Artists
Bobby Vacant & The Worn
The singer/songwriter Bobby Vacant (USA) and bass girl/vocalist The Worn (Brigitte Meier/ CH) sing songs of roads and strangers, often with sad twists and turns along the way. While Vacant hints of things dark and cryptic buried deep under the ground, The Worn threads it all together with complex bass lines and skylark harmonies putting a crooked twist on songs your mother should have never taught you. This is folk-punk designed to rattle your bones. But always with a melodic hook along the way.
Together, Bobby Vacant & The Worn journey that long road in search of a someplace better, all the while running the risk of finding one worse. These are songs about harsh American landscapes and desert trails, of ghosts and broken neon signs shining brightly across the night. That nothing-ventured-nothing-gained mantra that lures you down some lost and lonesome highway leading to… Well, just like you we really don´t know, but no matter how sad and disillusioned you get, a good friend or loved one is always there along for the ride.
The Jesus Taco were legends even before they were formed. Band? Cult? International phenomenon? The truth behind their mythmaking is simple:
- Brett Davidson (USA) on vocals and acoustic guitars
- Tyko Runesson (Sweden) on vocals, mandolins, acoustic guitars, bass, and ukulele
- Sascha Greuter (Switzerland) on electric guitar and other-worldly sound effects
Plus loads of help from an array of skilled international artists from all over the world. Their latest album Folkuhila is a series of road trip recordings from Castle Rock, Colorado; Houston, Texas; Chesterfield County, Virginia; La Hulpe Belgium; Winterthur, Switzerland; and Ulfryd, Sweden.
The record is a rich mixture of Byrds meets Buffalo Springfield harmonies layered with Beefheart and Negativeland sensibility. William S. Burroughs meets The Flying Burrito Brothers in a lush rush of warmth and sonic richness.
Folkuhila pays homage to the early field recordings of folk history but gives them a modernist twist. We are reminded of an analog age long ago---and be sure the Taco practice what they preach using handmade Runesson guitars and creating their own nature-chemically-reactive font style.
Folkuhila released on Weak Records in October 2010.
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Riders of the Worm are a post-punk-psych experiment out of Houston Texas heavily influenced by Frank Herbert, Negativeland and large doses of uncut Mexican Spice.
Their live acts are infamous for their strobe-light vs. mind research tests and live readings of Carlos Castaneda and Paramahansa Yogananda. Look for their first EP on Weak later this year.
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Black Iron Brothers were formed in Santa Fe, New Mexico on November 27, 2008 by James Horn (an architect and banjo player for Atomic Grass) and Brett Davidson (co-founder of the Zurich-based Captain Ludd). Four days later, they recorded a three-song cassette demo titled The Red Willow People at Horn's home studio in Santa Fe. In April of 2009, Davidson and Ludd guitarist Sascha Greuter recorded the first full-length Black Iron Brothers CD, Deliver, in Rietberg Park and Studio au Lait, Zurich.
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Police Bulimia are a band of ex-juvenile delinquents from Reno, Nevada whose members include the brooding-feuding brothers Johnny Stuttgart (guitar) and Gary Bubonic (bass). Their influences go back to early 80s 7 Seconds (another Reno band) and Minutemen influenced jazz-core riffs. Finally now recovered from a garage chemical explosion, Police Bulimia plan their first EP released on Weak later this year.
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Tom Derungs is an American-born poet living in Switzerland. His poetry and prose is published in Brushfire magazine and sub-Terrain and Library of Inspiration.
He is the founder and co-editor, along with poet Brett Davidson, of the newly-launched Savage Laundry fanzine, which is the official fanzine of Weak Records.
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Brett Davidson is an American poet and artist living in Zürich, Switzerland. Recent poetry includes X – 10 Poems and prose Undertaker Please Drive Slow: brief encounters with Kurt Cobain, Sterling Morrison and Kathy Acker (Horse Law Press).