LUKAS SIMONIS 

zz'MUSIC IS GOOD WHEN IT SOUNDS GOOD'

(Keiji Haino)

NEWS

may 2012; for more recent info check out my facebookpage HERE

november 2011;
We opened the new WORM building last month and are busy getting it to work. See; www.worm.org

august 2011; Zürich, with Jeroen Visser at Elektromagnetischer Sommer. We made a cylinderish instrument that made beautiful and horrible sounds, see it HERE

july 2011; Tour in Australia with Candlesnuffer, ao. on the LIquid Architecture Festival

and check THIS out. (live footage of Candlesnuffer & mr Simonis himself actually touching his axe!)

first half of 2011;
new cd's the last few months;
Anne LaBerge & Lukas Simonis; 'Rust Fungus' (Z6records, 2010)
Static Tics; My Favorite Tics (Z6records, 2010)
VRIL; VRILFILMS (DVD, z6records, 2011)
Peter Stampfel & The WORM All-Stars; 'A Sure Sign Of Something' (Acid Soxx, 2011)
Candlesnuffer & Lukas Simonis; Nature Stands Aside (Hellosquare/z6records, 2011)

BUY THEM! HERE

june; The Radio WORM crew did a live radioplay/poetry project again, for Poetry International Rotterdam, this time with the chinese poet/soundfucker Yan Jun. The crew was; Yan Jun, Henk Bakker, Lukas Simonis, Nina Hitz, Kaoru Iwamura

a short update for the last few months (1th half of 2010);

- with the group FACES we did half of our new project 'Mumler' at the Filmmuseum Bienale in The Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, 3 days in april

july 2010

- with the WORMRADIOWORM-crew (Simonis & Bakker)we did a Radioplay for Poetry International, with the help of Ursula Andkjaer Olsen (text), Nina Hitz(cello) and Yuko Uesu(Harp)

november 2009

check HERE for my virtual expo at the soundmuseum.

JUNE 2009

There's a new VRIL cd. See ReR Megacorp Website

Well, after all this CD-releases (there's even more to come after the summer) i hope to actually play some gigs sometimes in the not-so-far-away future.

Other thing to check out; There are some blogs that carry old stuff i was involved with. Some of this is still available on CD but as i still have only a few copies left in general, i usually support this thing.
On Mutant Sounds there is the Estos Noson Pagagos project; their first and only (allthough there is a great 'lost' album) release which wasn't promoted at all. It's a strange mix with archaic beats & trance stuff, Resident's & Der Plan-like songs and even some Nurse With wound-ish collage.
Find it HERE

Another American Blog, Eclectic Grooves, posted the first CD made by my old band Dull Schicksal.
It's HERE

And then there's Mister French The Bartender who puts cassette stuff on his Blog -No Longer Forgotten Music-, so he ripped some Dull Schicksal stuff -which was also released on CD, but also a few things that were only released on Cassette as well.
It's HERE

And my old pal Pascal 'titi' Tabarnac has posted some old cassette stuff on that same weblog. Ao. my first band ever 'Chriet Titulaer & De Kunstmanen' , not mention the legendary 'Jaap de Groot Speelt De Melkboerenhondesonate'. Find it HERE and HERE.

FEBRUARY 2009

We finished our first gigs with FACES and they went quite good! We will continue playing after the summer as keyboard player Kaoru Iwamura is having a baby -if all goes well- in april. We also decided to continue as a band and stop being a 'project'. We're working on a new theme now.

Also our first DVD is out; see HERE

More stuf fwill be out soon; the long awaited APRICOT MY LADY CD on Esc Rec.

And Perfect Vacuum on the American label Acid Soxx.

DECEMBER 2008

The cooperation i did with Jim Whelton (the last few years) has finally found a home; it will come out on the USA label AcidSoxx, somewhere in early 2009. Name of the band will be (after a lot of thinking): PERFECT VACUUM

In november/december i organise a small 'festival' for WORM called 'Outism'. See webpage WORM for more details.

FACES, the project with (ao.) Huib Emmer will play on the State X festival in Den Haag, december 12th. Official 'Premiere' will be on the Rotterdam Film Festival, in january 2009.

Coolhaven will make a special performance for a festival organised by Berlin's AUSLAND. name of the festival; 'Sein Wort in Gottes Ohr '. Name of Coolhaven's performance will be 'ANTHONY' (about some dude in the desert that could not be seduced).

Date of performance; december 20th.

