Un superbe mini-album de covers signé David Pajo, dans la même veine que le maxi proposé récemment - donc du folk à pleurer dans la veine du regretté Elliott Smith. Des reprises? Oui, et qui plus est des reprises de Glenn Danzig des Misfits, qui entre les mains de l'ex-Slint et Tortoise subissent le même traitement que celles d'AC/DC revues par Mark Kozelek - à savoir qu'elles en sortent transfigurées. Je le redis, le résultat est superbe.
David Pajo
Scream with Me
CD Black Tent Press No.2 (USA, 02-2009)
01. Angelfuck
02. Hybrid Moments
03. Where Eagles Dare
04. Bullet
05. Teenagers from Mars
06. Devil's Whorehouse
07. I Turned into a Martian
08. Horror Business
09. Attitude
Note : Songs written by Glenn Danzig (the Misfits).
Experimental cover albums generally tend to disappoint. Usually an artist’s motives for interpretation are sound, yet the final product is rarely impressive, often belittling the original work. Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon), known for his “interpretive covers,” has reconstructed a myriad of works ranging from Francis Scott Key’s “The Star Spangled Banner,” to various AC/DC tracks, to an entire collection of Modest Mouse songs (Sun Kil Moon – Tiny Cities). The problem with Kozelek’s covers, as with others who compose hyper-experimental covers, is that frankly, no one really cares. All he really did (and this is no knock on Kozelek’s earlier work like Down Colorful Hill, just his questionable later years) was write a completely unrelated song with his own trademark musical style. Then instead of writing lyrics that could tie a noose around any listener’s neck, he used the author’s original ones…obviously.
Unlike Kozelek’s frequent use of “poetic license,” David Pajo’s relatively unknown, vinyl only release, Scream With Me, finds a tolerable balance between interpretation and reiteration. As you’ve probably guessed, the record takes a rather sobering look at a collection of songs from the original Kings of the Underworld, The Misfits.
Pajo is probably the most important guitarist since the late 80s, and even though this record doesn’t really add to his impressive resumé (Slint – Spiderland & Tweez, Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die & TNT, Royal Trux – 3 Song EP), it does serve as an intriguing work.
Anyways, if you the thought 3-chord punk couldn’t be simplified any further, then you’ve been misled. Pajo takes punk’s musical manifesto and turns it into very simple lo-fi acoustic jams. Pajo follows the chordal tonality of each song, then turning the power chords into natural chords more suitable for the tenderness of plucking and finger picking. Pajo’s feeble vocals could bother some, but they are pleasantly human.
You’re not going to find a whole lot of progressive jazz riffs, piercing harmonics, spastic time signatures or anything else that made Pajo a Louisville legend, but there is a great way to enjoy this album: build a camp fire deep within your local wilderness destination, crack open a few cold ones and indulge in one of the most epic sing-a-longs courtesy of Pajo.
http://www.mediafire.com/?k1gqlaufoew1e2d
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22/11/2011
14/11/2011
Laura J. Martin & The Simonsound - Inside your Bones (Battered Ornaments, 2011)
Ce n'est qu'un single, huit minutes de musique et puis s'en va, mais quel single! Et quel contraste, aussi. Laura J. Martin nous livre un délicieux moment de folk, voix douce, orchestration boisée avec flûte et harpe. Et à côté de cette merveille, le remix signé The Simonsound sonne comme du DJ Shadow de la grande époque - et c'est une tuerie. Si j'avais une rubrique ''single of the week'' celui-ci y trouverait sa place, mais comme j'écoute peu de singles on peut même parler de single du mois. Single de l'année? On n'est pas encore à l'heure des bilans, mais ces deux titres sont bien placés sur la ligne!
Laura J. Martin & The Simonsound
Inside your Bones
7'' Battered Ornaments BOR008 (UK, 04-2011)
01. Spy (The Simonsound Remix)
02. Inside your Bones
Note : Fresh folksy fusioneering from Battered Ornaments, the boutique imprint belonging to Finders Keepers' Doug Shipton. Laura J Martin hails from Liverpool and has a truly enchanting voice, showcased in two very different lights here. The first is a classically cinematic themed production by The Simonsound, aka DJ Format and Simon James, full of tight, tumbling breaks, analogue synth marks and proggy flute. The second, 'In Your Bones' is a quiet, hauntingly pastoral piece of magic, placing Laura's supernatural voice against a backdrop of soft guitar, xylophone and subtle electronics. (Boomkat)
http://www.mediafire.com/?vtsvf5oq51vkvi8
Laura J. Martin & The Simonsound
Inside your Bones
7'' Battered Ornaments BOR008 (UK, 04-2011)
01. Spy (The Simonsound Remix)
02. Inside your Bones
Note : Fresh folksy fusioneering from Battered Ornaments, the boutique imprint belonging to Finders Keepers' Doug Shipton. Laura J Martin hails from Liverpool and has a truly enchanting voice, showcased in two very different lights here. The first is a classically cinematic themed production by The Simonsound, aka DJ Format and Simon James, full of tight, tumbling breaks, analogue synth marks and proggy flute. The second, 'In Your Bones' is a quiet, hauntingly pastoral piece of magic, placing Laura's supernatural voice against a backdrop of soft guitar, xylophone and subtle electronics. (Boomkat)
http://www.mediafire.com/?vtsvf5oq51vkvi8
Benoit Pioulard - Flocks (Blue Flea, 2009)
Tout ce que j'ai perdu sur le dernier effort de Benoit Pioulard, je le retrouve ici. En premier lieu son chant, sur la face A, quand le post-rock dérive vers un ambient-folk de très belle facture. Plus surprenante, la face B nous fait découvrir un drone menaçant, une autre facette.
Benoît Pioulard
Flocks
7'' Blue Flea Blue Flea 016 (USA, 04-2009)
a1. Maginot
b1. Alaskan Lashes
[old link is in prison, new link later, maybe]
Benoît Pioulard
Flocks
7'' Blue Flea Blue Flea 016 (USA, 04-2009)
a1. Maginot
b1. Alaskan Lashes
[old link is in prison, new link later, maybe]
07/11/2011
Pewtr Trust / Pumice - Split (Ultra Eczema, 2005)
Voici un bien joli disque partagé entre le néo-zélandais Pumice - que nous retrouvons avec plaisir sur ce blog - et un américain inconnu de nos services. C'est folk, lo-fi et globalement bien doux, même si Pumice ne peut s'empêcher quelques dérapages électriques au détour d'un plus long morceau. Séduisant!
