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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Parquet Courts have been making great garage punk rock music since 2010. Their first LP was a big surprise. This EP is sometimes Fall- and Country Teaser-like folky punk rock’n’roll, and hip hop:

EP by What’s Your Rupture?

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The singer/guitarist Andrew Savage is member of Fergus and Geronimo. It is the first recorded musical manifestation of space funk paranoia. He is Fergus. Geronimo’s other band is the minimal electro new wave Future Punx

„Hunters released their gnarly debut album earlier this week, and we have two copies to give away! (…) To be in with a chance to win, all you have to do is answer the following question:

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A: at Brooklyn’s Death By Audio

Here is an excellent Stooges album by Lantern. It is one of the best albums of 2013.

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or vinyl LP by Sophomore Lounge (USA) or Cardinal Fuzz (UK)

The Far-Out Fangtooth based on the common range of interest of his members: B-Movies, avant-garde, dark psychedelia, gothic erotica, Cramps, and early Creation Records release.  (The influential British independent label released the first records of Jesus & Mary Chain, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, Oasis…) Their first album was Sonic Youth-like, the second is Christian Death-like with a little taste of Jesus & M.C.

Borrowed Time LP by Siltbreeze

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Musumeci was a raw light industrial minimal-synth duo in Torino in the middle of the 80s. They produced two demo tapes: Schwarz Morgen in 1985, and Zusammen in 1986. The 2 in 1 now by Mannequin Records

7″ by Hardly Art

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Toni Cutrone is a very active many-sided man. He runs the NO=FI Recordings and plays drums in the noise-rock Hiroshima Rocks Around and the wacky pop punk duo Trouble vs. Glue. Mai Mai Mai is his solo project. It is completely different than the mentioned acts. Debut album was mixed by Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu)

Theta LP by Boring Machines

And if you go to Rome then have to go to the Dal Verme Club. He co-runs it.

Quasi is a funny rock’n’roll duo for 20 years. Their music on Mole City album is a peculiar mix of DEVOesque new wave and classic glam rock.

2xLP by Kill Rockstar

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“Whether you’re pining after old things or looking for the new, kindness doesn’t show itself in this world where love is scarce. Miss Whiskey will show you kindness.”

from the Longing for the Past: The 78 rpm Era in Southeast Asia box set by Dust to Digital

The Burmese actor, U Myat Lay sings this very strange, drunken song. It was „original sound track” of a silent film, Miss Whiskey in the 1930s. The silent film songs released on 78 rpm records at that time. These were excellent promotional tools, and frequently, the musicians who recorded a song would also perform when the movie was shown in the big city theaters in Burma.

In consequence of three Anglo-Burmese Wars there were many Scotsmen in that time. The first war officially broke out in 1824, because expansion of the Burmese Empire reached the British sphere of interest in India. In the end of war „The question is not how much you will cede to us but how much we shall return to you.” In 1885, in the end of third war the answer was: nothing. This war was a preventive act, because France took a growing interest in rest of Burma. Otherwise Myat Lay could have sung about Mlle Cognac.
Burma gained its independence in 1947. Since then there: or/and: civil war, coup d’état, military government, rebellion, turbulence.

If you interested in the Burmese weekdays under British rule, there was a police officer in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927, who wrote a novel about it. You can read it in English here. Magyarul itt.

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He started his career as an animal Elvis impersonator.

Secret Songs LP by Goner Records

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I thought that shoegaze is dead, and I gave thanks to God. But maybe there was a little mistake about my thanksgiving, because here is the Vaadat Charigim (id est Exemptions Committee), an Israeli shoegaze trio’s debut album. Guitar/vocal: Juval from the great primal garage rock band, TV Buddhas. (TVB Bandcamp)

The World Is Well Lost, LP by Warm Ratio, cassette by Burger Records

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Lord have mercy upon us, and put an end to indie rock! Please!

The British visual artist Mathew Sawyer play sometimes popy, sometimes rocky, sometimes punky chamber folk music with his band, The Ghost. He said 3 years before after the second album: „I wanted to make a happy record, but it didn’t really work. The next one will be so much fun… [laughs]. “ On his third album he analyses the relationship between Thanatos and Hypnos. They are twin brothers, personificators of the Death and the Sleep in the Greek mythology. Their parents, Erebos (Darkness) and Nyx (Night) born from the Chaos. And they have some children more: Moros (Doom), Momus (Mockery), Oizys (Misery), Nemesis (Revenge), Eris (Discord), Apate (Deceit), etc. Hey! What they have brought up their children for? I call the court of guardians at once.

The recordings were made in his home hand in hand with his everyday living. „The sound of cars come through the windows, the phone rings, floorboards creak. These sounds all played an important role in making this record. Studios are quiet and lifeless.”

Sleep Dreamt A Brother LP by Fire Records

Note: 1. He was the drummer of Television Personalities on My Dark Places album in 2006.  2. The drummer of this album comes from Freakapuss (ex-Tronics, Zarjaz).

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Short, intensive synth-punk songs by the Italian duo: Cane!

Sex, Love And Threesomes – digital EP by SMFSP + 7″ by Bored Youth Records

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The Melt-Banana is coming back with a new album as a duo!

Only guitar and electronic devices!!
Apropos, do you remember their previous album?
It was guitar exempt!!! (3 songs from it.)
Songs above 4 mins!!!!
Because „I wanted to write a slow song and get a little bit of a cosmic feeling.”

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The Neo Boys was an all girls punk band in Portland between 1978 & 83. They released only a single and an EP at that time.  A comprehensive double LP with every recordings.

Sooner Or Later 2xLP by KRECS

3 songs from their EP in 1982

The drummer, Pat Baum later played in Rancid Vat, Wipers and Unknown Soldiers.

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Black Lips-like Canadian garage punk, excellent for crazy parties, in person too:

New Swears – Fun Isn’t Real LP by Bachelor (Austria) and Dirt Cult (US)

Eric Clapton and Ted Milton often hanged out together in the summer of 1965. Clapton said: „Ted was the most extraordinary man. A poet and a visionary…he was the first person I ever saw physically interpreting music…to enact it with his entire being, dancing and employing facial expressions to interpret what he was hearing. Watching him, I understood for the first time how you could really live music, how you could listen to it and completely make it come alive, so that it was part of your life. It was a real awakening.”
And Ted wasn’t musician at that time. He was known as poet and puppeteer. He has started to play alto-saxophone and founded his avant-garde jazz punk band, the Blurt in the late seventies only.

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U.S. Girls is Meg Remy. Her experimental pop based on the 60s girl groups. She has made some songs together with the Canadian hip-hop producer, Onakabazien.

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