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Kobe - Made Of Water - 23-Jun-09 02:45 PM
Kobes a Japanese port notorious for the terrible earthquake that destroyed it on January 17th, 1995, is located by the north of the Bay of Osaka. Geographical coincidence? Certainly not. Sébastien Roué has long sought to explore other musical territories as those shared with his sidekick Yannick Martin in Osaka. The more in phase with other sides of his personal influence that hip hop, jazz and abstrack take a proud place alongside Pan-American / Labradford folks and Durutti Column.

Make no mistake about it, "Made Of Water" is not a new album of jazz fusion. Its influences, apart from a few passages marked KOBE mostly accepted the way of doing things. Collages and samples dress pieces of this guitarist who has long since succumbed to the charms of the digital computer without breaking with a real talent as a composer. Talent which adds extreme meticulousness own solo artists are able to spend hours on a sound, a note, a setting, a tiny detail, which ultimately make the difference.

The 11 tracks that make up this first solo album are primarily tremendous melodic ambient pieces, the personality despite subtle winks (here, a guitar worthy of Vini Reilly, then the vintage organs of Labradford). It emerges from this album a pleasant feeling of weightlessness, or flotation that would justify the title of all, it depends. And it is a large cotton bath that invites us KOBE when the voices of Valerie Marrec and Hervé Kerbrat, companions of always, appear for 3 titles of uncommon emotional density, including "And Then" or magnificent "Countries Of The Mind".

(feb 2003, very rough automatic translation from french)

Made Of Water is an invitation to the wandering mind, quiet, ears covered by headphones to both protective and explorer, on the lookout for any emotions that run through this album in particular. Peaceful journey Kobe locked up, pending the return to Osaka.

Mileva - Stories Survive Sequels - 23-Jun-09 02:39 PM
After the Velvet First Floors album (# 12) last year, the label from Brest recurrences, this time in association with the German label Taping Desk-o-Phon Mania. Its between Brest and Stuttgart a beautiful story of male friendship and shared recipes that has arisen since the meeting between Tank and Ma Cherie For Painting. The Franco-German friendship compromised by the unfortunate incident Schumacher / Battiston in Sevilla 1982 is finally resumed in colors.

Niko Lazarakopoulos, Greek citizen based in Stuttgart is a familiar place: third pensant from Ma Cherie For Painting, hes also the one behind the Velvet First Floor. Drummer with a remarkable subtlety, ingenious guitarist, he has found in MILEVA perfect complementarity with Daniel Vujanic whose bass lines and piano arrangements are a completely different altitude to pieces. By working together both on the elements of rhythmic and melodic structure, they can create through this collaboration some songs that surprise by their cohesion.

"Stories Survive Sequels" first duo album, is both clear and demanding, very affordable but never simple. MILEVA achieves the strength to live the same moment a certain melody which clearly born flaming pieces of the structure, but only if it stops for a moment, full of treasures and sound technical niceties.

On several occasions, the album takes us into an universe necessarily close to Ma Cherie For Painting which was discovered by his more personal work that Niko is undoubtedly the driving force. But the universe of MILEVA is also very familiar to the lucky fans of Do Make Say Think or especially the beautiful "Anthems For The Could Bin Pills" by KC Accidental. Is that listening to titles as exciting as "Pink Flamingo", or "Skipper Trails" or "Tisina Coda" reappear these rare moments that you run chills spine discovering a disc.

(feb. 2003, very rough automatic translation from french!)

Osaka (2) - The Dynamics - 23-Jun-09 02:23 PM
While we were waiting for a new album instead by Tank or, after the adventure Color Und Climax, the new opus of the "Disel collective" under the evocative name of Dale Cooper Quartet and The Voice, is released, almost by surprise, the second Osakas Album: "The Dynamics".

