Paul Bourre (improvised vocals), Matt Jasper (music collage, Optigan, Marxolin, Upright Bass, Guitar, synthesizers & samplers--I'm NOT the other singer dude Matt Jasper at Myspace), Chris Hall (bass), Nick Weathersbee (amazing flute on Hippy Freakout) & help from Ray & Beatrice & Max.
Influences
Slotcar hatebath, Buffalo Daughter, Takako Minekawa, Serge Gainsbourg, Jelly Roll Morton, The Sixths, Nick Drake, Ramones, Pneumershonic, Stereo Total, the Brass Idiots, Smog (he slept on my couch for three months and taught me the three chords I know . . .), Nancy Sinatra, Unbunny (if you haven't heard Unbunny, please email me &; I'll set you up), Bongwater, Perry &; Kingsley, Mouse on mars, Devo, Johnny Cash, NWA, Stereolab, Curtis Mayfield, Billie Holiday, Bow Wow Wow, Jandek,, Catpower, My Bloody Valentine, Soto Uchi show on WUNH, Yo La Tengo, Caroliner, Melt Banana, Suckdog, Belle and Sebastian, Masonna, WFMU, Kids of Widney High, Magnetic Fields, RRRecords label stuff, my 8-year-old son making up songs on violin, shortwave radio broadcasts. . . . Bloodrock 2.
Sounds Like
Wesley Willis, Elvis, Bingo Gazingo
Record Label
Contact us & we'll send you a cd & dvd documentary
We blew Paul's "outsider artist" by getting him a license & signing him up for Social Security benefits. Now he lives INSIDE, thank god. Here's a review from CMJ:
"Pneumershonic is one Paul Bourre, homeless for over 20 years and nuts for probably as long (luckily his poison is coffee), and his songs have all the elements that make up the familiar "ain't it weird" genre. But that's exactly NOT why we like this disk. Bourre is talented, to be sure--he improvises his songs on the spot, and unlike, say, Wesley Willis or Daniel Johnston, he can actually sing, when he wants to, with a soft, mellifluous voice like a slight, quiet Elvis. Our favorite part of FREQUENCIES, though, are TRAY FULL OF LAB MICE label-head Matt Jasper's arrangements. Heavy on the Optigan (a sound we're not sick of... yet), marimbas and free-range guitars, light on any kind of recognizable meter, the music cascades around Bourre's rants about girls and Martians and hippies and love and more girls. The brief, untitled track seven is a perfect jewel of overlaps and repetition, with jungle beats derailed into free-rhythm land. And Bourre himself has a few tricks up his sleeve: "Paul Emulates Trumpet" is just that, and "Farewell, Marimba Bimbo" has him scatting in an abstract duck-and-spittle style. "Table Girl" multi-tracks Bourre's voice, turning the song into a round for a crowd of Pauls: some mumble, some whisper, some croon, but all eventually get around to singing the same song, if not all at the same time."
Pneumershonic has also been included in various media such as WFMU's Hippie Death March and definitive outsider music book SONGS IN THE KEY OF Z.
KEVIN BLECHDOM - NEW ALBUM !!! OUT NOW !!!! OMG !!!
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An acoustic album chock full of palpitating love songs.
Kevin Blechdom plays piano and sings.
Available NOW on Sonig and on iTunes.
www.itunes.com/kevinblechdom/gentlemania
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Mrs. Gowanus, the line between us is so fine What makes people act the way they do? Mrs. Gowanus, this bar will be forever ours Why did you have to leave us so soon? It couldn’t have been the right time It couldn’t have been so soon Mrs. Gowanus, the lines between us are so fine What secrets do you hide? What futures can you tell me? Looking into the cup you hold Mrs. Gowanus, are you really so old, That you alone know, When the truth becomes lies, Through the passage of time? Mrs. Gowanus, why are you singing to the stones? Do they tell you what you need to know? Our seats are so far away Mrs. Gowanus, the line between us is so fine What makes people act the way they do? Mrs. Gowanus, are we really losing you?
I was in a class taught by Toby Twining. He taught me how to do overtone singing. Now here is my newest gift poem:
Lonely Sovereign Master (By (H+) M.S.G.)
Not so different, you decide From the others In your predicament When the promises you made Come begging at your feet But now the ice Left crawling down your back Has made you realize It may not be so easy To take a noble stance When every little favor Comes back to whisper joy At your success You swore from the beginning To pay down your debts But you count in tens Too many to be given What is owed Your smile is cheap And the code won’t be broken By you, on your own Hairs pinprick your neck As you feel their breath draw near With demands on all they gave You closed your eyes And swore again That every wrong would fade When all the world Is thrown down at your feet The path to your door Worn smooth as glass With every familiar step Their sounds shall ring Through every mind But until then A smile is all they get.
21h00 : Inauguration Be Seeing You !
21h30 : The Fantastic Cherry Peggy !
22h30 : Wild Sounds ! Dj Battle Lady Boo vs Lady Tella
23h30 : The Freakettes, 60's Dance Show
00h00 : Northern Soul / R&B ! DJ Battle Lady Darling vs Lady Meow
01h00 : DJ Guest + Vote meilleur dress code The Prisoner.
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