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Fresh plans are being made in the Heaven Hotel.

1/ The Horse Head Bed are releasing a new full length CD called “Liquid Vinyl” beginning of October 2020.

2/ A 10″ vinyl of The Groovecats Deluxe called “Live At De Muze” will be released in November 2020. The Groovecats Deluxe are a free library rock jazz band feat. Elko Blijweert, Milan Warmoeskerken, Simon Beeckaert and Jeroen Stevens

3/ Dino & The Chicks will perform on 26th October in Het Bos (40 Jaar Radio Centraal)

Also check Rudy and Heaven Hotel’s facebook pages:

https://www.facebook.com/rudytrouveofficial

https://www.facebook.com/Heaven-Hotel-119034301508701

Two Rudy duos and a triple exhibition

Rudy Trouvé will perform in Antwerp today as well as tomorrow as half of two different musical duos.

Tonight, Thursday the 6th of June, he will play with beatnik extraordinaire Gunter Nagels as a support act for Jan Ducheyne & Noodzakelijk Kwaad at Arenberg in the city centre.

Tomorrow, Friday the 7th, he will play with keyboard wizard Walter Hus at Madam Fortuna in Borgerhout.

Furthermore, on June 26th he will take part in an exhibition with works by his brother Alfred Trouvé, Stef Kamil Carlens and – evidently – himself. The exhibition will run until the 13th of July at Museumstraat25 in Antwerp and feature a concert by iH8 Camera on Saturday 29 June.

Feel free to drag yourself to Facebook.

Dead Man Ray are back in business

As most of you may already know, 2018 just about ended with the very unexpected announcement of the imminent return of the legendary Belgian band Dead Man Ray.

After a 16 year hiatus, an ep titled “EEN” was released by PIAS records and is now available on vinyl at Morbus GravisFat Kat and Tune Up (Antwerp) as well as Bilbo (Leuven and online). According to the band’s Facebook page, more stores will follow.

Those not living in Belgium may consider ordering through our friends at the Jezus Factory.

If you would rather stream or download “EEN”, you can do so by clicking here.

Dead Man Ray will release a full album in March of 2019 and present it live at Brussels’ Ancienne Belgique on the 25th of April. Tickets are available here.

Dean Man Ray still is:

Daan Stuyven
Rudy Trouvé
Elko Blijweert
Wouter Van Belle
Karel De Backer

 

Happy New Year!

Zwerm presenting new album produced by Rudy Trouvé at De Singel

Tomorrow, 29 November, electric guitar quartet Zwerm will present their latest album “Badminton In Tehran” at De Singel in Antwerp. The LP is released on Zwerm’s Time Goes By imprint and was produced by Rudy Trouvé.

Zwerm’s Toon Callier was a guest on yesterday’s episode of Radio Centraal‘s Het Kralenspel which you can listen to here.

“Badminton In Tehran” will be available in all record stores as of tomorrow. Tickets to the release concert are to be purchased here.

Fresh Bandcamp additions and a rare live appearance by Blijweert/Van Isacker

Slowly but surely all in-print Heaven Hotel releases are being added to our Bandcamp page. Go there now to stream and/or buy all three volumes of Franco Saint De Bakker’s “Live At The Ancienne Belgique” series as well as FSDB members Elko Blijweert & Frans Van Isacker’s duo album.

Blijweert/Van Isacker also happen to play at De Studio in Antwerp tomorrow the 8th of November. They are supporting Dans Dans.

Some more gigs have been added to our Tour Dates page.

Three new additions to our Bandcamp page

Our Bandcamp page is expanding slowly but surely: three rare tapes have just been added. One contains a recording of a 1997 concert by Gore Slut in Nandrin, another the collaboration between Rudy Trouvé and Intige Taluure and the third is the cassette version of the soundtrack to “Screen” (which is stil touring as we speak!).

Head over to heavenhotel.bandcamp.com to stream for free and/or buy a physical and/or digital copy of whichever release(s) tickle(s) your fancy.

 

Watch “Chicago” video – go see “Screen”

Rudy Trouvé’s and Simon Allemeersch’ fantastic music theatre video play “Screen” is on tour now! Have a look at our Tour Dates page and be sure to go see this spectacle in a town near you.

The Screen Show Band (Elko Blijweert, Warre Borgmans, Gunter Nagels, Mauro Pawlowski & Rudy Trouvé) made new (Dutch-sung) versions of some old Robert Johnson songs. Check out the video for one of those songs (“Chicago”) right here:

 

Heaven Hotel on Bandcamp

Trouvé/Blijweert/Pawlowski’s “Screen/Crossroads” and the complete Angels Die Hard discography are now available for sale through the Heaven Hotel Bandcamp page. Visiting this page gives you the opportunity to stream these albums for free and/or buy a digital and/or physical copy.

All other in-print Heaven Hotel releases are still available through this website’s “Releases & Shop” page (for now).

 

Two new Heaven Hotel albums coming September 17th

We are very happy announce the imminent release of not one but two great albums, both coming out on September 17th through Heaven Hotel.

