Thursday, 20. May 2004

22:00 - Defonija

[b]Dr. Eugene Chadbourne[eb] - glas, kitara, bendžo

Dobri doktor iz hiše Chadula spet v naših logih ali Električne grablje za nove članice zveze NATO.

Pred solističnim nastopom na festivalu JazzCerkno04 se bo naš zvesti strunar-inovativec in politično angažiran praktik struje country & western [b]Eugene Chadbourne[eb] vnovič oglasil tudi v klubu Gromka. Bo mar igral ...? Nedavna evforična recenzija v reviji [i]Wire[ei] obravnava njegovo obdelavo "nemškega country & westerna", kakor poimenuje dela Johanna Sebastiana Bacha. Kakor koli že - večer bo zagotovo postregel s par krepkimi (Chadbourne je navsezadnje tisti glasbenik, ki ga je ameriški Kongres v osemdesetih letih prejšnjega stoletja besno omenil kot zgled človeka, ki škoduje pristni ameriški glasbi ...) Tokratna doktorjeva evropska turneja se deli na predstavitve del Fatsa Wallerja z japonsko pianistko Aki Takase (lani tudi v Cerknem!), na balkanski del in na aktivno praznovanje petdesetletnice. Svoje lastne in še treh kolegov - pod nazivom Fifty Four nastopajo štirje letošnji petdesetletniki: dr. Chad, trombonist Johannes Bauer, violončelist Ernst Reijseger in tolkalec Peter Hollinger. Na zdravje!

Kratka biografija v angleščini:

A seemingly endless â€” and endlessly eclectic â€” series of releases made the innovative guitarist Eugene Chadbourne one of the underground community's most well-known and well-regarded eccentrics. Born January 4, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York, Chadbourne was raised in Boulder, Colorado, by his mother, a refugee of the Nazi death camps. At the age of 11, the Beatles inspired him to learn guitar; later exposure to Jimi Hendrix prompted him to begin experimenting with distortion pedals and fuzzboxes. Ultimately, however, he became dissatisfied with the conventions of rock and pop, and traded in his electric guitar for an acoustic one, on which he began to learn to play bottleneck blues.


Quickly, Chadbourne carved out a singular style, comprised of equal parts protest music, free improvisation and avant-garde jazz, topped off with his absurd, squeaky vocals. A complete list of Chadbourne's countless subsequent collaborations and genre workouts is far too lengthy and detailed to exhaustively document, although in the early 1980s he garnered some of his first significant attention as the frontman of Shockabilly, a demented rockabilly-revisionist outfit which also featured the well-known producer Kramer. Following the group's break-up, Chadbourne turned to his own idiosncratic brand of country and folk, accurately dubbed LSD C&W on a 1987 release, the same year he joined the members of Camper Van Beethoven for a one-off covers project. In addition, he recorded with artists ranging from Fred Frith and Elliott Sharp to Evan Johns and Jimmy Carl Black, the original drummer in the Mothers of Invention; in between, he continued exploring unique styles inspired by music from the four corners of the globe, all the while issuing a seemingly innumerable string of records, most of them on his own Parachute label.

[b]Jason Ankeny[eb], [i]All Music Guide[ei]

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