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Tara King Th. & Halasan Bazar - Beneath the Golden Tree (2015)

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In Words: Nord Nordost Surf Film Festival, Berlin

So, I have seen many, many surf films in the last week. Countless. Five days of Nord Nordost Surf Film Festival in Berlin and I didn’t miss a single day. I might have missed some films and I might have seen one twice. It all started on a Tuesday evening in an open air cinema, the Potsdamer Platz being the background for the screening “Biarritz Surf Gang”. Lounging around in deckchairs we followed the story of La Grande Bande and how lives can develop that all started in the same place, la grande plage, Biarritz. Some of them would ‘make it’, live the dream, evolve a life around surfing and be well. Others would fall into a life around drugs and crime - it hurt to see talent being wasted that badly. Directors Nathan Curren and Pierre Denoyel didn’t beautify anything. And that makes the film so interesting and actually worth watching more than once. It was also the last film I saw at the surf film festival.

Initially I went to the festival to see beautiful beaches, understand more about surf culture and what it all about and most people portrayed in the movies seemed to be obsessed with finding the next big wave, finding bigger waves, going to places no one has been surfing before or taking photos from a position no one went before. It’s amazing and impressive to see but at the same it’s scary what people are willing to do for one shot or one wave. Like in “One Shot” about surf photographer Russell Ord and his journey to the one photo that defines who he his, about the ups and downs and how he had to learn to hold his breath for over three minutes so he wouldn’t drown and in between there are pictures of his family and I just kept on wondering why risk your life when you have a beautiful family at home. The answer is insatiable thirst for going where no one has ever been before. 

This is also the answer to why people drive through the heaviest snow storm in Iceland as documented in “Under An Arctic Sky”: to find unknown waves in freezing cold water. And with every wave they can catch I felt happy for them, that all the struggle wasn’t for nothing. And the beautiful polar lights they had seen - it must be magical to surf with those above you. That night the movie got a little funny note as well since I saw the screening of “Freezing” beforehand - a little persiflage on the same topic. Two surfers looking for the “one wave” in Iceland during a cold and stormy winter. Jeremy Joyce and Rob Lockyear just reflected the struggles perfectly. Especially after seen “Under An Arctic Sky” it got even more hilarious. 

Of course there is another side to surfing or surfers as well. The ones who don’t care, those who are happy with what they have like Bruce Gold, the last living surf hippie (probably). He is a hobo in Jeffereys Bay, South Africa, dedicated his life to surfing there and bought a tent so he always has a home when he doesn’t have a home in form of a house. During the whole festival not one other surfer looked as relaxed on the board as he did, leaning back, effortless riding the waves. Enjoying just life. What a wonderful example to just do more of what makes you happy. Or as the film “Blue Road” asks in the beginning: What role should passion play in your life? For Bruce it’s everything. For me personally it’s a gentle reminder to reconsider what I do and with what I waste my time with and what i should do more. 

On Wednesday, the second day, International Shorties were shown - at first I couldn’t tell whether we were still watching ads or already the first short film. It was the first film. Most of them were simply stunningly beautiful. One, the winner of the international shorties awards, was more meant to be funny. It wasn’t quite my kind of humor. It was the kind of German humor I just don’t like. But apparently the rest liked it and so it won.

Of course there was music, too. On Friday Jules Ahoi and his deepsea orchestra woke me up again. I always get a little tired when I sit/stand around for hours watching movies whilst starting to freeze a little bit. Luckily Jules Ahoi played music to dance to and sing a long if you know the lyrics. The quieter moments were a bit uncool as the audience was one of the most chattiest in a while. Jules goes into the middle of the room to play some music, just him and his acoustic guitar and it took so long until it got quiet. And that was the tenor for every quiet song and for me it sometimes got it into the way of getting lost in the music. 

On Saturday it wasn’t that bad with the chatty crowd - the bands were louder. Acuario Cósmico played some decent Rock’n’Roll. And Halasan Bazar played the third gig of the festival that night, they played twice acoustic and this one was full band amplified and my favorite. Slightly psychedelic rock note, some Folk influences and some shredding - although that could have been more. They had left one guitarist at home - I wonder how much better it will be with two guitars.

