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ZIJKANAAL F:
OISTERWIJK CALLING (1981-1982)
The dusty box, mentioned in "Bebeabu. A Brief Moment In Time" (2005), also contained another series of found footage tapes, filled with stuff that was recorded in 1981 and 1982. All tracks were recorded with a simple cassette recorder and the sound quality was poor then and even worse now. One cassette tape was entitled "ZKF: Un Reportage" (1981) and the band playing was called Zijkanaal F (ZKF). Side A consisted of rehearsals and improvisations; Side B was a live concert at a club in Eindhoven - I don't recall the name of that club anymore. The second tape contained two live concerts of Zijkanaal F: one at De Sponz/No.90 in Oisterwijk (23 January 1982), where Zijkanaal F supported a show of Einsturzende Neubauten, and a gig at Een Nieuwe Lente, an excellent club in Tilburg (17 February 1982). Another cassette tape contained a compilation of songs by the Jonge Oisterwijkers - some tracks are re-released on this mix. A fourth tape was titled "Support No.90" - I will get back to that tape in another piece in this website section (see: "The Sound Of No.90" ).
The first mentioned tape - "ZKF" - was launched in the autumn of 1981 and distributed among friends and club programmers. Zijkanaal F was a project of friends: we knew each other from school and teamed up again in an Oisterwijk club called De Sponz. Our circle of friends had founded De Sponz in 1979 for the simple reason that there was not much to do in small town Oisterwijk (the club was renamed No.90 in 1981). De Sponz became a vehicle for exciting friday night parties and as becoming deejays we started spinning punk rock and new wave records. However, that wasn't enough. Like so many kids we wanted to be a in a band as well. We watched other friends play - like Exerting Kef, and thought: "WOW!". They were a great band from Boxtel/Oisterwijk, one of the most thrilling local bands I checked out regularly (there's one track on the "Sound Of No.90" mixtape) - their Turkish singer Gingerello was awesome and he displayed remarkable vocal talents.
But unlike them, we were amateurs with hardly any musical skills. Fortunately Dik Beets was a great musician - he could play almost anything, especially the bass. And he built new instruments, like the 'kraakdoos' - or 'noise box'. During high school he'd already played bass in an exciting live band called Alsation (1974-1975) and now he agreed to teach us all we needed to know. Although I had moved back to my town of birth, Tilburg, we rehearsed at De Sponz first and later at Het Hok, a cabin like rehearsal place close to De Sponz. We started jamming as a trio (Dik Beets on bass and noise box, Ruudt Mol doing guitars and trumpet, and me - usually freaking with synthesizers and sometimes demolishing a guitar). Then we invited a 15 year old rock drummer to join (Bernard Tutert) and when the legendary Frank Dujardin walked in, Zijkanaal F was born. Frank was a fine poet, a local Jim Morrisson and a lyrical genius, and he added his Dutch poems into the undefined rock rhythms.
The first series of songs were anonymous up tempo punk rock instrumentals, but when Frank teamed up the tracks gradually changed into real songs with breaks, slower parts and sonic experiments. Unfortunately I only have some of the earliest Zijkanaal F songs on my cassette tapes, as I left the band for Tilburg posse Bebeabu early in 1982. After I left, Zijkanaal F really became a cool band with great songs and unforgettable performances. It's a shame they have never put out an album. And it's a shame I left the band - also because of the friendships involved (I still regret that decision to be honest). Anyway, I'm proud I was part of Zijkanaal F for a while and I'm excited to throw these tracks out on the web now.
