NUKE PLANT AERIALS

Empire analogique

2011-10-16T17:51:00.000+03:00

("Starpower", reprise de Sonic Youth, à 33:30)

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Hazlewood Special

2011-09-21T16:17:00.001+03:00

Et en bonus, une petite perle avec cette reprise de l'Eté Indien de Joe Dassin !!!

Americana Pt.6

2011-09-15T19:43:00.001+03:00

Whitey Gallagher - Searchin' (1957)

Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down (2002)

Buffalo Springfield - Expecting to Fly (1967)

The Secret Sisters (with Jack White) - Big River (2011)

Grand Ole Opry

2011-07-28T12:38:00.000+03:00

Folies

2011-07-25T17:39:00.000+03:00

Everybody have a nice holiday

2011-07-05T17:32:00.000+03:00

PLAYBOY - ROD EVANS SINGING - HUGHES HEFNER HOSTING - JON LORD INTRODUCING

2011-06-17T03:34:00.000+03:00

Deep Purple performs their hit "Hush" at the Playboy Mansion in October 1968, in this segment from Playboy After Dark. The clip begins with Hugh Hefner talking to the band on stage before their performance.

Ajoutée par AudioFidelity le 27 juil. 2007

OMG this is pure filthy dubstep japanese craziness

2011-05-11T19:38:00.000+03:00

This is thirteen minutes of extreme bass music. Couldn't find a picture that achieves such a level of party madness. Give a shout to the Japs of Biohannya if you dig it !

Dodge & Fuski Minimix Competition Biohannya Mix by biohannya

Shhhhh... Quiet.

2011-05-09T09:08:00.000+03:00

Track List:

Chubby Wolf – ‘If You Love Me…’ from The Darker Sex 7” single

Kogumaza – ‘Bells’ from S/T LP

Alex Cobb – ‘Anamnesis’ from Alex Cobb/Aquarelle Split LP

Tim Catlin & Machinefabriek – ‘Patina II (excerpt)’ from Patina

Kyle Bobby Dunn – ‘Diamond Cove and Its Children Are Watching’ from Bring Me The Head Of… LP

Aquarelle – ‘A Shifting Visage (excerpt)’ from Alex Cobb/Aquarelle Split LP

Benjamin Fleury Steiner – ‘The Dreamlife of Birds’ from The Places That Find You LP

Kogumaza – ‘Tensor Tympani (excerpt)’ from S/T LP

Russian pleasures

2011-04-08T04:58:00.000+03:00

Mitki - На поле танки

Mitki - Молодой моряк

Mitki - Весна на Заречной ул

Spiritual harmonies

2011-03-29T21:48:00.018+03:00

Estil C. Ball & Blair Reedy - When I Get Home

Estil C. Ball, Lacey Richardson & Blair Reedy - Tribulations

Estil C. Ball, Orna Ball, Lacey Richardson & Blair Reedy - The Cabin On The Hill

Mountain Ramblers - Baptizing Down By The Creek

The Phipps Family - I Can't Feel At Home Anymore

Carl Story - I Found A Hiding Place

Some favorites pt.III

2011-03-20T18:13:00.001+02:00

I-Robots - Frau (Boysnoize remix)

L.V. feat. Dandelion - CCTV

Dan Deacon - Wham City

Some favorites pt.II

2011-03-20T18:00:00.003+02:00

Del Shannon - Runaway

Fischerspooner - Turn On

Bernard Wright - Haboglabotribin'

Some favorites pt.I

2011-03-20T17:41:00.003+02:00

Deep Purple - Hush

Th' Faith Healers - The People

Jordi Savall - 7 Follias (1700)

Pete Townshend is not fucking gay

2011-03-16T17:36:00.000+02:00

Pete Townshend - And I Moved

The ambient-blues-italian cartoon post

2011-03-12T16:55:00.001+02:00

photo Andrea Neri

UFO Robot - Shooting Star

Mississippi John Hurt - Since I've Laid My Burden Down

Gareth Hardwick - Sunday Afternoon Pt.II

Pure Black Awareness

2011-03-05T19:51:00.000+02:00

Il y a quelques années, Thurston Moore, de Sonic Youth, a publié la liste de ses albums de free jazz préférés. Cela n'a rien d'anecdotique car le guitariste, en plus d'être un collectionneur fou de vinyles, est un fin connaisseur de ce mouvement très méconnu et largement déconsidéré.

La musique sur cette sélection est à mille lieux des clichés sur le free jazz : pas (trop) bruyante et pleine de swing. Bien-sûr, souvent, c'est de l'improvisation pure, c'est complètement destructuré et atonal. Mais vous entendrez ici quelques bons exemples de ce qui peut se passer quand quelques gars décident de s'asseoir sur les conventions, tenter des expériences et chercher loin, très loin, les limites de la musique. Ici pas de branlette intellectuelle, c'est du premier degré, ça fait du bien là où ça fait mal.

Il y a aussi une dimension politique qui est intéressante : beaucoup de ces artistes, militants de la cause afro-américaine, ont voulu que leur musique sonne comme un cri de colère après, disons, l'assassinat de Martin Luther King. Mais devant le peu de succès public rencontré par leurs oeuvres, et face au mépris quasi-total et scandaleux de l'industrie du disque à leur égard, certains sont venus s'installer à Paris ou ont enregistré pour divers labels européens.

Ces disques étaient à l'avant-garde il y a quarante ans, ils y ont encore leur place aujourd'hui.

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TOP TEN FROM THE FREE JAZZ UNDERGROUND
by Thurston Moore

No matter how you listen to it JAZZ is ostensibly about FREEDOM.

FREEDOM and the MYSTERY surrounding it.

And, like MUSIC, it is an ABSTRACT.

Its SHAPES, FORMS (SOUNDS!) are DISTINCT and PERSONAL and SENSITIVE to each player's DESIRE.

And the DESIRE is INFINITE.

FREEDOM is not just another word for nothing left to lose.

We know this from MESSAGES beamed from the space-lantern of his cosmic highness SUN RA!
The MESSAGE was clear:

"NOTHING IS."

