<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206551952153989157</id><updated>2010-03-09T22:10:56.615-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Monsieur Délire</title><subtitle type='html'>François Couture's music journalism and activism (experimental/avant-garde music, progressive rock, etc.): reviews, playlists, news, and more! / Le journalisme et l'activisme musical de François Couture (musique d'avant-garde, rock progressif, etc.): critiques, playlists, infos et plus!</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Monsieur Délire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03753216952194868887</uri><email>md@monsieurdelire.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>339</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206551952153989157.post-4137621253534049836</id><published>2010-03-09T20:21:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-09T20:48:11.188-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Max Brand'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Duran Vázquez'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Délire actuel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nicolas Bernier'/><title type='text'>Délire actuel, 2010-03-09</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 130%;"&gt;DÉLIRE ACTUEL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Édition du 9 mars 2010&lt;br /&gt;Show aired on 9 mars 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;DESCRIPTION&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;DESCRIPTION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Électroacoustique, électronique, collage sonore:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; Une thématique très lâche, une courbe d'écoute plutôt, motivée par le désir de faire jouer ce soir Sleppet de Marc Behrens D.A.F. de The D.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;Electroacoustics, Electronics, Sound Collage:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; A very loose theme for tonight, more like a listening curve motivated by a desire to spin both Marc Behrens' Sleppet and The D.'s D.F.A.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*MARC BEHRENS / Seagulls and Cattle (10:09) - Sleppet (Crónica)&lt;br /&gt;*DURÁN VÁZQUEZ / Pictures from the Atlantic City of Vigo (15:30) - Home, Sweet Home (Crónica)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NICOLAS BERNIER / Boîte (15:53) - Luigi's Avatar (Ohm éditions)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;**DICK RAAIJMAKERS / Piano-Forte (4:57) - Institute of Sonology 1959-1969 (Sub Rosa)&lt;br /&gt;MAX BRAND / Triptych (7:55) - Kabelbrand (Moozak)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*ANDREW PEKLER / Muon Bop - Yafi Loop - The Compound Eye - Hesitant, Punctuated - Dizzy Spells of Summer - Pitch Class Spy Glass - Blip Intervals - Orthodox Modulation and Chimes - Cloud Control (10:18) - Entanglements in the Orthopedic Sensorium (Schoolmap)&lt;br /&gt;***NOAH CRESHEVSKY / Götterdämmerung (4:04) - The Twilight of the Gods (Tzadik)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*The D. / [A] (16:00) - D.A.F. (The D.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***NOAH CRESHEVSKY / Happy Ending (7:00) - The Twilight of the Gods (Tzadik)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Merci à/Thanks to:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;*&lt;a href="http://www.dense.de/"&gt;Dense Promotion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;**&lt;a href="http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/01/www.forcedexposure.com"&gt;Forced Exposure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;a href="http://www.mutablemusic.com"&gt;Mutable Music&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;COMPLÉMENTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;SUPPLEMENTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DURÁN VÁZQUEZ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Pour télécharger gratuitement et légalement l'album &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Home, Sweet Home&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.cronicaelectronica.org/?p=045"&gt;rendez-vous ici&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;To freely and legally download the album &lt;/span&gt;Home, Sweet Home&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.cronicaelectronica.org/?p=045"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NICOLAS BERNIER&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Un extrait vidéo de la prestation diffusée, montrant la "boîte" à bruits qu'utilise Bernier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;A video excerpt from the performance broadcasted - you can see the "noisebox" Bernier is using.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/s9za1-2G-fs&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/s9za1-2G-fs&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MAX BRAND&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;La vidéo ci-dessous montre le synthétiseur que Bob Moog a construit pour le compositeur Max Brand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The video below shows the synthesizer Bob Moog built for composer Max Brand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7pGBTaWKHh4&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7pGBTaWKHh4&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. All rights reserved. / Tous droits réservés.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7206551952153989157-4137621253534049836?l=blog.monsieurdelire.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/feeds/4137621253534049836/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/03/delire-actuel-2010-03-09.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/4137621253534049836'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/4137621253534049836'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/03/delire-actuel-2010-03-09.html' title='Délire actuel, 2010-03-09'/><author><name>Monsieur Délire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03753216952194868887</uri><email>md@monsieurdelire.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07660889199120015754'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206551952153989157.post-1444478823936078295</id><published>2010-03-09T19:24:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-09T20:19:44.068-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gong'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Délire Musical'/><title type='text'>Délire musical, 2010-03-09</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 130%;"&gt;DÉLIRE MUSICAL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Édition du 9 mars 2010&lt;br /&gt;Broadcast Date: 9 mars 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;LISTE DE DIFFUSION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;PLAYLIST&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thème/Theme: *ROOSEVELT FOUNTAIN / Red Pepper Part II - Dr. Boogie presents Heavy Jelly (Sub Rosa)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SYNAESTHESIA / Nomads (extrait/excerpt: 6:30) - Ephemeral (Hypnotic)&lt;br /&gt;**COSMOSOPHY / Afrology (extrait/excerpt: 4:00) - Organic Space Age (&lt;a href="http://www.elestialrecords.com"&gt;Elestial Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.planetgong.co.uk"&gt;GONG&lt;/a&gt; / Dance with the Pixies (4:37) - 2032 (G-Wave)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MASAL / Intergalactic Tango (5:46) - Galgal (&lt;a href="http://www.musearecords.com"&gt;Musea&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;***FRED FRITH / Norrgarden nyvla (3:00) - Step Across the Border (&lt;a href="http://www.fredfrith.com/fredrecords.htm"&gt;Fred Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;MITCH &amp;amp; IGOR KRUTOGOLOV &amp;amp; MITCH / Cockroach Races (3:37) - Love for Three Cockroaches (&lt;a href="http://www.aurismedia.com/records"&gt;Auris Media&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*LIM LING AND THE SILVERTONES / Oh No! (3:28) - Singapore a-go-go (Sublime Frequencies)&lt;br /&gt;*MICKEY KATZ / K'nock Around the Clock (2:05) - Music for Mentalists (Psychic Circle)&lt;br /&gt;*THE RED TOPS / Mustard (2:40) - Dr. Boogie presents Heavy Jelly (&lt;a href="http://www.subrosa.net"&gt;Sub Rosa&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;SUFJAN STEVENS / Adlai Stevenson (2:32) - The Avalanche (Asthmatic Kitty)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PATRICK WATSON / Gealman (extrait/excerpt: 4:00) - Just Another Ordinary Day (Secret City)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;merci à/thanks to:&lt;br /&gt;*&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.forcedexposure.com/"&gt;Forced Exposure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;**&lt;a href="http://www.johnbourkepr.com"&gt;John Bourke P.R.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;a href="http://www.rerusa.com"&gt;ReR USA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;COMPLÉMENTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;SUPPLEMENTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;GONG&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Dance with the Pixies" en concert en novembre 2009 (vidéo très amateure)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Dance with the Pixies" performed live in November 2009 (very amateur footage)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BdjBf5egzV0&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BdjBf5egzV0&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. All rights reserved. / Tous droits réservés.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7206551952153989157-1444478823936078295?l=blog.monsieurdelire.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/feeds/1444478823936078295/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/03/delire-musical-2010-03-09.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/1444478823936078295'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/1444478823936078295'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/03/delire-musical-2010-03-09.html' title='Délire musical, 2010-03-09'/><author><name>Monsieur Délire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03753216952194868887</uri><email>md@monsieurdelire.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07660889199120015754'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206551952153989157.post-6848450227419014261</id><published>2010-03-08T20:28:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-08T20:35:22.380-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Red Trio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Goodiepal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kaya Project'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Interchill Records'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Clean Feed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cell'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fight the Big Bull'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ultimae Records'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Journal d&apos;écoute / Listening diary'/><title type='text'>2010-03-08: Red Trio, Fight the Big Bull, Kaya Project, Cell, Goodiepal</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Journal d'écoute/Listening Diary&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2010-03-08&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;RED TRIO / Red Trio&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;(&lt;a href="http://www.cleanfeed-records.com/"&gt;Clean Feed&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Un solide disque de free jazz d’inspiration américaine, avec Rodrigo Pinheiro (piano), Hernani Faustino (contrebasse) et Gabriel Ferrandini (batterie). Paul Bley semble être une référence. Rapide, énergique, avec de jolis développements tentaculaires en filigrane. Le jeu de Faustino, particulièrement mis en évidence à deux reprises, est sec mais fluide, un alliage intéressant. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A strong record of American-style free jazz featuring Rodrigo Pinheiro (piano), Hernani Faustino (bass) and Gabriel Ferrandini (drums). Paul Bley seems to be a source of inspiration. Fast, energetic, with some nice tentacular developments underpinning it all. Faustino’s playing, particularly highlighted in a couple of spots, is dry yet fluid, an interesting combination.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;FIGHT THE BIG BULL / All is Gladness in the Kingdom&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;(&lt;a href="http://www.cleanfeed-records.com/"&gt;Clean Feed&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Ô que je suis emballé par ce disque! Fight the Big Bull est un ensemble - on pourrait le qualifier de big band - de Richmond en Virginie. Pour cet album, son leader, le guitariste Matt White, a invité le trompettiste Steven Bernstein à y faire une sorte de résidence d’artiste. Résultat: un disque où White et Bernstein se partagent la composition. Fight the Big Bull adopte un style hybride qui emprunte à la tradition de Duke Ellington et au big band actuel (je pense en particulier aux ensembles de Fred Ho). Les pièces sont vives, riches, éclatantes, parfois dansantes, fortes en humour et en émotions fortes. “Mothra” de Bernstein ressort du lot, mais il y a beaucoup d’excellents morceaux ici, sur un disque qui fait dépasse les 75 minutes. Un disque confiant qui respire la bonne humeur, la camaraderie et l’audace assumée.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Oh am I thrilled by this CD! Fight the Big Bull is an ensemble - you could call it a big band - from Richmond, Virginia. For this album, its leader, guitarist Matt White, called in trumpeter Steven Bernstein as a sort of composer-in-residence guest. The result is a record where White and Bernstein share composition credits. Fight the Big Bull goes for a hybrid sound that owes as much to Ellington’s big band tradition than to avant-garde big bands (like Fred Ho’s ensembles, in particular). The pieces are lively, rich, bursting with arrangements, dancing at times, humorous, and full of rollercoaster-like thrills. Bernstein’s “Mothra” is a highlight, but there’s plenty more excellent stuff on this 75+minute record. A confident album full of good humour, camaraderie, and strong-footed boldness.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 160px; height: 160px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S5WlgUw4jzI/AAAAAAAAATI/hS89TO7YV3w/s200/Kaya+Project_desert_phase_160.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446441299122622258" /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kayaproject.com/"&gt;KAYA PROJECT&lt;/a&gt; / Desert Phase (&lt;a href="http://www.interchill.com/"&gt;Interchill &lt;/a&gt;- merci à/thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/JohnBourkePR"&gt;John Bourke P.R.&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#000080;"&gt; &lt;!--StartFragment--&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#000080;"&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Ça y est. Seb Taylor a atteint l’équilibre sur ce quatrième album de Kaya Project. Sa recette d’électro-world est maintenant tout à fait au point. Malgré ses plus de 70 minutes, &lt;i&gt;Desert Phase&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; ne contient pas de longueurs (contrairement au disque précédent, &lt;i&gt;...&amp;amp; So It Goes&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;, qui péchait par excès). Quinze morceaux planants mais rythmés, aux accents dub, arabisants, hindisants, un peu techno, un peu space rock, très chill. On trouve de nombreux musiciens et chanteurs traditionnels parmi les invités, dont l’Indienne Shanin Badar qui ravi sur “Ummah Oum”, qui ferait un excellent simple. Des invités enregistrés sur le terrain, des musiques qui se développent avec amour, une atmosphère qui ne se dément pas tout au long de ce disque-bonbon. Dans le genre “world beat”, on touche ici à la perfection. &lt;u&gt;[Le site d’Interchill propose un lecteur média avec plusieurs extraits de l’album.]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Fourth time’s a charm. Seb Taylor has reached a fine balance on this, Kaya Project’s fourth release. His electro-world recipe is now ripe. Despite its 70+ minutes, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Desert Phase&lt;i&gt; doesn’t have the overstretched passages one could still hear on the previous effort &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;...&amp;amp; So It Goes&lt;i&gt;. Fifteen trippy tracks, with lots of beats and overtones of dub, Arab music, Indian music, a touch of techno, a touch of space rock, and a lot of chill. There’s a hefty list of traditional folk musicians and singers guesting, like Indian singer Shanin Badar on “Ummah Oum,” which would make a great hit single. Guest musicians recorded on location, backing tracks lovingly unfolding around them, a mood that holds up throughout - this one’s a keeper. In the world beat field, this is as close to perfection as you can get, me thinks.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;[Interchill’s website has a media player loaded with clips from the album.]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CELL / Hanging Masses (&lt;a href="http://www.ultimae.com/"&gt;Ultimae Records&lt;/a&gt; - merci à/thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/JohnBourkePR"&gt;John Bourke P.R.&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Pas mauvais, ce long disque de Cell, alias Alexandre Scheffer, un Français, pas mauvais du tout, mais plutôt générique. &lt;i&gt;Hanging Masses&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; fait dans l’électro ambiante, avec une forte composante analogique, voire musique cosmique allemande. Je pense à Tangerine Dream et Klaus Schulze (surtout en mode Wahnfried), mais en plus convenu. Huit longues pièces bien planantes, un peu longues à développer ou s’enrichir, un peu répétitives d’une pièce à l’autre. Une écoute d’ambiance agréable, par contre.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Not bad, this long long-player by Cell, aka Frenchman Alexandre Scheffer, not bad at all, although a bit generic. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Hanging Masses&lt;i&gt; is an ambient electronica affair, with a strong analog component, even a German kosmiche music thing going on. I’m thinking Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze (mostly in his Wahnfried guise), although in aseptisized form. Eight long ambient tracks, a tad long to unfold or accrue, a bit repetitive from track to track. But an enjoyable ambient listen.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;GOODIEPAL / Mort aux vaches erstra extra (Pork Salad Press/Staalplaat/? - merci à/thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.dense.de/"&gt;Dense Promotion&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Honnêtement, je ne sais pas comment aborder ceci. Je tergiverse depuis des jours. J’ai même contacté mon ami Ed chez Dense Promotion pour lui demander ce qui s’était passé avec mon dernier colis. Il n’a pu que me confirmer que ces quatre articles allaient ensemble, à la demande de Goodiepal, soit: 1) un livre cartonné intitulé &lt;i&gt;Mort aux vaches erstra extra&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; et présentant des artefacts visuels à découper et assembler; 2) un carnet spirale intitulé &lt;i&gt;Radical Computer Music &amp;amp; Fantastisk Mediemanipulation&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; regroupant soi-disant des transcriptions textuelles de diverses versions de la pièce “The Official Mort aux vaches ekstra extra walkthrough” de Goodipal (disponible en mp3 - diverses versions - sur le net); 3) un 7 pouces 33 tours vert translucide ayant la forme d’une pièce de puzzle, et présentant un récitatif étrange sur la composition et l’importance de créer un vacuum; 4) un 7 pouces 45 trs identifié “Krigen/BeDash - Krejan/BeDash”, présentant deux fois la même pièce, une chanson dance plutôt étrange. Que faire de tout cela? En quoi ces éléments sont-ils reliés? S’agit-il d’une réflexion profonde sur la perception artistique/médiatique ou d’une fumisterie particulièrement élaborée? J’hésite encore. Cela dit, j’aime beaucoup ce genre d’énigmes conceptuelles...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Honestly, I’m not sure how to review this. I’ve been sitting on it for days. I even contacted my friend Ed at Dense Promotion to know what had happened with my last package. All he could do was confirm that the four items I had in my hands did belong together, at the request of Goodiepal, and they are: 1) one harcover book entitled &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Mort aux vaches erstra extra&lt;i&gt; and featuring visual artifacts you can cut out and assemble; 2) one spiral notebook entitled &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Radical Computer Music &amp;amp; Fantastisk Mediemanipulation&lt;i&gt; culling (or so it says) transcripts of various versions of the track “The Official Mort aux vaches ekstra extra walkthrough” by Goodiepal (various versions of which have been disseminated on the web); 3) a translucent green 33rpm 7-inch record shaped like a puzzle piece and featuring a strange recitation about composition and the need to create a vacuum; 4) a regular 45rpm 7-inch labeled “Krigen/BeDash - Krejan/BeDash” featuring the same track twice, a rather odd dance track. What to make of all this? How are these items related? Is this a deep reflection on artistic/mediatic perception, or just an elaborate hoax? The jury is still out. That said, I love this kind of conceptual enigma...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. 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Un dimanche ensoleillé, m’enfin, faut ce qui faut côté boulot, alors autant joindre l’utile à l’agréable, comme à l’habitude...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;After a one-week break during which I didn’t listen to anything new, the time has come get back on the saddle - work-wise and blog-wise. Sunny Sunday notwithstanding. Oh well. Since I have to work, I might as well make it enjoyable, as usual, and listen to some of the new arrivals...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S5TagaGAaQI/AAAAAAAAATA/o987-FSRVU8/s200/sarahjune-blackrobes.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446218099692955906" /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;SARAH JUNE / In Black Robes (&lt;a href="http://www.silbermedia.com/"&gt;Silber Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;...et quelle belle manière de reprendre le collier! &lt;i&gt;In Black Robes&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; est un disque délicat et intimiste de chanson folk simple mais intelligente. Sarah June est une jeune gothique qui propose ici son deuxième album (je n’ai pas entendu son premier, &lt;i&gt;This Is My letter To The World&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;, 2008). Elle possède une jolie voix de lutine mutine, qui sussure et fredonne avec justesse, en alliant séduction et naïveté enfantine - je parle ici du ton et du timbre, pas des textes qui sont efficaces et poétiques, malgré leurs thèmes remâchés. June s’accompagne avec simplicité à la guitare acoustique. Honnête et agréable. Certaines mélodies resteront gravées dès la deuxième écoute, j’en suis sûr. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;[Ci-dessous: “Cowboy”, la première chanson de l’album.]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;!--StartFragment--&gt;  &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;...like this great CD. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;In Black Robes&lt;i&gt; is a delicate and intimate album of simple yet intelligent folk songs. Sarah June is a young Goth singer-songwriter, and this is her second opus (I havent’ heard her debut &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;This Is My Letter To The World&lt;i&gt;, 2008). She has a pretty pixie voice, and she whispers and sings in tune, with a blend of seduction and childish naivete - tone-wise, not lyric-wise, as her lyrics are efficient and poetic, though the topics are conventional. June accompanies herself simply at the acoustic guitar. Honest and enjoyable. Some of these melodies will etch their path in my brain after only two listens I’m sure. &lt;u&gt;[Below: “Cowboy”, the opening track.]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.silbermedia.com/mp3s/sarahjune-cowboy.mp3"&gt;http://www.silbermedia.com/mp3s/sarahjune-cowboy.