ALAN COURTIS
Argentine Shamanic Guitar player/noise maker - ex member of the REYNOLS
He has released several records on labels : Beta-Lactam Ring Records, Blossoming Noise, Public Eyesore, Alt.Vinyl, Pogus Productions, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Sedimental, Slottet, Riot Season, Nexsound, Carbon, Smittekilde, Joint Multiples, Quasipop, Beyond Repair Records, Chocolate Monk, MHW, 1000+1 Tilt, Goldsoundz, Tibprod, Incidental, SFTP, Facon, Pjorn, Generator, Ambolthue, Beyond Repair Records, Produck, Matching Head, Xerxes, Ikuisuus, etc.
Collaborations with : Pauline Oliveros, The Nihilist Spasm Band, Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Damo Suzuki (Can), Masonna, RLW, Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple), Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls), Toshimaru Nakamura, Yoshimi (Boredoms, OOIOO), MSBR, KK Null, Lasse Marhaug, Mats Gustafsson, Eddie Prévost (AMM), Glenn Donaldson (Jewelled Antler, Thuja), Kouhei Matsunaga, Rudolf Eb.Er (Runzelstirn & Gürgelstock), Yoshida Tatsuya (Ruins), Uton, Solid Eye (L.A.F.M.S.), Ashtray Navigations, Chris Corsano, Günter Müller, John Oswald, Tetuzi Akiyama, Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms), Dylan Nyoukis, The New Blockaders, Paul Dutton, Jazzkammer, Thomas Dimuzio, Tabata (Zeni Geva), Zbigniew Karkowski, Stilluppsteypa, Francisco López, John Hegre, CJA, Jason Kahn, Birchville Cat Motel, Tom Carter (Charalambides), PBK, Dan Warburton, Aaron Moore (Volcano The Bear), Astro (C.C.C.C.), James Plotkin, Goverment Alpha, Axel Dörner, Pablo Reche, Mattin, Alan Licht, Nick Castro, The Skaters,The Moglass, Andrey Kirtichenko, Sir Dupperman, Billy Bao, Michael Snow, Family Battle Snake, Mondo Cane, Norbert Möslag, Strountes...
FRANCK DE QUENGO
French musician, radio DJ & Big Head of the Bimbo Tower shop, -the best recordshop in paris, ever.
Franck is playing drums & toys & noises in DRAGIBUS (electro-noisy- twisted-punk-rock-for-children) and THE FRENCH DOCTORS (free rock from France). He has also played in several bands like Freyia, Tomato Band and pastly collaborated with Thierry Muller / Illitch, Paquito Bolino/Le Dernier Cri...
Labels : Autobus, P Vines rec., Poutre Apparente, Trace rec., Le Dernier Cri, Textile rec., PPT, Saravah, SS records, Hoki Doki...
SEBASTIEN BORGO
Rumanian musician who settled down in France. Sebastien has been torturing guitars with the French noise band "SUN PLEXUS / SUN PLEXUS 2" for ages. He 's also performing solo works under the name of OGROB and running the non-prolific but top-quality "Les Mondes mental" label.
Collaborations/Connexions with : Loner, Borbetomagus, The Nihilist Spasm Band...
He appears on various records released by : orgasm records, antimatière, filles disc, non mi piace, les monde mental, ronda, kokokoke records, Ruminance, Plasma rec., Nails records...
AKA_BONDAGE
French musician who has been playing music since 1995. His first project was OSAKA BONDAGE (1995-2002) >>> self-constructed-musical-objects+noise &electroacoustic-improvisations+avant-rock project <<<. After the band collapsed, he has been working for the cinema, theatre, dance companies, and performing/arranging/writing music with bands like : COLDER, THE FRENCH DOCTORS & DAMO SUZUKI, [1] KILO OF BLACK BONDAGE, PERMANENT FATAL ERROR, ZANG TUMB TUUMB, OLEO STRUT, THE LOBSTER BAND... He's working for the EPSILONIA radio show, one of the oldest shows devoted to experimental music in France, broadcasted on Radio Libertaire since 1986.
Collaborations with Erik M, Voicecrack, Damo Suzuki (Can), Kasper Toeplitz, Alan Courtis (Reynols), Nicolas Lelièvre (Quattrophage), Von Magnet, Jeff Gburek, Pascal Battus, Norscq, dDamage, Roberto Bertacchini (sinistri), Xabier Iriondo, Ravi Shardja (gol), Alessandro Stefana, Olivier Manchion, Romina Danielle, Monobloc Sound Fidelity, Guillaume Beauron...
He appears on various records released by : Ronda rec., kollaps rec., Ruminance, Optical Sounds, Wallace, Klangbad, Shambala...
Normally a four-man free rock/noise supergroup featuring Franq de Quengo (Dragibus), Nicolas Marmin (Aka_Bondage / Osaka Bondage), Sébastien Borgo (Sun Plexus) and Alan Courtis (formerly Reynols), LAARQLMEDALA, the bastard offspring of one of Damo Suzuki's numerous hydra-headed pickup bands a few years ago, is augmented here by a double-barrelled percussion assault from Jean-Yves Davillers and Edward Perraud in seven sonic breeze-blocks recorded in various venues throughout France (Mulhouse, Paris, Grenoble, Toulon, Lyon and Marseille) during a 2007 tour of "squats, bookshops and jazz clubs." As you might expect from musicians who are credited with providing "electrification, mesmerising, atom chickpeas, anti-fog guitar, ear cleaning, mycology, tam tam and polyrhythmic jipetambo arkhestra", it's a collection of psychedirgeic drone-heavy dirty jams (not all of them ear cleaningly loud but many quite mesmerising), lovingly packaged along with a grinning grim reaper poster, info insert and postcard. Vive l'underground.–DW