Pewtr Trust / Pumice
Split
CDr Ultra Eczema [Ultra Eczema 23] (Belgium, 2005)
01. Pewtr Trust - The Continuum Subverted
02. Pewtr Trust - Unevitable Death of Formula
03. Pewtr Trust - Friends Are Liquid
04. Pumice - Pudding Stone / Wild Dogs
05. Pumice - The Abominable
06. Pumice - Goongong
Note : Both sessions recorded by Dennis Tyfus at Radio Centraal.
http://www.mediafire.com/?fcctyqzfolcx0ea
Pewtr Trust / Pumice
Split
CDr Ultra Eczema [Ultra Eczema 23] (Belgium, 2005)
01. Pewtr Trust - The Continuum Subverted
02. Pewtr Trust - Unevitable Death of Formula
03. Pewtr Trust - Friends Are Liquid
04. Pumice - Pudding Stone / Wild Dogs
05. Pumice - The Abominable
06. Pumice - Goongong
Note : Both sessions recorded by Dennis Tyfus at Radio Centraal.
http://www.mediafire.com/?fcctyqzfolcx0ea
23/10/2011
Susan Christie - Paint a Lady (Finders Keepers, 1969)
Voilà une pépite qui a déjà fait plusieurs fois le tour de la blogosphère depuis sa résurrection en 2006, que je poste pour les deux retardataires qui seraient passé entre les goutes. Pour la petite histoire, Susan Christie était une jeune femme de Philadelphie à qui CBS avait fait signer un contrat, pensant tenir là une future vedette. En recevant ses chansons, le label déchanta : refus, pas de disque, fin de l'histoire. Quelques copies pressées à titre privée circulèrent heureusement, jusqu'à ce que Finders Keepers les exhume. Le label nous parle de ''suburban folk songs'', de ''psychedelic country standards'' avec ''a beat heavy funk-folk rhythm section''. Oui, heavy funk-folk! Ajoutez un morceau long de 9 minutes et vous comprendrez mieux le rejet de CBS à l'époque. On s'éloignait trop du psych-folk que le label voulait vendre. Aujourd'hui, loin d'une banale collection de maquettes on découvre un album enchanteur. Avec une pointe de tristesse aussi, en pensant à tous les autres disques qu'elle aurait pu nous offrir si elle avait persévéré. Même si je peux la comprendre : travailler deux ans sur des chansons pour s'entendre dire que non, ce n'est pas assez commercial, il y a de quoi vous dégoûter de l'industrie du disque.
Susan Christie
Paint a Lady
CD Finders Keepers FKR007CD (UK, 1969 - reissued 2006)
01. Rainy Day
02. Paint a Lady
03. For the Love of a Soldier
04. Ghost Riders in the Sky
05. Yesterday, Where's my Mind?
06. Echo in your Mind
07. When Love Comes
08. No One Can Hear You Cry
Note : Recorded at Sigma Sound, Philadelphia. Jon Hill Music 1969.
The material on this album, heard by few until it was issued on CD in the early 21st century, might have been built up as a little weirder than it is by some of the collectors who've raved about it. While it's not the most uplifting stuff in the world, much of it is haunting but not all that out-there pop-folk. Susan Christie's fairly strong, strident vocals and moody melodies, occasionally embellished by strings, aren't the most uncommercial mixture that could have been concocted, though apparently they were too uncommercial to find release when they were originally recorded. What is unusual -- and what sets it most apart from some singers she might bear the vaguest of resemblance to at times, like Melanie, Tim Buckley, Sandy Denny, and Bobbie Gentry -- are the unexpectedly forceful distorted guitars, near-hard rock organ, and angular rhythms and mild dissonance used in some of the arrangements. In addition, for an eight-song, half-hour album, it's certainly unpredictable in the wide territory it covers -- "No One Can Hear You Cry," unlike anything else on the record, is close to sounding like a fine lost Dionne Warwick outtake, though even that gets set aside from the usual Bacharach/David production by the insertion of off-the-wall exotic tinkles of descending instrumental glissandos. If that's not odd enough in this company, there's also a cut, "When Love Comes," that's not too far off early Marianne Faithfull at her best. In contrast, "Yesterday, Where's My Mind?" is freaky at the outset, with its pummeling, tumbling drum breaks, creepy organ, and trippy ominous whisper-to-a-scream recitation, but even that track settles back into a relatively conventional song after three minutes. "For the Love of a Soldier" is another standout, managing to mix affecting antiwar folk-rock with a funky hard rock chorus quite effectively. Though Christie's not quite a major talent based on these relics, this is nicely dreamy and varied folk-rock for the most part that shows a lot of sadly unfulfilled potential, and if it's more downbeat than the norm for the genre, it's hardly gloomy. (All Music Guide)
http://www.mediafire.com/?5kmube3lax4ms25
Susan Christie
Paint a Lady
CD Finders Keepers FKR007CD (UK, 1969 - reissued 2006)
01. Rainy Day
02. Paint a Lady
03. For the Love of a Soldier
04. Ghost Riders in the Sky
05. Yesterday, Where's my Mind?
06. Echo in your Mind
07. When Love Comes
08. No One Can Hear You Cry
Note : Recorded at Sigma Sound, Philadelphia. Jon Hill Music 1969.
