AND A WONDERFUL ALBUM BY FRENCH BAND

DESTINATION LONELY

ON VOODOO RHYTHM RECORDS (CH) OUT NOW

ALL OTHERS WILL BE TOWED

Strange. None the less he has been started his career in the early 80s I have been never heard about BEN VAUGHN before. His 16th album is the first I have listened. And I am impressed.

The album Piece de resistance has been released recently on French label KIZMIAZ RECORDS. It’s full of good old frenchy western swings and moods. Easy and elegant as this verse from the title song is

„sabotage, bon vivant, nouveau riche, je ne sais quoi, s’il vous plaît, c’est la vie, femme fatale, repertoire”

He made an album Cubist Blues together with Alan Vega and Alex Chilton in 1996. Chilton started his career as a teen star in Memphis in the 60s, then formed the band Big Star, moved to New York and played often at CBGB in the 70s, then in early 80s went to New Orleans at Louis XVI Restaurant to dish wash. Sabotage, bon vivant.

LA COLONIE DE VACANCES

started as a collective tour of French bands

ELECTRIC ELECTRIC + MARVIN + PAPIER TIGRE + PNEU

in the summer of 2010.

The idea of 11 musicians playing together emerged on that tour at Tours’ Festival Rayons Frais where they were invited to play at the 4 corners of Tours’ Castle courtyard. This turned into ‘LA COLONIE DE VACANCES’, a quadraphonic sound system, throwing the audience in the center of a musical ping-pong game played by two, three or four teams. This has been turned into a 10″ vinyl + a 100 illustrated pages book.

The vinyl – titled Concentric Grooves – is a very specific one because it is readable in multi-grooves. The concept was borrowed from Monty Python’s album Matching Tie and Handkerchief from 1973. It was mastered with two concentric grooves on side two so that different material would be played depending on where the stylus was put down on the record’s surface.

1 THEME, 4 VARIATIONS, each interpreted by random members

It will be released on 22 April, Disquaire Day

on KYTHIBONG and MURAILLES MUSIC and SUPER LOTO EDITIONS (F)

as BRAT FARRAR running a one-man-punk band
and plays surprisingly various lo-fi punk music.

He said the sound is reminiscent of early Wipers, Chrome, The Spits, Suicide, a bit like My Bloody Valentine (well just the guitars) on a few tracks and sometimes like power pop bands recorded incorrectly.

And even more like his fellow Australian TV Colours. Same feeling.

Here is a fine shoegaze one, bit like My Bloody Valentine

3rd album out now. Listen to it here

CD: Off The Hip Records (AUS). Vinyl: Kizmiaz Records (France)

Paula H. Satan singer of French garage rock band JC Satan &
Théo Delaunay drummer of French garage rock band Lonely Walk,
but also seriously interested in techno as panoptique and Constance Chlore,
and a member of experimental/electronic label Simple Music Experience.

make music together as

SUCCHIAMO

to play cold erotic electroclash

12″ single on ANTINOTE RECORDS (France)

or download it from Bandcamp

A lysergic mix of South-American tropical music with an out of control computer, or the „Southamerican psychedelic sound of the XXI Century” by Columbian trio LOS PIRANAS

La Diversión Que Hacía Falta En Mi País LP on Staubgold Records (France)

MOUNTAIN BIKE is a band from Brussels. Their name is so unfortunate and stupid as their indie poppy punky noisy garage rock good. Very.

Second album Too Sorry For Any Sorrow

on HUMPTY DUMPTY (Belg) and TEENAGE MENOPAUSE RECORDS (Fra)

DELACAVE

– is a duo of Lily Pourie and Sebnormal, whom has many formations, the most known is psych garage rock band The Feeling of Love,

– plays degressive rock like Neue Deutsche Welle group Malaria! in the early 80s,

– and they have another duo together Le Chemin De La Honte,

– on the recordings Cheb Samir was playing on drums from Italian psychedelic no wave band Trans Upper Egypt

New album ‘IF I AM OVERTHINKING, TALK ABOUT ANYTHING, ANY DAMNED THING’ on TEENAGE MENOPAUSE RECORDS (France). Listen to it!

French synth-punk band CHEVEU and GROUP DOUEH from Western Sahara spent two weeks together in the city of Dakhla in 2016, and they wrote and recorded an album together.

Western-Sahara is the home of Sahrawi people. They are speaking a variant of Maghrebi Arabic, and have Berber, Bedouin and Black African ethnic backgrounds.

Their basic instruments are percussions and traditional stringed instruments which ones often replaced by electric guitar nowadays. The region was under Spanish rule until 1975, then Morocco and Mauritania divided up, but there is a movement of independence, called Polisario, which established his state in the inner Western Sahara.

On the one hand – The leader of Group Doueh was born in Dakhla in 1966, at that time it was a village. Of course he made his first guitar himself with metal can and fishing wire – as the legend says. His heroes are Jimi Hendrix, James Brown and Mark Knopfler, and also influenced by Moroccan chaabi and psychedelic music, e.g. Nass El Ghiwane, which was established as an avant-garde political theatre in 1971.

„When I take the instrument, I leave elsewhere. I am absent. Music is my life. I inherited from my father who played percussion from house to house. I can approach any kind of styles, but I track down traditional music, the source.”

On the other hand – French trio Cheveu is not really punk in fact, rather outsider, in out of control zone, somewhere between the crazy psychedelic rock of the 60s and the no wave, industrial and electronic music of the late 70s.

At first files were exchanged, then Cheveu went to Dakhla to play, write and record songs together for two weeks. It was hard to bring together these distant universes.

The music of Doueh is often very ornamented improvisation. „The trigger thing was to fix one of their themes in punk rock mode. It freed us. They made a lot of improvisations, variations, and whenever you thought you had picked up, they left elsewhere…” „At this stage we played a few selected pieces of our repertoire to show what we are going to see (…) in response they suddenly started „Acid Waltz”, a theme brought by us, but they little by little made twists on it.

And finally there was a common live show at a venue. „At first Group Doueh goes to the stage, later Cheveu joins them. And everyone begins to find his place in a repertoire that they have refined for ten days. David takes the microphone. Some women dance. There is even a Parisian who made the trip after he saw the announcement of the event on Facebook. All of a sudden, Hicham turns to me: „Alan Vega in the sand! ”

OUT NOW ON BORN BAD RECORDS (FR)

every kind of loony prog jazz rock tunes from Lyon by CHROMB!

Their music comes almost evereybody from the Czech avantgarde jazz rock scene to my mind like Jablkon, Rozmazane Deti, Bez Ladu A Skaldu, Uz Jsme Doma, Psi Vojaci.

You don’t know them? No problem because also there are 16-17 and alboth! from the Golden Age of Swiss Jazzcore.

If you are not familiar with those crazy days then they mention such influences like Melt-Banana, King Crimson or John Zorn.

But no problem if you don’t know them because somewhere for a half minute exactly as the Queen. Check it here.

Do you know that comrade Stalin was chosen two times as the Man Of The Year by Time?

One, in 1939, because of his pact with Hitler; and two, in 1942, because of battle of Stalingrad.

And what do you think who was the Man in 1938? The Devil’s organist

BUT MORE IMPORTANT here are some humans of our times

a great little rock and roll band VAGINA TOWN from Nantes

from debut album 11 LOVE SONGS on KYTHIBONG RECORDS (France)

Anyway there was a research recently at Leiden University in the Netherlands which found out that just as humans recognise faces, chimps recognise each others’ butt. So now imagine the cover of the The Monkey Time’s Chimp of The Year.