this is KNKKKKKKKKKKK #2 made by K.N.K. members in 1993 summer well, this is zine of my friends and mine, made in spring of 1993. Now, as i have possibilities, i remaid it into e-zine. Few interesting pages are disappeared somewhere, such as Albania scene report, but all in all you'll have a somewhat look at Lithuanian scene at 1993 and of our neighbourhoods too. Here below i include brief history of K.N.K. (thought it may be interesting for you): I DON'T KNOW WHEN KOKS NORS KELIAS WERE REALLY STARTED, cause I wasn't with them from the very begining. At my first years in University I've met Snapsas, and step by step here we go... At first I'va done some graphic work and after that there was an idea to use an advantages of computer world instead of typewriter... At that time the axis of work was "widely opened altern ative music fanzine". It was made in our native Lithuanian language and spread in underground scene for freeeeeeee. So there was KNK#4, KNK#6 (there's no mistake, simply there was a rumour that someone had seen a guy reading #5 already, so we jumped over this number), KNK#7 (at that time -- and i think even now -- it was a biggest Lithuanian zine -- about 40 pages -- some kind of leader), KNK#8, KNK#9 (with a single of some punk band included). In the autumn of 1993 KNK#10 was released. To make all this we needed mony, so there were made two issues of KNK in English, in order to earn money. They were called KNKKKKKK, i.e. KNK c(K)omercial. One of them you read now. Earned money were used to make copies of Lithuanian numbers and to make a punk festival (lots of fun :). And now were are in 1994. There's another KNK#11 made through spring and summer, another huge edition containing about 40 pages, but we have no money to make copies of it, because prices of xeroxing became high enough. And also the leader of stuff - Gonzikas - has left the country heading for the Praha - studies in C.E.U. And now all our activities are in KNK / RADIO MARABU RADIO SHOW on radio TITANIKA. This program is held out weekly on Monday evenings, and an one hour of it is dedicated for alternative music compilation, where we can promote also your's works. If you are interested in it, or in some more information about WHAT'S GOING ON HERE, write 2 us: or contact me via e-mail: c/o SARUNAS KARALIUS jurena@zalgiris.pit.ktu.lt KNK P.O.BOX 114 3005 KAUNAS a friend of yours, JuNe and don't be afraid - we know English pretty well, but the way it looks here semms much more joyfool.... ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: TIME FOR ADVERTISMET !!!!!! :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: KNK / MARABU alternative music RADIO SHOW is a project based on co-operating between KNK alternative music fanzine & radio show and RADIO MARABU from Germany. Our shows are broadcasted on radio station TITANIKA (73.73 MHz / 105.9 MHz) every Monday 21.00--24.00. Two hours of program are produced by RADIO MARABU and one hour by KNK. KNK hour includes reviews and music of all promotional material we've received from you. So, if you are interested, don't sleep, get in touch and send YOUR STUFF !!! KNK RADIO MARABU c/o Sarunas Karalius p.o. box 220 342 p.o. box 114 42373 Wuppertal 3005 Kaunas GERMANY LITHUANIA tel./fax 0541186713 tel. (3707)718778 more information available by E-Mail: jurena@zalgiris.pit.ktu.lt give us a call, and win! just make it! JuNe :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? NOT A LITTLE SHIT ! :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: (to avoid troubles on my head, i've made one change - all over the text there are f**k, what it mean I think you know very vell. A original text is with full typing of this word) SCENE REPORT ------------- Ive been considering for some time what should we choose as a basis of a scene report of dying lith uanian underground.And one night as was laying on my pillow a nice idea came to my head: REHEARSAL PLACES!!!!! that's it ! Im a bit sorry that this story is a bit chaotic, but I will try to cover as much bands as possible Rehearsal place is essential thing for any band as it starts and all the time on.Most bands call their shitty dwelling places tenderly,like 'our studio'.Most of the places are shared by several bands,like sharing also amps and drumset and then standing and waiting for their neighbours to fini sh.A sad sight. It usually takes several months to find any possible place and another two to lo se it.I believe a band which found a good rehear sal room is automatically committed to stardom. But all that punky scene which we are part of ... SA SA,a first legendary Lithuanian punk band of 82- 87 (yes there were punk bands even then.Linas out of Turbo Reanimacija tells that when he came to li ve to Seskine district in 1981 found 'Punk and ' grafitti on his house...) rehearsed in a place ca lled children/pioneers club cos somebodys lover was this clubs director.There they managed to create their brilliant cynical songs...but they patologi caly avoided any publicity and remeined a mystic part of our underground.They staged performances and plays there,which were very unique.IR VISA TAI KAS YRA GRAZU YRA GRAZU another brilliant avangar de/indie/God knowswhat our band (called lithuanian Cardiacs????? ) rehearsed in a cellar under guitaris ts house.Once they had a new song 'Death of Husse in' with cellos,tubes,trombones and so on.But chi ldrens chorus members who had to sing in that son g could not get inside because of lack of the spa ce so they ran away.SVASTIKOS SUKITES GREITAI once an angry guitar rock band used to rehearse in coll ective gardens.It is a piece of land outside the town usually 25mx25m given away by soviet governme nt for urban people to grow vegetables.It is a kin da strange in our country,we dont have suburbs but block house districts and this small piece of land with house.They look terrible but is a good place for parties.So SSG rehearsed there and moving bass drum left a deep trace on a luxury oak floor so as dad saw it he got terribly angry.Now they a pop ba nd so they have a place near Rasu cementary which they share with several thrash bands.SIAURES KRYP TIS,another leading lithuanian indie band,used to rehearse in a