This is a two weeks playlist. I haven't got much time to post last week-end.
A lot of the records I've been listening too aren't available on YouTube, so I invite you to listen to SHORT DAYS's LP, SOL INVICTUS's latest LP, SAMANTHA GLASS, SPECTRES's "Condition", THE STARGAZER'S ASSISTANT, BLOOD MOON (woah!), LIGHT OF THE MORNING STAR, HORN, CLOAK/DAGGER, CRURIFRAGIUM, SIXTH COMM, RITUALIZATION, DYLAN CAMERON, HEROES IN THE SNOW and TORSGARD.
Every week I remember I have not much things to say about my life and what's surrounding me (in terms of feelings and social life). Most people bores me and when some pal asks me if I never get in any kind of trouble because I listen to "compromising" artists or sport a SKREWDRIVER "All Skrewed Up" bootleg crewneck I'm like: "What the fucking fuck mates???" Just read this and don't break my balls:
Don't be a douche.
LEGER DES HEILS "The Strength Of Will" (2001/GER)
CODE ORANGE "Bleeding The Blur" (2017/US)
DRAWING LAST BREATH "Unrequited" (2017/US)
DEATH SQUAD "Fuck God Live" (2000/US)
MIGOS "Slippery (feat GUCCI MANE)" (2017/US)
NATURE AND ORGANISATION "Wicker Man Song" (1994/UK)
PHARMAKON "No Natural Order" (2017/US)
SNAILS "Tea Leaves" (2017/US)
DIE WEISSE ROSE "Nicht Schuldig" (DEN/2009)
UNEARTHLY TRANCE "Invisible Butchery" (2017/US)
HYPNOPAZÜZU "Christmas With The Channelers" (2016/UK)
THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE "UFO Paycheck" (2017/UK)
TIM DARCY "Still Waking Up" (2017/CAN)
TERMINAL "Epilog" (2016/SWE)
GHOST CULTURE "NGC1275" (2017/UK)
SYD "Body" (2017/US)
WÖLJAGER "Kuem To Mi" (2016/GER)
ULULATUM TOLLUNT "Lupine Aggressors" (2017US)
DISHARMONY "Summon The Legions" (2017/GRE)
TENHI "Kuvajainen" (2006/FIN)
HELSTAR "Possession" (1984/US)
DARKEST HOUR "The Flesh & The Flowers Of Death" (2017/US)
KICKBACK "Forever War" (1997/FRA)
KICKBACK "Murder Minded" (2000/FRA)
ABOVE THE RUINS "Roses" (1985/UK)
MATT MARTIANS "Diamond In Da Ruff" (2017/US)
LA FEMME "S.S.D." (2016/FRA)
SKREWDRIVER "Needle Man" (1985/UK)
ALAIN BASHUNG "Mes Prisons" (1988/FRA)
LANA DEL REY "Lolita" (2012/US)
BLACK CILICE "Channeling Forgotten Energies" (2017/POR)
VARIOUS AFRICA - WITCHCRAFT & RITUAL MUSIC "Nyatiti" (1975/KEN/TAN) /
YouTube made me dead-white on this one... No specific MIDNIGHT RESURRECTOR, TETSU ARREY, ROT IN HELL, VOLCAN or SHATAANs tracks and you'll find some full version of the different records I've been listening to during the past week (skip the other songs from these records then).
MORBID SAINT "Scars" (1988/US)
KMFDM "Sucks" (1993/GER)
ROME "Cities Of Asylum" (2016/LUX)
MOONBLOOD "I Am All" (1997/GER)
POISON "Fighting Soldier" (1986/JAP)
MYSTIK "De Forna Forfader" (2016/SWE)
VOTHANA "Loi The Trung Thanh" (2007/US)
ROT IN HELL "Twilight Rogues" (2011/UK)
ROT IN HELL "Kingdom Of Heaven (INTEGRITY cover)" (2008/UK)
MICHIRU YAMANE "The Final Toccata" (1997/JAP)
NO REMORSE "See You In Valhalla" (1989/UK)
BAJRAM BILI "Ice Scraper" (2017/FRA)
MONTE PENUMBRA "Athwart The Shimmering Soil" (2016/POR)
GRANDADDY "The Boat Is In The Barn (live version)" (2017/US)
THE FEELIES "Gone, Gone, Gone" (2017/US)
CRO-MAGS "It's The Limit" (1984/US)
YUSSEF KAMAL "Lowrider" (2016/UK)
LOU REED "Caroline Says" (1973/US)
LOU REED "Lady Day" (1974/US)
NO NEGATIVE "Empty Casket" (2015/CAN)
JOHN CAMERON "Tom's Return" (2003/UK)
MARTIN DENNY "Similau" (1957/US)
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD "Sleep Driver" (2017/AUS)
I know I'm late, I've been busy all day yesterday. I couldn't post.
