Julie Tippex is an art and music agency based in Paris, London and Berlin. We represent most of our artists for Europe and UK. You’re promoting an event, and would like to know what projects could be available ? Just ask Julie !
SPRING 2012
MATT ELLIOTT (UK / ICI D´AILLEURS) 
The Songs Trilogy is over. The angry noise has all but abated, making way for more fragile melodies and a more subtle approach to intensity to immerse the listener. Ideally listened to in total darkness to discover the hope hidden deep within the guitars, voice, choirs, bells, ethereal trumpets, the howl of the dog beneath the skin, in the sincerity of the music. Inspired by the ghosts of European folk music, the voice often resigned but always expressive. Agent contact (Germany Tour March 2012).
FREDOVITCH ONE MAN BAND (FR)
Ex bassist of Belly Button, full time member of King Khan and The Shrines and The Kitchenmen, Fredovitch One Man Band is back in 2012 with a few avails, tasty new tracks and a crazy live show! ‘Troublin’ Time‘ (on tour w/ Quintron) – Tuxedo Moon cover. Agent contact (March/April 2012 + festivals).
HAIGHT ASHBURY (UK / LIME)
They are NOT from Frisco but from Glasgow. This young group captures the spirit of the Summer of Love and mixes it with the power of their glaswigian ancestors The Jesus and Mary Chain. Already celebrated by the press, expect to hear much more about them in 2012. One of the highlights of Transmusicales 2011 Festival – Agent contact (France in Spring 2012. Available for Europe shows in 2012)
BITCHIN BAJAS (US / IMPORTANT REC)
Bitchin Bajas is the solo synthscapes of one Cooper Crain, maybe better known as a member of modern krautrock masters CAVE. With Bitchin Bajas, Crain creates worlds of sound, crafted from analog synthesizer and organ tones, not entirely too far removed from certain elements of Harmonia, Edgar Froese, or Cluster. This past year Bitchin Bajas (Cooper is joined live by Dan of band Mahjongg) has performed at smaller theaters in Chicago, New York and LA playing live to video accompaniment (Water Wrackets film and/or Olivia Wyatt’s film). Sounds – Videos – Press sheets here: Bitchin Bajas Website - Agent contact (available for Europe in March April 2012).
FENSTER (DE / MORR MUSIC)
Futuristic nostalgia with minimal percussion and echoey guitar riffs with a lyrical bent towards the macabre dada world of dreams. Fenster plays de-constructed pop music, layering subtle distortions, melodic chords and city soundscapes under dream narratives. Fenster’s charm and inimitability comes in the form of collage; hungry to integrate their vision of the future with the sound of the past. – Agent contact (available April / May 2012 + festivals)
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PONTIAK (US / THRILL JOCKEY)
Pontiak are the brothers Van, Lain, and Jennings Carney; relentless musical explorers who channel the bold landscapes of rural American into their ferocious, immense and beautiful music. Following on from 2011’s stunning “Comecrudos” – itself a soundtrack to a long journey through Texas and nights spent camped out in old volcanoes under the full moon, Pontiak will release a new album on Thrill Jockey in 2012. Softly spoken but as solid and heavy as the night, PONTIAK will tour Europe in Spring 2012. Agent Contact
SYNTAX ERROR (FR / LABEL VIBRANT)
Three nearly geeks kicking a deceptively simplistic, energetic and strong rock, served by a thick and rhythmic sound, and texts made of computer codes … Here, no leather jacket (or maybe…), just a slight craziness that diverts attention and takes no prisonners ! They will celebrate the release of their album along with The Ex in march. No Fear !”A scratching music, a music of excess, the kind of conscious excess that orgies are made of …” Franpi Barrial Agent contact (on roster from Apr. 2012).