Some things at the festival felt a little messy to me, mainly during the last two days at ZweiDreiRaum due to expected rain, no more openair screening and some changes in the order and/or rooms. Or some “technical issues” like a movie that just didn’t work or showing “Blue Road” without subtitles - totally fine when you speak English, Swiss-German and French but I don’t so two third of the film were a little frustrating. I loved that there were so many Q&A’s with directors and others during the film festival. It would have been even better when they would have used microphones. No chance of understanding most of it when you weren’t in the first few rows. To me it didn’t make much sense. I also felt like the art exhibitions were a little left out. Russell Ord’s photos weren’t shown in the Langbrett store when the film was shown there and the photos from the Binsurfen crew were only shown on Saturday. A little bummer since the festival was sold out on Friday already. But these are just little thing compared to the beauty to festival as a whole. I’ll absolutely go again next year. 

Thank you for reading, 

Dörte

P.S. Bruce Gold

All crappy photos (c) Dörte Heilewelt

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_baLMnxcnwE)

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Indiepop Jukebox (febbraio '17)

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BURNS // Halasan Bazar

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J’ai Quitté Les Cool Kids (Split compil Vol.5 feat. Dao) #47 !

Baxter Dury - Miami

Caetano Veloso - Lost In The Paradise

Caetano Veloso - Maria Bethania

Caetano Veloso & Gal Costa - Coracao Vagabundo

Cotton Jones - Marula

Father John Misty - When You're Smiling And Astride Me

Frank Ocean - Thinkin Bout You

GusGus - Blue Mug

Homeshake - Making A Fool Of You

Kevin Morby - City Music

Kitty - Girlfriend

Leonard Cohen - Lover Lover Lover

The Magnetic Fields - ‘84 : Danceteria !

Moby Grape - He

Moses Sumney - Worth It

Panda Bear - Sunset

Paupiere - D’Une Autre Manière

Pearls Before Swine - Wizard Of Is

Pépite - Les Bateaux

Peter Silberman - Gone Beyond

Saskwatch - Then There’s You

She & Him - You Really Got A Hold On Me

Sufjan Stevens - Tonya Harding (In D Major)

Tara King th. & Halasan Bazar - Coeurs Croisés

Tom Paxton - My Lady’s A Wild Flying Dove

Tomemitsu - In Dreams

TOPS - Driverless Passenger

Travis Scott - Through The Late Night (ft. Kid Cudi)

Travis Scott - Lose (ft. Cassie)

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - So Good At Being In Trouble

Vulfpeck - Back Pocket

Whitney - On My Own

www.leodelafontaine.com/telechargements/JaiQuitteLesCoolKids.zip

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Listen/purchase: 8 by Tara King th. & Halasan Bazar

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Bruce Gold - The Last of the Great Surfing Hippies from Anders Melchior on Vimeo.

Bruce Gold has managed to survive for almost 50 years in Jeffreys Bay without having a job. He is among the last of a dying breed of surfers who have dedicated their entire lives to riding waves.

Awards: Viewers Choice: Best Short Santa Cruz Surf Film Festival Best International Short - London Surf / Film Festival

Director, Producer, Cinematographer and Editor: Anders Melchior facebook.com/melchiormedia.no/?fref=ts melchiormedia.no

Co-producer and idea: Kristian Breivik Water cinematography: Kristian Breivik, Keith Engelbrech and Anders Melchior Archival footage: Bruce Gold, Pretoria film school, Koffie Jacobs and Mike Van Vuuren

Music: Halasan Bazar: "Below your deepest expectations", "Mountaintops" facebook.com/Halasanbazar/?fref=ts

Financed by Lofoten Surfsenter : lofotensurfsenter.com

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The Quaker Goes Deaf - 19/05/03 - Playlist

