Welcome to the Digital Soundblog

Review: Goodipal with band live at LAB, 28/01-2006

Now that the silence is broken, i can make some additional updates of past events which i had planned to write a short review of earlier. Starting with Goodiepal inclusive live band end of January at the LAB in Vesterbro. This was another great Komponent records night and i was suprised when i read that Goodiepal will come here to play, i think its seldom to get to see him here and also i think he is more known abroad then here at home.

I arrived pretty late, dont know why exactly.. i guess i was too lazy as usual to get up.. and if i am not wrong then i had been out the night before so i was pretty tired too. Nevertheless i managed to get there in more or less good time so i still could enjoy the last 30 minutes or maybe more of Renegades of the Game Boxen who i really really enjoy to hear every time again. These two guys are just great musicians i think and they work very well together, i have a hard time to figure out who of the two is more into one or the othersound as they just harmonize perfectly. But maybe i just cant see whats really going on as they play all their stuff from their apple laptops. First time seen them on Roskilde Festival in '04 at the Blue Stage during the day and already there were i obsessed by them. Playing a nice glitchy mix of electronica, some breakbeats, some downtempo ambient things and really experimental in their sounds. At this show they got some great Industrial sounds and playing some nice samples along, also they were playing with some other guy together but i didnt recognized him so i dont know more about him. Partly the concert reminded me of Venetian Snares too and i was suprised that the people werent running out, so seems like that either there is a certain interest for this here or the people didnt paid attention. Probably its the last thing :-/ Well, i enjoyed it.

After a short break, Goodiepal started to set up his strange equipment and it was not hard to see that he was pretty nervouse as he also mentioned it himself at the start of his show. Acctually he was talking more then playing music, well.. i think 80% of the concert was him setting up his stuff and whistling the music. He mentioned that he didnt expected so many people, and considering the fact that he was not speaking very loud it was hard to hear what he said so it would have been better if at least half of the people in the room wouldnt have been there.. and i must say that i was standing very close to him. Besides that he mentioned some earlier life experience, seems like he doesnt like Kenneth (the Culture Box owner) which i didnt really understand why and i was almost asking him about it after the show but decided not to involve in this.

Short sidenote: Honestly, i am very thankfull for Kenneths work here in the danish music scene and i think he deserves lot of respect, not just ass-licking as he probably get form 89% of the people here in Copenhagen. To all the haters out there: be happy that we have a venue to listen non-super-commercial eletronic music, maybe you feel ignored as an artist but on the otherhand this gives a lot of possibilities and the venue is really nice, people i think are open and not as superficial as in other venues here in the city and on the top of that, also the staff there is nice. From my point of view, its really the number one club in town!

He was also complaining about an old friend of him, ripping him off and some strange things he experienced overseas at a conference in the US being called a rascist or so, but hey.. its the US! What you expect? I mean.. there is no free speech right? I am not suprised that they didnt understood, specially with a danish humor.. my god, not to imagine the consequences - yet another cartoon strike :)
During the show he presented his band, the Spanish and from his Label presented experimental electronica artist. This was a very radical cut inbetween i must say as Goodiepal played fully analog set, both before and afterwards (i think it was anyways just 4 or 5 "songs" he was whistling away). Too bad that i cant recall this spanish guys name, but people familiar with goodiepal surroundings should easily be able to find out (too lazy to google it right now). It was a short breakcore/breakbeatish set he played and then it went back to goodiepal and his mechanical bird.

He first told this funny story about him being accused to be involved in some satanic rituals, as he took this mechanical selfbuild bird with him to his work (he works at a mental institution as a helper). Really amazing thing, he let it go around while him and the mechanical bird were whistling this song together.. the bird sitting inside this big glass clock, build of different metal plates sitting inside this nest. Soundsed really authentic actually :) nice gimmick.
The show ended with him showing some small cards were he painted different pictures on and moving things around, i got bit lost there as i missed the "main"-concept in this one. Afterwards he had a nice auction, people being able to pay whatever they want for a CD from him as he didnt wanted to say no.. so every price was welcome. Means, i got myself a CD for 30 DKK (didnt had more with me, i thought i had.. but then it hit me that i spent my last 100 DKK on something else before and on the way didnt passed an ATM). I first thought of getting his new album but then i saw somebody having this nice cover in his hands and i bought the circulation of events, which is very ambientish and i am bit dissapointed of it. I hoped / expected something else.. dont know.

However, it was a nice evening and i was happy to be there but got tired then and went home afterwards. I must admit that i was more fond of Renegades of the gameboxen's show then goodiepals even if Goodiepal was more interesting to see but just not to hear, that was bit strange. Truely interesting thou, so thanks for this one. More infos about Goodiepal and his selfmade instruments you can find here.

posted by Christian @ 12:31