ALEXANDER TUCKER (UK / THRILL JOCKEY)
After years perfecting his musical craftsmanship, via numerous album releases for ATP Recordings and U-Sound Archives and collaborations with performers as diverse as Stephen O’Malley (Sunn 0)))) Daniel Beban (Orchestra Of Spheres) and Daniel O’Sullivan (Ulver), Alexander Tucker reached something of a crescendo with 2011′s remarkable “Dorwytch” (Thrill Jockey -included in The Wire’s top 50 albums of 2011), an achievement surpassed only by his constantly mutating live show. Somehow through all of this he has also written a new album which will be released on Thrill Jockey in April 2012 and will be followed by more live excursions, bringing his psych-chamber-doom-pop to ever wider audiences. Agent Contact. (Available from late March onwards)
CIVIL CIVIC (AUS)
Civil Civic are still Australian, still have a nut-kicking robot drummer, still don’t sing, and still make a mix of math-rock, prog-rock, electronica and noise pop. After a six-weeks tour in club stages of Europa and the release of their debut album “Rules”, they are ready to go back on the road next spring. Watch their performance in Paris . “It’s much more of an uplifting tune, with icy keyboards bouncing across a frozen sheets of thick driving basslines.” – The Needle Drop. “Freaky-boned genius” – Artrocker – Agent contact (available May 2012 + festivals)
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THE LOVELY EGGS (UK / CHERRYADE)
The Lovely Eggs have been described as unhinged, strange, bizarre, cuckoo and howling mad. But this hasn’t stopped them becoming one of the most exciting bands of 2011 with their DIY underground grunge-pop sound, and their dare-to-be different approach to music, inspired by everyday life, coupled with a fierce ethos that music music should have no rules. Their last single “Allergies” has been released on Too Pure Single Club and produced by Gruff Rhys. Agent contact (available May / June 2012 + festivals)
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JAD FAIR & GILLES RIEDER (US / FIRE)
In 1974, with his brother David, Jad Fair co-founded the lo-fi alternative rock group Half Japanese. Over the ensuing three decades, Half Japanese released nearly 30 records, and in the process, attracted a solid base of fans passionate about the band’s pure, unbridled enthusiasm for rock and roll. Jad also performs and records as a solo artist, and occasionally collaborates with such musicians as Daniel Johnston, Teenage Fanclub, Moe Tucker (of Velvet Underground), Yo La Tengo, Steve Shelley and Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth), John Zorn, Kramer, and more. Live video with Gilles Rieder – Agent contact (Half Japanese is available in March, UK/Europe tour of Jad Fair and Gilles Rieder in March and April 2012. Jad Fair is also open to exhibitions and creative projects)
WFMU / BRIAN TURNER DJ SET (USA)
Brian Turner has been Music Director at WFMU in New York/New Jersey since 1996, a station that has built massive worldwide acclaim as a purveyor in adventurous programming and being well-ahead of music’s underground and overground curve, with praise from the likes of John Peel, Matt Groening, the WIRE, New York Times and more. Turner’s eclectic tastes and sound vision are well-documented via his weekly radio show which blurs experimental/pop boundaries and takes radio to serious outer realms. Turner’s also curated many festivals for the station, and in his music direction showers the spotlight on an impressive array of sounds from around the world unheard by most. “A forward-thinking motherf***er!” – Julian Cope. Agent contact (tour April 2012)
KIM FOWLEY (US)
Kim Fowley, born 1939, is an American record producer, impresario, songwriter, musician, film maker, and radio actor. He is best known for his role behind a string of novelty and cult rock pop singles in the 1960s, and for managing The Runaways in the 1970s. He has been described as “one of the most colorful characters in the annals of rock & roll” and as “a shadowy cult figure well outside the margins of the mainstream.” We’re currently working on a small string of lectures about rock and love, and acoustic set, around UK and Europe. Get in touch if you’re interested ! Booking contact (lectures tour April 2012)
GALLON DRUNK (UK)
Gallon Drunk first erupted onto the London gig circuit in 1990 and wasted little time becoming one of the capital’s most essential live propositions. With their succession of startling and abrasive singles, every one of which has achieved Single Of The Week in the NME, not to mention the countless accolades for their 5 studio albums since forming, the band have notched up a formidable reputation, enhanced yet further by frontman James Johnston joining Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds in 2003 as well as their most recent collaboration with Lydia Lunch – Big Sexy Noise. In May 2012 they will release a new album on German label Clouds Hill and will be available for live shows from April onwards. Agent contact
GARCON’S MUTANT DISCO PROJECT (FR)