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;   &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CARTA / An Index of Birds (&lt;a href="http://www.silbermedia.com/"&gt;Silber Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Carta a commencé en 2002, mais a traversé une période de réorganisation en profondeur. &lt;i&gt;An Index of Birds&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; est donc le premier album du nouveau Carta réaligné autour de Kyle Monday. Ce groupe mélange post-rock, shoegaze et un certain élément gothique. L’album est riche en arrangements, n’exagère rien côté textures et s’appuie sur une écriture solide bien que lancinante. Je ne peux pas dire que je suis conquis, mais je n’ai pas détesté, au contraire. Notons au passage que l’étiquette Silber Records, avec ces deux références (ses 76e et 77e parutions) passe au format digipak, dont elle fait un superbe usage point de vue graphisme. Deux TRÈS belles pochettes.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Carta formed in 2002, but the band has undergone an extensive overhaul. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;An Index of Birds&lt;i&gt; is the first album by this new version of Carta realigned around Kule Monday. The group blends post-rock, shoegaze and a light Gothic touch. The album boasts rich arrangements, and it doesn’t overdo textures, relying instead on strong though plaintive songwriting. I can’t say I’m won over, but I sure didn’t dislike it, on the contrary. By the way, I want to point out that Silber Records, with these two releases (their 76&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; and 77&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;) has gone digipak, and the graphic design for those two releases is downright GORGEOUS.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/beatrixwardfernandez"&gt;BEATRIX WARD-FERNANDEZ&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/charlievibe"&gt;CHARLIE COLLINS&lt;/a&gt; / View from the East (&lt;a href="mailto:foundpropertyrecordings@hotmail.co.uk"&gt;Found Property&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Beatrix Ward-Fernandez est l’une des rares musiciennes à faire de l’improvisation libre avec un theremin (outre elle, je connais Frank Martel... et c’est tout?!?) Paru sur la micro-étiquette Found Property, &lt;i&gt;View from the East&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; est une improvisation continue de 53 minutes en duo avec le percussionniste Charlie Collins, que je connais surtout pour son travail dans les projets de Martin Archer. Il s’agit d’une rencontre intéressante mais pas grandiose, dans laquelle Ward-Fernandez déploie une palette impressionnante de sonorités et fait preuve de beaucoup d’adresse, tandis que Collins place des climats d’improvisation, d’une manière parfois trop évidente.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Beatrix Ward-Fernandez is one of the rare musicians doing free improvisation on the theremin (beside her, I know of Frank Martel and… that’s it!?!) Released on the microlabel Found Property, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;View from the East&lt;i&gt; is a single 53-minute free improvisation with percussionist Charlie Collins, whom I know mostly from his work in Martin Archer’s projects. This is interesting meeting, though not grand. Ward-Fernandez deploys an impressive palette of sonics and proves to be quite agile, while Collins sets improv atmospheres, sometimes in a too obvious way.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;SEI MIGUEL / Esfíngico: Suite for a Jazz Combo (&lt;a href="http://www.cleanfeed-records.com/"&gt;Clean Feed&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Un superbe disque signé Sei Miguel, et le premier album du trompettiste portuguais pour l’étiquette Clean Feed. Ici. Miguel s’entoure de la tromboniste Fala Mariam (impressionnante), du bassiste Pedro Lourenço, du percussionniste Cesár Burago et de Rafael Toral au “circuit de larsen à résonance modulée”. Ce quintette interprète une partition de Miguel, qui dirige aussi. Mouvements lents, interactions pointillistes, jeu d’improvisation libre sur canevas, le tout non pas dominé mais encadré, subtilement, par le jeu de trompette fragmenté et doux mais assertif de Miguel. De la superbe, de la classe, une écoute exigente qui récompense l’effort.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A splendid record by Sei Miguel, his first for the Clean Feed label. Here, the Portugese trumpeter is surrounded by trombonist Fala Mariam (impressive), bassist Pedro Lourenço, percussionist Cesár Burago, and Rafael Toral on “modulated resonance feedback circuit.” This quintet is performig a score by Miguel, who is also conducting. Slow movements, punctual interactions, free improvisation over a set canvas, the whole thing framed (not dominated) by Miguel’s fragmented, soft yet assertive trumpet work. This has flare and class. It’s a demanding listen, but the reward is definitely worth it.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. All rights reserved. / Tous droits réservés.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7206551952153989157-5993843429373584577?l=blog.monsieurdelire.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/feeds/5993843429373584577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/03/2010-03-07-sarah-june-carta-ward.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/5993843429373584577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/5993843429373584577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/03/2010-03-07-sarah-june-carta-ward.html' title='2010-03-07: Sarah June, Carta, Ward-Fernandez/Collins, Sei Miguel'/><author><name>Monsieur Délire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03753216952194868887</uri><email>md@monsieurdelire.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07660889199120015754'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S5TagaGAaQI/AAAAAAAAATA/o987-FSRVU8/s72-c/sarahjune-blackrobes.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206551952153989157.post-6975656326681397822</id><published>2010-03-02T20:19:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-02T20:53:06.203-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pierre-Yves Martel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philippe Lauzier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Délire actuel'/><title type='text'>Délire actuel, 2010-03-02</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 130%;"&gt;DÉLIRE ACTUEL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Édition du 2 mars 2010&lt;br /&gt;Show aired on 2 mars 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;DESCRIPTION&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;DESCRIPTION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Improvisation libre, acoustique et électroacoustique:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; Une courbe d'écoute de deux heures qui mène de l'improvisation libre avec instruments acoustiques à des approches intégrants l'électrique, l'électronique et l'électroacoustique.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;Free Improvisation, Acoustic &amp;amp; Electroacoustic:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; A two-hour listening curve that takes us from all-acoustic free improvisation to approaches integrating electricity, electronics, and electroacoustics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;STELLARI STRING QUARTET / Mintaka (8:44) - Gocce Stellari (&lt;a href="http://www.emanemdisc.com"&gt;Emanem&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;CAROLINE KRAABEL, V. WESTON &amp;amp; M. SANDERS / A Lot Uncommon (6:35) - Playtime (Mass Producers)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MURAL / Monolith of the Chaotic Pledge (6:59) - Nectars of Emergence (&lt;a href="http://www.sofamusic.no"&gt;Sofa&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;PHILIPPE LAUZIER &amp;amp; PIERRE-YVES MARTEL / Brazos (3:26) - Sainct-Laurens (&lt;a href="http://www.actuellecd.com"&gt;&amp;amp; records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;NÖRZ / Li (3:19) - (also known as) acker velvet (&lt;a href="http://www.schraum.de"&gt;Schraum&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*TETUZI AKIYAMA &amp;amp; TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA / [1] (18:28) - Semi-impressionism (&lt;a href="http://www.spekk.net"&gt;Spekk&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JEAN-MARC FOUSSAT &amp;amp; SYLVAIN GUERINEAU / Loin de la Pologne (extrait/excerpt: 11:15) - Aliquid (&lt;a href="http://www.leorecords.com"&gt;Leo Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;**OREN AMBARCHI, FENNESZ, PIMMON, P. REHBERG &amp;amp; K. ROWE / Live Tea 2 (8:26) - Afternoon Tea (&lt;a href="http://www.blacktrufflerecords.com"&gt;Black Truffle&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IGNAZ SCHICK &amp;amp; MARTIN TÉTREAULT / 6-p45 six (5:08) - Live 33 * 45 * 78 (&lt;a href="http://www.actuellecd.com"&gt;Ambiances Magnétiques&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;*AMP2 + TIM HODGKINSON / Intelligent Sofa (7:56) - Hums (&lt;a href="http://www.bowindorecordings.com"&gt;Bowindo&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JEAN-LUC GUIONNET, E. LA CASA &amp;amp; P. SAMARTZIS / Track 1 (14:50) - Soleil d'artifice (&lt;a href="http://www.metamkine.com"&gt;Swarming&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Merci à/Thanks to:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;*&lt;a href="http://www.dense.de/"&gt;Dense Promotion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;**&lt;a href="http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/01/www.forcedexposure.com"&gt;Forced Exposure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;COMPLÉMENTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;SUPPLEMENTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PHILIPPE LAUZIER &amp;amp; PIERRE-YVES MARTEL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Extrait du concert-lancement du disque "Sainct Laurens".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;A clip from the CD release concer for "Sainct Laurens".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8xuoE7UPidA&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8xuoE7UPidA&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. All rights reserved. / Tous droits réservés.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7206551952153989157-6975656326681397822?l=blog.monsieurdelire.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/feeds/6975656326681397822/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/03/delire-actuel-2010-03-02.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/6975656326681397822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/6975656326681397822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/03/delire-actuel-2010-03-02.html' title='Délire actuel, 2010-03-02'/><author><name>Monsieur Délire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03753216952194868887</uri><email>md@monsieurdelire.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07660889199120015754'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206551952153989157.post-4241607129809112040</id><published>2010-03-02T19:23:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-02T20:18:54.858-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Scavenger Quartet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Délire Musical'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Toubabou'/><title type='text'>Délire musical, 2010-03-02</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 130%;"&gt;DÉLIRE MUSICAL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Édition du 2 mars 2010&lt;br /&gt;Broadcast Date: 2 mars 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;LISTE DE DIFFUSION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;PLAYLIST&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thème/Theme: THE LONG HELLO /  Elsham Road - Volume 2 (&lt;a href="http://www.voiceprint.co.uk"&gt;Voiceprint&lt;/a&gt;/Zomart)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ANTHONY PHILLIPS / Promenade (4:02) - Missing Links, Vol. 4: Pathways and Promenades (&lt;a href="http://www.voiceprint.co.uk/"&gt;Voiceprint&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;ENGEL / El Pajaro azul (5:16) - Engel (&lt;a href="http://www.musearecords.com"&gt;Musea&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jfbelanger.com"&gt;JEAN-FRANÇOIS BÉLANGER&lt;/a&gt; / Le château de Malahide (2:55) - Cap-aux-sorciers (Transit)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TOUBABOU / Attente (3:43) - Attente (&lt;a href="http://www.progquebec.com"&gt;ProgQuébec&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;*THE THIRD EAR / Brother (4:02) - Brother (&lt;a href="http://www.psychedelic-music.com"&gt;Shadoks&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;BAUHAUS / Terror Couple Kill Colonel (4:21) - In the Flat Field (4AD)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thelegendarypinkdots.org"&gt;THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS&lt;/a&gt; / When Lenny Meets Lorca (4:32) - A Perfect Mystery (Cacciocavallo/Soleilmoon)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TULSA DRONE / Honcho Toro (3:45) - No Wake (Dry County Records)&lt;br /&gt;SCAVENGER QUARTET / Wonderful Nautilus (3:47) - We Who Live on Land (&lt;a href="http://www.acidsoxx.com"&gt;Acidsoxx Musicks&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MIKE COOPER / Alohabama [extrait/excerpt: 3:30) - Rayon Hula (&lt;a href="http://www.room40.org"&gt;Room40&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;merci à/thanks to:&lt;br /&gt;*&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.forcedexposure.com/"&gt;Forced Exposure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;COMPLÉMENTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;SUPPLEMENTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TOUBABOU&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Une vidéo promotionnelle de circa 1974 (d'autres sont incluses en extra sur le disque).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;A promo video circa 1974 (there are more included as extras on the CD).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/y9S53K0jjaQ&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/y9S53K0jjaQ&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SCAVENGER QUARTET&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;En concert, avec musiciens et automates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Live with musicians and mechanical instruments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/B-Y2v9xwkY0&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/B-Y2v9xwkY0&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. All rights reserved. / Tous droits réservés.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7206551952153989157-4241607129809112040?l=blog.monsieurdelire.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/feeds/4241607129809112040/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/03/delire-musical-2010-03-02.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/4241607129809112040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/4241607129809112040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/03/delire-musical-2010-03-02.html' title='Délire musical, 2010-03-02'/><author><name>Monsieur Délire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03753216952194868887</uri><email>md@monsieurdelire.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07660889199120015754'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206551952153989157.post-2092870471185041246</id><published>2010-03-02T16:07:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-02T16:14:17.073-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Congé / Time off</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;Un simple mot, chers lecteurs, pour vous dire que je suis en congé toute la semaine - en congé du boulot et du blog. De retour dimanche (le 7) ou lundi (le 8) à mon journal d'écoute. D'ici là, il y aura évidemment la diffusion de Délire musical / Délire actuel ce soir (mardi 2 mars).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#009900;"&gt;Just a word, dear readers, to let you know that I'm on vacation all way, taking a break from work and the blog both. I'll get back to my listening diary on Sunday (March 7) or Monday (March 8). Until then, there will be of course a Délire musical / Délire actuel tonight (Tuesday, March 2).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. All rights reserved. / Tous droits réservés.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7206551952153989157-2092870471185041246?l=blog.monsieurdelire.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/feeds/2092870471185041246/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/03/conge-time-off.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/2092870471185041246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/2092870471185041246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/03/conge-time-off.html' title='Congé / Time off'/><author><name>Monsieur Délire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03753216952194868887</uri><email>md@monsieurdelire.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07660889199120015754'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206551952153989157.post-1952293683429916366</id><published>2010-02-26T15:39:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-26T15:43:01.658-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='M. Ostermeier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The D.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='12k'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Parvo Art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Voiceprint'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rick Wakeman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Neve'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Minamo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Journal d&apos;écoute / Listening diary'/><title type='text'>2010-02-26: M. Ostermeier, Neve, The D., Rick Wakeman, Minamo</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Journal d'écoute / Listening Diary&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2010-02-26&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;M. OSTERMEIER / Percolate (&lt;a href="http://www.parvoart.org/"&gt;Parvo Art&lt;/a&gt; - merci à/thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.dense.de/"&gt;Dense Promotion&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Comme à l’habitude avec l’étiquette Parvo Art, &lt;i&gt;Percolate&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; paraît sur cdr 3” en édition très limitée. C’est un joli disque de musique électronique délicate, qui s’inspire fortement du post-rock de Labradford, avec une composante presque IDM. Porte peu à conséquence, mais agréable. Il faudrait le mettre en boucle et écouter trois ou quatre fois de suite pour qu’il ait une chance de laisser une impression.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;As usual with the Parvo Art label, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Percolate&lt;i&gt; is released in a limited-edition 3” cdr. It’s a fine record of delicate electronic music, heavily drawing from Labradford’s brand of post-rock, with a near-IDM component added. It’s a little inconsequential, but enjoyable. However, for it to make an impression, I’d have to put it on repeat play and let it go through three or four times.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NEVE / Centigrade (&lt;a href="http://www.parvoart.org/"&gt;Parvo Art&lt;/a&gt; - merci à/thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.dense.de/"&gt;Dense Promotion&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Meilleur que le Ostermeier, cet autre cdr 3”.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Neve fait dans l’électronique ambiante, une musique douce, immersive, simple à l’horizontale mais complexe à la verticale. &lt;i&gt;Centigrade&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; propose neuf pièces en un peu plus de 20 minutes, de courts moments de suspension. Très réussi. Seul point négatif: l’album commence par une piste multimédia sensée présenter des photos. Une piste multimédia, sur un cd 3”. Mes trois ordis ont un lecteur “slot-loading” qui n’accepte pas les 3”. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;This other 3” cdr is better than the Ostermeier above. Neve is into experimental ambient electronica, quiet, immersive music, simple on the horizontal though rich and complex on the vertical. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Centigrade&lt;i&gt; features nine short pieces for a total duration of just over 20 minutes, all short moments of suspension. Very well done. Only downpoint: the album starts with a multimedia track - a slide show, or so they say. A multimedia track on a 3” cdr. And my three computers all have slot-loading players that won’t take 3”s. Bummer.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nathalie.bles.free.fr/"&gt;THE D.&lt;/a&gt; / D.A.F. (&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/thedinside"&gt;The D&lt;/a&gt; - merci à/thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.dense.de/"&gt;Dense Promotion&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Un vinyle très intéressant. The D., c’est Nathalie Bles, une artiste visuelle française qui s’adonne aussi&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, serif; "&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; à l’art sonore. Et &lt;i&gt;D.A.F.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; (pour Donatien Alphonse François, les prénoms du marquis De Sade) s’inscrit dans un projet artistique plus large. Ce long-jeu pressé sur vinyle rouge flamboyant consiste en deux collages sonores continus, très dynamiques, avec une forte composante bruitiste sans pour autant s’y limiter. On y entend des récitatifs en français (des extraits de Sade), des échantillons de musique, des compositions électroniques possiblement originales, le tout présenté sous forme de suite musicale faite pour déstabiliser et prendre par surprise. Ça marche et c’est réussi. Je diffuserai certainement une des deux faces sur &lt;i&gt;Délire actuel&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; prochainement.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A very interesting LP. The D. is French visual artist Nathalie Bles, and &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;D.A.F.&lt;i&gt; (for Donatien Alphone François, the first names of the Marquis de Sade) is part of a larger artistic project. This LP pressed on flamboyant red vinyl consists of two side-long collages, highly dynamic, with a strong noise component without being limited to that particular aspect. There are recitations in French (Sade excerpts), music samples, possibly original compositions too, all presented as a music suite designed to destabilize and surprise. It works, and it’s successful. I’m sure I’ll be broadcasting one side of this on &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Délire actuel&lt;i&gt; soon.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;RICK WAKEMAN / Past, Present and Future (&lt;a href="http://www.voiceprint.co.uk/"&gt;Voiceprint&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Je l’admets d’emblée: je n’ai pas écouté tout ce coffret de trois disques. Pourquoi? Trop homogène. Trois heures quinze minutes de solos de piano doux, tendres et rêveurs, c’est beaucoup trop. Comprenez-moi bien: c’est joli, c’est berceur, c’est joué avec brio par un Rick Wakeman encore en possession de ses moyens. Mais c’est plutôt mièvre et jamais je n’arriverai à distinguer ces 36 pièces les unes des autres. Wakeman dit avoir composé cette trilogie (Past, Present, Future, chaque disque porte l’un de ces titres) pour aider les gens à rêver. Soit. Entre le premier disque et le second, je n’ai vu aucune différence, ni dans le ton ni dans la forme, et je soupçonne que c’est la même chose pour le troisième. On aurait pu ramener le tout à un seul disque sans nuire à rien.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I’ll admit it upfront: I haven’t listen to all of this 3-CD set. Why? Too much of the same. Three hours fifteen minutes of quiet, sweet, dreamy piano solos, it’s just too much. Hear me out: it’s pretty and lulling and played with brio by a Rick Wakeman who can still tickle the keys like the master he once was. But it gets sickly sweek and I will never be able to tell these 36 pieces apart. Wakeman says he composed this trilogy (each disc has its own title: Past, Present, Future) to help people daydream in order to alievate their stress and pain. Fine. I don’t hear any difference in tone or format between the first and the second discs (and I suspect the third sounds just the same too). The whole thing could have been scaled down to a single disc and it wouldn’t have hurt anything.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 179px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S4gx6QgWt4I/AAAAAAAAAS4/SNghdfUu7eU/s200/1058mini.