REINES D'ANGLETERRE - Les Comores

"Reines D'Angleterre (trans. Queens Of England") is a band made up of French avant-garde legend Gh_ɬ©dalia Tazart_ɬ®s and a couple of hyperactive young Parisian upstarts, Jo Tanz and _ɬ©l-g. Both of these characters are steeped in subversive operations covering psych-folk and "toon-psych" films (_ɬ©l-g), and the Tanzprocesz label (Jo Tanz). They also both perform under the moniker of Op_ɬ©ra Mort and have made work as L_ɬ_ Jengi. Reines DAngleterre are a damaged conglomeration of live concr_ɬ®te, sound poetry, faux ethnicity and sincere eccentricity. Les Comores (a reference to the island off the eastern coast of Africa which France still administers as an "overseas collectivity") is comprised of inexplicable ethnic residue and feasts on duality: chaos and order, narrative and anti-narrative, construction and destruction, comedy and dread. The glottal panoply of vocals ride in tandem with electronics: cracked, beaten, weathered and bruised. This is a brain-meltingly dark, gloriously unstable affair, but not one devoid of emotion. Edition of 400 hand-numbered LPs, housed in a heavyweight matte black embossed sleeve with insert." -Bo Weavil