Geneviéve Pasquier. live one. tape. raubbau raub-044

side a. studio recordings. running time 36:36

1 outback

2 blitzkrieg baby. part 3

3 warm leatherette (sharcactus remake)

4 douleur (sharcactus collaboration)

5 8 p.m. daily news

6 recipe

7 i am not yours (alternative version)

8 today the disco (alternative version)

9 schizofren (alternative version)

side b. Live at rhiz / vienna 25.04.2011. running time 36:43

1 emméne moi

2 blitzkrieg baby 3

3 bouge!

4 all the other girls

5 fusion

6 warm leatherette

7 dead man

8 i love you

Edition of 100 copies. release date: 13.06.2016. this tape includes an mp3-download-code

After the first lady of electro industrial has been hiding in the long grass for some time (or rather she has been pursuing her role as a member of thorofon), the numerous fans of geneviéve pasquier will be delighted to discover this little stocking filler: nine unreleased outtakes and alternative versions, and eight tracks from a 2011 live performance in vienna, both covering her entire creative period from the electro pop beginnings to the more experimental and headstrong material that made up the ant-zen albums 'soap bubble factory' and 'le cabaret moi' in 2006 and 2009.

Shifting between styles with ease, geneviéve pasquier presents a sound that is timeless, accessible and abrasive at the same time, with her extrovert vocal performance always taking the lead. the studio recordings really fathom the boundaries of the electro industrial gene pool, from the soundscapes of 'outback' or 'i am not yours' to the industrial grit of '8 p.m. daily news' or

'schizofren', from the sleaziness of 'douleur' to the minimal electro of 'recipe' and 'blitzkrieg baby' (complete with the unsettling sound of war), not even shying away from a booty-shaking, tongue-in-cheek remake of her cover version of 'warm leatherette'. geneviéve pasquier’s emotive, alluringly distanced croon takes center-stage on the live tracks, a manifesto of female fortitude, confident and unique.

More than a treat for the fanboys, 'live one' is a convincing and coherent compilation, drawing from the past and pointing towards the future (even though those categories are void in the geneviéve pasquier universe), and if there’s a 'live one' you may also hope for a number two.

tracklist:

1. the [law-rah] collective: 1

2. cinema perdu: 2

3. cinema perdu: 3

4. the [law-rah] collective & cinema perdu: 4

5. the [law-rah] collective: 5

release date: 09.june.2016

In our lives we meet various people and we get to spend some quality time with a couple of them. depending on who we spend our time with and in what state of mind the time together is spent, we talk about friendship. and the more honest and unconditional this friendship is, the more it adds to the quality of our respective lives.

It's a rare thing when you meet someone and right from the first moment you know you add to each others lives. it only happens a few times - and maybe not even that often - but we have all been there and we all recognize those moments; as well as the people it concerns. and yes, those times bring back a warm and fuzzy feeling.

But then there are the many ways a friendship can end: a wrongfully interpreted word, a misunderstood thought, incompatible visions or simply because it started to cost more energy then it gave back. as incomprehensible a friendship can begin, it can also end.

Sadly there are also true and deep friendships that have never ended, even when said friend has left this dimension. the feeling that we're left with is just about the worst feeling ever...
With 'invocation' the [law-rah] collective and cinema perdu present a split album with personal views and interpretations of the emptiness that remains. finding closure in a process of grief. not the most happy of feelings, but it's a feeling we all recognize, an emotion we can all relate to and maybe the one thing we all have problems with giving it a place in our lives.

The process of composing, writing, producing and finishing 'invocation' has helped us seeing things in perspective again after loosing loved ones.

'invocation' - simply to have that final conversation, to share that final drink, or just to say you care...

Newly signed to Play It Again Sam at the tail end of last year, FEWS are pleased to announce news of their debut album MEANS on 20th May 2016. Coming into view last summer with the single ILL – an eight-minute sonic rollercoaster courtesy of Dan Carey’s Speedy Wundergound imprint, FEWS then marked their debut for Play It Again Sam with The Zoo. Inhabiting a musical landscape that evokes a post-punk legacy, one that continues to evolve and thrill and one that has already seen The Zoo afforded playlist status at 6 Music is merely a taster of what’s to come.

The Swedish / US quartet have been swift in getting things off the ground, 2016 has already seen a series of rapturously received live shows. Intermingled with their own live shows, the band have also accompanied the likes of Fat White Family and Money in Europe whilst the UK has seen them traversing the country as guests for Bloc Party and the recent sold out Spring King tour.

