De Fabriek
Neveleiland
Plinkity Plonk plonk 17
CD only

In 1983 Dutch experimental band De Fabriek released their second album Neveleiland on their private label in a limited edition of a few hundred copies. Consisting of two beautiful and delicate sides of story-telling (in the Moluccan and Icelandic language) set in a droney, outer world landscape, the album was a landmark in the history of Dutch experimental music. Influenced by the Residents (circa Eskimo) and Conrad Schnitzler this album has a somber electronic sound in which the stories become alive. One story is about a young moluccan soldier who came in 1951 to Holland with his family. On this record he is telling the story of Indonesia that became independent at that time, whilst the other story is about a farmer living high up in the mountains of Iceland. He is living his live slowly day after day till one day two witches are coming and destroy his life. So the story say.
Neveleiland sold out quickly and has remained a closely guarded secret for over 20 years. Now Plinkity Plonk records is very pround indeed to present you this amazing album, remastered from the original tapes in the usual gorgeous carton Plinikity Plonk cover. Be quick to order your copy as there are only 500 copies available.

This CD is available for 16 euros including worldwide shipping. You can pay with paypal. Send an e-mail to order

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DE FABRIEK - NEVELEILAND (CD by PLINKITY PLONK)
De Fabriek (The Factory) hails from the Dutch City of Zwolle and originated around Richard van Dellen, Louise Manuru van Dellen and Simone van Dellen at the end of the seventies. Not considering themselves a regular band (for one thing, they are a label too) they present The Factory as some sort of workmen-union, and the musicians they work with as labourers. Music is created through workman tools and machinery. Neveleiland is their second album (so not counting the cassette releases), was printed in very limited quantity, and sold out fast. Now Dutch Plinkity Plonk records re-releases this original 1983 album in a limited CD-edition, remastered from the original tapes. Neveleiland consists of two 20 minute tracks, two pieces of storytelling. Zuidkant A lets us eavesdrop a conversation (interview, maybe) in the Moluccan language. I don't understand a word of it, but was told that it concerns a Moluccan soldier who returned to The Netherlands with his family, when Indonesia became independent. This was no free choice: Moluccan people became a part of the Dutch army in Indonesia, which forced them to leave for Holland as well, when that country lost its colonial leadership on Indonesia. At first the spoken word is like the relaxing, non-comprehensible drone human voices become when packed together, but through keen manipulation of the voices and additions of warm, dense atmospheric sound, one gets sucked into the music as in a novel or film. The electronics are very minimal and minimalist, resembling Tony Conrad, Kraftwerk and Conrad Schnitzler. The second story, Noordkant B, features an Icelandic farmer telling the story of how two witches destroyed his life. His voice is treated in such a way that it becomes robotic at times, to which tumultuous acoustic drumming is added in the background, as well as other, mainly electronic drone sounds. Only 500 copies pressed so get one while you can. This Dutch classic will definitely disappear very rapidly again. (RT)
(Vital Weekly 424)

De Fabriek - Neveleiland (Plinkety Plonk / 017)
Aufnahmen von 1983 der Holländischen Experimentalband, die irgendwie heutzutage älter klingen, aber gleichzeitig dennoch interessant. Synthesizer, die jaulen und in nahezu klassischen Schritten über die Tastaturen hüpfen zu flirrenden Backgrounds, die letztendlich den Effekt haben, dass man sich irgendwo in den 50ern bei den allerersten Anfängen der Elektronik wähnt.
bleed ···· (De:Bug)