The material on this album, heard by few until it was issued on CD in the early 21st century, might have been built up as a little weirder than it is by some of the collectors who've raved about it. While it's not the most uplifting stuff in the world, much of it is haunting but not all that out-there pop-folk. Susan Christie's fairly strong, strident vocals and moody melodies, occasionally embellished by strings, aren't the most uncommercial mixture that could have been concocted, though apparently they were too uncommercial to find release when they were originally recorded. What is unusual -- and what sets it most apart from some singers she might bear the vaguest of resemblance to at times, like Melanie, Tim Buckley, Sandy Denny, and Bobbie Gentry -- are the unexpectedly forceful distorted guitars, near-hard rock organ, and angular rhythms and mild dissonance used in some of the arrangements. In addition, for an eight-song, half-hour album, it's certainly unpredictable in the wide territory it covers -- "No One Can Hear You Cry," unlike anything else on the record, is close to sounding like a fine lost Dionne Warwick outtake, though even that gets set aside from the usual Bacharach/David production by the insertion of off-the-wall exotic tinkles of descending instrumental glissandos. If that's not odd enough in this company, there's also a cut, "When Love Comes," that's not too far off early Marianne Faithfull at her best. In contrast, "Yesterday, Where's My Mind?" is freaky at the outset, with its pummeling, tumbling drum breaks, creepy organ, and trippy ominous whisper-to-a-scream recitation, but even that track settles back into a relatively conventional song after three minutes. "For the Love of a Soldier" is another standout, managing to mix affecting antiwar folk-rock with a funky hard rock chorus quite effectively. Though Christie's not quite a major talent based on these relics, this is nicely dreamy and varied folk-rock for the most part that shows a lot of sadly unfulfilled potential, and if it's more downbeat than the norm for the genre, it's hardly gloomy. (All Music Guide)
http://www.mediafire.com/?5kmube3lax4ms25
19/10/2011
Loren Mazzacane Connors - Hell! Hell! Hell! Hell! Hell! (The Lotus Sound, 1997)
I'm back - même si je n'étais parti nulle part en fait! J'espère que ce petit break vous aura permis de vous remettre des albums de Rufus Harley. Quoi? Pas encore écoutés? Foncez, vous allez voir, c'est quelque chose! Et pour ceux qu'une version cornemuse jazz de Love Is Blue laisserait perplexes - et je ne parle même pas d'un duo de cornemuse et de marimba, je reviens aux fondamentaux : Loren Connors. Le titre est clair, c'est un de ses albums les plus électriques, avec quelques moments de calme entre deux gros orages. Si vous n'avez pas encore tenté un seul de ses titres proposés ici, ce n'est peut-être pas l'entrée idéale. Jetez un oeil aux autres albums postés, laissez-vous guider si une pochette ou un titre d'album vous inspire. J'ai déjà dit tout le bien que je pense de ce guitariste intime, lunaire et fragile - ce qu'on ne devinerait pas forcément avec cet album d'enfer!
Loren Mazzacane Connors
Hell! Hell! Hell! Hell! Hell!
CD The Lotus Sound TLS003 (USA, 03-1997)
01. Untitled
02. Untitled
03. Untitled
04. Untitled
05. Untitled
06. Untitled
07. Untitled
08. Untitled
09. Untitled
10. Untitled
11. Untitled
12. Untitled
Note : Loren MazzaCane Connors, electric guitar. Recorded 1996.
As discographers struggle to track the enormous output of this avant-garde blues guitarist, this foray into solo guitar playing must be noted as an extraordinary addition. As a guitarist who began in a tough independent world in the early '80s with a series of acoustic blues improvisations under the pseudonym Guitar Roberts, he established a style which would progress into a distinctive electric style that was simply gorgeous: a study of miniature reductions which expanded upon blues motifs in a way that rendered them almost transparent echoes of pure minimalism. Hell's Kitchen Park is exemplary of this musical phase, and the inferno crops up again as a theme on this CD. The tranquility of the older recordings gives way to a much heavier feedback style, summarizing the esteemed status he has with fans Sonic Youth and Keiji Haino -- no less, in one grand sweep. Hell ! Hell! Hell! mimics flames in its voluminous feedback-drenched guitar and is certainly one of the more aggressive releases in his catalog. The variation of moods in his recordings does not overshadow his distinctive string-bending and tremolo arcs that are a strong signature in all of his recordings -- as is his ability to identify the conclusion of an improvisation. Like many of his recordings, this album is pared down into short edits of his finest statements of the day. Strikingly, this album touches on psychedelic territory, the kind of fuzz guitar storms more common in the work of Bardot Bond or Roy Montgomery. (All Music Guide)
[old link is in prison, new link later, maybe]
Loren Mazzacane Connors
Hell! Hell! Hell! Hell! Hell!
CD The Lotus Sound TLS003 (USA, 03-1997)
01. Untitled
02. Untitled
03. Untitled
04. Untitled
05. Untitled
06. Untitled
07. Untitled
08. Untitled
09. Untitled
10. Untitled
11. Untitled
12. Untitled
Note : Loren MazzaCane Connors, electric guitar. Recorded 1996.
As discographers struggle to track the enormous output of this avant-garde blues guitarist, this foray into solo guitar playing must be noted as an extraordinary addition. As a guitarist who began in a tough independent world in the early '80s with a series of acoustic blues improvisations under the pseudonym Guitar Roberts, he established a style which would progress into a distinctive electric style that was simply gorgeous: a study of miniature reductions which expanded upon blues motifs in a way that rendered them almost transparent echoes of pure minimalism. Hell's Kitchen Park is exemplary of this musical phase, and the inferno crops up again as a theme on this CD. The tranquility of the older recordings gives way to a much heavier feedback style, summarizing the esteemed status he has with fans Sonic Youth and Keiji Haino -- no less, in one grand sweep. Hell ! Hell! Hell! mimics flames in its voluminous feedback-drenched guitar and is certainly one of the more aggressive releases in his catalog. The variation of moods in his recordings does not overshadow his distinctive string-bending and tremolo arcs that are a strong signature in all of his recordings -- as is his ability to identify the conclusion of an improvisation. Like many of his recordings, this album is pared down into short edits of his finest statements of the day. Strikingly, this album touches on psychedelic territory, the kind of fuzz guitar storms more common in the work of Bardot Bond or Roy Montgomery. (All Music Guide)
[old link is in prison, new link later, maybe]
06/10/2011
Bert Jansch - The Bert Jansch Sampler (Transatlantic, 1969)
Mourir d'un cancer le même jour que le gourou d'Apple n'aidera pas à remettre la musique de Bert Jansch sous les projecteurs. L'un était un visionnaire rendant indispensables des objets dont on ignorait avoir besoin, l'autre n'était qu'un chanteur folk. Si vous voulez bien excuser cette formule facile, je dirai que les produits du premier sont hors de prix et que la musique du second n'a pas de prix. En espérant que ce sampler introductif vous donnera envie d'explorer davantage sa discographie.
