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EL-G
tout ploie | LP
él-g makes a strange mix of French ballads and avant-garde song-writing. A pig-headed approach of the French language and ingenious arrangments are the core business of this dude. Tout Ploie is a compilation of both the best tracks from previously released cdr’s and new work. él-g appears as a sort of modern day miniature version of Serge Gainsbourg on this debut-lp. Release date: 15 September
IGNATZ
III | CD & LP
With his third full album Bram Devens has once again amazed us with a masterpiece. In his usual brain-melting retro-futuristic blues folk, he summons the devilish spirits of Bukka White, Robert Pete Williams and Sleepy John Estes as seen through the eyes of an adolescent Lou Reed. Release date: 15 September
Bad Statistics
Static | LP
A new band from New Zealand! BAD STATISTICS are a fanatical bunch of drone improv rockers, veering between prog, kraut, minimalism and scandinavian doom... auch!
Rhythm Section + Fred Van Hove
Hear Here Now | CD
A new band from New Zealand! BAD STATISTICS are a fanatical bunch of drone improv rockers, veering between prog, kraut, minimalism and scandinavian doom... auch!
Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat
An Interlude To the Outermost | CD
... a gorgeously dark, mesmerizing chunk of minimal, melodic, brooding, lilting and lovely doom folk. Harrowing and brooding, falling somewhere between the apocalyptic ur-folk of Current 93, the rickety, swampy biblical dirge of Woven Hand, the brooding acoustic bombast of later Swans, seventies pagan psych-folk (Comus, Incredible String Band, etc.) and even some of the strident prostletyzing of New Model Army.” – Aquarius Records
Ignatz
II | CD
"Alien musical transmissions intercepted using an old victrola and played back by some crazy old man, sitting on his porch, armed with just an acoustic guitar, a pile of busted old wax cylinders, and a huge bank of broken and rusty effects pedals... So goddamn great!" - Aquarius Records
Tuk
Shallow Water Blackout | CD
Tuk"These are not just huge messes of sound, these are actual songs, dark and beautiful, with an internal logic, a sonic story, a melodic journey through a weird world of dissected and strangely reassembled pop music." - Aquarius Records
R.O.T.
L’écurie | lp
R.O.T."Kraak are back again with another hippy baiting vinyl-only piece of waxy weirdness guaranteed to get your free folks juddering like nothing else on the sun baked planet." - Boomkat
Silvester Anfang
Satanische Vrede | lp
Debut lp from the Belgian free-psychcollective Silvester Anfang.
"Toxic lullabies for the buried alive" - Unbroken Circle
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OUT NOW on Idiosyncratics Records : Phil Maggi - Blue Fields in Paramount CD
..Blue Fields in Paramount is a very personal and fascinating opus, a beautiful introduction to the style of this talented artist, that could be qualified as 'dark psychedelia for daydream believers'. It has been mastered by James Plotkin (Khlyst, Khanate, Old, Phantom) and is out now as a stricly limited to 300 copies ekopack edition with a fantastic artwork by czech artist Jan Karpisek...
Maxi Bacon is the collaboration of Freeka Peeka (Sgure/Gazormass - Bordeaux, France) and Scott Sinclair (Company Fuck/Botborg - Berlin, Germany). Equally inspired by computer glitch, grindcore, breakcore, cartoon music, and karaoke, Maxi Bacon serve up an electrified meat-punch to the brain with random collages of screaming digital nonsense and mass audio confusion. The basis of their sound comes from using highly customised music software to accompany their extreme and unpredictable vocal improvisations – from metal growls, to karaoke crooning, to uncomfortable vomiting, to microscopic spitting and breathing. Maxi Bacon deliberately carry themselves with a blatant disregard for appropriate musical conduct, instead indulging in brutal noise blasts, confusing musical choices, computer wizardry and vocal stupidity.
In concert, Maxi Bacon are an improvised wireless noise show, diving into the audience for aggressive and childish conversations void of language or intelligence.
Three nerds locked in their dirty bedrooms for too long. tired of not knowin how to play, they tried anyway. They wanted to be in the spice girls but their drummer don’t wash her hair everyweek.
MOYSK (be)
Belgian learning disabilities duo moysk produce some wondrous low brow scum/shit noise, elbow deep in patch cords and cheap beer dixit Chocolate Monk.
"OBJECTIFIED picks up where Gary Hurstwit's debut HELVETICA left off - "OBJECTIFIED" is an overview of what goes in to the objects we use and likely take for granted every day, and features interviews with major designers from the past to the present.
Soundtrack by ARP, EXPANDING HEAD BAND, ALVA.NOTO, TELEFON TEL AVIV and others.
a surprising CD by a German musician living in Utrecht, containing 35 minutes of very minimal, hissy and adventurous popsongs. Her influences range from experimental analogue electronics to mid-nineties lo-fi, with melodic sound-sketches put together as an audio-notebook. For fans of f.i. Colleen, Lau Nau, Mt. Eerie, Vollmar, Iditarod, Machinefabriek, Tara Jane O'Neil, or anything on Morc Records really.
Formed in Paris back in 1988 by Jean-Marcel Busson, Frédéric Rebotier, Ravi Sharda Samon Takahashi, the GOL quartet embody a tense, all but lost, post dada rural tradition, balancing between instinct and invention, flabby psycho disco psychedelics and terse tropical experimentalism. Handmade, handheld and hand in glove, expect tapes, turntables, flute, guitar, horns and a heavenly host of marvelously home manufactured mid summer mambo to speed the party home.
PORTRADIUM explore new territories in electronic seduction and intrigue: oscillating between off-kilter Ennio Morricone-style motifs, pop-inflected melodies, digital experimentation and tongue-in-cheek psychedelics.
"Daring ideas abound in the world of electronica, but there's frequently a gulf of disappointment between high-flown concept and drab sonic reality. Thankfully, that's not the case with Transatlantyk, a strikingly recondite project which has given rise to some gratifyingly edgy music. (...) At times - during the keening, bristling wail of "East Side Effect", for example - this modernistic and intriguing score is genuinely gripping." (The Wire)
GRRRND ZERO - GERLAND 40, Rue Pré Gaudry 69007 Lyon
Métro : Arrêt Jean Jaurès
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Samedi 13 Juin
"S'étant chaussée, [...]" Présente :
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW (Balkanic Gypsy Klezmer Folk Madness, entre Beirut et Taraf de Haïdouks, ex-Neutral Milk Hotel, sur The Leaf Label ; Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA) http://www.myspace.com/ahawkandahacksaw + ELLEN MARY MCGEE (Psychedelic Folk, sur Southern Records ; Londres, GB) http://www.myspace.com/thecrescentsun
20 H 6 Euros
DE L'AUTRE COTE DU PONT 25, Cours Gambetta 69003 Lyon
HARSHCORE (weird noise, Italy) Harshcore is the project of Luca Sigurtà and Tommaso Clerico. Their sound is based on analogic and poor electronics, bass, tape loops and other junk. They play live wearing animal masks they took away from the ex-elementary school where they recorded ‘the sybian sorority’. File under: crazy freak noisers… http://www.myspace.com/theharshcore
DEATH BY HORSECOCK (ambient noise, France) Death By Horsecock weave ripples of white noise into gigantic flags devoted to trickster gods. Their avowed goal? Rewiring the brainwaves to combat everyday mindrot. Ambient journeys for disillusioned hermeticists. http://www.myspace.com/deathbyhorsecock
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