Vital Weekly #675

VERY FRIENDLY #1 (book + 7' by Komplott) The first time I saw a friend of mine depicted in a comic I was quite pleased. Somebody from Rotterdam did a short comic on a concert by Roel Meelkop, which was quite funny. Ronnie Sundin is these days lesser known as a composer, or rather, we don't hear much from him, but he is busy doing books with drawings, which may count for comics. In the second issue called (following issue 0), we have three comics: Ronnie Sundin goes to Trondheim to visit Lasse Marhaug, the premiere of 'Deserts' by Varese and Throbbing Gristle at the Crypt One Club (the concert where Genesis was brought to hospital after an overdose) and various portraits of female composers. I thought this was pretty funny stuff, and a highly original thing to do. Sundin has a nice realistic style in drawing, although I am hardly an expert in the field of comics (owing just all Tin Tin books). The 7" has music by Lasse Marhaug, who heads back to his Trondheim Tape days and builds two different sound collages out of that. One is well balanced on soft versus loud and the other one is mainly loud. Altogether the funniest package of the week, which put a big smile on my face. (FdW)