To freely improvise a solo within a structural context may have begun with a young Louis Armstrong in the early 20's. As a boy he grew up in New Orleans hearing and seeing musicians both black and white cultivating a celebratory and spiritual vibe.
They were flowers in the dustbin.
Slaveships stole the horns and drums. The captured African would not be allowed to communicate as they had.
Upon THE FREEDOM ACT the freed slave sought and fought for the EXPRESSION oppressed.
And THE FREEDOM PRINCIPLE developed.
Jelly Roll Morton, like Louis Armstrong began to record compositions of PURE BLACK AWARENESS. Both these men had been witness, early in the century, to BUDDY BOLDEN - a man who supposedly blew the cornet so masterfully (and so loud!) that his legend was rampant. He supposedly recorded upon a cylinder (pre-vinyl format) and it has yet to be found!!
Ideas of improvisation, live and on recordings, became increasingly more sophisticated and political throughout the 40's, 50's and 60's. From Lester Youngs' twisting reedy tones to Charlie Parkers spurious key changes and (along with Miles Davis, Max Roach, et al) hyper-fast note-fly.
John Coltrane was the man. With the introduction of the long-playing record, people like Trane could experiment and extend their playing for posterity.
The vinyl communicated around the world. Trane's SOUND was BEAUTIFUL and COMPLEX and inspired all who received it. Trane himself was duly inspired by some of the most far-out musicians of the then burgeoning jazz avant-garde. Chief amongst them was Sun Ra & his Arkestra.
Factions of experimentation abounded throughout the 50's and 60's. Trane, Ra, Ornette Coleman and his white plastic alto playing notes and tones at once beautiful and harsh. Thelonius Monk, Lennie Tristano, Charles Mingus and Eric Dolphy composing and playing music inspired by whole worlds of experience (blues, eastern and western classical, religion, etc.)
Music like no one had yet imagined would emanate from the wild hearts of those such as Albert Ayler and Cecil Taylor.
These are all names of artists commonly associated with the avant-garde jazz underground of the 20th century. They all recorded fairly prolifically throughout their lifetimes (and some, like Cecil Taylor, continue). But there were so many more musicians performing and recording so-called "new" music at the time. It happened mostly in the late 60's/early 70's with the concept of artist-run collectives coming into fruition.
To play jazz totally FREE and ORGANIC was a gesture whose time had come in the 60's. It was SOCIAL and POLITICAL for reasons involving relationship, race, fury, rage, peace, war, love and FREEDOM.
We search for artifacts from this underground constantly. They were arcane and obscure at the time and are even more so today. No record labels are reissuing this stuff (some are e.g.: Evidence Records reissuing all of Sun Ra's independent Saturn label releases).
Here's a list of ten (out of hundreds of) LP's recorded in total grassroots fashion from the FREE-JAZZ underground. These are fairly impossible to locate and if you want to know what FREE-JAZZ may sound like you can get CD's of certain crucial classics where this music was allowed to exist: John Coltrane-Interstellar Space (Impulse/MCA), Ornette Coleman-Beauty Is A Rare Thing (Atlantic/Rhino), The Art Ensemble - 1967/68 (Nessa, PO Box 394, Whitehall, MI 49461), Sun Ra-various titles (Evidence)

TOP TEN FREE JAZZ UNDERGROUND

Dave Burrell - Echo

In the fall of 1969 Free Jazz was reaching a kind of nadir/nexus. Within the industry it was controversial. Classic traditionalists (beboppers included) were outraged by men in dashikis and sandals jumping on stage and just BLOWING their guts out creating screaming torrents of action. Most musicians involved with this crying anarchy could get no bookings beyond the New York loft set. The French lovers of the avant-garde embraced this African-American scene wholly. This recording is one of many in a series of LP's with consistent design. BYG released classic Free Jazz documents by Archie Shepp (at his wildest), Clifford Thornton, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Grachan Moncur III, Sunny Murray, Alan Silva, Arthur Jones, Dewey Redman and many others. A lot of these cats are present on this recording where from the first groove it sounds like an acoustic tidal wave exploding into shards of dynamite. If you can locate Alan Silva's "Lunar Surface" LP (BYG 529.312/Actuel Vol. 12) you'll find a world even that much more OUT.

Milford Graves & Don Pullen - Nommo

Milford may be one of the most important players in the Free Jazz underground. He enforces the sense of community as a primary exponent of his freely improvised music. His drumkit is home-made and he rarely performs outside of his neighborhood. When he does perform he plays his kit like no other. Wild, slapping, bashing, tribal freak-outs interplexed with silence, serenity and enlightened meditation. This LP was manufactured by the artists in 1967 and is recorded live at Yale University. The interplay between Milford and Don (piano) is remarkable and very free. There's a second volume which also is as rare as hen's teeth.

Arthur Doyle - Alabama Feeling

Arthur is a strange cat. Not too many people know where he's from (Alabama is a good guess). He resided in New York City in the 70's and showed up in loftspaces spitting out incredible post-Aylerisms. Mystic music which took on the air of chasing ghosts and spirits through halls of mirrors (!). He hooked up with noise/action guitarist Rudolph Grey who was making the current No-Wave scene and with Beaver Harris (drums) they played gigs in front of unsuspecting art creeps apparently not "hip" enough to dig, let alone document, the history blasting their brains. Arthur did release this lo-fi masterpiece and it's a spiraling cry of freedom and fury. AKBA Records released a number of classic NYC loft-jazz sessions, most notably those of label boss Charles Tyler, a screaming tenor player who also blew with Rudolph in the late 70's/early 80's. Arthur continues to play/teach etc. in Binghamton, N.Y. and recently released in 1993 "More Alabama Feeling" on yours truly's Ecstatic Peace label (available from Forced Exposure/POB 9102/Waltham, MA 02254)

Sunny Murray - Sonny's Time Now

Sonny was the drummer considered to be the first to realize and recognize and perform, on drums, pure FREE jazz. He played behind and along with Ayler early on and Cecil Taylor. He constructed groups which always flew and raged with spiritual abandon. He took time as an abstract and turned it into free motion. This recording is super-lo-fi and is awesome. On it play Ayler(tenor) and Don Cherry (trumpet) as well as Leroi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka) reading a killer poem called "Black Art". This music is very Ayler but more fractured and odd. Like a lot of these records there is only a front cover with the back of the jacket blank. Whether this was done for economic or artistic reasons is unclear. Jihad was a concern of Leroi Jones and anything released on this label is utterly obscure. The only other title I've seen is one just called "BLACK AND BEAUTIFUL" from the mid-60's which is Leroi and friends sitting on the stoops of Harlem chanting, beating drums and celebrating Leroi's "poems" ("The white man/at best/is..corny!") There was an ad for Jihad in an old issue of Jazz & Pop magazine which announced a Don Ayler (Albert's amazing trumpet-playing bro) LP but I've yet to meet anyone who's actually seen this. "Sonny's Time Now" was reissued a few years ago in Japan (DIW-25002) on CD and LP (with an enclosed 7" of two extra scratchy tracks!) but even that is near impossible to locate. Recorded in 1965.