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442655026610091906" /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MINAMO / Durée (&lt;a href="http://www.12k.com/"&gt;12k&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Ce disque de Minamo est plus beau que &lt;i&gt;Beautiful&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;, leur précédent chez 12k, sans jeu de mots. C’est le plus beau disque de Minamo que j’aie entendu à ce jour: tendre, légèrement mélancolique, travail électronique très subtile, mélodies fragmentaires mais touchantes, superbe équilibre entre minimalisme et mélodisme, beau jeau d’ensemble, un son de groupe muri à point. Sur la scène des musiques expérimentales ambiantes ou même post-rock, ce groupe devrait être roi. Pourquoi ne l’est-il pas?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;[Ci-dessous: Écoutez deux pièces de l’album sur cette page.]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;This Minamo CD is more beautiful than &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Beautiful&lt;i&gt;, their previous one for 12k, no pun intended. Actually, this is the most beautiful Minamo CD I have heard yet: sweet, slightly melancholic, very subtle electronics, fragmentary yet moving melodies, splendid balance between minimalism and melodicism, nice ensemble playing, and a ripe group sound. This band should be the king of the experimental ambient or even post-rock circuits. Why isn’t it so?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;[Below: Listen to 2 tracks from the album on this page.]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.12k.com/1058.html"&gt;http://www.12k.com/1058.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. 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Ostermeier, Neve, The D., Rick Wakeman, Minamo'/><author><name>Monsieur Délire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03753216952194868887</uri><email>md@monsieurdelire.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07660889199120015754'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S4gx6QgWt4I/AAAAAAAAAS4/SNghdfUu7eU/s72-c/1058mini.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206551952153989157.post-4623550321821710969</id><published>2010-02-26T08:13:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-26T08:17:13.064-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Leo Records'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dual Plover'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jean-Marc Foussat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zoo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Roland Ramanan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Voiceprint'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aliquid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Prophase Music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anthony Phillips'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sylvain Guerineau'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Journal d&apos;écoute / Listening diary'/><title type='text'>2010-02-25: Roland Ramanan Tentet, Foussat/Guerineau, Zoo, Anthony Phillips</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Journal d'écoute / Listening Diary&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, serif; font-weight: bold; "&gt;2010-02-25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ROLAND RAMANAN TENTET / London (&lt;a href="http://www.leorecords.com/"&gt;Leo Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Un disque TRÈS agréable par un grand groupe dirigé par le trompettiste Roland Ramanan, qui avoue d’emblée s’être inspiré du tentet de Peter Brötzmann (dans lequel il a joué brièvement). Cela dit, si la formation du Teuton avait un son très américain, somme toute, celle de Ramanan est britannique à l’os. Ce qui n’exclut pas du joyeux brasse-camarade ici, et des passages écrits (surtout dans “Turning the Heel”), des solos enlevants, et beaucoup de “male bonding”. Avec, entre autres, Alex Ward, Ian Smith, Robert Jarvis, Tony Marsh et Marcio Mattos. Puissant, intelligent, divertissant aussi.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A VERY enjoyable record from a large group led by trumpeter Roland Ramanan, who candidly admits having drawn inspiration from Peter Brötzmann’s tentet (in which he actually played briefly). That said, if Brötzmann’s band had a resolutely American sound, Ramanan’s is British to the core. Which doesn’t rule out some boisterous brawling and a few noted-down passages (especially in “Turning the Heel”), plus spirited solos, and a lot of male bonding. With Alex Ward, Ian Smith, Robert Jarvis, Tony Marsh, and Marcio Mattos, among others. Powerful, intelligent, entertaining too.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 194px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S4fJVzzVjLI/AAAAAAAAASo/zWpD-6r3CGw/s200/551Leo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442540051220499634" /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://aliquid.quod.free.fr/suite.htm"&gt;JEAN-MARC FOUSSAT &amp;amp; SYLVAIN GUERINEAU&lt;/a&gt; / Aliquid (&lt;a href="http://www.leorecords.com/"&gt;Leo Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Un disque impressionnant mettant en vedette le saxo ténor Sylvain Guérineau et l’électronicien Jean-Marc Foussat qui, ici, joue tout particulièrement du VCS3, ce synthé analogique que manie aussi Thomas Lehn. &lt;i&gt;Aliquid&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; consiste en trois improvisations de 22 à 28 minutes chacune. Et chacune offre un voyage auditif riche et varié, peuplé de créatures étranges, de paysages inédits et de moments poignants. Je suis profondément séduit par ce disque. Très belle synergie entre les deux musiciens, superbe jeu entre musicalité et bruitisme, le familier et l’éminemment étrange. Un des meilleurs disques d’impro cette année, jusqu’à présent.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;[CI-dessous: Un des nombreux extraits d’enregistrements disponibles gratuitements sur &lt;a href="http://aliquid.quod.free.fr/suite.htm"&gt;le site du duo&lt;/a&gt;.]&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;An impressive record featuring tenor saxman Sylvain Guérineau and electronician Jean-Marc Foussat, here playing among other things a VCS3, the analog synth also wielded by Thomas Lehn. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Aliquid&lt;i&gt; consists of three improvisations, 22-28 minutes in duration. Each piece offers a rich and diverse aural journey filled with strange creatures, novel landscapes, and poignant adventures. I was deeply seduced by this CD. Wonderful synergy within this duo, splendid interplay between musicality and noise, the familiar and the alien. One of the top free improv records so far this year.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;[Below: One of several free mp3s available on &lt;a href="http://aliquid.quod.free.fr/suite.htm"&gt;the duo’s website&lt;/a&gt;.]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://aliquid.quod.free.fr/sons/Aliquid%2008%2004%2030%20-%202b.mp3"&gt;http://aliquid.quod.free.fr/sons/Aliquid 08 04 30 - 2b.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S4fJWPlkDwI/AAAAAAAAASw/uJgGzSb7480/s200/zoo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442540058678923010" /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ZOO / Trilogi Peradaban (&lt;a href="http://www.dualplover.com/"&gt;Dual Plover&lt;/a&gt; - merci à/thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.dense.de/"&gt;Dense Promotion&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Glorieusement dément! Directement d’Indonésie, Zoo mélange l’avant-punk de The Ex, le rock-in-opposition stop-go d’Etron Fou Leloublan (ou de Ruins) et la folie pluristylistique de Mr. Bungle ou de Sebkha-Chott. Un menu chargé? Et comment! 22 courtes pièces regroupées entre trois mouvements, chacune un coup de poing dans les parties, sans pour autant souffrir d’homogénéité - ça va du punk au folk tribal. Qualité d’exécution, clarté de la vision artistique, et une excellente réévaluation de l’héritage du rock-in-opposition. Quelque part entre Melt Banana et Savage Republic! Je suis emballé par cette première écoute. Portez attention!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;[CI-dessous: Vidéo officielle pour la chanson “Kupu-Kupu”.]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Gloriously mad! Hailing from Indonesia, Zoo combine the avant-punk of The Ex with the stop/go rock-in-opposition of Etron Fou Leloublan (or Ruins) and the pluristylistic craziness of Mr. Bungle or Sebkha-Chott. Loaded? You bet! 22 short pieces grouped into three movements, each track a one-two punch, yet no over-homogeneity issues – the music ranges from punk to tribal folk. Quality musicianship, clear artistic vision, and an excellent reassesment of Rock-in-Opposition’s heritage. Somewhere between Melt Banana and Savage Republic! I am thrilled after one listen. Pay attention to these guys!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;[Below: Official music video for the song “Kupu-Kupu.”]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&amp;amp;videoid=24655352" style="font: Verdana"&gt;Kupu Kupu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="360"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=24655352,t=1,mt=video"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=24655352,t=1,mt=video" width="425" height="360" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;amp;friendid=304055324" style="font: Verdana"&gt;Zoo_Indonesia&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=videos" style="font: Verdana"&gt;MySpace Music Videos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CACHE THEE ULTIMATE VAG! / Dark Sea Dream (Prophase Music) [???]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Dans leur dernier envoi, les gens de Prophase Music avaient inclus un cdr d’un album à paraître en 2010, sans ajouter d’info outre ce qui est griffonné sur le disque: “Prophase 2010 Pre-Advance”, puis “Cache / Thee Ultimate VAG! / Dark Sea Dream”. Qui? Quoi? Je ne sais pas, et Google s’avère inutile. Ce que je peux vous dire, par contre, c’est que ce disque contient de l’excellent rock psychédélique expérimental, dans la veine d’Acid Mothers Temple, avec une composante sludge/doom qui fait penser à Nadja. Un mélange puissant et très intéressant. Le disque est long mais varié. Dès qu’il sort officiellement je vous dirai de quoi il retourne plus précisément.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;In their last package, the fine folks at Prophase Music included an advance copy on cdr of an album to be released in 2010, without any info about it except what was scribbled on the disc: “Prophase 2010 Pre-Advance”, then “Cache / Thee Ultimate VAG! / Dark Sea Dream.” Who? What? I don’t know, and Google is no help. However, what I &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;can&lt;i&gt; tell you is that this disc features some excellent experimental psychedelic rock in the vein of Acid Mothers Temple, with a sludge/doom component reminiscent of Nadja. A powerful and very interesting blend. It’s a long record but a diverse record. I’ll give you more details as soon as it comes out officially.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ANTHONY PHILLIPS / Private Parts &amp;amp; Pieces VIII: New England (&lt;a href="http://www.voiceprint.co.uk/"&gt;Blueprint&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Après ces deux derniers disques, j’avais besoin de quelque chose de calme pour le boulot du jour. J’ai donc ressorti ce superbe album d’Anthony Phillips. Paru en 1993, cet opus de la série Private Parts &amp;amp; Pieces avait surpris à l’époque. L’homme déçoit rarement, mais il lui arrive parfois de tomber dans la facilité. Or, &lt;i&gt;New England&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; le présente à son meilleur, dans une séquence de pièces variées, mélodiques, savamment arrangées et jouées avec brio. De l’excellente musique instrumentale, sans prétention, qui s’écoute comme on boit de l’eau, pour se rafraîchir sans se casser la tête. Certainement dans le top 5 de Phillips et, à mon avis, le meilleur volume de &lt;i&gt;Private Parts &amp;amp; Pieces&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;After those last two records, I needed something calm to wrap up the day’s work. Enters this stunning album by Anthony Phillips. Released in 1993, this volume in the Private Parts &amp;amp; Pieces series had made some waves back then. Phillips rarely disappoints, but he can take the easy route once in a while. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;New England&lt;i&gt;, however, features him at the top of his game, in a set of varied, melodic pieces brilliantly arranged and performed. Excellent instrumental music, simple and honest - you listen to this the way you drink cool water: to quench your thirst, period. Surely among Phillips’ top 5 and, in my book, the best release in the &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Private Parts &amp;amp; Pieces &lt;i&gt;series.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. All rights reserved. / Tous droits réservés.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7206551952153989157-4623550321821710969?l=blog.monsieurdelire.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/feeds/4623550321821710969/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/2010-02-25-roland-ramanan-tentet.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/4623550321821710969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/4623550321821710969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/2010-02-25-roland-ramanan-tentet.html' title='2010-02-25: Roland Ramanan Tentet, Foussat/Guerineau, Zoo, Anthony Phillips'/><author><name>Monsieur Délire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03753216952194868887</uri><email>md@monsieurdelire.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07660889199120015754'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S4fJVzzVjLI/AAAAAAAAASo/zWpD-6r3CGw/s72-c/551Leo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206551952153989157.post-6958923503961037954</id><published>2010-02-25T09:23:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-25T09:32:03.032-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kazumasa Hashimoto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Erhard Hirt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dafna Naphtali'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Acheulian Handaxe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Peter Geisselbrecht'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Parvo Art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noble'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chuck Bettis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Journal d&apos;écoute / Listening diary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Axel Dörner'/><title type='text'>2010-02-24: Peter Geisselbrecht, Naphtali/Bettis, Dörner/Hirt, Kazumasa Hashimoto, Advent</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Journal d'écoute / Listening Diary&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2010-02-24&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;PETER GEISSELBRECHT / Charles Ives / Federico Mompou (&lt;a href="http://www.handaxe.org/"&gt;Acheulian Handaxe&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Le pianist allemand Peter Geisselbrecht propose un programme double qui met en parallèle deux compositeurs très différents, les réunissant par leur intérêt pour la solitude: les transcendentalistes chez Ives, le poète mystique San Juan de la Cruz chez Mompou. Au menu, la “Concord Sonata” d’Ives (version 1947) et “Música Callada I” de Federico Mompou. La première, complexe et vive mais si finement construite, fait contraste avec le calme angélique de la seconde (dont quatre des neuf mouvements sont marqués “lento” et un autre “placide”). Le mouvement “Thoreau” de la Concord est sublimement rendu. Le jeu de Geisselbrecht est élégant, le choix de programme s’avère judicieux.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-style: italic; "&gt;German pianist Peter Geisselbrecht presents a double bill that brings together two very different composers on the count of their interest in solitude: the Transcendentalists for Ives, mystical poet San Juan de la Cruz for Mompou. The program consists of Ives’s “Concord Sonata” (1947 version), and Federico Mompou’s “Música Callada I.” The first piece, complex and vivid yet so finely structured, is in sharp contrast with the angelic calm of the second one (four of its nine movements are marked “lento,” with another one marked “placid”). The “Thoreau” movement of the Concord is sublimely performed. Geisselbrecht’s playing is elegant, and his choice of works proves to be well thought.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;DAFNA NAPHTALI &amp;amp; CHUCK BETTIS/ Chatter Blip (&lt;a href="http://www.handaxe.org/"&gt;Acheulian Handaxe&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Je connaissais Dafna Naphtali par d’autres projets, mais c’est mon premier contact (je crois) avec Chuck Bettis. Sur &lt;i&gt;Chatter Blip&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;, tous deux vocalisent, chantent, jouent des électroniques et, dans le cas de Naphtali, du traitement en temps réel. Il y a des textes, souvent enfouis sous les effets mais inclus dans le livret, des allégories sci-fi qui confèrent à la musique un air futuriste qui lui va bien. Ce ne sont pas des chansons, mais des improvisations pointues, à la plastique un peu raide mais stimulante. Pas génial, mais convaincant.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I knew Dafna Naphtali’s work in other projects, but this was my first contact (I think) with Chuck Bettis). On &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Chatter Blip&lt;i&gt;, they both vocalize, sing, play electronics, and, in Naphtali’s case, perform live manipulations. There are lyrics buried in the effects (and included in the booklet), sci-fi metaphores that give the music a futuristic aura it wears well. These are not songs but edgy improvisations with in a rough though stimulating style. Not great, but convincing for sure.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 149px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S4aIYo2wBEI/AAAAAAAAASg/GhEJ3Of-x0Q/s200/black-front.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442187156589118530" /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AXEL DÖRNER &amp;amp; ERHARD HIRT / Black Box (&lt;a href="http://www.handaxe.org/"&gt;Acheulian Handaxe&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Houlà! Une excellente session d’improvisation radicale entre Axel Dörner, le trompettiste le plus extrême que je connaisse (ses techniques microsoniques sont inégalées) et le guitariste Erhard Hirt, qui s’appuie beaucoup sur les électroniques et/ou les préparations (je ne suis pas sûr). &lt;i&gt;Black Box&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; consiste en deux improvisations d’une vingtaine de minutes, toutes deux riches en dynamiques mais un peu spartiates sur la livraison. Engageant, confondant, perplexant, mais résolu et très clair au niveau de l’approche artistique. Du grand art abstrait.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;[Ci-dessous: Un extrait de “Black Box 1”.]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Wow! An excellent session of radical improvisation featuring Axel Dörner, the most extreme trumpeter I know (his microsonic techniques are unparalled) and guitarist Erhard Hirt who relies a lot on electronics and/or preparations (I’m not sure). &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Black Box&lt;i&gt; consists in two 20-minute improvisation, both dynamically rich but a little Spartan in the delivery. Engaging, confusing, perplexing, but sure-footed and the result of a clearly-defined artistic process. Great abstract art.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;[Below: An excerpt from “Black Box 1.”]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;object height="224" width="100%"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://a1.soundcloud.com/player.swf?g=wi&amp;amp;url=http%3A//soundcloud.com/hansteg/sets/erhard-hirt-axel-dorner-black-box&amp;amp;player_type=waveform"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="224" width="100%" src="http://a1.soundcloud.com/player.swf?g=wi&amp;amp;url=http%3A//soundcloud.com/hansteg/sets/erhard-hirt-axel-dorner-black-box&amp;amp;player_type=waveform" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S4aIYSt_6_I/AAAAAAAAASY/-qTU9LgwrPc/s200/jk_cxca-1265.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442187150646832114" /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kazumasa-hashimoto.net/"&gt;KAZUMASA HASHIMOTO&lt;/a&gt; / Strangeness (&lt;a href="http://www.noble-label.net/"&gt;Noble&lt;/a&gt; - merci à/thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.dense.de/"&gt;Dense Promotion&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Strangeness est le cinquième album en bonne et due forme de Kazumasa Hashimoto, mais c’est le premier que j’écoute. On me dit que c’est la première fois qu’il se tourne vers la chanson. Eh bien, il s’agit effectivement d’un album de chansons portées par une certaine Gutevolk, une bien jolie voix féminine. La production fait très années 70: chaude, langoureuse, invitante. De la belle pop alternative, ensoleillée, avec un brin d’amertume. Des mélodies élégantes, une touche de mellotron, la belle vie quoi. Sympathique. Seule ombre au tableau: la pièce titre qui arrive en toute fin d’album et qui laisse tomber 15 minutes de solo de piano lent, simpliste, mélancolique, qui se veut post-classique mais qui n’a fait que me tomber sur les nerfs.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;[Ci-dessous: Vidéo officielle du premier extrait de l’album, “There’s Gold Everywhere”.]&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Strangeness&lt;i&gt; is Kazumasa Hashimoto’s fifth studio album, but it’s the first one I’m listening to. I’m told this is the first time he has turned so resolutely to the song format. Well, this is indeed an album of songs, carried by one Gutevolk, a very enjoyable female singer. The production has a vintage ‘70s feel: warm, sensual, inviting. Fine alternative pop, sunny and sweet with a touch of sour. Elegant melodies, a dash of mellotron, the good life. Enjoyable. Only flaw: the title track concludes the album with 15-minute clunker of a piano solo - slow, simplistic, melancholy, posing as post-classical I guess but it only manage to get on my nerves.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;[Below: Official music video for “There’s Gold Everywhere.”]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"  style="font-family:ArialMT;"&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/e6nCeeOciOA&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/e6nCeeOciOA&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ARTISTES VARIÉS-VARIOUS ARTISTS / Advent (&lt;a href="http://www.parvoart.org/"&gt;Parvo Art&lt;/a&gt; - merci à/thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.dense.de/"&gt;Dense Promotion&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Parvo Art est une micro-étiquette qui se spécialise dans les mini-albums de format mini-cd (cd 3 pouces). &lt;i&gt;Advent&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; est une compilation de pièces inédites des artistes déjà présentés par Parvo Art. Il s’agit d’une belle sélection sur le thème de l’hiver, l’esthétique musicale prônée par l’étiquette ayant une forte composante automnale-hivernale. Stephen Spera, Will Long, Duncan Ó Ceallaigh et Alpe contribuent de très belles pièces à l’électroacoustique ambiante et “soft”. Très agréable… mais trop court! J’en voulais décidémment plus. Recommandé.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Parvo Art is a microlabel specialized in mini CDs (3” CDs). &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Advent&lt;i&gt; is a compilation of previously unreleased tracks from the artists who have releases on the label. It’s a fine winter-themed selection, in tune with the label’s musical direction - it has a strong all/winter component. Stephen Spera, Will Long, Duncan Ó Ceallaigh, and Alpe all contribute very nice tracks of soft ambiant electroacoustic music. Very enjoyable… but too short! I could have taken more, definitely. Recommended.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. All rights reserved. / Tous droits réservés.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7206551952153989157-6958923503961037954?l=blog.monsieurdelire.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/feeds/6958923503961037954/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/2010-02-24-peter-geisselbrecht.