DF n°158, Interview with ROME and Review of Aldo Chimenti's DEATH IN JUNE : A l'Ombre des Runes, May 21st, 2012


On April 9th, we went to see Michael Gira perform in Paris. To our great surprise, we met Jérôme Reuter from band ROME in the first row. He had come especially from Luxembourg to attend this unique French show. After the concert, we went outside in the rain and talked about his last trilogy, Die Aesthetik der Herrschaftsfreiheit, the things to come and Jérôme's passion for Michael Gira. A pleasant improvised moment.
During this radio show, we also reviewed the book by Aldo Chimenti, Death in June : à l'ombre des runes. It was an opportunity to listen to a lot of Death in June's songs and to read excerpts from books that have been very influential for Douglas Pearce since Chimenti talks extensively about three authors in his biography of the band : Mishima, Jean Genet and Drieu La Rochelle.

Here's the playlist :

 SWANS, Will we survive
ROME, Rape blossoms, Die Brandstifter, Families of Eden, Der Wolfsmantel, Reversion, A pact of blood, The secret sons of Europe, Das Unbedingte, The Merchant Fleet, Querkraft, Wir götter der Stadt, Nera.
DEATH IN JUNE, Blood Victory, Les cavaliers du crépuscule, Death is the martyr of beauty, Death of the West, She said destroy (piano), Burn again, He's disabled, Last farewell, Little Blue Butterfly, Fields, Only Europa Knows, Heilige..., Kameradschaft (piano), Touch defiles, Doubt to nothing, Passion! Power!! Purge!!!, Bring in the night, Hail! The White Grain (piano), Ride out!, Kapitulation, Lifebooks, Death of a Man, Headhunter, The Mouner's Bench, Sons of Europe, Flieger, A Rose for SD (after she's dead), Cathedral of Tears, We said destroy, Red dog - Black dog.

 Jérôme Reuter (Rome)


 Death in June - mid-80s

DF n°157, Interviews with PLUS INSTRUMENTS (Truus de Groot + Toon Bressers) & THE TOBACCONISTS (Scott Foust + Frans de Waard), May 7th, 2012


According to us, the best moments of last month's Sonic Protest festival in Paris were the shows and performances by Plus Instruments, Truus de Groot and The Tobacconists.
Plus Instruments is the project of Dutch cult synth-post-punk-euro-beat queen Truus de Groot. She started her career in the late seventies. At that time, she met notably Michel Waiszvich, who gave her access to the Crackle Synthesizer, and the musicians from the band Nasmak, notably Toon Bressers with whom she is still working. In the early eighties, she went to New York, played notably with Rhys Chatham and Lee Renaldo then she moved to Memphis, Seattle, and finally California. During all these years, she has explored various music genres, from wierd psychobilly to alien exotica. We met her and Toon and explored step by step the whole career of this eccentric lady.
The Tobacconists is the new project of Scott Foust (XX Committee, Idea Fire Company) and Frans de Waard (Kapotte Muziek, Beequeen), entirely dedicated to their passion for cigarettes. We spoke with them after their show, before taking the last subway.

CULTURAL AMNESIA, Sacrebleu
PLUS INSTRUMENTS/TRUUS DE GROOT, Mating Call, Lonely Island, Big Man, Crazy Train, Vom Ertunkenen Mädchen, Bodies, Notions, Things, Yma Yma, Git along, Spy, Freundschaft, Only One, Paikea
XX COMMITTEE, Metal Worker
THE TOBACCONISTS,Grand Entrance
XX COMMITTEE, Slaughterhouse
BEEQUEEN, Where no doves fly
THE TOBACCONISTS, Great Times to Smoke
KAPOTTE MUZIEK & VIDNA OBMANA, Death Pact 8 (excerpt)
NASMAK, Roger, Bill Iceberg
SECOND LAYER, Black Flowers
DATA-BANK-A, We are all involved
UJI LATASMOD FUZIO, Itt Vagyok
BLISTERING MOMENTS, 77 Seven, I guess
K., 3