Mit Neveleiland (plonk 17) legte Frans de Waard einen Klassiker der niederländischen Noise Culture wieder auf. Die 1983 im Selbstverlag erschienene zweite LP von Richard van Dellens Projekt DE FABRIEK hatte eine ,Zuidkant A'- Seite, auf der ein junger molukkischer Soldat, der 1951 nach Holland ausgewandert war, von den Unabhängigkeitskämpfen Indonesiens berichtet, und eine ,Noordkant B'-Seite mit einem isländischen Bergbauern, der eine Hexengeschichte erzählt. Das für mitteleuropäische Ohren unverständliche Storytelling ist als reine Sprachmelodie eingebettet in elektronische Klanglandschaften, die atmosphärisch-nebulös zwei Formen von exotischer Ferne näher bringen. Während der Sagenton von der Nebelinsel Thule, trollig rhythmisiert, jedoch im Rahmen einer folkloristischen Kuriosität verbleibt, berührt die indonesische Geschichtsstunde den Schleier aus Ignoranz und Verdrängung, mit der sich das ,Mutterland' Holland seine einstige Kolonie vom Leibe zu halten versucht. Multatuli hatte seine Landsleute direkt des Raubbaus bezichtigt, De Fabriek arbeitet ironischer. Die ,Fremden' im eigenen Land halten ihre Geschichte fest und keiner versteht, worum es geht. Was bei einem Würzburger allenfalls vage Gedanken an Max Dauthendey weckt, der 1918 auf Java im Internierungslager gestorben ist, etwas, das unsere exotistischen Illusionen kaum trüben dürfte, das mag bei holländischen Ohren an Dinge rühren, die man nicht weniger gern im Nebel der Vergangenheit belässt wie die deutsche Kolonialgeschichte ihre Hererokadaver im namibischen Wüstensand.
(Bad Alchemy #44)

De Fabriek - Neveleiland (CD, Plinkity Plonk)
De Fabriek sin dalla fine desgli anni '70, seppur piuttosto defilati, sono sati presenza decisamente rilevante nello scenario industrial e post, per quanto in loro già si distinguevano quelle commistioni con le tradizione ambient che avrebbero più tardi stemperato le più efferate attitudini distruttive peculiari di quei giorni. "Neveleiland", datato '83, fu il secondo album del collettivo olandese, che in origine si era raccolto intorno a strumentazione trovata e di propia invenzione e s'era poi evoluto in direzione 'musicale' come tanti contemporanei, ed ospitava sullo sfondo di una sperimentazione dalle derive cosmiche e dall'approccio anarchicamente progressivo, con passaggi persino accattivanti, in Zuidkant A il racconto di un soldato trasferitosi in Olanda dalle Molucche all'inizio degli anni '50 che rievocava i passi dell'indipendenze indonesiana, e nella più estrema Noordkant B, più appossionante nella sua coerenza con le citate radici, la storia di un pastore che disperso nella solitudine islandese era stato rapito da djue streghe. Naturalmente il lato narrativo dei due brani di una ventina di minuti, per di più nelle lingue natie dei due protagonisti, è più una curiosità che altro e non costituisce fulcro determinante dell'opera, anche perché, saggiamente, non viene mai posto in una posizione che turbi l'ascolto. (7/8)
(Pauli Bertoni in Blow Up # 76)

De Fabriek
Neveleiland
(PLINKITY PLONK/KORM PLASTICS)
Op deze gesmaakte cdheruitgave van een onvindbare lp uit 1983, treffen we De Fabriek in ongewone doen. Twee epische luisterspelen met etnische vertellers vervangen de typische noiseloops. In het eerste stuk heeft een Molukse soldaat het over de onafhankelijkheid van Indonesië en nadien vertelt een IJslandse boer over zijn wedervaren met twee vrouwen (om begrijpelijke redenen heksen genoemd) die zijn leven tot een hel maken. De soundtrackachtige elektronische muziek is zwaar schatplichtig aan de kosmische elektronicaschool, maar af en toe tonen de makers hun afkomst in luidere passages die klinken als een opgepoetste versie van hun noiseklassieker 'Made In Spain'. De originele lp ging onopgemerkt voorbij, hopelijk vergaat het deze digitale versie beter! (www.beequeen.nl) (pv)
Gonzo Circus 65
 

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