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/6958923503961037954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/6958923503961037954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/2010-02-24-peter-geisselbrecht.html' title='2010-02-24: Peter Geisselbrecht, Naphtali/Bettis, Dörner/Hirt, Kazumasa Hashimoto, Advent'/><author><name>Monsieur Délire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03753216952194868887</uri><email>md@monsieurdelire.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07660889199120015754'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S4aIYo2wBEI/AAAAAAAAASg/GhEJ3Of-x0Q/s72-c/black-front.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206551952153989157.post-7777469647005536802</id><published>2010-02-23T20:14:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-23T21:01:37.466-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yellow Swans'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sainkho Namchylak'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Délire actuel'/><title type='text'>Délire actuel, 2010-02-23</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 130%;"&gt;DÉLIRE ACTUEL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Édition du 23 février 2010&lt;br /&gt;Show aired on 23 February 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;DESCRIPTION&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;DESCRIPTION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Folklore personnel, folklore intérieur / Bruitisme:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; En première heure, des artistes qui utilisent musiques et instruments traditionnels pour se créer un folklore personnel. En deuxième heure, des musiques bruitistes, recherches inusitées de beauté au sein du bruit (industriel, informatique, etc.).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;Personal Folklore, Inner Folklore / Noise:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; First hour: Artists using traditional folk music and instruments to make their own brand of personal folklore. Second hour: noise music as unlikely search for beauty.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EVGENY MASLOBOEV &amp;amp; ANASTASIA MASLOBOEVA / Little Garden (4:30) - Russian Folksongs in the Key of Rhythm (&lt;a href="http://www.leorecords.com"&gt;Leo Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;EVGENY MASLOBOEV &amp;amp; ANASTASIA MASLOBOEVA / Kukushechka/Mamushka (4:13) + Ivan's Matka (5:45) - Russian Folksongs in the Key of Sadness (&lt;a href="http://www.leorecords.com/"&gt;Leo Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GUY FRANK PELLERIN / Un ami de passage (3:55) - Periplo (Cosmic Ride)&lt;br /&gt;SAINKHO NAMCHYLAK &amp;amp; DICKSON DEE / Eighth Story (4:23) - Tea Opera (&lt;a href="http://www.leorecords.com/"&gt;Leo Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MAKOTO KAWABATA &amp;amp; SHINSUKE MICHISHITA / Spiders Thread (19:09) - Maru Mankaru Shinkaku (&lt;a href="http://www.prophasemusic.com"&gt;Prophase Music&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;RICHARD SKELTON / Green Withins Brook (4:27) - Landings (&lt;a href="http://www.typerecords.com"&gt;Type Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*YELLOW SWANS / Going Places (9:09) - Going Places (&lt;a href="http://www.typerecords.com"&gt;Type Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;SISTER OVERDRIVE / Annick [Part 4] (9:22) - Annick/Philomela (Low Impedance)&lt;br /&gt;**URAL UMBO / Deeply Afflicted (4:41) - Latent Defects (&lt;a href="http://www.utechrecords.com"&gt;Utech Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;**URAL UMBO / Stumbling upon Blood and Mercury (7:33) - Ural Umbo (&lt;a href="http://www.utechrecords.com/"&gt;Utech Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;BEN FROST / Killshot (6:12) - By the Throat (Bedroom Community)&lt;br /&gt;*BRUCE GILBERT / U Mu U (3:12) - This Way (&lt;a href="http://www.editionsmego.com"&gt;Editions Mego&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MERZBOW / Minka Part 3 (8:59) - Bariken (Blossoming Noise)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Merci à/Thanks to:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;*&lt;a href="http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/01/www.forcedexposure.com"&gt;Forced Exposure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;**&lt;a href="http://www.dense.de/"&gt;Dense Promotion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;COMPLÉMENTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;SUPPLEMENTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SAINKHO NAMCHYLAK&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;La chanteuse de gorge en mode plus "musique du monde".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;The famous throat singer performing in "world music" mode.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Skz4SoKU6e4&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Skz4SoKU6e4&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YELLOW SWANS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Extrait du dernier concert du duo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;An excerpt from the duo's final performance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5tQO8QWVqOw&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5tQO8QWVqOw&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. All rights reserved. / Tous droits réservés.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7206551952153989157-7777469647005536802?l=blog.monsieurdelire.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/feeds/7777469647005536802/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/delire-actuel-2010-02-23.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/7777469647005536802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/7777469647005536802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/delire-actuel-2010-02-23.html' title='Délire actuel, 2010-02-23'/><author><name>Monsieur Délire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03753216952194868887</uri><email>md@monsieurdelire.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07660889199120015754'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206551952153989157.post-7400494031420137436</id><published>2010-02-23T19:25:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-23T20:14:47.118-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Délire Musical'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Saxon Shore'/><title type='text'>Délire musical, 2010-02-23</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 130%;"&gt;DÉLIRE MUSICAL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Édition du 23 février 2010&lt;br /&gt;Broadcast Date: 23 février 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;LISTE DE DIFFUSION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;PLAYLIST&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thème/Theme: OZRIC TENTACLES / Yum Yum Tree - The Yum Yum Tree (Snapper)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SAXON SHORE / Nothing Changes (6:35) - It Doesn't Matter (Broken Factory)&lt;br /&gt;AKIRA KOSEMURA / April (3:14) - Polaroid Piano (&lt;a href="http://www.someonegood.org"&gt;Someone Good&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;*KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF / Move Right In (3:19) - Wildling (&lt;a href="http://www.staubgold.com"&gt;Staubgold&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.smaragdina.hu"&gt;TABULA SMARAGDINA&lt;/a&gt; / Tél/Winter (4:30) - A Szavakon Túl (&lt;a href="http://www.musearecords.com"&gt;Musea Parallele&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;NEVÄRLLÄJF / Hem-o-röj (5:59) - Klusterfloristen (&lt;a href="http://www.musearecords.com/"&gt;Musea Parallele&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;DON CABALLERO / You Drink a Lot of Coffee for a Teenager (2:41) - American Don (Touch and Go)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*TICKET / Awake (5:19) - Psych Bites, Volume 1 (Past &amp;amp; Present)&lt;br /&gt;*QUIET WORLD / Rest Comfortably (2:52) - The Electric Asylum, Volume 4 (Past &amp;amp; Present)&lt;br /&gt;ELECTRELANE / Le Song (35) - Rock It to the Moon (Too Pure)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ANTOINE BERTHIAUME / Small Tease (4:00) - Small Tease (&lt;a href="http://www.actuellecd.com"&gt;Ambiances Magnétiques&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;merci à/thanks to:&lt;br /&gt;*&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.forcedexposure.com/"&gt;Forced Exposure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;COMPLÉMENTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;SUPPLEMENTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SAXON SHORE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Une autre chanson du même disque, en concert.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Another song from the same album, performed live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/37iqDlE88ho&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/37iqDlE88ho&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. All rights reserved. / Tous droits réservés.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7206551952153989157-7400494031420137436?l=blog.monsieurdelire.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/feeds/7400494031420137436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/delire-musical-2010-02-23.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/7400494031420137436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/7400494031420137436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/delire-musical-2010-02-23.html' title='Délire musical, 2010-02-23'/><author><name>Monsieur Délire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03753216952194868887</uri><email>md@monsieurdelire.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07660889199120015754'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206551952153989157.post-8840956182642619433</id><published>2010-02-23T15:35:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-23T15:37:47.329-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Leo Records'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seventh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Send + Receive'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christian Vander'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Soegaard Ensemble'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Journal d&apos;écoute / Listening diary'/><title type='text'>2010-02-23: Send + Receive, Soegaard Ensemble, Christian Vander</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Journal d'écoute / Listening Diary&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2010-02-23&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 147px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S4Q8gAD8_UI/AAAAAAAAASI/U63IqLIGMms/s200/box-cover.web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441540770240462146" /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ARTISTES VARIÉS-VARIOUS ARTISTS / Send + Receive: 10 Years of Sound (&lt;a href="http://www.sendandreceive.org/"&gt;send + receive&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Le 2010-02-02, je publiiais un commentaire partiel sur ce double DVD anniversaire publié par le festival de musique expérimentale (surtout) électronique Send + Receive de Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada). J’ai enfin terminé l’écoute des 11 heures de musique sur le premier DVD et du documentaire sur le second. Le documentaire de 83 minutes est intéressant, mais sans plus. On y interview le personnel et le conseil d’administration du festival pour en retracer l’histoire, et ces courts extraits d’entrevue sont montés à travers de courts extraits des prestations musicales des dix années, présentées chronologiquement. Il semble que tout soit filmé au s+r, quitte à ce que ce soit avec un mobile. Il y a là du matériel vidéo de toute sorte, allant de la caméra professionnelle fixe à la caméra à la main bon marché qui donne une image terriblement granuleuse dans la quasi-noirceur. Certains extraits sont TRÈS courts mais, bon, c’est intéressant. Bref, un documentaire un peu simpliste, mais au moins il existe (on ne peut pas en dire autant du FIMAV, par exemple). Quant au DVD de fichiers WAV, on trouve là beaucoup de matière à se mettre sous la dent, et de la bonne. La qualité sonore des prises du son du s+r est tout à fait acceptable sans être géniale. Et les prestations retenues sont solides. Il y a là des grands noms de la musique expérimentale d’aujourd’hui (40 minutes d’Oren Ambarchi, de Jason Kahn aussi, de Tim Hecker itou; 30 minutes de Martin Tétreault, 26 d’Oval, 60 minutes de Lee Ranaldo en duo avec Dean Roberts) et plusieurs artistes locaux, dont Crys Cole (21 minutes) et Steve Bates (17 minutes). Un objet généreux qui donne une mesure tangible de l’accomplissement que représente ce festival des Prairies canadiennes.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;On 2010-02-02 I posted a partial report on this jubilee double-DVD set released by the (mostly) electronic experimental music festival Send + Receive in Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada). I have finished listening to the 11+ hours of music on the first DVD and the feature documentary on the second. The 83-minute documentary is interesting, no moer. The staff and board members are interviewed, and those bits are added to short clips from a ton of musical performances and sound installations presented over the last ten years, chronologically. It seems that everything at s+r gets filmed, if only with a mobile phone. There’s all kinds of footage here, from profesionnal tripod camera to cheap hand-held devices that produce a terribly grainy image when shooting in very low light. Some of the clips are VERY short and the film is a bit simplistic but, hey, at least there IS this documentary - the FIMAV festival will probably never have that. As for the DVD of WAV files, there’s a lot of meat to chew there. Sound quality is more than acceptable though not great, but the performanced selected are pretty strong. Several major names are featured (40 minutes of Oren Ambarchi, of Jason Kahn, of Tim Hecker; 30 minutes of Martin Tétreault, 26 of Oval, 60 minutes of Lee Ranaldo in duo with Dean Roberts) and several local artists, like Crys Cole (21 minutes) and Steve Bates (17 minutes). A generous release that gives us a tangible idea of what is being accomplished in the Canadian Prairies.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;SOEGAARD ENSEMBLE / Soundmapping the Genes (&lt;a href="http://www.leorecords.com/"&gt;Leo Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Voici l’idée du guitariste Fredrik Soegaard: utiliser des séquences d’ADN pour créer des mélodies ou des paramètres électroniques. Pour &lt;i&gt;Soundmapping the Genes&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;, l’informaticien Claus Gahrn et lui ont traduit la séquence génétique de la protéine histonine H1 de la truite arc-en-ciel en language midi. Ils appliquent cette séquence à une mélodie (de 642 notes) et dans le contrôle de leurs patchs informatiques. Le tout est approché sous le mode improvisation et complété par le délicat travail du percussionniste Henrik Strandfelt. Je ne suis pas un fan de la guitare midi, mais le travail est vraiment bien fait et ce disque contient de très beaux moments, même si la palette sonore s’avère un peu limitée et que la longueur (64 minutes) se fait sentir. Une démarche artistique pertinente aux résultats satisfaisants - assez pour que, si Soegaard décide de pousser plus loin, je serai curieux d’entendre ce que ça donnera.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Guitarist Fredrik Soegaard’s idea was to use DNA sequences to create melodies or sets of electronic parameters. For &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Soundmapping the Genes&lt;i&gt;, Soegaard and laptop artist Claus Gahrn translated the genetic sequence of the H1 histonin protein of the rainbow trout into MIDI language. And they use that sequence as a melody (642 notes) and as algorithms to control their sound patches. The whole thing is approached from a free improvisation angle and completed by the delicate work of percussionist Henrik Strandfelt. I’m not a fan of MIDI guitar, but this is very well done and the record features some beautiful moments, even though the sound palette is somewhat limited and the CD is a bit lengthy. A relevant artistic process giving satisfactory results - enough so that, if Soegaard decides to push things a bit further, I’ll be interesting in hearing more.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CHRISTIAN VANDER / To Love (&lt;a href="http://www.seventhrecords.com/"&gt;Seventh&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;C’est un vieux disque de 1988, mais je ne l’avais jamais entendu. Et ça me manquait! Très beau disque solo du leader de Magma, dans un tour de chant piano-voix qui synthétise la veine coltranienne d’Offering, et le Magma nouveau à venir. Quelques chansons en mode jazz extatique, lentes à développer, intenses à souhait, poignantes, une ou deux autres sombres, lancinantes, obsessionnelles. Et cette voix, parfois riche et suave, ailleurs carrément extraterrestre. Subjugué.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;This is an old record from 1988, but I had never heard it before. And it was my loss! A very fine solo album by Magma’s leader, a piano/voice recital that brings together the Coltranian vein found in Offering and the next incarnation of Magma. A few songs in ecstatic jazz mode, slowly developing, marvelously intense and poignant, plus a couple of dark, brooding, obsessive tracks. And that voice, at times rich and caressing, elsewhere completely alien. I’m raptured.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. All rights reserved. / Tous droits réservés.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7206551952153989157-8840956182642619433?l=blog.monsieurdelire.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/feeds/8840956182642619433/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/2010-02-23-send-receive-soegaard.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/8840956182642619433'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/8840956182642619433'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/2010-02-23-send-receive-soegaard.html' title='2010-02-23: Send + Receive, Soegaard Ensemble, Christian Vander'/><author><name>Monsieur Délire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03753216952194868887</uri><email>md@monsieurdelire.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07660889199120015754'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S4Q8gAD8_UI/AAAAAAAAASI/U63IqLIGMms/s72-c/box-cover.web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206551952153989157.post-4183726951609703080</id><published>2010-02-22T18:46:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-22T19:19:17.361-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Geoff Gersh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Leo Records'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deep Listening Institute'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christoph Gallio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spin 1ne 2wo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alex Harvey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Voiceprint'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Tallinn Trio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Olaf Rupp'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Panic Room'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Journal d&apos;écoute / Listening diary'/><title type='text'>2010-02-22: Geoff Gersh, Gallio/Rupp, Free Tallinn Trio, Alex Harvey, Panic Room, Spin 1ne 2wo</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Journal d'écoute / Listening Diary&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2010-02-22&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 193px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S4Ma3KtHJ7I/AAAAAAAAASA/kUEYN15xn40/s200/DL+42+2009.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441222309862385586" /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.geoffgersh.com/"&gt;GEOFF GERSH&lt;/a&gt; / These Predicaments (&lt;a href="http://www.deeplistening.org/"&gt;Deep Listening Institute&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Un très beau disque de musique ambiante expérimentale faite de “drones” et de lentes mélodies délicates. Ce n’est pas le genre de disque qu’on attendrait de l’étiquette Deep Listening, qui fait généralement dans l’improvisation libre et l’électronique dans un contexte plus académique. Néanmoins, l’approche d’écoute profonde de Pauline Oliveros s’applique tout autant aux riches paysages sonores peints par Geoff Gersh. D’autant plus que les cinq pièces de l’album ont été conçues pour accompagner une exposition des œuvres du peintre &lt;a href="http://www.davidstoupakis.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;David Stoupakis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (qui signe la pochette, évidemment). Subtil, élgant, un tantinet inquiétant. Une belle découverte.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;A beautiful record of experimental ambient music made of drones and delicate slow melodies. Not the kind of CD you expect from the Deep Listening label and its usual fare of free improvisation and more academic-sounding electronic music. Still, Pauline Oliveros’ deep listening philosophy sure applies to the rich soundscapes painted by Geoff Gersh, especially since they were designed to accompany a solo exhibition by painter &lt;a href="http://www.davidstoupakis.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:green;"&gt;David Stoupakis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (responsible for the cover artwork too). Subtle, elegant, a bit disquieting. A fine discovery.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CHRISTOPH GALLIO &amp;amp; OLAF RUPP / Fasane Hula Punk (&lt;a href="http://www.rapidmoment.tk/"&gt;Rapid Moment&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Une session d’improvisation enregistrée en studio sur deux jours (avril-mai 2009) et mettant en vedette le saxophoniste Christoph Gallio (Day &amp;amp; Taxi, Mösiöblö) et le guitariste Olaf Rupp. Voilà deux improvisateurs que j’aime bien, tous deux avec leurs idiosyncrasies, mais je ne peux pas dire que &lt;i&gt;Fasane Hula Punk&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; m’ait marqué. La série de courts échanges que propose ce disque sont vifs et créatifs, mais ils n’arrivent pas à sortir de l’ordinaire d’un discours somme toute confrontationnel. C’est intéressant, mais je ne me suis pas senti investi émotivement dans ces échanges. Détachement de ma part? Absence d’étincelle entre les protagonistes? Je ne saurais dire après une seule écoute. Disons que ma première réaction est plutôt froide.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A free improvisation session recorded in studio on two separate days (April/May 2009) and featuring saxman Christoph Gallio (Day &amp;amp; Taxi, Mösiöblö) and guitarist Olaf Rupp. Here’s two improvisers I’m fond of, both with their idiosyncrasies, but I can’t say &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Fasane Hula Punk&lt;i&gt; has made a good impression on me. The CD proposes a vivid and creative set of short exchanges, but they stick to the usual kind of confrontational narrative. Interesting, but I don’t feel emotionally involved. Is it deatchment on my part, or a lack of sparks between the protagonists? I won’t know after a single listen, won’t I? Suffice to say that my first reaction is somewhat cold.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/freetallinntrio"&gt;FREE TALLINN TRIO&lt;/a&gt; / A Tale (&lt;a href="http://www.leorecords.com/"&gt;Leo Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Une ravissante surprise! Voici un groupe estonien qui fait une première apparition sur l’étiquette Leo Records. Il s’agit d’un trio formé de la chanteuse Anne-Liis Poll, du pianiste Anto Pett et du guitariste électrique Jaak Sooäär. Free Tallinn Trio approche l’improvisation libre par la bande lyrique: Poll possède une solide voix de cantatrice et sait jouer entre le lyrisme reconnaissable et les techniques étendues. Elle fait penser à Lauren Newton ou Viviane Houle, bien que son approche soit moins théâtrale que la première, moins déconstruite que la seconde. Les deux instrumentistes jouent aussi sur la dichotomie classique/contemporain, sans la forcer. Un excellent disque d’improvisation libre, fort en interaction entre les musiciens, dont le plaisir de jouer devant un public allemand (en extérieur, au festival de Moers) est évident. Recommandé.