We are inspired by the sweat on Fela Kuti’s forehead, by the hairspray in Kate Pierson’s hairdo, by the splinters of wood around Steve Shelley’s drumkit and by the way Tina Turner manages to sing like she really loved Ike even though he was a mean fucker.
Record Label
Coalition, Lafirme/NONS License, Knife Slits Water
We have finished recording our third album. Should be out in 2010 - the year of the future!
All the stuff below is history
NEW MAXI-SINGLE!
The Je Ne Sais Quoi - Making Love with Time one-sided 12"
Stockholm's The Je Ne Sais Quoi are a band that are constantly redefining and developing themselves and their sound. They started off as a two-piece garage band on their first EP, expanding themselves to a 5 piece on their debut, new wave-esque, album 'We Make Beginnings' and took it even further along that line with their last album 'Rhythm' where the now 6 piece blended in some glam, weird electronics and even some violins!
This new 12" mirrors their evolution. The title track, Making Love With Time, is a synth driven, catchy and hasty song with a late 70's pop feel. The second song, I Read the Signs, is holding back a little bit more, echoing the sound of mid-80's new wave bands. The last track is a late 80's acid house-like remix of the song 'Rhythm' by Eester Benny.
The 12" comes on clear, one-sided silk screened vinyl in a nicely designed disco sleeve. One time only edition of 500 copies, in collaboration with Mono/Rhetorik.
NEW ALBUM!
On September 19th, The Je Ne Sais Quoi's second album ”Rhythm” will be released in Scandinavia. They have been working with it for over two years.
The portions of funk and artificial sounds have been further enlarged. There is less cowbell and more vocoder. FAG, the band’s live reinforcement, has taken a steady seat as a member of the band, adding loads of excitement; imagine Brian Eno equipped with percussion, playing covers of Herbie Hancock at an indie rave party! Three out of the five members sing on the album, preferably in two, three, four or more harmonies. The play un-tenderly on nice old guitars, on the grand pianos of the Royal Music Academy, and on semi-broken electric organs. The sound wizard Joachim Ekermann, who has produced among others Jenny Wilson, became the perfect production partner. He has, like the members of The Je Ne Sais Quoi, played in punk bands until his fingers bled, but also knows what makes an Oberheim Matrix 1000 synthesizer really exhilarating.
Despite the mix of influences and sounds there is a thread - or rather two parallel threads - that run through the entire ”Rhythm” album. One is the music, which is uplifting, energetic, and sometimes just beautiful. The other is the lyrical content, that expresses longing, melancholy and desperation. And there it is, the desperate celebration, something which at a glance is incompatible, but has been brought together by force of music. Maybe that is why one feels that The Je Ne Sais Quoi is something you need a whole new vocabulary to describe.
This is the « makinf off »
of our last recording session at theSound Suite Studio, with Treje
Refsnes.
Take a look on 20 minutes video of this
work in progress, growing step by step during 16 days . Soon will
come the mixing and the album « Love, birth and
disillusions »will release in January 2010. Thanks to
follow us in this project and broadcast it.
Hexstatic the worlds greatest VJs, electro-breaks duo Stonephace (Portishead's Adrian Utley on guitar )
Glass Diamond a young band who is just throw punk, dance, experimental and electronic music all together, and smash them up.With VJ -Mash Cinema live A/V set,I'm sure you've never seen anything like it.
Advance limited DISCOUNT tickets for The VIDEOCRASH 4 / HEXSTATIC show for friends of the band GLASS DIAMOND only.
Debut album “Metal Heart” out now!
9/10 Orkus
9/10 Gothic
8,5/10 Reflection of Darkness
5/6 Medienkonverter
7/10 Release Magazine
7/10 Zero Music Magazine
Listen to it on MySpace!
As we say in sweden "Liten tuva stjälper ofta stora lass", which means that in the summer you can't just sit in your room and play with you synthesizers! So we, Val Venosta, decide it was time to embrace our few days of sun here and create a more summerish song. So check out "Peace and quiet is for libraries!" at our myspace, as well as the video. Our first video with monkey kids on bicycles. Isn't that something!