First up (alphabetically speaking, as both albums – as mentioned before – are coming out on the same day):

 

Angels Die Hard – Sundowner (Heaven Hotel – HH 1801)

Angels Die Hard‘s long-awaited (and superb) third album is finally being released on September 17th through Heaven Hotel and Jezus Factory Records. It will come out as a deluxe limited coloured vinyl edition of 300 copies and will also be available digitally.

Who else can explain better what this album is all about than the Angels themselves?

“Following the release of their second album Mood Ring, Angels Die Hard went into a deep and satisfying hibernation in South East Asia, followed by a tour of the bars, opium dens and beach clubs in the region. In their off time they went searching for the mythical Andaman Drongo bird, seeking to record it’s beautiful mating call.

While camping on a remote island in the Andamans, it dawned on them that the ecological impact of our Capitalist industrial civilisation reached even this idyllic place, when they saw a local sea gipsy smoking a bong made out of a Starbucks cup. This disgusted them greatly. This became a theme on their new album “Sundowner”, together with their common topics like love, making love, and the sometimes more complex sensations before and after.

Also on this island was Alain, who was on a solo survival trip, on a well deserved break from playing with Maxon Blewitt & Eriksson-Delcroix. The then three members of the Angels were impressed with his knife-making skills, muscle power, knowledge of sustainable communal living, and good looks, and that same evening they all joined a Jarawa tribal manhood initiation ritual, where Rob and Alain hit it off tremendously on drums & percussion, forming a rhythmic tandem that recalled the sound of rhinoceroses fornicating.

It soon became clear to all that Alain was going to join the Angels for their next record. It has to be noted that, when they discovered that Alain had only one cassette with him, with on the A-side ZZ Top and on the other side Ry Cooder, they immersed him in the music of The Petch Pin Thong Band, Thonghuad Faited, The Son Of P.M., Ike Reiko, Masami Kawahara & The Exotic Sounds, Masahiko Sato, Midori Takada, Haruomi Hosono, Glenn Branca, Boredoms, Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Ennio Morricone, Hawkwind, The Stooges, Butthole Surfers, Can, Chrome, Amon Duul, Tim Hardin, AR & Machines, Kleg, Black Sabbath and The Pretty Things, and others. These were enjoyed on vinyl, played on their beloved solar-powered record player.

Sundower was recorded in three days in the summer of 2017 at Borrey studios, where they tried to recreate the joy, sense of wonder, but also environmental sadness they all experienced on this remote Andaman island.”

 

And if those words don’t tickle your fancy enough already, you can read some more here or take a look and listen at ADH’s latest videos below.

(Ok, the second video isn’t technically a video, but what a great track – right?)

 

Rudy Trouvé, Elko Blijweert & Mauro Pawlowski – Screen/Crossroads (Heaven Hotel – HH 1802)

As we speak, Rudy Trouvé and his companions are getting ready to premier their first ever theatre play “Screen” this Friday (September 14th) at De Singel in Antwerp. The play was directed by Trouvé alongside Simon Allemeersch and features live music performed by Blijweert and Pawlowski.

Who else can explain better what this Gesammtkunstwerk is all about than whoever wrote this text that I just found on the website of De Singel?

Rudy Trouvé and Simon Allemeersch translate 2D film footage into 3D environments, in this case a theatre auditorium. Together they write the story, a motion of no confidence in life itself, and thereby explore the ‘logic of the illogical’.
‘Screen’ is a theatre film in which reality and time blur. A man talks about the dreams in which he gets lost and no longer knows where he is. He meets a Faustian figure with dubious moral values who more or less acts as his guide. The whole thing is a cross between film noir and a psychedelic descent into hell. Accompanied live by Elko Blijweert & Mauro Pawlowski. Perception/time/reality and life itself are called into question. A Faust for a world of oversized pixels, conspiracy theories and alternative facts.”

 

There will also be a physical release with the music of the performance “Screen” combined with “Crossroads”, a collection of reworkings of Robert Johnson songs which are also integrated in the play. This release will be available on cd as well as on cassette (in collaboration with the great Jezus Factory label).

 

Live dates of Angels Die Hard, Screen/Crossroads as well as a few other projects are to be found in the Tour Dates section.

1 trailer, 1 teaser, 1 music video, 2 interviews and 2 disclaimers (but not in that order)

Elko Blijweert is this year’s curator of the Exposed Music festival. Learn all about this unique event featuring Roland Van Campenhout, Bjorn Eriksson, Dennis Tyfus, Milan W. and many more by watching the trailer below.

More information and an early peek inside tomorrow’s magic can be obtained by watching the interview/report on Antwerp’s local tv channel ATV here. Caution: the video is Dutch spoken and features Flemish folk dancing.

 

The Mechanics (Evrard, Hiele, Pawlowski, Thielemans, Trouvé) announce their debut album by presenting its first video. Listen to and watch “Out Of Lovetown” below.

You can learn more about The Mechanics by reading this interview. Caution: the interview is in Dutch and features references to free jazz.

 

Lastly, a mysterious teaser video turned up on Rudy Trouvé’s Facebook page, pseudo-promoting the even more mysterious project “Screen”. You can watch it here.