Truus de Groot


Toon Bressers


Scott Foust & Frans de Waard

DF n°156, Interview with Xiu Xiu, April 23rd, 2012


Always, the last album by Xiu Xiu, is surely one of the best of their whole career (in ten years, they released nine albums!). I must admit I fantasized a little bit about the character of Jamie Stewart. His lyrics are quite intriguing and we tend to imagine a very tormented charismatic character when we listen to the records. On the contrary, Jamie is a very pleasant and accessible person. I met him before his show in Marseille on March 31st, in a venue called Montevideo. The venue was not really adapted to the post-punk sound of the band (they even did a cover of New Order's song "Ceremony") and, apart from technical problems, the band seemed tired and not really into it. Anyway, they sound quite differently on stage than on the records, with less electronics and samples. It was as if we were discovering another band. There were some tensions during the show between the band and the sound engineer (who looked like the singer of Kill The Thrill!), but happily we met Jamie in the afternoon just after the soundcheck. He was a really "charming man" as Morrissey would say. We talked about singing and singers, intimacy and writing, fear and serial killers, humor and sexuality, boredom and creativity among many other things. In our cinema section, we talked about the release on DVd of Fassbinder's movies, in particular the very oscure and neo-gothic western Whity and the classic Lili Marleen.

LAST FEW DAYS, Too much is not enough
NASMAK, Waiting Room
7JK, Dear Claire
VOLCANO THE BEAR, The great reimbursing
XIU XIU, Crank Heart, Joey's Song, Jennifer Lopez, White Nerd, Cumberland Gap, Black Drum Machine, Hi!, Saturn, I Luv Abortion, In Lust you can hear the axe fall, Born to Suffer
THE HET, You not me (with Angels Vox Pride)
PHILIPPE PETIT, De Biscanti
PETER STOPSCHINSKI, Rough Night
KRISTOFFER NYSTROMS ORKESTER, Vulgalina Fever
SUTCLIFFE JUGEND, Empathiser
PBK & ZANSTONES, Shot White Sacrifice
XX COMMITTEE, National Re-Doubt
FRANCK VIGROUX, Bruisme
SEKTOR 304, A.A.D.S.
CURRENT 93, Salt
ANDRE ET MARCELLE LE BIHAN, Miss Téléphone, la journée d'une standardiste / Présentation, Automatic-Réveil-Central Pique-nique

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ATTIC TED / PERMAFROST / LA MORT DE L'HIPPOCAMPE - Live Toulouse

Le Lundi 2 avril, Les Fleurs du Mal accueilleront le projet texan ATTIC TED pour une date exceptionnelle en France. Munissez-vous de vos masques de carnaval et de vos chapeaux de cowboys pour une plongée dans un univers country déjanté et lugubre.
PERMAFROST introduira la soirée de ses douces mélopées mélancoliques, où des chants de sirène vénéneux entreront en collisions harmonieuses et poétiques avec des instruments-jouets et une folk minimale en clair obscur.
LA MORT DE L'HIPPOCAMPE, majestueux projet post-industriel créé par feu Jérôme Fontan (Porn.Darsteller), viendra donner un avant-goût de l'album "Symphonie neuronale" à paraître ce mois-ci sur le label Enfant Terrible. Ambiances funèbres et psychiatriques garanties, avec arrangements symphoniques, percussions martiales, chant lyrique et synthés analogiques. Quelque part entre Cabaret Voltaire et The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud.
La soirée se conclura sur un mix cold, dépressif et dansant assuré par l'énigmatique PRISE DE CONSCIENCE.

