***Industrial dead-dance music. Hypnotic, mekanik. Maniac electronics. Deviant wave. Whatever catchphrase we go with to describe the first full studio album by EL-G (Kraaaak, S-S, and Nashazphone) and JO (Tanz Procesz), both of whom have worked with Ghédalia Tazartès under the monicker REINES D’ANGLETERRE, these young delinquents scrub the industrial music of their elders with body-tingling electronic rhythms. Wild and colorful, binary and furious, dirty and futuristic, an excellent example of how the new underground electronics connect history to contemporaneity.
LP $21.85
10/11/2011
***Second improv meeting between bass clarinettist MICHEL PILZ (GLOBE UNITY ORCHESTRA, MANFRED SCHOOF QUINTET) and percussionist NOEL COGNARD (SALMIGONDIS, EMPAN, TRIBRAQUE), with an expanded line-up that includes ITARU OKI on trumpet and flute, BENJAMIN DUBOC on contrabass and voice, PATRICK MULLER on "électrosonics," and SEBASTIAN RIVAS on computer. Explorations on the border of free jazz and post-noise atmospheres.
LP $21.85
10/11/2011
***Free and improvised navigation of the murky waters of organized sound, orchestrated like New Yorkers or Köln-ists. JEAN-FRANCOIS PAUVROS (guitars and voice) PATRICK MULLER of ILITCH (electrosonics), JEAN-NOEL COGNARD (drums and objects).
LP $30.25
12/14/2010
***Another astonishing work by SERGE ADAM (trumpet, bugle), JEROME NOETINGER (electroacoustic system), TITUS OPPMANN (bass), JEAN-NOEL COGNARD (drums, percussions & objects), who create a broken puzzle with pieces of early free jazz, European improv and electroacoustic manipulations. Heavy card foldover sleeve, silkscreened on both sides. Blue vinyl. Edition of 300.
LP $19.35
05/11/2010
***Free jazz meets junkotronics with this inspired, excited quartet—JEAN NOEL, COGNARD (SALMIGONDIS) on drums and assorted percussion, ARNAUD RIVIERE (BOBBY MOO) on electronics, TITUS OPPMANN on bass, and CHICCO GRAMAGLIA on trombone. Heavy card foldover sleeve, silkscreened on both sides. Purple vinyl. Edition of 300.
LP $19.35
05/11/2010
***The French freaks are back with five guests on percussion, flute, alto, trumpet and noises, taking their thing into psych Dada nutso jazz mini big-band territory. Handmade covers (their signature pink starburst, a plaid wallpaper sample, and found images from magazines; chipboard jackets). Edition of 150.
LP $19.35
05/11/2010
***French quintet of freaks playing improvised psychedelic noise jazz kraut muzak with drums, percussion, guitar, bass, synth, saxophone, turntables, objects, voice and crazy electronics. Broken swing and harsh Dada spirit, with an early Futurist flavor. Handmade covers (their signature pink starburst with a letterpressed mark on one side, the name silkscreened in two colors on the other; chipboard jackets). Edition of 150.
LP $19.35
05/11/2010