tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529505944041249722024-03-13T17:36:20.861-07:00myhand.likesfree netlabel : reviews, interviews, pictures, all about the artists we like!myhand.thanx recordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437788488972206016noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352950594404124972.post-50570472233694886192020-06-29T05:23:00.002-07:002020-06-29T05:31:46.850-07:00Review : 20 years of SILENCE / 20 ans de SILENCE<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(French version below)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">As many of you know now, Saint Etienne, France, is the hometown of numerous gorgeously stunning musical projects. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here is one that will probably blow your mind : <a href="http://loic-silence.weebly.com/" target="_blank">SILENCE</a>.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">SILENCE is actually Loïc Devigne, a cool guy who has been making music for about twenty years now. He is a protean artist, experimenting structures and styles, in music, but also in writing. Indeed, Loïc Devigne is also a writer and has already published some short stories, novels and also articles and reviews.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the late 90s, Loïc Devigne started making music with different projects whose names are mysterious or... quite disconcerting... CACA (the equivalent in English would be "poo") or H-TRANCE were his first attempts to make original music. From nihilism to a certain form of indie rock, these past projects are far from being anecdotal, and even if you're reluctant to listen to a song performed by a band called <i>POO, </i>we can assure you that you can dive into it fully, freely and without any fear or disgust! Have a listen <a href="https://youtu.be/_uPfSAK9WR4" target="_blank">HERE</a>, the track "In a bin" is such a lo-fi jewel, throwing us back to the nineties DIY rock era. The album "Condominium" was released on <a href="https://www.discogs.com/Caca-Condominium/release/8315755" target="_blank">Rewind Records</a>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The first official release dates back from 2012. The self-produced and self-released album "Osto-Disco" is a gem! A track like "Rose's Death" is a must-hear for indie folk lovers. Loïc's voice is warm and comforting, Tom Barman-like, and may give you the chills. "1000 years on your shoulders" is a really moving song (however it's not naive at all) apparently minimalist, but the arragements are really precise and subtle and make it perfect. "She" is a poppy rocking song that brings you back to your teen age years (for more-than-40-year-old folks like me, huh!) when you were trying to cover Sebadoh with your cheap detuned guitar and never reached the second verse. Not only SILENCE is reaching the end of the song, but he also makes it brilliantly and splendidly. Discover the full album <a href="https://therealsilence.bandcamp.com/album/osto-disco" target="_blank">HERE</a>, it's worth a listen!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The second release is called "Noises" and was published in 2016 by <a href="https://brume-productions.weebly.com/" target="_blank">Brume Productions</a>. Presented as </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">"<i>the last (ever) record of Silence, in a sad mood</i>" this oxymoronic album is a beautiful, moody and wistful masterpiece. Filled with sadness and regrets, "The Broken String" is the ultimate love song, brought to perfection by Loïc's delicate and desperate voice. This album reveals a lot about Loïc Devigne's influences, and "Noises" often sounds like a trip the US, across the southern states, oscillating between blues and country music, or reconciliating them ("Zhero"). "Good Riddance" nails it with this melodic guitar and the singer's most subtle voice, it's simple but gosh! it's beautifully breaking your heart into pieces, making it probably the best song in this excellent album. Listen to "Noises" <a href="https://therealsilence.bandcamp.com/album/noises" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well... the last ever record of SILENCE? No way!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Seems like Loïc is resurrecting the project! He's announcing a new album entitled "Take Care" for 2020. He published some demos on <a href="https://therealsilence.bandcamp.com/music" target="_blank">his bandcamp page</a>, and released a first extract called "Little Karen" and... we just simply adore it! This 6-minute long indie rock song shows how talented Loïc Devigne is. The structure, the bass line, the voices, everything is catchy, efficient and addictive. This is definitely one of our favorite song of 2020. We'll keep you updated for the album release! Have a look at the video for "Little Karen" :</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">FRENCH VERSION : </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>20 ans de SILENCE</b></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> </b><span style="font-size: small;">Comme beaucoup d'entre vous le savent maintenant, Saint Etienne, France, est la ville natale de nombreux et merveilleux projets musicaux.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">En voici qui ne vous laissera sûrement pas de marbre : <a href="http://loic-silence.weebly.com/" target="_blank">SILENCE</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">SILENCE, c'est en réalité Loïc Devigne, un type cool qui fait de la musique depuis une vingtaine d'années. C'est un artiste protéiforme qui expérimente les structures et les styles, en musique, mais aussi en littérature. En effet, Loïc est également écrivaine et a déjà publié des nouvelles, un roman et de nombreux articles, critiques...</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mais attardons-nous sur la musique. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vers la fin des années 90, Loïc a commencé la musique avec différent projets dont les noms sont mystérieux... voire plutôt déconcertants. CACA et H-TRANCE ont été ses premières tentatives de créer une musique originale. Des débuts nihilistes à une certaine forme d'indie rock, ces projets passés sont loin d'être anecdotiques, et même si vous rechignez à écouter une chanson jouée par un groupe qui s'appelle CACA, nous vous assurons que vous pouvez y plonger pleinement, sans crainte et sans dégoût! </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Jetez une oreille <a href="https://youtu.be/_uPfSAK9WR4" target="_blank">ICI</a>, le morceau "In a bin" est un petit joyaux lo-fi, qui nous renvoit à l'époque du rock DIY des années 90. L'album "Condominium" est sorti sur le label <a href="https://www.discogs.com/Caca-Condominium/release/8315755" target="_blank">Rewind Records</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Cette première sortie officielle date de 2012. L'album auto-produit "Osto-Disco" est une pépite! Un titre comme "Rose's Death" est un must pour les adeptes de folk indie. La voix de Loïc, chaude et réconfortante, à la Tom Barman, vous fait frissonner. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">
"1000 years on your shoulders" est une chanson vraiment émouvante (mais pas naïve du tout) a priori minimaliste, mais les arrangements sont précis, subtils et très travaillés. "She" est un titre rock et pop qui nous ramène à notre adolescence (pour les plus de quarante and comme moi, hein!) quand on essayait de reprendre Sebadoh avec une guitare bon marché mal accordée et qu'on n'atteignait pas le 2ème couplet... Non seulement
SILENCE atteint la fin de la chanson, mais il le fait brillamment. Découvrez l'album <a href="https://therealsilence.bandcamp.com/album/osto-disco" target="_blank">ICI</a>, ça vaut le coup!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Le deuxième album</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> "Noises" a été publié en 2016 par <a href="https://brume-productions.weebly.com/" target="_blank">Brume Productions</a>. Présenté avec tristesse comme<i> </i>le dernier album de SILENCE,</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> ce disque est un chef-d'oeuvre sombre et nostalgique. Empli de tristesse et de regret, le titre "The Broken String" est la chanson d'amour ultime, menée à la perfection par la voix délicate et désespérée de Loïc. Cet album révèle beaucoup de choses sur les influences de Loïc Devigne, et "Noises" fait souvent penser à un voyage aux Etats-Unis, traversant les états du sud, oscillant entre le blues et la country, ou les réconciliant ("Zhero").