Here is the 47 playlist, minus some QUICKSAND DREAM's latest songs featuring on their last and beautiful LP "Beheading Tyrants" on Cruz Del Sur. Couldn't find the song I wanted to put on this playlist on YouTube so I really encourage you to be curious about it. Could'nt find some BAD VULTURES's song featuring on their 1987 "Gang Up: Skinhead Anthems" EP too, so you know the deal... Anyway, there are a lot of Japanese bands, you'll be satisfied (and disguted by some Polish black metal bands).
GRAND BELIAL'S KEY "The Seventh Enochian Key" (1997/US)
RENDEZ-VOUS "Euroshima" (2016/FRA)
SYNDROME 81 "Recouvrance" (2013/FRA)
SYNDROME 81 "Dans Les Rues La Nuit" (2015/FRA)
ONE LIFE CREW "Our Scene, Your Fear" (1995/US)
ABOVE THE RUINS "Hundred Flags" (1984/UK)
RIDE "Decay" (1990/UK)
ARSTIDIR LIFSINS "Heljarkvida I: A Helvegi" (2016/ICE)
THOR'S HAMMER "Love Enough" (1966/ICE)
ROYAL HEADACHE "Wouldn't You Know" (2015/AUS)
PAINTBOX "傷跡" (2000/JAP)
STRASBOURG "Jaguar" (2015/FRA)
TAU CROSS "Hangman's Hyll" (2015/UK/US)
TONY WAKEFORD (SOL INVICTUS) "The Fool" (1993/UK)
PEACEBREAKERS "I Don't Like The Looks Of You (live version)" (2014/US)
A bit disappointed with YouTube today: couldn't find a few songs featuring in the original version of this specific week-end playlist like OMEGAS, LATISHIA'S SKULL DRAWING, AVENUE Z's songs (what a boring record though), guess I need to upload some of the records I've been listening to myself.
CINDERBLOCK "Never Surrender" (2016/US)
PNL "Luz De Luna" (2016/FRA)
ROME "Amsterdam, The Clearing" (2012/LUX)
THE COWBOYS "Cindy Lou" (2016/US)
THE REPOS "Poser" (2016/US)
PSYCHIC MIRRORS "Rated-X" (2016/US)
MERCHANDISE "Lonesome Sound" (2016/US)
DARK BLUE "You Know Who" (2016/US)
GENESIS 'Dreaming While You Sleep" (1991/UK)
CC DUST "Tonopah" (2016/US)
CRYING "Well And Spring" (2016/US)
SKEPTA "It Ain't Safe (feat. YOUNG LORD)" (2016/UK)
2016's obituary comes closer to madness with Chapecoense tragedy and yesterday's new that Micky Fitz from THE BUSINESS had passed away. Stay strong my friends...
PORTASTATIC "Naked Pilsener" (1993/US)
NEW ORDER "Vanishing Point" (1989/UK)
HEAVY STEREO "Reaching For Heaven" (1996/UK)
SLEAFORD MODS "Adele" (2007/UK)
THE ZOMBIES "I Want Her She Wants Me" (1968/UK)
MORRISSEY "You Have Killed Me" (2006/UK)
MORRISSEY "Alma Matters" (1997/UK)
MORRISSEY "Staircase At The University" (2014/UK)
MORRISSEY "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday" (1992/UK)
MORRISSEY "Yes, I Am Blind" (1990/UK)
PRIMAL SCREAM "Where The Light Gets Me" (2016/SCO)
PRIMAL SCREAM "Imperial" (1987/SCO)
THE WALKMEN "In The New Year" (2008/US)
L'INFANTERIE SAUVAGE "Je Pense A La Russie" (1984/FRA)
Even if you won't find any CAMERA SILENS's song in today's musical selection, in my humble opinion the most important historical fact of the week occured a few days ago in Toulouse, France, where Gilles, original CAMERA SILENS singer surrendered to the French Police, twenty-eight years after being charged for one of the most important robberies of French History. Since 1987 and the begining of his runaway he had become a legend for French and worldwide punk. I was born in 1988, discovered CAMERA SILENS because one of my best friends's dad had been CAMERA SILENS's saxophone player on 1987 "Rien Qu'en Traînant' LP and when I was 13, I started to discover new bands, punk and hardcore and because CAMERA SILENS was a local and historical band, I started being a complete control freak about these guys. I've met some of them, I've never felt so dedicated to such a band and when I have a chat with my friend's dad about CAMERA SILENS, he's always making fun of me because of my fascination. All hail Gilles!