Bert Jansch
The Bert Jansch Sampler
LP Transatlantic TRA SAM 10 (UK, 1969)
01. Rabbit Run
02. The Wheel
03. Go your Way my Love
04. Come Back Baby
05. Angie
06. Needle of Death
07. Wishing Well
08. The First Time Ever I Saw your Face
09. Nottamun Town
10. Blackwaterside
11. Veronica
12. Running from Home
Note : There are no exclusive tracks here but this was the first Bert Jansch UK compilation and the only one to be compiled and annotated by Bert himself. “The songs may not be my best,” he said in the notes, “but they seem to me to be the most perfect things I have done as far as performance and recording goes.” He took the opportunity to correct the mistitling of ‘Veronica’ as ‘Casbah’ on the sleeve of his first LP.
http://www.mediafire.com/?p6qn0zivyhr0nhn
Bert Jansch
The Bert Jansch Sampler
LP Transatlantic TRA SAM 10 (UK, 1969)
01. Rabbit Run
02. The Wheel
03. Go your Way my Love
04. Come Back Baby
05. Angie
06. Needle of Death
07. Wishing Well
08. The First Time Ever I Saw your Face
09. Nottamun Town
10. Blackwaterside
11. Veronica
12. Running from Home
Note : There are no exclusive tracks here but this was the first Bert Jansch UK compilation and the only one to be compiled and annotated by Bert himself. “The songs may not be my best,” he said in the notes, “but they seem to me to be the most perfect things I have done as far as performance and recording goes.” He took the opportunity to correct the mistitling of ‘Veronica’ as ‘Casbah’ on the sleeve of his first LP.
http://www.mediafire.com/?p6qn0zivyhr0nhn
Anne Lonnberg - Anne Lonnberg (Riviera, 1969)
Voilà un bien joli disque encore méconnu. Contrairement aux opus de Vashti Bunyan, d'Evie Sands, de Bridget St. John et quelques autres, il n'a à ma connaissance pas encore été réédité. Alors qu'il le mériterait vraiment! De belles chansons sous influence folk, avec des arrangements subtils, doux et soyeux. On a pu entrapercevoir Anne Lonnberg au cinéma, par exemple en gardienne de musée dans Moonraker, ou dans des séries télévisées oubliées. Ceci semble être son unique album, c'est trop peu à mon goût.
Anne Lonnberg
Anne Lonnberg
LP Riviera 521.174 (France, 1969)
01. By & by
02. Forbidden Seasons
03. Into my Dream
04. So I Wish Thee
05. Spinner
06. Bungalatus / Bunga Gibus
07. Les Deux Soeurs
08. Ne Ferme Pas ta Porte
09. Good-Bye Alexander
10. Cette Nuit
11. Comment Font-ils
12. Tu Viens et Tu t'en Vas
Note : With Christian Chevallier's Orchestra.
[old link is in prison, new link later, maybe]
Anne Lonnberg
Anne Lonnberg
LP Riviera 521.174 (France, 1969)
01. By & by
02. Forbidden Seasons
03. Into my Dream
04. So I Wish Thee
05. Spinner
06. Bungalatus / Bunga Gibus
07. Les Deux Soeurs
08. Ne Ferme Pas ta Porte
09. Good-Bye Alexander
10. Cette Nuit
11. Comment Font-ils
12. Tu Viens et Tu t'en Vas
Note : With Christian Chevallier's Orchestra.
[old link is in prison, new link later, maybe]
01/10/2011
Alela Diane - Forest Parade (self-released, 2003)
Alela Diane est encore jeune, elle n'est qu'au début de sa carrière, et pourtant sa discographie compte déjà des raretés. Voici son tout premier album autoproduit, ses toutes premières chansons jamais enregistrées. Contrairement à son successeur The Pirate's Gospel, ce Forest Parade n'aura pas eu la chance d'être réédité, ce qui est bien dommage tant ses chansons de jeunesse sont déjà intemporelles.
Alela Diane
Forest Parade
CDr self-released (USA, 2003)
01. Brown Dirt
02. Red Tin Roof
03. Her Garden
04. Unraveling
05. The Snow
06. In your Voice
07. You
08. Blue Swallows
09. The Axe
10. Clothesline
11. I'm Sorry
12. Strong Daughter
13. For Tonight
Note : First songs ever written, no longer sell copies.
[old link is in prison, new link later, maybe]
Alela Diane
Forest Parade
CDr self-released (USA, 2003)
01. Brown Dirt
02. Red Tin Roof
03. Her Garden
04. Unraveling
05. The Snow
06. In your Voice
07. You
08. Blue Swallows
09. The Axe
10. Clothesline
11. I'm Sorry
12. Strong Daughter
13. For Tonight
Note : First songs ever written, no longer sell copies.
[old link is in prison, new link later, maybe]
Geneviève Castrée - Pamplemoussi (L'Oie de Cravan, 2004)
Geneviève Castrée est un secret trop bien gardé et un coup de coeur durable. Elle est canadienne, et ça s'entend! En fait, son accent est si prononcé qu'au début je ne me suis même pas rendu compte qu'elle chantait en français. Sa voix et son accent sont très particuliers, vous n'aurez pas d'autre choix que d'essayer par vous-même. Soit ça vous agacera - les mauvaises langues la rapprocheront de Coeur de Pirate même si l'univers est ici hautement plus fragile et poétique - soit ça vous enchantera. Et je vous conseille d'acheter ses disques, puisqu'elle est aussi dessinatrice et propose des livrets très riches et magnifiquement illustrés. On a entre les mains de très beaux objets, des livres-disques dont le support prolonge l'enchantement de la musique. Elle chante aussi sous le nom de Woelv et Ô Paon, si ça peut vous aider à trouver ses albums.
