Sïckö – Oregon
Genre: Post Rock
Artists fall in love with the silliest things. Because many of these are ephemeral they hardly ever find a way to explain themselves to the world. Colors, sounds, a beautiful sunset? Those are hardly practical things, but they dominate the imagination of many creative people.
Artists may encounter such fleeting moments more frequently. But, the pinnacle of many lives is composed of these sort of memorable non-events. The tragedy is not only that these are not long-lasting. It’s also the fact that the majority of people don’t have a way of immortalising them.
Sïckö’s taking to using artistic means to freeze those in time. On Oregon, the Hungarian post-rock artist builds up his own pilots of the purple twilight with one gentle auditory brushstroke at a time. Then as soon as the vision is properly constructed, he tears it down. Creation and destruction are observed in four minutes of music that strives to tell a story that can’t work by being put into words.
KEI CAR – Flashed
Genre: Lo-fi Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative Rock
It’s amazing the way that Anglo-American pop culture has permeated the world. It’s done such a good job of infiltrating the public’s imagination that from Eastern Europe to Northern Africa, people’s imagination is dominated by dreams of Los Angeles.
And, while I’m sure Los Angeles must be fine and all, the world is simply much stranger and compelling. Few places are more meticulously bizarre than smaller German towns. They exhibit cleanliness that makes those who suffer from mysophobia blush. Everyone’s in bed by 9 P.M. And, people dress as they belong to a cult made up of car salesmen. Frankly, I love it!
KEI CAR bring the studied weirdness to Flashed. It’s alternative music that is seemingly created by consistently asking itself the question “Why not?”. The video, naturally, is the most noteworthy. It looks like a 1980s commercial for a men’s youth club that you’d be smart not to join. KEI CAR are an interesting bunch.