"Good Riddance" enfonce le clou avec cette guitare mélodieuse et la voix subtile du chanteur, c'est simple mais bon sang! cela nous brise merveilleusement le coeur en mille morceaux, faisant de ce titre le meilleur de cet excellent album. Ecoutez "Noises" <a href="https://therealsilence.bandcamp.com/album/noises" target="_blank">ICI</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Il semble que Loïc vient de déterrer le projet! Il annonce un nouvel album intitulé "Take Care" pour 2020. Il a publié quelques démos sur <a href="https://therealsilence.bandcamp.com/music" target="_blank">sa page bandcamp</a>, et sorti un premier extrait, "Little Karen" et... nous l'adorons! Ce morceau indie rock de 6 minutes montre bien le talent de Loïc Devigne. La structure, la ligne de basse, les voix, tout y est accrocheur, efficace et addictif. Pas de doute, c'est l'un de nos titres préférés de cette année 2020. Nous vous tiendrons au courant de la sortie de l'album! En attendant, voici la vidéo de "Little Karen" :</span></span></span><br />
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myhand.thanx recordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437788488972206016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352950594404124972.post-65132035594723829372017-07-17T02:03:00.001-07:002017-07-18T02:30:54.455-07:00Review : S.W.E.A.T. by Raymonde Howard<div align="center" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Raymonde
Howard – S.W.E.A.T.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>(We
Are Unique / Specific)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(French article written by Thomas Walgraffe, English version soon to come!)</i></span><b> </b></span></div>
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Le 4ème
album de Raymonde Howard nous est arrivé en pleine face, une bonne
gifle bien cinglante et inattendue... Mais c'est parce qu'on a tendu
l'autre joue... en fait, plus les albums passent, plus on en
redemande. Depuis le 1<sup>er</sup> album, self-titled, handmade,
sorti sous le <a href="http://angryballerina.free.fr/" target="_blank">micro label <i>Angry Ballerina</i></a> (on y reviendra), en
septembre 2006, on est addict à ce blues tendu, minimal, ces boucles
obsédantes, ces textes tantôt drôles, tantôt émouvants, mais
toujours engagés. Car il est là, le parti-pris de Laetitia
Fournier, l'engagement. Total, sans équivoque et sans compromis.</div>
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Signée sur
deux labels que nous affectionnons particulièrement, à savoir <a href="http://www.weareunique.fr/" target="_blank"><i>We Are Unique Records</i></a> (Angil, Le Flegmatic, ichliebelove...) et
<a href="http://spcfc.com/" target="_blank"><i>Specific Recordings</i></a> (Culture Rejects), Raymonde Howard nous
propose avec <i>S.W.E.A.T</i> une épopée-flash, un mini-manifeste
du punk DIY, mais surtout, elle confirme ce que beaucoup d'entre nous
savaient déjà (pour les autres, vous le saurez dorénavant) :
Laetitia Fournier est une figure majeure du rock français. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: red;">Yeah! J'ai la collec'!</span></b></i></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>S</b></span>i
vous en doutez encore, plongez dans cet album sans attendre! Le
message est clair avec <i>Release the Evil</i> qui ouvre l'opus : ça
va piquer, mais tu vas en redemander! Sous des airs faussement pop,
Raymonde Ho<span style="color: red;"><b>w</b></span>ard assène le
premier titre dans un rythme effréné, zig-zagu<span style="color: red;"><b>e</b></span>
entre l'enfer et le paradis, et pose les principes de son art, le
rock brut et loopé. On pense un peu à <i>The Naked Line</i> qui
ouvrait son 2ème album <i>For All The Bruises, Bl</i><span style="color: red;"><i><b>a</b></i></span><i>ck
Eyes and Peas</i> et qui avait aussi ce rôle directeur, et une fois
les présentations faites, on est comme à la maison, et Raymonde
devient <span style="color: red;"><b>t</b></span>a BFF.
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S'enchaînent
alors une dizaine de titres tous aussi riches les uns que les autres.
Car si la musique de Laetitia est minimaliste, elle n'en est pas pour
autant simpliste. <i>Penekini Kill</i> prête à rire, car Raymonde
Howard a bien raison,<a href="https://goo.gl/images/pThDbW" target="_blank"> le penekini est le point de non-retour de la mode</a> et ses excès! Et par la même occasion, Laetitia nous rappelle
dans un riff bien agressif qu'elle est la descendante directe de
Bikini Kill et réduit les attributs masculins chers au rock'n'roll à
un ridicule bout de tissu... pour ne pas dire à néant. <i>Angry
Ballerina</i> (clippé par Franck Gimenez) mélange deux champs
sémantiques a priori contradictoires, la danse classique et la
guerre. Mais ce n'est qu'un a priori, la ballerine est en colère, et
prête à en découdre, le poing américain sous son gant de soie...
C'est exactement ce que le projet solo de Laetitia est depuis le
début, et ce n'est pas un hasard si, pour sortir son premier album
sur Cdr, elle a créé le micro-label du même nom... La loop est
bouclée!</div>
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Avec <i>No
Waves, No Bricks, No Walls, No Pass-Arounds</i>, on accélère encore
un peu plus, et Raymonde Howard nous embarque pour une virée
nocturne en bagnole, et celle-ci s'emballe, et c'est sans détour
qu'on arrive à destination, non sans égratignures...
