Nov 28, 2009

The "Musique Actuelle" of AMBIANCES MAGNETIQUES (CAN)

L to R: Jean Derome, Diane Labrosse, Pierre Tanguay, Joane Hetu

A collective and a label, Montreal's AMBIANCES MAGNETIQUES, has been introducing us, for the last 25 years, to the most exciting adventures of the francophone canadian "avant" scene.

Initially founded just as a cooperative between the avant-gard artists & improvisors JEAN DEROME, RENE LUSSIER, JOANE HETU & friends.

First releases, RENE LUSSIER's debut work "Fin Du Travaill" (1983) and albums from ANDRE DUCHESNE, WONDEUR BRASS, LES POULES, LES GRANULES... attract a small interest, mostly among fans of RecRec sound, avant-prog and the likes.

In 1991 though, when JOANE HETU establishes the DAME distribution company, AMBIANCES MAGNETIQUES, taking the shape of a more regular label, extends its activities, adds its catalog many new artists... and gradually starts earning wider critical respect and international acknowledgement...

Nowadays AMBIANCES MAGNETIQUES music is available through its official website:
www.actuellecd.com


Rene Lussier


Ambiances Magnetiques: where new musics meet


a
01 RENE LUSSIER Clockville (1983)
02 LES POULES Chanson du pain (1986)
03 LES GRANULES Saturne (1986)
04 LES 4 GUITARISTES DE L 'APOCALYPSO BAR the as usual dance... (1989)
05 GENEVIEVE LETARTE Je ne tremble plus (2000)
06 ANDRE DUCHESNE limer (1984)
07 DIANE LABROSSE Constellations (1995)
08 JOANE HETU Fleurs iclatantes (1995)
09 JEAN DEROME Hymne aux palotins (1998)
10 L'ORKESTRE DES PAS PERDUS Poisson rouge (1996)
11 LES PROJECTIONNISTES Nuit blanche (1999)
12 ANDRE DUCHESNE Autant de lundis (2006)
13 HETU, LABROSSE, ROGER, PARKINS, TENKO Epilogue (1992)
14 LES GRANULES Sur la mort (1988)

b
01 WONDEUR BRASS Residence inconnue (1988)
02 JOANE HETU Ah! les beaux jours (1995)
03 GENEVIEVE LETARTE Contemplation (2000)
04 MICHEL F. COTE & DIANE LABROSSE Y tu mirar (1994)
05 JOELLE LEANDRE & QUENTIN SIRJACK Presence (2008)
06 MICHEL F. COTE Let's get lost (1998)
07 NATHALIE DEROME Esti quest belle ta peau (2000)
08 L'ORKESTRE DES PAS PERDUS La marche a Marie B. (1996)
09 LE 4 GUITARISTES DE L'APOCALYPSO BAR Scandinavian pedestrian (1989)
10 LES PROJECTIONNISTES Jeu de bloc (1999)
11 GENEVIEVE LETARTE La ragazza (1990)
12 LES GRANULES Le tango qui ne finit jamais (1992)
13 JUSTINE J'ai perdu le sommeil (1990)
14 INTERFERENCE SARDINES La girafe (2001)

download: part a / part b

tracks compiled by LaFolieDuJour
photos taken from www.actuellecd.com



GENEVIEVE LETARTE - Le Bout Du Monde (selected by Semilunio)

More Ambiances Magnetiques music at LaFolieDuJour:

WONDEUR BRASS - Ravir
LES POULES -Les Contes De L'Amere Loi

subterranean news!!


Celebrating the 30th anniversary of historical "CLUB FOOT"compilation, SUBTERRANEAN RECORDS is preparing a limited red vinyl pressing (450 copies) of the album. This release will coincide with a Feb. 11 2010 show at Cafe Du Nord, San Francisco. Some version of all the bands will perform... while SUBTERRANEAN is also working for some extra surprises...

