"JESUS IS ANGRY - YUROP SQUEALS LIKE A PIG IN HER DEATHBED WHILE WE WATCH AND SMILE (CDR by Full Wave Rectifier Laboratories)
This band name gave me a good laugh. Jesus Is Angry. So what! I never heard of them, but I like funny band names. In this band we find William T. Hapalys (twin saxophones), Bob (modular synthesizer system), Foufoutos (bass), Jesus (drums). Hapalys is mentioned somewhere on the cover, apart from the other three, so maybe this is a kind of collaboration between the trio and the twin saxophonist. The music may indicate that as well. We have a heavy trio playing slow metal like music, replying heavily on drums and bass with the synth making odd figures and the twin saxophones - what is that anyway, somebody playing two saxophones at the same time, I assume - play an excellent free jazz tune or two. Somewhere trapped in between metal, jazz and psychedelic music, you could spend your time banging your head along this, preferable against a brick wall. Top heavy music on all accounts. Nine tracks, which span forty minutes. Three are pretty long (ten, nine and seven minutes) and those capture the spirit of psychedelic best. Banging like krauty metal, whereas the shorter are more like aggressive punk rock explosions. I quite enjoyed this, maybe for the sum of the parts than the individual slices that make it up. There is an incredible amount of raw energy sparking of this release. It surely lifts you up. I could move a mountain afterwards. (FdW)"
-Vital Weekly, Netherlands 2013
"Greek mad scientist who performs homemade synthesizers hooked up to multiple radio antennas. Jesus has been very influential in the setting up of many noise collectives in various Balkan countries. Starring in an upcoming British documentary on the annual Slovenian Nojzfest held every year in Ljubljana."
-Nitetrotter, Chicago 2010
"Last year one of the best bands of NOISE FEST – JESUS IS ANGRY, this year just one man band. Again we could see his mega luggage and inside – BOB. Thousands of connectors (something like old switchboard) all the time changing their positions and wiring as if was trying to connect somebody with somebody. Loads of potentiometers, all of that through monstrous mix. All the time i was watching him from above to see his hands and that guy really knew what he was doing. I don’t know how to describe it all, but it was something like high-frequency noises which were differently mixed, slowed down, speeded up and modified up. Simple pleasure for those who like noises like these."
-Mira Vejvoda, Ljubljana 2009
"Then came a band who would have caused anyone to get the shits. Just from the soundcheck they seemed interesting because they had classic drums, a guitar, a huge mixing board, car tyres, an oil barrel and a few other things, so I could miss their set. JESUS IS ANGRY AND YOUR LOCAL GOD : CHOKING BISHOPS are from Greece and they rolled out their tunes non-stop. First on the already mentioned barrels, car tyres and cymbals – all the pick-ups from these things went through a huge crate and then the mixing board, which meant really, super sounds. Then came the hammering of nails into the body of a guitar (I've never seen anything like it). Then a huge rubber ball was thrown amongst the fans (at first I thought it was one of those exercise balls) but after a few football kicks, Mr ObstÃk had a go and that was the end of the ball. I proceeded to put the limp rubber on Brad's head and it was then that I realized that the ball had been made totally of latex. But it was all the same to Brad at that time. Meanwhile, the boys in the band got hold of their guitars and drums and played a long, sludge song. I found it extremely long but despite this it was bearable. Then the guitarist climbed up onto the barrel and tried to destroy his instrument on a green pillar, but the guitar was destroyed only when it got into the hands of Brad who picked it up after it had been thrown down (even though it had been thrown down, it kept on making a sound until it got into the hands of permanently shitridden Brad (he had permanent diarrhoea). And this was the true end of the whole festival."
-Mira Vejvoda, Ljubljana 2008
"Jesus is angry - Abandoned Radio Stations
Cassette: Hairway Studios 2006
Side A: Interference
Desolation is a geographical,mental,emotional and spiritual state...its opposite must be the search for connection,communication and fertility. Interference is a signal calling out for the latter. Voyager the deepspace probe now 30 years launched should be called back and its message to the Galaxies filled with this kind of stuff. Not that i think Interference is purely outward bound and cosmic but more a calling ...Earthbound and Human.Sadly downhere we have our own "side attractions"...Glistening with sequins and glitter such as reality t.v or celebrity wank... Still i think connection,communication,and fertility are more the better empowered with Gifts like "Interference".
Side B: Bob
Bob announces itself with Joy..with a sublime sense of paranoia,and Ii love polarisation...Parent and Teenage Child...Teacher and Pupil...Discovery and sleep. Eventually the soundscape takes us to an A B C sense of oneness and a possibility of starting again......this is Wonder Awe, and, jubilance....glad to be alive.....creativity."