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Le jour se
lève ensuite, comme une renaissance, avec <i>Crumbs of the Awakening</i>
et la voix cristalline de Laetitia. Voilà une autre facette de
l'artiste, cet art subtil de l'harmonie, cet arpeggio à peine
saturé, et le chant très précis qui se complètent à merveille,
nous entrainant dans une sorte de comptine, une ritournelle infinie,
comme le cycle du papillon, éphémère mais éternel... Si ici les
insectes possèdent des armes, dans <i>Terrortits</i> c'est l'artiste
qui EST l'arme, et on pense forcément aux Pussy Riot ou à FEMEN, et
le morceau devient alors un emblème du féminisme, mais pas
uniquement, c'est plus largement un hymne au combat pour la liberté,
quel que soit notre genre, quelles que soient nos croyances. Ce n'est
pas par hasard que ce titre se place au centre de l'album...</div>
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<i>Ebony
Submarine</i> est un titre fort mystérieux, où il est question de
brume, de rendez-vous avec des fantômes, de labyrinthe... et le
tempo assez lent impose une atmosphère moite, marécageuse et
sombre, et le superbe violon de Jean-Christophe Lacroix ajoute une
dimension onirique à ce trip au but incertain. Le violoniste
intervient sur ce titre ainsi que sur <i>Terrortits</i> et ce sont
les seuls arrangements présents sur l'album, ce qui tranche
évidemment avec la production beaucoup plus enrichie du précédent
album <i>Le Lit.</i></div>
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<i>Harsh
Love</i>, récemment mis en image par Jean-Antoine Raveyre, met en
parallèle l'idée de voyage et celle de l'expérience de l'amour,
cet itinéraire côte-à-côte, les errements à deux, ces moments si
diffciles, si douloureux mais qui sont incontournables et
indispensables à l'accomplissement du couple. Il s'agit du titre le
plus long (2:47!) de l'album, le plus pop en quelque sorte, avec ce
petit côté "love song" qui pourrait sembler très
conventionnel sans ce <i>"I do love you when it hurts me so
hard"</i> à double-tranchant... Raymonde Howard sait très bien
s'approprier les codes et les biaiser juste assez pour nous faire
douter...</div>
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<i>Staring
at the Moon</i> fait partie de ces chansons "raymondehowardesques"
typiques de son style si particulier. On pense à <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3vrLLsitrE" target="_blank">The Sculptress</a>
</i>par exemple. Une petite rengaine aigüe, sautillante, puis un
riff plus rock qui intervient sans prendre de pincettes, et nous
voilà cueillis!</div>
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La fin
(déjà?) de l'album est marquée par deux titres très différents
l'un de l'autre : <i>Hands Shine With Stains </i><span style="font-style: normal;">est
sombre et sérieux, tandis que </span><i>Punktuality</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
est léger, comme une blague lancée à la fin d'une conversation
grave pour détendre l'atmosphère. </span><i>Hands Shine </i><i>With
Stains</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> fait mal, est sale et
nous hante, avec ce riff de 2 notes très inspiré métal (oui,
oui!), et ce texte scandé et chanté, à la limite de l'incantation
satanique! Un pur bijou du rock, sans hésitation! </span>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Puis
</span><span style="font-style: normal;">vient </span><span style="font-style: normal;">la
blague, le clown qui sort de la boîte, le texte en français un peu
salace, mais juste ce qu'il faut, et la preuve que Laetitia Fournier
ne se prend pas au sérieux, en tout cas, qu'elle sait prendre la
distance nécessaire à tout artiste qui se respecte! Attention,
</span><i>Punktuality</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> n'en reste
pas moins un très bon morceau, disco-punk, entêtant à souhait, </span><span style="font-style: normal;">et
ce n'est d'ailleurs pas la 1ère fois que Laetitia propose ce genre
de titre, non? </span><i>Punktuality</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
est un pied de nez au même titre que l'est</span><i> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k_k-atiaF4" target="_blank">Great Minds Are Alike</a></i><span style="font-style: normal;">, qu'elle a longtemps eu
pour habitude de jouer en fin de concert... Pour mémoire, le sample
de base est la voix de Laetitia qui chantonne </span><i>"fuck
you"</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> et le </span><i>"thank
you"</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> final de l'artiste se
mélange avec une injonction bien plus dérangeante... ou excitante,
selon les goûts.</span></div>
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<i>S.W.E.A.T.</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
est une pure merveille donc, un album multi-facettes, qui témoigne
de l'engagement total de Laetitia dans ce projet qui a déjà plus de
10 ans! Car oui, Laetitia Fournier est une bosseuse, qui ne laisse
rien au hasard : chaque note compte, chaque mot est pesé, les
artworks sont réfléchis (les jambes, le torse, le visage...), </span><span style="font-style: normal;">et
le tout donne une discographie riche et innovante, majeure et
inspirante. Reste un mystère... que peut bien signifier cet
acronyme, S.W.E.A.T. ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Ah! Au fait, allez faire un tour sur <a href="https://wearethe28th.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">le bandcamp We Are The 28th</a>, vous y
trouverez des versions démos de la plupart des titres de l'album,
mais aussi des dizaines de morceaux d'artistes différents comme
L'Homme Debout, Le Flegmatic, ThOmas.W, Dimanche Cafard, Robert Zaza,
Pasca, Face de Loutre...</span></div>
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Morceaux choisis :<br />
"Chemicals in Need" (First album)<br />
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"Stay with me" (For All The Bruises, Black Eyes and Peas)<br />
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"Harsh Love" (S.W.E.A.T.)<br />
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myhand.thanx recordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437788488972206016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352950594404124972.post-18874575705454720212013-02-17T04:07:00.001-08:002013-02-17T04:07:09.113-08:00a new song by ThOmas.W... "sing the words"Hey friends!<br />
Here's a video of ThOmas.W performing a slow version of a brand new track entitled "sing the words"... Enjoy!<br />
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<br />myhand.thanx recordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437788488972206016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352950594404124972.post-19050718427288250682012-07-19T08:24:00.001-07:002012-08-04T04:18:02.933-07:00the to.w years : 11 tracks from 1999 to 2005ThOmas.W's going to release a compilation of oldies recorded between 1999 and 2005, when he used to work under the name of "to.w". The tracks come from his various EPs and albums released during this period, and will try to illustrate the evolution of ThOmas.W's music throughout the years, and thus, give us a further understanding to his actual work. Here's the artwork, raw and violent : <br />
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Tracklist :<br />
1 . Can't you love me twice?<br />
2 . Incorrect Flower<br />
3 . Oppression<br />
4 . Is he self-sufficient?<br />
5 . Upcountry<br />
6 . Lies<br />
7 . Revenge<br />
8 . The Bed<br />
9 . A Story (live w/ .kbfrau)<br />
10 . Eleven Months (for A.)<br />
11 . Sick Love <br />
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These songs are taken from 6 albums, released as CD-Rs between 1999 and 2005 ("Cheap Elektro / The Moving Boy" ; "A Matter-of-Fact Conversation" ; "A Story" ; "Inescapable Awareness of Imminent Personal Chaos" ; " Morbid Visions of the Bathroom Boys" and "How to Contain Violence"). However, the live recording of "a story" had never been released before : it's an improvisation recorded during a gig in Nancy, in 2003, with spoken words by .kbfrau.<br />