For more subterranean culture see here: www.subterranean.org

Nov 26, 2009

THE LAUGHING CLOWNS "History of Rock N'Roll vol.1" (AUS, 1984)

reposted with a new link! as requested

While the third THE SAINTS album "Prehistoric Sounds" has already found the group aesthetics moved towards a bluesier, more soulful ground, guitarist EDMUND KUEPPER separates himself from puristic, narrowminded punk-rock plans, and forms THE LAUGHING CLOWNS, taking off the (embarrassed circa `79-`80) australian post punk status towards even artier, avant-jazz-blues-experimental horizons.

"History Of Rock N'Roll vol.1", released from HOT records in 1984, is a compilation of material selected from EPs the band recorded the 1980-`82 period.


THE LAUGHING CLOWNS,EP, rec Feb1980 (Holy Joe/I want to scream/The laughing clowns)

SOMETIMES, THE FIRE DANCE..., EP, rec June1980 (Sometimes)

LAUGHING CLOWNS 3 , EP, rec Nov1980 (Collapse board, Ghost beat, Clown town)

EVERYTHING THAT FLIES..., EP, rec Nov1982 (Every dog has its day, Everything that flies)

THEME FROM "MAD FLIES, MAD FLIES", 7``single, rec Oct1981 (Theme from "mad flies, mad flies").

THE LAUGHING CLOWNS (1980) : ED KUEPPER(guit, voc), JEFFREY WEGENER(drums), BOB FARRELL(sax), BEN WALLACE CRABBE(bass), DAN WALLACE CRABBE(piano).

THE LAUGHNING CLOWNS (1981-82): ED KUEPPER, JEFFREY WEGENER, LOUISE ELLIOT(sax), LESLIE MILLAR(bass), PETER DOYLE(trumpet).

History Of Rock N'Roll vol.1

Nov 19, 2009

MAGGIE NICOLS & PETER NU "Nicols 'N' Nu" (UK, 1985)


MAGGIE NICOLS - words, voice
PETER NU - piano

Avant vocalist Maggie Nicols and not so much known improv figure, Peter Nu unfold here a bare and incredibly daring piano-voice exploration, a free-music adventure which, further than any sum of its elements, leads to the inner aspect of the work, revealing regions of the artistic act, usually neglected, sightless.

Recorded in London in 1985, released from Leo Records and reissued later on CD. Still available.

tracklist

01. don't assume (21:40)
02. touching faces (2:50)
03. dynamite dream (3:45)
04. kids (9:40)
05. chad's blues (3:30)
06. after the storm (1:00)
07. i could write (1:30)
08. moments (8:15)
09. one note leads to another (17:40)



MAGGIE NICOLS & PETER NU - Moments

Nov 15, 2009

V.A. TERRA INCOGNITA vol.1 & 2 (Auxilio De Cientos compilations)

Terra Incognita vol 1

Terra Incognita vol 2


The two TERRA INCOGNITA compilations were released from spanish label Auxilio De Cientos in 1985 and 1986. The bands come from several countries and the music lies at the experimental-electronic-minimal synth fields. Compiling is quite good, behind the label, however, there are members of Neo Zelanda and Diseno Corbusier, spanish bands of the era that played similar stuff.
Twilight Ritual, Bene Gesserit, Attrition, DDAA, Ptose, Hector Zazou, Muslimgauze, Kastrierte Philosophen and other more obscure names are the guides through these "unknown lands"...

Nov 12, 2009

LES ELLES


Avant songwriters, actresses, humorists. Four girls refresh the tradition of french chanson-folk-art in their own theatrical grotesque-pop way. PASCALINE HERVEET writes music, lyrics and sings, SOPHIE HENRY is on accordion, piano and orchestration, SARAH AUVRAY does sound effects and vocals, while CHRISTINE LAPOUZE plays the cello.

