Songwriting in Action : Sadcore Café

Bordeaux, Texas

[Autopromotion] Le nouveau 6 titres de Supernormal est maintenant en ligne. Les longues heures de travail qui justifient l’absence de nouveaux billets sur Heavy Mental.

Des morceaux plus calmes et moins pop que Nos Vies Electroniques e.p, avec comme horizon avoué la scène sadcore californienne des 90s (American Music Club, Red House Painters, Idaho, Mazzy Star etc …).

F**k me I’m a middle class

En tant que chic type plutôt de gauche, le mépris de nos élites intellectuelles envers la classe moyenne fait partie des nombreux systématismes ataviques de notre société.fr qui m’attristent et me laissent dans une profonde incompréhension.

Mark Richards – Core Memory

Having all the means available to be connected on a permanent basis seems so natural for us today. No one really is interested in the gory details of the infrastructure world (the infraworld indeed) of the machines, network and all these different technical assets that makes our many different electronic lives possible.

Mark Richards Core Memory project is a tribute to this infra world. Some kind of still life to the unsung heroes of the information age : the electronic machines and devices. (Thanks again SignalVsNoise for the link !).

Pop Songs Illustrated

Phineas X Jones posted an article on Signal Vs Noise on his art work for a folk rocker CD cover, his first ever. Phineas goes through every steps of the realisation, from the main idea to the twicky bit of photoshop. It is quite interesting to see how the idea blossom and how internet drastically speeds up the process.

But the truth is : the result is disappointing (and I wont show it here). Too complicated and technical, too many different colors and items. We just dont see what the real point is.

Pirate Gigs

Summer day

On 21st June in France there is this 20 something year old habit of celebrating the music : this is la Fête de la Musique. Basically anyone can go out and play dance and sings. You ain’t gonna have any trouble because you’re making music or noise up until very late. Very funky.