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"the to.w years" will be available on myhand.thanx records at the end of August.myhand.thanx recordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437788488972206016noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352950594404124972.post-34466839161661097902012-01-22T03:23:00.000-08:002012-01-22T03:23:33.257-08:00"Dancing Troubles Away" by ThOmas.W coming soon on mh.t records!!!ThOmas.w is announcing the release a brand new EP entitled "Dancing Troubles Away" on our netlabel! 5 new tracks, recorded DIYly of course, that you will be able to listen to either as 5 separate tracks or as one 27-minute track.<br />
tracklisting :<br />
1. Come<br />
2. Rise<br />
3. Stupid<br />
4. Dare<br />
5. Peace<br />
This EP will be released early February 2012. <br />
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<br />myhand.thanx recordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437788488972206016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352950594404124972.post-10258942019710779132011-10-01T04:03:00.000-07:002011-10-01T04:03:39.309-07:00"Refuse" a brand new track by Hangin Freud!Here is "Refuse" a great new song by Hangin Freud! "Sunken" (mh.t004), released in 2010, was a great album, and everyone is eagerly waiting for the next one... which is going to be called "Motherland"!<br />
It will be released soon, be patient, folks!<br />
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Listen to "Refuse" <a href="http://soundcloud.com/hanginfreud/refuse">HERE</a><br />
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Enjoy!!!myhand.thanx recordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437788488972206016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352950594404124972.post-20021704868501298282011-05-05T04:03:00.000-07:002011-05-05T04:07:46.023-07:00Hangin Freud's Sunken CD and tape release!!!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipPRwD2j7nbGsxC1kBxtpV4C207PzkCatkJ6OHNo4AjfDZE1NFaGppOjzZMRlf0xgJ-bQxf49IKCV07wygYOtra9_sZhUfldZM5TFMLYpo3ZLNQW9DJF6V2j_53OIbRWEVDTdtKz6NoCA/s1600/sunken.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipPRwD2j7nbGsxC1kBxtpV4C207PzkCatkJ6OHNo4AjfDZE1NFaGppOjzZMRlf0xgJ-bQxf49IKCV07wygYOtra9_sZhUfldZM5TFMLYpo3ZLNQW9DJF6V2j_53OIbRWEVDTdtKz6NoCA/s200/sunken.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603187103555927842" border="0" /></a><br />You can now order "Sunken" on CD or tape <a href="http://www.daddytank.co.uk/freud.php">HERE!!!</a><br /><br />Vous pouvez maintenant commander "Sunken" en CD ou cassette <a href="http://www.daddytank.co.uk/freud.php">ICI!!!</a>myhand.thanx recordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437788488972206016noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352950594404124972.post-64323719662750390972011-03-01T03:08:00.000-08:002011-03-01T03:52:56.134-08:00myhand.interview : Laetitia Deneux a.k.a. Tiny Concept<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Hey! Here is one of the most American solo artist from France! Tiny Concept, who released an EP last summer on mh.t records, has accepted to answer our foolish questions on art and freedom! <br /><br /> 1. If you had to choose only one song from yours, what would it be?</span><br /><br />"something is coming your way"<br /><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" id="tiliplayer" align="middle" width="322" height="120"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false"><param name="movie" value="https://tilidom.com/dewplayer/tiliplayer/tiliplayer-mini.swf?pubid=37122&token=1A68CCDB5&port=tilidom.com&autoplay=0&pic=https://tilidom.com/dewplayer/tiliplayer/tilidom.jpg"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="scale" value="noscale"><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed wmode="transparent" src="https://tilidom.com/dewplayer/tiliplayer/tiliplayer-mini.swf?pubid=37122&token=1A68CCDB5&port=tilidom.com&autoplay=0&pic=https://tilidom.com/dewplayer/tiliplayer/tilidom.jpg" quality="high" scale="noscale" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="tiliplayer" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" width="322" height="120"></embed></object><br /><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">2. If you had to choose only one instrument, what would it be?</span> La voix.<br />Voice.<br /><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">3. Hey! Why don't you record the song you've just chosen with this instrument?!</span><br /><br />Eh, bien, pourquoi pas? C'est une idée intéressante. En fait, depuis environ un an, je pense déjà a faire un morceau juste a la voix, en enregistrant des boucles de mélodies faites à la voix, pour ensuite chanter par dessus. Mais c'est une chose que je n'ai toujours pas faite, peut-être à cause aussi du fait que pour moi, la voix est l'instrument le plus intime et personnel qui puisse exister. Donc pour moi, qui suis une personne assez pudique, faire une chanson qu'avec sa propre voix, est un concentré pur d'intimité, qui n'est pas évident à savoir donner, et faire! Je veux dire également par là, que c'est un travail vis-à-vis de sa timidité qu'il faut aussi accomplir pour pouvoir arriver a faire cela. ( personnellement, il m'a fallu des années et un certain travail sur moi pour pouvoir chanter devant des gens.. ) Bref, finalement, cette question est peut-être le signe qu'il est temps que je fasse ce morceau..<br /><br /><br />Well, why not? It is quite an interesting idea. In fact, for a year, I have been thinking to make a song with vocals only. By looping some melodies made with the voice, for then singing over. But it is a thing that I still haven't made, also perhaps because for me, the voice is the most intimate and personal instrument which can exist. So for me, who is a kind of bashful person, to make a song with my own voice is pure intimacy, which is not obvious to know how to give, and do! I want to also say by that, a work on timidity is necessary to be able to do that. (personally, I needed years and a certain work on myself to be able to sing in front of people.. ) Anyway, finally this question can be the sign that is time for me to make this song..<br /><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> 4. What's your definition of DIY music?</span><br /><br />Ma définition de la musique 'do it yourself' est tout d'abord une capacité à un peu tout faire soi-même. Etre un peu tout à la fois. Savoir être à la fois batteur, chanteur, guitariste, bassiste... dans un one man band comme dans un groupe, comme ces groupes où l'on peut voir le batteur se mettre à la basse et le chanteur à la batterie au cours d'un concert. Mais au delà de ça, c'est également savoir être son propre tourneur, diffuseur, producteur... car aujourd'hui il y a tellement d'artistes ( musicaux ou autres) qu'il il est devenu difficile de se trouver une place comme tel, et il me semble que le 'do it yourself' s'est imposé par lui-même. Il est devenu comme une sorte de nécessité. De plus, il semble que la DIY musique est une chose relativement contemporaine, dans le sens où aujourd'hui nous disposons de moyens de communication qui n'existaient pas il y a encore 20ans. Du coup, avec l'arrivée de myspace, facebook, flickr, et autres trucs internet et j'en passe, il est aujourd'hui beaucoup plus facile d'être notre propre tourneur, diffuseur et autres.. grâce tout simplement à l'internet.<br />Enfin, l'idée du 'do it yourself' que ce soit dans la musique ou dans l'art en général, est de savoir mélanger différents mediums. Pour en revenir à la musique, c'est savoir aussi être dessinateur, poête, plasticien.. en rapport avec sa propre musique. ( prenons l'exemple de Kim Gordon qui a dessine des pochettes d'album pour sonic youth..) Finalement, ma définition de la DIY musique est à la fois savoir être indépendant et 'pluriel'.