basement in a cinema.Their bassist u sed to live there and he had to listen to all the se sounds of strange movies.Now they grew big and found sponsors.LYGIAI LYJA another gothic band fro m Siauliai were lucky cos they got a brilliant pla ce in Institutes international club like in soviet times a prestige room to meet guests from Middle A sia.In general many bands especially thrash/death ones rehearse in their (former) schools.Sometimes you have a hall shared with folk song chorus (VIE VERSELIAI) or modern dance groop (PRESERVATIVE FAC TORY.By the way I witnessed how they were attacked by dumb macho boys with gas ballons cos the invade rs liked only pop music).Or you can go to school cellar or pioneer room,which in soviet times had Lenin posters and red banners all around.In Kaunas I 3 years ago visited thrash band ABSCESS in a sch ool.Their guitarist was hiding from service in so viet army and his own parents,so they played in their studio only at nights.He said the most annoy ing thing in his life was to be waked by school bells.Also often you can get into a situation when some ukvedys takes the keys and even doesnt allow to take away equipment,like when MORGAS rehearsed in Central Kaunas Heating Network office.Now in Vilnius punky band DEPRESIJA rehearsed on a roof of 9 floor building cos their drummer lived there They were extremely afraid of wind blowing...Un lucky ones like ALAUS ALAUS or SC had to choose a cellar of the same kind of building.It is as big as 2mx3m.The lithuanian punk77 leading band ERKE MAISE rehearsed everywhere including WC. Then they found another childrens club and squa tted a cellar under it,now proclaimed a 'Vilnius Punk Club'.They have now all other bands rehear sing in this collective like 16 OBOROTOV,SKAT and so on.Sometimes they have bands from exUssr coming to play in their punkjamsessions.Luk Haas and Donny The Punk out of MRR have visited this wonderrful place.Sometimes they have catastrophes there.Once vamzdis broke and shitty water filled up all basement.Also upstairs they had a big collection of various animals like rats,fish,etc. But the guy who was responsible often got drunk for several days and was forgetting to feed them. So recently all the fauna died.Leading lithuanian hardcore band TURBO REANIMACIJA started in vario us places including all members living room (also very fashionable thing in our scene).When they got a place in school a TV came to make programme abo ut them.In that they shouted that they dont need to be sponsored,so surprisingly various businessm en started phoning them.Then they lost their pla ce and their brilliant demo 'Turbo Reanimacija' was recorded/mixed using Sony walkman and russian audio amp.Then they got a place in Pedagogical Un iversity campus,but were thrown away by fire secu rity cos nearby there were various clothes and st uff stored and that could catch fire.So they use d to get into the romm by tiny window at night cos they had no key.But then the pipe broke and all was covered by shit canalisation water.Now lucki ly they have a rehearsal place in Philosophy facu lty,but line-up is shaking. Now a bit of my personal experiences from Kaunas scene of 88-93.Many bands like DEFLORACIJA or SAL IN SETONA were using palepes for rehearsing becau se they lived in private houses.But as sound goes to all neighbours that wont last long.SALIN SETONA then skipped to private house cellar half of which was occupied by a bath.Another great lithuanian pu nk band of late 8os 33% KIAULIU PAKELIUI I VATIKANA first rehearsed in a living room but as walls were extremely thin there and they often used it as pub lic house they had to escape.Then they had it in a far suburb in Greenhouse Plant building.PIONIERIAUS GARBES ZODIS had a wonderful palce in city theatre. KELIAS I KOMUNIZMA a Kacergine villadge band had a place in so-called culture house,a cinema in a villadge,but split up when place was remade into a commercial building for wedding parties.But band KOMUNA from Svencionys play only in weekends cos under their place there are postoffice and villad ge officials. My own band PRIEMONES had a nice place in Televis ion plant in a suburb of Kaunas.Deep in its teri tory,you must pass posts and workshops,there is a tiny sauna with snooker game room made for wor king class parties during soviet times,full of empty bottles.ORFANAI C another my band used to share a cellar with avangarde band NAJ which was bought by their drummer.It included a strange em pty building where all alcoholics and pigeons from nearby bazar used to shit.But cellar was extremely wet even in a hot summer so all our equipment was covered by pelesiai.We were thro wn away for breaking avantgardists equipment,then tried out a Agriculture Academy and Trolleybus Park place.Vilnius based indie band SKYLE re hearse in a Medical Faculty place which has a deep smell of formaline.AS MYLIU BLIXA BERGELDA IR RUSIJA a noise/industrial band got a nice pla ce in a new district,but their noises were too much.A old woman came from nearby blockbuilding to check out who is breaking the baldai... She was extremely shocked to find their metal instruments and nobody drunk or stoned...and you know as you make a gig in your room someti mes neighbours call a police... The example of new economical thinking is band MARICHUANA.They have a rich dad who managed to get them a place in LITEXPO centre,big white building for markets and exhibitions... But somehow it is a big pity that we are not li ke latvian bands which all have one big rehear sal hall in Riga Tornis water tower.Someones dad was a director of all Riga's canalization... :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: IR VISA TAI KAS YRA GRAZU YRA GRAZU ----------------------------------- HOW DID YOU START? Arturas:It was all in 1987 when I had my painying exhi bition with music.Then Baras came to my place and said - your music is very cool,lets strat an avantgardee band.I reply - ok,lets go.We went to Rudamina,a villadge where I am a music teacher,found a drumkit,my wife played flute,I played guitar and Baras sang.So this was the start of the band.Then we began searching for musicians,I found one more guitarist,then my brother found a drummer and we all