Just saw a mini interview with Stef Kamil at De Zevende Dag (één). He talked about future projects, such as the Zita Swoon Orchestra (ZS + classic musicians) and the African project in collaboration with Het Zuiderpershuis.

The item started with footage taken from the Radio 1 session showing Stef and Tom Barman playing Thinking about you all the time, and was closed by Stef (who looked tired) playing Lonely Place live.

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Just to remind you:

Thursday, December 3rd, D6bels, La Deux, 22h50

Temptation inside your heart
(original by Velvet Underground)

Ring the living bell
(original by Melanie)

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Tomorrow (Wednesday, Nov 25), De Laatste Show, één, 22h

According to TV-visie they’ll play Hot Hotter Hottest.

Thinking about you all the time

Shall I let this good man in?
(original by Moondog Jr/Zita Swoon)

You had too much
(original by Lonnie Johnson)

Mooi

Trivia:
Mooi is written by Stef Kamil. The song was previously recorded by Yasmine, a Belgian singer who died earlier this year. Thé Lau, singer of The Scene worked with Yasmine too. They recorded a cover of Leonard Cohen’s The Partizan.

Tickets already available here

Date: December 7th 2009

november 23rd 2009 / 20h-23h / listen here (click ‘luister live’)

Update (nov 24th):
click here for pics and audio.

Update: Nederlandse tekst bij de reacties.

According to pianist Leif Ove Andesnes experts and fanatic fans the most difficult to convince. We count ourselves to the group of -oh well- fanatic fans and… the man is right. Yes, sometimes we lose ourselves in details, we mercilessly dispute the way a guitar line evolved, disagree with new artistic paths, or a whine endlessly when a favorite song is no longer on the setlist.
And yet … we still love this band and therefore we were eagerly looking forward to the release of Zita Swoon’s first career overview. We grabbed this double CD out of a transport crate at our local dealer from a and …

Two discs and a picture book, wrapped in some beautiful artwork became ours at a very competitive price.
While we notice that the picture book smells like a set of prepared marathon legs (imagine something like reflex spray), the first CD goes in the player. We are ready for a marathon by more than 15 years music.

Zita Swoon is not a band who narrows itself to a single style, which shows when listening to the first disc with the bands classics. There’s blues, pop, rock, bluesfolkfunk, and Zita Swoon. Quiet songs like ‘TV Song’, ‘Giving up the hero’ and ‘Hey you, whatshadoing?’ are alternated with songs that get you dancing, like ‘Jintro & the great Luna’, ‘Disco’, and ‘Thinking about you all the time’.
It’s not easy to go through a song catalog of 10 (semi-)studio albums, make a selection that fits on a single CD and satisfies all those damn fanatics, but we can only say that the courageous man who compiled this set found an ideal path that covers almost all the bands faces.
Almost, yes, because no song from “Plage Tattoo / Circumstances” made it to this discs, and that’s a pity. We realize these songs are difficult to fit in, and PT/C is the kind of album where “for the fans” can be applied … but like you start to love the strange habits of your friend as time goes by, we love those stranger elements in Zita Swoon.

Especially for the demanding fans (whining over an incomplete compilation), Stef Kamil and crew added a 2nd CD with previously unreleased music. While the golden path was paved with stones from the yellow brick road (aka the previously released albums) this CD contains the cobble stones that once served as a driveway to that road or were left along it: this is demo-land, and it is fantastic.
You’ll hear the band in a premature bluesy version when she was called ‘Kamil and the Beatband’ or ‘A Beatband’. ‘Two horses blues’ will make you think of dEUS’ ‘Suds and Soda’. You’ll wonder why ‘Big black tv cat’ and ‘A Jugboy = Lonely’ got new names (tip for interviewers!). You’ll hear Tom Barman, and will finally know how ‘A song about a girls’ sounded with Mauro and Guy Van Nueten.
In short: this is a gold mine, a gold mine with extras because you’re also getting 2 new songs: ‘Lonely Place’, which you could hear during the Dancing with The sound hobbyist performances, and the more recent ‘Wake Up for the trees’, a song that sounds like it was made to play between the audience, busker style, the way it all started.

For a moment the Zita Swoon story comes to an end, a 2 year break is coming up. First you’ll get to see them at the 15+ concerts and the 2nd Sound Hobbyist theater tour with Rosas, but afterwards Stef Kamil will go out to explore new paths, collect stones, create the Zita Swoon way (and convince those experts, fanatics, and everyone else… again).

tracklist over here

…or something like that:

L’opaque paradis

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Hot hotter hottest
Maridadi
My bond with you and your planet: Disco!
Big City

(thanks to Grombox)

Yesterday evening @ Peter Live …

I feel alive in the city

Don’t stop me now (Queen) with Helmut Lotti

Moondog Jr. – Moondog
(thanks to Neli)

Moondog Jr. – Jackie (Jacques Brel cover)
(thanks to Neli)

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Friday, November 13th, 20h40, één

Nicore posted an incomplete tracklist of the upcoming Zita Swoon Anthology on our forum.

Now the 15+ concerts on december 9 and 10 are nearly sold out, AB and Goformusic announce a 3rd concert in the Brussels venue.

As heard on Allez-Allez (audio link)

• Laïs & Lenski (Lenski was/is a member of DAAU)
• Dez Mona (were also guest at Kunst om 8, listen to their new album here – I like it)
• Leki (see lexus session)
• The Scene (see SKC’s & Thé Lau’s duet at Nekka Nacht)
• The Flying Horseman (discovered through their MySpace)
• Tom Barman (they’ll play some duets!)
• Lucky Fonz III (Dutch band, suggested to Stef by a concert promotor)

It seems there were a lot of media at SKC’s studio yesterday:

- De Standaard has an article on Stef’s and Baptiste’s (Saule) song for Franco Dragone’s new show, KDO. (in Dutch)
- There was also an item on ATV (antwerp regional television). (click image)

(thanks to christa)

Update:
A Francophone video.

An overview:
Paris (dec 8): Christophe Miossec, John Parish & Arno
Brussels (dec 9 & 10): John Parish, Arno & Tom Barman
Amsterdam (dec 16): Spinvis & Tom Barman

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