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Le Bonheur's Newsletter 06.12.2004 # 2 |
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06/12/05.
As the end of the year is coming along quickly, these next few weeks left will be focused on gifts ideas, top of the year, coup de coeur and so on. We hope that your taste will reach ours. This week features Jérôme CD and DVD Top of the year. Music/
minimal - ambient - glitch - digital.
01. Fennesz : Venice (Touch) <http://www.fennesz.com/>
With a sentive touch of glitches and guitars, Fennesz conqueered my world this year and allowed me to discover a new vision of Venice.
02. Mitchell Akiyama - If night is a weed and Days grow less (Sub Rosa)
03. Tim Hecker - Mirages (Alien 8 recordings)
04. Christophe Bailleau - Cosmet Nihil (Le Cri de la Harpe)
05. Sébastien Roux - Pillow (Apestaartje)
06. Steffan Wessman - Debut (N-Rec)
07. Yoshio Mashida - Infinite Flowers (Amorfon)
08. Joshua Treble - Five Points Fincastle (Intr-Version)
09. Aoki Takamasa - Quantum (Cirque) Music/
post-rock - folk - psych folk - rock - pop rock.
01. Xiu-Xiu : Fabulous Muscles (Tomlab) <http://www.tomlab.com/>
Xiu Xiu is probably one of the most creative bands of this year and have released their best work to date with Fabulous Muscles, a crazy testament of weird pop songs.
02. Le Fly Pan Am : N'écoutez Pas (Constelation Records)
03. The Dead Texan (Kranky)
04. Pan American : Quiet City (Kranky)
05. Devendra Banhart : Nino Rojo (Young God Records)
06. The Beans : Bassplayer (Intr-Version)
07. Sonic Youth : Sonic Nurse (Geffen)
08. Animal Collective : Sung Tongs (Fat Cat)
09. Sigur Ros : Ba Ba Ti Ki Do (Fat Cat)
10. Broken Dog : Harmonia (Tong Master) DVD’s/Videos/
01. Panique au Village <http://www.cinema16.co.uk/home.php>
Well, if you were waiting for a experimental movie or a documentary as my first choice you were wrong ! Laughing is important too...
02. Cinema 16 (UIP) <http://www.cinema16.co.uk/home.php>
03. Images Fatale (K-raa-K3) <http://www.kraak.net/> Some new interesting things.
Music/
Merzbow + the New Blockaders - The ten foot Square Hut / Label: CD GIA
Price: 18.00
The newest TNB collaboration and part II of the TNB +Merzbow saga. All New material in a small DVD jewel case. Noise noise noise.... Limted edition of 500.
Music/
Sébastien Roux - Pillow / Label: Apestaartje CD
Price: 18.00
After several notable compilation appearances on Apestaartje, 12k and n-rec amongst others this is the long awaited solo full length debut by Parisian sound designer Sebastien Roux. A suite of carefully layered ambiance and sustained guitar that drifts in and out of your consciousness like the changing of the seasons. This is ambient music that seeps into your environment and becomes part of the overall surrounding allowing you to become fully immersed in it's every detail. A fantastic debut that reveals hidden gestures within each new listen.Pillow is a delicate and subtle work of infinite beauty and peace. Roux draws a line of musical purity between him and his audience.
Books/Magazines/
The Wire 250 Th issue + Tapper 12
Price: 8.00
Celebrating The Wire's 250th issue, the Wire presents a guide to rhythm, repetition, loops and trance, including Chris Sharp on riffs breaking away from rock and David Toop on the riff in free jazz. Tapper 12 is a double cd containing 40 tracks of the past and new artists that make the planet sounds a little bit less boring.
Books/Magazines/
Gas Book 16 - Marok / Gas Book.
Price: 32.00
Marok, the art director and founder of Lodown, enjoys enormous popularity around the world especially amongst the skate and graffiti community.He has worked for high profile clients such as Stussy, Supreme, Adidas, and Burton, whilst still traveling around the world for his solo and group shows.
GAS BOOK 16 Marok showcases a retrospective of his past and recent works
Next week Thierry will present his favourite choices of 2004.
Thierry, Jérôme et Pascal. |
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