arrived in Rudamina and started playing...we had no plans then. Rimas:even Atsuktuvas played drums A:Yes first it was Atsuktuvas we bashed out a few songs and a had an unsucessful gig in students fest.The work really started when we went to Vilnius and started rehear sing in some cellar. AND NOW .. A:Now I have invited two saxophonists - bariton and alt, no more solo guitars,I play all string instruments,also drums,violin and vocal.Now my little wife sings.The sa xofonist said that she is becoming lithuanian Laura An derson.Quite not bad... R:We dont know what will come out of her... A:I would like her to grow like Aras,her Aras... HOW DO YOUR FIND YOUR LYRICS.. A:What?? R:Maironis,outstanding lithuanian peot of 20s... A:My brother and Baras used to pick up the lyrics.This means Baras provided patological part and Rimas the in telectual part.We found some really fine verse.So spea king frankly it was a sort of middle between dumb wri ting and intelectual verse.Anyway lyrics must be lyrics. WHY HAVE YOU CHOSEN YOUR STYLE OF MUSIC?.. A:Va!..we cant do it another way.And we never have in our minds beforehand which style we could use,when we get together I say "Gee,I have got an idea".And we ne ver cared what and how may come of it.At first stage I and Baras desired to have an avantgarde band.I collec ted many instruments,many various nonsenses,but as soon as we had drums it all changed a bit,wanted we it or not. WHY DO YOU PLAY? I play fifteen years already.Even more.I paint and play all the time.My guitar is always covered with paint.It is always aside me.I play and paint,I paint and play. This is essential part of my life.So I cant answer this question.I can demonstrate this...maybe then when we make something,so it seems it is cool,and others can appreciate it. CAN YOU TELL SOME STORY... A:I remeber when we wereon the merge of splitting up,I tried to stick it all with glue.I invited them all to Rudamina to celebrate national independence day.It was very good to rehearse then we became good friends. AND SOMETHING MERRY... It was interesting when we went to Riga to play in so me avantgarde festival.We didnt rehearse,because our singer was drunk for a month.We decided not to go,but drunk Baras suddenly came to Rudamina when it was five hours left to the train.It was really something. And when we came to Riga instead of going to have a little sleep,we went to the movies.And it was a porno film.We all went out like t h i s,with standing dicks. F**k it,we need a beer... AND WHAT ABOU THAT GIG?.. A:It was cool.. R:I was playing really loud,itwas like a toothache... A:The violin was really very loud.It is hard to deal with acoustic instrument,and that was a violin and al so a flute.I went to the sound engineer and told him that if we have no violin and skuduciai,lithuanians will f**ky strangle you. R:So he exegerrated it all. A:We played quite many gigs for the students,several times we fooled in sports hall(capacity 1000) using a playback.There were gigs,even a solo gig in a pla netarium...the vocalist though was too drunk... DO YOU LIKE ICECREAM? A:Yes!!! In general I like sweets. R:I cant stand them. DO YOU WASH SOCKS? A:Yes,I do. R:Baras didnt wash socks.So he had to leave.We couldnt stand the stinking,it made rehearsing difficult. ANYTHING ELSE? We had many projects,we want to jam a little with BIX, they have a nice place,we could use three drummers.We would like to have a tape or LP out,but we need to play. And it is hard to play in summer,the strings are too hard..hot.Before we wanted to do something with children chorus.I asked ten children to come when we did a song "Death of Hussein" But it was not enough place in our rehearsing cellar,we had too many musicians,some woman played violin,tube,trumpet.and children were afraid of music so they ran away.Now they feel sorry...I cant paly from notes.Once I wanted to play some spanish piece from notes..../wawes his hand/.... R:choroso bylo.... (: :) :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: C.Q.A. ------ this interwiew introduces one of the best punky bands from Vilnius,that is russian language band.Kliaksa conducted interwiew with their leader San Sanytch. STORY OF THE BAND? our band has a simple history.We were three silly young boys who couldnt play instruments and listened too much to SEX PISTOLS,read Bakunin and watched The great rock n'roll swindle who decided to change the world.It happe ned at the end of 1990.Later other members choose other styles:first our guitar player started a thrash duo ATO NEMENT a'la KOROZIJA METALA,also our drummer plays thrash only more interesting and original.Second guitarist Pepsel now plays with some stupid man named Coi and copies KINO. And I play wherever I can and whoever I meet. The name C.Q.A. means credo quia absurdum and I cant remem ber who said that but someone from first christians.Before we were named 16% after the strength of beer "Tauras".We loved it and still love it,at the time it was best brand of beer in Lithuania. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU NEVER PLAYED MUSIC? I would draw or create sculptures.After all these possible stimulations my head has tons of energy and ideas and if you wont get them outside you can be overloaded and explo de.What I do in a music field is just simply shit - remains after my mental activity. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF GRAZDANSKAYA OBORONA? One can recieve,accept G.O. at two levels.First level is e motions.It is similar at animals (e.g. dogs) when they howl at the music or at shamen,witches in ancient tribes.So if you are into G.O. at this level then all songs are just curses,magic words where lyrics in fact have no sense at all,the words are needed to express sounds.You can check spe cific literature if you want go deeper.The second level -- are the lyrics themselves.In order to recieve GRAZDANSKAYA OBORONA in this level one needs to be very wise or one must have lived for a longer time in conditions like Letov himself lived in.What about me,so I love G.O. but I am not going to copy them and if my early pieces sounded like G.O. it was just because of youthfullness. IN ONE YOUR TAPE YOU DO SOME SPOKEN WORD PIECE.IS IT TO IN TRODUCE YOUR SONG 'SLEPOGLUCHONEMOTA' ? This was called 'Phoenix the bird' and I am just citing Ray Bradbury '451 F' and it has nothing to do with my songs. WHAT ABOUT YOUR GIGS,PUNK SESSIONS? There were lots of them concerts,sessions,mostly in Vilnius. We went to play in Kiev,Ukraine aand the one in Kishinev, Moldavia did not turn out.The best one was when I had no bass in Cure fanclub in Vilnius this april,probably that wont happen again.However the sound engineer was very scared and constantly turned the vocals down. PUNX IN LITHUANIA? In Lithuania as well as everywhere punks split into two parts government punk and underground punk.I dont want to talk about government punks and I know and love punk bands like ERKE MAI SE,SKAT,SMALKES (unfortunately they split),PILK plays punk with a drive and also my friends Frenk,Manula and Kesar play Letov kind of punk,before they had a name G.K.D.S.L (group of communist diversants in free lithuania).I hate TURBO REANIMA CIJA cos they are pigeons and play mainstreamish childish songs. BAKUNIN,KROPOTKIN,MACHNO...? Such people existed all the time,now it may be called punk, later a new name may come.Such people will always be they may only choose a different name.Anarchy exists inside oneself it is an ideal concept.It is no use to think of anarchy in a global perspective.Homo sapiens doesnt need anarchy it even may be dangerous for him.F**k war.I am a pacifist,I can talk much about my ideology but I doubt if anybody is interested... WAHAT MUSIC DO YOU LISTEN TO? Starting from classics:DOORS,early JIMI HENDRIX,early ROLLING STONES,some BEATLES.Hard rock - BLACK SABBATH.Punk: SEX PISTOLS, DEAD KENNEDYS,solo BIAFRA,NO MEANS NO,LARD,TUMOR CIRCUS at the grass,TOY DOLLS,G.O.,AVTOMATICESKYE UDOBLETVORITELI,V.V.,JMKE, Hardcore:JESUS LIZARD,TYPE OF NEGATIVE,CRUMBSUCKERS,SUCKSPEED. Industry:MINISTRY ir SONIC VIOLENCE.Shizo:SONIC YOUTH,BUTTHOLE SURFERS and I also love PINK FLOYD but rather older stuff.And many more. WASNT I F**KING BORIN? And me?... :) :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: TURBO REANIMACIJA ----------------- THIS A VERY SERIOUS TALK WITH KASTIS OUT OF *** TURBO REANIMACIJA *** BEST LITHUANIAN HARDCORE BAND CONDUCTED IN DECEMBER 1992 IN VILNIUS A BIT ON THE HISTORY OF THE BAND? The main reason to form TR was that all its members even when they werent TR members had watched too many animation films and read a lot of books for children (and not only).RE/animacija + TURBO (turn quickly). I was panically afraid of musical instruments,but I ad mired sounds.Thus our first attemps were really pseudo minimalism.I met Kriaucius (drums) in school choir and a week after that we were experimenting with "drums". Only after 5 years TR have suceeded to record their ef forts in 8 track studio.Before recording we had many other pieces which are worse than our last songs only because of bad quality of spaces between the songs. LINE UP? Up to 1991 we had 3 members,in 1992 there were 4 of us. Kriaucius - drums,Akela/Klaidas - guitars,Artas "10/20" bass and me on voice & guitar.Kriaucius is a student and studies in a stupid university so he is always busy. Akela has a wife so he was also busy and not too creati ve so he had to leave the band.Artas worked in opera& ballet theatre so he was the only one who took the music seriously his bass parts reminded me the repertoire of our opera house.Last summer new bass player was like fresh air for us so we had many alcoholic dishes at the sunny seaside.TR got more strength howewer after doing the new demo "Linkime pasveikti" in february 93 he was dismissed from the band cos he was a thrash fan.I am most unstable member of the band,I lack strength ; I never manage to drink more than Kriaucius,Akela,Artas...I only like to praise Lithuanian language.Once I wrote a letter to Ger many in which I said that our music is shit only our lit huanian lyrix are wonderful.I never got an answer since then. WHAT DO YOUR MUSIC AND LYRIC MEAN? All good lyrics must be written down lay in a notebook and wait for some time.Sometimes Kriaucius makes pressu re upon me,he says that I should write strong,hard lyri cs,speak about inequality,social and partially economic problems and I unwittingly after a few weeks...maybe mi ndsstart appearing in my head...I write something,though in general I am against it.Our music deals with HC and PUNK.Kriaucius and me -- we were interested and liked this kind of music.We have done very little things co ming from our own...So,f**k that youthful receptivity... WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT PUNK/HC SITUATION IN LITHUANIA? Speaking in general about punkrock movement it is possi ble that it was no such thing in Lithuania at all.Well, I dont want anybody to have my opinion but if you look at things from aside I can say that some people had overtaken some elements of punkrock aesthetic.It is re lated to the fact that 20th century was a century of denying and some kind of revolt,many people really re jected aesthetical and etical norms.This century united all spheres in which revolt took place,like a chance for an individual to come and say "I want it to be this way not that way" and the authorities had to adjust to that.This has deep roots.And when it came to Lithuania -- now or a few years ago - it was not another western dogm but just a moment of time when a man wants to exp ress his inner freedom has come.It is very important to avoid superficiality.Really nice music was made in 1987 88 when a rise of punkrock took place but now we have very few bands.The essential things can be weighted only by time,but anyway now I can say that only a few small islanda left where people try to do something,to declare something or maybe just live for themselves.Here in Vil nius I could name only a few persons and maybe even more bands because people often play in several bands. It is easy to play punk if you are not looking for some thing new.There are some quadratic tunes here,which after some time sound like primitive musical experiences and are very simple to be used and play.I watched the si tuation in Lithuania in festival WEGGA92,we had many (around 15) bands,but gain they demonstrated a low level I should