The Ric Colbeck Quartet - The Sun Is Coming Up

Issued in the UK only in 1970. Ric was an interesting white cat who came to the U.S. to blow some free e-motion with NYC loft dwellers. He's most well known for his amazing playing on the great Noah Howard's first ESP-Disk release (ESP 1031). The whole 1000 series of ESP is critical & crucial to anybody wanting to explore this era of Free Jazz featuring recordings by Ayler, Ornette, Sonny Simmons, Sun Ra, Henry Grimes, Steve Lacy, Sunny Murray, Marzette Watts, Patty Waters, et al. I'm not including any of these in this list as they're all available on CD now (from Forced Exposure, address above). The picture of Ric on the Noah Howard LP shows a man with race-car shades and a "cool" haircut playing his horn while a ciggie burns nonchalantly from his relaxed grip. A very hip dude. And very FREE. His only solo recording is this Fontana LP which he recorded while cruising through Europe. He connected with South African drummer Selwyn Lissack (whatever happened to...) and the UK's famous avant-altoist Mike Osborne and bassist J.F. 'Jenny' Clark (student of 20th century compositionists Lucian Berio and Karlheinz Stockhausen) to create this exceptional and complex masterpiece.

John Tchicai and Cadentia Nova Danica -Afrodisiaca

Tchicai is a 6'6" Danish/Congolese tenor sax player who, in the early 60's, started blowing minds all across the Netherlands with his radical "music for the future". Archie Shepp encouraged him to come to NYC and join like-minded souls of avant-guardia. Tchicai came over and kicked everybodys ass. Leroi Jones shouted his name and talent loudly as Tchicai hooked up with Shepp and Don Cherry for the New York Contemporary Five and later an even heavier ensemble with Milford Graves and Roswell Rudd called the New York Art Quartet. The NYAQ recorded one of the most crucial sessions for ESP-Disk (esp1004) which had Leroi reciting his infamous BLACK DADA NIHILISMUS (available on CD from Forced Exposure). AFRODISIACA was released in Germany (and in other re-release configurations...supposedly) and is Tchicai gathered with 25 other local-Euro musicians playing a hurricane of a piece by trumpet/composer Hugh Steinmetz. This music gets way way out and has the real ability to take you "there". The echo effect on some of this shit is quite ill in a very analog way. And the way the shit gets that dirty-needled distortion at the end of side one (all 25 cats GOING AT IT!) is beautiful, baby, BEAUTIFUL!!

Rashied Ali & Frank Lowe - Duo Exchange

Frank Lowe has been studying and playing a consistently developing tenor sax style for a few decades now. At present he's been swinging through a Lester Young trip which can be heard majestically on his Ecstatic Peace recording (E#19..from Forced Exp.) In the early 70's, however, he was a firebrande who snarled and blew hot lava skronk from loft to loft. He played with Alice Coltrane on some of her more out sessions. Rashied Ali was the free-yet-disciplined drummer whom Coltrane enlisted to play alongside Elvin Jones and Pharaoh Sanders (and Alice) in his last mind-bending, space-maniacal recordings (check out surely the Coltrane/Ali duet CD Interstellar Space). Elvin quit the group cuz Rashied was too hardcore. Those were the fuckin' days. And Rashied had his own club downtown NYC called Ali's Alley! Duo Exchange is Rashied and Frank completely going at it and just burning notes and chords where ever they can find 'em. Totally sick. Survival was Rashied's record label which had cool b&w matte sleeves and some crucial releases mostly with his quartet/quintet and a duo session with violinist LeRoy Jenkins.

The Peter Brötzmann Sextet / Quartet - Nipples

The influence of Free Jazz-era Coltrane, Ayler, Esp-disk, Shepp, etc. on hard drinking, knuckle-biting European white cats is formidable. These guys didn't care so much about plaing "jazz" as just totally ripping their guts out with high-energy, brain-plowing NOISE. Brotzmann (sax, German), Evan Parker (sax, UK), Derek Bailey (guitar, UK), and Han Bennink (drums, Dutch) are a few of the spearheaders of this Free-Euro scene and are caught on this insanely rare early document. The b&w cover has a fold-out accordion post card set of personal images of the musicians glued and paperclipped to its front. Brotzmann went on to help further the critical documentation of the Euro-Free-Jazz scene with FMP (Free Music Productions) Records which still exists to this day. There are over a 100 releases on this label of pure Euro-improv and they all offer remarkable moments. Derek Bailey went on to create his own categorically similar Incus Records in the UK which is also still extant. As is the Han Bennink associated I.C.P. (Instant Composers Pool) Records. The most mind-blasting of these recordings may be MACHINE GUN (FMP 24 CD available from NorthCountry Distr./Cadence Bldg./Redwood, NY 13679) where Brotzmann leads an octet through a smashing clanging wonderland of noise. Improvisation and classic western musics are seriously tended to by a large Euro community and it's all pretty fascinating. Check out the works of Alexander von Schlippenbach, Barry Guy & The London Jazz Composers Orchestra, Misha Mengleberg, Peter Kowald, Andre Jaume, Andrea Centazzo, Lol Coxhill and just about anybody who plays with them.