Garçon’s Mutant Disco Project is the live re-interpretation of the classic ZE Records Garçons LP “Divorce” produced by Bob Blank in 1979, plus some tracks from Marie et les Garçons’ John Cale production and Sutra’s Mirwais produced LP on Other Records. It’s a six pieces live band with original singer and songwriter Patrick Vidal, accompanied by Steve Jones from A Man Called Adam on keys, Laurence Wasser on drums, Nico Kantes from Sporto Kantes on bass and Roussia & Ladybird (Soldiers of twilight) on back up vocals. Expect some Electro Disco with Post Punk Camp No Wave Attitude, with Studio 54 and Palace strings and horns… let’s say TURBO DISCO ! French Boy – Video live at Rex Club – Agent contact (available in May and for special events)
ESG (US / FIRE)
Hailing from the Bronx, ESG were formed at the start of Hip-Hop. They became the most sampled of groups ever among their contemporaries such as Public Enemy, LL Cool J, Marley Marl and Grandmaster Flash. Originally signed to Factory Records in the UK their first album was produced by Martin Hannett. In the US they released music on New York’s underground 99 Records label alongside New York’s No Wave groups such as Liquid Liquid, The Bush Tetras and Konk. ITheir sparse, raw, percussion led sound continues to inspire and influence new generations. Website – Agent contact (we’re currently working on flightshares in May and June 2012)
BOOZE 
(UK / DE – ALL TIME LOW)
Booze is the illegitimate offspring of Milo Smee (Chrome Hoof) and Demian Castellanos (The Oscillation). Conceived during a few sweaty evenings in the studio whilst they took respite from their main projects, BOOZE channels the infidel urges of two musicians at the peak of their deviant prowess. Two limited edition LPs will be released, in November 2011 and February 2012 on the All Time Low imprint, and the duo have assembled an allstar band of musicians with which to swagger through some sordid live renditions. Listen to a track here. Agent contact (tour March 2012)
THE OSCILLATION (UK / ALL TIME LOW)
The Oscillation veer between krautrock edginess and medicated pop melancholia, noise driven no wave fuzz and droning kosmische bliss. Following the release of their second album in spring 2011 they toured extensively with the likes of Silver Apples, Wooden Shjips, Legendary Pink Dots and more, and have notched up a critical reputation from both press and fans alike that now precedes their intoxicating live show. They released a new EP in December 2011 and will continue to tour relentlessly throughout 2012. Bandcamp - Agent contact (Tour: April 2012 + Festivals all year long)
ETIENNE JAUMET (FR / VERSATILE)
Half a Zombie Zombie is still scary. Etienne Jaumet’s solo project, with keyboards, machines and sax, has been playlisted by Ame, Laurent Garnier, Josh Wink, James Holden… His first cd, “Night Music”, (Oct 09) is mixed by Carl Craig! New EP out September 2011. Website – Agent contact (available for Europe shows Winter and Spring 2012)
DUSTIN WONG (US / THRILL JOCKEY)
Co-founder and guitar player of Ponytail, as well of Ecstatic Sunshine, Dustin Wong takes inspiration from something John Fahey once said: “I was playing guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head. So I was really composing for a full orchestra.” Dustin was deeply moved and inspired by this way of thinking about the creative process. It had a profound effect on his work process, inspiring him to use one instrument to create many melodic, emotional and literal layers. Working with a simple assembly of pedals: an octave, distortion, loop, envelope filter, and a couple of delays, he began to take this idea and make it his own, following a twisting path of punk discovery that inspired a growing respect for sonic visionaries like Jimi Hendrix, Brian Wilson and Brian Eno. Agent contact (Tour May 2012)
EXTRA LIFE (US/AFRICAN TAPE)
On May 7th 2012, Africantape will release Dream Seeds, the third full-length album by Brooklyn art-rock provocateurs Extra Life. Since 2008 Extra Life has challenged and seduced various underground scenes by fusing the obsessive intricacy of minimalist composition, the suicidal swoon of Morrissey, the epic strength of Metal and the solemn purity of Medieval chant. Website – Agent contact for France only (available for France shows May-June 2012)
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SUMMER 2012
TOURS TBA/TBC : KELLIES
ZOMBIE ZOMBIE (FR / VERSATILE)
The Parisian duo formed by Cosmic Neman (also drummer with Herman Düne) and Etienne Jaumet, continues its incredible odyssey through the independent scene. An odyssey in the form of a meteoric rise. Since its beginnings Zombie Zombie claims his passion for krautrock and some form of cinematic music. The Zombie Zombie inevitably evokes bands such as Neu, Silver Apples, Suicide Goblin or John Carpenter soundtracks. “Festival highlights include Zombie Zombie, a Parisian pairing who impress with their vintage synth-based krautrock rythms and high-energy hommage to the scores of low-budget horror films. John Carpenter-inspired synthesizer soundscapes mix with the no wave electroclash of Suicide.” The Independant Agent contact (available for Summer Festivals 2012)
LES SEXAREENOS (CAN)
The name ‘Les Sexareenos’ is French for ‘instant dance party‘ and it’s mostly the name of the band that inspired the revival of garage music in Canada. Formed in 1998 by Mark Sultan (The King Khan & BBQ Show, The Spaceshits…) and Colonel Lingus with Choyce ( CPC Gangbangs, Red Mass, Pypy…) and Work With Me Annie, Les Sexareenos have shared the bill with The Troggs, The Detroit Cobras, The Von Bondies and many others before they broke up in 2001. After an amazing show at Pop Montreal they are back in Europe for festivals in July 2012. Agent contact.