say that strange conservativity is significant for Lithuania.Many bands,usually being unaware of this play something like punk77.The latvians in the festival had more interesting program.Six bands had played and it was possible to point out something newer and more seri ous of their music.Their point of wiew concerning music is quite differend.Their music is more complicated and they want to make something harder than punk...Because really much time has passed and it is really possible to achieve something more perfect in this field of mu sic.It is important that the movement or its aesthetic which destroys stereotypes shouldnt become a streotype itself.THATS ALL. WHY DO YOU PLAY THEN? Usually it may be primitive and very nice wish to beco me popular.But I think that most difficult thing is to become nobody.There are lots of people around,who want to wand to better than others:they are united by the same outlook : but one tries to play do-re-mi-fa-sol la-si in a special way,another makes efforts to hammer a nail in a special way or to earn money. By the way the most perfect choice is to take an inst rument,go to the mountains stay there for a ten years and learn to play,make the sound perfect (if one can express perfection at all) and hide from everybody el se.Its the most perfect way to hide and know that you are nobody.It is absolute rejection of the world.Then you dont care about hardcore,punk,disco,etc. POLITICAL BELIEFS.. Every authority is violence.But also you should know that there are so many people,so somebody started to rule them.Political beliefs is a sort of childrens ga me,no,sorry,-adults games.Authority does all kinds of things which makes the society be patient and have a hard skin.I should say that masses f**k me up - they understand only hammering of their heads,they are not able to see any culture or movement.Time and violence have done their job - the masses really became harden ed creature with a hippopotamus skin.MY morbid wish - to sacrifice the comfortable life of the masses,maybe together with themselves for the sake of the culture. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU HAD A MILLION? If I had a million I would catch an ilness of spiri tual onanism.I would use it terribly,that million... It would be my friend and would kiss my ass,then it would kis my friends' asses,it would kiss our music between legs.I would cherish that million and it would ride around free country.Then I would give half of a million to the unemployed and it would kiss their asses.And when winter comes I would by an overcoat, scarf and a pair of boots DO YOU WASH YOUR SOCKS? Member of TR wash their socks regulary when they begin to stink.But we have some exceptions:some days I dont wash my socks.I hide them under my archair,but my dog finds them and pulls them into the daylight;somedays we have rain and socks wash themselves automatically in the shoes in need only to dry them.Artas was always speaking of bourgeois in the west that they dont wash socks they buy new ones and throw the old ones out.By the way people can also be socks,but it is another topic...F**k such system - there is no freedom for ex pression of personality...ha ha!! ALCOHOL,WIMIN.. I can only say about alcohol and wimin that this is good.In any case alcohol and wimin are dangerous only when music brings them.Music cant give you pleasure, it must give you joy WHAT DO YOU THINK OF TR NOW (that is last autumn)? I feel that we are moving forward.If we will go on "flowing" we will be Turbo Reanimacija.Now we have many various things,so if somebody says that ESSEN TIALLY,really,there are less things,it will be par tially our foult. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: LATVIAN SCENE REPORT -------------------- Latvia is aside with Lithuania and have many coommon featu res including the one that latvian language is the only one taht at least slightly reminds lithuanian.Not much of close ties or unification has left now.Latvia was forced to become more multinational - over 50% of Riga people are not latvian and now erm... they live better all north Lithuania tries to sell bread and butter in Latvia because of higher price.So here we include Latvian scene report done with help of Janis Daugavietis at Dziga fanzine.Some summer I vivited Latvia and the famous Tornis tower where all underground groups re hearse in Riga,drink,f**k,talk whatever.It is big old water tower tower in the 3rd floor there are two rooms equipped for modern two track studio and reel tapes,latvian and russian fanzines all thrown around....creating a real underground work shop atmosphere.Most of the time bands just not rehearse but jam around or in summer they just go to the seaside and play football and basketball oh whatever.Janis said that the main fun is to go to shows arranged by Western capitalists in Riga parks drink beer and watch singing children. Whatabout conclusions to punk and related movements in Latvia, Janis once said : punk in Latvia is not dead yet because it was not born.And then it waas a talk that Riga should be ca pital of northern underground.A la la la,so here we introduce all latvian bands... :| ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ LINKSMA MASTURBACIJA was fun punk hc band from a little town aside of Riga.Now leader of the band Wimboo Fish said ;"no more this"and they have split up,leaving a demo "Brutal Com pensation"(Tornis rec93).Bassist Mad Rob hopes to start his own band RAMAIS TUPLIS. DILONIS is the strongest band from Kuldiga earlier working under the name of N.D.A.The members of the band also did a fanzine "WILKS" which was produced in a typing house by someones dad at nights one time it was all green.They had several demos out all in fasty but traditional punxo style.Now they incorporated two former LINKSMA M members Vesturs so they sometimes use two bass guitars oh what ever.Their rehearsal,drinking,f**king place in Kuldiga is called VONS and in fact is a squatted place... TRUBAPSIHS is a band of former member of FUNIS & PIJOLI Martins which now has changed name into AINIS SARKANAZOBIS.The band plays in schizoick style . INOKENTIJS MARPLS - DAMBIS leader,singer and vocalist of the band started it in fact in 