LEONARD COHEN "Leaving The Table" (2016/CAN)
BLUR "Thought I Was A Spaceman" (2015/UK)
THE SPECIALS "Concrete Jungle" (1979/UK)
THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS "Bad Habits" (2016/UK)
THE KINKS "Wicked Anabella" (1968/UK)
THE BEACH BOYS "That's Not Me" (1966/US)
THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN "Almost Gold" (1992/UK)
OASIS "Born On A Different Cloud" (2002/UK)
OASIS "Falling Down" (2008/UK)
OASIS "Rockin' Chair" (1998/UK)
CIVIL CIVIC "The Shift" (2016/AUS)
CIVIL CIVIC "Grey Nurse" (2011/AUS)
TRAVIS "Tied To The 90's" (1997/SCO)
TRAVIS "Side" (2001/SCO)
METALLICA "Confusion" (2016/US)
NOFX "I'm A Transvest-lite" (2016/US)
NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS "If I Had A Gun" (2011/UK)
NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS "Ballad Of The Mighty I" (2014/UK)
Hey y'all. What I just wanna say is that my right foot really hurts today, and it sucks. But making this specific week-end playlist is pretty satisfying because it consists in several records I just saved on my phone's SD card for months and I finally listened to all of them. It's important for me to listen to complete different artists every week and I've been busy to find new bands or records I've never been into because of the lack of time or attention. This list features for example a few records which mean a lot to my brother. Plus, the fact you'll find some STÜRMFUHRER songs here doesn't mean this blog or myself show any kind of nazi sympathy. Not at all.
TODD RUNDGREN "Zen Archer" (1973/US)
THE BELLICOSE MINDS "The Mask" (2016/US)
THE AUTEURS "New French Girlfriend" (1993/UK)
STRENGTH THROUGH JOY "The Force Of Truth And Lies (Instrumental)" (1995/UK)
BRIAN ENO "Here Come The Warm Jets" (1973/UK)
BITING TONGUES "Meat Mask Separatist" (1985/UK)
AU PAIRS "Come Again" (1981/UK)
:OF THE WAND AND THE MOON "Tear It Apart" (2011/DEN)
It was a pretty rainy and exhausting week for several reasons but it was great to meet HERDER's singer while selling tickets for the show at the venue. I learnt he used to sing with BORN FROM PAIN and I started talking to him because he was wearing a WHITE DEVIL t-shirt, so we talked about Harley Flanagan's latest LP and several other things.
I don't want to deal with Trump but I want to pay my respect to Mr Leonard Cohen.
LEONARD COHEN "The Partisan" (1969/CAN)
DAVID BOWIE "Quicksand" (1971/UK)
PLACEBO "I Know" (1996/UK)
KULA SHAKER "Temple Of Everlasting Light" (1996/UK)
SUN RA "Where Pathways Meet" (1978/US)
SORRY BAMBA DU MALI "Kanaga 78" (1979/MAL)
PÖRTISHEAD "Strangers" (1994/UK)
SUPERGRASS "She's So Lose" (1995/UK)
JOY DIVISION "Wilderness" (1979/UK)
CAST "Alright" (1995/UK)
TAXI DRIVER "Tout Est Effacé Par Le Temps" (2001/FRA)
I'm pretty much in a poppy/rambling mood, perhaps because the weather just started to become grey and rainy here, I don't know. It makes me want to listen to cheerful stuffs, and think about my forthcoming trip to Nepal in 2017. Cheers.
