Human Audio, digging and Italian record labels

We did the Human Audio Club at Landet this Thursday and had a splendid time!! Bristlemouth and the Alpine Huts played live and we had a good crowd. Me and Martin were dj-ing.

Bristlemouth was really great I thought. A really young guy who had kind of a Jonathan Richman feel but rooted in a nineties sound. It was his first show and he did real good. The Alpine Huts we saw before and they were great again. A modern garage sound with some Gun Club leanings. I interviewed them for Denimzine.

Other news: We're finally releasing our second album with Murder By Guitar on brand new Jeet Kune Records. It's Marco and Tina's (from Rome) new label. The record will kind of be titled MBG and it will be out in a few weeks. Their other release is the new Intellectuals album.

I've started recording what I hope to be my first solo 7" as plain old Martin Savage.

We spent the weekend at our little cottage in town. It's so great now. All green and beutiful flowers. Slept there and watched a bit of Mean Streets in the evening.

Guitars on my mind

Howdy ho you little bloggosphere people!
Today it's friday and the weather is beutiful in Stockholm. Sun oh sweet sun!

I'm still not working and am actually (believe it or not) getting a bit bored at the moment. My wrist is improving and soon I'm gonna be able to play guitar again. I can't wait!! The saxophone is nice but the guitar is my thing. I even have the urge to play some garage punk. That was a long time ago.

Not much else is going on I suppose. I'm all out of cash and this weekend is full of birthday parties (kids and moms). I think I'll be spending some time at the olde alottment (do you spell it like that?).

Dat wuz on da reel! Ya dig!?

London, oh sweet London!!

It's been a while but now I'm back at the olde blog.

So, since last time I've launched my saxophone career big time!! First on the 4th of April my band Murder By Guitar opened up for Thomas Function (Alabama, USA) and since my wrist is still fucked up I can't play bass. I thought we sounded really swell and people seemed to dig it. Both the first band, the Alpine Huts, and Thomas Function were really cool too.


Then, last wednesday, I went to London to play with King Salami And The Cumberland 3 (listen here www.myspace.com/kingsalamiandthecumberland3) We did two rehearsals and it really sounded pretty good (except I really can't solo yet). On saturday we played at le Beat Bespoke festival and the stage was huge!! I couldn't believe I was gonna do my debut here. Anyway, the gig went fine and people thought I really fit in the band. I met some great people and we drank Jägermesister and danced the night away.

On sunday we played the Big Beat Bonanza festival. An all day festival at this club in Stoke Newington. I missed most of the bands though cuz it was hot as hell inside. King Salami did an even better gig than on the saturday. People were dancing and having fun. I met so much great people I hadn't seen in a long while.

I ended the whole week with my friend Eric (whom I stayed with) and Traxman (a German label boss) watching the Ruttles and Spinal Tap. Fake music documentaries rule!!!

All American Kong

I was the dj at the Doc Lounge last night. It's a club where there's a dj, a live act and a documentary. A really great idea and I think it's spreading really fast... Last night Swedish electro act Covox did a really nice set and there was a really great short movie before the feature called Da Mozz (check it out here www.surra.se).

Anyway, the feature film was the King Of Kong which is about two guys battling for the world record on the Donkey Kong video game. A great documentary! At first, as the true Swede I am, it's easy to think "oh, those stupid Americans". The film definitely features some crazy people and stupid remarks but afterwards I felt that there's something about that I like! When I was a kid I was a wrestling fan and I love rock'n'roll and jazz and blues. All American stuff. The film gave me part of the answer why. There's a thing everybody talks about in the movie and that is that it's important to be the best in the world at what they do. It doesn't matter if it means spending half your life in front of a video game. I guess that's why they do a lot of stuff so good. They're not satisfied until they are the best. I envy that.

On friday I will go see Jay Reatard, the Mojomatics and EL-SD at Debaser. I hope my brother will be there with the new Black Lips LP for me.

Oh, and the Doc Lounge is every tuesday at Hornstull Strand in Stockholm. Starts at seven pm.

Saxophones, hunches and free jazz

I broke my wrist in february and have been on sickleave since and that's how this blog came about. I can't play guitar at the moment so I've been practising my saxophone a lot. I'm getting pretty good! I'm gonna start playing with King Salami and the Cumberland 3 in April. First show opening up for the Pretty Things. Ouch! That'll be fun! And then we'll play Sardinia in June and maybe Portugal in May. I'll also be playing some sax with Murder By Guitar (since I can't play bass) when we open up for Thomas Fuction at Debaser, Stockholm on April 4. Please come if you can!!

Musically I've been grooving a lot to free jazz and punk actually.

I went to see the Thing, the free jazz trio, and was really inspired by that. Also Albert Ayler has been getting into my ear. I love Spirtis Rejoice!! Got an amazing version from my friend which is from the "Live In Greenwich Village" album.

The new (and last) Hunches album "Exit Dreams" (In The Red) is fantastic and has rejuvenated my belief in punk!! If you haven't checked out the latest Deerhunter record yet you should too... "Microcastle" on Kranky.

Keep it free.

Human Audio on the blog-a-log! Introduction...

Yup, that's right! I got inspired by the Deerhunter blog (www.deerhuntertheband.blogspot.com) and wanted to post mp3 from bands and stuff for downloads etc.

There's also gonna be stuff about musix and whatnot so check back here once in a while.

The man writing here is Martin Savage, famous from such bands as the Blacks, Murder By Guitar etc and Savage Magazine, Human Audio Recordings and club and these days the saxophone player of King Salami and the Cumberland 3 (+1). Also the father of two kids called Louie (6) and Otis (3).

So that's a small introduction. See you soon!