The Urban-Jellen Test according to “Lost In Krakow” magazine: “You are me and I am you. Psychedelic art-rock cabaret with a heart. Strange and beautiful OTHER happenings around. Adult and inspiring…. Oh yeah and did we mention the ROCK!? Imagine the Doors and the Velvet Underground challenging Kraftwerk and the Kronos Quartet to a game of Pictionary and you’re getting close to what the Urban-Jellen Test’s music is all about… rock, theatre, and cabaret.”
or in my words – bertold brecht gone mad on acid… controlled chaos… melodic mayhem… mutilation melodies… a real good time.
kathy and i read our poetry as one of the 4 Dada Cabaret acts leading up to the Urban-Jellen Test’s concert last night in a hundreds year old domed cellar underneath the Tytus i Koka club in Kazimierz, the Jewish quarter. could have been 100 people in the small space. great reception… got a thumb’s up from mr urban-jellen test -Â blue seven.
before the concert, we sat back under an arched old brick dungeon-like area and watched a surreal matthew barney film about female ovaries marching over a football field while lady attendants ate grapes in two goodyear dirigible breast balloons and an alice in wonderland kept rearranging the eggs.
this is the life. this is what we left cleveland for.
on the other hand – not much hot water in a pension/hostel shower… too many bodies. it’s rather bracing, invigorating even, to soap your naughty bits in the shower and then find no more hot water to rinse. you can’t leave the soap on, cuz it’ll mate with the toxins and fungus in your dirty clothes and meld to your body – probably turn you into a republican. so i’ve learned to quickly wet, soap, and rinse the sticky stinky smelly bits (nudge nudge wink wink) – and then wash the rest, maybe.
we’ve this new ritual – we pick up each bit of clothing and sniff it… if we don’t pass out or shudder from the smell, we put it on.
this is the life. this is what we left cleveland for.
logged by smith from various emails to & from Urban-Jellen Test – ers …
me to blue seven of urban-jellen test:
thnx a real lot whole bunch for letting kathy (my wife) and I read our poetry at your urban jellen test & dada cabaret concert last night. Truly a fine evening – the coolest evening I’ve ever read at, and I’ve been trying this for 43 years now.
blue seven back:
It was our pleasure indeed to have your collective words on that stage. Myself and my engineer listened with great smiles on our faces. The kind of mish-mash of minds and talents on that stage last Friday was just wonderful. A collection of amazing flowers. Blossom on and thank you for your great energy. Oh, we owe you guys a beer at least!
me to thymn chase of urban-jellem test and leader of eluktrick:
thnx for letting us read last night – coolest venue i’ve ever read at.
thymn chase back:
It was our pleasure to have you guys to join the circus as it were. Thanks for the poignant and kindly blog as well:)
blue seven again – responding to my offer to add his link to our sites:
Oh, and for the thought of putting our site on your links page: Sure, thanks.
Um, not sure which is best,here are all of ‘em that I know about…
http://www.blue7.cc (my Art history sort of, tip of the iceberg syndrome)
http://www.myspace.com/namedblue7 (music/video)
http://www.myspace.com/ujtest (music/video)
http://www.criticalknots.com (publishing)
Have a great and magikal day, B
me to blue:
between my agentofchaos.com site and our walkingthinice.com blog, i’ll add all 4 of your sites. you impressed me with your concert and attitude – been awhile since i’ve been impressed.
blue back:
Wow. High praise indeed coming from you. Thanks for the support man. Keep on keepin’ on – B
*note – both thymn & blue seven are contributing to kathy’s 17th issue of TheCityPoetry.com – she’s still seeking submissions if anyone else is interested.
added by smith – from an email from Thymn Chase of both Eluktrick and Urban-Jellen Test:
Hey Steve,
Thanks much for the CV, absolutely brilliant. Hilarious and vigorously impressive. So it seems you have lived quite the life good sir.
Carnival Laborer. Wow.
About the Eluktrick links it would be great
if you could add these two to your blog. http://www.eluktrick.com and
http://www.myspace.com/eluktrick.
You can also download our EP from either site.
Just so you know, we are playing this Friday (Eluktrick) at Galeria Starmach in the Podgorze district (just accross the river from Kazimierz).
We play at 20:00 and the address is Wegerska something or other. IT is a huge galery opening of Modern and Contemporary art. Should be cool.
Take care – Thymn