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Tricky : on the ring again
Une salle de boxe du XVIIe arrondissement. On descend au sous-sol, on marche sur des tapis, on tape un peu dans un sac lourd, et là Tricky déboule en short, avec les gants, le marcel, la panoplie. Notons que le kid de Bristol n’a pas la carrure de Mike Tyson : il combattrait plutôt dans la catégorie poids moyen, option “loisir”. Tout comme son idole avouée, Chris Eubank, Anglais champion du monde des poids super moyens WBO (1991-1995), dit “Simply the Best”, l’un des boxeurs les plus fantasques, excentriques et violents qu’a connu le noble art. “Chris Eubank avait tout, je voulais être lui” , explique Tricky en fichant un petit coup dans le punching-ball. Voici un peu plus d’un an qu’il a posé son sac de sport ici.
Un live de Mogwai, drôle d’objet à écouter dans un canapé, cerné de voisins pas tous portés sur les tremblements de terre et les éclats d’étoiles, sans la sueur, sans la pression des chairs ni celle des bières. Retrouver Friend of the Night , Mogwai Fear Satan , I Know You Are But What Am I? en versions instables et rêches suffit à l’érection des tympans. Mais l’audio n’est ici qu’un appendice : celui de Burning , documentaire réalisé par Vincent Moon et Nathanaël Le Scouarnec.
Les effets très spéciaux de Mogwai
Un des groupes les plus étranges de la rentrée : il cite dans la même phrase, et avec une conviction identique, Prince et Joy Division, les Smiths et Michael Jackson. Et c’est bizarrement ce que l’on voit, ce que l’on entend sur scène : un drôle d’accord de paix entre l’euphorie tapageuse des uns et la mélancolie palpable des autres. En ce sens, Hurts est bien un groupe de Manchester, qui n’aurait pas choisi son camp, localement, entre l’esthétique glaciale du label Factory et les chants communautaires, boursouflés de Robbie Williams. “Nous sommes deux personnalités très opposées, ombre et lumière, explique Adam Anderson, clavier du groupe. Nous nous épaulons en permanence : en musique comme dans la vie, Theo a tendance à être positif ; moi, je suis très sombre.
Lheure de Hurts ?
Le magistral contre-pied de Clinic
On en a connu, des crétins clamant à qui voulaient les béatifier sans miracle qu’ils allaient révolutionner leur propre soupe, des matamores promettant monts, merveilles et darwinisme quand ils reproduisaient en sinistres industrieux la même chanson encore, et encore, et encore, ad lib . On en a même adoré. Clinic, par exemple qui, en dix ans, n’avait jamais vraiment réinventé son fil à couper les atomes en quatre. Certes la formule marchait bien, ou plutôt galopait vite : un post-garage-punk-psychédélico-rebondissant énergisant comme une gégène branchée sur le système nerveux central, tranchant comme le scalpel, rond comme un Bibendum. Mais à force de tourner en rond, les Liverpuldiens risquaient de provoquer le tournis de notre dédain : encore un ronéotype, même bon, et on boudait définitivement. Le groupe lui-même a du finir par se lasser : Bubblegum est, pour les quatre masqués, une vraie révolution.
Aloe Blacc, la classe absolue
Une chanson n’appartient plus à son auteur dès lors qu’elle est diffusée ailleurs que dans sa seule caboche. Prenez Aloe Blacc. S’imaginait-il devenir le mendigot le mieux rémunéré de l’histoire en composant I Need a Dollar , hymne officiel de la Grande Récession devenu aspirateur à cash grâce au flair de la chaîne HBO ? Sans doute pas, et peu importe : I Need a Dollar est avant tout un tube de l’été d’un genre inédit, coquet, conscient et dansant.
Shugo Tokumaru is a freakishly gifted Japanese bedroom-pop artist with an effortless command of hundreds of instruments. Judging from the gentle, whimsical tone of his music, he is also probably one of the sweetest people in the world. The joyful music he creates, however, has extremely limited use-- 15 minutes of his manically giddy pop should be enough for anybody. His fifth full-length album, Port Entropy , grows wearying at less than 40. Whether they are employing flutes, woodblocks, chimes, xylophones, accordion, upright piano, or, more likely, all of them at once, every Tokumaru song expresses the same basic sentiment: in a word, "YAY!!"