Marzette Watts - The Marzette Watts Ensemble

Marzette was a serious black art cat who resided in downtown NYC when Free Jazz as a NEW cultural revolution was in full gear. He painted and composed wonderful music where some of the coolest locals could flow their flavor. One of the heaviest ESP-disk recordings is Marzette's MARZETTE AND COMPANY (On CD from Forced Exposure) which has the incredible talents of saxist Byard Lancaster (who released an early indie b&w Free Jazz classic out of Philly called LIVE AT MCALLISTER COLLEGE - find it and send it to me..) and guitarist Sonny Sharrock (check his wild influence on Pharaoh Sanders' TAUHID Impulse CD and his own obscure noise guitar masterpiece BLACK WOMAN on Vortex) and cornetist Clifford Thornton (academic NEW MUSIC/Free Jazz "teacher" who released a few crucial sides such as COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK on Third World and THE PANTHER AND THE LASH on America) and the amazing free vocalist Patty Waters (who recorded two infamous hair-raising platters on ESP-Disc). This recording on Savoy was one of a series produced by Bill Dixon, an early associate of Archie Shepp's, who was an incredible composer in his own right. I've heard tapes of Dixon leading Free-Jazz orchestras into sonic symphonic heavens. Very hardcore.
This recording I list because of all its obvious loaded references but it's also quite happening and anything with Marzette, Dixon (especially INTENTS AND PURPOSES on RCA Victor), Byard (careful, there's some clinkers) and Clifford is extremely worthwhile.

Marion Brown - In Sommerhausen

Five way tie for last? Well, seeing as there's no "beginning" or "end" to this shit I have to list as many items as possible just to reiterate the fact that there was (indeed) a ton o' groovy artifactual evidence to support the reality of the existence of FREE MUSIC. Dig? There's used record stores all over the country (the world!) and they all have the potential to be hiding some of these curios amongst the bins and most peeps just ain't sure of their worth and sometimes you can find 'em really cheap. It's definitely a marketplace of the rarefied so when peeps are "hip" to it expect this shit to be way pricey.
Marion Brown was/is an alto player who made an incredible LP with Tony Oxley and Maarten Altena called "Porto Novo" that just twists and burns start to finish. Marion could really get on OUT as well as just play straight up. Shepp dug him and got him to do some great LP's on Impulse. He had a septet at one point that was especially remarkable featuring Beaver Harris (drums), Dave Burrell (piano), Grachan Moncur III (bone), and Alan Shorter (trumpet). Alan being Wayne Shorter's (Miles Davis sideman/classicist) brother. Where Wayne was fairly contemporary (though eclectic as a muh'fuck) Alan was strictly ill and has two obscuro LP's worth hunting down: "Orgasm" (Verve V6 8768) and "Tes Estat" (America AM 6118). "In Sommerhausen" is Marion in late 60's exploratory fashion and is quite freaky with the vocal whoops of Jeanne Lee. There's another LP from this period called "Gesprachsfetzen" (Calig CAL 30601) which really lays down the scorch.

Black Artists Group - In Paris, Aries 1973

The Black Artists Group was an unit not unlike that of The Art Ensemble of Chicago. Except they only recorded this one document and it only came out in France on a label named after the group. This is squeaky, spindly stuff and very OPEN and a good indication of what was happening in the early 70's with members Oliver Lake (later of the infamous World Saxophone Quartet) and Joseph Bowie (Art Ensemble's Lester Bowie's bro, later to start Defunkt).

Frank Wright - Uhuru Na Umoja

Tenor saxist Frank Wright may be (previous to Charles Gayle's current reign) the heir apparent to both Trane and Ayler. Unfortunately he had a heart attack a few years back while rockin' the bandstand. All his recordings are more than worthwhile especially his BYG outing "One For John" (529.336/Actuel Vol. 36), his two ESP sessions (on CD from Forced Exposure) and his Center-of-the-World series of trio recordings with Alan Silva (bass) and Muhammed Ali (drums - Rashied's brother, not the pugilist) on the French label Sun. This LP "Uhuru.." is nothing short of killer with the great Noah Howard (alto), Bobby Few (pianist of Steve Lacy fame) and Art Taylor (heavy old-school drummer in free mode) going OUT and AT IT in stunning reverie.

Kazutoki Umezu - Seikatsu Kojyo Iinkai

FREE JAZZ of course made a strong impression on the more existential-sensitive populace of Japan. Some real masters came out of the Japanese scene and were influential to some of the more renowned noise artists of today (Boredoms, Haino Keiji). One such Jap-cat is alt-saxist Dr. Umezu who has mixed it up with NYC loft-dwellers on more than one occasion. On this completely obscure, underground release he unleashed some pretty free shit with the likes of William Parker (bass), Ahmed Abdullah (trumpet), and Rashid Shinan (drums).

Cecil Taylor - Indent pt.II

I suppose we should wind things up with the king of FREE MUSIC then and now: Cecil Taylor. Cecil started experimenting with sound, new concepts of "swing", open rhythms and room dynamics very early on. He furthered his adventure with music-conservatory studies and applied a master's technique to his fleeting, furious, highly-sensitive pianistic ACTIONS. Today he's almost shaman-like in his mystic noise transploits. He hates record business weasels after years of scorn and neglect (club owners had been know to beat him up after gigs claiming he damaged their pianos) and records now for the aforementioned artist's label FMP. In the early 70's he had his own label called Unit Core and released two crucial LP's: the one listed above and one titled "Spring of Two Blue J's" (Unit Core 30551). This is when his group included two critical figures on the FREE scene. Alt-saxist Jimmy Lyons (now deceased) was a consistent improviser and a perfect player alongside Cecil as was veteran drummer Andrew Cyrille who recorded his own solo (and duos with the likes of Milford Graves and Peter Brotzmann) LP's on various small labels (BYG, FMP, Ictus).

So..that's it...and that's not it. If you're at all intrigued by this personal primer do yourself a favor and seek some of this shit out and free yr fucking mind and yr ass will surely scream and SHOUT.

later...............thurston

Who is Helen lagoe ? We lost her

2011-02-18T02:33:00.002+02:00

Helen Lagoe - Ocean In My Room

Back to the Future

2011-02-17T11:29:00.004+02:00

Mais comment font-ils pour ne pas rigoler ???

