Saturday, 15 July 2023

K.U.K.L. "Holidays In Europe (The Naughty Nought)" 1986, rem. 1997

Kukl (often stylized as KUKL or K.U.K.L.) was an Icelandic post-punk group in the 1980s, most notable for being one of Björk's first bands...
...Later that year, the band was close to an end, as different members pursued various projects. Guðlaugur and Björk formed the Elgar Sisters, a group which featured musicians from Kukl (with the exception of Einar Ørn) and collaborators Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and Þorsteinn Magnússon. This ensemble recorded 11 songs in 1986 and disbanded thereafter. In the summer of 1986, Einar Ørn returned from England with two projects: the creation of a new record label, Smekkleysa/Bad Taste, and a new band, Sykurmolarnir, later translated as The Sugarcubes. As Kukl disbanded, the only members who did not continue with the new project were Mogensen and Guðlaugur. The birth of the new band coincided with the June 8, 1986 birth of Björk's son Sindri Eldon Þórsson (fathered by Medúsa guitarist Þór Eldon Jónsson).
Björk, Einar Ørn, Melax and Sigtryggur formed the Sugarcubes in 1986 with bassist Bragi Ólafsson and guitarist Friðrik Erlingsson (replaced by Þór Eldon). Melax was later replaced by Margrét Örnólfsdóttir.
Melax later formed Exem with Þorri Jóhannsson of Inferno 5, releasing the album Kjöttromman in 1995 on Smekkleysa.
After Kukl disbanded, Guðlaugur collaborated with renowned Icelandic and international artists and has performed solo guitar concerts in Iceland. As a polytechnic engineer in practice and inventor, he has also combined his music work with scientific projects and delved into quantum physics, thermoelectricity and navigational systems.
Mogensen worked for recording and video studios and joined Inferno 5, a multimedia ensemble founded by Þorri Jóh. He was asked to play bass for Killing Joke and rehearsed with them in England before Paul Raven rejoined that band. He played bass on several tracks on Exem's Kjöttromman. He later worked as a broadcast supervisor at the SkjárEinn TV station. - wiki
trax:
01 Outward Flight (Psalm 323) 02 France (A Mutual Thrill) 03 Gibraltar (Copy The Neighbour) 04 Greece (Just By The Book) 05 England (Zro) 06 Holland (Latent) 07 Aegean (Vials Of Wrath) 08 The Homecoming (The Night)
…served by Gaius…

2 comments:

RYP said...

K.U.K.L. "Holidays In Europe (The Naughty Nought)"
…served by Gaius…
gitit! no pw
https://krakenfiles.com/view/zMRFFkdtxU/file.html

Anonymous said...

nice and thanks! i saw them at old blockschock in kreuzberg around that time and they were way better than all the strange stuff björk did later.