Fanzine
TQ Zine
Issue 55
Julho de 2022
48 páginas
UK
O TQ zine é um magazine / fanzine que recupera, em todos os sentidos, o espírito DIY dos famosos e numerosos fanzines dos anos 80. Com melhor apresentação, face aos meios técnicos ao nosso dispor neste época, não deixa de evidenciar, mal olhamos para ele, o referido espírito DYI. É aliás fruto do trabalho "solitário" de Andrew Wood, aka Andy Wood, aka TarQuin, aka @TarQuin23. Já vai no número 55 e só agora o descobri, pelo que este é o primeiro número aqui recenseado. A assinatura de 6 ou 7 números é barata e tem a vantagem de não parar na alfândega (pelo menos este não parou). Vale bem a pena. Confiram em http://tqzine.blogspot.com/.
É ainda possível comprar os números atrasados, se bem que muitos (e dos mais interessantes) estejam esgotados, como por exemplo, um dedicado em exclusivo a Kaus Dinger (arghhh) - TQ48 - . A propósito, este é um fanzine essencialmente dedicado à música, mas com a particularidade de cada número ser temático e de a música ser abordada nas suas mais variadas vertentes. No caos do presente número, o tema é a música, ou antes, os músicos e a doença mental. Vários artigos e entrevistas debruçam-se sobre esta problemática duma forma muito honesta, directa e frontal. Os músicos e a música tratados neste fanzine são todos "underground" e desconhecidos. Estão a ver já, é aqui que está o que interessa. Neste e noutros fanzines mais obscuros que, como disse no início, desde há uns tempos começaram de novo a florescer, logo a seguir às cassetes :-)
Last but not the least, cada fanzine é sempre acompanhado por um conjunto de yum-codes que permitem o download das versões digitais de trabalhos, principalmente dos músicos que contribuem para esse número do fanzine... isto para além de 7 ou 8 de boas-vindas, aquando da subscrição do fanzine.
Deixo-vos, abaixo, com o editorial de Kieran Mahon, que co-edita este número é é um músico já relativamente conhecido no meio. A entrevista de fundo é com o John Geiger Ohlin, aka The New Emphatic.
EDITORIAL
TQ55 has been co-edited by Kieran Mahon & TarQuin
Why bother? A while back I wrote to Tar Quin and suggested that I maight submit a piece for TQ on the subject of being a creative person and balancing this with everyday life and the many challenges this brings. I certainly felt like I had something I wanted get off of my own chest about this, but Andy suggested it might be a good idea to expand upon this theme and create a special issuel dedicated to mental health. I'd like to thank him for this and the opportunity to contribute to TQ alongside a handful of my musical peers. I'd also like to thank him for his patiente with me and the stream of missed deadlines along the way.
The tortured artist trope has always been questionable, but does being a creative person lead to certain outcomes? If you make music and you are part of a small/no audience underground, are there periods of despondency and why do they happen? How does a person balance their creative needs with the everyday responsibilities of family, work and paying bills? Has social media added pressure and expectations to the mix?
When you've spent hours and hours crafting a sprawling noise symphony that's taken every ounce of your heart and mind, that you somehow found the time and space to make, how do you feel three days after sharing when Bandcamp stats tell you no one has downloaded, and no one has even listened to more than four minutes of your 45 minutes piece? And you feel embarassed sharing it one more time on Twitter because the harsh indifference is too much to take, and you don't want to moan about it on there again. Or post that, "Sod it, I am giving up" message - again, and all the while you can see the successes of others and they eat away at you. You know you're supposed to be a better person than that.
What do you do when you've not been able to sit sown and focus on the idea that's been in your head because you get home from work knackered each evening, and the dinners need cooking, the clothes need washing, and you're got a debt nagging at you, and you've lost the power cable to your mixer somewhere in the bedroom, and you still don't have a space to set your gear properly, but the idea doesn't go away and instead becomes a monster, no longer giving you pleasure at the creative possibilities, but now just another weight on your mind. A burden.
Yet you keep going. Because it isn't a choice. It is just what you do. And on better days you realise that is how it is for everyone, one way or another. The universe isn't conspiring against you. You will find time. You will make time. Because you must.
Then, just before you hit 'send' on your doom Tweet you see that two people have downloaded your latest offering, and someone else has posted a nice comment about it. This isn't trivial. It is what you need. Just a little bit of recognition from yourself. You're doing the right thing. Keep going.
Kieran.
Colaboradores deste número:
Kieran Mahon
Paul PMZ
Ola Aldous
Jonas Geiger Ohlin
Chris Whitehead
Beano
Daniel Hignell
Andy Myers
Ian Cusack
Daniel Gregory
Acep Hale
Tarquin
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