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A splendid surprise! A group from Estonia, here making its first appearance on Leo Records. This is a free improvisatiomn trio consisting of singr Anne-Liis Poll, pianist Anto Pett, and electric guitarist Jaak Sooäär. Free Tallinn Trio approaches free improvisation from a lyrical side: Poll posesses a strong opera singer’s voice and she can toy with recognizable lyricism and extendes techniques. She makes me think of Lauren Newton and Viviane Houle, although her approach his less theatrical than the first one and less deconstructed than the second. The two instrumentalists also play on the dichotomy between classical and contemporary, although they never force the point. An excellent free improv CD, loaded with brilliant interactions and clearly displaying the trio’s enjoyment at performing in front of a German audience (outdoors, at the Moers festival). Recommended. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ALEX HARVEY / …Presents The Loch Ness Monster (&lt;a href="http://www.voiceprint.co.uk/"&gt;Voiceprint&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Hmm. Faisons court: En 1977, Alex Harvey (chanteur du Sensational Alex Harvey Band) s’est éloigné de son groupe pour s’investir assouvir une passion de jeunesse à propos du monstre du Loch Ness. Il est allé interviewer des témoins oculaires de la bête sur place et faire des recherches dans les archives locales. Résultat: &lt;i&gt;Alex Harvey Presents The Loch Ness Monster&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;, un long-jeu qui s’écoute comme un documentaire radiophonique sur Nessie. Parce que c’est ce que c’est, point. Sauf une chansonnette en son honneur, à la toute fin. Ce disque a peu circulé à l’époque et vient d’être réédité par Voiceprint. C’est vieilli, mais j’imagine que les amateurs de curiosités et de mystères vieux genre y trouveront une certaine valeur. Pas moi.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hmm. I’ll keep it short: In 1977, singer Alex Harvey (of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band) took some time off from band duties to delve into the arcane mystery surrounding the Loch Ness Monster, a pet interest of his. He interviewed eye witnesses and researched local archives. The project yielded&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt; Alex Harvey Presents The Loch Ness Monster&lt;i&gt;, an LP that sounds like a radio documentary on Nessie. That’s it. Oh, one acoustic monster-themed song is tacked at the very end of it. The LP received very limited circulation back in 1977 and has been recently reissued by Voiceprint. It’s dated, but I guess it’s a period piece for fans of curios and old-school mysteries - a dying breed in the age of the Internet. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panicroom.org.uk/"&gt;PANIC ROOM&lt;/a&gt; / Satellite (Firefly Music - merci à/thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.voiceprint.co.uk/"&gt;Voiceprint&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;De la chanson rock préemballée pour la radio. Jolie voix féminine, pas remarquable, et l’écriture musicale est extrêmement convenue. C’est fait professionnellement, mais d’un ordinaire ennuyant. Après six chansons, je passe à autre chose. J’ai mieux à faire.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Pre-packaged radio-ready pop-rock. Nice female vocals, not remarkable though, and the songwriting is extremely pedestrian. It all sounds very professional, but average beyond boring. I kicked it out of the CD player after six songs. I have better things to do.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;SPIN 1NE 2WO / Spin 1ne 2wo (Misplaced Records/&lt;a href="http://www.voiceprint.co.uk/"&gt;Voiceprint&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Un genre de supergroupe qui, comme c’est bien souvent le cas, finit par sonner comme une bande de gars qui tuent le temps en studio tout en espérant avoir mieux à faire. Spin 1ne 2wo a brièvement réuni en studio, vers 1993, le chanteur Paul Carrack (Mike + The Mechanics), le claviériste Rupert Hine (Thinkman, réalisateur de plein d’albums pop), le bassiste Tony Levin (King Crimson, Peter Gabriel), le guitariste Phil Palmer et le batteur Steve Ferrone. Qui reprennent des classiques du rock, de Hendrix&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;à Led Zeppelin, en passant par The Who, Traffic et Cream. Carrack avait encore une très belle voix en 1993. Pour le reste, tout est ordinaire, y compris la performance sans feu de Levin. “White Room” est sympathique mais “Who Are You” fait pitié. Au final, aucune de ces onze reprises n’offre du neuf ou du définitif. Réédité par Voiceprint dans la collection Misplaced dévouée au catalogue de Rupert Hine.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Some kind of supergroup and, like is often the case with supergroups, it ends up sounding like a group of guys killing time while hpping they had something better to do. Spin 1ne 2wo briefly brought together in a studio, circa 1993, singer Paul Carrack (Mike + The Mechanics), keyboardist Rupert Hine (Thinkman, mastermind behind tons of pop albums), bassist Tony Levin (King Crimson, Peter Gabriel), guitarist Phil Palmer and drummer Steve Ferrone. Covering classic rock tracks from the likes of Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, The Who, Traffic, and Cream. Carrack still have a gorgeous voice in 1993. For the rest, it’s all unremarkable, including Tony Levin’s lacklustre performance. “White Room” is enjoyable, but “Who Are You” is downright pitiful. In the end, none of these 11 covers has something new or definitive to offer. Reissued by Voiceprint on their Rupert Hine-centric Misplaced Records imprint.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. 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Le premier est &lt;i&gt;Pinerskol&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;, un disque en duo avec Joe Maneri (chroniqué le 2010-01-08). Le second est celui-ci, un trio avec James Coleman au theremin, Glynis Lomon au violoncelle et Harada à la batterie et à la voix. Trois ans plus tard, ce disque tient très bien la route. Autant le duo avec Maneri est profond, introspectif, chargé d’émotions complexes, autant celui-ci est vif, fou et expansif. On y trouve des nuances, ce n’est pas un free-for-all constant, mais on y lâche son fou. Harada se lance dans des chants atavistiques, les échanges entre theremin et violoncelle sont virulents, ça bouge beaucoup. Mais l’écoute est là, guidant ces improvisations avec beaucoup d’assurance. Un beau disque à l’instrumentation inusité. Et Coleman réussit à étendre la palette sonore plutôt mince de son instrument.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Back in 2007, Masashi Haradi commissioned from me liner notes for two recordings. One was &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;Pinerskol&lt;i&gt;, a session with Joe Maneri (reviewed on 2010-01-08). The second one was this CD, a trio with James Coleman on theremin, Glynis Lomon on cello, and Harada on drums and vocals. Three years down the road, this album holds very well. While the duo with Maneri was deep, introspective, heavy with complex emotions, this one’s vivid, crazy, and outgoing. Of course there’s nuances and dynamics, it’s not a constant free-for-all, but it cavorts a-plenty. Harada launches into atavistic chants, the exchanges between theremin and cello are heated, there’s a lot going on. Still, listening is a major skill by everyone involved, and that’s what gives these improvisations their high level of assurance. A fine record featuring an unusual instrumentation. And Coleman manages to expand the somewhat limited sonics of the theremin.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;&lt;b&gt;EVGENY MASLOBOEV &amp;amp; ANASTASIA MASLOBOEVA / Russian Folksongs in the Key of Sadness (&lt;a href="http://www.leorecords.com"&gt;Leo Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;Ce second disque du duo père-fille fait suite à &lt;i&gt;Russian Folksongs in the Key of Rhythm&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;. Tous deux sont des beaux albums originaux, dans le genre inclassable, mais ma préférence va plutôt clairement à celui-ci. Le multi-instrumentaliste Evgeny Masloboev et sa fille Anastasia sont Sibériens. Sur disque, ils s’inspirent des musiques traditionnelles de là-bas pour s’inventer un folklore fait de percussions (essentiellement) et de chant. Superbe chant d’ailleurs. On détecte parfois une touche de musique d’avant-garde, mais voici un cas où la frontière entre tradition et innovation se brouille complètement. Celle entre improvisation et musique du monde aussi, d’ailleurs. Qu’en reste-il? De la bonne musique, qui charme et transporte. Peut-on espérer ce genre de catégorie chez le disquaire?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;&lt;i&gt;This second CD by this father-daughter duo follows up on &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;Russian Folksongs in the Key of Rhythm&lt;i&gt;. Both are beautiful original albums, the unclassifiable kind, but if I had to pick one I’d go with &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;…Sadness&lt;i&gt;. Multi-instrumentalist Evgeny Masloboev and his daughter Anastasia are from Siberia. On record, they use the traditional music of their area as a springboard for their self-brewed form of folk music made from (mostly) percussion and singing. Splendid singing. There’s an occasional touch of the avant-garde in there, but this is a case where the line between tradition and innovation is fuzzy at best, and so is the one between improvisation and so-called world music. So what is it? It’s good music that charms and carries you elsewhere. Now, can we hope to see that kind of genre sign posted at the local record shop anytime soon?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ANTHONY PHILLIPS / Pathways &amp;amp; Promenades: Missing Links Volume IV (&lt;a href="http://www.voiceprint.co.uk"&gt;Voicepint&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;Quatrième volume dans la série d’albums consacrés à la “library music” d’Anthony Phillips, ces musiques instrumentales d’ambiance vendues aux radiotélédiffuseurs et producteurs. &lt;i&gt;Pathways &amp;amp; Promenades&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt; offre une très jolie collection de courtes pièces sans conséquences. Belles, légères, soigneusement arrangées. Jamais ennuyantes, mais pas conçues pour vous accrocher non plus. Elles vivent, simplement, entre les deux haut-parleurs, sans se soucier que vou y portiez attention ou pas. C’est ce que j’aime de la musique de Phillips, cette absence totale de prétention. Certaines sont un peu mièvres, mais ça s’écoute très bien, aussi bien que les albums de &lt;i&gt;Private Parts &amp;amp; Pieces&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The fourth installment in the series of albums devoted to Anthony Phillips’ library music (instrumental, mood-setting, incidental music first sold to broadcasters and producers). &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;Pathways &amp;amp; Promenades&lt;i&gt; is a very pretty collection of short inconsequential pieces. Pretty, light, carefully arranged. Never boring though not designed to grab you. They are, simply, living between your loudspeakers, not caring whether you pay attention to them or not. That’s what I like about Phillips’ music, that total pack of pretension. Some tracks are little cheesy, but the whole is so easy to listen too, as much (and well) as the &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;Private Parts &amp;amp; Pieces&lt;i&gt; series. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;&lt;b&gt;THE LONG HELLO / Volume 2 (&lt;a href="http://www.voiceprint.co.uk"&gt;Voiceprint&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;Voiceprint vient de rééditer ce disque paru en 1980 (1981?). The Long Hello était un projet à géométrie variable des “autres” membres de Van der Graaf Generator (c’est-à-dire sauf Peter Hammill). &lt;i&gt;Volume 2&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt; met en vedette le bassiste-guitariste Nic Potter (aussi aux claviers) et le batteur Guy Evans. J’avais ce disque sur vinyle et j’avoue que je n’y portais pas attention. À le réécouter aujourd’hui, je le découvre moins mauvais que je le croyais. Il a un son particulier - et pas nécessairement “début 80”. Évidemment, ni Potter ni Evans ne sont de grands compositeurs. Leurs musiques ont tendance à être simples voire simplistes. Mais il y a de bons grooves, quelques bonnes mélodies aussi, de bonnes lignes de saxo signées David Jackson. “Surfing with Isabelle”, “Carnival” et “Hidden Drive” sont de bonnes pièces qui, tout en affichant une certaine parenté avec VDGG, n’en sont pas moins très différentes. Le premier Long Hello est meilleur, mais celui-ci a un certain charme, mais s’il a pris de l’âge.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Voiceprint has just reissued this record from 1980 (or 1981?). The Long Hello was a project of variable size by the “other” members of Van der Graaf Generator (i.e. minus Peter Hammill). &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;Volume 2&lt;i&gt; features bassist/guitarist Nic Potter (also on keyboards) and drummer Guy Evans. I had this album on LP and I admit I never paid much attention to it. Listening again today, I’m surprised: it’s not as bad as I thought it was. It has its own sound - and it’s not necesarily an early ‘80s sound. Of course, neither Potter nor Evans is a great composer. But there’s good grooves, a few nice melodies too, some fine sax lines by David Jackson. “Surfing with Isabelle,” “Carnival” and “Hidden Drive” are good tracks that have a certain relation with VDGG even though they are actually very different. The first Long Hello LP is better, but this one has its own charm, although it has aged.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. 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Celui-ci est plus intéressant, du moins au début. La pièce titre (13 minutes) est un superbe quasi-concerto pour piano et orchestre de chambre, mélodique mais original, bien écrit et très bien arrangé. “Trilhas de Sombra” (29 minutes) est une suite solide et enjouée pour orchestre de chambre, tendre aussi. Mais “Landing Inside the Inside of an Animal” (14 minutes) a réussi à m’hérisser de plusieurs manières allant de la gratuité de ses rythmes latino à l’exécution brouillonne de l’orchestre (l’Orchestre symphonique de la radio nationale bulgare dirigé par Grigor Palikarov, comme dans les deux autres pièces). &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Composer Ann Millikan’s first CD (&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;The Music of Ann Millikan Featuring the California EAR Unit)&lt;i&gt; hadn’t made much of an impression on me. This one is more interesting, at least for the first half. The title track (13 minutes) is a splendid sort of quasi-concerto for piano and chamber orchestra, it’s melodious yet original, well written and darn well orchestrated. “Trilhas de Sombra” (29 minutes) is a strong and lively suite for chamber orchestra, with a soft-and-sweet side. However, “Landing Inside the Inside of an Animal” (14 minutes) managed to grate me in all kinds of ways, mostly due to its gratuitous use of Latin rhythms and the muddy performance from the orchestra (the Bulgarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Grigor Palikarov, like on the other two pieces).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MATTHIAS DELPLANQUE / Parcelles 1-10 (&lt;a href="http://www.bruitclair.com"&gt;Bruit Clair&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;Selon Matthias Delplanque, l’ensemble de ce disque s’insère entre les pistes 14 et 15 de son disque précédent, &lt;i&gt;Le Pavillon Témoin&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;, que je ne connais pas. Néanmoins, &lt;i&gt;Parcelles 1-10&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt; s’écoute très bien et très agréablement de manière autonome. Il s’agit d’un travail instrumental très fin entre électroniques et instruments acoustiques (guitare acoustique, mélodica, clochettes, cymbalom et petits instruments à percussion), enregistré en temps réel, sans passes supplémentaires. J’ai pensé à la collaboration entre Andrea Belfi et Machinefabriek - c’est ce genre de musique calme et éthérée, où la recherche procède posément et où le sens du placement judicieux n’exclue pas la soif de beauté. Recommandé.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;&lt;i&gt;According to Matthias Delplanque, this album as a whole fits in between tracks 14 and 15 of his previous record, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;Le Pavillon Témoin&lt;i&gt;, which I haven’t heard. However, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;Parcelles 1-10&lt;i&gt; makes a very fine listen on its own. It features delivate instrumental work between electronics and acoustic instruments (acoustic guitar, melodica, bells, zither, small percussion), recorded live with no overdubs. It reminded me of last year’s collaboration between Andrea Belfi and Machinefabriek - it’s that kind of quiet and ethereal music, where artistic research proceeds calmly and where a sense of judicious sound placement doesn’t exclude thriving for beauty. Recommended.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LENA / Circonstances /Variations 1-4 (&lt;a href="http://www.bruitclair.com"&gt;Bruit Clair&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;Lena est le projet techno-dub de Matthias Delplanque. &lt;i&gt;Circonstances / Variations 1-4&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt; consiste en une série de variations autour du morceau “Circonstances” paru sur l’album &lt;i&gt;Lost-Wax&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt; en 2008 (que je ne connais pas). Il s’agit du premier d’une série de trois 12 pouces annoncés. Une sympathique demi-heure de dub racé, pas trop perdu dans ces propres espaces, avec une rythmique intéressante et qui ne lasse pas. Répétitif par définition, mais pas ennuyant.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lena is Matthias Delplanque’s techno-dub project. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;Circonstances / Variations 1-4&lt;i&gt; features a set of variations on the track “Circonstances” from his 2008 album &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;Lost-Wax &lt;i&gt;(which I haven’t heard either). This is the first of an announced series of three 12” Eps. A fun half-hour of racy dub that doesn’t get too lost inside its own vacuous spaces, with an interesting and untiring beat. Repetitive by design but not boring for a second.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/sisteroverdrive"&gt;SISTER OVERDRIVE&lt;/a&gt; / Annick/Philomela (&lt;a href="http://www.lowimpedance.net"&gt;Low Impedance Recordings&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;Mon premier contact avec l’étiquette grecque Low Impendance, et ça part bien. Sister Overdrive est le projet de Giannis Kotsonis. Ce disque de constructions sonores texturales et sombres propose deux longues pièces sous forme de suites: “Annick” et “Philomela”. Toutes deux sont constituées de sons mélliques, de bourdons délicats, de jeux harmoniques. La musique suit des mouvements amples, sans rythmique précise, avec parfois des semblants de mélodies. Deux compositions qui prennent leur temps mais qui meublent bien l’espace sonore. Planant mais absolument pas bucolique.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;&lt;i&gt;My first contact with the Greek label Low Impedance, and it’s a positive one. Sister Overdrive is the project of one Giannis Kotsonis. This album of dark textural sonic constructs features two lengthy multi-part tracks: “Annick” and “Philomela.” Both are made of metallic sounds, delicate drones, and harmonic interplays. The music unfolds in large gestures without a specific rhythm structure and an occasional ghost of a melody. Two compositions taking their time to move on but quite able to fill in the listening space. Ambient for sure, but there’s nothing bucolic about this music.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;&lt;b&gt;TOKYO MASK / Route Painless (&lt;a href="http://www.lowimpedance.net"&gt;Low Impedance Recordings&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;Une autre parution chez Low Impedance. Tokyo Mask est le projet de Kostas Kamaritas, avec le batteur Nikos Baskozos sur trois des cinq pièces et le guitariste bruitiste Manolis Melidoniotis sur deux pièces. Tokyo Mask fait dans le doom post-industriel: guitares polluées et languissantes, batterie lourde, cognements de métal, ambiances glauques d’usines désaffectées. &lt;i&gt;Route Painless&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt; s’écoute mieux qu’on pourrait croire et offre un équilibre intelligent entre brutalité et recherche. Parfois un peu simpliste, mais “Control”&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;offre un voyage auditif très intéressant.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Another release on Low Impedance. Tokyo Mask is the project of Kostas Kamaritas, backed by drummer Nikos Baskozos on three of the five tracks and guitarist/noisician Manolis Melidoniotis on two tracks. Tokyo Mask is making post-industrial doom music: polluted and languid guitars, heavy drums, metallic clanks, gloomy ambiences. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;Route Painless&lt;i&gt; is an easier listen than you might think and it offers a clever balance between brutality and research. It can be a bit simplistic at times, but “Control” in particular provides a very interesting aural journey.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;&lt;b&gt;BEN FROST / By the Throat (Bedroom Community)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;J’avais bien aimé &lt;i&gt;Theory of Machines&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;, le disque précédent de Ben Frost. Et j’aime beaucoup celui-ci, paru en novembre dernier. Mais j’ai été surpris. En le sélectionnant cet après-midi, à la suite du Tokyo Mask, je ne croyais pas créer un enchaînement si parfait. C’est que &lt;i&gt;By the Throat&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt; est un disque beaucoup plus bruitiste que le précédent. Mélodies et instruments acoustiques y sont plus rares, les voix y sont absentes. Cela dit, les différences sont importantes entre Tokyo Mask et Ben Frost, à commencer par la présence, ici, d’un solide registre de graves. Ça tremble de partout! Superbe travail de basses fréquences qui donne vie aux drones. Rien d’ouvertement agressif sur ce disque, mais beaucoup de côtés sombres, de demi-teintes inquiétantes, et d’électro-ambiant bruitiste de bon aloi. Des pièces courtes mais qui forment un tout cohérent, pour une séance d’écoute qui déplace de l’air mais aussi des âmes. Solide.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I really liked &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;Theory of Machines&lt;i&gt;, Ben Frost’s previous album. And I’m quite fond of this one released last November. But I’m surprised. Cueing it up this afternoon right after Tokyo Mask, I didn’t know it would fit in SO well. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;By the Throat&lt;i&gt; is actually a lot noisier than &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:green;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;Theory of Machines&lt;i&gt;. Melodies and acoustic instruments are few and far between, and there are no vocals at all. That said, there are major differences between this and the Tokyo Mask CD, starting with the presence, here, of a hefty bass register. The house was shaking! A splendid work on bass frequencies that breathe life into the drones. Nothing overtly aggressive, but lots of dark aspects, troubling hues, and welcomed noisy electro-ambient. Short tracks forming a coherent whole, for a listening session that displaces a lot of air along with your soul. Strong stuff.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. 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Denley et Myhr ont déjà un disque en duo, et Denley et Zach font partie du projet de Myhr avec le Trondheim Jazz Orchestra (qui sera au FIMAV 2010, d’ailleurs). &lt;i&gt;Nectars of Emergence&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; est un très beau disque d’improvisation libre douce et sereine. Les gestes sonores y sont posés, mesurés, disposés avec soin dans un paysage sonore vaste, un peu froid, mais tout de même accueillant. On se perd littéralement dans les finesses des techniques étendues des trois musiciens. Surtout, il y a un clair souci de beauté sur ce disque.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mural is a trio consisting of Jim Denley (sax and flute), Kim Myhr (acoustic guitar) and Ingar Zach (percussion). Denley and Myhr already have a duo CD out, and Denley and Zach are both part of Myhr’s project with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra (scheduled to perform at FIMAV 2010). &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Nectars of Emergence&lt;i&gt; is a very fine record of quiet and serene free improvisation. Sonic gestures are measured, delicate, and carefully placed within a vast soundscape that’s a bit cold but still quite welcoming. You can literally get lost amidst the sophisticated extended techniques of all three participants. Most of all, this record displays a clear concern for beauty.