100 Goosebumps reveals another side to this multi-national four-piece, a swath of pulsating guitar backed with a metronomic backbeat, almost three minutes of perfect symmetry that has already proven to be a live highlight and destined to be a festival favourite this summer.

13/07 LIVE @ Dour Festival

The Swedish duo Invoke The Insult is the exaltation of the best electro-industrial / EBM art, simultaneously oldschool-newschool oriented. Jonas & Klas create an attractive, danceable and dynamic technological sound, through equipments capable of expressing the maximum emphasis, which will lead the listener into a pure and rational electronic dimension.

Aggressive, obscure and acidic vocals, hypnotic drum-programming, punctuations of sequencers and alienating keyboards are the peculiarities of the thirteen songs included in the great album entitled “You Can Trust”, with which Invoke The Insult wish to state once and for all their authority and obtain important credits among the fans.

Distinction, talent and hard determination are the elements that will act as propellant to this amazing project, establishing an intense contact with your body and your senses: the effects will be indescribable.

Today Jenny Hval announces her new album ‘Blood Bitch’, due Sept 30th, via Sacred Bones Records, and shares the first single ‘Female Vampire’. As well as various European festival slots, the Norwegian artist is also set to tour the UK in October this year with shows in London, Glasgow and Manchester.

In the words of Jenny Hval herself:

“Blood Bitch is an investigation of blood. Blood that is shed naturally. The purest and most powerful, yet most trivial, and most terrifying blood: Menstruation. The white and red toilet roll chain which ties together the virgins, the whores, the mothers, the witches, the dreamers, and the lovers.

Blood Bitch is also a fictitious story, fed by characters and images from horror and exploitation films of the '70s. With that language, rather than smart, modern social commentary, I found I could tell a different story about myself and my own time: a poetic diary of modern transience and transcendence.

There is a character in this story that is a vampire Orlando, traveling through time and space. But there is also a story here of a 35-year old artist stuck in a touring loop, and wearing a black wig. She is always up at night, jet lagged, playing late night shows - and by day she is quietly resting over an Arp Odyssey synthesizer while a black van drives her around Europe and America.

So this is my most fictional and most personal album. It’s also the first album where I’ve started reconnecting with the goth and metal scene I started out playing in many years ago, by remembering the drony qualities of Norwegian Black Metal. It’s an album of vampires, lunar cycles, sticky choruses, and the smell of warm leaves and winter.”

Listen to first single ‘Female Vampire’ here.

Norwegian artist and writer Jenny Hval has developed her distinct take on intimate sound since the release of her debut album in 2006. For her last two solo albums, 2013's Innocence Is Kinky and 2015’s Apocalypse, girl, Hval’s debut for Sacred Bones, she has received thoughtful and widespread international acclaim for her fascinating voice, singular delivery and markedly non-traditional arrangements which incorporate elements of poetry, prose writing, performance art, and film. The New York Times defines her writing as “taking a scalpel to the subjects of gender politics and sexuality.” Hval has eloquently brought to light issues of both male and female gaze, which for years had been swept under the rug and/or denied all together.

Hval’s conceptual takes on collective and individual gender identities and sociopolitical constructs landed Apocalypse, girl on dozens of year end lists and compelled writers everywhere to grapple with the age-old, yet previously unspoken, question: What is Soft Dick Rock? After touring for a year and earning her second Nordic Prize nomination, as any perfectionist would, Hval immediately went back into the studio to continue her work with acumen noise producer Lasse Marhaug, with whom she co-produces here on Blood Bitch. Her new effort is in many respects a complete 180° from her last in subject matter, execution and production. It is her most focused, but the lens is filtered through a gaze which the viewer least expects.

‘Blood Bitch’ is set for release September 30th via Sacred Bones Records.

See Jenny Hval live:

3rd Jun – Kilbi Festival, Duedingen CH

4th Jun – Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona ES

16th July – Pitchfork Festival, Chicago US

5th Aug – Off Festival, Katowice PL

1st-5th Sept – End of the Road Festival, UK

14th Sept – Ultima Festival, Oslo NO

30th Sept – LPR, New York City, NY

17th Oct – Stereo, Glasgow UK

18th Oct – Soup Kitchen, Manchester UK

19th Oct – Oslo, London UK

21st Oct – AB, Brussels BE

22nd Oct – Point Ephemere, Paris FR

24th Oct – Suedpol, Luzern CH

26th Oct – Kantine am Berghain, Berlin DE

27th Oct – De School, Amsterdam NL

28th Oct – Kampnagel, Hamburg De

29th Oct – Jazzhouse, Copenhagen, DK

11th Nov – Resident, Los Angeles CA