Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Brigitte Fontaine ~ Est... Folle LP [Saravah, 1968]








A1 Il Pleut 2:32
A2 Le Beau Cancer 1:59
A3 Il Se Passe Des Choses 3:34
A4 Une Fois Mais Pas Deux 2:45
A5 L'Homme Objet 1:30
A6 Éternelle 2:23

B1 Blanche Neige 3:30
B2 Comme Rimbaud 1:53
B3 Dommage Que Tu Sois Mort 2:25
B4 Je Suis Inadaptée 2:41
B5 Cet Enfant Que Je T'Avais Fait 4:25

Arranged By - Jean-Claude Vannier

i am rather enamored of this lady in general, but this particular lp is a recent discovery. together we'll find out if it stands the test of time & warrants repeated listening, but it's a pretty sexy slice off the top if you axe me. arranged by the same brother who orchestratedhistoire la melodie nelson. the recording is over 40 years old & still sounds fresh to these ears, tho i was warned to ignore the last song & i must urge you, dear reader, to do likewise. apart from that tiny disclaimer, the arrangements are pretty innovative, the lyricshumorously bizarre & dear brigitte is in fine voice. 320remerciements à solipse


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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Derek Bailey, Jamaaladeen Tacuma & Calvin Weston - Mirakle (2000)

Derek Bailey, Jamaaladeen Tacuma & Calvin Weston - Mirakle (2000)

| Free-Funk | Noise Funk | Free-Jazz |

Harmolodic Noise Funk for the 21st Century. The godfather of improvisation Derek in a freewheeling trio with the legendary Philly rhythm section of Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Calvin Weston, friends for over thirty years and veterans of Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time, John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards and various Blood Ulmer projects. Noise has never sounded so in tune, funk has never sounded so fucked up. You’ve never heard a meeting like this before, nor are you likely to again. Intense, fascinating and howlingly funny. Simply one of the bests examples of chaos and passion turned into FUNK music.

Catalog: TZ 7603 (Tzadik)
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Eliane Radigue – Jouet Electronique / Elemental I


Eliane Radigue – Jouet Electronique / Elemental I
[Alga Marghen, 2010]
genre: electronic, avant-garde
album review by |kollaps|
Student of musique concrète founder Pierre Schaeffer, wife of painter/sculptor Arman and student of Pierre Henry, one of musique concrète’s most important composers, Eliane Radigue’s work seemed for while a bit overshadowed by the weight and importance of the aforementioned artists’ accomplishments, up until the late 90′s-early 00′s, when she finally gains the status of one of electronic music pioneers, a status reinforced by her reception of the Golden Nica Award at the festival Ars Electronica in 2006.
On the occasion of the fourth “Oeuvres Sonores” event at Musée National D’Art Moderne in Paris last December, Alga Marghen, the supreme italian avant-gade label, released two of Radigue’s early works in a limited edition vinyl LP, two works that instead of her beloved ARP 2500 modular synth, feature feedback and tape experiments.
The first side is dedicated to Jouet Electronique, a piece she created using occasionally up to four tape recorders to create, layer and manipulate tape feedback. The result is quite surprising, given the fact that the tools she had at her disposal where quite limited compared to the modern arsenal of home studios and “over-the-counter” software. Bass pulses, hisses, whistling sounds, alien noises are wonderfully arranged to offer a complete auditory narrative to the listener, bearing traces of Radigue’s subsequent minimal compositions for tapes and synthesizer.
Elemental I, whose four parts cover the LP’s second side, is based on field recordings she made at Nice (where she was living back then) which were then treated at her tape recorders. Each part is dedicated to each element she used during the recording process, Air-Vent uses sounds of wind; Feu comprises of sounds of fire; Terre-Eau-Pluie of earth, water and rain and Mer of sounds of the sea. Although the studio treatment, mostly based on echo and reverb seems quite unsophisticated nowadays (and indeed, the piece lacks the originality of Jouet Electronique), the piece offers a wonderful insight into the first years of an ever-expanding soundworld of a restless creative mind.
A1 – Jouet Electronique
B1 – Elemental I: Air – Vent
B2 – Elemental I: Feu
B3 – Elemental I: Terre – Eau – Pluie
B4 – Elemental I: Mer

Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones – Parole de Navarre


Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones – Parole de Navarre
[Denovali Records, 2010]
genre: Jazz, Drone, Ambient, Electronica
Album review by Astronaut
Dale Cooper Quartet and the Dictaphones is a quartet from France that improvises and experiments by combining jazz, drone and electronic elements in order to create a very special result. Parole de Navarre is their debut album although that was originally released in 2006. They use guitars, saxophone, trumpet, electronic samples and blood-curdling screams in order to create an infinite gloomy audio result.
Parole de Navarre consists of ten tracks of slow cinematic dark-jazz merged with subsonic tense moments. It is really a magical album. It captivates your soul from the very first sound and dives you deeper and deeper into its bottomless end, every single time you hear it. It is also a strictly personal album. Do not share its dark and mystical moments with anyone else. It appeals only to you. Hear it and let it become the soundtrack of your darkest feelings.
Tracks:
1. Ta Grenier
2. Une Cellier
3. La Boudoir
4. Aucun Cave
5. Ma Dressing
6. Ma Couloir
7. Sa Vestibule
8. Mon Bibliotheque
9. Elle Corridor
10. Lui Hall

Rabbits – Lower Forms

Rabbits – Lower Forms
[Relapse, 2011]
genre: metal, crust, hardcore, sludge, screamo, doom, punk, drone
Album Review by Sovereign
There is angry energy and a hardcore metal in here that appears above punk dust and sludge fog. The vocals are dirty, so dirty, dirtier than ever heard before. The vocalist is truly a hardcore / punk screamer. I think a lot of people could say that he is annoying. But this is the point, he has the dirtiest screams I‘ve ever heard in these genres and that’s cool. Rabbits produce a kind of punk that goes screamo and ends in a very slow and lo-fi style that reaches sludge and doom stoned music variations. The combination in this album is great. The genres mixed are close to each other, but I am truly sure that I have never listen to this kind of sludgy and dirty scream hardcore that sometimes goes down, so down, below the average doom metal band. The album is a down-tuned guitar masterpiece with a modern punk and dirty-sludge attitude. Give them a try, they are a new member in Relapse stable and they do it well. For fans of Converge, A Day to Remember, Refused, Kylesa, Melvins, EyeHateGod, 16, Grief, High on Fire, Darkthrone, Dystopia, Melt-Banana and Orange Goblin.
1. Burn, Sun, Burn
2. A Tale Of Tales
3. We Beat
4. Noise to Share
5. Duck, the Pigs
6. Invisibugs
7. The Flow Below
8. Weight Here
9. No Depth
10. Rot

A Clean Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen – A Clean Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen

A Clean Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen – A Clean Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen
[JezusFactory Records, 2011]
genre: progressive rock, experimental, math rock, noise
Album review by Astronaut
A Clean Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen is the debut album of the homonym band from Belgium that consists of Craig Ward,  Bootsie  Butsenzeller and Zahnoun Ben Younes. This skillful trio is blending random amounts of progressive, experimental, math, noise, in a very awkward but surprisingly interesting way. The album contains eight tracks of randomly distributed progressive dirt that bathing may be necessary after listening to it, as the band aptly describes itself. The filthiness of the guitars accompanied with raw bass lines in tracks like “Safety Shot” or the insane “Pigeon Song” is one of their major characteristics of the band that seem to come out so naturally as they create them. Of course it is not an album that addresses to the majority of the audience because the chaotic complexity in ACKIAHK’s compositions cannot be tolerated by everyone. Personally I found the album really interesting and I strongly recommend that if you are pleased by dirty-styled progressive then this is an piece of work that will enthuse you. Overall ACKIAHK will become a perfect friend of you given that you are a little bit psycho or you meet the basic requirements in order to be one.
Tracks
  1. Farmers With Televisions
  2. Event Horizon
  3. Safety Shot
  4. Wife Did Gather
  5. Brambles
  6. Priss
  7. Exercise Program
  8. Pigeon Song

Medusa – En Raga Sul


Medusa – En Raga Sul
[Monoton Studio, 2008]
genre: metal, sludge, noise rock, punk, hardcore, post-hardcore
Album Review by Sovereign
This is really dirty and scary metal. There is a combination of punk rock and old school thrash metal riffs. The band produces a messy metal music with a hard rock attitude and a never-ending head-banging motivation. Sometimes it is hardcore, other times slow down in sludgy rhythms and the most of the time drives you crazy. The vocals are insane. Screams and squeals with other clean and punk vocals in the background. I think there is a Big Business and Melvins smell with a huge punk music taste in this record. Lighting Bolt and the Jesus Lizard crash with Slayer I do find it quite interesting, really noisy and truly metal. The only problem is that the tracks are not so well structured and there is no inspiration inside the compositions. On the other hand this point leaves the album raw and rough. This is truly punk and the riffs can wedge in your head. This is the advantage of it. Raw and noisy. Original, tough, punk and heavy metal. Riffs and riffs again.
Track Listing:
  1. Rain Un Thunder
  2. Mediatrix
  3. En Raga Sul
  4. Back To Dust
  5. Transform
  6. Destructor
  7. Bruier
  8. Throne Of God
  9. Inflict The Venom
  10. Snakebite
  11. Soldiers Of Death
  12. Body Count
  13. Alucarda
  14. Flesh Fly
  15. Wicked Father