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;GUY FRANK PELLERIN / Periplo (&lt;a href="mailto:cosmic-ride@sfr.fr"&gt;Cosmic Ride&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Le multi-instrumentiste Guy Frank Pellerin présente ici un charmant disque solo d’improvisations (surtout) sans multipistage où il combine percussions diverses, saxo soprano, clarinette, ocarina et bansuri. Chaque pièce offre une instrumentation différente, un climat différent aussi. C’est un disque intimiste, fait de tintements délicats, de mélodies introspectives. On pense musique du monde, mais s’il y a des influences ethniques diverses, elles sont sublimées au profit de la recherche d’une musique à la fois personnelle et universelle, musique de recueillement et de partage. Une très belle réussite.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Multi-instrumentalist Guy Frank Pellerin delivers an endearing album of solo improvisations without multitracking, where he combines various percussion instruments, sax, clarinet, ocarina, and bansuri. Each piece has a different combination of instruments and mood. This is an intimate record made of delicate clinkings and introspective melodies. It recalls world music, but if there are various ethnic influences present, they are sublimed in favor of a search for a music both personal and universal, a music of meditation and sharing. Successful and beautiful.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;FRED HO AND THE GREEN MONSTER BIG BAND / Celestial Green Monster (&lt;a href="http://www.mutablemusic.com/"&gt;Mutable Music&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Le vert radioactif de ce disque détonne avec la production habituelle de l’étiquette Mutable Music. Cela dit, ça ne me pose pas problème (outre peut-être le fait de voir sur la pochette Fred Ho à poil imitant Hulk). &lt;i&gt;Celestial Green Monster&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; est un solide disque de big band actuel. Et son programme est varié et audacieux. D’abord, deux reprises: le thème de Spiderman (toujours sympa et délirant), ainsi qu’un “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida” de 16 minutes avec la participation de la guitariste Mary Halverson et l’ajout, en plus de la voix principale (Abraham Gomez-Delgado), d’un solo de chant perse (Haleh Abghari) qui propulse ce vieux jam dans la stratosphère des musiques actuelles. Foutument bien fait. Suivent trois compositions originales de Ho: deux courtes de 1974-1975 et une suite de 38 minutes datant de 2006. C’est là le réel intérêt du disque, là où le personnel (qui comprend, entre autres, Jim Hobbs, Taylor Ho Bynum et Wes Brown) est mis à sérieuse contribution, là où le talent de compositeur de Ho peut briller de tous ses feux. Monstrueux ce disque? Pas vraiment. Vert? Faut voir. Céleste? Absolument.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The radioactive green feel of this album is somewhat unusual for a Mutable Music release. That being, it’s not a problem to me (except maybe for Fred Ho appearing nude and in an all-green Hulm impersonation). &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Celestial Green Monster&lt;i&gt; is a strong avant-big band record, with a diverse and bold program. First up are two covers: the theme from Spiderman (always fun and crazy), and a 16-minute “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” featuring guest guitarist Mary Halverson and the addition of a Persian vocal solo (by Haleh Abghari) that propells this old gem into the creative music stratosphere. Darn well done. Then come three original compositions by Ho: two short ones from 1974-1975 and a 38-minute suite from 2006. The latter is the album’s focal point, where the personel (which includes, among many others, Jim Hobbs, Taylor Ho Bynum, and Wes Brown) is put to great use, where the composer’s talent shines real bright. Monstrous, this CD? Nope. Green? It remains to be seen. Celestial? No doubt about it.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S3yGNLonqBI/AAAAAAAAAR4/RudvjLNqtUo/s200/Ural.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439370010976299026" /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;URAL UMBO / Ural Umbo (&lt;a href="http://www.utechrecords.com/"&gt;Utech Records&lt;/a&gt; - merci à/thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.dense.de/"&gt;Dense Promotion&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Cet éponyme est le premier album d’Ural Umbo, un duo formé de Reto Mäder (RM74, Sum of R) et Steven Hess (Pan American, On, Haptic). Je connaissais RM74, dont j’apprécie l’électro expérimentale métissée de bruitisme, mais je ne m’attendais pas du tout à un disque aussi rock, aussi noise rock, aussi doom-noise rock. Très très bon. Une batterie pesante et lente, des textures sales mais bien contrôlées. Ça me fait penser à Nadja un peu, avec quelque chose de moins évident dans l’approche sludge. Quelque part entre KTL et Bohren und der Club of Gore, peut-être? Impressionnant et satisfaisant.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;This eponymous CD is the debut full-length from Ural Umbo, a duo consisting of Reto Mäder (RM74, Sum of R) and Steven Hess (Pan American, On, Haptic). I knew RM74, whose experimental electronica-cum-noise I enjoy, but I didn’t expect something this rock, this noise rock, this doom-noise rock. Very, very good stuff. Heavy slow drumming, dirty yet well-controlled textures. I’m thinking of Nadja, with something less obvious in the sludge approach. Somewhere between KTL and Bohren und der Club of Gore, perhaps? Impressive and satisfying.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;URAL UMBO / Latent Defects (&lt;a href="http://www.utechrecords.com/"&gt;Utech Records&lt;/a&gt; - merci à/thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.dense.de/"&gt;Dense Promotion&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Latent Defects&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; est un mini-album publié paralèllement au disque éponyme d’Ural Umbo, mais seulement offert en téléchargement (mp3 ou flac). Sur ce mini, le duo laisse tomber la batterie et se concentre uniquement sur les textures sonores, qui sont plus guitaristiques cette fois, avec des sons trouvés aussi. Moins distinctif, plus agressif (oui, même sans la batterie), tout de même intéressant. Beaucoup plus KTL - drones bruyants et râclants. À approcher comme un complément qui présente une autre facette du duo, même si ses six pièces se fondent sur le matériel qu’on trouve sur le CD &lt;i&gt;Ural Umbo&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;(Ci-dessous: Un trop court extrait de “Theme of the Paranormal Feedback” trouvé sur le site d’Utech Records.]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Latent Defects&lt;i&gt; is an EP released at the same time as Ural Umbo’s eponymous full-length debut, but it is available only in download format (mp3 or flac). Here, the duo drops the drum kit in favor of darker sonic textures that are more guitar-based and also include found sounds. This album is less distinctive, more aggressive (yes, despite the lack of drums), still interesting though. A lot more KTL-sounding - noisy, gritty drones. To be approached as a complement to the full-length, as it features a different side of the band, despite the fact that these six tracks are actually derived from the material found on the full-length debut.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;[Below: A too-short clip from “Theme of the Paranormal Feedback” found on Utech Records’ website.]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.utechrecords.com/MP3/040_2.mp3"&gt;http://www.utechrecords.com/MP3/040_2.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jonathanbadger.com/"&gt;JONATHAN BADGER&lt;/a&gt; / Unsung Stories from Lilly’s Days as a Solar Astronaut (MTG Records)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Intéressant. Jonathan Badger est un guitariste qui utilise un système branché à un ordinateur pour déclencher des échantillons d’instruments et de voix à l’aide de sa guitare. Une version guitare hi-tech du mellotron, en quelque sorte. Et il échantillonne même du mellotron, en plus! Sa musique a une certaine base de rock progressif et de RIO, avec un côté ambiant à la Fennesz ou Robert Fripp. C’est un mélange inusité mais étonnamment accessible, audacieux mais confortable. Cela dit, je doute que cela élicite une grande passion chez moi, mais &lt;i&gt;Unsong Stories from Lilly’s Days as a Solar&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;Astronaut&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt; est une écoute agréable que je répéterai certainement dans un proche avenir.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Interesting. Jonathan Badger is a guitarist using a computer-driven system that allows him to trigger instrument and voice samples with his guitar - like a hi-tech guitar-based Mellotron. And he even samples a Mellotron. His music is based in part on progressive rock, with an RIO slant and an ambient side akin to Fennesz and Robert Fripp. It’s an unusual blend, but it’s surprisingly accessible, bold yet comfortable-sounding. That said, I doubt this CD will elicit throes of passion in me, but it makes for a enjoyable listen, and I will probably repeat the experience in the near future.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. All rights reserved. / Tous droits réservés.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7206551952153989157-5841765193702738332?l=blog.monsieurdelire.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/feeds/5841765193702738332/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/2010-02-17-mural-guy-frank-pellerin.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/5841765193702738332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/5841765193702738332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/2010-02-17-mural-guy-frank-pellerin.html' title='2010-02-17: Mural, Guy Frank Pellerin, Fred Ho, Ural Umbo, Jonathan Badger'/><author><name>Monsieur Délire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03753216952194868887</uri><email>md@monsieurdelire.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07660889199120015754'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S3yGNLonqBI/AAAAAAAAAR4/RudvjLNqtUo/s72-c/Ural.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206551952153989157.post-2274881014368071206</id><published>2010-02-16T20:17:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T21:18:50.586-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tanya Tagaq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Délire actuel'/><title type='text'>Délire actuel, 2010-02-16</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 130%;"&gt;DÉLIRE ACTUEL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Édition du 16 février 2010&lt;br /&gt;Show aired on 16 February 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;DESCRIPTION&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;DESCRIPTION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Voix:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; Deux heures de voix, masculines et féminines, en chanson actuelle, musique contemporaine, électroacoustique et improvisation libre.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;Voices:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; Two hours worth of voices of all kinds - male and female, avant song, contemporary music, electroacoustics, and free improvisation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tanyatagaq.com"&gt;TANYA TAGAQ&lt;/a&gt; / Growth (5:30) - Auk/Blood (Ipecac)&lt;br /&gt;VIVANE HOULE / Mandrake [+ Peggy Lee] (4:24) + Au Revas [+ Paul Plimley] (2:40) - Treize (&lt;a href="http://www.dripaudio.com"&gt;Drip Audio&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;FREDY STUDER / Oy [+ Sandaat Türköz (7:36) - Voices (&lt;a href="http://www.unitrecords.com"&gt;Unit Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOUS PERÇONS LES OREILLES / 2 (39) = 5 (4:30) - Shaman (&lt;a href="www.actuellecd.com"&gt;Ambiances Magnétiques&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;JOHN RUSSELL &amp;amp; JEAN-MICHEL VAN SCHOUWBURG / The 50th Birthday Party (6:30) - The Mercelis Concert (Inaudible)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="www.myspace.com/charbinvanschouwburg"&gt;JEAN-MICHEL VAN SCHOUWBURG &amp;amp; MARJOLAINE CHARBIN&lt;/a&gt; / Un mot et tout est perdu (3:49) - Quelles bouches voleront en éclats (ind.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FIVE ROOMS / The Door (0:37) + No Room for Doubt (2:19) + Other Conspiracy (1:59) - No Room for Doubt (&lt;a href="http://www.amiranirecords.com"&gt;Amirani Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;JACQUES DEMIERRE / Seiss (1:04) + Wjuja (1:27) + éaénd (1:58) - Save Our Ship (&lt;a href="http://www.heros-limite.com"&gt;Éditions héros-limite&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*YANNIS KYRIAKIDES / U (7:18) - Antichamber (&lt;a href="http://www.unsounds.com"&gt;Unsounds&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;JB FLOYD, THOMAS BUCKNER &amp;amp; GEORGE MARSH / The Mountain Had Never Before Experienced Such Elation (2:47) - In Crossing the Busy Street (&lt;a href="http://www.mutablemusic.com"&gt;Mutable Music&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;**DANNY SAUL / My Escape (9:54) - Harsh, Final. (&lt;a href="http://www.whiteboxrecordings.co.uk"&gt;White Box&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*ANTYE GREIE / We Break Out (6:03) - Einzelkämpfer (&lt;a href="http://www.antyegreie.com"&gt;AGF Produktion&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;JULIE TIPPETS &amp;amp; MARTIN ARCHER / Moonshine (6:03) - Ghosts of Gold (&lt;a href="http://www.discus-music.co.uk"&gt;Discus&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;ANDREW LILES &amp;amp; FOVEA HEX / Gone (4:04) - Gone Every Evening (Die Stadt)&lt;br /&gt;SABICA SENEZ / Daddy's Back (3:24) - Schallmauer (&lt;a href="http://www.lenomdelachose.org"&gt;OHM Éditions&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JACQUES TREMBLAY / Empathies entropiques: Triptyque russe (6:38) - Chroniques d'une séduction (&lt;a href="http://www.electrocd.com"&gt;empreintes DIGITALes&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Merci à/Thanks to:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;*&lt;a href="http://www.dense.de/"&gt;Dense Promotion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;**&lt;a href="http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/01/www.forcedexposure.com"&gt;Forced Exposure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;COMPLÉMENTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;SUPPLEMENTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TANYA TAGAQ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Improvisation en concert, février 2009 (elle sera en spectacle au FIMAV 2010).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;Live performance from February 2009 (she will be performing at FIMAV 2010).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ikqgkhV0gLQ&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ikqgkhV0gLQ&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JEAN-MICHEL VAN SCHOUWBURG &amp;amp; MARJOLAINE CHARDIN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Extrait en concert, janvier 2009.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;Live performance from January 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6FGuiw1If60&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6FGuiw1If60&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. All rights reserved. / Tous droits réservés.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7206551952153989157-2274881014368071206?l=blog.monsieurdelire.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/feeds/2274881014368071206/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/delire-actuel-2010-02-16.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/2274881014368071206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/2274881014368071206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/delire-actuel-2010-02-16.html' title='Délire actuel, 2010-02-16'/><author><name>Monsieur Délire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03753216952194868887</uri><email>md@monsieurdelire.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07660889199120015754'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206551952153989157.post-3331597281720480846</id><published>2010-02-16T19:12:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T20:16:20.252-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zelienople'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Délire Musical'/><title type='text'>Délire musical, 2010-02-16</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 130%;"&gt;DÉLIRE MUSICAL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Édition du 16 février 2010&lt;br /&gt;Broadcast Date: 16 février 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;LISTE DE DIFFUSION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;PLAYLIST&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thème/Theme: CEUX-QUI-MARCHENT-DEBOUT / Bich Bich - Debout! (Coeur de lion)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*SECOND HAND / Hangin' on an Eyelid (4:15) - Maximum Prog (Past &amp;amp; Present)&lt;br /&gt;*WATERLOO / Black Born Children (3:44) - First Battle (&lt;a href="www.guerssen.com"&gt;Gerssen&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.j-tull.com"&gt;JETHRO TULL&lt;/a&gt; / Up to Me (3:14) - Aqualung (EMI)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DEAD CAN DANCE / The Writing on My Father's Hand (3:49) - The Serpent's Egg (4AD)&lt;br /&gt;AVA INFERI / Memoirs (3:47) - Blood of Bacchus (Season of Mist)&lt;br /&gt;**&lt;a href="http://www.collapseundertheempire.com"&gt;COLLAPSE UNDER THE EMPIR&lt;/a&gt;E / Intelligence (3:23) - Find a Planet to Be Safe (&lt;a href="http://www.sisterjack.de"&gt;Sister Jack&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;ZELIENOPLE / All I Want Is Calm (6:01) - Give It Up (&lt;a href="http://www.typerecords.com"&gt;Type Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*JOSEPHINE FOSTER / The Spider Holds a Silver Ball (2:44) - Graphic as a Star (&lt;a href="http://www.firerecords.com"&gt;Fire&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;ESPERS / Voices (3:44) - Espers (Locust Music)&lt;br /&gt;HELIOS / Fourteen Paintings (4:01) - Live at Triple Door (Circle Into Square)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MARILLION / Brave (extrait/excerpt: 4:00) - Brave (EMI)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;merci à/thanks to:&lt;br /&gt;*&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.forcedexposure.com/"&gt;Forced Exposure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;**&lt;a href="http://www.dense.de"&gt;Dense Promotion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;COMPLÉMENTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;SUPPLEMENTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ZELIENOPLE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Vidéo officielle pour "All I Want Is Calm".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Official video for "All I Want Is Calm".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FHjkyddpLoY&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FHjkyddpLoY&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. All rights reserved. / Tous droits réservés.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7206551952153989157-3331597281720480846?l=blog.monsieurdelire.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/feeds/3331597281720480846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/delire-musical-2010-02-16.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/3331597281720480846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/3331597281720480846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/delire-musical-2010-02-16.html' title='Délire musical, 2010-02-16'/><author><name>Monsieur Délire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03753216952194868887</uri><email>md@monsieurdelire.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07660889199120015754'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206551952153989157.post-7424749931261325453</id><published>2010-02-15T19:04:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-15T19:16:51.504-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nevärlläjf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Crónica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Art Zpyd'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marc Behrens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Duran Vázquez'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ambiances Magnétiques'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nous perçons les oreilles'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Musea'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Journal d&apos;écoute / Listening diary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='In-possible'/><title type='text'>2010-02-15: Nous perçons les oreilles, Marc Behrens, Duran Vázquez, Art Zoyd, Nevärlläjf</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Journal d'écoute/Listening Diary&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2010-02-15&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2e écoute/2&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; listen: NOUS PERÇONS LES OREILLES / Shaman (&lt;a href="http://www.actuellecd.com/"&gt;Ambiances Magnétiques&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Superbe disque d’improvisation, pas du tout cabotin comme certains pourraient le craindre. Des duos courts et inspirés, avec beaucoup de bruits de bouches et de petits objets et jouets, mais approchés avec énormément de sérieux. Ce n’est pas disque auquel je m’attendais de Joane Hétu et de Jean Derome, c’est mieux. Je vais garder une place de prédilection dans mon coeur pour leur précédent, &lt;i&gt;La vie, c’est simple&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;, mais ce &lt;i&gt;Shaman&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; ensorcèle. Bravo.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A splendid free improvisation record, not at all the wacky thing some might be fearing. Short inspired duos, with lots of mouth sounds and small objects and toys, all approached in a very serious manner. This is not the record I was expecting from Joane Hétu and Jean Derome, it’s even better. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;La vie, c’est simple&lt;i&gt;, their previous album, will still hold a special place in my heard, but this &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Shaman&lt;i&gt; is bewitching. Bravo.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 177px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S3njTORSCVI/AAAAAAAAARw/NKZL3zrp5ak/s200/046-2009-b.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438627944414185810" /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mbehrens.com/"&gt;MARC BEHRENS&lt;/a&gt; / Sleppet (&lt;a href="http://www.cronicaelectronica.org/"&gt;Crónica&lt;/a&gt; - merci à/thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.dense.de/"&gt;Dense Promotion&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Un court disque de l’électroacousticien Marc Behrens. &lt;i&gt;Sleppet&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; est issu d’un voyage d’enregistrement sur le terrain en Norvège, en compagnie d’autres artistes. Divisée en quatre mouvements, “Sleppet” a été réalisée en juin 2008 pour diffusion par la radio allemande. Il s’agit d’une relativement simple mais puissante et évocatrice. Tout y passe: éléments de la nature (eau, neige, pierre), vie animale (goélands, bétail) et activité humaine (usines), présentés tels quels et fortement altérés. Ces altérations renferment tout l’art de Behrens, dont le sens de la plasticité aurale est magistral. Incidemment, &lt;i&gt;Sleppet&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; joue très peu dans les régions microsoniques. C’est une œuvre qui ne se cache pas et qui se déploie avec une certaine grandeur. Du beau travail.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;[Ci-dessous: Écoutez un extrait de l’album sur cette page.]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A short album from electroacoustician Marc Behrens. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Sleppet&lt;i&gt; evolved from a field recording trip to Norway with other artists. The four-movement work was realized in June 2008 for broadcast on the German radio. It’s a relatively simple piece, but it’s powerful and evocative. Everything and the kitchen sink’s in there: nature’s elements (water, snow, stone), animal life (seagulls, cattle), and human activity (in&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);  font-style: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;dustries), presented as is and severely transformed. And it is in those transformations that Behrens’ artistry lies - the man’s sense of aural plasticity is commanding. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Sleppet&lt;i&gt; strays far from the microsonic regions often associated with his music. This work does not try to hide away in the shadows of your living room’s background noise, it unfolds in a grandiloquent way. Nice job.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;[Below: Listen to a sample from the album on this page.]&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://cronicaelectronica.org/?p=046"&gt;http://cronicaelectronica.org/?p=046&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;DURAN VÁZQUEZ / Home, Sweet Home (&lt;a href="http://www.cronicaelectronica.org/"&gt;Crónica&lt;/a&gt; - merci à/thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.dense.de/"&gt;Dense Promotion&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Une parution gratuite chez l’excellente étiquette électroacoustique portugaise Crónica (utilisez le lien ci-dessous pour la télécharger), &lt;i&gt;Home, Sweet Home&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; semble partager les goélands de &lt;i&gt;Sleppet&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;. Duran Vazquez a concocté un joli disque d’enregistrements de terrains manipulés. On n’y trouve pas l’esthétisme recherché de Marc Behrens, mais tout de même un solide travail d’électroacoustique ambiante à touche hyperréaliste. L’environnement y est très urbain (ville de bord de mer, tout de même), mais Vazquez trouve le moyen de temporiser le rythme urbain et de faire ressortir la béatitude de quelques lieux.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A free release from the superior Portuguese electroa&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);  font-style: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;coustic label Crónica (use the link below to download it). &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Home, Sweet Home&lt;i&gt; shares seagulls with &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Sleppet&lt;i&gt;. Duran Vazquez has put together a fine record of treated filed recordings. It doesn’t have the sophisticated aesthetics of Marc Behrens’ album, but it remains a strong work of ambiant electroacoustics with a hyperrealistic touch. It is set in an urban environment (a harbor city, but still), however Vazquez has found ways to temporize the urban beat and highlight the peace and quiet of certain locations.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://cronicaelectronica.org/?p=045"&gt;http://cronicaelectronica.org/?p=045&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.artzoyd.com/"&gt;ART ZOYD&lt;/a&gt; / Expériences de vol #7: Pure Noise (In-possible Records)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Si vous ne le saviez pas, la série &lt;i&gt;Expériences de vol&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; ne fait pas partie du corpus habituel d’Art Zoyd. Il s’agit de collaborations et de laboratoires dans le domaine de la musique contemporaine de pointe, et non pas des productions à grand déploiement et à contenu musical hautement cinématique ou opératique. &lt;i&gt;Pure Noise&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; ne fait pas de fausse représentation - vous aurez l’impression d’écouter du Merzbow. Sérieusement. Trois longues pièces signées Ulrich Krieger, Kasper T. Toeplitz et Dror Feller, trois longs hurlements électriques instrumentaux. Je n’arrive pas à comprendre la démarche derrière ce projet. Une écoute difficile et peu rétribuante. Et définitivement pas ce que j’attendais d’Art Zoyd, même dans cette série (que je connais bien et qui a donné des trucs beaucoup plus intéressants). Je suis perplexe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;In case you didn’t know, the &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Expériences de vol&lt;i&gt; series is not your usual Art Zoyd music. This is a series of collaborations and laboratories/workshops in the field of cutting-edge contemporary music, not the group’s large-scale operatic or cinematic avant works. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Pure Noise&lt;i&gt; doesn’t lie – it could be mistaken for Merzbow. Seriously. Three long works composed by Ulrich Krieger, Kasper T. Toeplitz, and Dror Feller, three long electric instrumental screams. I don’t get what’s the artistic process underpinning this project. A difficult and little-rewarding listen. And definitely not what I expected from Art Zoyd, even being familiar with the series. I’m puzzled.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S3njS7gjkBI/AAAAAAAAARo/r_usgCt0ewU/s200/picture.php.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438627939377975314" /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nevarllajf.com/"&gt;NEVÄRLLÄJF&lt;/a&gt; / Klusterfloristen (&lt;a href="http://www.musearecords.com/"&gt;Musea Parallele&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Wow, quel plaisir! Un quintette suédois de rock progressif instrumental particulièrement funky. Un côté très vintage, beaucoup d’humour, une forte influence de Beardfish (dans leurs moments plus funk et zappaesques). Une belle musicalité aussi. De gros riffs, de l’orgue qui crache, une basse qui groove, une batterie qui ne tient pas en place. Une musique entraînante, déroutante (dans le sens qu’elle change fréqumment de direction) - un sérieux divertissement pour l’amateur de rock progressif intelligent et qui n’a pas peur de danser. J’aime!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;[Ci-dessous: Une pièce de l’album, “Knölpäksinhalator”, interprétée en concert.]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Oh what a delight! A very funky Swedish instrumental progressive rock quintet. Vintage sound, humorous, a strong influence from Beardfish (in their funkier, Zappa-like moments). Nice musicianship too. Big riffs, dirty organ playing, groovy bass, a drum kit that won’t stay in place. Fun, driving music that can switch directions on a dime. Some serious entertainment for the intelligent prog rock fan who isn’t afraid to dance. I like!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;[Below: A track from the album, “Knölpäksinhalator,” performed live.]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"  style="font-family:ArialMT;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jHHmUZ2UYIQ&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jHHmUZ2UYIQ&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. 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Five Rooms est un quitette formé des Italiens Gianni Mimmo (saxo soprano), Angelo Contini (trombone) et Andrea Serrapigli (violoncelle), plus le vocaliste belge Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg et le guitariste britannique John Russell (ces deux derniers travaillent ensemble depuis quelque temps déjà). Dix-sept courtes improvisations enregistrées en studio en février 2008, solide connivence entre les musiciens, paysages sonores changeants et riches, interactions minutieuses, souvent douces, sans tomber dans le microscopique - de l’excellente improvisation libre à l’européenne. Et Schouwburg est un vocaliste digne d’un peu plus d’attention, dans la veine de Phil Minton et de Joane Hétu.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A very fine record of free improvisation released by the Italian label Amirani. Five Rooms is a quartet consisting of Italians Gianni Mimmo (soprano sax), Angelo Contini (trombone) and Andrea Serrapigli (cello), plus Belgian vocalist Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg and UK guitarist John Russell (the latter two have been working together for a while). Seventeen short improvisations captured in studio in February 2008. Strong listening between the musicians, changing and rich soundscapes, minute, often quiet interactions that never reach the microsound level though. Excellent European free improvisation. And Schouwburg deserves more attention as a vocalist.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 160px; height: 160px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S3XJRBYj0gI/AAAAAAAAARg/rIZYN6YUSUk/s200/200_AM.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437473419386147330" /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NOUS PERÇONS LES OREILLES / Shaman (&lt;a href="http://www.actuellecd.com/"&gt;Ambiances Magnétiques&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Parlant de Joane, la voici avec son inséparable Jean Derome, dans un nouveau disque de leur duo Nous perçons les oreilles (le dernier remonte à... quand au juste... [farfouille dans sa discothèque]... 2002!?! Ils étaient dus! Sur la forme, &lt;i&gt;Shaman&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; est plus près du premier disque (éponyme) que de &lt;i&gt;La vie, c’est simple&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; - autrement dit, pas de chansons cette fois-ci, que des improvisations courtes (douze, entre une et six minutes). Sur le fond, &lt;i&gt;Shaman&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; est AUSSI différent des deux autres disques que &lt;i&gt;La vie, c’est simple&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; pouvait l’être du premier, signe que ce duo continue d’évoluer dans le temps. La musique est sérieuse, intense (ce qui ne veut pas dire “bruyante”), bruitiste (je me répète, mais ce qui ne veut pas dire “bruyante”), émotive, atavistique en ceci qu’elle remonte à une forme d’expression ritualistique mais arythmique et amélodique. Très impressionnant à la première écoute, et j’ai hâte de lui donner une seconde écoute plus attentive.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;[Ci-dessous: ce lien ouvrira le lecteur du site actuellecd.com pour vous faire entendre un extrait de l’album.]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Speaking of experimental vocalists, here is Joane Hétu and her inseparable partner (in music and life) Jean Derome, with a new CD by their duo Nous perçons les oreilles – the last one goes back to… wait a minute… [seeps through his music library]… 2002!?! Well, it was about time! On the surfce, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Shaman&lt;i&gt; is closer to their first (eponymous) album than to &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;La vie, c’est simple&lt;i&gt; – in other words, no songs this time around, only short improvisations (twelve of them, between one and six minutes in duration). Listening deeper though, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Shaman&lt;i&gt; is JUST AS different from the first two records as &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;La vie, c’est simple&lt;i&gt; was different from the first record, which goes to show how the duo keeps on evolving with time. The music is serious, intense (which doesn’t mean “noisy”), noisy (I know, I know, but “noisy” as in noise-based, not as in “a loud racket”), emotional, and atavistic since it arches back to a ritualistic yet a-rhythmic and a-melodic form of expression. Very impressive on first listen, and I’m looking forward to listen to it more attentively soon.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;[Below: This link will open the media player on actuellecd.com so you can listen to a clip from the album.]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.actuellecd.com/fr/audio/?poste=cat_am_200&amp;amp;prog=5173"&gt;http://www.actuellecd.com/fr/audio/?poste=cat_am_200&amp;amp;prog=5173&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;IGNAZ SCHICK &amp;amp; MARTIN TÉTREAULT / Live 33 • 45 • 78 (&lt;a href="http://www.actuellecd.com/"&gt;Ambiances Magnétiques&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Enregistré en Europe en 2006, enfin paru sur disque, voici la première (?) collaboration entre deux platinistes, le montréalais Martin Tétreault et le berlinois Ignaz Schick (du trio Perlonex, qui sera au FIMAV 2010 avec Charlemagne Palestine). Soixante minutes d’improvisations texturales sur tourne-disque, objets et surfaces. On a choisi d’isoler les participants chacun dans son canal stéréo - bonne idée, ça permet d’étudier facilement les points de convergence et de divergence entre leurs approches. Pour ceux qui se le demandent, &lt;i&gt;Live 33 • 45 • 78&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; est tout aussi bruitiste mais beaucoup moins bruyant que les dernières collaborations entre Tétreault et Otomo Yoshihide. Musique abstraite, exigeante, mais porteuse à première vue. Notez que Schick sera à Montréal en mars.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Recorded in Europe in 2006, and finally out on Ambiances Magnétiques, this is the first (?) collaboration between two turntablists, Montrealer Martin Tétreault and Berliner Ignaz Schick (of Perlonex, who will be performing with Charlemagne Palestine at FIMAV 2010). Sixty minutes of textural improvisations on turntables, objects, and surfaces. Each participant is tucked in his own stereo channel, which makes it easier to identify their similarities and distinctive traits. And for those wondering, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Live 33 • 45 • 78&lt;i&gt; is just as noise-based but a lot less noisy than Tétreault’s recent collaborations with Otomo Yoshihide. Abstract, demanding music, but it carries just fine. Note that Schick will be in Montreal in March.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MAKOTO KAWABATA / Inui.3 (VHF)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Troisième album de la série solo &lt;i&gt;Inui&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; du grand gourou d’Acid Mothers Temple. Contrairement aux deux premiers, celui-ci n’adopte pas le format vinyle et propose trois pièces, deux de 12 minutes et une de 47 minutes. Ce sont toutes de douces pièces méditatives à base de guitares diverses, certaines étant “ethniques”. Le plus réussi des trois, malgré la longueur un peu inutile de “Fuku”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The third album in Acid Mothers Temple’s guru’s &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Inui&lt;i&gt; series of solo releases. Unlike the first two, this one is not vinyl-sized and featured three tracks, two of 12 minutes and one of 47 minutes. They are all quiet and meditative pieces featuring various guitars, most of the “ethnic” variety. This is the pick of the series, despite the overblown length of “Fuku”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;QUANTUM / Les Temps oubliés (&lt;a href="http://www.musearecords.com/"&gt;Musea&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;À la lumière de ce premier album paru en novembre 2009, Quantum est un groupe français de rock néo-progressif, le terme “français” ayant ici autant de poids que celui de “néo-progressif”. C’est à dire qu’on y entend autant d’Ange et de Mona Lisa que de Marillion et d’IQ. En fait, de ces quatre groupes, on entend trop. Les influences sont vraiment trop évidentes. Le chanteur Jean-Marc Tesorio adopte l’expression ultra-théâtrale de Christian Decamps, tout en tentant d’imiter les louvoiements de Fish. Malheureusement, il n’a ni le bagou de l’un, ni le charisme de l’autre. L’écriture musicale se tolère bien, mais manque totalement de personnalité. Cela dit, si vous aimez &lt;i&gt;Script of a Jester’s Tear&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; et que la voix ne vous embête pas trop, allez-y. Personnellement, je ne suis pas impressionné.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Judging from this debut album released in November 2009, Quantum is a French neo-prog band, the word “French” weighing as much as the phrase “neo-prog” in this case, i.e. you’ll here just as much Ange and Mona Lisa as Marillion or IQ in the music. And you’ll here a LOT of those four bands, too much of them. Quantum wear their influences all over their t-shirts, if you know what I mean. Singe Jean-Marc Tesorio has adopted the ultra-theatrical delivery of Christian Decamps but tries to imitate Fish’s tone. Sadly, he doesn’t have the demeanor of the former nor the charisma of the latter. The music is well-written but it totally lacks personality. That said, if you like &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Script of a Jester’s Tear&lt;i&gt; and you don’t put a lot of importance on vocals, go ahead. Personally, I am not impressed.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;TERRAEX / Somnia (&lt;a href="http://www.musearecords.com/"&gt;Musea&lt;/a&gt; Parallèle)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Beaucoup plus sympathique et intéressant est la formation norvégienne Terraex, dont le premier album, &lt;i&gt;Somnia&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;, s’inscrit dans un courant rock progressif beaucoup plus moderne, avec une influence du prog métal et du rock alternatif. Le groupe est dirigé par le guitariste-claviériste Carlos Sanchez (oui, j’ai dit norvégien), mais dominé par la chanteuse Maria Toresen, dont la voix me fait beaucoup penser à Sue Element: belle, envoûtante, légèrement rebelle. La musique de Terraex est relativement simple et se fonde sur une approche fortement mélodique, mais c’est diantrement bien tourné. Pourquoi faire complexe pour rien? Un très bon premier disque par un groupe qui a su se doter d’un son, d’une identité.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A lot more enjoyable and interesting is Norwegian band Terraex, whose debut release &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Somnia&lt;i&gt; falls in a more modern form of progressive rock, with influences from prog metal and alt rock. The band is led by guitarist/keyboardist Carlos Sanchez (yes, they’re from Norway) but dominated by singer Maria Toresen, whose voice strongly reminds me of Sue Element: clear, bewitching, with a slightly rebel tone. Terraex’s music is relatively simple and based on melody, and very well done so. Why go the complex way for nothing? This is a very good first album by a band who has succeeded to find its own sound and identity.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. All rights reserved. / Tous droits réservés.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7206551952153989157-6083487788498435131?l=blog.monsieurdelire.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/feeds/6083487788498435131/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/2010-02-12-five-rooms-nous-percons-les.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/6083487788498435131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/6083487788498435131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/2010-02-12-five-rooms-nous-percons-les.html' title='2010-02-12: Five Rooms, Nous perçons les oreilles, Schick/Tétreault, Makoto Kawabata, Quantum, Terraex'/><author><name>Monsieur Délire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03753216952194868887</uri><email>md@monsieurdelire.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07660889199120015754'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S3XJRBYj0gI/AAAAAAAAARg/rIZYN6YUSUk/s72-c/200_AM.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206551952153989157.post-8631127651396276399</id><published>2010-02-11T18:54:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-11T18:59:39.053-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Connie Crothers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mutable Music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Michael Bisio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Invisible Opera Company of Tibet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Roscoe Mitchell'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Voiceprint'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Janina Angel Bath'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Fiery Furnaces'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thrill Jockey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Prophase Music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Muhal Richard Abrams'/><title type='text'>2010-02-11: Abrams/Mitchell, Crothers/Bisio, Janina Angel Bath, Invisible Opera Company of Tibet, The Fiery Furnaces</title><content type='html'>&lt;!--StartFragment--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Journal d'écoute / Listening Diary&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2010-02-11&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS &amp;amp; ROSCOE MITCHELL / Spectrum (&lt;a href="http://www.mutablemusic.com/"&gt;Mutable Music&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Spectrum &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;n’est pas tout à fait ce à quoi vous vous attendez en lisant l’intitulé. Ce disque se décompose en trois temps: d’abord un duo de 12 minutes entre ces deux grands du jazz actuel américain. Improvisation ou composition? Pas clair, mais je penche pour la première option. Ensuite, une composition de 17 minutes de Roscoe Mitchell sur un poème de Joseph Jarman, “Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City”, pour baryton (Thomas Buckner) et orchestre (le Janáček Philarmonic dirigé par Petr Kotik). Enfin, une composition de Muhal Richard Abrams de 17 minutes, “Mergertone”, pour orchestre (le même). Le duo est tout bonnement superbe. La composition de Mitchell est solide, quoi qu’elle sous-utilise les capacités de Buckner (un chanteur d’opéra aux techniques TRÈS étendues). Celle d’Abrams est très touffue au point de me paraître inutilement encombrée. Après une écoute, je suis ambivalant.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Spectrum &lt;i&gt;is not quite you might expect simply from the title line. This CD is broken down into three parts: first a 12-minute duo between these two American free jazz giants. Improvised or composed? Not clear, though I’d vote for the first option. Then, a 17-minute composition by Roscoe Mitchell on a poem by Joseph Harman, “Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City,” for baritone voice and orchestra (the Janáček Philarmonic conducted by Petr Kotik). Finally, a 17-minute composition, “Mergertone,” by Muhal Richard Abrams for orchestra (the same one). The duet is simplt splendid. Mitchell’s composition is a strong one, although it doesn’t make full use of Buckner’s talent (he’s an opera singer with VERY extended techniques). Abrams’ piece is very busy and, to my ears, unnecessarily cluttered. After one listen, I’m uncertain.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CONNIE CROTHERS &amp;amp; MICHAEL BISIO / Session at 475 Kent (&lt;a href="http://www.mutablemusic.com/"&gt;Mutable Music&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;La simplicité même: une session d’improvisation entre amis, enregistrée dans l’intimité du loft de la pianiste Connie Crothers. Quatre improvisations tirées d’une session beaucoup plus longue, la crème de cette rencontre avec le bassiste Michael Bisio. J’aime beaucoup Bisio: il a un son léger et bourdonnant, jazzé mais pas ultra-rythmique ou appuyé comme celui de William Parker ou de Joe Fonda. C’est le match parfait avec le style volubile de Crothers, très ancré dans la tradition jazz même s’il s’en éloigne beaucoup - en fait, j’entends beaucoup d’Oliver Jones dans son jeu, même si Jones n’a JAMAIS joué aussi “free”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Simplicity itself: an improvisation session between two friends, recorded in the intimacy of pianist Connie Crothers’ loft. Four improvisations out of a much longer session, the cream of this meeting with bassist Michael Bisio. I really like Bisio: his tone is light and drony, jazzy but far away from the ultra-rhythmical style of William Parker or Joe Fonda. And he’s a perfect match for Crothers’ talkative playing rooted in the jazz tradition yet straying far away from it – truth is, I hear a lot of Oliver Jones in her playing, even though Jones NEVER played that free.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;JANINA ANGEL BATH / Gypsy Woman (&lt;a href="http://www.prophasemusic.com/"&gt;Prophase Music&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Sur ce disque, Janina Angel Bath est essentiellement seule à chanter et à jouer de nombreux instruments (claviers, guitares, percussions diverses, tamboura, bansuri, flûtes, etc.). Elle propose 12 courtes pièces méditatives et intimistes, inspirées à la fois par la musique indienne et la folk psychédélique. Très jolie voix alto, arrangements planants, le tout s’écoute sans effort, sans réelle surprise non plus, mais ça transporte agréablement et sans flancher en route. Un beau voyage.