contribution # 2 | IG WITZELSUCHT | (in english) | dominic w. robertson, lukas simonis and cor hogerdijk

dominic robertson & lukas simonis are an english/dutch duo that, under the name ig witzelsucht, can be considered a trio when you count in drummer cor hogerdijk. _both gentlemen are active in various disciplines: robertson writes opera's, makes radio and indigestible avant garde shit, but once in a while happens to turn up with brilliant, typical english pop music -somewhere between syd barret and vivian stanshall- and now and then covers entire albums to kill time (e.g. nirvana's 'in utero', that immediately had to be taken offline by order of the law). _simonis played in several legendary bands that no one remembers, organizes events for experimental music, does avant garde, makes radio and produces radio plays. _the collaboration started with a dogma: compose as many songs possible in the shortest period of time, recordings included (mixing happened later). _robertson came to rotterdam on three occassions in the summer of 2014. _twenty-nine numbers were written and recorded in three sessions. _so. _twenty-nine numbers. _in terms of quantity, that’s alright. _whether they are worth listening to is up to the audience. _for the lazy listeners: unstable pop music played by  confused men. _for the lazy listeners with a more positive attitude: unstable popmusic of a stable quality, to be compared with syd barret, bonzo dog band, red crayola, ariel pink, 49 americans, gus com

 

lukas simonis (photo © florian cramer)

 

cor hogerdijk (photo © florian cramer)

 

dominic w. robertson (photo © florian cramer)

 

on friday evening, performer, speaker, curator, music journalist and blogger richard foster joined in with a verbal contribution

(photo © florian cramer)

 

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