DISCIPLINE - THE SECOND ANNUAL PROCESS OF DISCIPLINE (2001)

limited edition of 250
Discipline is the moniker of french/libanese musician-art critic-blogger Joseph Ghosn.
More info on his myspace : /disciplinedrone
Influenced by TG, as you can see, Oval and glitch/click'n'cuts/ambiant music.
Try it here : ZIP/Sendspace (ripped by R)

THE GOOD MISSIONARIES (ALTERNATIVE TV) - FIRE FROM HEAVEN (1979)

Deptford Fun City DLP004
Recorded live on the Animal Instincts Tour 1979
Early punk incarnation of ALTERNATIVE TV, live :
Bass - Dennis Burns, Paul Reekie
Drums, Sax - Henry Badowski
Guitar, Chimes, Flute, Percussion, Melodica, Vocals - Dave George
Guitar, Organ, Percussion, Clarinet, Vocals - Mark Perry
Vocals - Gillian Hanna, Sooze
and the participation of Genesis P'Orridge
tracklist
1 Another Coke / The Body
2 The Force Is Blind
3 Thief Of Fire (Pop Group Cover)
4 The Radio Story / Strange Looks
5 Fire From Heaven
6 Release The Natives
7 Fellow Sufferer In Dub
8 Bugger The Cat
Go on, it's available here (RS/ZIP) thanks to R.

alice news : RICHARD FAUGUET exhibition in Paris

from june 7th to august 9th - Le Plateau
Sans être aucunement rétrospective, l’exposition de Richard Fauguet – la première réalisée dans une institution à Paris – permet, bien au-delà d’une vision jusqu’ici par trop fragmentaire que l’on a pu en avoir, de mesurer l’étendue et les enjeux de son œuvre dans laquelle se juxtaposent allègrement dessins, sculptures et installations en tout genre. (harry wanders)
more : PAS VU PAS PRIS
Frac Île-de-France
33, rue des Alouettes
75019 Paris

TONY WAKEFORD - SUMMER ENDS 7" (1994)

ADIAPHORA 002 - Ltd edition
Second release of the Adiaphora label, this was a limited 7" recorded by Tony Wakeford, master of the dark folk/neofolk.
Tracklisting:
A1 Summer Ends
A2 Media
B1 Somewhere In Europe
B2 A Ship Is Burning

>> summer ends (ZIP/sendspace)

THAT SUMMER - DROWSINESS OF ANCIENT GARDENS (1994)

ADIAPHORA 003
First release of That Summer (David Sanson's moniker) with Tony Wakeford (Death in June/Sol Invictus former member) as special guest. The "Interludes" are composed by Rainier Lericolais.
Ephemere french label, Adiaphora was leaded by David Sanson, Bertrand Dermoncourt & Christophe Taupin, all of them representants of the Châteauroux's Underground.
That Summer is David Sanson (piano and vocals) with assistance from Laurent Delage (cello) and Tony Wakeford (vocals, acoustic guitar and bass).
fluxeuropa.com :
John Marshall writes: This is relaxing and very dreamy with a hint of creepiness provided by the cello. (...) Tony Wakeford sounds unbelievably dreamy on 'Dies Irae'! The accented-English and French vocals of David Sanson work pretty well and come as a bit of a surprise after so much instrumental music.

>> that summer (ZIP/sendspace)

alice news : NOIMAGE - JUNE 21th LIVE NEAR PARIS

Simon Fisher Turner, Rainier Lericolais, Elysian Quartet
3:30 PM at Domaine Départementale de Chamarande
- Accès depuis Paris :
RER C : direction "Saint-Martin d'Etampes", station Chamarande à 200 mètres de l'entrée du Domaine. Fréquence : toutes les 30 minutes.
www.myspace.com/elysianquartet or elysianquartet.com
www.myspace.com/simonfisherturner
www.myspace.com/lericolaisrainier