<br /><br />My definition of the DIY music is first of all, this capacity to do everything by yourself. To be all at the same time. It's to be able to be at the same time drummer, singer, guitarist, bass player… in one man band or in a band, like these bands where the drummer suddenly plays the bass and the singer plays the drums during a show. But above that, it's also to be your own promoter,roadie, producer… because today there are so many artists (musical or not) it becomes hard to find a place as an artist, and it seems to me that the ' do it yourself' imposed by itself. It became like a necessity. Moreover, it seems that the DIY music is a relatively contemporary thing, in the direction we have an ability of communication which did not exist 20 years ago. With myspace, facebook, flickr, and others internet stuffs, today is much easier to be your own promoter, producer or whatever... simply thanks to the internet. Finally, the idea of 'do it yourself',in music or in arts in general , is to know how mix various mediums. To talking back about the music, is to know also how to be a drawer, poet, fine artist.. in relationship with our own music. (let's take for instance Kim Gordon who has drawn some covers for the sonic youth albums.) Finally, my definition of the DIY music is to know how to be independent and 'plural'.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> 5. If your music was a shape, what would it be?</span><br /><br />Un rond.<br />Round.<br /><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> 6. Pick a photograph that would fit in with your music and tell us more about it</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4_d-ps2cHs2zxp4XP0GTF1hp6fIsaasp2fcNaJUIw5YhMXn7IdaF88j-9idMxuSWXQwxpmK6cA3FC7jqK3CN1acciXOw0NefYJJ5BDsK42EtAj98XcCCG9XlBxRA0Vbo-AI-9tmNjHoo/s1600/lewis+hine.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4_d-ps2cHs2zxp4XP0GTF1hp6fIsaasp2fcNaJUIw5YhMXn7IdaF88j-9idMxuSWXQwxpmK6cA3FC7jqK3CN1acciXOw0NefYJJ5BDsK42EtAj98XcCCG9XlBxRA0Vbo-AI-9tmNjHoo/s200/lewis+hine.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579077779121137474" border="0" /></a><br />J'ai récemment découvert une tres belle série de photos faites par Lewis Hine sur le travail des enfants aux Etats-Unis de 1900 a 1920. j'ai choisi tout particulierement cette photo pour l'intensité qu'elle dégage. Cette photo a été prise en 1908, dans l'Indiana. Cet adolescent qui a déjà vécu une réalité absolument terrible, a pourtant cette sorte d'étincelle, de force dans son regard. Il est sale, dépouillé, mais malgré cela, il semble avoir cette détermination, comme pour dire:" peu importe, je continuerai, et me battrai coûte que coûte." J'aime cette photo pour la résistance, la force, la liberté aussi, que cet enfant exprime.<br /><br />I recently discovered a beautiful series of photographs made by Lewis Hine on child labor in the United States from 1900 until 1920. I picked this photograph for its intensity . This photo was taken in 1908, in Indiana. This teenager who already lived an absolute harsh reality, still has this spark, this incredible strength in his glance. he's dirty, his clothes are ripped off, but despite of that, he seems to have this determination, as if he was saying: " it does not matter, I will continue, and will fight whatever the price." I like this photograph for the resistance, the strength, the freedom also, this child is expressing.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 7. What's your vision of live music?</span><br /><br />Pour moi la musique en live est une formidable catharsis. Cela permet de pouvoir exprimer et expulser des choses que d'ordinaire, nous ne voulons ou ne pouvons pas exprimer. Des choses que l'on refoule. Faire de la musique live permet de se retrouver dans un certain état de trance et d'ivresse à la fois. Lorsque nous jouons face à un public, en live donc, nous pouvons arriver à un stade où le monde extérieur n'existe plus, nous sommes alors complètement absorbé par la musique. Rajoutez à cela le stress et l'effort de concentration que demande de faire un concert. De plus, c'est l'effort que l'on doit faire d'aller au-delà de soi-même afin de donner quelque chose à un public, qui pour moi, contribue à cette merveilleuse sensation d'ivresse que l'on peut ressentir. Faire du live, c'est un peu comme se bourrer la gueule finalement. C'est faire tomber des barrières, mais en nettement mieux!<br /><br />For me, live music is a great catharsis. That makes it possible to be able to express and expel things that normally, we don't want or cannot express. Things that we repress. To make live music makes it possible to be in a certain state of trance and euphoria at the same time. When we play in front of a crowd, we can reach a point where the outside world disappears, then, we are totally absorbed by the music. Add to that the stress and the concentration effort which requests to make a concert. Moreover, it is the effort to go over ourselves and then, give something to people which for me, also create this euphoric feeling. To do live music, it can be similar as to be drunk in the end. It's to make our barriers fall, but in so much better way!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 8. What are your current / future art projects?</span><br /><br />Pour le moment, je travaille sur l'enregistrement d'une 'session' demandée par "Dandelion Radio". Une radio internet anglaise qui m'a découverte via .. 'myhand.thanx'! ( merci, ma main! ah!ah!ah! mon dieu, que je suis spirituelle!!.. :o) Donc, je travaille en ce moment a l'enregistrement de mes nouveaux morceaux en vue de cette demande. Sinon, car actuellement basée aux Etats-Unis, je vais faire une tournée avec Sean McCardle sur la côte ouest des Etats-Unis en février ( sean mcardle est un one man band de californie faisant du country folk avec lequel j'ai joué à Washington D.C en septembre dernier..) je compte retourner en europe vers fin mars 2011, et essayer de jouer en France, et j'espère, grâce a Dandelion Radio, pouvoir tourner en Grande Bretagne. je croise les doigts!<br /><br /><br />For the moment, I am working on recording a session asked by " Dandelion Radio". "Dandelion radio" is an English internet radio who's discovered me through ' myhand.thanx'! ( thank you, my hand! ah! ah! ah! man! I am so spiritual!! :o) So now, I'm working on recording my new songs for this request. Otherwise, because I'm currently living in the United States, I will make a tour with Sean McCardle on the west coast of the United States in February (Sean McCardle is a one man band of California making country folk with whom I played in Washington D.C last September.) I will come back to Europe at the end of March 2011, and try to do some shows in France, and hopefully, thanks to Dandelion Radio, find also some shows in the United Kingdom. crossing fingers!<br /> <br /><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">9. Are you a free artist?</span><br /><br />Oui.<br />yes.<br /><br /><br /><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">10. What's your vision of freedom?