For twenty years API UIZ was a polyrhythmic multicolored punky math rock-like trio from Bordeaux. They have influenced an entire generation of French musicians by the ferociously independent way they play and produce „raw, unworked, but structured music” which was the title of their debut album: Musique brute et non travaillée mais structurée.

Since 2015 API UIZ is a quintet. „Peplum”, their first album with the extended line up released now on 12″ vinyl on Kythibong, Les Potagers Natures, Mon Cul C’est Du Tofu, La République Des Granges, Attila Tralala (Belgium) and Red Wig Records (Germany):

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)

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.

We’we Got The Magic from a Black Hole, so I Call Your Name Satan. And I Wanna Be Your Puppy. But Need Money for Chicken Space Pie and Milk. Hvala.

There was a crazy summer day/night when French band VAGINA TOWN played at RNR666 10th Birthday Party in Budapest last year. At that time their just released one single. Now here is their first album 11 LOVE SONGS by Kythibong Records

Zsófi said: Jeeeeee

Pali said: Good! First song like Pixies, third like Movie Star Junkies. They recovered from The Cramps infection.

I say: Hard rock and roll psychedelia turns into country, blues, jazz’n back. Very playful and funny. My favourite moment when the easy rock and roll song I Wanna Be Your Puppy turns into Deep Purple’s Space Truckin’

KYTHIBONG, French independent record label, Nantes.
Records from electro-pop to arith-metal.
They have sent such well-known artists as
Pneu, Kommandant Cobra, Piano Chat, Sieur & Dame,
Vagina Town and Binidu in the direction of world fame.

Is it a one man label or are there a bunch of fanatics?

We’re three people, Mric, Anthony and Marion.

How does it started and when?

It started more than 10 years ago, in 2002, because Room 204, one of Mric’s band, needed a structure, for administration, stuff and, of course, a first disc. Room 204’s drummer had this band that should be released for the world to hear, so we had a second release. Then this other friend had a musical project and, it’s not all so complicated to release albums, isn’t it . In a few years, without really deciding it, we were a label. The real decision was to go on with it.

What was the first release?

Room 204 (minimal jazz rock) is the first album with the name Kythibong on it, but it’s a co-production. Argument (noise rock) was the first release we did alone, as grown-up assuming themselves.

What were the big (or little) surprises, disappointments and mistakes?

Mistake and disappointment cannot really happen the way Kythibong functions. When we release something there is always good-enough reasons for it, a mixture of human-music complicity and, if we’re happy when a lot of other people agree with us that an album is awesome, we’re also fine when it’s not the case. And we love pile up CD boxes to play stronghold and knights. As for surprises, let’s say we’re  always a bit surprised that people still want to work with us.

Can you play on any instruments? Have you ever been in a band?

Mric is the only one of us who can play on a guitar with some efficient results. He has two bands, Papaye and Room 204 (math rock/arith-metal), both on Kythibong, because we have no other choices if we want to avoid any big family drama. But actually, they are super great bands, so it’s ok. We’re lucky.

What do you do beside the music business?

Kythibong. And beside Kythibong, Mric is a musician, Anthony has a record shop and Marion is a screen-printer.

What are your upcoming releases?

Up coming next: an EP from The Healthy Boy and the Badass Motherfuckers (always raining)

a new LP from Gratuit (electro-pop) and somewhen soon a super surf album by a newcomer on Kythibong Les Agamemnonz.

Kythibong? What or Who is it?

We forgot, it was too long ago.

In all probability the notorious, legendary and cultic psycho rock and roll band The Cramps made huge impact on Vagina Town. Just their music is spiced with 60’s psychedelic beats (a la Question Mark & The Mysterians) and noise rock. The French band has taken its name from a porn movie. And the titles of their releases are also meaningful: „LSD”, „Hospital”, and the brand new one: „Ecstasy”

shameless hedonism, sex’n’drugs’n’rock’n’roll, food’n’beer’n’tobacco

7″ single on Kythibong Records

ps: Dear Vagina Town, Budapest is waiting for you with spread legs, erected cocks and ecstasy. „Ou…ha …Ouu…fff..”

Some thoughts about Sieur et Dame – Amour et Papouasie (Love and Papua) album by Kythibong Records

Hey Sieur et Dame! Million merci for your new album. It is the best, most interesting and most peculiar record of recent years for me. When I got it, I listened to it three times in succession, and was flabbergasted. Oh my God! What is it? And it is a difficult question. Such like a renaissance market-place knock-about farce or an opera-buffa, or something musical Commedia dell’arte. Starring an angel and a gnome, aka the Beauty and the Beast. And they slip into different costumes as the comedy require. And there mixing the ecclesiastical and the popular secular music of the renaissance and baroque era: the Italian origin frottola, canzonetta and madrigal, flamenco and medieval rhythms like tarantella. Plus hip-hop. It’s sometimes so much polyphonic as if there two different bands would play side by side. Exceedingly surreal.

Maybe the best Kythibong Records release ever:

Claire and Etienne were lovers. Claire got strict Catholic education, studied lyrical singing and works in a national choir, speaking fluent ancient Latin and collecting roadkilled frogs. Etienne is a ferocious self-taught musician. He started his musical career as a drummer of a Berber music band at the age of 15. While Claire joined a Palestine music group at 18.  After various genres, styles, groups and collaborations they have founded Sieur et Dame in 2006.

I hope their little travelling circus to start eastward soon.

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I have listened to it many times. It was not a difficult thing because the Yes! is a very good record. The music is indie rock surely. I very don’t like this phrase and write it with fear because the „indie” labelled musical products have place in the trashcan largely. I could write: alternative rock, but this term repels me in like manner. Well, I can’t rank it to other class, but the Binidu is high above the indie rock category. His music comes to my mind the Deerhoof and the French band is comparable to them. Fresh and playful music. I feel the atmosphere of his birthplace: in July 2012 the trio took his summer residency in a hunter cabin in the Alps, 10m away from the lake Aiguebelette:

The members: Vincent Dupas, guitarist of Fordamage and My Name Is Nobody and the Pneu, a drums’n’guitar duo.

Yes! LP by Kythibong Records

Papeye – Tennis LP

Mainly instrumental indie hard rock from France. The members are great musicians, for example the drummer, JB plays in the Magic Barbecue and Pneu too. (Both of them were in rnr666 party already.) The sound is similar to Deerhoof (I love) and Don Caballero (I don’t like). I miss the vocals very much. I don’t like this style, it’s too math for me, but there are very good minutes! I like the dirty literary garage rock. Sorry.

Seal Of Quality – Life Hacks LP

Funny French 8 bit electro pop. There are heavy nintendo sounds and thrash metal riffs mixed with synth pop feelings. I was astonished when I known that the SOQ is a one man band. I thought that is a trio.

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