MODERN LOVERS "Astral Plane" (1976/US)
TOLBIAC'S TOADS "Et Ils Passaient" (1994/FRA)
BLUR "Top Man" (1995/UK)
BLUR "Oily Water" (1993/UK)
PLASTIC SURGERY "Siamo Noi!" (1986/ITA)
SKIN DEEP "Boots On His Feet" (1985/SCO)
THE JAM "The Gift" (1982/UK)
SLADE "One Way Hotel" (1973/UK)
THE STYLE COUNCIL "The Paris Match" (1983/UK)
HAPPY MONDAYS "God's Cop" (1990/UK)
DAVID BOWIE "Always Crashing In The Same Car" (1977/UK)
LES JOYAUX DE LA PRINCESSE "Adieu Chéri" (2006/FRA)
ULTRA-VIOLENT "Where Angels Dare Not Tread" (1983/UK)
NEGATIVE APPROACH "Why Be Somebody That You're Not" (1982/US)
OCEAN COLOUR SCENE "Fleeting Mind" (1996/UK)
MOTT THE HOOPLE "Jerkin' Crocus" (1972/UK)
MOTORPSYCHO "Whip That Ghost" (1999/NOR)
G.I.S.M. "Document One" (1983/JAP)
NABAT "Lunga Vita Ai Ribelli Oi" (1984/ITA)
THE STONE ROSES "Fool's Gold" (1988/UK)
COCKNEY REBEL "Loretta's Tale" (1973/UK)
SUPER FURRY ANIMALS "If You Don't Want Me To Destroy You" (1996/WAL)
Went to the LGBTQ party last night and it was boring. At least, I had my nazi-gay friendly t-shirt.
Concerning the musical selection, this one's pretty messy and noisy: I've been listening to a few metal records I totally ignored when they came out and I think my mind does not want to listen to rap for a while. I also discovered this YouTube channel which is pretty cool. And this Chris Isaak's song sounds like a SMITHS's tune. Couldn't find any online version of HE SAID "Hail" but I definitely encourage you to listen to this record.
Pretty short one, I didn't mention the totally anti-PC bands and songs I've been listening to during the entire week. Maybe I should make a special Week-End Playlist featuring all the provo-punk, RAC bands and gloomy powerelectronics artists I'm used to listen to sometimes, with all the rap, trap, pop songs you can listen to here, just to be honest with the people following this blog. Not sure you're ready for this though. I assume you're still a racist prick if you listen to Poulton-le-Fylde musical legacy. Anyway, BLACK LIVES MATTER bitches.
Some 2016 releases, a few bands called SLEDGEHAMMER, an awesome NWOBHM record from 1983... Bitch better respect Sir Peter Gabriel. Ah! I think I found my favorite 2016 metal release too. Fuck, that's a limited edition.
We agreed to meet on Wesnesday around 7:30PM at Sébastien's flat.
Shitty weather, everything's grey, drizzle formation downtown - reaching the meeting place I'm listening again and again to H ø R D first LP "Focus On Light" I bought several weeks ago from Sébastien himself, when he received his own first press copies. Although he's almost 40YO, he seemed like a young child on Xmas morning. You could see in his eyes he was so freaking happy (maybe proud, but I had this feeling of real joy talking to him). I remember this very well because a few hours before meeting him, I bought almost 150€ of OGs punk records to a local old-timer who didn't give a fuck about selling pure gems for next to nothing to a young freak like your servant. To me, it was a real pleasure to carry in my backpack both these 80s and 90s relics and "Focus On Light" because I'm sure I will remember this record as something I had listened to every week in 2016. Place your bets...
Sébastien and I share a bunch of pals, a common interest in stuffs linked with "Arts". But we are pretty different: he's calmer, seems careful with everything happening around him. He seems to take a step back on a lot more things than I do, clearly because he's older than me, but you gotta listen to his music and have a conversation with him to understand what I mean. In my opinion, H ø R D's a solo project is more a medication than a specific band, playing specific music. I insist on this detail, because I had the occasion to see and listen to his performances a few times and where we live, I've never seen any poser or local trendy teen dancing like if H ø R D was the latest hip thing. Staring at the audience, I could feel people enjoying these really personal songs, I'm sure they were absorbed by H ø R D's aura as much as I was.
Sébastien welcomes me in his living room, on the top floor of an old building of one of my favorite streets. He's even climbing the stairs with me because he knows how much the stairwell is dangerous, especially when you go only through a cane like I do. I ask him for a big glass of water and we start chatting.
