Every time I glad when Orval Carlos Sibelius comes forward with new records. He is a French multi-instrumentalist, who make music in really various styles from abstract electroinc dance to psych folk pop. His music often comes the world of Deerhhof in my mind. But now something almost completely different: psychedelic noise rock with a special taste of kraut-rock with Domotic, King Q4, My Jazzy Child and Aurelien Potier under the name of Centenaire. And it’s also excellent.

Centenaire – Ste Croix EP on Clapping Music (France). Previous Centenaire album

Albums of OCS: Recovery Tapes (2011), Super Forma (2013)

There’re some mistakes: Orval Carlos Sibelius is no more in the band. He left after the previous album (The Enemy, 2009). And King Q4 is not in the band either, he just a guest sometimes… but not on the new EP. So Centenaire now is just Damien Poncet (My Jazzy Child), Stéphane Laporte (Domotic, Egyptology) and Aurélien Potier…

Thank Julien for correction

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It’s written that „69 meets Pan Sonic. Ruffunk…” Pan Sonic is OK, but the rest is unknown for me, but the name of Pan Sonic is a guarantee for

NPLGNN (from Napoli) – „Meccano” EP – cassette, CD, digital on Trensmat (Ireland)

A Belgian beer + a terrorist + a Finnish composer in a French man: Orval Carlos Sibelius. Once he played abstract electronic dance music, but now making very good psychedelic folk pop with 70’s British psych folk feeling and a little bit of surf influence. Asteroids

from the album „Super Forma” by Clapping Music. It was recorded 3 years ago.

Orval Carlos Sibelius: vox, electric, acoustic and bass guitars, drums, percussions, organ, electric piano, synthetizers, oud, guzheng, ukelin, autoharp, glockenspiel, tamboa, charango. All songs are written by him.

Traditional Monsters. A Paris based international band. Playing grotesque art-rock. Like Pere Ubu

debut 7″ by Clapping Music

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Peace Creep. A mix of the 90s US style punk, hc, noise rock and grunge, but „if you are a rock journalist from Pitchfork, SFBG, and other such outlets we sound just like Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, Mikal Cronin, Ty Segall, FUZZ, Thee Oh Sees, John Dwyer, Mikal Cronin, Ty Segall, FUZZ, Thom Yorke, but with more of a Flying Lotus edge.”

S/T LP by Alternative Tentacles

„me and my friends never got into silly doctrines” The Future Dead write recreational anti pop songs in Belgium

Cassette by Gnar Tapes

Reveille A  duo from France. Not a simple bore this-that gazing indie rock. I feel the influence of The EX on them

Broken Machines LP by Clapping Music