LES ELLES start in Caen in 1992. Three years later they make their first (untitled) album with help of trumpetist (and future constant member) PIERRE MILLET and FRANCOIS HADJI LAZARO, owner of Boucherie Prod label. A second, also untitled and also acoustic and highly artistic work appears in 1997 from the same label. These first two albums are the best offer of the band. Nevertheless, due to the label's bad luck, they haven't the recognition they deserve.

first album, 1995


second album, 1997

Year 2000 finds LES ELLES with a new line-up, a new label (Inca Music) and a new, modernized, "more electronic" sound. SARAH AUVRY has left and PIERRE MILLET, STEPHANE DIATCHENKO (programming, samples) have been added instead. Albums of this second phase of the band are "Pamela Peacemaker" (2000), "Les Elles En Scene" (live, 2001) and - with a new line up again - "Siamoises" (2003), an inspired by and refered to the world of circus work that brings the band touring with the circus of Dr Paradis.

In the meanwhile Inca label faces financial problems and its final bankruptcy in 2004 leads LES ELLES temporarily in disbandment, but PASCALINE HERVEET, the main figure of the band forms a new version of LES ELLES, working on a new theatrical/musical performance named "Joseph"and releasing finally a self-produced album version of this project in May 2009.

The following LES ELLES compilation gives emphasis on the first two albums which represent the most interesting part of LES ELLES history so far.

LES ELLES compilation
(approx 56 min)

01 Nouche [1st album, 1995]
02 Quand je s'rais vieille [1995]
03 Water closets [1995]
04 Tom [1995]
05 L'amerloc [1995]
06 Simone [1995[
07 Une elle [1995]
08 La chatte de monsieur Clock [2nd album, 1997]
09 Le vase chinois [1997]
10 Le bal [1997]
11 Milo [1997]
12 Janine [1997]
13 Mauvais sang [1997]
14 Armand [Pamela Peacemaker, 2000]
15 Noel [2000]
16 La cantine [compilation track]
17 Trapese [Siamoises, 2003]
18 Bouche tru [2003]
- compiled by LaFolieDuJour -



LES ELLES - Le Chatte de Monsieur Clock

Nov 11, 2009

EPIC SOUNDTRACKS

Selections from the limited, mail-order only album "DEBRIS" (Normal / Return To Sender, 1995) accompanied with some tracks from his other releases.
"SLEEPING STAR" (1994) was EPIC's second solo album and ""CHANGE MY LIFE " (1996) his last. "GOOD THINGS" (2005) and the compilation "EVERYTHING IS TEMPORARY" (1999) are posthumous releases. Listen also to "RISE ABOVE" album here.


01 Stealaway [Change My Life]
02 Sleepy City [Change My Life]
03 Something's Wrong [Change My Life]
04 Cry A Tear [Good Things]
05 Sunny Day [Debris]
06 Carolans [Everything Is Temporary]
07 Stack-O-Tracks [Debris]
08 Night Time [Everything Is Temporary]
09 I Got To Be Free [Good Things]
10 Hole Of A Heart [Everything Is Temporary]
11 The Persuader [Debris]
12 Lot To Learn [Good Things]
13 Waiting For The Train Again (group version) [Debris]
14 A Three Acre Floor [Debris]
15 Wild & Smiling (mystery session) [Debris]
16 Tonight's The Night (R'N'R Lullaby) [Sleeping Star]

compiled by LaFolieDuJour

Nov 6, 2009

LOUIS SCLAVIS TRIO "Ceux Qui Veillent La Nuit" (FRA, 1996)


LOUIS SCLAVIS - clarinet, soprano sax
BRUNO CHEVILLON - bass
FRANCOIS MERVILLE - drums, percussions

More Louis Sclavis at Label Blue
ROMANO / SCLAVIS / TEXIER "Carnet De Routes" (1995) [listen: Annobon]
ROMANO /SCLAVIS / TEXIER "
Suite Africaine"(1999) [listen: Soweto sorrow]
ROMANO / SCLAVIS / TEXIER "African Flashbacks" (2005)
LOUIS SCLAVIS QUINTET "Chine"(2003 reissue, first edition IDA, 1987)
LOUIS SCLAVIS SEPTET "Chamber Music" (2003 reissue, first edition IDA, 1989)
LOUIS SCLAVIS "Danses Et Autres Scenes" (1997) [listen: Germania valse]
LOUIS SCLAVIS "Clarinettes" (1999 reissue, first edition IDA 1985)