Geneviève Castrée
Pamplemoussi
LP L'Oie de Cravan (Canada, 06-2004)
01. Chanson pour les Têtes Molles
02. Chanson pour la Renarde
03. Chanson pour les Guêpes
04. Chanson pour le Tigre
05. Chanson pour l'Étoile Polaire
06. Chanson pour la Géante
07. Chanson pour la Hase
08. Chanson Cachée
Note : A book of drawings that includes the first record of songs by Geneviève Castrée. A little bit like a children's book, there are animals and also half-naked women. Clumsy songs that remain the favourites of some people.
[old link is in prison, new link later, maybe]
Geneviève Castrée
Pamplemoussi
LP L'Oie de Cravan (Canada, 06-2004)
01. Chanson pour les Têtes Molles
02. Chanson pour la Renarde
03. Chanson pour les Guêpes
04. Chanson pour le Tigre
05. Chanson pour l'Étoile Polaire
06. Chanson pour la Géante
07. Chanson pour la Hase
08. Chanson Cachée
Note : A book of drawings that includes the first record of songs by Geneviève Castrée. A little bit like a children's book, there are animals and also half-naked women. Clumsy songs that remain the favourites of some people.
[old link is in prison, new link later, maybe]
24/09/2011
Beck - A Western Harvest Field by Moonlight (Fingerpaint, 1994)
Un Beck des débuts, d'avant ''Loser'' ou ''One Foot in the Grave'', un de ces disques que les fans de la première heure désespéraient de trouver - et on n'avait pas encore Napster pour nous aider! Aujourd'hui, après avoir été hype ultime de chez hype, après une phase de recyclage coloré, Beck est un producteur cool qui fait du Beck à la cool. Toujours cool, l'étincelle en moins, pour ne pas dire banalisé - ce qui pouvait lui arriver de pire. Aux origines, Beck faisait déjà du Beck, mais ne se copiait pas encore - est-ce que cette phrase est compréhensible? Un disque lo-fi de folk centenaire, avec des bricolages sur cassettes et des pointes punk pour faire bonne mesure.
Beck
A Western Harvest Field by Moonlight
10'' Fingerpaint Records FPEP-002 (USA, 1994)
01. Totally Confused
02. Mayonaise Salad
03. Gettin Home
04. Blackfire Choked our Death
05. Feel Like a Piece of Shit (Mind Control)
06. She Is All (Gimme Something to Eat)
07. Pinefresh
08. Lampshade
09. Feel Like a Piece of Shit (Crossover Potential)
10. Mango (Vader Rocks!)
11. Feel Like a Piece of Shit (Cheetos Time!)
12. Styrofoam Chicken (Quality Time)
Note : Produced by Beck Hansen and Tom Grimley.
First pressings include a finger painting, runout grooves read "Sexydeath Soda" and "Cherry Cupcake".
http://www.mediafire.com/?ihnwrfrrlv9g6lb
Beck
A Western Harvest Field by Moonlight
10'' Fingerpaint Records FPEP-002 (USA, 1994)
01. Totally Confused
02. Mayonaise Salad
03. Gettin Home
04. Blackfire Choked our Death
05. Feel Like a Piece of Shit (Mind Control)
06. She Is All (Gimme Something to Eat)
07. Pinefresh
08. Lampshade
09. Feel Like a Piece of Shit (Crossover Potential)
10. Mango (Vader Rocks!)
11. Feel Like a Piece of Shit (Cheetos Time!)
12. Styrofoam Chicken (Quality Time)
Note : Produced by Beck Hansen and Tom Grimley.
First pressings include a finger painting, runout grooves read "Sexydeath Soda" and "Cherry Cupcake".
http://www.mediafire.com/?ihnwrfrrlv9g6lb
22/09/2011
Beirut - The Rip Tide (Pompeii, 2011)
Oui oui, je sais! Ce disque a déjà été posté partout depuis l'été! Ce post n'intéressera que les retardataires qui sont tombés sur des liens morts. Mais j'ai une excuse, je n'ai commencé à l'écouter que ce weekend, et je suis tombé sous le charme. J'avais des réserves à l'époque du premier album de Beirut. Moins sur la musique que sur l'enthousiasme suspect autour de Beirut. C'est sûr qu'un gamin de 18 ans qui débarque avec une fanfare des Balkans, ça surprend dans le petit monde du rock indépendant. On le regarde au mieux comme une curiosité. Plus lisse, le second album m'avait par contre pleinement convaincu, et ce troisième confirme un coup de coeur durable. Alors oui, il y a toujours cet enthousiasme, mais Zach Condon a vieilli, pris de la bouteille. Alors oui, il y a toujours cette fascination pour les noms de ville - ce qui nous faisait visiter une France de carte postale trop irréaliste. Alors oui, ça s'appuie toujours sur l'énergie de cette fanfare, mais ce n'est pas qu'un gimmick. Car il y a derrière tout ça de vraies compositions d'un haut niveau, un talent mélodique imparable, une vraie personnalité qui est là pour un moment. Deux défauts tout de même à cet album euphorisant : sa pochette et sa durée. La pochette est sobre et élégante, mais fait bien pâle figure en comparaison des précédentes. Et à peine plus de trente minutes, c'est trop court! D'ici à ce que cet album autoproduit - Pompeii est la propre structure de Zach Condon - soit réédité sur un plus gros label avec un nouveau package et des titres bonus, ça ne m'étonnerait pas! En même temps, pour ce que ce téléchargement vous aura coûté, vous n'allez pas vous plaindre!