1985,the name comes from around 1987.They "started recording something in a room,first appea ring in public in 1986.The the drummer was taken to soviet army and put in jail for 4 years for escaping it and he spent 3.5 years in prison.I imitated 'suicide' in order to get to mental hospital and avoid army thus I had to spent some time in psychiatric clinics and once in army hospital. In 1987 we made a debut in Riga rock club -- at the time in Latvia it was a band ZIG ZAG playing some post punk. One nice day bassist left us cos he lost finger from his right hand.At the same time we went to Vilnius to play in some punk fest but we didnt know when it happens so we came 3-4 days too early.We know nobody in the town but we met some punx and drank with them.They also knew not hing about the fest and made efforts to leave us,most probably they thought we were hippies and cant play HARD CORE.So after spending 2 days in Vilnius railway station we finished our first Lithuanian tour. In the end of 1987 we made a festival in Riga with all new bands,different styled but at the time it was all UN DERGRAUND,it was once again in summer 1988.Our appearence was tragic,I fell down from stage and fell asleep.Some body woke me up and we performed something.I howled into the mic because I couldnt see the mic hangs on my guitar (I was told about it later).We staged a show then cos one man who was as much gone as me was cutting a chair with a mechanical peel.I wonder how nobody was injured then.Friend told me that he escaped the show because he did not to watch somebody cut into pieces.By the way our bassist brought 50 bottles of homebrew vod ka at that show... We appeared in Lithuania also in fest "Purvinoji Ziema" in Kaunas 88,and fest VILNIUS UNDERGROUND 89 made me a huge impression,it was a big MADNESS,a forced anarchy was in the air.Our drummer from new line-up wanted to escape,probably he was much scared.Our show ended as somebody jumping from stage tore off the cables.When we went home we felt like returning from war. In 1989 I got a phone call from Moscow,some men intervie ved me and invited to OSTANKINO television to record and make a video for a programme 'Devils circle'.Video was quite shitty and it was all about Riga rock club. Howewer the program was not aired and censored.Later I read in a newspaper that it was propaganda of nazism and pornography in it... During 1990 we sstill apeared in Riga rock club but later it was all broken for some time" Up to now IM has no stable line up and Dambis plays with occaso nal fans of jazz\hendrix and develops his band AMORALA PSIHOZE. "My band is not influanced by anybody,I have no favou rite and listen to different kinds of music.I play what I like and never dig making covers.Lyrics are different - about social problems,political,philoso phical,humorous s\\mitymes schizophrenic.I express my world wiews and the current day in them..." Dambis still continues being active with band,gigs, tapes,etc... M.GVARDE was a glitter punx band which has done their second tape "Dublu valsis this winter". But them the band has split up because their sound engineer Ingus has died tragically.The bassist Ivars Poskins has returned back to his old band BEZ GREZNIBAS playing proletrock it has started again after one year of missing. SHINE ON a indieyouth band was considered one of best really new bands in Riga after recording their demo "Hronikass" /s.youthstyle/ in 1992.Janis says they are the only band that continued rehear sing even in summer after theey had joyned new member El. TUKSA MUCA a indie band with depres sive elements was considered to be best running Tornis band,they are very productive with producing seve ral demos early this year "Trajektorija: sapni-relejs "and "Mikroskops".Only the founder of band Andizons has left from first line up with former guita rist Juris on dr and Raimonds on g, but girl Liene playing sax has left... ULDIS DUMBIS is a representative of tornis core style - the one that oc asionally records some tape in Tornis and is constantly looking for a drummer. VIHERS a country punk band with fenomenal screaming vocalist Sviests have started again they hope to mobilize themselves with a new drummer and deep into wawes of latvian punk.Though abortion?Shimmy foetus??? well,nevermind they can remembertheir shows go on... R.A.F> is defined as CCCP punk band but they have just started rehea rsing and getting ready for their first demo.Janis also mentioned the surprrising fact that in spite the fact that there are more russian popu lation in Riga than latvian there are practically no russian bands.The only one who was at least a bit active was II3MEHA.Also some bands happen in Ventspils. GRINDMASTER DEAD is another Tornis band but they have left the only heavy grin dddd underground band.I remember them doing a song of a man who died and left nothing after him and all for got him. Let it be! Fly little latvian angels and birds. As you see I always end with a happy note.Din! P.A.G.A.N. is now proclaimed best new band in Latvia being a 4 men pure hardcore (death me tal influenced) with name standing for people against good and normality.They come from russian town Liepaja and rehearse in a garage there.Now they appeared in Riga,did a gig and 22 song demo,though before they went to Moscow to hang around... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ All Riga -- TORNIS,TORNIS TAPES,BANDS (l) Eau de cologne compilation with 19 bands (2) Latvian punk/HC compilation with 15 bands ' is contacted thru JANIS DAUGAVIETIS A/K 35 LV 1055 RIGA LATVIA all Kuldiga - ROTTED RAT recs,DILONIS etc is contactec thru EDGARS EMBERGS MUCENIEKU 28A - 32 LV 3300 KULDIGA LATVIA Useful adresses for Lithuanian underground PASIDARYK PATS tapes (offers all lithuanian underground esp.punky tapes,compilations and so on) c/o ALEKSAS NAVICKAS TAIKOS 1-12 4730 SVENCIONYS NEIROM tapes (KANCIA grunge,NEIRO NOISE mope etc) c/o R.NAUJOKAS PARKO 77-47 5309 PANEVEZYS TURBO REANIMACIJA (all their tapes,SILVIJA+IZVRASCENCAI,etc) c/o LINAS KRIAUCIUNAS MUSNINKU 7-16 2010 VILNIUS KOKS NORS KELIAS (i.e. KNK) (if you want anything else,IR VISA..etc) c/o SARUNAS KARALIUS P.O.BOX 114 3005 KAUNAS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Best Latvian tapes ever: (voted by themselves) 1. INOKENTIJS MARPLS Dambija izlase 1991 2. N.S.R.D. Medicina & Maksla 1985 3. PRUSAKU ANSAMBLIS Dvesele uz gridas 1975 4. INOKENTIJS MARPLS Hubb 1992 5. Janis Sils/Bedre Aprila eksgumetas potences 89 6. DILONIS We love Eva Braun 1992 7. DZELTENE PASTNIEKI Bolderajs dzelscels/naktis 81/7 8. TUKSA MUCA Smaragda pilseta 1992 9. RADIATORU REMONTS Darbnica slegta 1992 10.ZIG ZAG Koncerts 1987 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: AHIMSA ------ P.O.BOX 30 02-105 WARSZAWA POLSKA WHO ARE YOU REALLY...? We are little,green creatures with triangled heads,three tubes and two teeth and knockles on both sides of the head.Generally our shape mostly does re mind something like samowar... I USED TO KNOW OLD POLISH HARDCORE.WHAT DOES POLISH SCENE LOOK LIKE TODAY? Bands like Dezerter and Armia go on playing.Nowadays they are very popular bands having big audiences sometimes several thousand people.They are as much as popular as big stars of polish rock,winning various f**ken readers polls ,etc. Today Poland has quite many various bands - at least we have a country with 38 million nation.Some 'corpses' decided to play again mostly because they lacked some money.Many new bands are coming,trying to introduce something new,trying to show that music doesnt end with exploited and oi destroy,that it is obvious that instend mutting the water one should move own ass and start working.The scene here means young bands which indentify themselves with positive side of hc/punk (wegetarianism,ecology,antifascizm,fight against racism,sexism,church,nationalism,etc...), Hundreds of zines appear.We had some protest actions against atom power station in Zarnowiec, buildings in Czorztyn,korrida,against army...this also comes with a number of charity gigs,in 1991 we played in a gig for free Lithuania. WHAT DOES NOTHER EARTH MEAN TO YOU AND WHAT ABOUT PLANS FOR SAVING IT? 'Saving of Mother Earth' is a very wide conception.This is something more that things around industrial ecology - all tthese clean technologies,flirts are not enough.It is needed to juump inside peoples minds to have an ecological consciousness - man must come as a little part in harmony with other little particles in a huge nature system,but not like mad exploiters of the earth.Life according to nature,RESPECT FOR YOURSELF are the things to start from... WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT JAZZ?GRIND? Jaazz - sometimes is nice sometimes is not,but I think it is rather nice,a sort of rock jazz - king crimson,yes or jazzycore - victims family,assasins of god,primus,24-7 spyz... grind - a pile of noise and someone vomiting,I dont understand this kind of music.It was a spreading of this style in Poland 4 years ago,now all these bands play death metal.This is the end of it... CAN YOUR MUSIC BE CALLED A COMERCIAL PUNK? Never heard anybody defyning us in that way though people want to find some name for our music.Most simple name for our music could be emojazzhippiesoulprogressivesoftcore. Commercial punk that could be sex pistols or exploited and we have nothing to do with this music.Smash rock'n'roll! WHAT DO YOU THINK OF TROTTEL? Nice band. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE ANIMATION CARTOON? THere lots of them like our polish: Bolek&Lolek, Zaczarowany Olowek,Porwanie Baltazara gabki, czech A je to!.. ,russian wolk i zajac ,french barbapapa ... and lots more.I am nervous when I see any shitty american piece with all these robots,cosmicshits,f**king supermans... WHAT ABOUT STRAIGHT EDGE? Ideas of S.E. were very important for us when we started (late 89) it was a sort of revolt.Up to now we dont drink,but it is rather about our personalities,nnot some sort of indentifying with S.E.Straight edge would be very useful in our drunk and vomiting land. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF LIFE IN LITHUANIA? /some sort of bragging on end of bolshevism and independence in our kingdom/ ..urm seriously speaking we hope that Lithuania escapes this soret of situation in Poland where absolute capitalism is introduced by politicians.It looks lie some 19th century bouergoise forms,instead of people living better it gets worse more hungry and homeless people more of them life on the verge of poverty.Politicians avoid social problems but f**k oround things like abortion,changing of anthem etc... and they steal milions from state with massive economic corruption.Christian nationalists seem tto take power with dangerous and fanatic looks.It feels like a totalitarian state It seems like f**king ruler as comunist must be changed into some image of priest... WHAT ABOU A QUESTION WITH A HOOK? erm its a sort like - why do you fish without a hook? answer is because fishing is bloody,f**king sport ... * * <> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% AND THIS IS IT - THE TOP OF THE NUMBER: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% LITHUANIAN BEER REPORT ---------------------- LITHUANIAN BEER INTRUDUZIOOOO!!! Starting this lithuanian beer report we must say that the main idea about it is that we suggest that anyway you could better go and have some beers instead of re ading idiotic braggings about from our piece.But in the case your hand holds some styupid beer can made of shitty metal so you beter go on reading all our story The production of ber in Lithuanian began ages ago. These days nobody knew f**k pistols but ALUS (beer in lithuanioan) and MIDUS (another mystic lithuanian dri nk that nobody has tasted but supposedly vodka meets honey).It was years before Christ.The lithuanian cele brations included worshiping of bbeer god Ragutis to gether with consuming beer in enoprmous quantities. Thuis is absolutely natural,no? In medieval chronic les lithuanian ancestors are described as drunk barba rians with rare introductions describing pagan fests. OK,here we start travelling thru beery Lithuania.You can supposedly sail into our port named Klaipeda.This good town has brewery named "Svyturys" founded in 1784. Svyturys in english means lighthouse which is very simbolic.THe best beer "Baltijos" (alc.vol.4%),the weaker variations are "Baltijos light"(3.2%)and "Bal tijos original"(3.6%).Another zajabys beer is "Sirve nos"(4.4%)."Kursiu" beer is legendary but shitty cos it is light (2.8%).Anyway we must say that lithuanian beer is much different from western beer.We cant ima gine these idiotic stories of high priced beer sold only for adults.Beer in lithuania is all ages show and not anything like higly pasteurized light lemonade shit with a tiny bit of alcohol.Our beer is thicker, harder,heavyer and after having some you feel like a very brave knight! Klaipeda also has f**kin great old city where you can come across nice pubs (Ugnius recommends "Siksnosparnis") with old germanic atmosp here. Lets go to the next time.Another town in western li thuania region named Zemaitija is Mazeikia another bastion with brewery "Lokys"("Bear",founded in 1932) but new ber brads produced here "Zemaitiskas light" "Zematiskas dark","Lokio"(3.2%),"Venta"(2.8%)do not promise much.In general this area Zemaitija people dont like beering too much and dont understand it. There peasantss mostly f**k with vodka.Lets quickly skip to more merry corners: Siauliai is a town in centre of Lithuania,though it is mostly understood as part of Zemaitija with nice brewery (founded around 1890)"Ggubernija".Beer is go od and original and earlier it used to be even bet ter.Smiling bbeers are "Gubernija"(4.3%),and also "Siauliu"(3.7%),"Pirslio"(3.4%),"Sodzius"(3.9%),"Dva ro.".THere aro no more nice facts about Siauliai. Kaunas is second biggest Lithuanian town.The best and power old brewery "Ragutis" (named after fam ous lithuanian beer god,founded 1861) now splits into some productive ancestors which cover at le ast with 1/3 of lithuanian land with beer (more job is done by "Utenos gerimai").Among many scree ny bear sorts are "Birzieciu"(6.1%),"Sirvenos"(4.4%), "Ukininku"(3.9%),and during the heavy/thrash festival in Kaunas i tasted a new thing - "The old Kaunas" (4.2%).VERY GOOD! (but it's not clear , what is bet ter : "The old Kaunas" or the festival , where i did stage diving). So , everything seems to be O.K. in Kaunas with berrr.Come and hyujumkukbyj ! Before going to lands that are owerflooded wiht beerry we have a little stop in most shitty towny "Panevezys".It is most full own american styled shaved sportswear kids (not exactly skinheads), which enjoy attacking newcomers.A little nice bre werty is "Kalnapilis" (founded in ... dont know Besxt brands are "Aukstaiciu"(5%),"Birzu"(5%), other "Cicinsko","Zveju","Panevezio"are a bit more bitter but weak and smell like shit like all Panevezys very specific to all this town.Beer from Panevezys is better when bought in some other town witout going into this crusty hole. And now welcom e in NORTH LITHUAANIA! Please belie ve this is nice land with kind people.Anyone who has at least some respect toi himself here makes homebrew beer,shares it with neighbours and makes efforts to distribute it among people.Homebrew is many times bet ter than factories production.This taastes good and IS strong.This is awesome!.The capital of homebrew beer is little town Pasvalys.Ber is produced here almost in every second house.This town has a really good name in underground circles.Each year they have small musical fest which attracts hitchhikers from all country.Many people dont have a chance to see anything besides beer when they come there,but in the next morning friends teel each other stories what did they did last night,what they saw though their memories often have blach holes.All these sto ries have a shape,smell and taste of magic,absurd and wonderful tales...everybody go to pasvalys!.. Birzai is a town near Pasvalys.There is another brewery "Kalnapilis" with nice brands "Sirvenos "Birzu","Baltijos","Kauno"(3.4%).Also this town has an old castle and lake so you can have a rest and drink on the grass and riot on.On tthe road to Pas valys there are many gardens with fresh apples so when we missed the bus and walked we survived on apples..then we were attacked by a bull when we decided to steal some water from the cows in the night.Then we got into a truck...Speaking frankly Birzai is nice. Also homebrew beer is produced in towns Joniskis, Kupiskis,Rokiskis. Region named Aukstaitija was always OK.It has many la 1kes and forests - good places to drink.Also it has Lithuanian Beer Capital - Utena.The circulation of beer lovers never stops at huge brwwery "Utenos Geri mai" (founded in 1975).Beer is here very good it is produced also for export.The most weird story is that much beer is exported to Australia for lithuanian exi les,which prefer it to local brands.Most strongest beer in Lithuania "Porteris"(6.4%)is produced there to gether with "Utenos"(4.6%),"Lietuviskas"(5%)-wowww!!!, "Baltijos"(4%),good brands are "Bociu"(3%),"Aukstaiti jos"(3.2%).Also they started producing elitist kind of beer which is quite highpriced (0.5$)"GJ" which sounds like "Utenos " beer meets german brands.Wuilia.! The town itself has a lot of metalfans,bikers and stuff. Beer is everywhjere,life can not proceeed witout it. And also Vilnius.The capital has good brewery "Tau ras" (founded in 1869)with reallu good brands like "Tauras"(4.5%),"Senieji Trakai"(4.2%)& "Vilniaus"(3%) Also beer can be bought by liters.Almost every day in green parks of Vilnius young underground genera tions spend many hours drinking beer.Each 5 minutes some older people dressed in rags come and ask for empty bottle. IN general in Lithuania there are no problems with beer.Previous comunist regime was controlling too many things,so it was a bit of disorder in beer in dustry.Now you can drink what you like and as much as you like.Usually in our country the beer is avai lable in liters so you need some can to avoid f**king with glass bottles.The most popular is 3 liter jar. Underground people drink in cellars in winter and in the parks or near the lake in summer or you can go to the bar or on the roof.We are happy!!! ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: THAT'S ALL FOR NOW.... HOPE YOU LIKED THIS ANYWAY, YES OR NOW, KEEP US IN CONTACT - WE NEED IT, AND YOU NEED IT TOO ! POST ALL 2: K.N.K. c/o SARUNAS KARALIUS p.o.box 114 3005 KAUNAS LITHUANIA or contact me with e-mail: jurena@zalgiris.pit.ktu.lt Cheers and beers! JuNe