CAVE (US / DRAG CITY)
Chicago-based psychedelic/Krautrock enthusiasts Cave craft tight, funky, free-form slabs of groove-heavy, instrumental space rock that have earned the group comparisons to everyone from Can to Stereolab to Funkadelic. Live, this is one of the best Psych/kraut act that exists today! You want some proof? check this and this. CAVE just released a new album ‘Neverendless’ on chicago label Drag City and are ready to invade Europe again! Agent contact (available Europe/UK for Summer Festivals 2012)
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DISAPPEARS (US / KRANKY)
Drawing on a combined reverence for reverb, heavy tremolo, distortion, delay and repetition,Disappears play minimal rock music inspired by everything from Kraut to American gospel to punk. Band includes now Steve Shelley as permanent drummer. New album will be released on March 1 by Chicago label Kranky. Check their Superstition video and a whole concert filmed by Arte live Web TV at Route Du Rock Festival LIVE FOOTAGE - Agent contact (available Europe/UK for Summer Festivals 2012)
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R. STEVIE MOORE (US)
He has released over 400 brilliant albums and music videos, worked with Jad Fair, Ariel Pink, Mike Watt and many others. His father, Bob Moore was a famous bassist and producer who worked with Elvis and Roy Orbison. Together with his Brooklyn band Tropical Ooze, the pope of DIY is back for a few shows in France in June. Agent contact + new tracks feat. Ariel Pink.
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CHEVEU (FR / BORN BAD)
They have shared the bill with Tyvek, Quintron, Glass Candy, King Khan and BBQ… They have played WFMU stage with Half Japanese at SXSW. Their live shows are simply mind-blowing. They are back with a new album and we’re pretty sure you won’t be able to get it out of your head, will you? Meet Cheveu on Noisey/Vice video (live extract + translated itw). Agent contact (open to festivals offers and special events).