Nuke Plant Aerials welcomes Andrea Neri

2011-02-12T19:56:00.007+02:00

For your entertainment, this is Andrea's choice.

Astor Piazzolla - Tango Suite - Deciso

Astor Piazzolla - Tango Suite - Andante

Astor Piazzolla- Tango Suite - Allegro

PUB

2011-02-02T19:13:00.003+02:00

When you're ready to come back down / I'll be waiting here / All your friends will be around / I promise I'll wait forever

2011-02-01T12:43:00.004+02:00

This is the Peel Session recorded in 1997 by Olivia Tremor Control, best post-Beatles pop band ever. Period. They were from Athens, Georgia, USA. They split in 99. If you don't know them, I recommand you give a listen to their two absolutly gorgeous LPs, Dusk at Cubist Castle and Black Foliage.

Olivia tremor Control - I'm Not Feeling Human

Olivia Tremor Control - Suite One

Olivia Tremor Control - Suite Two

Bonnet de nuit / Quelle jolie voix

2011-01-31T09:16:00.004+02:00

Bo Tox - Blue Steel (feat. Anna Jean)

Morts pour la France

2011-01-27T14:51:00.002+02:00

Mogadishow & Mohini Gesweiller - Ordinary Shares

Chicros - What should I lie about ?

Extraits de la compilation Voyage 2 - Morts pour la France - French Underground Voodoo Music, sortie cette semaine sur Pan European Recording, meilleur label français des années 2000.

Shhhh...

2011-01-10T17:28:00.004+02:00

Greg Davis - Live At The Zeitgeist Gallery - Cambridge, MA - 11/18/04

Fréquences flottantes / Synthèse intuitive

2011-01-09T20:48:00.004+02:00

Great track by one the contemporary masters of musical analog synthesis, Eleh. Taken from his first LP, Floating Frequencies / Intuitive Synthesis vol.I, released on Important Records in 2006.

Eleh - In The Ear Of The Gods

Saturday's mini selection of easy sounds for driving in your Volvo station wagon

2011-01-08T14:26:00.005+02:00

Moondog - Bird's Lament

Saban Bajramovic - Pelno Me Sam

Reuben Bell - Superjock

Mozart himself would have loved it

2010-12-10T00:34:00.006+02:00

Ultra kitsch Veneziano-disco-indie-cutups eighties style medley of several famous opera tunes, by corean artist Kimera, whose daughter Mélodie was kidnapped in 87. Hear the orchestra, feel the sexy humms, listen to Bizet's lyrics of Carmen sung in french with a lovely "r rolling" accent, smile to the many bass slaps and electronic drum breaks, but most of all, forget your snobism and enjoy the beautiful voice of Kimera the Great !

Kimera - The Lost Opera

Adriano Celentano invented rap in 1973

2010-12-09T01:16:00.003+02:00

Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol

Exercice de relaxation

2010-12-01T18:29:00.003+02:00

Nôze - Encore

NUKE PLANT AERIAL #14

2010-12-01T16:27:00.004+02:00

Kassem Mosse - 578

Hypnosis

2010-11-17T12:21:00.002+02:00

I can't resist

2010-11-14T16:05:00.002+02:00

Amazing interpretations of three famous pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach. Recorded in 1968 by Wendy Carlos on a Moog 3P synthesizer and released on the LP "Switched on Bach". Wendy Carlos is also known for several movie soundtracks, including Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" and "Clockwork Orange".

Johann Sebastian Bach - Sinfonia to Cantata BWV 29

Johann Sebastian Bach - Air on a G String (from Orchestral Suite #3, BWV 1068)

Brandenburg Concerto, No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048, Allegro III

Old souvenirs

2010-11-13T03:19:00.003+02:00

Dub & Run - Over (Portishead bootleg)

The Brilliance of Cecil Taylor

2010-11-06T20:52:00.002+02:00

Histoire de mettre tout le monde d'accord

2010-10-20T00:11:00.003+03:00

Ornette Coleman - Voice Poetry

Last Winter Memories

2010-10-15T13:26:00.004+03:00

Noveller - Almost

Fini de faire les marioles

2010-10-13T12:31:00.004+03:00

Lillian Offitt - My Man Is A Lover

Sun Ra - Nuclear War

The Ornette Coleman Trio - European Echoes

2010-08-20T17:35:00.001+03:00

Taariq Moutiers has a vision

2010-07-08T19:37:00.003+03:00

Taariq Moutiers - Aircraft II / London Bye

(video directed by Rafaël Cereceda)

On our way to Jackson (entre autres)

2010-07-07T12:28:00.005+03:00

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Jackson

Greek singer called Danai comitting suicide in a Lambo circa 1947

2010-06-11T21:02:00.006+03:00

Danai - Misirlou

Suicide - Dream Baby Dream (long version)

NUKE PLANT AERIAL #12

2010-06-09T21:40:00.003+03:00

Julian Jeweil - Tournicoti

The heirs of La Monte Young

2010-05-19T21:04:00.008+03:00

Monos - Cloudless Day (excerpt)

(from the beautiful Monos - Above the Sky LP )

We wish you a pleasant flight

2010-05-19T14:43:00.003+03:00

Taariq Moutiers - Aircraft II

Pharoah Sanders - Ore-Se-Rere

They call it chillwave

2010-05-05T14:04:00.004+03:00

Toro Y Moï - Blessa

Toro Y Moï - You Hid

Americana Pt.4

2010-05-03T19:50:00.003+03:00

Oakley Hall - Blaze

Palace - West Palm Beach

Ry Cooder - Houston in Two Seconds

2010-05-02T12:15:00.003+03:00

Encre - Trouves-en un autre

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Wave

Dolly Parton - Your Ole Handy Man

Blackalicious - Smithzonian Institute Of Rhyme

Pan American - Both Ends Fixed

Springtime White Stripes

2010-03-31T20:18:00.003+03:00

The White Stripes - Stop Breaking Down

Southern Girls

2010-03-24T13:34:00.005+02:00

Neko Case

Alison Mosshart (The Kills, The Dead Weather)