Shugo Tokumaru: Port Entropy
Shugo Tokumaru - Port Entropy (2010)(Indie Folk Indie Pop Psych Pop)(VBR-MP3
Shugo Tokumaru - Port Entropy (2010) Release date: April 21, 2010 Shugo Tokumaru (born 1980) is a Japanese singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, whose style and influences incorporate elements of pop, folk and electronic music. He is also a member of the pop rock band Gellers. His first solo record, Night Piece was released in 2004 and his second record, L.S.T., was released in 2005.
Ólöf Arnalds: Innundir Skinni
The Icelandic singer/songwriter Ólöf Arnalds isn't well-known in America, but the few who warmed themselves to the glow of her quietly spellbinding 2007 album Við Og Við or witnessed one of her charmingly quirky live shows passed her around like a secret. Her snowflake-delicate folk songs are composed of one or two acoustic instruments, her high, trilling voice, and nothing else. She sings almost entirely in Icelandic, which casts its own peculiar spell-- there are no turns of phrase to puzzle over, nothing to separate from the serene whole. Her new album, Innundir Skinni , is fuller-sounding than Við Og Við , but its pleasures are just as elusive and profound.
Ólöf Arnalds - Innundir Skinni (2010) MP3 160kbps
01 - Vinur Minn 02 - Innudir Skinni 03 - Crazy Car 04 - Vinkonur 05 - Svif BirkiJosephine Foster & the Victor Herrero Band: Anda Jaleo
Josephine Foster's voice is an especially distinctive instrument, one that can somehow sound less timeless than vintage, as though it might be best heard through the speaker of an old hand-crank Victrola. Over the course of her career, she has applied her quavering soprano to an impressively broad array of styles that has included rustic folk, spiky acid rock, German lieder, and a musical setting of Emily Dickinson poems. On Anda Jaleo , recorded live in the Grenadine Sierra with the Victor Herrero Band, she returns to more traditional material. The album features songs from poet Federico Garcia Lorca's folk collection Las Canciones Populares Espanolas . And for better or worse, Foster and her group have taken a conservative, almost reverential approach to this material, resulting in an album that goes exactly as far as its premise might suggest and no further. As genre exercises go, however, Anda Jaleo is extremely well-executed.Suuns: Zeroes QC
Plenty of bands have ambition; Montreal's Suuns have their sights set on the brass ring. Zeroes QC , their dank, oily, frequently metamorphosing debut LP, is one of the more industrious first goes I've heard in ages-- sleek, moody space-prog, self-assured, meticulous, and foreboding. More than anything, Zeroes QC sounds like the work of a much older band, the kind who've earned a few months in the studio to tool around, rearrange their pedal boards, try out literally every idea that comes to them.http://www.last.fm/music/Suuns Suuns have no doubt ingested a lot of art rock, the Montreal group’s minimalist rhythms are equally informed by Joy Division, Suicide and Can, often wrapped in a noisy squall of droning guitars and pulsing synths. Add to this Ben Shemie’s breathy, paranoid sing/speak, and there are times that it seems like Suuns are about to drive over a sonic cliff. But there’s actually a great sense of restraint at play.
Suuns - Zeroes QC (2010) [shad0w325]
In their half-decade lifespan Dexys Midnight Runners went through at least four distinct versions, each forged then broken on the ferocious, perfectionist willpower of leader Kevin Rowland. When the version of the band that made debut album Searching for the Young Soul Rebels went on the road, they called it the "Intense Emotions" tour, and the music they made together bore that out. This 30th anniversary reissue comes with a bonus disc covering the entire career of that first Dexys incarnation, from debut single "Dance Stance" to "Plan B", the first disc cut by Dexys Mark II. Repeated material from radio sessions means there's a certain amount of fat, especially if you own prior compilations. But if you're new to the band, this is an album that deserves the extended look.