alice news : TAAK TAK'S FINAL ASSAULT - JUNE 19th AT LIEU UNIQUE

TAak_Tak PARTY#9
"Pour cette dernière soirée de résidence au bar du lieu unique, Taak_tak persiste dans sa vision panoramique de la musique nocturne divertissante et offre un nouveau mix à quatre mains pour plusieurs centaines de pieds. Même si vous aurez beaucoup plus que ça, attendez-vous au moins à des hymnes mancuniens, d’obscures perles post-punk, quelques pièces d’artillerie New-York noise, de la jacking house de derrière Chicago, des discoïderies mutantes habillées de guimauve à paillettes, de l’électro pneus larges et de la techno d’assaut. Une préparation à base de vrais morceaux de Goblin, Mike Denhert, Chip E, Anthony Shakir, Mark Du Mosch, Discodeine, Black Dice, Reggie Dokes et un peu plus."
www.virb.com/taak_tak

Vendredi 19 juin 2009 à partir de 22h30 et jusqu'à 2.30 au bar du Lieu Unique
Quai Ferdinand Favre, NANTES
Entrée Libre

alice news : THAT SUMMER LIVE AT HEIDIGALERIE JUNE 17th

François-Xavier Courrèges,
As A Strawberry - A Bittersweet Symphony
French band THAT SUMMER (aka David Sanson) will play live at Heidigalerie, Nantes for the closure of the FX Courrèges's exhibition. Free entrance.
>> That Summer's myspace and on Talitres
>> Heidigalerie's website

VA - FELIX QUI POTUIT RERUM COGNOSCERE CAUSAS (1986)

Belial Tapes 001 cassette - ltd edition of 150
Compilation of live tracks by some of the best french bands of the 80's underground : dazibao, opera multi steel, No Unauthorized... Belial Tapes is the cassette label created by R. when he was young (so young ! about 16).
tracklisting
01- Dazibao - Azores (french cold wave band)
02- Dazibao - Fire Of Love (french cold wave band)
03- Pour L'Exemple - Nostalgie (french cold wave band)
04- Opéra Multi Steel - Massabielle (live) (Cult french cold wave band)
05- Opéra Multi Steel - Lunettes solaires (live)
06- Resistance - Rescue (french cold wave band aka Eric Ferrand)
07- Modern Art - Night Ceremony (cold wave band formed by Gary Ramon)
08- Réseau d'Ombres - Burnt Offering (french cold wave band)
09- Celestial Orgy - Fremsley (french cold wave band, I think)
10- Celestial Orgy - Fools Masquerade
11- No Unauthorized - Bang Bang (great track ! french post-punk band)
12- Urbain Autopsy - Boris K is Back (french experimental band, very active in the 80's cassette sharing world, associated to SJ Org)
13- Freitod - Babe (french cold wave band)
14- Sismoid - Titres 2 (french experimental band)
15- El Enterrador Enterrado - No Por Mucho Eyacular Amanece Mas Temprano (spanish experimental band)
it's here, lucky guys and girls ! "Heureux celui qui a pu pénétrer le fond des choses !" (Lucrèce)/ "Fortunate he, who was able to learn the causes of things” (Lucretius)
more and more No Unauthorized here (podomatic) or here (myspace)

CLAIR OBSCUR - LA CASSETTE NOIRE (1982)

cassette autoproduction ltd edition of 200
Not really what I prefer, but some things interestings. Like French Virgin Prunes in the theatrical intention, but not with the same quality.
"Clair Obscur est fondé en 1981 par Thierry Damerval (basse), Christophe Demarthe (chant) et Nicolas Demarthe (guitare) à Creil dans l’Oise. Plus qu'une recherche mélodique, leur travail s'oriente vers l'atmosphère que peut créer la musique.
La démarche musicale du groupe est immédiatement accueillie avec enthousiasme par le public et par les radios libres nouvellement nées qui sont friandes d'expériences neuves. C'est ainsi qu'en 1982, le magazine Actuel les invite au Cirque d'Hiver de Paris. Deux performers sont intégrés au groupe : Actuel parle de "jeunes barbares cultivés" et de “rock Artaud“. La même année sort la première cassette du groupe."
tracklist :
1 Séquence / The Last Encounter
2 Blume
3 K.G.
4 Pessimiste Combatif
5 Revol Dub
6 Vivant
7 Hibernation
8 Kriegs Opera
>>>>>>>>>> la cassette noire (ZIP/RS)