</span><br /><br />Ma vision de la liberté se rapproche en premier lieu à cet adage populaire:" La liberté de chacun s'arrête où celle du voisin commence". La liberté pour moi, n'est pas l'idée de faire "tout ce que l'on veut, quand on veut, avec qui on veut et puis on s'en fout!" Ma vision de la liberté est loin de l'idée d'une liberté toute puissante, un peu enfantine et terriblement égoïste. Concernant la musique, l'art ou même la vie en général, et d'après mes expériences personnelles, la liberté est très chère. Pour moi, la liberté c'est être capable de sortir des carcans. Dans la musique, c'est être capable de composer sa propre musique sans que nul n'intervienne ou vous dise comment composer votre musique en vue d'éventuels contracts juteux, par exemple. C'est savoir sortir d'une norme généralisée. C'est aussi apprendre à être moins opportuniste, j'imagine. La liberté, je pense est aussi un combat, car c'est un combat et un vrai travail que de vivre autant que l'on peut en tant qu'artiste. Cela veut dire renoncer à des tas de choses matérielles, par exemple. Et évidemment, comme je l'ai dit plus haut, faire la musique que l'on veut, c'est souvent choisir d'être pauvre ( en référence aux 'éventuels contracts juteux'... :o) Etre libre dans sa musique ou dans son art, c'est savoir s'armer de patience aussi. La liberté est pour moi une chose difficile à apprivoiser, mais réellement vitale. C'est savoir renoncer à certaines choses pour en accepter d'autres. Et puis peut-être que finalement, la liberté c'est juste une manière de croquer la vie à pleine dents, c'est peut-être tout simplement savoir être soi-même ( allez!!! Nietzsche en force!!!) Et peut-être que la liberté, c'est que vous arrêtiez de lire mes conneries!! :o)<br /><br /><br />My vision of freedom approaches initially to this popular expression: " The freedom of each ones stops where the freedom of the neighbor starts". The freedom for me, is not this idea :" I do what I want, when I want, with who I want, and I don't fucking care!" My vision of freedom is far from this idea of a powerful freedom, which is a little childish and terribly selfish. About music, art or life in general, and because of my personal experiences, I think freedom is very expensive. For me, freedom is to be able to get out the yokes. In music, it is to be able to compose your own music without anyone trying to control it, or someone saying to you how to do your music for eventual juicy contracts, for instance. It's to know how to be out of a certain global norm. It's also to learn how to be less opportunist, I guess. Freedom is also a fight, because, it is a fight and a real work to live as much as we want as an artist. That means to give up on such things, like material things for example. And obviously, like I said previously,to do the music you really like, it's often to choose to be poor (refers to the ' juicy contracts'... :o) To be free in music or in art in general, is to learn how to be patient too. Freedom is for me a difficult thing to tame, but I really can't live without. It's to know how to give up on certain things to accept some others. And maybe, at the end, freedom is just a way to fully enjoy life, it's maybe try to be ourselves ( here we go!!! Nietzsche on the place!!!) And maybe, freedom is you stop reading my bullshits! :o)myhand.thanx recordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437788488972206016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352950594404124972.post-31295876089414220912011-02-28T01:18:00.000-08:002011-02-28T01:19:11.655-08:00myhand.thanx's YouTube ChannelListen to and Watch myhand artists <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/myhandthanxrecords?feature=mhum">HERE</a>!!!myhand.thanx recordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437788488972206016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352950594404124972.post-45051489683093687332010-11-07T02:32:00.000-08:002010-11-07T02:38:14.661-08:00INTERVIEW :Paula from Hangin Freud - 7th November 2010<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >1. If you had to choose only one song from yours, what would it be? </span><br /><br />Probably something that hasn't been recorded. I never record the songs I like the best because I'm afraid I won't be able to make them sound as good as they do in my head, or I'm afraid I have terrible taste and it'll make people vomit. We really disagree when it comes to which songs we like the best, so I better skip this question.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br />2. If you had to choose only one instrument, what would it be?</span><br /><br />The piano.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">3. Hey! Why don't you record the song you've just chosen with this instrument?!</span></span><br /><br />I'd like to, but I don't have one and suck at playing it.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. What's your definition of DIY music?</span></span><br /><br />Something you just have to do because you have to, so you gotta find a way to do it, somehow.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >5. If your music was a shape, what would it be?</span><br /><br />It'd be more like steam, I think. Shapeless.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >6. Pick a photograph that would fit in with your music and tell us more about it.</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1oepMsZZ_ci4Vd51MD-uCe0S5um8GmSFzeC_yh8WXwqwTv2Qm3malHd-KFX_R6_3Ft75YJ-6YpVMlZaIPqb4ajo5YdKZwhMVuhtGNfEax2Q2J4no6Vs_UHd_Ft9ZCBWAlg5C-pRICdCU/s1600/p385221-Kentucky-Inside_an_abandoned_house.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1oepMsZZ_ci4Vd51MD-uCe0S5um8GmSFzeC_yh8WXwqwTv2Qm3malHd-KFX_R6_3Ft75YJ-6YpVMlZaIPqb4ajo5YdKZwhMVuhtGNfEax2Q2J4no6Vs_UHd_Ft9ZCBWAlg5C-pRICdCU/s200/p385221-Kentucky-Inside_an_abandoned_house.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536754976755019650" border="0" /></a><br />you don't even know if you're going up or down.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">7. What's your vision of live music?</span><br />It's a bit like a human sacrifice ritual.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">8. What are your current / future art projects?</span><br />We would like to release Sunken on CD and tape, and record another EP soon, also play a few gigs. Personally, I'd like to collaborate with other artists.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">9. Are you a free artist?</span><br />No, I enslave myself.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">10. What's your vision of freedom?</span><br />In what sense?myhand.thanx recordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437788488972206016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352950594404124972.post-86365468612452941682010-11-02T05:26:00.000-07:002010-11-02T05:29:54.469-07:00What? Memories of a Dog?Here's an excerpt from ThOmas.W's forthcoming album on myhand.thanx!!! The album will be mysteriously entitled "Memories of a Dog" and the track ThOmas.W has just given us is as mysterious as its title...<br /><br /><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://tilidom.com/dewplayer/dewplayer.swf?id=30130&token=DB01EC240&mp3=http://tilidom.com/tilidom/download/tiliplayer?file_id=799844&autoreplay=1" width="240" height="40"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> tilidom <a href="http://tilidom.com/">file storage</a> <param name="movie" value="http://tilidom.com/dewplayer/dewplayer.swf?id=30130&token=DB01EC240&mp3=http://tilidom.com/tilidom/download/tiliplayer?file_id=799844&autoreplay=1"> </object>myhand.thanx recordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437788488972206016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352950594404124972.post-25685247908546482542010-10-26T02:48:00.000-07:002010-11-02T04:20:52.059-07:00INTERVIEW : DRUNkEN C - Oct. 24th 2010<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u><b>1. Si tu ne devais choisir qu'une seule de tes chansons, laquelle serait-ce? </b></u></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Strait-Jacket</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u><b>2. Si tu ne devais choisir qu'un seul instrument, lequel serait-il? </b></u></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">la Guitare</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u><b>3.Hey! Et si tu enregistrais la chanson choisie en 1 avec l'instrument choisi en 2?!</b></u></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">C'est drôle que tu soulèves cette question , j'y pense depuis quelques semaines , d'ailleurs je viens de sortir un nouveau morceau sur myspace, Guitare/voix.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u><b>4. Quelle est ta définition de la musique DIY?</b></u></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">L'autoproduction, l'enregistrement avec peu de moyens et quelque fois peu d'expérience , le libre arbitre , la liberté artistique.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u><b>5. Et si ta musique était une forme?