ARTIST: Kiss My Jazz
TITLE: In The Lost Souls Convention
GENRE: Alternative
LABEL: Heavenhotel
BITRATE: 200 kbps avg
SIZE: 82 MB
TRACKS: 22
ENCODER: LAME 3.90.3mod
SOURCE: CD
LENGTH: 54:52
RIP DATE: 2005-08-03
TRACK LIST:
1 Slow march through the half oriental side of the 3:23
bedroom
2 Mona Lisa overdrive 3:12
3 Jesus 2:05
4 Lost souls convention 3:38
5 Wild at heart 0:51
6 Chunk 3:44
7 Carousel 1:09
8 Silly disco song 1:16
9 Stained glass 3:05
10 Baby jazz 1:32
11 Creditcards 2:12
12 Warp 7 2:52
13 Olvidar 3:14
14 Sarah 1:27
15 Wild orchid 3:12
16 Go to hell 2:06
17 Dead beat town 1:02
18 Silly jazz song 1:45
19 Tough guys don't dance 2:52
20 Chunking mansions 5:44
21 It's a long way to happiness 1:11
22 Goodnight Irene 3:20
RELEASE NOTES:
Kiss My Jazz is a band that brought together rock & jazz in
lo-fi kind of way, with a loosely grouped collective of
musicians from in and around Antwerp.
Key figure of Kiss My Jazz was certainly Rudy TrouvΘ (who
got his reputation from the three years he plays guitar with
dEUS and from the high number of bands which he has founded
or plays in, such as Dead Man Ray, Lionell Horowitz, Gore
Slut ...). The group originated from the same "scene" and in
the same period as dEUS and Moondog Jr, but with a very
different goal : "We started out with the intention to make
a na∩ve and punky version of Chet Baker. Something Nat King
Cole-ish, or even better, the atmosphere of The Singing
Detective with influences of Captain Beefheart, James White,
Rip Rig & Panic and Pavement".
The jazz-aspect of the band is certainly not prominent. Rudy
TrouvΘ said to Humo in response to the question : "KMJ is to
be situated in the twilight zone between rock and jazz :
dire straits" : "Yes indeed, there has been enough really
bad jazz-rock already. But jazz for me is more of an
attitude, a way of handling music. It is a feeling, the
feeling that anything goes, that improvisation is allowed.
You could call it the Beat Generation feeling : being on
stage, drinking a glass, and see what happens next."
The origin of the band can be traced to somewhere in the
beginning of 1992, with TrouvΘ, Heyme Langbroek, Elko
Blyweert and Jacki Billet, and soon afterwards Aarich
Jespers & Stef Kamil Carlens of Moondog Jr (later Zita
Swoon). Shotsman Craig Ward (later with dEUS) and Marc
Meyers (earlier with dEUS) joined the gang in 1994. Also
Mauro Pawlowski of the Evil Superstars sometimes came
playing a few chords. The presentation of the group was
theatrical at first (with transvestites and projected
movies) but later on a more quiet & modest approach was
chosen.
On "In the Lost Souls Convention" of 1997 there were
guest-appearances of Simon & Buni Lenski of DAAU and the
first appearance of another Scotsman called "Viking" Dave
Robertson. In the liner-notes the band gave the songs little
comments such as "Sounds like a late 50's French film noir
soundtrack", "Basic chords and lyrics by Rudy and Stef in a
Dutch hotel room during a tour depression", "Sort of a blues
thing, but only half of the band likes blues, some hate it",
"Most people will hate this one", "Started with a sax riff
from Dirk and sort of turned into a cheap soundtrack from
God knows what", "Their adoration of "The popgroup" & "The
gang of four" brought them this song", "James White-esque,
written during recording", "Used to be an instrumental but
they always wanted to make sort of a bad standup comedy
soundtrack out of it".