For now, Absinthe (Provisoire) members are : Guillaume Allory, Christophe Devaux and Sylvain Etchegaray.
They got a little help from their friends on some songs.
Influences
Roberto Bolano for now and today people life people life love life love and people and life and people and life and love and love and love and life and sonic youth and julio cortazar and the ruins and xenakis and love and love and love and a silver mont zion and einsturzende neubauten and ligeti and velvet underground and my bloody valentine and el flamenco y el tango and pierre henry and pierre henry and pierre shaeffer and pierre henry and love lovelovelove and john coltrane and wim wenders and slint and bastard and the first few mogwai and ZU and luciano berio and jacques brel and this heat and this heat and THIS HEAT !!!and blonde redhead and lev vygotski and cecil taylor and arab strap and hood and sorabji and wong kar-wai and henry miller and acid mother temple and YOU and joy division and fred frith and this mysterious gaze over there and people and people and people and peter brötzmann and storm and stress and the face of audrey hepburn and john zorn and andrej tarkovski and MALCOLM LOWRY O HOLY GHOST SOMEDAY WE'LL MEET and antoine d'agata and sun ra and godspeed you black emperor and our brain and our dicks and our emotions and erik satie and merzbow and andré gide and pavement and tindersticks and nietzsche and llhasa and deity guns and stockhausen and plastic people of the universe and dostoievski and unwound and jim jarmush and aphex twin and astor piazzola and black heart procession and sloy and the BIRTHDAY PARTY and the ex and RADIKAL SATAN and iva bittova and edvard munch and caetano veloso and tom waits and samuel beckett and people and people and people and people and rothko and lydia lunch and glenn branca and los hermanos and will oldham and the third eye foundation and tony buck and nicolas bouvier and the oxes and drugs and suicide and francis bacon and the fall and cypress hill and james brown and gorecki and cannibal ox you rule and peoplepeople peoplelove lovelove love and henry bergson and morton feldman and xiu xiu and LCD soundsystem and BOREDOMS and plastikman and programme and shellac and debussy and Gilles de la Tourette and ricardo villalobos and répulsion by polansky and when we're dead and when we're alive and hella and rimbaud and filip topol and animal collective and serge gainsbourg and ernesto sabato and leonard cohen and ravel and derek bailey and arvo part and arab on radar and MESHUGGAH and guillaume contré and albert ayler and albert ayler and ALBERT AYLEEEERRRRRRR !!!!! and the SYR 3 and lightning bolt and jean luc godard and all the things that we forget and that we don't know yet we love them like maybe your music your images your writing your ideas your emotions your life your face because the world is so fucking shit and lovelovelove people people and life and : you.
Absinthe (Provisoire) is a French band that comes from Montpellier, with a 9 years existence now. Today, all members are living between Montpellier, Paris, and Bruxelles.
Absinthe (Provisoire) recorded his first album at Engine Music Studios in Chicago (Illinois). It was released in October 2003 on the Hydrophonics Label (Montpellier), with a national distribution by Chronowax (Paris).
After a lot of concerts in France, including openings for Godspeed you black emperor!, Cheval de Frise, Party of One or Experience, the band had his second album recorded by Neil Conti (famous drummer of David Bowie, Prefab Sprout...), in his Magic Circle Studio (December 2004, Montpellier). It has been mastered in may 2005 by Daniel Lazerus in the Chace Studios in Los Angeles, and released in 2006 by the french label Distile Records.
They continue to do as most gigs as they could, playing in France, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Germany, and Czech Republic... They shared the stage with such bands as The Ex and a lot of great bands from everywhere...
In 2007, they were engaged by Julien Bouffier, the director of the Adesso e Sempre theatre company, to compose and play live the music of his new play "Les Vivants et les Morts", which lasts between 4 and 8 hours (as we play the half or the whole thing at once). You can check it if you wish at www.adessoesempre.com. They toured with the company through France. It took a hell of a time in the life's band.
In march of 2008, unable to wait for a time when they could rehearse and compose, they just went to the Magic Circle Studios to record four days of improvisation. Then, after a few months of lonely editing, overdubbing, and mixing in their houses, the members of Absinthe (Provisoire) met again in Montpellier to listen to what they did on their own. After a short reflexion, they chose what had to be kept, thrown, or reworked and began a new and final mix of the whole thing.
In August of 2008, the mix was stopped by their work on another play, "Baal", from Bretold Brecht, directed by the infamous Mathias Beyler. They then played, in october, as actors in a movie shot by Franck Morand about a dysfunctional rock band (which was really a composition role). This movie should be seen at festivals or maybe on Arte, you'll be informed...
And finally, after a few months of touring with the Adesso e Sempre company for "les Vivants et les Morts", the mix has been definitely finished in Bruxelles in february of 2009.
This new album is composed of three discs which make part of a same unity.
It could be seen as three separate albums which present different aspects of their music and that are related between them, or just as one really long album.
The length can explain in different ways: they’re not really gifted for short songs and they wanted to put in this one all of their musical and emotional aspects. It's far more diverse and close from what they really are than before. It's just music.
So here’s the result: three really different albums which finally make only one.
The whole thing has still to be mastered.
It should be out before the end of the year...
You can check the other musical projects of Absinthe (provisoire) in the friend's list, like Sap(e), Christophe Devaux, or from really good friends and/or previous members like Guillaume Contré aka Rayuela, Aurélien Besnard, Rectus, or Kane Roth...
Kassyus Clay are a musical project formed in 2007 in Vicenza, Italy.
Their early sound could be considered a combination of energetic rock and sinuous post rock. In six months, after having released an unofficial demo called “Kassyus Clay, We play!!!” - which was recorded and self-produced in a low-fi studio - the band decided to develop their sound adding electronic instruments and broadening their experimental side. Their following songs became more eclectic, more instrumental, more orchestrated and definitely less rock, paying attention on the harmony and the structure of the pieces.
Inspired by some groups such as Stereolab, Tortoise, Cinematic Orchestra, Jagga Jazzist, and many other similar bands, Kassyus Clay sound can be described as an evocative, powerful, hypnotic melody, being like “a talking picture without pictures”.
Two Half Cans was born in 2007. Two Half Cans is a duo, guitar and drum. Two Half Cans is like Austin and Chicago, Seattle and Washington D.C., a little bit New York too. Two Half Cans isn't White Stripe, not The Kills,not indie, not Rock'n'Roll. Two Half cans play only live.
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