</b></u></span> </span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Le triangle</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u><b>6. Choisis une photo qui irait avec ta musique et dis nous en plus...</b></u></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">J'ai choisi cette photo , un polaroid que j'ai shooté il y quelque temps , quand je l'ai passé en noir et blanc et elle m'a tout de suite fait penser à un décor que l'on pourrait voir dans un film de Tim Burton , c'est un artiste qui m'influence pas mal pour ma musique, son sombre monde et sa sensibilité me touchent beaucoup.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUvP0kmXjRHODl5IC_mwYRARarkRAJEWmpEZ_WwtXeapSi32xL2Q3WG8pdE1GId5D4qrimnWEqP0gIG0QAhOqLUWmN96sb1EYOlaVRLJbn8L2gSERC4WMDkOAKfUJkyXc9nxlJqItjZvI/s1600/l_4fa4ed8967ea4deca3fd9be95d07430f.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 195px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUvP0kmXjRHODl5IC_mwYRARarkRAJEWmpEZ_WwtXeapSi32xL2Q3WG8pdE1GId5D4qrimnWEqP0gIG0QAhOqLUWmN96sb1EYOlaVRLJbn8L2gSERC4WMDkOAKfUJkyXc9nxlJqItjZvI/s200/l_4fa4ed8967ea4deca3fd9be95d07430f.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5532291153862854722" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Thomas/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.png" alt="" /> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u><b>7. Quelle est ta vision du live? </b></u></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">C'est le moment où tu vas pouvoir exprimer en direct ce que tu as composé chez toi, affronter un public c'est très angoissant , on peut se sentir vulnérable, mais il suffit souvent des premières notes jouées pour ressentir un bien être total, personnellement cela me procure une adrénaline incroyable.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">On peut faire des choses qui semblerait insensées dans la vie, c'est la troisième dimension ! :)) l'artiste partage ce qu'il à dans le ventre ; c'est très intense. </span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Je pense qu'il est nécessaire de faire des lives ...</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u><b>8. Quels sont tes projets actuels / futurs?</b></u></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Je me concentre déjà sur mon prochain Ep et j'ai quelques collaborations en cours...</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u><b>9. Es-tu une artiste libre?</b></u></span> </span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Totalement </span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u><b>10. Ta vision de la liberté?</b></u></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">De ne pas avoir de contrainte, de ne pas rentrer dans un moule, dire fuck à la tendance , de s'écouter.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Avec Mme b une amie musicienne nous avons bloqué sur une citation de Jean Cocteau : "Ce qu'on te reproche, cultive le , c'est toi" voila, c'est tout à fait cela ma vision de la liberté.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">ENGLISH VERSION!!!</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><u><b>1. If you had to choose only one song from yours, what would it be?</b></u></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Strait-Jacket</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><u><b>2. If you had to choose only one instrument, what would it be?</b></u></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Guitar</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><u><b>3. Hey! Why don't you record the song you've just chosen with this instrument?!</b></u></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">This is a funny question because I've been thinking about this for a few weeks. By the way, there's a new song on myspace, only guitar and voice.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><u><b>4. What's your definition of DIY music?</b></u></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Self-producing, recording with few resources and sometimes just a little experience, free will and artistic freedom.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><u><b><br /></b></u></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><u><b>5. If your music was a shape, what would it be?</b></u></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">The triangle</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><u><b><br /></b></u></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><u><b>6. Pick a photograph that would fit in with your music and tell us more about it.</b></u></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">I've chosen this photo, a polaroid I shot some time ago, and when I put it in black and white it immediately made me think about a set that we could see in a Tim Burton movie. This artist influences my music a lot, his dark world and his sensibility deeply touch me.<br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUvP0kmXjRHODl5IC_mwYRARarkRAJEWmpEZ_WwtXeapSi32xL2Q3WG8pdE1GId5D4qrimnWEqP0gIG0QAhOqLUWmN96sb1EYOlaVRLJbn8L2gSERC4WMDkOAKfUJkyXc9nxlJqItjZvI/s1600/l_4fa4ed8967ea4deca3fd9be95d07430f.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 195px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUvP0kmXjRHODl5IC_mwYRARarkRAJEWmpEZ_WwtXeapSi32xL2Q3WG8pdE1GId5D4qrimnWEqP0gIG0QAhOqLUWmN96sb1EYOlaVRLJbn8L2gSERC4WMDkOAKfUJkyXc9nxlJqItjZvI/s200/l_4fa4ed8967ea4deca3fd9be95d07430f.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5532291153862854722" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Thomas/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.png" alt="" /> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><u><b>7. What's your vision of live music?</b></u></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">It's a moement when you can express what you've composed at home, confronting an audience is harrowing, you might feel vulnerable, but very often, oce you've played the first chords, you get a feeling of complete well-being, and actually, it gives me a rush of adrenalin.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">You can do things that would seem meaningless in daily life, it's the fourth dimension ! :)) the artist shares what is inside his guts, it's very intense. </span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Live performances are necessary...</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><u><b>8. What are your current / future art projects?</b></u></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">I'm already focusing on my next EP and I have some collaborative projects running...</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u><b>9. Are you a free artist?</b></u></span> </span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Completely</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u><b>10. What's your vision of freedom?</b></u></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Not to have any constraint, not to fit in the mould, fuck fashion and listen to each other.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">With Mme B, a musician friend of mine, we stick tp this Jean Cocteau's quotation : "Cultivate what you are blamed for. This is you"<br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">THIS is my vision of freedom.<br /></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>myhand.thanx recordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437788488972206016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352950594404124972.post-69331213014854015602010-10-26T02:45:00.000-07:002010-10-26T02:47:49.867-07:00INTERVIEW : Jacques De Villiers - Oct. 23rd 2010<blockquote style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u><b>1. If you had to choose only one song from yours, what would it be?</b></u></span></span></blockquote> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Probably whatever it is I'm busy writing/recording, because nothing beats the feeling of seeing music getting born right in front of you. From something I've released, probably Written For You After You Left Us from the <i>Lonely Suburbs</i> EP. The human voice as a component to the music - but not necessarily the element that foregrounds it the way most songs do - is something I'm pretty hooked on at the moment.