ATTIC TED
(Gothic Country - Texas)
Depuis 2002, Attic Ted a parcouru tous les bleds du Sud des Etats-Unis avec sa foire aux monstres ambulante. Certains parlent d'un carnaval sonique théâtral digne des Residents mais écrasé sous la chaleur texane. D'autres voient en eux un des groupes les plus emblématiques de la scène "country gothique" américaine, comme si Hank Williams avait croisé Bauhaus dans une fête organisée chez Butthole Surfers. Les kermesses post-punk menées par l'orgue Hammond de Grady Roper sont volontiers sinistres, et les masques utilisés sur scène ne font qu'accentuer ce freak show apocalyptique mené par une voix qui tient autant d'un prêcheur évangéliste que d'une new wave crépusculaire à la Fad Gadget. Après avoir publié plusieurs albums sous un format de groupe, dont The Bastardized Country Carnival (2004), Hemogoblin (2005) ou Land Suite (2006), Roper continue l'aventure dans une formule plus minimale incluant guitare, orgue, laptop, clarinette et machines étranges. Un cauchemar doux et moite, poisseux comme les eaux d'un marécage.

LA MORT DE L'HIPPOCAMPE
(Post-Industriel - France)
LMDH est un projet français de musiques neuronales. Conjuguant philosophie et science, il s'adresse directement à la partie du cerveau que l'on nomme l' "hippocampe". Liée aux souvenirs, à la perte de mémoire chez les malades d'Alzheimer, elle est aussi le lieu de réception des fréquences dissonantes. Combinaison d'ambiances industrielles première époque, de chants lyriques et de musique concrète, la formation intègre des éléments hétérogènes dans ses compositions : textes mystiques, alchimie médiévale, mythes, poésie symboliste, symptômes névrotiques. En mutation perpétuelle, LMDH peut s'orienter aussi bien vers la poésie sonore que vers des adaptations de film muet ou encore des hymnes populaires flamands. Leur premiers album, "Symphonie Neuronale", sort ce mois d'avril sur le label néerlandais Enfant Terrible.
Dans le style de Diamanda Galàs, Cabaret Voltaire, SPK, Die Tödliche Doris.
http://www.myspace.com/lamortdelhippocampe
http://www.verbascripta.net/


PERMAFROST
(Melancholic Soundscapes - France)
L’objet premier de la musique de Permafrost est sans aucun doute sa voix, cueillie, au hasard des voyages, dans un mouvement autodidacte. Comme les multiples facettes de sa personnalité, sa voix prend des tournures différentes selon l’impulsion en jeu, toujours imprégnée d’une puissante mélancolie. Ses ritournelles sont issues d’une « expulsion » de cette fracture, où la mélodie vocale se pose sur un motif de guitare. En superposant les voix et en utilisant comme instruments des jouets musicaux ou des objets usuels détournés de leur fonction quotidienne, Permafrost étoffe ces complaintes d’harmonies complexes qui ouvrent vers une évidence.

Les Fleurs du Mal - 56, rue des Blanchers 31000 Toulouse.
PAF : 4 euros.


DF n°154, March 26th, 2012

ARCANA, As the end draws near
UJI LATASMOD FUZIO, Hagyd el a multat
AGENT SIDE GRINDER, Bring it back
TRUUS PLUS INSTRUMENTS, Dance with me
LA MORT DE L'HIPPOCAMPE, Die Sonne (excerpt)
ATTIC TED, Farmer John, Bob Long, Attic Ted Land
KILLING JOKE, Fema Camp, Requiem (Live), Darkness before Dawn, Primobile
THE STRANGLERS, Goodbye Toulouse, Golden Brown, Bring on the Nubiles
XIU XIU, Crank Heart
NEPTUNE, Dark Report
VOLCANO THE BEAR, She sang a song of Norway
NURSE WITH WOUND, Part One Mona Twisted
O PARADIS, El Verbo
KONNTINENT, Creep Scene
FRANCK VIGROUX, Ashes IV
HELDENTOD, The Sentient Darkness
LES HAUTS DE PLAFOND, Alcina de Jésus
PAN & ME, The Lighthouse at two Lights
MIEL NOIR, Eherne Ulmen
CLOCK DVA, Tortured Heroine
DIE SELEKTION, Deine Augen
BAKTERIELLE INFEKTION, Bisphenol A (rendered)
BESTIAL MOUTHS, Rattling the Teeth
SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE, Alone
LOWER SYNTH DEPARTMENT, Waiting
NEON, Spiders
THE RORSCHACH GARDEN, Thyssen Steel
DESERT CORBUSIER, The room
AC MARIAS, So
LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, The loudest you can do
ANDREW LILES, A Numbers game
PALO ALTO, La Traversée

