sun araw: ancient romans

The new Sun Araw record, Ancient Romans will be released this summer as a 2xLP. You can listen to the first extract on his website. Amazing as usual. Besides, Sun Araw (Cameron Stallone) has collaborated with Eternal Tapestry on a 45-minutes jam out in july on Thrill Jockey records.Here is an extract:
Sun Araw/Eternal Tapestry III

a selection of movies

Il Deserto Rosso by Michelangelo Antonioni released in 1964. The original score (electronic experimentations) has been composed by Giovanni Fusco who was the man behind most of Antonioni's films

Zabriskie Point by Michelangelo Antonioni released in 1970. The soundtrack is composed of songs by Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, John Fahey...

Road to Salina by Georges Lautner in 1970. Music by Clinic (a 70's pop band), Christophe (the french singer) and Bernard Gerard.

le révélateur: bleu nuit (video by sabrina ratté)

Excellent music by Le Révélateur who is one the greatest drone maker now. The beautiful video is the work of Sabrina Ratté. This video artist creates amazing ethereal and retro videos.

Few days ago, I had the pleasure to organise a show here in Rouen (France) with some really great artists. The first act was Prairie Litière. Besides having a weird name, the french noise duo had completely blown the audience's mind with a noise and uncompromising set, reminding me Yellow Swans and such noise makers, which was really good. The second act was Chicaloyoh. Alice Dourlen gave us a beautiful and dark moment of psychedelia. Mesmerizing! And finally High Wolf who delivered an amazing trance-like, multi layered journey to imaginary landscapes, to make a long story short, it was brilliant. Thanks to everybody for that great evening/night, specially Alice, Max, Bertrand, Baptiste and Paul. I hope to have some photos soon.

night people

Night People is one of the best label right now (in my opinion). NP is home of psychedelic, noise, lo-fi, dubby, pop, garage and really fresh music today. Having released tapes and records by a bunch of talented artists such as Wet Hair, Terror Bird, Peaking Lights, Tyvek, Naked on the Vague, Three Legged Race, Robedoor, Daughters of the Sun, Circuit Des Yeux, Sleep Over, Rene Hell, Smycken, etc... All of these beautifully packaged (all the sleeves are screenprinted and designed) by the boss Shawn Reed (Wet Hair, Raccoo-oo-oon...). You can download here a free Night People comp and watch a new song by Wet Hair via Impose magazine.

high wolf / annapurna illusion

High Wolf and his alter ego Annapurna Illusion have just released a split on Group Tightener. High Wolf is very prolific, experimenting a lot under various names, you can't miss him and it is getting better and better. He will play this spring in Europe, so if you can, catch him live.

grouper: alien observer

Extract from Grouper (Liz Harris) new album A/A out on her label Yellow Electric.

daniel swan

Daniel Swan is a young british graphic designer, working throught video, drawings, internet... He is currently part of an exhibition The New Psychedelia at MU gallery in Eindhoven which shows works by a new generation of artists redifining the aesthetics of psychedelia. Daniel Swan shows also his artworks (tapes, dvds, fanzines) via his website.

news from not not fun

Wet Hair Radiant Lines


Apart from appearing on the front cover of a music magazine, Not Not Fun have released the latest 7" by Dylan Ettinger, Lion Of Judah and an artbook/7" by Wet Hair. Both of them look great. Dylan Ettinger follows his way into melancholic dubby synth-pop and Wet Hair gives us two hypnotising drums/synth tracks like they use to. NNF still is one my favourite records label now.

pwrshare.info

Hanna Terese Nilsson and Rasmus Emanuel Svensson have launched a new website pwrshare.info which is the digital version of pwr paper. I talked about it a month ago. In their own words: "PWRSHARE.INFO is a data haven, content farm and file-sharing site." It works like a virtual gallery showing radical artists from Goodiepal, Aaron Graham or Brenna Murphy, most of them exploring the possibilities of technology to create through various means (internet, sculpture, music...).

high wolf: a guide to healing

The french one man band High Wolf returns with this 7" of trance-like and hypnotic music fueled by indian influences on Bathetic records. I can guarantee you it will turn your brain upside down. Listen to an extract here and enjoy:
High Wolf Free your energy field

gang gang dance: mind killa

Like everybody else I post this video but I just truly like their sounds and visuals since years. This video was directed by Shoji Goto (Boredoms), who has also realised a video for OOIOO in 2OO7. Mind killa is an extract from Gang Gang Dance next album.