</span></p> <p><br /><br /></p> <blockquote style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u><b>2. If you had to choose only one instrument, what would it be?</b></u></span></span></blockquote> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The more important question would be whether or not I can manipulate the sounds once I've recorded them on the instrument. Most of what I've done has been on the piano. Definitely not in the mood to part with it anytime soon.</span></p> <p><br /><br /></p> <blockquote style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u><b>3. Hey! Why don't you record the song you've just chosen with this instrument?!</b></u></span></span></blockquote> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I try not to look back and revisit what I've done.</span></p> <p><br /><br /></p> <blockquote style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u><b>4. What's your definition of DIY music?</b></u></span></span></blockquote> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Music made out of an absolute need and done stubbornly (or insecurely) by yourself while your teenage girlfriend tries to keep your 3 month old daughter quiet so you can record.</span></p> <p><br /><br /></p> <blockquote style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u><b>5. If your music was a shape, what would it be?</b></u></span></span></blockquote> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The shape of a hopelessly incomplete and barely populated house.</span></p> <p><br /><br /></p> <blockquote style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u><b>6. Pick a photograph that would fit in with your music and tell us more about it.</b></u></span></span></blockquote> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Look at the album covers while listening to the music. I don't really want to explain the connections, because ultimately I did not choose them based on any ideas that could be clearly described. For me, music is the art form that is most easily able to slip into the realm of 'pure' emotion. It's a feeling thing.</span></p> <p><br /><br /></p> <blockquote style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u><b>7. What's your vision of live music?</b></u></span></span></blockquote> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I never play live, though I have nothing against the format. It's more a logistical/equipment issue. Though if I did play live, it wouldn't be to recreate what's already been recorded. I'm interested in the jazz approach, where the emphasis is on spontaneous newness. A constant state of reaction to others and your own feelings and impulses at the time. Memorising and playing what you've already created seems pointless to me. If I ever played live, I would like to do it with some other musicians. Live performance is a social event. Others should partake.</span></p> <p><br /><br /></p> <blockquote style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u><b>8. What are your current / future art projects?</b></u></span></span></blockquote> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I don't know what you mean by "art projects", but I've got a new album coming out in December, tentatively titled <i>travelsongs</i>. A teaser EP, <i>More Wind For Lonely Suburbs</i>, is currently available for download. I'm also working on an album I hope to put out sometime early next year, which will be a singer/songwriter kind of thing. Part of me just wants to do that album now. Doing a more direct, lyrically and vocally driven record is a very exciting thought at the moment. I've been at work on a video installation which is more or less done. About half of the album to be released in December was originally written for the installation, which should be out next year sometime. There's also an album of much heavier stuff - also more song-based and vocally driven - which will be finished sometime, though I can't say when.</span></p> <p><br /><br /></p> <blockquote style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u><b>9. Are you a free artist?</b></u></span></span></blockquote> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the economic sense, no. If I was then I would be able to make music all the time. Creatively, I would like to think of myself as free and certainly, I can record whatever I want. But I suppose I'm limited creatively by my own aesthetic prejudice, which excludes certain kinds of music. Also by the limitations of my own musical skill. In the latter sense I'm certainly less free than Mozart, Beethoven or Coltrane for example. Also, in South Africa there's very little cross-polination between white and black musicians and music scenes, though it has obviously improved since racial segregation came to an end in 1994. Nevertheless, on the music level it's been a tentative process of sharing and integration. The love for hip hop amongst white audiences, for instance, is nowhere near as big as it is in the States. And this is a direct result of a racial codification of music that arose through the racist Apartheid system we had in place for half of the 20th century. So that's a limitation of influence that I'm slowly trying to expose myself to and overcome. But in the broader sense, I don't think any artist is free, because we all lack the mentality to openly embrace the whole musical spectrum. We are all limited in that sense.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span><u>10. What's your vision of freedom?</u></b></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;">That's obviously a tricky and dangerous question, and one I have avoided finding one answer to. While you need a long-term plan to try and push towards freedom, I also think that struggling your whole life to find it is ultimately not freedom of any kind. I think it is best achieved through trying to liberate your inner self as much as possible on a purely individual level. This is going to sound like some strange hippy bullshit, but being comfortable with your own nudity/sexuality is a big part of it. It takes you back to a state before we all felt all these useless and wasteful social pressures. Most of the time though, it's something I think needs to be taken on a day-by-day basis. There are a lot of temporary escapes. Sharing true intimacy and emotional openness with someone is one of them. Making music is certainly another, though I don't think it really frees you. It shouldn't really, because it's a way of conveying the lack of freedom, the injustice, etc. I'm not necessarily talking about politically motivated music. Sometimes you just try and convey an oppressed state of existence, even if you don't point any fingers. I'll be the first to admit that most of my music is very sad. That's not because I'm sad all the time. But for me it's a way of describing the negative sides of modern life, the suffering that's all around and sometimes inside me. The heaviness that descends when you face all the things that are immensely fucked up with my country and this planet at the moment. The music's a requiem for all that gets lost with that. I think freedom could begin by recognising you are not actually free and that others are even less so. But I don't think real freedom is possible, because the sources of oppression and imprisonment are immense and exist on all sides of the spectrum. That's a very negative way of looking at it, but a great deal of beauty can come about if we struggle for ourselves and, more importantly, for other people. Most societies, particularly capitalist ones, discourage any genuine charity. </span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;">I could go on in this vein. This is nothing new. You get the general idea.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>myhand.thanx recordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437788488972206016noreply@blogger.com0