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musicwithoutborders · 25 days ago
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Aquaserge, Only (version 2) I The Possibility of a New Work for Aquaserge (Made to Measure Vol.46), 2021
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thoughtswordsaction · 6 months ago
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Aquaserge Shared New Album 'La Fin de l'Economie' Via Crammed Discs
Photo by Baptiste Dété Lores Experimental pop luminaries Aquaserge today release their new album, La Fin de l’Economie via Crammed Discs. The new album arrives with the release of the focus track, “Soline”, an anthem for radical change. With poetic fervor and epic resonance, “Soline” matches Aquaserge’s political commitment. As a harmonious blend of rock, electronica, and experimental-pop, the…
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musikblog · 6 months ago
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https://www.musikblog.de/2024/05/aquaserge-la-fin-de-leconomie/ Der Kapitalismus ist am Boden, die Welt ist am Ende. Zeit für eine Revolution. Am besten in Frankreich. Warum auch nicht, hat ja dort schon mal geklappt. Die Sozialkritiker*innen von Aquaserge, schicken sich mit ihrem siebten Album “La Fin De L’Economie” an, die Revolutionsgarden musikalisch zu begleiten. 2005 in Toulouse als Trio gegründet, hat sich […]
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piasgermany · 8 months ago
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[Album + Video] Aquaserge kündigen neues Album "La fin de l'economie" an!
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Die französischen Experimental-Pop-Band Aquaserge kündigt die Veröffentlichung ihres kommenden Albums "La fin de l'economie" an, das am 24. Mai über Crammed Discs erscheinen wird. Mit "Le saut du tigre" gibt es zudem auch eine erste Single.
Das siebte Album des 2005 in Toulouse gegründeten Quintetts vermischt Rock, Electronica, Pop und Sounds aus Audioarchiven mit Einflüssen aus Oulipo (der experimentellen französischen Literaturbewegung der 60er Jahre), Dada und Free Jazz. Als weitere Inspirationen nennt die Band, die 2021 zuletzt das Album "The Possibility Of A New Work For Aquaserge" veröffentlicht hat, Ennio Morricone, Walter Benjamin, Marguerite Duras, Kim Gordon oder auch Brigitte Fontaine.
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Aquaserge, die in der Vergangenheit bereits unter anderem mit Stereolab, Tame Impala und Chassol zusammengearbeitet haben, singen auf den zwölf Songs vor allem von einer hypervernetzten Welt, die dabei jedoch ihre primären Emotionen vergisst. Mit der eingängigen Single "Le saut du tigre" bietet die Band einen ersten Vorgeschmack auf die neuen Tracks. Ein konsequent gitarrenbasierter Sound, große Melodien, ein Hauch von Jazz, Filmmusik aus den 70ern und ein Text, der ihre radikalen Ansichten über den Zustand der Welt widerspiegelt.
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Tracklist "La fin de l'économie": 01. Le saut du tigre 02. Sommets  03. Soline  04. Copychat  05. Je suis galaxie  06. À plus  07. Incendies  08. Miso  09. LPT  10. Shoot de love  11. Amerikaine  12. La fin de l'économie 
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burlveneer-music · 2 years ago
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Aksak Maboul - Une aventure de VV (Songspiel) (Made to Measure Vol. 48)
In the wake of their acclaimed comeback album 'Figures' (2020), Aksak Maboul took a playful sideways step to create this total work, a 63-minute, continuous suite of fifteen pieces, which could be described as an experimental audio play. The thread running through 'Une aventure de VV (Songspiel)' is Véronique Vincent’s text, an enigmatic philosophical-poetical tale unfolding through monologues and dialogues, spoken and sung by a series of characters, played by Alig Fodder, Laetitia Sadier, Audrey & Benjamin from Aquaserge, Don The Tiger, Blaine L. Reininger, and the members of Aksak Maboul’s current live band: Faustine Hollander, Lucien Fraipont & Erik Heestermans. The music was written & arranged by Marc Hollander and features his characteristic genre-hopping tendencies: strands of electronica, pop, jazz, collage, techno, ambient, improv, krautrock, contemporary classical & systems music are merrily woven together, in the inimitable Aksak Maboul style. The album’s subtitle, 'Songspiel', highlights its theatrical/musical aspect: the work pays oblique homage to the those experimental radio plays that once emerged from the creative workshops of the BBC, the RTF and the RAI, and especially to those German Hörspiels which, at their best, might combine spoken word, instrumental or electronic music, songs and sonic research. Une aventure de VV also modestly alludes to certain stage works written by adventurous composers during the first half of the 20th century, which embraced singing, spoken dialogues and elements inspired by popular music. Those composers sometimes invented genre names to describe their pieces: fantaisie lyrique, mimodrama, or... songspiel).