Chavela Vargas

Neko Case - Lady Pilot

Neko Case - Pretty Girls

The Dead Weather - New Pony

Chavela Vargas - Un Mundo Raro

Three Stars

2010-03-15T20:51:00.006+02:00

DJ Shadow - Dark Days

Mantra - Send Up a Badman

Solo Sound - Get The Party Jumpin'

Stephan Micus - Passing Cloud

Sun, warmth, and meditation

2010-03-02T12:21:00.006+02:00

Joyce - Adam Adam
(Soleil, plage brésilienne, caipirinha)

Marcos Valle - Crickets Sing For Annamaria(Soleil, plage brésilienne, beijo de vampiro)

Calypso Mama - Court House Scandal
(Soleil, plage bahamienne, rhum)

Christophe - The Girl From Salina
(Soleil, désert, peyotl)

Kyle Bobby Dunn - Tributary (For Voices Lost)
(Soleil, allongé sur une mer de nuages, morphine)
(extrait du sublime album "Kyle Bobby Dunn - Fervency")

Morning tune

2010-02-28T11:47:00.001+02:00

Found on SoundCloud

2010-02-27T14:49:00.007+02:00

Soundcloud / moi.

Kraddy - Android Porn (Mochipet's Android Godzilla Porn Remix)

Portishead - Western Eyes (Omega Refix)

Reverse Engineering - Socially Acceptable

Marco Shuttle - The Horror (Redux edit)

The Left Banke, left aside

2010-02-27T12:36:00.007+02:00

Laissés de côté, oubliés, enterrés vivants... c'est le triste sort qui fut celui des membres de The Left Banke, combo de pop baroque formé en 1967 du côté de New York par le fils d'un pianiste classique. Bluffés par la pop des Beatles qui fait un malheur aux Etats-Unis à l'époque, Mike Lookofsky (plus tard Mike Brown, 2e à gauche en photo) et ses potes décident de faire un disque eux aussi, mais en se souvenant des leçons de jeunesse de piano classique. Quelques 45t et un album sortiront, recueillant un succès d'estime certain, mais dans un marché de la pop trusté alors par les Fab Four et les Beach Boys (voire les Zombies), il ne reste que peu de place pour les Left Banke. Le groupe néglige les tournées, vend peu, et se sépare en 69.

Une existence éclair, des beaux garçons romantiques et maudits, un nom tombé dans les oubliettes du rock, mais quelques petites chansons merveilleuses laissées en héritage... La légende est née.

The Left Banke - Pretty Ballerina

The Left Banke - Walk Away Renee

The Left Banke - What Do You Know

The Left Banke - I Haven't Got The Nerve

The Left Banke - She May Call You Up Tonight

An Anémone For Emily

2010-02-25T13:35:00.007+02:00

Stereolab + Nurse With Wound - Simple Mind Headphone
(Rock d'autoroute linéaire et hypnotique avec des apparitions fantomatiques)

Moon Duo - Motorcycle, I Love You
(Rock robotique, répétitif, et strié de fulgurances acides)

Aidan Baker - Liminoid (part III)
(Paysage lancinant et apaisant d'instruments organiques)

Quand Blondie était une hippie

2010-02-19T12:59:00.006+02:00

Debbie Harry version Summer of Love

Debbie Harry fait sa toilette

Bien avant de devenir une icône de la scène punk de New York, Debbie Harry est passée par une période un peu moins avouable. A la fin des années 60, elle est en effet choriste dans une mauvaise formation folk rock, The Wind In The Willows. Plus Brunie que Blondie à l'époque, elle n'assure le lead vocal que sur un seul morceau de l'unique album du groupe. Voici cette chanson; plutôt surprenant d'entendre sa voix sur des arrangements façon flower power (des flutes quand-même !)...
On vous laisse apprécier.

The Wind In The Willows - Djini Judy

Blondie, 1978, la vraie classe

Americana Pt.3

2010-02-18T15:35:00.004+02:00

Lift To Experience - Falling From Cloud 9

Yo La Tengo - The Fireside

Americana Pt.2

2010-02-17T20:10:00.005+02:00

Gene Parsons - Sonic Bummer

The International Submarine Band - Folsom Prison Blues/That's All Right

Euphoria - Lady Bedford

Euphoria - Did You Get The Letter

Americana

2010-02-17T15:24:00.004+02:00

The Sadies - Translucent Sparrow

The Sadies - 1000 Cities Falling (Part 1)

Doux bourdonnements

2010-02-14T20:17:00.004+02:00

Oneohtrix Point Never - Woe Is The Transgression

Doooooom

2010-02-12T13:33:00.004+02:00

Ocean Of Ghosts - The Sound Of One Man Screaming

Convalescence

2010-02-07T16:43:00.007+02:00

Massive Attack - Atlas Air (from last LP Heligoland)

Elbow - Teardrop (Massive Attack cover)

Bataille Navale

2010-01-25T20:14:00.008+02:00

The Synthi Group is back for the second installment of their ongoing Electronic Music Studio (EMS) instrument centered compilations. With the popularity of Vol. I, downloaded over 41,000 times, it was made clear that an interest exists for the unique sound of EMS machinery. Vol. II continues the DIY ethic of the first, encapsulating a diverse array of sounds from ultrasonic frequencies and spring reverb howls to rubbery logic sequences and colliding inverted ramp oscillators.

Encompassing elements from vintage analog, ambient, glitch and experimental, both beginners and aficionados of electronic music alike will find interest in the varying styles presented here. Available through Clinical Archives, the Synthi Group: Vol. II must not be missed. Bleep.