• The Sunbathers • Jo Schornikow • Vanishing Twin • The Underground Youth • Foxygen • Drugdealer • Craig Finn • Garcia Peoples • Wooden Shjips • Ohtis • Orville Peck • Halasan Bazar • Sad Planets • Wild Evel And The Trashbones • Big Eyes • Deeper • Big Business • Reigning Sound • Datura4 • Wand • The Claypool Lennon Delirium • The Brian Jonestown Massacre • Swervedriver • The Black Watch • Young Gods • Nonn • Unwed Sailor • Starflyer 59 • Black Mountain • Silversun Pickups • The Rifles • Birds At The End Of The Road • John Cale • Sunn O))) •

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Burns My Mind by HalasanBazar

All songs written by Fredrik Rollum Eckhoff All songs arranged, played & recorded by Halasan Bazar at La Gargouille, Chambon Sur Lignion, France All songs recorded & produced by Arnauld Boyer All songs mixed & mastered by Arnauld Boyer strings arranged & recorded by Halasan Bazar & K.R. at The Bunker. Halasan Bazar Fredrik Rollum Eckhoff - Vocals, Guitar, Keys Craig Martin Wood - Drums, Vocals Stefan Ketelsen - Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Organ Rasmus Klausen - Bass, Guitar All songs © Halasan Bazar 2016

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WKNC 88.1 FM Radio 200/Indie Rock Charts 3/21/17

1 NOVELLA Change of State - Sinderlyn 2 DEHD Fire Of Love - Infinity Cat 3 VAGABON Infinite Worlds - Father/Daughter 4 HALASAN BAZAR Burns - Requiem pour un Twister 5 AQUARIAN BLOOD Last Night In Paradise - Goner 6 TIM DARCY Saturday Night - Jagjaguwar 7 CLOUD NOTHINGS Life Without Sound - Carpark 8 DOMINIC Goodnight, Doggies - Lame-O 9 MOLLY BURCH Please Be Mine - Captured Tracks 10 PRIESTS Nothing Feels Natural - Sister Polygon 11 MEATBODIES Alice - In The Red 12 DRAB MAJESTY The Demonstration - Dais 13 DUDE YORK Sincerely - Hardly Art 14 HALF WAIF Form/A [EP] - Cascine 15 TENNIS Yours Conditionally - Mutually Detrimental 16 DEL PAXTON All Day, Every Day, All Night - Topshelf 17 JENS LEKMAN Life Will See You Now - Dead Oceans 18 ALLISON CRUTCHFIELD Tourist In This Town - Merge 19 SLOW HOLLOWS Romantic - Danger Collective 20 HAND HABITS Wildly Idle - Woodsist 21 BLAU BLAU Kiss Kiss - Self-released 22 ACTIVE BIRD COMMUNITY Stick Around - Self-Released 23 FUFANU Sports - One Little Indian 24 DANNY AND THE DARLEANS Bug Out - In The Red 25 JENN GRANT Paradise - Outside 26 CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH The Tourist - Wichita 27 HOMESHAKE Fresh Air - Sinderlyn 28 FRED THOMAS Changer - Polyvinyl 29 BONNY DOON Bonny Doon - Self-Released 30 JESCA HOOP Memories Are Now -Sub Pop

Top Adds 1 HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF The Navigator - ATO 2 SPOON Hot Thoughts - Matador 3 FRANKIE GOES ON A WALK Songs About Kyle - Bangkok Blend 4 THE OBSESSIVES The Obsessives - Lame-o 5 ORCHIN Orchin - Self-released 6 JFDR Brazil - White Sun 7 DREAM EATERS We Are A Curse - Song Dynasty 8 THE MAGNETIC FIELDS 50 Song Memoir - Nonesuch

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Go To: Nord Nordost Surf Film Festival Berlin

This year’s summer in Berlin is a tad not so sunny, so it’s even more joyous that Nord Nordost Surf Film Fest will return to bring some sun to town - in form of films, music and art portraying the surf culture. From the 8th-12th of August 2017 they’ll bring screenings to various places spread all over Berlin. This year’s focus is on the conflict between mainstream and wild and ask the question whether if it’s anarchistic heritage and drop out mentality as portrayed on the opening film “Biarritz Surf Gang”*, is still alive. 