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THE CHAP (UK / LO RECORDINGS)
Nebulous and impenetrable, rife with indignation and imagination, the Chap deconstruct musical territory paved by the likes of Sonic Youth, the Fall, and the Swell Maps. But at the core, these are irresistible pop songs: fuzzed out, chopped up, and buttressed by cheap yet insistent electronic beats. Classic summertime love is just like this song: short n sweet. “Even your friend” is the second single from The Chap’s new album “Well Done Europe”, which, needless to say, is a masterpiece. It contains hit after hit, quite a few of which mention love and death and stuff like that. It sounds like the coolest new wave pop album ever recorded by a group of teachers (almost nobody in The Chap is a teacher). Live video : Remember Elvis Rex – Agent contact (available for festivals)
BARDO POND (US / FIRE)
Bardo Pond has the outward specifications of a rock band — guitars, bass, keyboards, drums, occasional but crucial flute and violin and vocals — but the rivers that converge into the band’s oneiric flow have their headwaters in the outlands of ecstatic jazz, free noise and the avant-garde. Their slow-motion avalanches of churning instrumentation and voice suggest drugged states but don’t necessarily require them. They alter brain chemistry by the alchemical effect of distressed sound alone, aspiring to become engineers of the soul’s passage to alternate states of consciousness. After a hugely popular tour of UK, France and Spain in Autumn 2011, Bardo Pond will return to Europe in Summer 2012. Agent contact (available for Summer Festivals 2012 +Select Club Shows)
THE RAINCOATS (UK)
“It was The Raincoats I related to most. They seemed like ordinary people playing extraordinary music. Music that was natural that made room for cohesion of personalities. They had enough confidence to be vulnerable and to be themselves without having to take on the mantle of male rock/punk rock aggression…or the typical female as sex symbol avec irony or sensationalism.” Kim Gordon, Sonic Youth,1993. – Agent contact (Available for Europe festivals in June and July)
THE ZS (US / The Social Registry)
“One of the strongest avant-garde bands in New York. Zs’ songs sputter forth in Morse code dots of percussion and saxophone.” – New York Times . – Agent contact for France (Available for France in July)
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AUTUMN 2012
QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT (US / GONER)
Quintron is an American musician and leader of the eponymous one-man-band, “Quintron”. He is a celebrated nightclub organist and inventor, who has patented a number of his own inventions. He will come back to Europe this Spring with his wife, fellow musician and puppeteer, Panacea Pussycat (also known as Miss Pussycat), co-founder of the 9th Ward’s now defunct Pusyscat Cavers. The Quintron / Miss Pussycat experience is one of barely controlled electronic chaos, Swamp-Tech beats, small explosions, incredible clothes, and entertaining puppet stories. Agent contact (tour Autumn 2012, also open to exhibitions and creative projects)
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+ in UK/EU (period tba, early Fall with new releases) : CHAIN AND THE GANG (US), PURLING HISS (US) – Agent contact
+ in october in France (with new releases) : WHITE HILLS (US/ Thrill Jockey), MOON DUO (US/ Souterrain Transmissions) – Agent contact
+ available worldwide for festivals and special events : new audiovisual live show created by arty garage band CHEVEU and visual artist Yro Yto.
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AVAILABLE ON REQUEST AND FOR SPECIAL EVENTS
+ FAUST, THE CHAP, YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS, THE RAINCOATS, ARNOLD DREYBLATT ENSEMBLE, BUSH TETRAS, JONATHAN KANE, JEFF MILLS, VERSATILE NOISE TROOPERS, SOUND OF NOISE (6 DRUMMERS)… COMPLETE JULIE TIPPEX MUSIC ROSTER
SILVER APPLES (USA / VARIOUS)
Decades after their brief yet influential career first ground to a sudden and mysterious halt, the Silver Apples remain one of pop music’s true enigmas: a surreal, almost unprecedented duo, their music explored interstellar drones and hums, pulsing rhythms and electronically-generated melodies years before similar ideas were adopted in the work of acolytes ranging from Suicide to Spacemen 3 to Laika. Now touring as a solo act. – Agent contact (Available for festivals in 2012)
MAIN / ROBERT HAMPSON (UK-FR / REACTOR-MEGO)
Robert Hampson’s founded the band LOOP in 1985 and went on to record three genre-defining albums, culminating in the acclaimed ‘A Gilded Eternity’ (1990). After LOOP disbanded Robert created MAIN, a more experimental project which focused on electro-acoustic sounds and field recording. After numerous releases the original MAIN project was deactivated in the early 2000’s but has now been revived alongside a new live collaborator: STEPHAN MATHIEU. In 2011 MAIN will perform live again to coincide with reissues of the original MAIN albums. Robert Hampson will also release a solo record on Editions Mego in 2011. Agent contact (available for selected festival and venue appearances throughout 2011)
THE MONOCHROME SET (UK / VARIOUS LABELS)
Lost in the mists of musical history, the Monochrome Set appeared in the hazy period just after punk and hung around for a good two decades, releasing clever albums full of hook-crammed melodies and coloured with a dark sense of humour. Frontman Bid’s arch vocals gave the band a wonderful camp quality, and it was probably his lyrical smarts that alerted a young Morrissey to their presence; they were even one of his favourite groups before he formed The Smiths. other fans include no less than Franz Ferdinand or Graham Coxon. New album Spring 2012 ! Website – Live at Primavera festival 2011 – Agent contact (available for Europe on request. Festivals all year long)
GLENN BRANCA (US)
Julie Tippex is very proud to welcome Glenn Branca! Glenn is now performing with the Glenn Branca Ensemble: “Four electric guitars. One electric bass. One set of drums. One Glenn Branca.” He played Primavera Festival and Villette Sonique in 2011 to great acclaim. See an awesome video: Glenn Branca on The Drone – Agent contact (available for special events)
ETIENNE JAUMET & RICHARD PINHAS (FR)
Etienne and Richard met recently and decided to play together, united despite the age difference by their love for electronic and cosmic music… Through the mists of time! One of the French 70s legend, Pinhas has been playing guitar and synths with his band Heldon but also with Magma or Pascal Comelade, as well as collaborations with authors Gilles Deleuze, Norman Spinrad or Maurice Dantec. Influenced by the work of Robert Fripp and Brian Eno, the music of Richard Pinhas and Heldon is sui generis and innovative and has in its turn greatly influenced the field of electronic rock – Agent contact (available for Europe shows from now-on to Automn 2012).
