SEE THE ‘KINOPLEX’ VIDEO RECORDING ON KINOPLEX.ORG [01-06-2010 18:58:50 CET]

Whether the video that can be found on the website www.kinoplex.org is the clipping that has inspired Martin Hall to write his forthcoming novel Kinoplex, or whether it is a reproduction of the original film, remains an issue to be solved. However, certainty bounds that a connected video can be seen on this site.

NEW YORK LABEL RE-RELEASES SS-SAY SINGLE [01-05-2010 07:39:11 CET]

Many years cult status seem to have produced a new American interest for Martin Hall's old Pesteg Dred and SS-Say projects. As you can read further down this page, the American (San Francisco-based) label Dark Entries will be re-issuing the otherwise unobtainable Years Of Struggle Against The Lies, The Stupidity And The Cowardice recordings on vinyl, and now the New York-situated label Minimal Wave has announced, that it will be including the old SS-Say single-track Care on an upcoming compilation-lp as well as on a label mix, which you can read more about on Vessel Music’s website: Minimal Wave label mix. The American interest for particularly SS-Say is apparently owed to the fact, that a French DJ during the 90’s introduced the New York club The Batcave to the band by repeatedly playing all the tracks from the ’Fusion’ 12”-EP over a longer period of time. From this point on the interest for the group developed. Check out sites such as SS-Say MySpace or SS-Say Last FM. We’ll bring further notice, as things develop. A digital release of the full 12” EP from 1985 Fusion is furthermore expected during the autumn of 2010.

PESTEG DRED AS VINYL RELEASE IN AMERICA [01-05-2010 07:36:18 CET]

The obscure Pesteg Dred album Years Of Struggle Against The Lies, The Stupidity And The Cowardice, recorded by (a very young) Martin Hall along with the singer Inge Shannon and the guitarist and noise-maker Per Hendrichsen in December 1981, will now be released as the originally intended vinyl album. In America. In a limited edition. The album will be released by the independent label Dark Entries, and we’ll keep you informed concerning release date and buying options sale on this website, as soon as the final details are clear. The album is expected to be released in the autumn. The Pesteg Dred band went through many different forms during its existence in the start-80’s (a later version of the group included two bassists, one of the being the famous Danish painter and art professor Peter Bonde), but is probably best known as the platform for what was to become the later SS-SAY. The ‘Lies, Stupidity, Cowardice’ album was never released in its own time, but came as a bonus cassette tape with the Danish art magazine ATLAS in August 1985. A digital release of the original recordings is considered as well. We’ll bring more info during the summer.

‘TOTEM’ AND ‘NATTENS ENGEL’ RELASED ON DVD ON JUNE 7 [26-04-2010 07:50:04 CET]

The two legendary Danish films about respectively the poetry scene and musical underground of the start-80’s, that is Nattens Engel (1981) and Totem (1984), will finally be released on dvd by the Danish distribution VME. The films are directed by Claus Bohm. The dvd includes both titles and will be released on June 7. The first title has its focus on the at the time new poets (thereby particularly Danish poet Michael Strunge). Martin Hall has written and recorded the music to this film. The other title, ’Totem’, focuses on the dawning music scene and contains as well an interview with Hall as well as two live-performances with his group Under For (both tracks included on the Catalogue-box). Apar from this you’ll find performances with Sort Sol, Ads and Alive With Worms.

MARTIN HALL PERFORMS AT THE DANISH NATIONAL GALLERY [21-03-2010 19:50:12 CET]

In relation to the upcoming exhibition Re-Modelling The World (a retrospective featuring works of Danish artist Bjørn Nørgaard) Martin Hall performs an instrumental live-concert at the The Danish National Gallery on Sunday the 25th of April at 3 PM. On stage he will be supported by string-bassist Ida Bach Jensen who has recently written and released the soundtrack to the film about the Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf, Ekelöfs Blik (”Ekelöfs Gaze”). You can read more about both the concert and the exhibition at SMK.

NEW MP3-REMIX BY HALL AND MIKKEL MEYER [21-03-2010 19:49:42 CET]

MH and Danish electronica-act Mikkel Meyer have joined forces. In relation to the latter’s critically acclaimed album Bacon from November 2009 (highlighted in the British magazine The Wire) the two musicians have blended the opening track “Tatar” from this album with Hall’s vocals from his “A.S.A.P.” track (taken from his 2006-album ’Facsimile’). The collaboration has been entitled Too Hot To Sleep (in Meyer-lingo a.k.a. "Too Hot To Eat”) and as a service to the users of the Hall-website we hereby offer you the track as mp3. Follow the link to either listen or download. “For your eyes and ears only”, that is.

OTHER ADDITIONAL CURRENT NEWS [21-03-2010 19:49:05 CET]

On Wednesday the 24th of March Hall appears in a radio programme on National Danish Radio (P1) about music and literature performed on drugs. On April 23rd he shows up as a guest at a commemoration in relation to Danish poet Asger Stig Møller, son of the Danish Minister of Cultural Affairs Per Stig Møller. In the more curious department the host at the weekly Danish National Radio heavy metal-show Sort Søndag ("Black Sunday"), Anders Bøtter, has put the Ballet Mécanique-album The Icecold Waters Of The Egocentric Calculation as his all-time #1 heavy metal-record! As a last news flash, two classic early 80’s documentary films will be released on dvd during May, Angel of the Night about the poetry scene in the early 80’s and Totem about the musical underground in the same period. Hall has written the music for the first film and performs live in the second (both selections from the film are available on the dvd in the Catalogue-box).

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