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edlorado · 11 months ago
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Aquaserge-Only (version 2)
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amithateasytoforget · 2 years ago
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Aquaserge - Si tu t'en vas
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freitagsmedien · 6 months ago
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Halo, Aquaserge, Arnold Burk
Halo Sprichworte sind nostalgischer Bullshit, der in einer disruptiven Welt Kontinuitäten sucht. Gilt also auch für “Gut Ding will Weile haben”. Das Debütalbum von Halo aber klingt, als hätten sich zwei Musikerinnen richtig Zeit gelassen, um Gutes zu erstellen, das nicht in die Falle ihrer Zusammenkunft von 2012 tappt. Als Masha Qrella und Julia Kliemann damals in Berlin zum Duo wurden, war der…
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bandcramp · 2 years ago
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Écouter / acheter: GUERRE EP de Aquaserge
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chez-mimich · 3 years ago
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AQUASERGE: “THE POSSIBILITY OF A NEW WORK FOR AQUASERGE”
Se è piuttosto normale imbattersi in formazioni jazz che, per mania citatoria, per omaggiare un compositore o per ricerca musicale, si cimentano in riscritture o reinterpretazioni di brani di musica classica, è assai meno comune incappare in una formazione di radici classiche e di avant-rock che si voglia cimentare nella trasmigrazione di autori classici verso il jazz. È il caso degli “Aquaserge” dei quali è uscito, nello scorso mese di ottobre “The Possibility of a New Work for Aquaserge”, per l’etichetta “Crammed Discs” nella collana “Made To Measure”, (arrivata al volume 46). Un giorno un organizzatore di concerti chiese a Morton Feldman: "Hai un nuovo pezzo da aggiungere al programma?" Rispose Feldman: “Beh, ci sarebbe la possibilità di un nuovo pezzo per chitarra." La risposta del compositore diventò un brano da cui oggi è stato mutuato la base del titolo di questo straordinario lavoro. Potremmo anche sbrigativamente dire che il disco è un omaggio a quattro musicisti classici, ovvero Giacinto Scelsi, György Ligeti, Edgard Varèse e Morton Feldman, ma sarebbe una indebita, anche se comoda, semplificazione. In realtà il lavoro degli “Aquaserge”, ovvero Audrey Ginestet (voce, basso), Benjamin Glibert (chitarra, tastiere), Julien Gasc (voce, synth), Manon Glibert (clarinetti), Julien Chamla (batteria, percussioni) e i nuovi arrivi, Camille Emaille (percussioni), Marina Tantanozi (flauto), Robin Fincker e Olivier Kelchtermans (sax), è un lavoro assai più complesso e strutturato. La “microtonalità” di Scelsi, l’astrattismo melodico di Varèse, le dissonanze oniriche di Ligeti e la visionarietà grafica di Feldman sono le tessere mobili con le quali gli “Aquaserge” costruiscono questo puzzle sonoro di grandissimo fascino. Primo degli otto, intensi brani, “Un grand sommeil noir”, è costruito sui ritmi della composizione del ventitreene Edgard Varèse e sul testo della omonima, “maledetta” poesia di Paul Verlain: “Un grand sommeil noir/Tombe sur ma vie:/Dormez, tout espoir,/Dormez, toute envie…” dice il primo verso dello scarno ed essenziale testo poetico, mentre il ritmo della batteria e la sinuosità del clarinetto e del flauto, sembrano voler rendere più ironico il senso della cupa composizione di Verlaine. Non poteva che essere una sorta di ossessiva spirale sonora “1768°”,sempre da Edgar Varèse, con una sostenuta iniezione di percussioni, mentre “Hommage à Giacinto Scelsi” è una solenne, sublime e greve composizione fondata sull’idea che fu del grande compositore ligure della “sfericità” del suono (per il mio gusto, il miglior pezzo dell’intero album). Le parole di un altro grande poeta, Rainer Maria Rilke, conducono “Only”, musicata per sola voce da Morton Feldman (che secondo il mio amico Riccardo Bertoncelli è un musicista che nessuno conosce, ma questa è un’altra storia). Di “Only”, è presente anche una seconda versione, sempre dolce e sofisticata, ma eseguita con voce femminile. Il brano seguente “Comme des carrès de Feldman”, molto “free” e pieno di vitalità, sembra procedere sulla falsariga delle “partiture grafiche” del musicista americano, con parecchie incursioni assolutamente anarchiche fatte di stridori, urla della savana e vitalismo primigenio. Concludono l’album due interpretazioni della notte: “Nuit Terrestre” da György Ligeti, spettrale ed immobile, e “Nuit Altérée” più movimentata, secondo le dinamiche dei cluster sonori del compositore ungherese. Tutti i brani dell’album verranno prossimamente eseguiti in una performance dal vivo, nell'ambito di uno spettacolo musicale e teatrale intitolato “Lost in a Guitar Case”. Un bel regalo di Natale che vale per tutto l’anno.
