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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 24 2007 at 19:56

Another classic5%20starsReview by Yukorin


Used to listen to Onanie Bomb Meets the Sexpistols while being an young artstudent in the ironic age of the mid-nineties. Years later people started talking about Boredoms as something I should take seriously, I naturally associated them with weed, coughing, giggles and titles like these:

Young Assouls , Lick'n Cock Boatpeople, Feedbackf**k, Anal Eater, God From Anal, Born to Anal

But that was before I heard Vision Creation Newsun (thanks to Yukorin). A top three album of the last 20 years.
Over land and under ashes
In the sunlight, see - it flashes
Find a fly and eat his eye
But don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2007 at 02:04
Originally posted by Yukorin Yukorin wrote:

 
You owe it to yourself not to buy Merci Faaips

It cant be that bad o_0... I mean, you're talking to the guy who puts Showa by The Gerogerigegege in his top 10 albums of all time(who ever she is.. makes the best sounds i've ever heard) . If anyone will like it, i think it's me ! (In all "Humbility" of course)





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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2007 at 02:07
 
You're welcome to my copy. The production is so tinny it makes Five Star sound like John Coltrane
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2007 at 14:23

 アイラブユーハート

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2007 at 14:25
Huh?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2007 at 14:45
 
ごめん、ルームメイトがパソコンを貸してて。。
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2007 at 14:49
Oh, now it makes sense.  

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2007 at 19:52
Video for everyones pleasures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cXjANnMdNE

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"I believe this is the only appearance of the members of Henry Cow playing with members of Magma. Also,this may be the only way to see David Cross in Centipede."

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2007 at 01:03
Originally posted by Yukorin Yukorin wrote:

 
You're welcome to my copy. The production is so tinny it makes Five Star sound like John Coltrane

Alright, it was much better then i was expecting!

3 1/2 stars !





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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2007 at 03:17
Originally posted by Black Velvet Black Velvet wrote:

Video for everyones pleasures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cXjANnMdNE

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"I believe this is the only appearance of the members of Henry Cow playing with members of Magma. Also,this may be the only way to see David Cross in Centipede."


It took me a while to figure out which Cow members are involved; a little research showed that Frith and Krause are the only two involved in the project. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2007 at 09:00
thanks to Syzygy for adding the bassmeister. here's a review to get the molten ball rolling:

JANNICK TOP — Soleil d'Ork
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— First review of this album —

5%20stars Jannick Top, being the champion of discerning prog bass guitar, is a musician who suffers from applied superlatives - terms like "bulldozing", "tectonic" and infamously, "dinosaur-skinning" are often related to his trademark zeuhl low-end. However, listening to this collection of his own work it might be that, on the famous Magma classics he may have been a little restrained.

"Soleil d'Ork", despite being studded with guest musicians (and if you follow the french scene, you'll know their names) is All About Jannick(TM) and is naturally written with the Kobaian rhythm section in mind. Consequentially, the record is almost totally saturated with funky bass and matches pulse with the ever-beating wardrums of planet Ork. If you're familiar with Magma's "Udu Wudu" then you should be able to recognise this shared song form - those alien disco synth melodies twinned with those trolled vocals while those doomy bass patterns churn and coil across that military drumdropping and the slither of hissing hi-hat, together defining battle anthems that endlessly loop. I do hope you like this formula, because the Wahrgenuhr certainly does.

Luckily, the songs diverge a little; "Epicanthropus Erectus" is a dark cave-groove with curious fiddlings; "Utopia Viva" is a glorious celebration which tests funk positive; "La Musique des Spheres" (a title you might recognise) is a spooky field of spacy-gothic echodrum ambience that feels like the evil-ternative Jean-Michel Jarre as reprogrammed by the Borg. All these songs are very long and don't really deign to conclude in any meaningful way, suggesting, of course, that the people of Ork live a toroid lifespan where they can see through time in both directions - what need is there for an ending when the temptation is there to scry it directly and ruin the surprise? Much more sensible to live the groove eternal.