Caminos De Cataluña: Twenty years of label G3G (1989 - 2009)

RAEO (Mark Cunningham + Gat)


JAKOB DRAMINSKY


VICTOR NUBLA

G3G (a.k.a. G33G) is a Barcelona based label, named after its three "G" founders (Gat, Guillem, Gloria). Active since 1989, it has been releasing, mainly, music from local Catalonian artists. The most interesting of G3G works offer idiosyncratic and experimental views of current forms combining, sometimes radically, art-rock, electronics, jazz, world, ambient, minimal...
Label's bigger name is PASCAL COMELADE. Here, though, you can also find late 70's , 80's spanish underground personalities as JUAN CREK and VICTOR NUBLA, (both members of the historic experimental band MACROMASSA), contemporary improvisators as JAKOB DRAMINSKY, eclectic crossings of Mediterranea with New York as RAEO, (collaboration between G3G founder GAT and no-wave man MARK CUNNINGHAM )... and many other worth discovering artists.
Quite collectable are the very limited, vinyl-only "Tarot" singles of the label, released the period 1989-1995.

ANTON IGNORANT


MACROMASSA

a G3G sampler

01. ALIEN MAR - Selenita
("Alien Mar", 1996)
02. GRAN TEATRO AMARO - La nuova piuma
("La Vie En Rouge", 2002)
03. RAEO - Mambo maya
("Adios Jupiter", 1994)
04. RAEO - Kineshtesia
("Body Loops", 1999)
05. JAKOB DRAMINSKY - On a x-road to Bagdad
(v.a. "Ten Years After, una compilacion de G3G", 1999)
06. ORIOL PERUCHO - Las pelusas
("Insulto, Le Multaron Y Dejo De Comer", 1992)
07. PIERRE BASTIEN - Argel allegra
("Se Verla Al Reves", 2005)
08. MACROMASSA - El largo camino a las almedras
("Los Hechos Perez", 1992)
09. JUAN CREK & SERGIO OCA - Viento del sur
("Viento Del Este", 1996)
10. RAEO - Memorias del oasis
("Adios Jupiter", 1994)
11. PASCAL COMELADE - Patafisiskal polska
("Ragazzin' The Blues", 1991)
12. PASCAL COMELADE - Neo-realismo del'habanera
("Ragazzin' The Blues", 1991)
13. MINOX & LYDIA LUNCH - U turn
(v.a. "Ten Years After, una complilacion de G3G", 1999)
14. MACROMASSA - Alas plegables
("Los Hechos Perez", 1992)
15. PIERRE BASTIEN - Roba sabor
("Se Verla Al Reves", 2005)

compiled by LaFolieDuJour

Download: G3G sampler (15tracks)

photos of artists are from experimentaclub
(www.experimentaclub.com)

visit: www.g33grecords.com

Nov 5, 2009

Sounds Of Fortune: The Tarot Vinyls Of G3G (SPAIN)

The G3G "Tarot" Collection of limited, numbered vinyl singles:


XV - RAEO - El Diablo, 1992


XXI - GAWK - The World, 1992


XVIIII - MACROELVIS/SUPERMASSA - El Sol, 1994


XVIII - IGNORANT BUILDINGS - La Luna, 1989


XVII - PIERRE BASTIEN - La Estrella, 1993


VIII - MIL DOLORES PEQUENOS - La Justicia, 1995


XX - VICTOR SIERRA - Jugement, 1992

IX- PASCAL COMELADE & BELCANTO ORQUESTRA - El Ermitano, 1992


VII - ETANT DONNES - El Carro, 1993


RAEO - Mambo Maya