The compilation kicks off with seven pre-historical ZKF-instrumentals, centring around Dik's great bass licks (1-7). I still think they are wild, funny and passionate - and Dik is great on his noise box in "Befehl ist Befehl" and "Opa" (4-5). Then there is a wonderful piece called "Zijwegen" (8), which presents Frank's lyrics in full effect (recalling bands like Joy Division and De Brassers - very popular at the time). This track was recorded at a small festival, also billing Einsturzende Neubauten, Sprung Aus Den Wolken, Exerting Kef, Sammie America's Mam and Nasmak. I think "Zijwegen" already points into the direction of Zijkanaal F's second, more mature phase (the titles are becoming more serious as well). Two more ZKF-improvisations show how songs were created (15-16): "Tijd", for instance, starts as a Rema Rema cover song (sung by me) and is transformed into a typical Frank Dujardin song. "Groeten Uit De Sneeuw" expresses the fun we had in ZKF with Ruudt blowing his trumpet as if he's preparing for a 19 th century war battle. In between those songs there are a couple of funny improvisations (9-11) and four songs by the Jonge Oisterwijkers, a project kind of band I liked to jam with (10, 12-14). The name was an ironical reference to new vanguard art movements like De Jonge Negers en De Jonge Friezen. I recall only one gig: we were support act to Five Or Six (remember them?) at the village of Udenhout. Some of these songs were issued on a third Oisterwijk tape I found in my box, simply entitled "Jonge Oisterwijkers" (1982), another limited edition - but that can't come as a surprise. The compilation ends with six more tracks, excerpts from a Tilburg live set - the last gig I did with the band. Enough bla bla, here it is: Oisterwijk Calling!
Download Zijkanaal F: Oisterwijk Calling (1981-1982) from: http://www.siebethissen.net/Dr_Auratheft/Up_Fringe
Tracklist:
01 Zijkanaal F: ZKF Theme I (Rehearsal, De Sponz, Oisterwijk 1981)
02 Zijkanaal F: Een Ding (De Sponz, 1981)
03 Zijkanaal F: De Stoel (De Sponz, 1981)
04 Zijkanaal F: Befehl ist Befehl (De Sponz, 1981)
05 Zijkanaal F: Opa (De Sponz, 1981)
06 Zijkanaal F: Bloesje (De Sponz, 1981)
07 Zijkanaal F: Happy Everafter (De Sponz, 1981)
08 Zijkanaal F: Zijwegen (Live, De Sponz/No.90, Oisterwijk + Einsturzende Neubauten 23-1-1982)
09 Ruudt Mol (Guitar/Spirit)/Siebe Thissen (bass/rhythm box)): Theme III (Het Hok, Oisterwijk 1982)
10 Jonge Oisterwijkers (ft. Ad de Beer, vox): Destroy Dub (Het Hok, 1982)
11 Ad de Beer (vox)/Siebe Thissen (Korg/Spirit): Rhythm Box Manual (Het Hok, 1982)
12 Jonge Oisterwijkers: Beograd (Het Hok, 1982)
13 Jonge Oisterwijkers: No Regrets (Live, Udenhout + Five Or Six, 1982)
14 Jonge Oisterwijkers: No One Dares (Live, Udenhout + Five Or Six, 1982)
15 Zijkanaal F: Rema Rema Improvisation/Tijd (De Sponz, 1981)
16 Zijkanaal F: Groeten Uit De Sneeuw (De Sponz, 1981)
Zijkanaal F Live at Een Nieuwe Lente, Tilburg (17-2-1982)
17 ZKF Theme II
18 Befehl ist Befehl
19 De Stoel
20 Ik Zie Ze Staan
21 Zijwegen
22 De Beweging
Zijkanaal F line up (for a picture of Zijkanaal F, see the pdf file):
Dik Beets: bass, noise box
Frank Dujardin: vocals
Ruudt Mol: guitar, trumpet
Bernard Tutert: drums
Siebe Thissen: synthesizers, guitar
Jonge Oisterwijkers line up:
Ruudt Mol: guitar, synthesizers
Han van Giersbergen: vocals
Ruud van de Wouw: drums
Siebe Thissen: bass, guitar
Special guests: Ad de Beer & Rini Pijnenburg
Also Download: The Sound Of N0.90 (Oisterwijk 1982): http://www.siebethissen.net/Dr_Auratheft/Up_Fringe
How did that club sound? No.90 Mixtape featuring:
01 Einsturzende Neubauten (G)
02 Exerting Kef (NL)
03 Struggler (B)
04 Mbrio (NL)
05 Exploiting The Prophets (NL)
06 (Pre)NOTK (NL)
07 Zijkanaal F (NL)
08 Brassers (B)
09 Jonge Oisterwijkers (NL)
10 Factory Toys (NL)
11 Dormant Volcanoes (NL)
12 Frank Dujardin & Siebe Thissen (NL)
13 PP For President (NL)
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