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dustedmagazine · 5 years ago
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Julien Gasc — L'Appel de la Foret (Born Bad Records)
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L'appel de la forêt by Julien
Julien Gasc’s past two solo albums (also his only solo albums), Cerf, Biche Et Faon in 2013 and Kiss Me, You Fool ! in 2016, collected compact songs brimming with busy ideas, both brilliant and spry. Both pulling from a wide pantheon of French music, from Jean-Claude Vannier, Catherine Albeiro, or Alain Goraguer, Cerf, Biche Et Faon felt a bit more diaristic and Kiss Me, You Fool ! was sprawling but contained fascinating, tight-knit pockets of influence that popped vibrantly. Julien’s history dates further back than 2013 though, primarily as a main songwriter in Aquaserge, the now inactive Hyperclean, and a brief stint as Stereolab’s keyboardist.
On L’Appel de la Foret (The Call of the Forest), the end of his trilogy of solo releases, all the parts that make Gasc an effective songwriter settle and distill for his most consistent album yet. His morose but intriguing melodies line each song as does a steady, krautish and clear drumbeat. The compositions are sturdy, compact, and smart, Gasc delivering the purest version of his deep-set grooves.
Certain parts complement Gasc’s sound to the fullest, most notably Catherine Hershey’s vocals, a constant that adds a subtle dimension of conversational harmony. On “Libertas et Firegasc,” Gasc and Hershey have a detached call-and-response in French and English, spoken and sung. Towards the end, Gasc sings “you know that I love” with Hershey’s spoken reply of “for today it’s a no, but let’s hang tomorrow,” before she sings a refrain she goes to throughout, telling him to “keep his flame cool,” before they both laugh to end the song. Closer “Undying Eyes,” the only fully English-sung track, follows the soft phrasings of Gasc and an accompanying piano as Hershey’s double-tracked vocals harmonizes, but more often runs counterpoint. Gasc’s practically fluent English is tender with sounds he’s unsure of, and the ascending analog synth line is overtly simple, but sparsely and effectively placed. It snaps into an infinite groove of layered vocals, a fuzzed-out, four-note bass line, and a casually confident drumbeat.
The nuanced repetitions of Gasc’s grooves and the small variations of the same themes within each song allow foreign elements to enter and exit organically, breaking open the sound even more. “Passer, Laisser” waltzes along when a shimmering pedal steel guitar with a slight wah-wah enters just about a minute in nearly unnoticeably, matching the melody and guiding it along later in the song.
L'Appel de la Foret is free and sensitive, lyrically touching on romance and social issues both in France, such as the Yellow Vest Movement, and on a global scale. The music is understated and comfortable in its skin, taking time to fill out the form and structure of each song, something that makes this effort feel slightly more distinguished than Gasc’s past albums.
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musicwithoutborders · 1 year ago
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April March & Aquaserge, Sybarite I April March & Aquaserge, 2012
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jbgravereaux · 5 years ago
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L'EXTRAGROUPE - Vitrines (Léo Ferré) (en public)              La Souterraine                                                                                                                             Filmé le 28 avril 2018 au Centre Pompidou par Benjamin Caschera.                                                                                                                                              Paroles et musique de Léo Ferré.                                                                                                                                                                                                      L’album « La Souterraine C’est Extra - 13 reprises de Léo Ferré » est sorti le 27 avril 2018 sur Méridian / La mémoire et la mer, distribution Universal.                                                                                            https://www.franceculture.fr/emission...                                                                                                                                                                                                  La Souterraine - Dans LA SOUTERRAINE C'EST EXTRA, 13 ...                                                                                                                                                            « C'est Extra » : « 13 Reprises De Léo Ferré » – Rock&Folk : Écrit par Stan Cuesta le 3 juin 2018...                                                                                            La jeunesse Souterraine aime Pépé Ferré | Zibeline
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anthologiealeatoire · 6 years ago
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half-a-tiger · 6 years ago
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AQUASERGE - “Si tu t'en vas” (Léo Ferré cover)
Directed by P.r2b and Marie-Stéphane Imbert
Music and lyrics by Léo Ferré, covered by Aquaserge on the cover compilation “La Souterraine C’est Extra”, out now via La Souterraine.
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le-souriant · 6 years ago
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