All American Kong

I was the dj at the Doc Lounge last night. It's a club where there's a dj, a live act and a documentary. A really great idea and I think it's spreading really fast... Last night Swedish electro act Covox did a really nice set and there was a really great short movie before the feature called Da Mozz (check it out here www.surra.se).

Anyway, the feature film was the King Of Kong which is about two guys battling for the world record on the Donkey Kong video game. A great documentary! At first, as the true Swede I am, it's easy to think "oh, those stupid Americans". The film definitely features some crazy people and stupid remarks but afterwards I felt that there's something about that I like! When I was a kid I was a wrestling fan and I love rock'n'roll and jazz and blues. All American stuff. The film gave me part of the answer why. There's a thing everybody talks about in the movie and that is that it's important to be the best in the world at what they do. It doesn't matter if it means spending half your life in front of a video game. I guess that's why they do a lot of stuff so good. They're not satisfied until they are the best. I envy that.

On friday I will go see Jay Reatard, the Mojomatics and EL-SD at Debaser. I hope my brother will be there with the new Black Lips LP for me.

Oh, and the Doc Lounge is every tuesday at Hornstull Strand in Stockholm. Starts at seven pm.

Saxophones, hunches and free jazz

I broke my wrist in february and have been on sickleave since and that's how this blog came about. I can't play guitar at the moment so I've been practising my saxophone a lot. I'm getting pretty good! I'm gonna start playing with King Salami and the Cumberland 3 in April. First show opening up for the Pretty Things. Ouch! That'll be fun! And then we'll play Sardinia in June and maybe Portugal in May. I'll also be playing some sax with Murder By Guitar (since I can't play bass) when we open up for Thomas Fuction at Debaser, Stockholm on April 4. Please come if you can!!

Musically I've been grooving a lot to free jazz and punk actually.

I went to see the Thing, the free jazz trio, and was really inspired by that. Also Albert Ayler has been getting into my ear. I love Spirtis Rejoice!! Got an amazing version from my friend which is from the "Live In Greenwich Village" album.

The new (and last) Hunches album "Exit Dreams" (In The Red) is fantastic and has rejuvenated my belief in punk!! If you haven't checked out the latest Deerhunter record yet you should too... "Microcastle" on Kranky.

Keep it free.

Human Audio on the blog-a-log! Introduction...

Yup, that's right! I got inspired by the Deerhunter blog (www.deerhuntertheband.blogspot.com) and wanted to post mp3 from bands and stuff for downloads etc.

There's also gonna be stuff about musix and whatnot so check back here once in a while.

The man writing here is Martin Savage, famous from such bands as the Blacks, Murder By Guitar etc and Savage Magazine, Human Audio Recordings and club and these days the saxophone player of King Salami and the Cumberland 3 (+1). Also the father of two kids called Louie (6) and Otis (3).

So that's a small introduction. See you soon!