12" EP

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SEMPRINI RECORDS EST FIER DE PRÉSENTER >>> 12"
LE NOUVEAU EP DE PAS CHIC CHIC!
DISPONIBLE EN FORMAT VINYLE ET DIGITAL EXCLUSIVEMENT

Jeudi, 28 octobre à 7:00pm

ARTICULE
262 Fairmount O.
Montréal, QC

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SEMPRINI RECORDS IS PROUD TO PRESENT >>> 12"
THE LATEST EP FROM PAS CHIC CHIC!
AVAILABLE ON VINYL AND DIGITAL ONLY!

Thursday, October 28 at 7:00pm

ARTICULE
262 Fairmount W.
Montreal, QC

Modern excursions onto the outer shores of classic Kosmisch by longtime Montreal musician Roger Tellier-Craig. Melodies here are dappled in sunlight, shimmering like beads of sea water on the skin and reflecting out on waves of heartbeat rhythms. Edition of 100 dubbed cassettes with offset printed covers.

More details available via Root Strata

Release Date: June 15, 2010

Très bientôt (versions vinyle et digitale)

Coming soon (vinyl and digital only)

2. Semprini Records is also planning to make Pas chic chic's debut 7" available for digital download. This should happen within the next month. The two-song 7" includes an early version of Tes clichés déclenchés (the song also appears on Au Contraire). Copies of the limited edition vinyl release are still available via Semprini Records.

3. Available for download here, is a 20-minute untitled piece composed by Roger Tellier-Craig with the help of Pas chic chic's rhythmic section. The piece was commissioned by Canadian choreographer and dancer Dana Gingras for Smash Up, a multimedia dance creation which combined animated environments as well as electronic and musical collages.

Click on the image below to download the untitled piece.

1. Pas chic chic vient tout juste de terminer l’enregistrement de nouveau matériel à l’Hotel2Tango. Le groupe est resté une semaine en studio pour y enregistrer deux nouvelles pièces et un interlude (près de 30 minutes de musique). Une des deux pièces enregistrées s’est transformée considérablement dans la dernière année (ici et plus haut). Le tout sortira sur les Disques Semprini en 2010. Plus de détails suivront.

2. Les Disques Semprini proposent aussi de rendre disponible en version digitale le premier disque 7" de Pas chic chic. Les deux pièces enregistrées en 2005, dont une version de Tes clichés déclenchés qui précède Au Contraire, seront disponibles par téléchargement dans le prochain mois. Le premier 7" demeure toujours disponible ici.

3. Disponible maintenant par téléchargement: Une pièce d’un peu plus de vingt minutes composée par Roger Tellier-Craig avec l’aide de la section rythmique de Pas chic chic. La pièce a été composée dans le cadre d’une performance (Smash Up) mise sur pied par la chorégraphe Dana Gingras.

Cliquez sur l'image [ci-haut] afin de télécharger la pièce.

In 1927, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz finished work on Nienasycenie, a chaotic and disorienting work of literature that became known as Insatiability after it was translated into English.

Tenzer, one of the book’s exuberant and brutally indecent characters, insists that noise is a marvelous thing.

“It can deafen us, blind us, overpower the will, and produce a real Dionysian frenzy in an abstract dimension,” he says. “And yet it is; it’s not just some intellectual tease. Silence is death.”

Tenzer’s rants seem like a pertinent way to introduce machinemusic.org.

The new site will replace pas chic chic’s blog in the sense that there will no longer be regular music-related posts here on paschicchic.com (all future posts will be strictly about the band).

I therefore encourage you to subscribe to machinemusic.org for regular contributions about music and related forms of art.

VENDREDI 11 SEPTEMBRE 2009 / 20H30

Le Révélateur de Philippe Garrel
(France / 1968 / 62 min. / 35 mm)

Accompagnement musical en direct de:
Thierry Amar / Dominique Ethier / Eric Fillion / Bernardino Femminielli / Karl Lemieux / Radwan Moumneh / Roger Tellier-Craig

www.horschamp.qc.ca

www.cinematheque.qc.ca

There is only one of those at this moment and I doubt efforts will be put into mass producing Pas Chic Chic eight-track cartridge tapes. There are plans for a few more, but there will be no production on a scale that would bring into question the economics of the music industry.

