Leonard Cohen, Dostoievsky, Bukowski, Nick Cave, Kierkegaard, Bob Dylan, U2, Heidegger, Thom Yorke, Krleza, Barrico, Daniel Lanois, Paul Abelard, David Bowie, Derrida, Beck, Woody Allen, Foucault, Nick Drake, Victor Frankl, Von Trier, Bela Hamvas, Ingmar Bergman, James Joyce, Victor Hugo, Plato, Zizek, red wine, maybe even you.
When I was 6 my parents enrolled me in a music school. I absolutely hated it. By the time I was 16 I knew all the classics and I was still not in love. It goes quite well together. Then, as the first hairs appeared on my cheeks, I realized I didn't care about music and that I never would.
Then I met the girl. And I met the grace, the crack under my feet, the ecstasy of glorious presence within and without me. And the drunken love of friendship. And the musicality it all bears.
It was Monday and I accompanied my friend to a therapy. Her parents died in an accident when she was 8. The skin of her face was totally burned. Later that day I had my first beer ever and got sick drunk after two bottles. I went to school barely keeping my pace. Latin teacher told me to go home but I preferred to throw up in a toilet. Too bad she got expelled from school after being caught in the act of overcoming language barriers with a french professor in one of the cabinets. The guy ended up as a waiter on a cruise ship.
This is what you get here. Songs thrown up in the abysmal face of sewer of life. And I still don't care about the music. More than ever actually. It's the noise I need to bring you to the saturated silence. To the unbelievable encounter. Hope you lend your hand.
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About KETZ (by the poignant guest biographer)
Featuring Mario from a Belgian punk rock band The Fellows:
I Promised you to listen to the songs and would give my honest opinion.
Here we go:
1. Agoraphobia: I know that you got frustrated by people telling you all the time that there's a U2 feeling in your music. I agree with those assholes, so you hear it again. But in addition to this I also hear the instruments of "SISTERS OF MERCY".
What the hell am I talking about?!! I mean it Ketz. Sometimes I feel the vibes of the Sisters Of Mercy. Well, maybe that's something new for you. good to hear?
2. In the second song I feel myself riding on a horse in an endless wood, not knowing where it will ever stop, just following the horse's route in no particular direction, far from the so called civilized world.
And so can all songs bring up a certain story.
That happens when you tease people's emotions.
What about your emotions Ketz? I know you express them by a means you hate?!
Letting people into your soul through music.
Learn to love music Ketz, cos music certainly loves you and your parents did a great job sending you to music school.
It's good to know all classics, so you can vommit on them and spit them out like shit. But you can use the basics in order to create your own combinations, your own style.
When things get difficult, fall back to the basics you've learned and it will turn out in a splendid way, cos you know how to rape the programmed shit.
Don't know. You seem to have had a weird (difficult?) time some years ago.
Are you your own song number 5? "I'm running".
Are you running (away) Ketz?
You know what? I see you playing on a huge festival with 65.000 people, as headline! And how do you think people will react? Do they look with mouths wide open to your appearance and do they taste the sweat of your body, to get as close as possible? Will they be caught by your emotional driven clouds of rainy music, fragil but subtile.
Or will halve of the croud leave soon, in order to get back to their cars and have a quick way, away from the festival?
Will they buy a hamburger and a coca-cola and dissapear with your tunes at the background.
To be honest. I would like to see GREEN DAY together with 64.999 people and freak out.
But, it's you who is playing and I'm not going to be the one with the hamburger.
I'm going to be the one who says to his neighbour listener:
Well, that guy deserves to stand there and I hope he gets as big as he wants.
Why? Because your work is extremely well done, well thought about.
I think it's your soul on a silver plate.
Much appreciation and I wish you much luck.
And please, beat your troubles with your golden voice.
Salut Ketz, Je n'arrive plus à t'envoyer de mail avec MySpace, ni à consulter ton ancien message. Etrange. Dans tous les cas, si tu veux qu'on parle de ton projet autour d'une bière, c'est avec plaisir. Je ne sais pas où tu en es de ta recherche de musiciens, mais j'ai bien envie de discuter avec toi de vive voix. Mika
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I Promised you to listen to the songs and would give my honest opinion.
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