PIERRE PERRET - GAIA LA TERRE (1988)

ripped at 320
Pierre Perret is an obscure french artist, not to confuse with homonymous mainstream french singer.
Perhaps the real french equivalent of Nurse With Wound : poetic Sound Collage, Concrete Music, Field recording for create an ode to planet earth (very more interesting that the Yann Artus Bertrand™/Luc Besson ©'s last conventional/esthetical/heavy pedagogic shit)
Active in the late 80s, he released a split cassette with sound sculptor Jeff Greinke and some material from "Gaia la terre" in various compilations : "Orgasmus Compilation II" (Schutt Und Asche, 1987) ; "F-Rants", a french artist compilation co-released by NYC based Audiofile Tapes, and S.J. Organisation, (French experimental tape label from the eighties managed by the members of La Sonorité Jaune) alongside Lt Caramel, La STPO, Le syndicat, Pacific 213, Galeshka Moravioff, Etant donnés, Vox Populi... ; "La Chair Entre Les Lignes" (Les Ballets Mécaniques, 1988) w/ Etant donnés, Smegma, Emile Beaulieu, SBOTHI ; "Neue Muster Volume 3+4" (Tonspur Tapes, 1988) ; "Woundz Never Heal!" (Harsh Reality Music, 1988) ; La Folie volume 2 (RR productions, 1988) or "Tellus #20 Media Myth" (available on ubuweb : http://www.ubu.com/sound/tellus_20.html)
TRY IT AND ENJOY : Pierre Perret Gaia (RS/ZIP) thanks to Rain.

MARCO BERTONI - 18/8/81

ELICA 10" ltd edition of 400
That is what I found about Marco Bertoni : He's the Italian band Confusional Quartet's keyboards player, Bertoni recorded these pieces for piano to be released by Les Disques du Crépuscule, but never be.
"The piano tunes here have a playfulness and a nonchalance of Satiesque inspiration, exposing an intimate world which reveals through simplicity and primitive studio inventiveness, with a production enphasising the idea of sketches and of artisan work. In these eight short pieces, the piano tracks are superimposed, speeded up or down, deconstructed and generally played with, although most of the time left in their original unmodified beauty, with street cats, breathings, Italian radio-dramas, Russian radio voices, bird recordings and Gianni Cuoghi's drum elements discreetly adding to them through Gianni Gitti's studio touch." (the label)
Enjoy this jaunty and experimental stuff here : marco bertoni (ZIP/RS) ripped by Rain)

APNÉ - CLIMATS OUVERTS (NANTES 06/05 TO 08/16)

exhibition at Lieu Unique, Nantes
During this Summer occurs in Nantes & Saint-Nazaire, Britanny, France, the Biennale de l'Estuaire.
APNE is a group of artists and students of the Nantes's Fine Arts School, leaded by Michel Aubry and David Legrand, who works on the creation of a new Fine Arts School : new in the pedagogic methods and the building. Their reflexion is centred on the charactere of Eric Von Stroheim's ghost (played by David Legrand) who appears in our time and discusses about the art of today.
Last year, APNE created a "Musique Concrete" Light Opera (music composed by Rainier Lericolais). This year, they convite the audience to assist at the shooting of the last scenes of the movie "La Visite des Écoles d'art" during June. In July, the movie will be shown in his intregality (5 hours), all days at the Art Center Lieu Unique.
More info about the Biennale here (in english)
More about this year APNE Project (pdf) or here (website)
More about APNE