1.
Artist: THM
Title: Flirtation In Paradise (The Apple And The Snake)
2.
Artist: Trinité
Title: Le Feu de Saint-Elme
3.
Artist: Frequency in cycles per second
Title: Proto-Raum
4.
Artist: Jacti
Title: Schizoland 9
5.
Artist: alka
Title: diode malfunktion
6.
Artist: Sam Samshuijzen aka SamZen
Title: One of these Imps
7.
Artist: Digitana
Title: Vayu Somnium
8.
Artist: Green Line
Title: Deodar Road
9.
Artist: Doombient
Title: Slower
10.
Artists: La Guerre Des Boutons (Trap & Zoid, Djp, Boeuf Stroganoff)
Title: 6eme sens giratoire
11.
Artist: Head Boggle
Title: Ampulla Synthi Mumbo
12.
Artist: Johan Schurer
Title: SpringTime
13.
Artist: Jonathan Fitoussi
Title: Music For Synthi
14.
Artist: Maelem
Title: Metal Aliens Lap Dance
15.
Artist: Mono-Poly
Title: Blip00
16.
Artist: George Kayavis
Title: Crackle
17.
Artist: Impulsantwort
Title: unsound structures
18.
Artists: Nicholas D. Kent and John Blackford
Title: subtonic

NUKE PLANT AERIAL #11

2010-01-21T12:14:00.005+02:00

Rudolf - Hope Without Leg

From Archipel website :

"(...) "Hope Without Leg" ripple up the spine with a down and gritty nature which firmly clutches one's neural axons and brings them nearer to each other, shortening synaptic clefts, and thus digging its rolling rhythmic paws into newly formed pathways with which to travel throughout novel unexplored territories of quantum electricity".

Good to the bone

2010-01-15T21:19:00.004+02:00

The Radars - Finger Licking Chicken

Songs for people in their thirties

2010-01-15T20:50:00.008+02:00

Neutral Milk Hotel - Song Against Sex (1996)

Spectrum - Indian Summer (Beat Happening cover - 1994)

Dystopia 12 & The Hord of Dancing Dots Mix

2010-01-05T17:22:00.007+02:00

Duplan DJ set - 03/01/10

Dystopia 12 & The Hord of Dancings Dots Mix - DUPLAN DJ SET - 03-01-10 by Duplan

JulieAndrews / DjKoze / MarcHoule / Phunklarique / DustyKid / MiniBoyz / Ambivalent / NathanFake / DustyKid / DjKoze&GebrTeichmann / SimonBaker / Ambivalent / TimoMaas / MrOizo / ArthurRussel / ? / Rebotini / GabrielAnanda / DarioZenker / Koze / KassemMosse / Villalobos / Rayuela / Julie Andrews

Sous le signe du "V"

2009-12-26T22:51:00.003+02:00

It's been two days I have this song in my head.

Lully - Jordi Savall - Marche pour la Cérémonie des Turcs

This is real Lounge music

2009-12-20T19:21:00.002+02:00

Pas de la daube de chez Costes.

The Johnny Burt Sound - Lady Of The Mist

Complesso Gisteri - Sfumature (2a Versione)

Henri Mancini - Candlelight On Crystal

The Black Cupboard Nuggets & Rarities #4 - Edgar Winter & Adriano Celentano

2009-12-12T13:04:00.008+02:00

Aujourd'hui l'équipe de Nuke Plant Aerials est un peu paresseuse alors nous ne vous fournirons qu'une introduction rapide (et en français) des deux artistes de ce #4.

Edgar Winter, frère de Johnny, est un Américain à la crinière blonde albinos, joueur de saxophone, de piano, d'ukulélé, de basse, de batterie. Sa carrière, dans les années 70, est marquée par pas mal de disques relativement dispensables car hésitant toujours entre blues, funk et rock FM. Cela dit, quelques morceaux parviennent à surnager, et c'est le cas de la pièce proposée ici, excellent exercice de hard funk sorti en 71 et retrouvé sur une compilation de la maison Epic sortie la même année. Il faudra cependant faire abstraction des cris plutôt insupportables d'une choriste très zélée.

Tout le monde connaît Adriano Celentano grâce à son I Want To Know, classique de Radio Nostalgie. Ce beau gosse italien à la gouaille fameuse a fait autant de navets au cinéma qu'il a sorti de bons disques. D'abord très rockabilly, chantant dans un anglais parodié des reprises des années 50, Celentano est passé par une période variète sixties avant de connaître vraiment la gloire (du moins en Italie) dans les années 70. Accompagné d'une armée d'arrangeurs et de producteurs de génie, il a notamment eu une période disco-electro-funk-rock, marquée par quelques titres considérés par d'aucuns comme des classiques secrets. Les deux titres ici proposés méritent de se retrouver sur tous les Iphone du monde. Sortis en 79, ils ont vieilli comme du bon vin et ont gardé ce petit goût sucré qui en fait aujourd'hui de savoureux trésors.

So dig it !!

Edgar Winter - Give It Everything You Got

Adriano Celentano - Soli

Adriano Celentano - Pay, Pay, Pay

Expériences électroniques

2009-12-12T00:30:00.004+02:00

I have posted him already, but he is worth it. Dan Deacon is a mad geek and a strong musical personnality as well. He particularly loves to mix Bach style harmonies with overdriven digital keyboards and Chip and Dale voices. His concerts are crazy shows where he stands in the middle of the crowd equipped only with a table covered with electronic devices, effects pedals, and toys. The track proposed here is pretty slow and contemplative for its first part, but it then joyfully shifts into a running cavalery of broken-up voices, to end up suddenly with the main theme again.

Trinité is an electronic trio from Paris and features members of Turzi, Chicros, Kill For Total Peace or One Switch to Collision. Using only a Tenori-on, vintage analog keyboards and oscillators (sometimes a string instrument), they like to build long electronic improvisations around a simple synthesizer phrase.

Two very different visions for an equal listening pleasure. Try them.

Dan Deacon - Snookered

Trinité - Cheyenne (Live @ l'International, 15-07-09)

The Black Cupboard Nuggets & Rarities #3 - Pop Concerto Orchestra

2009-12-09T13:41:00.003+02:00

Today we have a not so rare (in France) 7" record from a old french band. Pop Concerto Orchestra was created in Paris in the 70's by Olivier Toussaint and Paul de Senneville, who were producers and composers of french pop at the time. Senneville was the owner of a small record label, Disc AZ. They created another band called Anarchic System. Throughout the 70's and 80's they had many hits with music for TV commercials, songs for french singers like Michel Polnareff or clowns like Richard Clayderman.
I have been listening to Pop Concerto Show on my parents K7 tapes since I was 3 or 4. It was really nice to find the vinyl and discover the B-side, Elga, which is great as well, more in a melancholico-kitsch style of great effect.