Recorded over two years from June 2000, after "Life for Dead Space", the first album being just released on Roisin, "The Dynamics" sees the duo return to work where it had never really left. Its 10 titles have largely benefited from the maturity necessary to their development as full advantage of the experience of the first concerts in various artistic events or more personal work of the duo. the ones of Sébastien Roué through Kobe, his laboratory of sounds and structures, which remained secret until the release of "Made of Water" in February 2003, still on diesel combustible recordings. The ones of Yannick Martin in live training or project such as Tank, Dale Cooper Quartet and The Dictaphone

Meetings. This is probably the term that best characterizes this new album. Encounters with, most often indirectly, helped to rejuvenate the duo. Artistic meetings that see Osaka opening itself on other spaces. The human dimension is expanding, like the artwork, not hidden homage to factorys designer Peter Saville which was produced in collaboration with an artist of Brest where the relationships between people and their environment is also a source inspiration. Suddenly, after symbolically rooted architectural blocks around on his first outings, Osaka enters a new area, more geographic therefore more open to space and people.

Of this new born music still imbued with a minimalist sound that leaves room to develop, but also far less linear, much richer and stronger than before. The rhythms are more assured and they are hammered, pure electro dub or frankly, they structure consistent with the discretion and fragile melodies of guitar, piano and synthetic groundwater. As for skins, always parsimonious, sometimes organic, sometimes digital, they offer a wealth of arrangements need to take time to explore.

With this second album, Osaka, not completely out of influences too good to be disowned, a path which could only be hers and offers luxury, rare in such groups, to write what is certainly its first hit, "Egberto", building rich and radiant, supported by the unmistakable voice of Valerie Marrec cottony. On "Manslide" is the ghost of Bark Psychosis, which appears in the timbre of a voice strikingly similar to Graham Suttons one.

"The Dynamics" is a moving album that explores new horizons inspired many meetings that enrich the musical duo. They remain faithful to their convictions and to all those who agreed to follow them during their first term and who are now trained to other areas where the idea of sonic landscapes, often in Osaka, then takes a completely different dimension.

(june 2003, rough automatic translation from french)

Tank (2) - Bedtime For Rio - 23-Jun-09 08:07 AM
Following "66 ° Nord" on Diesel Combustible Recordings and "Upwards at 66°N" on Earworm, "Bedtime For Rio", just released on both labels Alice In Wonder (a division of Noise Museum) of Dijon, France on Cd and Earworm, London, on 12" is already the third album of those guys from Brest. And what an album!

If it is not fundamentally different from its predecessors, between a modern vision of the metronome inherited from Neu! and passion intact, and more assertive for large spaces or sea-ice volcano if fascinating, "Bedtime For Rio" surprises with its depth.

Wealth of structures in constant change in a space where time no longer really. Richness of the arrangements, tablecloths indefinite overlays and sounds all exciting and more surprising than the other.

Wealth of a group which assumes finally experienced a real stage experience and crossing for the first time by not recording this new vision of Ishellir unquestionable peak of this third opus, which anchor its 17 minutes in the line of the finest mounted gargantuan in recent years.

(may 2001, automatic translation from french)

Color Und Climax - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Counceling - 23-Jun-09 08:00 AM
We had to wait a year and a lunar dust-to-alunas seeing this probe, the first delay sound system sent from the blue planet to conquer a galaxy of sounds. For controls, the finest diesel CR Space Center. Brest. Britanny. Members of Tank, Osaka and other local research centers that joined the experienced explorer Active Suspension.

Subject of their research, the exploration of mysterious lunar landscape of great purity, Tangerine fields of mapping, analysis of fragments of space folk dub or interstellar unknown here.

In their hands, analog sounds from live instruments of great simplicity and awarded in the bath of cotton delay retain this warmth that is so lacking in many of their fellow explorers computerize.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Counceling will undoubtedly be the disc of clear winter evenings spent in observing the sky never so pure, illuminated by the object of all our fantasies which Color Und Climax comes back.

(may 2001, automatic translation from french)