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REVEREND BEAT-MAN & NICOLE IZOBEL GARCIA : 'Full Blast Blues Trash' Touring Mission Hits London | Dirty Water Club & Punk Rock Blues
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As posted in New Noise Magazine
Culture creators have eccentric personalities and engaging mindsets, here is your introduction to one of these figures, Reverend Beat-Man. His resume crystallizes his status as a lifer in outlier roots/rock music – active international touring musician with his band (The Monsters, Die Zorros) and as a solo one-man band (Lightning Beat-Man, Reverend Beat-Man) for 30+ years and headman for established imprint, Voodoo Rhythm Records (120 catalog titles).
Live, his performance borders on contemporary vaudeville with a demented, storytelling preacher persona, actively engaging with his audiences while serenading (or terrifying) them with dissonant, lo-fi one-man band trash rock. To give you an idea of what that sounds like, take savage sounding garage/punk rock and inject the derivative roots of rock music (i.e. blues, Southern gospel, and folk, jazz). It’s a job that has taken him to faraway lands from his home base in Bern, Switzerland and opens many doors of opportunities for himself, his label, and his associates.
Reverend Beat Man’s new album, Blues Trash, reinforces the notion to expect the unexpected from the guy. Crossing many genres and with songwriting that exploits the different dynamics he and his cohorts, whom he’s dubbed The New Wave, bring to the table. Blues Trash is 11 tracks of primitive roots music meets- lo-fi punk rock with crosses of free jazz, blues, dark cabaret, punk, and gothic ranchera. Part personal subject matter some of us can relate to, part testament to the absurdities the human race, and as he states – “some funny, stupid songs in there too.”
One take away from this LP is the dark songwriting prevalent throughout, with subject matter reveling in areas like disillusionment (“Love Is Simply a Dream”), depression (“Looking Right Through It”), and unconditional love (“I’ll Do It For You”). One of the standout tracks, “But I Love You”, features a recent collaborator of Beat Man’s with Los Angeles based Nicole Izobel Garcia vocalist on lead vocals. It’s one of two tracks the two do together that touches on unreconciled feelings and personal loss. “But I Love You” harnesses a tragic feeling in part to Beat Man’s somber sounding electric folk playing style in line with Garcia’s Spanish-sung croon that weaves an ambiguous storyline of a person’s desperate pleas to preserve an unsustainable/one-sided romantic relationship with a disconnected lover.
The darkest number belongs to “Then We Gonna Die” with its industrial funeral march feeling brought on by The New Wave combo of Resli Burri’s harmonium sparring with Mario Batkovi’s accordion leads, all while Swiss jazz drummer, Julian Sartorius’s layers the track with a wash of Avante garde percussion work. What makes a man write such a doom tune?
Beat Man explains his revelation: “”Then We All Gonna Die””, it’s a song about how we destroy our world and feelings of what people must experience being trapped in a war-zone like Syria and experiencing your family being raped and murdered. But that feeling carries over to any war-like situation, especially the War for American Independence and all sides of WWI.”
” I am a one man band .. this is the main fact and i play my songs .. and if i do a cover of a song.. i will make it my song. This is the center of everything when i play my guitar at home and when i go on tour as one man band … but there’s another chapter in my songs, it’s when I’m recording. The thing is a live show work only at the moment, that’s why live music is so beautiful .. and recordings they get old."
"So my idea, is when I record, i wanna record something very special, nothing that I can do live and something that will live over and forever after I recorded it. Then in 2014, i meet Nicole Garcia while visiting my Daughter in LA and we became friends and we did a couple of LA shows and i flew her over the Europe to tour with me.. this was a lot of fun and it was great to make music with her … anyway at the end i thought.. why not recording the album with my friends and see what happens.”
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Norwich - Epic
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Brighton - The Albert
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Southend - The Railway Hotel
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Glasgow - Broadcast
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Edinburgh - Leith Depot
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About Reverend Beat-Man
Beat ManZeller aka Reverend Beat-Man was Born on the Countryside of Bern Switzerland (Capital Town of Switzerland) finishing Hi School then worked as Electrician until his Music Career totally took over, he is a Cultural Creator in His Hometown and in Switzerland where he won a Cultural price in 2007 and Nominated for the Swiss Music Price in 2014 for his National Cultural Work in Switzerland and outside, in 2002 he worked as Musician at the World EXPO in Switzerland, in 1998 he worked for VIVA (MTV) in Germany doing Documentaries about Wrestling Rock'n'Roll in the USA and Europe, He Plays all over the World As Musician he played in Several formations his Most Famous one is Reverend Beat-Man, One Man Band Style Blues Band Trash where he travels all around the Globe playing thousands of Shows, created his own music styles such as Primitive Rock'n'Roll or Blues Trash that has huge followings and Copycats, Reverend Beat-Man's live shows are Unique and nothing like ever seen before, it's a theatrical act combined with raw Rock'n'roll and Tradition of Blues. He Leads and plays guitar The Monsters , oneof the oldest still Existing Swiss Punk Bands or Plays main roles in the Theaters Play 'Popeye sings the blues' has Reviews in Vive Le Rock magazine MOJO magazine in England, recived radio airplay on many Major Radio Stations worldwide, even Iggy Pop's Radio Show on BBC 6 in England where Iggy even talks about the music of Beat-Man, He's playing Big Festivals such as 'Montreux Jazz Fstival' in Switzerland and Festival de Rock les Eurockéennes in France, The Bad Bonn Kilbi in Switzerland Several Times, and playing Shows all over the Globe, Whole Europe from the East to the West from the North to the South, USA,
South America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand etc
Record Label / Shop founded in Bern Switzerland from Reverend Beat-Man in 1992 Specialized in Releasing New Artist from the Blooming Underground Rock’n’Roll Trash Garage Punk Gipsy Country Blues Swing and Cajun Minimal Electro Trash Scene around the Globe, Released of 150 Mostly Vinyl Records and some CD’s and Cassettes as well, they do as well a publishing jop for their band that brings them into the movies etc bands on the Label are : The Monsters, The Dead Brothers, King Automatic, The Devils, Movie Star Junkies, Blind Butcher etc
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The Dirty Water Club started in October 1996 in the Tufnell Park neighbourhood of north London, at a venue called The Boston. The club's name is derived from The Standells' 1966 hit 'Dirty Water' which glorifies the US city of Boston, Massachusetts.
Past performers have included The White Stripes (voted by Q Magazine as one of the top 10 gigs of all time, Mojo one of the top 30 and Kerrang one of the top 100!), The Gories, Country Teasers, Black Lips, NOBUNNY, Kid Congo Powers, The Fleshtones, Billy Childish, Radio Birdman, The Dirtbombs, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, The 5.6.7.8's, The Horrors and The Brian Jonestown Massacre to name just a few. The club has also seen some original '60s performers, such as The Monks, ? and the Mysterians, Kim Fowley, Sky Saxon, GONN, Michael Davis of the MC5 and more grace its stage.
Their in-house record label, Dirty Water Records, is one of the leading garage/beat/(real) R&B labels in the world.