Beirut
The Rip Tide
CD Pompeii Records POMP-03 (USA, 08-2011)
01. A Candle's Fire
02. Sante Fe
03. East Harlem
04. Goshen
05. Payne's Bay
06. The Rip Tide
07. Vagabond
08. The Peacock
09. Port of Call
http://www.mediafire.com/?7d93dqpk2aave75
Beirut
The Rip Tide
CD Pompeii Records POMP-03 (USA, 08-2011)
01. A Candle's Fire
02. Sante Fe
03. East Harlem
04. Goshen
05. Payne's Bay
06. The Rip Tide
07. Vagabond
08. The Peacock
09. Port of Call
http://www.mediafire.com/?7d93dqpk2aave75
18/09/2011
Laura Arkana met Peter Broderick - Lentemuziek (Hush, 2011)
Vous allez finir par croire que quand je poste une nouveauté, c'est toujours un disque qui ne m'a pas convaincu. C'est vrai que les derniers... Alors vous vous demandez pourquoi je m'acharne à en poster. Simplement parce que de temps en temps on tombe sur des albums comme celui-ci! C'est le court et très joli disque indie-folk d'une demoiselle qui vient des Pays Bas et qui chante dans sa langue natale. Encore une fois, la barrière de la langue n'empêchera pas de faire fondre les coeurs. Le dossier de presse nous dit que Peter Broderick aurait rencontré Laura Arkana à Paris et serait tombé sous le charme. Je ne sais pas quelle est sa part dans ce disque, si sa présence et son nom incitent davantage de gens à se pencher sur ces compositions d'une inconnue qui ne chante même pas en anglais c'est l'essentiel.
Laura Arkana met Peter Broderick
Lentemuziek
CD Hush Records HSH103 (USA, 09-2011)
01. Huilen
02. Luchtballon
03. Souvenirs
04. Prelude I
05. Het Vuilnis
06. De Mooiste Tijd Van Het Jaar
07. Prelude II
08. Koos
Ce qu'en disait le label :
It was late March in Paris when Peter Broderick was standing by the stage selling his music after an afternoon performance at an arts center. This is when Laura Arkana met Peter Broderick for the first time.
They became fast friends, strolling through the streets of Paris sharing stories and later sharing songs, passing a guitar back and forth. Broderick recounted: " I was blown away by her songs. She sings in dutch, these beautifully crafted haunting melodies, over the most steady and gorgeously fingerpicked guitar. I was in love with the music, but she was so shy about it, saying she'd hardly played the songs for anyone and had never recorded anything before."
A fortnight later, Arkana flew to Berlin. They rode bikes, ate and cooked amazing food, watched movies, and in a very casual way, recorded eight of Arkana's songs, six with guitar and voice, two for solo piano. Later, Broderick added his touch: "Since she left i have fallen in love with the songs more and more, listening to them on repeat all day and working on different arrangements with instruments around the house." This is when Laura Arkana met Peter Broderick for the second time. In music.
Shortly thereafter Nils Frahm mixed the album, and HUSH enthusiastically agreed to release it.
The recordings are warm and unfussy. For her part, Arkana paints specific details into her song-vignettes and sings with a conversational lilt. Her finger-picking--clean, and anchored--gives rhythmic flight to a sophisticated melodic sensibility. It were as if she arrived fully formed. For his part, Broderick combines a wealth of experience with his signature restraint and sensitivity, letting the songs breathe while enhancing their textural depth and dynamics with stringed instruments, vocals, and percussion. With a discography that contains over a dozen solo titles, half a dozen collaborative titles, and appearances on well over sixty other recordings (Efterklang, M. Ward, She & HIm, Balmorhea, Laura Gibson, Loch Lomond, Blitzen Trapper, Heather Woods Broderick to name but a few) within in a time frame of five years, Broderick has demonstrated he is in a class of his own as a musician, composer, and producer. Further, any record label would do well to add him to A&R staff, having established a canny ability for attracting and spotting musical talent. From his early work as a duo with folk icon Justin Ringle of Horse Feathers, to championing neoclassical u¨ber pianist Nils Frahm (after meeting him in much the same way as Arkana a couple years ago) Broderick has proved to have something of a golden ear.
With Laura Arkana met Peter Broderick (the word "met" here fulfills an international double entendre which translates to "with" in Dutch) listeners are delighted to discover song-scape like so many sprouting vines and stems intertwining with the relentlessness of Springtime in Paris, in Berlin, in where you are now.
http://www.mediafire.com/?lge63fi016kqycf
Laura Arkana met Peter Broderick
Lentemuziek
CD Hush Records HSH103 (USA, 09-2011)
01. Huilen
02. Luchtballon
03. Souvenirs
04. Prelude I
05. Het Vuilnis
06. De Mooiste Tijd Van Het Jaar
07. Prelude II
08. Koos
Ce qu'en disait le label :
It was late March in Paris when Peter Broderick was standing by the stage selling his music after an afternoon performance at an arts center. This is when Laura Arkana met Peter Broderick for the first time.
They became fast friends, strolling through the streets of Paris sharing stories and later sharing songs, passing a guitar back and forth. Broderick recounted: " I was blown away by her songs. She sings in dutch, these beautifully crafted haunting melodies, over the most steady and gorgeously fingerpicked guitar. I was in love with the music, but she was so shy about it, saying she'd hardly played the songs for anyone and had never recorded anything before."
A fortnight later, Arkana flew to Berlin. They rode bikes, ate and cooked amazing food, watched movies, and in a very casual way, recorded eight of Arkana's songs, six with guitar and voice, two for solo piano. Later, Broderick added his touch: "Since she left i have fallen in love with the songs more and more, listening to them on repeat all day and working on different arrangements with instruments around the house." This is when Laura Arkana met Peter Broderick for the second time. In music.
Shortly thereafter Nils Frahm mixed the album, and HUSH enthusiastically agreed to release it.
The recordings are warm and unfussy. For her part, Arkana paints specific details into her song-vignettes and sings with a conversational lilt. Her finger-picking--clean, and anchored--gives rhythmic flight to a sophisticated melodic sensibility. It were as if she arrived fully formed. For his part, Broderick combines a wealth of experience with his signature restraint and sensitivity, letting the songs breathe while enhancing their textural depth and dynamics with stringed instruments, vocals, and percussion. With a discography that contains over a dozen solo titles, half a dozen collaborative titles, and appearances on well over sixty other recordings (Efterklang, M. Ward, She & HIm, Balmorhea, Laura Gibson, Loch Lomond, Blitzen Trapper, Heather Woods Broderick to name but a few) within in a time frame of five years, Broderick has demonstrated he is in a class of his own as a musician, composer, and producer. Further, any record label would do well to add him to A&R staff, having established a canny ability for attracting and spotting musical talent. From his early work as a duo with folk icon Justin Ringle of Horse Feathers, to championing neoclassical u¨ber pianist Nils Frahm (after meeting him in much the same way as Arkana a couple years ago) Broderick has proved to have something of a golden ear.
