The seven-minute opener, "Bouquet of Barbed Wire," builds slowly from a hypnotic guitar riff, adding instruments one at a time before exploding into an intense post-punk roar. The rest of the album continues in this defiant style, with the declamatory "Squat! The closing "Island Race" ends with an industrial clanging that predates the early records by Test Department and Einsturzende Neubauten.
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It's capricious. Black And White Statements Same Old News New Schvienhunt League Island Race But they're quite aware themselves, too, that reality is not always black and white What they lack in pure originality, gets compensated by their passion and devotion. In a time during which many of their contemporaries have switched their brain off, the primeval music of The Ex sounds really beneficial. Sok vocals , Bas bass , Sabien drums. Recorded at Joke's Koeienverhuurbedrijf, Schellingwoude, Netherlands.
Tags ex records experimental g. John Madsen go to album. On Bandcamp Radio. New tunes for plus special guest Lady Wray. In March The Ex once again leave for Ethiopia, for their second three-and-a-half-week tour.
In they visited the North, this time they travel South, through an area where hardly ever any European bands have played before. Next to their own songs The Ex plays versions of songs from their favourite Ethiopian singers, which also can be found on a special cassette-release for Ethiopia.
The other side of the tape contains songs from their new album Turn , which is officially released later in the year. In November The Ex celebrate their 25th anniversary with a two-day festival at the Paradiso in Amsterdam.
The event is followed by a convoy tour with a lot of the festival's artists playing in five French cities and Brussels. In March Rozemarie leaves. During the French tour and in St.
Next to that The Ex play other European festivals in a. Biel, Moers and Bourges. The compilation Singles. After the summer the group works as a four-piece on a new live-set. They have no bass-player anymore, but instead both guitarists switch between guitar and baritone-guitar.
In November they tour with a completely new repertoire through Germany, and end the year with a short tour in France. Early in the year The Ex does a series of concerts in Holland, their first regular concerts over there in more than a year, and in February they go for a ten-day tour to France, in the company of kora player Djibril Diabate. It is the 13th time they visit the USA.
Since CDs are still rare in Ethiopia, they decide to release 10, copies on cassette and just before returning to Europe, they hand out promo-copies to the local taxi-drivers, the best guarantee for good publicity. In April the CD Zeng! The duo are also involved in "Transparency No. Guitarist Andy releases his solo album Marker. All are released on the Unsounds label. On 7, 8 and May 9 The Ex curates three days of concerts during the 25th anniversary of Music Action, a leading new music festival in the French Vendoeuvre.
In May The Ex presents Zea in Ethiopia, with concerts and workshops and appearances at the festival of the Alliance Francaise, the Hager Fekir Theater, a music school for streetkids and various night clubs.
In August is the whole project is on tour in the United States. After 29 years and performances Jos Kley aka G. Sok decides to stop as singer of The Ex. He is lacking the enthusiasm, inspiration and commitment to continue and wants to focus more on his writing and graphic design. The Ex goes on tour with Arnold de Boer of Zea as replacement.
De Boer plays guitar, electronics writes the lyrics and sings. In march they go on a European tour with the Ililta Band, a group around the Ethiopian singer and masinqo-player Chalachew Ashenafi. A month later the band goes to Spain, including Barcelona and Madrid. In August and September the band tours again with Getatchew Mekuria, playing diverse jazz, world music, and rock festivals, followed by a tour in Canada in September.
Also on the programme is a saxophone repair workshop by Friso Heidinga of "Amsterdam Winds". The tour kicks off on 29 January in Bristol and also takes the band to Dublin where the tour ends on 7 February. The most important riff on the A-side of the single is an adaptation of a riff from a song by Ugandan musician Iganitiyo Ekacholi. The title of the flip side comes from the book "Heat" by British journalist George Monbiot.
Some of the tours with Getatchew Mekuria and others with Brass Unbound. The Ex returned to the studio with Getatchew Mekuria and recorded a full album of beautiful tunes, that would become Y'Anbessaw Tezeta. Tours in France and Germany were followed by a special tour of The Ex and Brass Unbound in Italy, since the tour began with recording a full album together. In the summer The Ex made an extensive festival tour with Getatchew Mekuria, celebrating the release of the Y'Anbessaw Tezeta double album.
It would be the last tour of Getatchew Mekuria in Europe, and one not to forget; the tour ended in Nijmegen at the Valkhof Affaire festival where Getatchew Mekuria played two extra encores solo outdoors in the pouring rain. For the first time in their 33 years of existence The Ex went to South America, to Brazil where they were joined on stage by Wolter Wierbos.
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