So here it is – Pas Chic Chic in four programs.

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Listen to individual tracks in the pas chic chic discography section (or play them all simultaneously).

Follow this link to download the demo versions listed in programs 3 and 4.

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PROGRAM 1

1. Haute infidélité
2. Tes clichés déclenchés
3. En chaîne et en vogue
4. Mlle mille

PROGRAM 2

1. Mlle mille (suite)
2. Aude aux ondes
3. Vous comprenez pourquoi
4. Se mirer mare
5. Haydée morcelée
6. Brise méprise

PROGRAM 3

1. Brise méprise (suite)
2. Plein soleil
3. Blindé d'attentions
4. Haydée morcelée - demo version
5. En chaîne et en vogue - demo version

 PROGRAM 4

1. En chaîne et en vogue - demo version (suite)
2. Psyché pin-up - demo version
3. Tes clichés déclenchés - demo version
4. Sur les écrans statiques - demo version

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The above version of Interlude 1 is from our performance at the Musée D’Art Contemporain in Montreal. Karl Lemieux manned the projectors that evening.

+ Pas Chic Chic live footage and video material

1 Günter Schickert / Überfällig (1979)

Absolutely mental release from 1979!

Sounds like nothing else, not even from its time: long & trancey drums + arpeggiated fx guitar epics, weird autistic vocals, ambient found sounds ... Imagine a darker and weirder, almost creepy, polyrhythmical Can/Neu!/Achim Reichel cross, but way more far-out...

A masterpiece. Point final.

Apricot Brandy / Wanderer listen

2 Conrad Schnitzler / Con (1978)

Ok, what to say about this gem?

About Conrad Schnitzler himself? It seems to me that out of all the true "krautrock" originators, he's the one who most successfully reinvented his aesthetic and went along with developments and "trends" in electronic music, at least until the mid 80s (I am not familiar with his music after that). From the free improv-conceptual madness of Eruption and Kluster to his full-on/psych-out electronic industrial "colors" records, to the cleaner and colder synthscapes of his late 70s output, not to mention the weird DAF-like fragmented electro "Con 3" from '81, you can say he had a pretty broad approach to the possibilities of what electronic music could be.

And as for this mindmelting chef-d'oeuvre, recorded at Peter Baumann's Paragon studios sometime in '78, it's quite simply one of the oddest ice-cold synth records of all time. With evocative titles like "Electric garden", you know what your in for: forests of cold dripping electronic tones and reverberating distant oscillations, phased-out waves of neon lights and bizarre fragmented rhythmusmaschines: this is sci-fi psychedelia at its best! The sounds of an impossibly past future...

Electric Garden listen

3 Can / Landed (1975)

So Can are obviously one of the more famous “krautrock” bands, but this LP is often overlooked, and it’s a shame ‘cuz it actually stands up to their earlier output.

When I first heard "I want more" from "Flow Motion" 2 years ago, I was happy to hear that Can had not died after "Soon over Babaluma" as I had initially thought; it was exciting to hear how the band had transformed their sound to keep up with the times while sticking to a sense of experimentalism in production and tone. Then I actually got a hold of the rest of "Flow Motion", and I was terribly disappointed...

Then my friend played me "Hunters & Collectors" from "Landed" without telling me who it was and I was immediately drawn in. At first listen, it sounded like a really warped long-lost Syd Barrett track, though the production and arrangements were nowhere close to anything Barrett has ever done. I was confused to find out it was actually Can.

This is a strange record. It definitely sounds like Can but it's much more oddly produced, with nice electroacoustic touches here and there transforming them into a futuristic rock n' roll band, maybe less psychedelic but still forward-looking. The tracks have so much going on all the time that it's hard to grasp the whole record in one listen; it's a dense, rich and involving listen. You may have to give this baby a few spins before "getting it", but trust me, if you have the patience, it will reveal many marvels! And the last track, "Unfinished", is a total masterpiece. Much more focused than earlier tape experimentations like Tago Mago's "Aumgn", it's a beautiful electroacoustic rock tape-piece with truly psychedelic guitar playing from Karoli, electronic tones & drones, and moody percussion. Kinda similar in spirit to the "Faust Tapes" and what This Heat and Brise-Glace would end up exploring on their own later on...