With Laura Arkana met Peter Broderick (the word "met" here fulfills an international double entendre which translates to "with" in Dutch) listeners are delighted to discover song-scape like so many sprouting vines and stems intertwining with the relentlessness of Springtime in Paris, in Berlin, in where you are now.
http://www.mediafire.com/?lge63fi016kqycf
14/09/2011
Bill Orcutt - All Tongues (Palilalia, 2011)
En complément de l'album, voici un single disponible lors de la tournée de Bill Orcutt. Et comment dire, ça va pas mieux! Il chante, et le chant est en adéquation avec sa façon de traiter la guitare. C'est toujours aussi rugueux.
Bill Orcutt
All Tongues
7'' Palilalia PAL-004 (USA, 2011)
a1. All Tongues
b1. Tender Bottoms
Note : Tour only edition of 200 copies.
http://www.mediafire.com/?4xg9z63e1pce86j
Bill Orcutt
All Tongues
7'' Palilalia PAL-004 (USA, 2011)
a1. All Tongues
b1. Tender Bottoms
Note : Tour only edition of 200 copies.
http://www.mediafire.com/?4xg9z63e1pce86j
Bill Orcutt - How the Thing Sings (Editions Mego, 2011)
Voici un des disques attendus de cette rentrée, en tout cas attendu parmi ''les gens qui savent''. Maintenant qu'il a fuité en ligne, les blogs dans l'air du temps vont le poster, avant de passer à autre chose deux jours plus tard. Pourtant, il faudra bien plus de deux jours pour apprivoiser la chose - oserais-je dire pour la dompter? C'est du folk acoustique primitif, brut, désarticulé, démembré, avec une sauvagerie épileptique et -heureusement - d'autres moments plus calmes. A côté de Bill Orcutt, Loren Connors sonne presque comme du Eric Clapton, c'est dire!
Bill Orcutt
How the Thing Sings
CD Editions Mego EMego 128 (Austria, 08-2011)
01. No True Vine
02. The Visible Bosom
03. Lost They Book
04. How the Thing Sings
05. Till I Get Satisfied
06. Heaven Is Closed to Me Now
07. A Line from Ol'Man River
Note : Recorded Spring 2011 in the Living Room, San Francisco.
Ce qu'en dit le label :
Yet another essential cracking new set of songs from Bill Orcutt, showcasing a further development of his unique visceral acoustic style. The language that Orcutt uses looks familiar at first glance, but cut deeper and its myriad of twisted audio thats both full on and drenched in melancholy, usually in the same gasping breath. While a lot of it is the classic face melting style, some quieter segments counter balance on the title track as well the epic closer 'A Line From Ol'Man River' and 'Heaven Is Closed To Me Now'.
http://www.mediafire.com/?kq4rli3y6je3j6q
Bill Orcutt
How the Thing Sings
CD Editions Mego EMego 128 (Austria, 08-2011)
01. No True Vine
02. The Visible Bosom
03. Lost They Book
04. How the Thing Sings
05. Till I Get Satisfied
06. Heaven Is Closed to Me Now
07. A Line from Ol'Man River
Note : Recorded Spring 2011 in the Living Room, San Francisco.
Ce qu'en dit le label :
Yet another essential cracking new set of songs from Bill Orcutt, showcasing a further development of his unique visceral acoustic style. The language that Orcutt uses looks familiar at first glance, but cut deeper and its myriad of twisted audio thats both full on and drenched in melancholy, usually in the same gasping breath. While a lot of it is the classic face melting style, some quieter segments counter balance on the title track as well the epic closer 'A Line From Ol'Man River' and 'Heaven Is Closed To Me Now'.
http://www.mediafire.com/?kq4rli3y6je3j6q
12/09/2011
Loren Mazzacane Connors - St. Vincent's Newsboy Home (Item, 1999)
Et encore un! Loren MazzaCane Connors est vraiment le fil rouge de ce blog. Vous trouverez peut-être qu'aucun titre ne se démarque vraiment des autres, vous vous demandez peut-être par quel album commencer. Eh bien ne vous posez plus de questions, plongez, vous ne le regretterez pas!
Loren Mazzacane Connors
St. Vincent's Newsboy Home
CD Item Recordings IR001 (USA, 04-1999)
01. Extra, Extra Read All About It!
02. Inside the Cruelty of Day
03. Angels of the Rooftops
04. O'Carolan's Air
05. Father Drumgoolle
06. Doorsteps
07. Frozen Star
08. Onara's Kid
09. Forgotten Shoe
10. Silent in the Soul
11. Oh, How It'd Be! (Without the Deaths of the Innocent)
12. Empty Lights
13. Rumours (of Something Grand)
14. More Than Faith (Throughout the Night)
15. Opening Day
Note : Recorded: 1995-1998
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6F11CATZ
Loren Mazzacane Connors
St. Vincent's Newsboy Home
CD Item Recordings IR001 (USA, 04-1999)
01. Extra, Extra Read All About It!
02. Inside the Cruelty of Day
03. Angels of the Rooftops
04. O'Carolan's Air
05. Father Drumgoolle
06. Doorsteps
07. Frozen Star
08. Onara's Kid
09. Forgotten Shoe
10. Silent in the Soul
11. Oh, How It'd Be! (Without the Deaths of the Innocent)
12. Empty Lights
13. Rumours (of Something Grand)
14. More Than Faith (Throughout the Night)
15. Opening Day
Note : Recorded: 1995-1998
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6F11CATZ
06/09/2011
Nina Nastasia - Live at Les Femmes s'en Mêlent Festival (2005)
J'avais posté un très court single de Ninan Nastasia il y a quelques temps. C'était bien trop court, alors on continue avec la capture d'un concert beau et précieux, à l'image de ses albums. Je ne devrais pas le dire, mais je n'échangerais jamais une seule chanson de Nina Nastasia contre tous les albums de Cat Power et PJ Harvey réunis (contre ceux de Shannon Wright, ça peut toujours se discuter néanmoins). Dans la grande famille du folk féminin, la new-yorkaise mériterait d'être beaucoup plus connue. J'espère que vous aimerez ce live en toute intimité.