For quite some time I have a deep fascination for this culture and I can’t wait to learn more about it. Like I want to understand why people would travel to the arctic circle, Finland or Iceland to surf in the freezing cold (”Freezing”, “Under An Arctic Sky”, “Finnsurf”) - some of the films that’ll make the Berlin summer look great - or following three young women on their journey to answer what surfing means to them and what position it’ll takes in their lifes (”Blue Road”).

Next to films there’ll be live music at every screening, most of them will be surprises. Only two performances are announced: Jules Ahoi & the Deepsea Orchestra and Halasan Bazar. They’ll play at the main events on Friday and Sautrday at Zweidrei Raum. 

Tuesday, 8. August: Opening night “Biarritz Surf Gang” @  Kulturforum Sommerkino, Potsdamer Platz

Wednesday, 9. August: International Shorties Awards and block party @  the été shop, Bergmann Straße (free entrance)

Thursday, 10. August: “Fishpeople” & “One Shot”² @ Langbrett, Kastanienallee (free entrance)

Friday, 11. August:  ”Freezing”³, “Under An Arctic Sky”², “Island Earth”² & “Finnsurf”³; concert: Jules Ahio & the Deepsea Orchestra @ Zweidrei Raum, Kreuzberg

Saturday, 12. August: “The Church of the Open Sky”², “Deep Blue/Middle C” (European premiere), “Biarritz Surf Gang”³ & “Blue Road”²³, concert: Halasan Bazar @ Zweidrei Raum, Kreuzberg

² German premiere ³ directors q&a

Artists for the exhibition will be announced soon. For further informations on tickets and so on, look on their website:  www.surffilmfestberlin.de.

See you there,

Dörte

 *Pretty excited about this one actually since I’ll visit Biarritz later this year and it’s always pretty sweet to learn about the history of a place before you go, especially since it’s the birthplace of surfing in Europe. It always makes you see it in a different light. 

P.S. Just in case you’re not tired of beaches by Sunday, the 13th of August, you can head to Strandbad Weissensee for By The Lake Festival. Good music, beach, water but no waves. 

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A post shared by Ann Hanson / Artist (@annhansonart)

🧜🏻‍♀️ Watercolor feels so right to create art about water & water beings 🧜🏻‍♀️ Mermaids are cool 😎 🧜🏻‍♀️ Okay, well, maybe I’m a little biased, as I used to kinda be one.... 🧜🏻‍♀️ Huh??? 🧜🏻‍♀️ Well, what I mean is that I used to be a synchronized swimmer 🧜🏻‍♀️ This was in Junior High School 🧜🏻‍♀️ And only for a few years, although I did have a duet partner 🧜🏻‍♀️🧜🏻‍♀️ 🧜🏻‍♀️ I learned to hold my breathe for long periods of time while performing tricks underwater 🧜🏻‍♀️ Maybe I was more like a trained seal?🤔❓ 🧜🏻‍♀️ More about this later when I post the finished artwork 🧜🏻‍♀️ I also love the sound of the ocean at the beach 🏖💖 🧜🏻‍♀️ What about you? 🧜🏻‍♀️ What about you leaves you wondering if you too could be a mermaid? (P.S. This is a work-in-progress) Title: “Mermaid Babe 1” 12“H x 9”W Watercolor & black ink on watercolor board @AnnHansonArt 😊 The final version will be available in my print-on-demand stores. (Check my website for links) Music: “Over the sun and under the sea” Musician: Halasan Bazar https://www.instagram.com/reel/CEje3j4g_af/?igshid=mnuv31llk13k

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Issue 235: Donnie Wahlberg, Baby Dee, and the Itai Onara Pop Essentials.

Quirky, presumably Donnie Wahlberg-inspired pop. From November 2017.

