Sweet Solo Music

What to do when your drummer has left the country and your bass player is without a job, but has a recording studio and plenty of time, and you have been writing once again a bunch of songs. Well of course you should go and record them, and that´s just what Henri Keefmen did. Using here the less pretentious monnicker of Henri Soulmann. The result is 11 songs, that pretty much show his songwriting skills and the music he likes, like sixties, soul and rock´n´roll.
For those who are familiar with the classic solo recording of Mark ten Hoor "Back to the Wenaker", this is done in similar vein. Peter Cruise (As he now seems to be called) again has out done himself in "orchestrating" the great songs, adding an organ, a bit of fuzz or some basslines. Listen for instance to the fuzz driven "Butterflies", perhaps this is freakbeat??? I have no idea. Or the moody "I truly cry" and "About our love" with a fine organ arrangement and the fanatastic and probably my favorite "Have you seen her".
Fortunately it´s not done all over the top, there are some more acoustic tunes here as well, like the intense "Don´t aks me", the sad "Freezing on a Summerday", the uptempo shouter "All your love", and the catchy "Be that guy", the last two were actually recorded by Henri himself. As expected there´s some place for straight ahead rock´n´roll, and Henri sure loves his Johnny Cash records as is quite evident in the Johnny Cash styled rocker "Doin´ time". And also Hasil Adkins springs to mind hearing "Oeh Ie Ah Oehhh!" Perhaps only not as insane. As a nice surprise he included a version of soul classic "I never loved a woman (the way I loved you) penned by Ronnie Shannon, recorded by many like Jackie Wilson and Aretha Franklin and now Henri Soulmann. His version: it´s crude, raw, wild and great!!!
Be sure to drop by Henri Soulmann´s myspace, and get yourselve a copy. It will be definetely worth the effort.

For your listening pleasure.....

Recently a fine collection of nederbeat could be heard on Radio Extremadura featuring biet classics from De Clungels, Mokum Beat Five and De Clichee Mannetjes (Van Kooten en de Bie). And of course also our local heroes of The No-Goods, The Miracle Men and De Keefmen were played on the great Fonorama radioshow, a show you actually should always check for some great beat, garagepunk, punk, soul and sixties pop, wouldn´t it be great if there was something like this on Dutch Radio!
Radio Fonorama playlist 23 january

The No-Goods in Zwolle 30 January

This saturday the No-Goods will play with The Norvins from France in Eureka. The Norvins released a fine album on the excellent Soundflat Records filled with garage and beat and the essential organ. The No-Goods have promised to perform better than last time in Utrecht (but who puts them in the non-smokin´ section anyway) and give a nice taster of the upcoming LP on Minstrel Records, that hopefully will see the light of day soon, because we could use some Lekkere Beat at home. For now you´ll still have to go out and clearly this saturday is perfect for it.

‘TALES FROM THE BEAT-CRYPT’
Op zaterdag 30 januari is de eerste Legendary Minstrel Session van 2010! Opnieuw slaan platenwinkel Minstrel Music en sociaal-culturele vereniging Eureka de handen ineen.
Ditmaal met de in 2004 in Parijs opgerichte NORVINS. De heren staan garant voor een avondje swingen in de sfeer van de door hen bewonderde rauwe 60’s garage en beat bands. Het krachtige gitaargeluid van de band, voortgestuwd door het pompende Farfisa-orgel en door drums en bass van een stevige basis voorzien, zorgt ervoor dat je lichaam aangenaam begint te trillen en je deze avond niet meer kunt stoppen met bewegen! Het voorprogramma wordt verzorgd door de NO-GOODS uit Meppel, die met hun ‘lekkere beat’ de boel vast in de stemming brengt. Onze oude held, the Sahara Farm Light Show, zorgt weer voor de fantastische visuele vibe!

“This heavy swing and fuzzy scream is here to make you shake your moneymakers and rip off your ears”!

www.myspace.com/thenorvins
www.myspace.com/lekkerebeat

Het optreden begint om 20.30 uur. Entree: 10 euro (incl. 2,50 lidmaatschap). Locatie: Eureka, Assendorperplein 9 Zwolle.
www.minstrel.nl tel: 038-4233419 www.eureka-zwolle.nl tel 038-4222903

De Keefmen on Dirty Water Records

"Wah hey, have just agreed to release an LP by De Keefmen....honestly, this is the best job I've ever had...it's not even really work"
12:23 PM Jan 24th from Dirty Water Records (Twitter)

Yessirreeh De Keefmen will release their new album on Dirty Water Records! More news and details will follow soon...

De Keefmen Lost in Tyme!

Read a great interview with De Keefmen in the new Lost in Tyme, and don´t forget to read Lenny Helsing´s (from the Thames, that group that mutilated many of nederbeat classic) view on De Keefmen 10". Also reviews of the Grapefruit Zoo 45, The No-Goods 45 and De Keefmen 45. Most importantly check out De Keefmen´s unreleased track `Anything for you´ on the cd that comes with this magazine, it´s crude, raw, unpolished and a killer!

LOST IN TYME ZINE+CD ISSUE 5
It’s in English language, on A4 paper, printed (not photocopy) with hard full color cover designed by Darren Merinuk and contains exclusive interviews with:
DOWNLINNERS SECT FOURGIVEN ORIN PORTNOY (EX- OPTIC NERVE & OUTTA PLACE) LOSIN STREAKS GILJOTEENS KEK 66 JORGE EXPLOSION CIRCO PERROTI STUDIOS REVELLIONS GARAGE GODS CRUSHERS DE KEEFMEN KAROVAS MILKSHAKE Articles for KLIEK DUPONT CIRCLES SKEPTIGS CHEEKS UNDERGROUND PRESS IN THE 60s part 3 News and tons of reviews (more than 150) for records, cds, 7”, fanzines and dvds. And of course a CD compilation with 18 songs from the bands
Lost in Tyme

City Trash #35 out now!

Finally the new CITY TRASH has arrived, #35 already. This time around interviews with the COLA FREAKS/ the ANOMALYS/ the CHIMIKS/ AQUA NEBULA OSCILLATOR and DIGGER AND THE PUSSYCATS. Of course also again with some fine columns from the usual suspects and newly discovered talent Rik Dingles.

Order through City Trash myspace or contact head honcho via citytrash@hotmail.com.
Don´t forget to ask for Thee T-Shirt and make sure the City Trash gets some cash!!

The No-Goods tonight in Utrecht!

Unlike the poster indicates not De Keefmen, but the bringers of the lekkere beat, The No-Goods, will perform in Db´s at the Garaziebiet festival. Currently they are finishing up the recordings for the first full lenght and tonight you can get the taste of their new killer compositions such as Be your guy, Want you to stop and Mean girl. Songs that will rank up to the already lekkere beat classics Please, I wanna Change and Wonder. And let´s not forget as a bonus you´ll be able to see the best beatband and current Dutch act Mark & the Spies!