LUKAS SIMONIS Current bands & projects;

Coolhaven

AA Kismet (with Bob Drake);

Liana Flu Winks

Duo Lukas Simonis/Pierre Bastien

The Static Tics

Duo Lukas Simonist/Ann La Berge (Moaning Balsa)

Apricot My Lady (moaning balsa meets the bohman brothers)

Vril

GRANDIGE BINK

Kodi & Pausa

photo; Roelof Bos

DISCOGRAPHY :

with Dull Schicksal;

The Boy Was Too Hot Too Handle (1985, 7")

This Side Of Toilet Rug (1986, LP),

Mjoeksysk By Wired Yet Palatable (1986, k7)

Unrelaxed Behaviour (1987,k7)

My Tree Has as Much Branches as Roots (1988,7")

Your Aunt In Her Cupboard (1989,LP),

They Saved Hitler’s Brain (1991, CD),

Neem Die Pijp Uit Je Muil Jij Hond (1992, CD),

Dikke Mannen (1993, CD),

Herfstblad’ren (1994, CD),

Dull’s Dullest Vol.2 (1995, CD),

Ambush (1997, CD).

with Trespassers W; (selected)

Pretty Lips Are Red (1987),

Dummy (1988, 2xLP),

Potemkin (1989, LP),

Roots & Locations (1990, LP),

Fly Up In The Face Of Life (1996, CD),

Leaping the Chasm (2000, CD),

Vlucht Over Den Haag (2000, CD)

witht Estos Noson Pagagos ; Hebban Olla Vogalas (1995, CD).
with Ornament & Crime Arkestra ; Farbe Couleur, Colors (1995, CD).
withMorzelpronk ; No Light, No House (1994, CD), Kl’mpenzorro (2000,CD)
withThe Rosebuds ; The Rosebud Mystery (1995, K7).
withThe Rhinestones and Kathenka ; Chelsea Girl (1998, CD)

withEugene Chadbourne and the Insect and Western Party ;Beauty and the Bloodsucker (1999, CD, Leo Records)

Catalogue number 5. By Maria Barnas and Nathalie Bruys, (Radioplay on CD with booklet, 2003)
Remix for Jee ‘Haw (‘DJ Pausa’)compilationCD, august 2003

withAA Kismet;

Where’s The rest Of Me ? (1999, CD),

What’s the use of crying when the wolves have arrived ? (2001,CD)

withCoolhaven;

Huistuin/Tuinhuis ( 7”, Room records,1999),

Blue Moustache (CD, Z6 ,2003)

Felix Kubin & Coolhaven; 'There is a garden' ( 7", A-Musik, 2006)

Felix Kubin & Coolhaven; 'Suppe für die Nacht' ( CD, Korm Plastics, 2006)

Strømblocque Phantasiëen (CD,Taple Records, 2006)

with Pierre Bastien;

( 1999, 7”, Room records),

Mots D’heures Gousses : Rames (CD, Inpolysons, 2002)

withLiana Flu Winks ; Sunshine Furbal (CD, 2002), The Discombobulators (CD, 2004)

withVRIL;  Effigies In Cork (2003, CD, Rec Megacorp)

withPausa & Kodi; In One Week And New Toys To Play (2005, Korm Plastics)

Lukas Simonis (solo)

Collaborations (CDr, Why Not Ltd, 2006)

STOTS (CD, Z6 records, 2006)

NEWS by Lukas Simonis & Takayuki Kawabata

Lukas Simonis short biography

Lukas Simonis has his roots as an instrumentalist and musical 'activist' in the industrial music and noise rock of the Eighties ( Throbbing Gristle, the Residents, Pere Ubu, Sonic Youth and beyond).Being a part of the Rotterdam jazzbunker scene (a collective that consisted of heavy drug induced punk rockers, freejazzers, early electronic musicians and pre-postrock combo's) he discovered the delimited world of improvisation. In the meantime & after he played in bands like Dull Schicksal, Trespassers W, Morzelpronk, AA Kismet, Liana Flu Winks, VRIL and Coolhaven. At the same time he was organizing concerts, events and films, first at the Jazzbunker in Rotterdam later on the Dissonanten festival, the Dissidenten festival, Popifilm, Dodorama and finally WORM, a multimedia centre for experimental art.

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Links
Wormweb, Worm
Wormstation, streamstation
Hekvibes, aka Henk Bakker
Tasty Mouse, maker of this website

Bart Vos , DJ Bard

Bob Drake, strange man

Dick El Demasiado, spanish man

Tim Hinterding, cousin

Isabelle Krieg,  art