-Freenoise, Sheffield 2007
This band name gave me a good laugh. Jesus Is Angry. So what! I never heard of them, but I like funny band names. In this band we find William T. Hapalys (twin saxophones), Bob (modular synthesizer system), Foufoutos (bass), Jesus (drums). Hapalys is mentioned somewhere on the cover, apart from the other three, so maybe this is a kind of collaboration between the trio and the twin saxophonist. The music may indicate that as well. We have a heavy trio playing slow metal like music, replying heavily on drums and bass with the synth making odd figures and the twin saxophones - what is that anyway, somebody playing two saxophones at the same time, I assume - play an excellent free jazz tune or two. Somewhere trapped in between metal, jazz and psychedelic music, you could spend your time banging your head along this, preferable against a brick wall. Top heavy music on all accounts. Nine tracks, which span forty minutes. Three are pretty long (ten, nine and seven minutes) and those capture the spirit of psychedelic best. Banging like krauty metal, whereas the shorter are more like aggressive punk rock explosions. I quite enjoyed this, maybe for the sum of the parts than the individual slices that make it up. There is an incredible amount of raw energy sparking of this release. It surely lifts you up. I could move a mountain afterwards. (FdW)"
-Vital Weekly, Netherlands 2013
"Greek mad scientist who performs homemade synthesizers hooked up to multiple radio antennas. Jesus has been very influential in the setting up of many noise collectives in various Balkan countries. Starring in an upcoming British documentary on the annual Slovenian Nojzfest held every year in Ljubljana."
-Nitetrotter, Chicago 2010
"Last year one of the best bands of NOISE FEST – JESUS IS ANGRY, this year just one man band. Again we could see his mega luggage and inside – BOB. Thousands of connectors (something like old switchboard) all the time changing their positions and wiring as if was trying to connect somebody with somebody. Loads of potentiometers, all of that through monstrous mix. All the time i was watching him from above to see his hands and that guy really knew what he was doing. I don’t know how to describe it all, but it was something like high-frequency noises which were differently mixed, slowed down, speeded up and modified up. Simple pleasure for those who like noises like these."
-Mira Vejvoda, Ljubljana 2009
"Then came a band who would have caused anyone to get the shits. Just from the soundcheck they seemed interesting because they had classic drums, a guitar, a huge mixing board, car tyres, an oil barrel and a few other things, so I could miss their set. JESUS IS ANGRY AND YOUR LOCAL GOD : CHOKING BISHOPS are from Greece and they rolled out their tunes non-stop. First on the already mentioned barrels, car tyres and cymbals – all the pick-ups from these things went through a huge crate and then the mixing board, which meant really, super sounds. Then came the hammering of nails into the body of a guitar (I've never seen anything like it). Then a huge rubber ball was thrown amongst the fans (at first I thought it was one of those exercise balls) but after a few football kicks, Mr ObstÃk had a go and that was the end of the ball. I proceeded to put the limp rubber on Brad's head and it was then that I realized that the ball had been made totally of latex. But it was all the same to Brad at that time. Meanwhile, the boys in the band got hold of their guitars and drums and played a long, sludge song. I found it extremely long but despite this it was bearable. Then the guitarist climbed up onto the barrel and tried to destroy his instrument on a green pillar, but the guitar was destroyed only when it got into the hands of Brad who picked it up after it had been thrown down (even though it had been thrown down, it kept on making a sound until it got into the hands of permanently shitridden Brad (he had permanent diarrhoea). And this was the true end of the whole festival."
-Mira Vejvoda, Ljubljana 2008
"Jesus is angry - Abandoned Radio Stations
Cassette: Hairway Studios 2006
Side A: Interference
Desolation is a geographical,mental,emotional and spiritual state...its opposite must be the search for connection,communication and fertility. Interference is a signal calling out for the latter. Voyager the deepspace probe now 30 years launched should be called back and its message to the Galaxies filled with this kind of stuff. Not that i think Interference is purely outward bound and cosmic but more a calling ...Earthbound and Human.Sadly downhere we have our own "side attractions"...Glistening with sequins and glitter such as reality t.v or celebrity wank... Still i think connection,communication,and fertility are more the better empowered with Gifts like "Interference".
Side B: Bob
Bob announces itself with Joy..with a sublime sense of paranoia,and Ii love polarisation...Parent and Teenage Child...Teacher and Pupil...Discovery and sleep. Eventually the soundscape takes us to an A B C sense of oneness and a possibility of starting again......this is Wonder Awe, and, jubilance....glad to be alive.....creativity."
-Freenoise, Sheffield 2007
