics)
Nijmegen's duo Beequeen (Frans de Waard and Freek Kinkelaar)
release a compilation of 23 various works recorded since 1989.
Certainly one of the more notable experimental outfits of the
last two decades, this collection numbingly sets a certain tone
(or atones) both to the past and future. There's a delicate balance
of low chords breaking into dark ambient space ("Does He
Do As If He Is") from their 1994 recording 'Split'. You're
in the dark, someone is casting a vague echo while slowly bowing
a cello, you see a faint light. There is this sense of passing
figures, black on black shadowy movements hinted at in your peripheral
view. At points queasy, others like your spinning in a Spanish
villa for just a dazzling moment ("Fond II"). They
firmly use the guise of industrialisms to build the droning layers
of works like "Land Above Us" which has both a sense
of open continuum and repeat cycle that can, for many, become
unnerving. Though, they do so with a certain grace that kind
of rounds the corners of chaos. The final stage of production,
so to speak. And the point is clear, these two men have built
a passionate body of work that is at once striking for its qualities
emulating the codec of film, secondly they have used that motif
to concoct music which is out of the personal body, told from
the vantage point of the other. And third, it takes you some
place you may have not dared, distinctively told with a fusion
of pace, timing, fore/background. Then there are these themes
of meditation, observation, then realization. When you sample
tracks like "Brasillian Fond" (1989), you are just
barely eavesdropping by way of the slight incorporated field
recordings. Part mysterious travelogue, part staging for how
you might compose music to send to navigate the hole in the ozone
and then into the deep universe to cultivate answers to its questions.
The work of Beequeen simply trips the mind. (TJ Norris)
Address: http://www.kormplastics.nl (VItal Weekly 593)
Wenn wir uns in dieser Ecke schon einmal umschauen, dann können
wir ja mal einen kleinen Abstecher zu BEEQUEEN machen, die ja
auch schon seit '89 unterwegs und dabei überaus produktiv
sind. Da die meisten Veröffentlichungen nur auf Kleinstlabel
und in limitierten Stückzahlen erschienen, haben sich die
Niederländer nun dazu entschlossen diese Stücke zu
re-mastern und als Doppel-CD wiederzuveröffentlichen. "Seltenturm-The
Beesides 1989-2000" (Plinkity Plonk Rec./A-Musik) ist wie
eine verstaubte Bibiliothek, einige Bücher gefallen einen,
andere interessieren einen überhaupt nicht und manchmal
entdeckt man beim stöbern eine längst vergessene Perle.
Irgendwo zwischen Musique Concrète, ambienten Experimenten
und Fieldrecordings dürfte aber für jeden etwas dabei
sein. Außerdem ist es eine gute Möglichkeit einen
ersten Einblick in die Klanglandschaften von Frans de Waard und
Freek Kinkelaar zu bekommen, die ja auch noch in diversen anderen
Projekten weltweit involviert sind. Basiswissen. (7/10) Carsten
Vollmer in Paragraph 39
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