now that the ghost of christmas has let us go it's time to find a red velvet carpet again and have some wine before spring's first signs will bring new multicolored toy instruments, long forgotten flutes and, finally, a real ukulele. marinus, mireia, medea and magnus love you.
Influences
franco battiato, hertta lussu ässä, reynols, the shadow ring, die tödliche doris, fibo trespo, jean dubuffet, miquel noguera, fischli & weiss, tu madre, destroy all monsters, mattin, junko, selten gehörte musik/dieter roth, luxus, mu, the poetics, can't, the new peculiars
these are names that fell out of mireia's and magnus' pockets one cold night in shiny golden october 2007. Rinus, however, cannot think of any real influences.
Sounds Like
junk shop toy instruments and cheap recording devices however, now that rinus has travelled so far we know two things: Topmodel sounds like 'we miss you.'But most of all it sounds like our birthdays.
here is what the ever so lovely (however mysteriously vanished) polka dot dicso zine wrote about us in their final issue:
"mireia sings, rinus plays broken tunes and clumsy percussive fragments on cheap instruments, magnus plays broken tunes and clumsy percussive fragments on cheap instruments, too. they tried to cover serge gainsbourg's je t'aime once, but they failed."
(we succeeded later on)
Furthermore, Rinus couldn't help to overhear the Uzbekistian Ambassador when he was at the release party of Claudia Schiffer's new Dub album:" We had red whine and carriages on our last wedding. A girl with a pencil sticking in her brain was writing a poem, and a trio sitting on the royal carpet was playing elephant cymbals and camel chimes. I cannot recall their name, which is a shame, because I would like to invite them to my country."
and this is what ralf said to us before our show at madame claude:
"ich liebe eure musik. für mich seid ihr berlin.
The reporter of NoHonestlyNews wrote:"The TopModel triangle holds for me, the attraction and horror of those Saturday evening tv shows ov olde with their cheap overdriven homage to the limitations of early casio keyboards (thankfully no 8 bit barking dogs). High frequency vocals from Mireia, something between how Siouxsie Sioux should have sounded and those arguments of the neighbours heard through my adjacent wall through a large plastic glass.TopModel remind me of an even earlier version of Portion Control with that fat bass underpinning their near chaotic concrete sculptures, – very Berlin!. They have a total non-performance position in this place sat amongst a side table in a dark corner with a lonely candle (for lighting those lcd displays no doubt). Their apparent disinterest for the audience gives an inpression that we are the invaders in their bedroom. Is this the new punk or too much net-landia? As the beats progress on a relentless knee bashing manner and they sink deeper into a critical soup trance I’m reminded of the advantage of dedicated intrumentation, there are no laptops here. We are a minimal audience, but, as the late great Tony Wilson once remarked , ‘how many were at the murder of Ceasar?’ five,” says Wilson. “The smaller the attendance, the bigger the history.” As they finish, the bar crossfades with – ‘ what a wicked thing to do, to make me dream of you’ a suitable Lynchian ending to my evening."
http://www.playloud.org/fil... - trailer to
the direct cinema film by Dietmar Post & Lucia Palacios. In conjunction
with the up-coming Floating di Morel album "said my say" on play
loud! (pl-lp-06)
Friday 24th April @ West Germany 21h00 Skalitzer Str. 133 / 10999 Berlin - X-berg
CLARA CLARA This band has an intense sound using the keyboard (Amelie Lambert) as the melodic digital force, chaotic /psychotic drums and frenetic electric bass (Charles Virot) relying heavily on distortion. Clara Clara plays hypnotic jams with occasional moments of sing along type phrasing. The crowd moved in a trance like motion of ecstasy until the last song, leaving a sweaty musty residue in the garage cocoon, to get some oxygen. (obsession colection / nyc show) ACTION BEAT Action Beat is an improvised noise/no-wave punk band from Bletchley (Milton Keynes), heavily inspired by early Sonic Youth, The EX, Glenn Branca and other avant guitar ensembles. DON VITO "In all seriousness, the band takes everything interesting, fast, complex and fist-pounding about rock and compresses it into a 50-second song." / Stranded in Stereo Magazine GTUK "Gtuk is Sebastian Hagedorn The music isn't comparable to any other shit we've heard. Check it out for yourself. The wonderful Wir Sind Glücklich is a masterpiece from the founder of unserious grindcore
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