BON VOYAGE (FR / STENDEC)
Lovers of Tussle, François de Roubaix and instrumental disco, beware : rising from the ashes of the highly sought after Les Aeroplanes whose “ Impersonal Naviguant EP” for Mathematics was a sure fire hit, Bon Voyage is a vibrant Parisian outfit has delved deep into a rich sonic landscape and evolved a musical score which is incomparable to most of today’s computer generated music. Bon Voyage cross genres, carve out the sweetest melodies and allow the nectar to flow with an assortment of Italian Strings, American filters and Japanese Oscillators. First album release early 2012 on Stendec – Agent contact (available on request).
IDIOT SAINT CRAZY(FR / LE CLURICAUN)
Idiocy, sacred and crazyness are the three musical fascinations of Valentin Carette , who lends his mind and hands to ISC, the protean … Guitarist in Yolk and Scathodick Surfers bands, stealth student of Fred Frith, Albert Marcoeur, Elliott Sharp and Kevin Blechdom, this solo project is a condensation of all his previous experiments (only guitar or banjo, midi guitar and laptop, and electronic drums and guitar simultaneously), that already seduced John Zorn : he will play at The Stone club on next november ! On stage, he alterns electro-rock moods and experimental pieces for solo guitar, confirming his touch by grace…” Youtube channel – Agent contact (studying all request, available on summer festival).
LES YEUX DE LA TÊTE (FR / HEAD RECORD – RUDE AWAKENING)
Les Yeux de la Tête are the deviant rock n ‘roll : no guitar, it is a sax melody that gives the replica to a dense and unshakable rhythm section … From the first notes sent by the combo a few years ago, their sound has risen, they now gleefully feed their free jazz bases with a heavy rock invoking The Melvins and Fugazi. Great class!
“If you like broken rythm that run on their own, deviant music without the fuss that goes with it, the casualness with guys who know where they’re going, stretch your ears out of the head” Pertes et fracas Agent contact (available on request).
HUGUES ANTHURUS D’ARCHER (FR / UNSIGNED)
Anthurus d’Archer is a laboratory, led by Hugues Andriot, a highly discrete and creative figure. After a few years striding along the metal community, he chose to confront his writing, always very technical and influenced by rock(s), to the chamber’s instrumentarium. He does not divert the instruments, but the genre: the concerts of the trio (guitar, percussion, flute, harp, and others) are surprising moments of extraordinary, pert and exhilarating musicality : real candy for the ears!
“One could say Anthurus is to rock what the Monty Python’s cartoons are to humor, the reference is explicit.” Ecouter voir, revues des médiathèques de France. Agent contact (available on request, also for festival and events).