DF n°153, March 12th, 2012


Spring is coming, and a lot of concerts are going to take place in France. Bands go on tour. So we decided to focus on some bands that are going to play in and around our area. In this show, we also dealt with the Zoom Arrière festival in Toulouse dedicated to the notion of censorship in cinema. We also broadcasted many pretty new records too. Some of them are not even released yet. So enjoy!

THIS MORTAL COIL, Dreams Made Flesh
AND ALSOTHE TREES, My Face is here in the wild fire
STURMPERCHT, Zur ew'gen Ruh
VOLCANO THE BEAR, Russian Milk, The first circle is the eye
COCOON, Bless
HOLY TOY, Pray
BURZUM, Illa Tidandi
TRUUS, Tree Talk
SUPER REVERB, We'll probably meet again
TOBACCONISTS, Great Times to Smoke
RAMLEH, Another Dog's Breakfast
LES HAUTS DE PLAFOND, L'antipassive
DER BLUTHARSCH, Reincarnation!
BRUME, Systematiks
STRINGS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, The Drone from beyond Love
THE SOFT MOON, out of Time
ATTIC TED, The end, Patty Cake
STEVE FITCH, In the Neighborhood
XIU XIU, Chimney's Afire (Mickensian Suicide)
KILLING JOKE, Blue Feather
THE STRANGLERS, In the Shadows
ANDI SEX GANG, Dust and Death
AME DE BOUE, Confusion
STRAHLENZENTRUM, Zentralebene VI
NOSTALGIE ETERNELLE, Set you apart
LYDIA LUNCH, Escape
NEPTUNE, Negative Reversal
HELDENTOD, Encystment Process
POVAROVO, Black Powder
MAURO TEHO TEARDO, Anal Total
K., 11

DF n°152, Special Show on Rotorelief, February 27th, 2012

Rotorelief is a label we have followed since its very beginnings in 2005/2006. Christophe Louis, its boss, even participated in a couple of our earliest radio shows. Seven years after its beginnings, the catalogue is now very impressive with artists like Sand, Current 93, Brume, Vivenza, Le Syndicat, Ilitch, Pacific 231, Bryin Dall and many others. Christophe Louis gave us a phone call and we explored the story and productions of the label.

K., There's a Devil waiting outside your Door (tracks 6 & 7)
VASILISK, Grief
PAN & ME, The Clearing
HELDENTOD, Incorruptible
PACIFIC 231, Ethnicities (excerpt)
DE MANGE MACHINE, Phénomènes vitaux
VIVENZA, Veriti Plastici (excerpt)
PACIFIC 231 & VOX POPULI!, Dumai
LE SYNDICAT, Idol Breaking (Mix Edit)
BRUME, Xerxès, part # 1
SAND, Touch the Tyrants
LES BELLES NOÏSEUSES, Whiteness
CURRENT 93, When the May Rain comes
BRYIN DALL, Lost on the River
TAKAAAKI, Fuji Sea
PHARMAKUSTIK, Viszeromotor
MAURIZIO BIANCHI, From Persecutor...
ILITCH, Breaking Thunder
LEBANON HANOVER, Totally Tot
TRUUS PLUS INSTRUMENTS, Crazy Train
CABARET VOLTAIRE, Premonition (remix)
MIEL NOIR, Der Himmel fällt
THE KVB, In my Head
THE STRANGLERS, Meninblack
KILLING JOKE, Fall of Because (Live)
BIG SEXY NOISE, Where you gonna run
ILITCH, Depressive evening
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