Dig it !!

Pop Concerto Orchestra - Pop Concerto Show

Pop Concerto Orchestra - Elga

Rumors on presumed Batman's homosexuality...

2009-12-09T13:32:00.007+02:00

Dan Deacon - Pink Batman

The Black Cupboard Nuggets & Rarities #2 - Barry Ryan & Blondie

2009-12-08T16:09:00.006+02:00

The first track has already been posted on this blog, but it was long time ago and the link is now dead. It is such a beautiful track it deserves to be here again for your listening pleasure. Original post on Nuke Plant Aerials is here.

The second track is quite a funny find, as we French get on this song the rare pleasure of hearing Debbie Harry of Blondie sing in Proust's language... Rare french version of Sunday Girl.

Dig it !!

Barry Ryan - Eloise

Blondie - Sunday Girl (french version)

The Black Cupboard Nuggets & Rarities #1 !!! - Donna Summer

2009-12-08T14:43:00.006+02:00

There is a black cupboard in my living room, down there in Lyon, France. It is full of old vinyls. I thought I might be a crate-digger in my own place and let you enjoy a couple of these gems of mine... So these are the Black Cupboard Nuggets & Rarities series !!

I would like to start things off with a cover of Serge Gainsbourg's Je t'aime moi non plus by Donna Summer. The track was produced by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. It was part of the original soundtrack from the movie "Thank God It's Friday", and it was released on Casablanca Records in 1978. I cut the track in two parts as the original version is 15'45"...
Dig it !

Donna Summer - Je t'aime moi non plus (part. I)

Donna Summer - Je t'aime moi non plus (part. II)

Dark

2009-12-01T14:46:00.002+02:00

Kassem Mosse - Untitled

NUKE PLANT AERIAL #10

2009-11-30T21:58:00.003+02:00

Nathan Fake - The Turtle

Moderat - Porc#1 / Porc#2

Add As A Favorite Pt II

2009-11-29T00:26:00.003+02:00

Julie Andrews - My Favorite Things

Rock disciplinaire

2009-11-10T00:38:00.010+02:00

Turzi - Bombay

Dodécalogue

2009-11-07T23:40:00.003+02:00

Rob - La Villa Della Droga

Kill For Total Peace

2009-10-14T16:33:00.000+03:00

KILL FOR TOTAL PEACE - 50 SECONDS CLIP from Intra Moros on Vimeo.

Pas de guitare pour les Tatares

2009-10-13T21:19:00.006+03:00

Rashanim - Kings

John Fahey - Impressions of Susan

Down into the realms of darkness, but with Joy

2009-09-14T18:28:00.003+03:00

Opeth - Ghost Of Perdition

Simon Wynberg - Bach - Prelude In E Major From Suite No 4 For Lute

Sunday Morning Madness

2009-09-13T09:26:00.007+03:00

John Coltrane - Chasin' The Trane

Sonic Youth - Within You Without You (Beatles cover)

Extreme jazzzz

2009-08-05T12:25:00.004+03:00

Cecil Taylor Unit

1. Idut
2. Serdab
3. Holiday En Masque

Cecil Taylor (piano)
Jimmy Lyons (sax)
Raphe Malik (trumpet)
Ramsey Ameen (violin)
Sirone (bass)
Ronald Shannon Jackson (drums)

Recorded 1978

Shake your keys

2009-08-03T02:17:00.007+03:00

Just a fucking great song

2009-07-27T16:24:00.006+03:00

Ralph Nielsen & the Chancellors - Scream

Drone & abstract music >> Damaged Blade (Red) (Frequency 274 Hz)

2009-07-26T20:19:00.006+03:00

Concern - Truth And Distance

Gregg Kowalsky - Tendrils In Vigne

Nils Frahm - Tristana

Beatniks, Kerouac et tout ça. Un ramassis de gauchistes !

2009-07-23T03:16:00.004+03:00

Beat Jazz 1

Beat Jazz 2

Gilda back to life

2009-07-17T21:52:00.004+03:00

Carl Stalling & The Warner Bros. Orchestra - The Good Egg

Stud Cole, le rock, c'est lui

2009-07-09T00:46:00.005+03:00

Pas facile de trouver des infos sur Stud Cole, obscur rocker californien des années 60. Apparemment le type était un barman de Los Angeles qui composait, interprétait et produisait chez lui des morceaux de rock n'roll, influence rhythm n'blues et rockabilly. Le mec réussit à convaincre sa copine, danseuse dans un bar de strip tease, de passer sa musique, mais aucune employée de l'établissement ne voulait danser sur ses morceaux... Trop noir, trop glauque, trop schizo, une musique bizarre en somme.

Stud Cole finit par faire presser un 33 tours, à cent exemplaires seulement, en 68. Le disque a été réédité il y a sept ans par Norton Records sous le titre Burn Baby Burn. Voici quelques extraits. C'est de la musique de damnés, du rock de cimetière, du bourreau-blues, le trait d'union inespéré entre Alan Vega et Elvis.

Stud Cole - My Baby's Comin'

Stud Cole - Waitin' Time Blues

Stud Cole - Always and Always

Dirty Diana

2009-06-26T04:10:00.005+03:00

Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana

Amazing Grace

2009-06-24T18:49:00.003+03:00

Blue Sky Boys - Amazing Grace

Add as a favorite

2009-06-19T04:17:00.003+03:00

John Coltrane - My Favorite Things

Une bonne pâte ce Laurent

2009-06-07T12:59:00.005+03:00

RAPPEL

2009-06-05T02:09:00.004+03:00

Xeumix - The Claire Mix
(High roller selection of upper-class tunes)

Mimesis 800 - Les Clochettes

Petite joie

2009-06-04T22:30:00.006+03:00

Joe Maphis - The Rockin' Gypsy

Petite tristesse

2009-06-04T22:21:00.005+03:00

Arto Lindsay - E Ai Esqueço (And Then I Forget)

Las Vegas Grind

2009-06-01T14:55:00.003+03:00

The 50 Milers - The Grunt

The Jets - Scoot

Swingers - Night Walk