RICHARD YOUNGS & DAMON KRUKOWSKI (UK-US / JADJAGWUAR)
Glasgow’s Richard Youngs has long been a leading light of the contemporary UK underground with his vast and varied discography reaching almost forty titles since his first release in 1990. In 2011 he collaborated with Damon Krukowski of Damon & Naomi / Galaxie 500 for the album “Amplifying Host” (Jagjaguwar), a record described by Byron Coley in The Wire as a true “late night classic”. The duo followed this with select dates around the UK and now look set to continue the collaboration live with a tour of Italy in December 2011 and further availability in 2012. Agent contact (Available for Selected Appearances, sometimes as a double bill with Damon & Naomi)
ANTILLES (FR)
Formed by members of Sister Iodine and The Berg Sans Nipple Antilles only exists through their crazy live performances. A crazyness that has brought them to festivals such as Benicassim, Incubate, Supersonic, Nuits Sonores, Villette Sonique…without any record or press release. Get a glimpse of their radness here – Agent contact (open to festivals offers and special events)
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AGATHE MAX (FR / TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS)
Agathe Max is a french musician based in Lyon. She mostly performs as a solo violin act, enhanced with various loops, distortions and other effects, sharing gigs with acts such as Carla Bozulich, Jonathan Kane, Rhys Chattam, David Daniell, Melt Banana… Her music is either composed or improvised, depending of the shape of the project. In addition to her musical carreer, Agathe Max is also a visual artist, a jeweller and an activist in the musical and artistic community in Lyon. Her music is hypnotic, pulsed if not rythmic in a real way, raw & sincere yet sophisticated. It’s an invitation to explore the depths of true feelings, palpable, organic, pagan and spiritual. Agent contact (open to offers for festivals and special events)
JEAN LOUIS (FR)
Jean Louis is still this impulsive and virtuoso power trio, who has stood up to Zu, Blurt or Akosh S., and ravages the perception of those who cross its path … Their devastating, uncontrollable, sharp and clever compos are at every concert bullied, and even clubbed, by these three over-musicians, eager to look, again, and again, for what drags the audience into frenzied or hypnotic trance abysses… It sounds noise, kraut, industrial,jazzcore…, a sound bath, for sure ! “Terribly organic, Jean Louis’s music holds energy that is a treat, sometimes nearly orgiastic.» Progressia. Agent contact (available on request)
OVAL (DE / SHITKATAPULT)
Ever since his groundbreaking early album releases, Markus Popp aka Oval continues to be one of *the* prolific / influential forces in contemporary electronic music, a true visionary of digital audio. Popp’s now legendary early album releases sent shockwaves though the electronic music landscape and laid the foundations for an entire new class of digital sound & production aesthetics. After releasing his acclaimed double ‘O’ Record last year, Markus Popp has just released a new Album ‘DNA’ on ShitKatapult, a 2 disc package (audio CD + DVD-ROM). New Video here and new show with visual artist Naoko Tanaka – Agent contact (available for shows all 2012).
DAT POLITICS (FR / NEW LABEL TBA)
They have been touring all over the map since 1999 with a cult like enthusiasm surrounding their hyper-energetic performances. After releasing a remix for Yacht on DFA, DAT politics are back with a brand new piece that will please the fans of discoid 80s pop and bouncy drum machines as well as pleasantly surprise with less expected hypnotic synth-pop ballads – Agent contact (available for Europe shows all 2012)
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EMMANUELLE PARRENIN (FR / LES DISQUES BIEN)
She sings (in French) and plays the hurdy-gurdy, various harps, the thumb piano, the spinet des Vosges, the dulcimer, singing bowls. Founding figure of the revivalist folk scene in France, she is best known for having recorded thirty years ago an enigmatic and beautiful album, “Maison Rose” highly sought on E-bay: where ultimare post-folk meets trad and experimental electro-acoustic . Now she dusts off her instrumentarium to reinterpret some of her old songs, as well as new ones co-written with French agitator Flop. New album early 2011, the first one since 1976. More info – Agent contact (available for Europe shows all 2012)
DAVID GRUBBS (US / DRAG CITY)
