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Artist: CRASH Title: Pile ou Face/Vaughans Ballad Format: 7" Label: Poutre Apparente Country: France Price: $12.00 |
| "2 songs. first time on vinyl. "Pile ou Face" (unreleased mix, 1984) & "Vaughans ballad"(unreleased, 1984). "Early 80s, just after the release of Philippe Dorays album "Nouveaux modes industriels" and ILITCH "10 suicides," while I was working on the first recordings of "Polaroid/Roman/Photo", Philippe and myself decided to work jointly on a project for concerts: CRASH (both great readers of JG Ballard) was born. This project included adaptations of our own songs, new songs as well as improvisations. We made some concerts in France and the Netherlands. Both tracks are taken from rehearsal recorded in Studio Anagram and in Montérollier." -Thierry Müller april 09 |
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Artist: ICH BIN Title: Obeis! Format: LP Label: Poutre Apparente Country: France Price: $22.00 |
| "The brand new parisian label Poutre Apparente is proud to announce the reissue of 90s superb cybernetic electro renewal classic tape from South Corsica band, ICH BIN: Minimal wave beats, broken electronics, radical synthetizer and possessed vocals finely inspired by great philosophical ideas appeared in Europe since the industrial revolution. Colder than the coldest corsican winter, like Kraftwerk meeting Suicide in North Poland. Warehousemen in a secret petrochemical factory in the north of Corsica, the four members of ICH BIN began to play together in 1988 with materials recovered on a failed boat transporting electronic instruments manufactured in Korea. They developed year after year this so particular manner to play and sing probably coming from the physical and mental state of the musicians regularly exposed to a great dose of chemical emanations during their work in factory." - Poutre Apparente. |
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Artist: PULP MUSIC Title: Low Flying Aircraft Format: 7" Label: Poutre Apparente Country: France Price: $10.00 |
| ⿿Pulp: Low Flying Aircraft is what happens when avant-garde meets punk on neutral ground, a wonderfully delirious disaster area. I love it - New Musical Express, 1979. ⿿The excellent Low Flying Aircraft ⿿ a single whose potency and raw energy gave the punks a run for their money. - City Limits, 1979. "This enigmatic 7, released in 1979, is one of the most startling DIY record from this period: it originally comes in a plain white cover with Pulp Music or Pulp written and two signatures, no label but a white pen numbering and an extra hole burned instead. The music was as rough as you could guess from this strict design: a very ⿿intense mix of manic precise percussions together with vocal yelps, grunts and screams leavened with distortion and feedback. The so-called Pulp or Pulp Music (in fact the label name, not the band name) was a London based duo composed of the performance artist Anne Bean and the percussionist and instrument-maker Paul Burwell. Anne Bean has presented solo and collaborative projects incorporating visual art, sound, and performance since the beginning of the 70s. Active on the improvised music scene through the 70s, notably in a collaboration with David Toop and poet Bob Cobbing, Paul Burwell was also one of the founding member of the London Musicians Collective. This duo met several years before the release of this 7 and began to perform in various places until the beginning of the 80s. One of their last appearance took place in october 82 at the occasion of the Final Academy which was intended as a celebration of William Burroughs. During three days, this event featured readings by William Burroughs, Brion Gysin and John Giorno, together with bands like Cabaret Voltaire, Psychic TV, 23 Skidoo and a remarked performance from Anne Bean and Paul Burwell as described by Performance Magazine: ⿿(...) but Burwell and Bean put an incredible show of pyrotechnics preaching, pounding of drums and proclaiming of White mans gotta god complex by the Last Poets. A sample of the late Steve Cripps legacy of explosives had the battery of the exotic snappers, video and super eighters, minor celebs and their retinues, scampering for cover, as Anne bean raged, stamping her feet in the billowing smoke. Soon after this event, Anne Bean and Paul Burwell extended their duo with sculptor Richard Wilson, to form the influential and much noticed performance group, BOW GAMELAN ENSEMBLE, which lasted until the beginning of the 90s. Sadly, Paul Burwell died on Sunday 4th February 2007." - Poutre Apparente. Sort of unbelievable, "labor of love" reish of this amazing single. Color cardboard sleeve (different than the original obviously) and insert with photos, lyrics, info, etc... Highly recommended! Restocked. |
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Artist: RUTH Title: Mon Pote/Mescalito Format: 7" Label: Poutre Apparente Country: France Price: $10.00 |
| "...you oughta know about this reissue of primo Gallic swoon what was spawned by Ilitch mastermind Thierry Mueller. My details on Ruth is sketchy but I think this follows the Ilitch lp Periodicmindtrouble when Mueller decided to drum up a rock ensemble with Ruth bein the end result. Not sure what they was channelin (or ingestin) but this 7" is as jakeve an example of proto (Hearthan) era Ubu swoggle as Ive ever heard. Considerin this is culled from some 1978 recordings, could it be they was locked into a similar street wave? Hard to know, theres also some aggressive Psychedelic Warlords "thing" goin on too & Francoise Portes vocals (esp. on Mescalito) sound like theys bein blipped in from another dimension. Really, besides Pere Ubu, I cant think of anyone back then KNOWN who was minin a similar shaft in a space/industro/punk vein. This one is impressin the hell outta me. Right up there alongside Angel Face as one of the greatest "lost" French bands of all time. Nice to have it around. Again." - Roland Woodbe, Siltblog. |