Nina Nastasia
Live @ Les Femmes s'en Mêlent Festival
01. How I Like a Fight
02. I Say That I Will Go
03. Superstar
04. Oh my Stars
05. You, Her and Me
06. Ocean
07. The Matter (of our Discussion)
08. Untitled
Note : Paris, may 1st, 2005.
http://www.mediafire.com/?8zxz1p7n210p7bd
Nina Nastasia
Live @ Les Femmes s'en Mêlent Festival
01. How I Like a Fight
02. I Say That I Will Go
03. Superstar
04. Oh my Stars
05. You, Her and Me
06. Ocean
07. The Matter (of our Discussion)
08. Untitled
Note : Paris, may 1st, 2005.
http://www.mediafire.com/?8zxz1p7n210p7bd
04/09/2011
Loren MazzaCane Connors & Christina Carter - Meditations on the Ascension of Blind Joe Death, Vol. One (Ecstatic Yod, 2005)
Ce qui contribue à la richesse de la discographie de Loren Connors, ce sont aussi ses collaborations. Plus de vingt ans séparent cet album du précédent post. Entre temps, les racines blues ont été assimilées pour donner un style encore plus personnel. Sur ce disque, il collabore avec Christina Carter, pour une face ''smoke'' et l'autre face ''mirrors''.
Loren MazzaCane Connors & Christina Carter
Meditations on the Ascension of Blind Joe Death, Vol. One
LP Ecstatic Yod E#101D/FYLP41 (USA, 2005)
01. Smoke pt. 1
02. Smoke pt. 2
03. Smoke pt. 3
04. Smoke pt. 4
05. Smoke pt. 5
06. Smoke pt. 6
07. Smoke pt. 7
08. Mirrors pt. 1
09. Mirrors pt. 2
10. Mirrors pt. 3
11. Mirrors pt. 4
12. Mirrors pt. 5
Note : Recorded in 2003.
Loren MazzaCane Connors, electric guitar ; Christina Carter, piano.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PBN01WB0
Loren MazzaCane Connors & Christina Carter
Meditations on the Ascension of Blind Joe Death, Vol. One
LP Ecstatic Yod E#101D/FYLP41 (USA, 2005)
01. Smoke pt. 1
02. Smoke pt. 2
03. Smoke pt. 3
04. Smoke pt. 4
05. Smoke pt. 5
06. Smoke pt. 6
07. Smoke pt. 7
08. Mirrors pt. 1
09. Mirrors pt. 2
10. Mirrors pt. 3
11. Mirrors pt. 4
12. Mirrors pt. 5
Note : Recorded in 2003.
Loren MazzaCane Connors, electric guitar ; Christina Carter, piano.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PBN01WB0
Loren Mazzacane & Kath Bloom - Sing the Children Over (Ambigous, 1982)
Depuis le temps que je n'avais rien posté de Loren Connors, ça devait vous manquer! Ou bien ça ne vous a pas manqué du tout, mais dans ce cas je ne veux pas le savoir! Que dire de plus sur Loren MazzaCane Connors, sur son jeu de guitare unique et sa sensibilité. Ici on revient aux tout premiers albums, en duo avec Kath Bloom. Du folk qui remonte également aux racines du blues. J'ai toujours du mal à croire que cette musique provient des années 80, celle du triomphe des synthés et des boites à rythmes.
Loren Mazzacane & Kath Bloom
Sing The Children Over
LP Ambigous Records AMB-002 (USA, 1982)
01. Last Fair Deal
02. The Breeze / My Baby Cries
03. Can't Nobody Hide
04. Nobody's Fault But Mine
05. All my Trials Here
06. It's So Hard to Come Home
07. I've Been Working on the Railroad
08. Moses
09. In the Garden
10. Light from the Lighthouse
11. There Was a Boy
12. Lullaby
13. I Was Wondering
Note : Edition of 500 copies, orginal copies redistributed in 1999.
Loren Mazzacane, acoustic guitar; Kath Bloom, vocals, acoustic guitar.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RPJJKVYP
Loren Mazzacane & Kath Bloom
Sing The Children Over
LP Ambigous Records AMB-002 (USA, 1982)
01. Last Fair Deal
02. The Breeze / My Baby Cries
03. Can't Nobody Hide
04. Nobody's Fault But Mine
05. All my Trials Here
06. It's So Hard to Come Home
07. I've Been Working on the Railroad
08. Moses
09. In the Garden
10. Light from the Lighthouse
11. There Was a Boy
12. Lullaby
13. I Was Wondering
Note : Edition of 500 copies, orginal copies redistributed in 1999.
Loren Mazzacane, acoustic guitar; Kath Bloom, vocals, acoustic guitar.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RPJJKVYP
28/08/2011
Martyn Bates & Troum - To a Child Dancing in the Wind (Transgredient, 2006)
Chez les fans de Troum, certains puristes détestent cet album. Quoi, de la lumière et de la légèreté chez Troum? Des chansons chez Troum? Avec en plus la voix si caractéristique de Martyn Bates? Pas étonnant qu'ils aient une attaque! Malgré tout mon respect envers les gardiens du temple, permettez-moi de vous dire qu'il se trompent. Oui, l'album est franchement à part dans la discographie de Troum, il n'est reste pas moins un bijou de drone ambient. Ecoutez-le, vous verrez par vous-même!
Martyn Bates & Troum
To a Child Dancing in the Wind
CD Transgredient Records TR-03 (Germany, 04-2006)
01. Mad as the Mist and Snow #2
02. The Arrow
03. The Magi
04. I Made my Song
05. To a Child Dancing in the Wind
06. Mad Reprise
Note : Recorded & produced in mail collaboration through the years 2004 & 2005.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U3M5LN9Y
Martyn Bates & Troum
To a Child Dancing in the Wind
CD Transgredient Records TR-03 (Germany, 04-2006)
01. Mad as the Mist and Snow #2
02. The Arrow
03. The Magi
04. I Made my Song
05. To a Child Dancing in the Wind
06. Mad Reprise
Note : Recorded & produced in mail collaboration through the years 2004 & 2005.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U3M5LN9Y
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