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;On this record, Janina Angel Bath is basically on her own, singing and playing several instruments (keyboards, guitars, various percussion, tamboura, bansuri, flutes, etc.). She offers 12 short meditative pieces inspired by both Indian music and psychedelic folk. Very nice alto voice, trippy arrangements, no real surprises, but the music carries you nicely and flawlessly. A fine journey.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;INVISIBLE OPERA COMPANY OF TIBET (TROPICAL VERSION BRAZIL) / Glissando Spirit Live: Britannia Cafe - 18&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; August 1994 (&lt;a href="http://www.voiceprint.co.uk/"&gt;Voiceprint Brazil&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Lorsqu’il m’a fait parvenir quelques disques de son groupe Violeta de Outono, le guitariste Fabio Golfetti a ajouté au lot ce disque en concert, dont je ne connais pas la date de parution. Cet Invisible Opera Company est en quelque sorte un sous-projet de Violeta de Outono. Comme les autres IOC du monde, Invisible Opera Company of Tibet (Tropical Version Brazil) est un groupe qui s’est formé pour accompagner Daevid Allen (de Gong) le temps d’une tournée et qui a poursuivi par la suite. Le groupe utilise le répertoire d’Allen (Gong et solo) comme des blocs ou des tremplins pour leurs propres compositions. Aucun classique n’est réellement joué mais, à la manière du maître, on reconnaît ici et là des thèmes et des manières de faire. Et c’est de l’excellent space rock Gongesque, format trio. TRÈS agréable.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;When he sent me a few records by his band Violeta de Outono, guitarist Fabio Golfetti included this live album, the release year of which I have no idea. This Invisible Opera Company could almost be defined as a VdO side project. Like other IOCs around the world, Invisible Opera Company of Tibet (Tropical Version Brazil) is a group originally formed to back Gong leader Daevid Allen on a tour. The band has carried on, and it uses Allen’s repertoire (with Gong and solo) like building blocks or springboards for their own pieces. No classic track is actually performed, but you’ll recognize a theme here and a sound there, just like the master himself keeps doing to this day. And it’s some excellent Gongesque space rock to boot. HIGHLY enjoyable.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;THE FIERY FURNACES / I’m Going Away (Thrill Jockey)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Surprise et étonnement: le plus récent disque des Fiery Furnaces est... pop! Très pop! Trop pop... C’est amusant, c’est plein de jolies mélodies rebondissantes, mais où est passée la complexité? La folie dans les arrangements? L’éclatement surréaliste? Attention, &lt;i&gt;I’m Going Away&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; n’est pas mauvais, mais il sonne tellement plus... comme bien d’autres groupes indie pop! Je suis déçu.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Surprised and stunned: this, the latest album by The Fiery Furnaces, is… pop! Quite pop! Too pop… It’s fun and full of bouncy melodies, where is the complexity? Where are the crazy arrangements? And the surrealistic partying? Now, I’m not saying &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;I’m Going Away&lt;i&gt; is a bad record, but it sounds so much more…like any other indie pop band! I’m disappointed.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. All rights reserved. / Tous droits réservés.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7206551952153989157-8631127651396276399?l=blog.monsieurdelire.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/feeds/8631127651396276399/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/2010-02-11-abramsmitchell-crothersbisio.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/8631127651396276399'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/8631127651396276399'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/2010-02-11-abramsmitchell-crothersbisio.html' title='2010-02-11: Abrams/Mitchell, Crothers/Bisio, Janina Angel Bath, Invisible Opera Company of Tibet, The Fiery Furnaces'/><author><name>Monsieur Délire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03753216952194868887</uri><email>md@monsieurdelire.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07660889199120015754'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206551952153989157.post-8704227769839653912</id><published>2010-02-11T06:15:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-11T06:22:20.026-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Plastic Crimewave Sound'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zelienople'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Type Records'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Staubgold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Prophase Music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kammerflimmer Kollektief'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Journal d&apos;écoute / Listening diary'/><title type='text'>2010-02-10: Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Zelienople, Plastic Crimewave Sound</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Journal d'écoute / Listening Diary&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--StartFragment--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2010-02-10&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S3PoByFBzEI/AAAAAAAAARY/_xhnh6UeQDI/s200/wildling.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436944292486696002" /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kammerflimmer.com/"&gt;KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF&lt;/a&gt; / Wildling (&lt;a href="http://www.staubgold.com/"&gt;Staubgold&lt;/a&gt; - merci à/thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.forcedexposure.com/"&gt;Forced Exposure&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Les choses changent dans le camp du Kammerflimmer Kollektief, à commencer par le fait qu’on ne peut plus vraiment parler de collectif. Il s’agit maintenant d’un groupe, un trio formé de Thomas Weber, Heike Aumüller et Johannes Frisch, tous multi-instrumentistes. Je n’ai jamais été un grand fan de Kammerflimmer, mais j’aime bien &lt;i&gt;Absencen&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;, et &lt;i&gt;Hysteria&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; avait de solides moments. Par contre, &lt;i&gt;Im Erwachten Garten&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; (collaboration avec Dietmar Dath) m’a laissé froid. &lt;i&gt;Windling&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; revient au mélodisme des débuts, mais en évacuant l’élément post-rock/grandiose qui y était associé alors. Il reste donc une électro-pop ambiante, un peu tordue, un peu krautrock. Son signe distinctif est la voix d’Aumüller, qui chante doucement, presque distraitement, dans un anglais volontairement approximatif. Une musique fragile mais assumée, qui tisse une ambiance de méditation troublée. Une deuxième écoute s’impose pour tirer mes impressions au clair.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;[Ci-dessous: Vous trouverez deux extraits de l’album dans le lecteur de cette page.]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Things have changed in Kammerflimmer Kollektief’s camp, starting with the fact there’s no actual collective anymore. They have become a group, a trio consisting of Thomas Weber, Heike Aumüller and Johannes Frisch, all multi-instrumentalists. I never took a big shine to Kammerflimmer, although I do enjoy &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Absencen&lt;i&gt;, and &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Hysteria &lt;i&gt;had its moments. However, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Im Erwachten Garten&lt;i&gt; (their collaboration with Dietmar Dath) leaves me cold. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Windling&lt;i&gt; comes back to the melodicism of the early days, minus the post-rock/pompous element that came with it. What’s left is ambient electro-pop, a bit askew, a bit krautrock-sounding. Its most distinctive trait is Aumüller’s quiet singing - she sounds almost distracted and sings in a purposefully approximate English. Fragile though well-assumed music that weaves a mood of troubled meditation. I must give this one a second listen, if only to set my impressions straight.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;[Below: The media player on this page features two tracks from the album.]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kammerflimmer.com/wildling/"&gt;http://www.kammerflimmer.com/wildling/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ZELIENOPLE / Give It Up (&lt;a href="http://www.typerecords.com/"&gt;Type Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;J’avais bien aimé &lt;i&gt;His/Hers&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; (2007), mais ce nouveau Zelienople (paru à la fin de l’an dernier) est du bonbon! Oui! Moins glauque et torturé, presque positif (“All Planned”). Les chansons sont plus courtes, ce sont effectivement des chansons, mais le groupe demeure fidèle à lui-même, soit des pièces fondées sur une guitare ambiante, des résonances caverneuses, une voix qui sussure plus qu’elle chante, sur un ton désillusionné. &lt;i&gt;Give It Up&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; n’est pas un disque pour faire la fête, c’est clair, mais ce n’est pas un énorme downer non plus. Et ces huit chansons renferment beaucoup de beauté insoupçonnée.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I really liked &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;His/Hers&lt;i&gt; (2007), but this new Zelienople CD (released late last year) is pure ear candy! Less gloomy and tortured, almost positive-sounding (“All Planned”). Songs are shorter, and actual songs, but the band remains true to itself, i.e. tracks bases on ambient noise guitars and hollow resonances, a lead vocal that whispers more than it sings, in a disillusioned way. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Give It Up&lt;i&gt; is no record to party to, of course, but it’s not such a huge downer either. And those eight songs hold a lot of unsuspected beauty.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND / Plastic Crimewave Sound (&lt;a href="http://www.prophasemusic.com/"&gt;Prophase Music&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Enregistré en 2007, paru en 2008 sur CD chez Prophase Music, ce disque n’est pas le premier de Plastic Crimewave Sound (malgré son titre éponyme), mais c’est bel et bien mon premier contact avec ce groupe psychédélique de Chicago. Sur ce disque, Plastic Crimewave Sound se présente comme un quatuor de rock garage psychédélique très sale, un genre d’Acid Mothers Temple où les chuchotements spaciaux de Cotton Casino sont remplacés par le chant très monocorde de Plastic Crimewave (c’est le nom du chanteur-guitariste, il me fait penser à Dave Brock [Hawkwind] en moins expressif). “(I Am) Planet Crushing” a un côté Hawkwind intéressant, mais il y aussi beaucoup de bruit pour peu de choses sur ce disque. Et alors que leur disque précédent, &lt;i&gt;No Wonder Land&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;, a commencé à jouer pendant que j’écris ces lignes, il est clair que je vais le préférer à celui-ci...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Recorded in 2007, released on CD in 2008 by Prophase Music, this record is not Plastic Crimewave Sound’s first (despite what the eponymous title might lead you to believe), but it is my first contact with this Chicago-brewed psychedelic outfit. On this record, PCS feature as a very dirty-sounding psych garage rock quartet, kind of like Acid Mothers Temple minus Cotton Casino’s space whispers, here replaced by the flatlined singing of Plastic Crimewave (that’s the leader’s name - he reminds me of a less expressive Dave Brock [of Hawkwind]). “(I Am) Planet Crushing” has a nice Hawkwind zing to it, but there also much a-noise about little on this record. And now that their previous release &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;No Wonder Land&lt;i&gt; has started playing as I am typiing this, it appears clear that I’ll prefer that one over this one…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND / No Wonder Land (&lt;a href="http://www.prophasemusic.com/"&gt;Prophase Music&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;Bon, &lt;i&gt;No Wonder Land&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt; est de loin supérieur - à mes oreilles - au disque éponyme de Plastic Crimewave Sound. Celui-ci est d’abord paru sous forme de vinyle double chez Eclipse Records, avant d’être repris sur CD par Prophase Music en 2007. Il s’agit donc d’un long et solide album de rock psychédélique expérimental, moins “down-and-dirty” que l’éponyme, plus “space rock”, avec une forte touche de “new weird america”, autant dans le mélange musical que dans les invités qui participent: entre autres, Devendra Banhart et Tara Burke récitent des textes, alors que Josephine Foster et les filles de Spires That in the Sunset Rise jouent sur une pièce chacune. On pourrait presque qualifier ce disque de croisement entre Acid Mothers Temple (période &lt;i&gt;Electric Heavyland&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;) et Jackie-O Motherfucker. Bon, puissant, varié.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Indeed, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;No Wonder Land&lt;i&gt; is far superior – in my opinion – to Plastic Crimewave Sound’s eponymous CD. This one first came out as a double LP on Eclipse Records before being reissued on a single CD by Prophase Music in 2007. This is a long and strong album of experimental psychedelic rock, less down and dirty than the eponymous album, more in a space rock vein, with a touch of “new weird America” thrown in, as much in the music mix as in the guest list: among others, Devedra Banhart and Tara Burke are reciting texts, while Josephine Foster and the girls from Spires That in the Sunset Rise perform on one track each. You could also describe this record as a cross between Acid Mothers Temple (&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;color:green;"&gt;Electric Heavyland&lt;i&gt; era) and Kacie-O Motherfucker. Good, powerful, diverse. I dig.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. All rights reserved. / Tous droits réservés.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7206551952153989157-8704227769839653912?l=blog.monsieurdelire.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/feeds/8704227769839653912/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/2010-02-10-kammerflimmer-kollektief.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/8704227769839653912'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/8704227769839653912'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/2010-02-10-kammerflimmer-kollektief.html' title='2010-02-10: Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Zelienople, Plastic Crimewave Sound'/><author><name>Monsieur Délire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03753216952194868887</uri><email>md@monsieurdelire.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07660889199120015754'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oOloWJkABQ4/S3PoByFBzEI/AAAAAAAAARY/_xhnh6UeQDI/s72-c/wildling.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206551952153989157.post-8078464630655693656</id><published>2010-02-09T20:20:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-09T21:14:58.778-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mitch and Igor Krutogolov and Mitch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Journal d&apos;écoute / Listening diary'/><title type='text'>Délire actuel, 2010-02-09</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 130%;"&gt;DÉLIRE ACTUEL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Édition du 9 février 2010&lt;br /&gt;Show aired on 9 February 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;DESCRIPTION&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;DESCRIPTION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Rock: du complexe au brutal:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; Un voyage de deux heures à travers des nouveautés liées au rock, du rock progressif d'avant-garde à l'écriture serrée, jusqu'au rock psychédélique improvisé et au bruitisme.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;Rock, from Complexity to Brutality:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; A two-hour journey through new releases ranging from tightly-written avant-prog to loose, improvised psychedelic rock and even some noise music.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brennan.ch/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="www.univers-zero.com"&gt;UNIVERS ZERO&lt;/a&gt; / Warrior (12:10) - Clivages (&lt;a href="www.cuneiformrecords.com"&gt;Cuneiform&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="www.miriodor.com"&gt;MIRIODOR&lt;/a&gt; / Cheval fou (5:03) - Live 89 (&lt;a href="http://www.progquebec.com"&gt;ProgQuébec&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="www.blast4tet.nl"&gt;BLAST 4TET&lt;/a&gt; / Swerves (4:15) - Sift (&lt;a href="http://www.rerusa.com"&gt;ReR Megacorp&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;BROWN VS. BROWN / Sirens All Around Us (7:14) - Odds and Unevens (&lt;a href="www.cuneiformrecords.com"&gt;Cuneiform&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MITCH &amp;amp; IGOR KRUTOGOLOV &amp;amp; MITCH / Cockroach Races (3:37) - Love for Three Cockroaches (&lt;a href="http://www.aurismedia.com/records"&gt;Auris Media&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;TATSUYA YOSHIDA w/ ASSIF TSAHAR &amp;amp; IGOR KRUTOGOLOV / Improvisation I (4:35) - Live in the Head (&lt;a href="http://www.aurismedia.com/records"&gt;Auris Media&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;ETRON FOU LELOUBLAN / Gifle Hubert (4:45) - Face aux éléments déchaînés (G&lt;a href="www.musearecords.com"&gt;azul/Musea&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.musearecords.com"&gt;FRED FRITH&lt;/a&gt; / Affront national (3:26) + Dead Sea (4:06) - Impur II (Fred Records/&lt;a href="http://www.rerusa.com/"&gt;ReR Megacorp&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KOHOUTEK / Lossless (21:28) - Lossless Loss (&lt;a href="http://www.prophasemusic.com"&gt;Prophase Music&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;R. STEVIE MOORE / California Rhythm (3:42) - Phonography (&lt;a href="http://www.rerusa.com/"&gt;ReR Megacorp&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE EX / White Liberals (5:44) - 30 (&lt;a href="http://www.theex.nl"&gt;Ex Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;MICHEL F. CÔTÉ &amp;amp; A_DONTIGNY / Ritmi di Oggetti (4:34) - La Notte Fa (&lt;a href="http://www.etrecords.net"&gt;&amp;amp;records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;MICHEL F. CÔTÉ &amp;amp; ISAIAH CECCARELLI / Nous, les troglodytes (2:57) - Vulgarités (&lt;a href="http://www.actuellecd.com"&gt;Ambiances Magnétiques&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;APERIODIC / Air Below Mountains (5:50) - Air Below Mountains b/w Louder [7"] (&lt;a href="http://www.generaterecords.net"&gt;Generate Records&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Merci à/Thanks to:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;*&lt;a href="http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/01/www.forcedexposure.com"&gt;Forced Exposure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;**&lt;a href="http://www.dense.de/"&gt;Dense Promotion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;COMPLÉMENTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;SUPPLEMENTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MITCH &amp;amp; IGOR KRUTOGOLOV &amp;amp; MITCH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;La même chanson en concert.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;The same song performed live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pxflRwCmSM0&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pxflRwCmSM0&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. All rights reserved. / Tous droits réservés.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7206551952153989157-8078464630655693656?l=blog.monsieurdelire.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/feeds/8078464630655693656/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/delire-actuel-2010-02-09.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/8078464630655693656'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7206551952153989157/posts/default/8078464630655693656'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/02/delire-actuel-2010-02-09.html' title='Délire actuel, 2010-02-09'/><author><name>Monsieur Délire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03753216952194868887</uri><email>md@monsieurdelire.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07660889199120015754'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206551952153989157.post-6230338576080475901</id><published>2010-02-09T19:25:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-09T20:20:11.044-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Amnesiac Quartet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blktop Project'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Délire Musical'/><title type='text'>Délire musical, 2010-02-09</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 130%;"&gt;DÉLIRE MUSICAL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Édition du 9 février 2010&lt;br /&gt;Broadcast Date: 9 février 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;LISTE DE DIFFUSION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;PLAYLIST&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thème/Theme: &lt;a href="http://www.smaragdina.hu"&gt;TABULA SMARAGDINA&lt;/a&gt; / My Electric Cat - A szavakon túl (&lt;a href="www.musearecords.com"&gt;Musea Parallèle&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BLKTOP PROJECT / Keep on Pushin' (3:41) - Lane Change (Galaxia)&lt;br /&gt;*SCHIBBINZ / Livin' Free (1:23) - Livin' Free (&lt;a href="http://www.guerssen.com"&gt;Guerssen&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;*&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/umbertoecho"&gt;UMBERTO ECHO&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; DUB INC. / Métissage Dub (4:59) - Dub the World (&lt;a href="http://www.echobeach.de"&gt;Echo Beach&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/amnesiacquartet"&gt;AMNESIAC QUARTET&lt;/a&gt; / Sail to the Moon (7:09) - Tribute to Radiohead (&lt;a href="www.musearecords.com"&gt;Great Winds/Musea&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;CALEXICO / Paper Route (2:00) - Spoke (Quarterstick)&lt;br /&gt;THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION / Heaven and Hell (4:28) - Six (Temporary Residence)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/dsorchestra"&gt;THE DAEDALUS SPIRIT ORCHESTRA&lt;/a&gt; / Visper Aiyo (7:02) - Ampulla Magnifying (ind.)&lt;br /&gt;INDISCIPLINE / Mektub (5:05) - Vixit (Orange Record)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JERRY LEAKE / Cubist (5:52) - Cubist (&lt;a href="http://www.rhombuspublishing.com"&gt;Rhombus Publishing&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Buttons"&gt;&lt;span class="on down" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_CreateLink" title="Lien" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 8);ButtonMouseDown(this);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;merci à/thanks to:&lt;br /&gt;*&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.forcedexposure.com/"&gt;Forced Exposure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dense.de/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;COMPLÉMENTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;SUPPLEMENTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BLKTOP PROJECT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Vidéo officielle pour "Pedro's Fever", autre chanson de ce groupe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Official video for another song by Blktop Project, "Pedro's Fever".&lt;a href="http://fultonread.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fcse901M72E&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fcse901M72E&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;AMNESIAC QUARTET&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"A Wolf at the Door" en concert.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"A Wolf at the Door" performed live.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/O6eXEvFc6dQ&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/O6eXEvFc6dQ&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;©2009, Les Services rédactionnels Manche de pelle. 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