Louisville, Kentucky-born recording artist and writer. Currently resides in Brooklyn, N.Y. David Grubbs was a founding member of the groups Squirrel Bait, Bastro and Gastr del Sol. He also plays periodically with the Red Krayola, and directs the Blue Chopsticks label, which has released new and archival recordings by Luc Ferrari, Derek Bailey and Noel Akchoté, Workshop, Circle X and many others. He has been called one of two “Best Teachers for an Indie-Rocker to Admire” in the Village Voice and “le plus Français des Américains” in Libération. In 2000, his album The Spectrum Between (Drag City) was named “Album of the Year” in the London Sunday Times. Agent contact (open to festivals offers)
PAUL JORDAN AND STEFAN LAKATOS PLAY MOONDOG
Former musicians and friends of Moondog, Paul Jordan (organ) and Stefan Lakatos (trimbas) are available to play a very special set around Moondog this spring. You can find here a video presentation on BBC of the musicians and Moondog’s music. Their performance has already been presented at St Giles, Crippelgate, in London in 2009, in collaboration with the Barbican Center – more details on that event and musicians biographies. We’re currently looking at shows for Paul Jordan and Stefan Lakatos from Tuesday 24th of April 2012 until Monday 29th, following their performance at St Pierre’s cathedral in Nantes, during “Un week-end singulier” promoted by Le Lieu Unique, in collaboration with www.fr-moondog.com – Agent contact
RAY BARTOK (FR)
A new and exciting electro rock duet from Paris, France: keyboards, sampler and drums: a great live act! First album released in Autumn 2011 with a cameo from Napoleon Maddox (IsWhat) on two tracks – Agent contact (available for Europe shows all 2012)
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BLURT (UK / LTM)
Blurt – Puppeteers of the World Unite! Tour. Blurt re-visit some of their first recordings, as well as material from their latest albumn “Cut it”… Ted Milton begins each performance with a (short) puppet show. 7 shows only in March 2012. – Agent contact (Europe Tour March 2012).
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AUDIOVISUALS & CREATIVE PROJECTS
GANGPOL & MIT (FR / IPECAC)
Sylvain mixes music, Guillaumit mixes comics and visuals. As a music and graphic duet, Gangpol und Mit work on a peculiar world of deviant cartoon inhabited by colourful and geometrical creatures – a bestiary that evolves in lysergic environments and takes part in apocalyptic stories. New album on IPECAC in 2011 and new live show “1000 people band” where the cartoon character play live. 1000 People Band – Agent contact (available for Europe shows all 2012)
EUPHORIE (FR / 1024 Architecture)
Created by 1024 Architecture with the support of Arcadi (founder of Nemo festival in Paris), Euphorie is an audiovisual performance by Franz Wunschel (designer of Etienne de Crecy and Vitalic scenographies) and Fernando Favier (ex member of Father Divine w/ Mike Ladd). Past and upcoming shows include : Techfest (Mumbai), File Hypersonica (Rio, SP), Today’s Art (Den Haag), Elektra (Montreal), Electroni-K (Rennes), Nördik Impakt (Caen)… Video at Mapping festival – Agent contact (available for Europe shows all 2012)
GHEDALIA TAZARTES (FR / VARIOUS LABELS)
A French musician of Turkish parentage, French cult artist, Ghédalia Tazartès is an uncompromising character who defies categorization. He recorded alone a dozen of albums, calling his way of working “Impromuz” for lack of a better term. New project in Spring 2011: Soundtrack to “Haxan”: Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen’s legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. Tazartes’ chamanic voice and talent for incantation make for a unique and frightening experience. Haxan video – Agent contact (available on request)
YURI LANDMAN (NL)
Yuril Landman is a Deutch experimental guitar maker. He created guitars for Sonic Youth, Liars, Half Japanese, Enon, Lou Barlow, Blood Red Shoes…. His 4-hour worshop enables every participant to build his own Mood Swinger – and ends with a show with every new instrument. Most of the times, the musicians invited to play the festival are happy to join in the event, resulting in a “wall of sound” crescendo, comparable to the drone works of Sonic Youth or the symphonic guitar compositions of Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca. Agent contact (available on demand)
DANIEL JOHNSTON “WELCOME TO MY WORLD” (US / EXHIBITION)
Cult artist from the alternative music scene, Daniel Johnston lives and works in Texas. Supported by Sonic Youth, Larry Clark, David Bowie, Kurt Cobain or Matt Groening, Produced by le lieu unique and Arts Factory, “Welcome to my world” is an exhibition of Daniel Johnston graphic work, with more than 100 original drawings from different periods, a focus on Daniel Johnston and his fans (wallpaintings, fanzines…), music memorabilia, documentaries, filmed performances, short movies of Daniel Johnston. The original exhibition will be held in lieu unique in Nantes, France, from April 7th to May 20th 2012 and will be available afterward for touring – Booking contact (available from June 2012 and onwards)