The apparent calm which has always depicted my relationship with Sébastien reveals the consistency of his words towards his commitment to H ø R D since he started making music under that name a couple of years ago, and the way he assumes his music. Fine art training, various experiences in different bands playing a different style of music before realising he was meant to lead his own project alone. A quick look at the corner of his flat where all his equipment is settled and I wonder why people who are known to be talented (traditional) musicians (he played the guitar in LDLF before starting H ø R D) finally turn to computers and keyboards autistic spellcaster. The explanation is very simple, although it is also an interrogation: maybe using machines browses the sound possibilities more than what rock'n'roll has ever brought to curious ears? According to his philosophy, music is fiction. It seizes a special time dedicated to the retranscription of an ephemeral sensation whose essence should be captured and carefully studied in agreement with that special time mood. This is why putting out releases requires so much time and attention, you need a true way of writing your songs, how to start them, end them and be true to yourself. I guess this is why Sébastien was glad with releasing his first LP.
I've already met him during a lot of punk shows where we live. Plus, he has already opened for punk bands after being requested by a local DIY booking crew whom members love his music. Since then, I kept meeting him in different venues, just because he was curious, or attending to his performances in different venues, subsidized or not, because he does not seem to pay attention to this. His fulness while he delivers each detail about H ø R D reveals the quality of his different releases. Everything becomes a thoughful process which is really interesting in my opinion because I've never been involved in such a band with a strong identity. Don't get me wrong: H ø R D isn't a musical project which need to be representative of a very specific kind of music. It's funny how I've often red things about "darkwave", "John Carpenter's OSTs" when it comes to deal with H ø R D and other bands from Bordeaux like FLÉAU, VvvV, VOLCAN. Sometimes, I wonder what music would sound like if we let journalists or every person who owns a computer and an access to social networks start their own bands. Once again, talking with Sébastien, I realize these ideas are so far from reality: he mentions Brian Eno more than any other musician and reveals how H ø R D is simply pop music. Thereupon, his words are pretty interesting because, as an artist, Sébastien gives attention to the relevance of what he calls his musical roots. Gently kidding around, we discussed about "wiggers" and nice white kids playing reggae and sometimes becoming real cartoons. As to him, it just seemed natural to be attracted to keyboards and this very specific music we call pop because, somehow, he was born into it and didn't feel the need of immersing in an unknown musical culture. Once again, I find his opinion really interesting. I mean, I guess I found some sort of shelter discovering hardcore punk probably because initially, this kind of music does not require some specific musical talents, it just needs to be angry, honest, true to yourself and to the people supporting the scene. Posers do not last long within this microcosm. I guess musicians like Sébastien do not give a shit about who's attending to his performances. He seems calm enough to be thankful towards the people coming to listen to his music. That's probably why he's been pretty gently surprised with the fact some unknown nerd once created a H ø R D profile on Discogs website, or even astonished when several labels (Anywave, Stellar Kinematics, Oldirtydancin' Records and Giallo Disco, four record companies interested in different kinds of electronic music) asked to work with him to put out his first EP and his first LP. Record companies which have shown full confidence in his work, but he admits their feeling and vision about the tracking order was really helpful to release his first full-length album, and definitly a guarantee of quality. This is why his records are consistent as to him and I couldn't agree more: H ø R D "EP #2" (Oldirtydancin' Records, Anywave. Stellar Kinematics) let me more than impatient to listen to new materials. I was looking forward to an addition of atmospheric and dancing tunes, not that kind of stuffs you are used to listen to if you like clubbing, but that kind of music which make your car, train journeys solemner. This music so intimate is definitly audible in "Focus On Light" (Giallo Disco), with its enigmatic artwork. Sébastien explains where the cover comes from: it's actually a photograph he found surfing on Flickr on a very uncommon group called "Bird Imprints on Glass". Sébastien told me if you ever lived in the countryside (like he did), you're pretty used to see birds crashing into windows or bay windows because they couldn't see the glass pane. Sometimes they die, bouncing on the glass or sliding along the window, founding eternal peace on the ground. Sometimes they are just choked and move on, perhaps they'll be abused by another man's creation. Anyway, hitting the glass, birds leave imprints of their feathers and that's all this Flickr group is about. Sébastien gave me the link to this collection of photographs and I invite you to take a few minutes to observe them. The picture he chosed for "Focus On Light" artwork was shot by a gentleman named Warren Lynn who describes his photograph in the following sentences: "This is a photo of the "dusting" left on our sliding glass door by a dove that gently flew into the glass. The bird came in gently and veered away at the last minute, but not before slightly brushing the glass door and leaving this impression."
Sébastien is currently working on new projects with H ø R D, probably a new EP. Several songs he already wrote need to be released. He's not in a position to assert how many years H ø R D will last, but I'm definitly sure he knows how to paddle his own canoe