(01) Halasan Bazar: Freak (02) William Austin Clay: Bu-Dwi-Di (03) Tender Cruncher: Burden (04) Graham Kartna: Baby, Don’t You Know? (05) Xenia Rubinos: See Them (06) TImber Timbre: Curtains!? (07) Imitation Electric Piano: I Mean Wow (08) Baby Dee: Bendy Bus (09) David Liebe Hart: The Pickle Man & Mr. Moose (10) Damaged Bug: Liquid Desert (11) Teeth & Tongue: When We Met (12) D.D Dumbo: King Franco Picasso (13) The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan: Talented Song About Donnie Wahlberg (14) Jonny Fritz: Chilidog Morning (15) Cabo Boing: The Cog (16) Aesop Rock: Kirby (17) Michael Rogers & The Dolphins: Dr. Funkalon (18) Shugo Tokumaru: Poker (19) Pat Jordache: Fields Laying Fallow (20) El Perro Del Mar: Clean Your Window (21) Benjamin Clementine: By The Ports Of Europe (22) Jens Lekman: It Was a Strange Time in My Life (23) Seiko with Donnie Wahlberg: The Right Combination

Spotify sample: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6zuwWo4cZgAsy48exS2qbF

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June 11 playlist

One of the more poppy shows in a good while. AM newcomers this week include Spume, Pink Sky, Get Well Soon, Robert Lippok and Pierre Lalonde; plus new tunes from old favourites like Wild Nothing, Vinyl Williams and Nobaby. Listen at cjsw.com, subscribe at iTunes, and check out the tracklist below. 

(Image: “Thought-Forms” by Annie Wood Besant & Charles Webster Leadbeater, 1905)

Hour One:

J'ai vu ton reflet CHAMBRE • ONLINE SINGLE

at the end of the world // (music 4 a video game) GET WELL SOON (EMI) • ONLINE SINGLE

Emotions PINK SKY • FORMS

Orginal Formula Spume® - Morning Dose SPUME • GENERIC DOSE EP

Nzuku ARP • ZEBRA

Aspen SYNKRO & AROVANE • REFRACTIVE (INDEX)

Parsley Dipped in Salt SASHA MANNEQUIN • (((ECHOES)))

No Way Back THE ADVISORY CIRCLE • WAYS OF SEEING

All Objects are Moving ROBERT LIPPOK • APPLIED AUTONOMY

Uke Puke BLACK MOLD • SNOW BLINDNESS IS CRYSTAL ANTZ

Hour Two:

Midnight Marker SHY LAYERS • MIDNIGHT MARKER

Jag Ville Va Kvar DUNGEN & WOODS • MYTHS 003

Ventolin HALASAN BAZAR & TARA KING TH. • 8

Dead of Love PAN & REGALIZ • PAN & REGALIZ

Acorn KRIS ELLESTAD • OLDE IDEASE

Who's Gonna Drive U Home FLOOR CRY • ONLINE SINGLE

Dry The Rain THE BETA BAND • THE 3 EPS

Self-Help TOMBERLIN • AT WEDDINGS

Colours THE RADIATION FLOWERS • SUMMER LOOP

Honey, Honey PIERRE LALONDE • SINGLE

The Scene Between THE GO! TEAM • THE SCENE BETWEEN

Golden One LA LUZ • FLOATING FEATURES

Hour Three:

Sound & Vision SEA AND CAKE • DO YOU DREAM? MIXTAPE

Deluxe ALEEM KHAN • ALEEM KHAN

Everyone Acts Crazy Nowadays UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA • SEX & FOOD

Noumena VINYL WILLIAMS • OPAL

Love Isn't On My Mind BOYS • REST IN PEACE

May I Be the Light LUMP • LUMP

Sun Soaked BEACH TOWELS • PALM FREE

Hey Boy SHE-DEVILS • SHE-DEVILS

Letting Go WILD NOTHING • INDIGO

NYC NOBABY • ONLINE SINGLE

Hopefulessness COURTNEY BARNETT • TELL ME HOW YOU REALLY FEEL