"Mekanik Machine" is really special and a total treat for Zeuhl-lovers, because THE CORE is present - by the forces of Vander, Top and Blasquiz combined, this becomes the album's true centrepiece, as well as a possible "lost" Magma song. However, although there's even a little electric piano during the pensive moments, thanks to Jannick's direction everything else is light on the jazz and choral fronts, so the tasteful light and shade is foregone, leaving the song to culminate in one big rumbling, shrieking, pounding explosion of classic zeuhl ridiculousness. Again, it doesn't really end so much as become gradually more haywire and frenetic, but that's practically the album's concept (even if I have to attribute it as such myself) and if you've ever wanted to hear Magma being as heavy as a ton of doom metal CDs, come hither.

The title track should be vaguely familiar, and I suspect it's the same piece of music filtered slightly differently. This is a slightly disappointing moment - I wanted to hear it trolled more, or at least distorted beyond recognisability. If anything, it serves as a reprieve between two titanic epics, because you've read the tracklist and you know what comes next...

The man may be more famous for guiding such musical luminaries as Johnny Halliday and Celine Dion slowly around the studio by the hand, but "De Futura" is his true calling card, right? Here it is in a much more peculiar form, bookended by gibbering demonic voices (or possibly cows on motorbikes) and a despondent kobaian monologue, and once we've entered zeuhlspace some of you might be disappointed, as the Orkish funeral march is propped up this time by that most accursed of man's creation - the drum machine. Still, I really think this punishing heartbeat of the future fits the tune well and adds an even more robotic element, and the lack of more subtle drum textures pronounces this version of the epic as "pure" as can be. You may disagree and crave the variety that Mr. Vander always brings; just think of Top's "De Futura" as the original recording reflected on an oil slick.

The final piece, "Glas", is a trek across the dunes of Ork towards a temple of the bells, complete with sand-laden wind bearing down your respirator and distorted, distant everythingness. I'll mention "Hyuponia" here in the hope that someone will understand the reference.

Frankly, you may have noticed by now that this album is perhaps not aimed at your classic moog-rocker, being mostly ambient or doomy for its entirety, and for this reason, I can't recommend it unreservedly. However, I'm giving it a full five stars because it is an essential element of any prog collection also featuring "Kohntarkosz" - if you like doom metal, funk, industrial or power electronics, then doubly so. I'd just like to say that this is my favourite record from another planet.

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Ok, most of you won't give this one five stars and you're probably rolling your eyes at me right now, but Soleil d'Ork really has captured my heart, somehow...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2007 at 09:25
 
That, is fuucking awesome☆
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2007 at 10:58
I'm glad you enjoyed it. =)

(aside: hey look, two more japanese avant albums on M-S)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2007 at 11:39
Yuko, this is what I ordered:

Art Zoyd - Musique Pour l'Odyssée
Art Zoyd - Génération sans futur
Art Zoyd - Les Espaces Inquiets
Art Zoyd - Le Mariage du Ciel et de l'Enfer
Unrest, Work & Play - Informs (limited edition of 150 subscribers only vinyl)
Abus Dangereux - Bis

All on vinyl. Big%20smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2007 at 17:03
It was fuuucking awesome.
 
What's M-S?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2007 at 17:06
 
You are gonna love all of those (aside from the one one I never heard of but I hope you enjoy it  anyway)!
 
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2007 at 17:08
 
あああああああああああ!
 
Mutant!
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2007 at 17:12
Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

Yuko, this is what I ordered:

Art Zoyd - Musique Pour l'Odyssée
Art Zoyd - Génération sans futur
Art Zoyd - Les Espaces Inquiets
Art Zoyd - Le Mariage du Ciel et de l'Enfer
Unrest, Work & Play - Informs (limited edition of 150 subscribers only vinyl)
Abus Dangereux - Bis

All on vinyl. Big%20smile
 
Those 4 Art Zoyd LPs are gonna turn your head inside-out. DON'T play to the girlfriend.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2007 at 17:18
"dinosaur-skinning"
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2007 at 17:39
I couldn't resist referencing julian cope's unique magma review. ;) and yes, I meant mutant sounds.

I don't understand the characters you are posting but I'm assuming they're all positive =P
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