Hunters and Collectors listen

4 Wolfgang Riechmann / Wunderbar (1978)

A record definitely of its time!

You can hear Riechmann was coming from an early 70s Düsseldorf frame of mind, but was veering closer to the post-75 Sky Records electronic approach, full of warm psychedelic phased-out Arp synths, yet very cold and dark in other places, almost new-agey but too artsy to be relaxation music. A good example of this is the track "Himmelblau", where a motorik Dinger-like rhythmusmaschine (or is it drums?) drives the phased-out synths on a freeway to a somewhat far-out sci-fi land, with Riechmann chanting naïvely in his la-la-land: fucking brilliant! It is surely not a coincidence then that Riechmann used to play in a band called Spirits of Sound with Micheal Rother and Wolgang Flur back in the 60s...

This record stands on its own, nothing like it before, and unfortunately, nothing after, as Riechmann was murdered a few days prior to the release of this gem...

Himmelblau listen

5 Tyndall / Reflexionen (1982)

Crazy vocoder business.

The melodies have that almost over-the-top sweet Zuckerzeit je-ne-sais-quoi vibe, but almost all the pieces have vocodered vocals, making for a very odd and fascinating mélange.

An essential electronic record.

Transit West Berlin listen

The Eighties / Les années 80

Human Highway
Directed by Dean Stockwell & Bernard Shakey (N. Young)
Music by Devo & Neil Young
- Hey Hey My My

listen

The Shining
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Music by Wendy Carlos
- Bumps In The Night

listen

Blade Runner
Directed by Ridley Scott
Music by Vangelis
- Memories of Green

listen

Zombie
Directed by Lucio Fulci
Music by Fabio Frizzi
- Main Title

listen

Xanadu
Directed by Robert Greenwald
Music by Electric Light Orchestra
- I'm Alive

listen

The Sixties / Les années 60

Teorema
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Music by Ennio Morricone
- Fruscio di foglie verdi

listen

Le Boucher
Directed by Claude Chabrolt
Music by Pierre Jansen
- Le Boucher

listen

The Fearless Vampire Killers
Directed by Roman Polanski
Music by Krzysztof Komeda
- Vampires To crypt

listen

More
Directed by Barbet Schroeder
Music by Pink Floyd
- Main Theme

listen

Andrey Rublyov
Directed by Andrey Tarkovsky
Music by Vyasheslav Ovchinnikov
- Track 04

listen

1. Sur le quai de la péniche du Sonic, Lyon, FR (Gavin)

2. Calanques méditerranéennes, La Ciota, FR (Eric G)

3. Quelque part dans la tempête, CH (Eric G)

4. Quelque part en République Tchèque (Eric G)

5. Bar 59, Lucerne, CZ (M-D)

1. A Klub, Slavicin, CZ (Eric G)

2. Le Vox Supercontinental, UT Connewitz, Leipzig, D (Eric G)

3. 3. Affiche au Studio Rubin, Prague, CZ

4. Shalabi experience (Alexandre St-Onge, Sam Shalabi), Vooruit, Gent, B (Gavin)

5. Le cinéma UT Connewitz, Leipzig, D (Eric G)

1. Balcon du cinéma UT Connewitz, Leipzig, D (Gavin)

2. Social Club, Paris, FR (Eric G)

3. Programme des soirées Anti-social, Social Club, Paris, FR

4. Un canal à Gent, B (M-D)

5. Hôtel du XIXe siècle, Plzen, CZ (M-D)

What follows is the result of a short exercise: choosing a soundtrack from the 70s and extracting a fragment from it...

Images pour les oreilles - première partie
Les années 70

Cette semaine, nous nous sommes prêtés à l'exercice suivant : choisir une bande sonore des années 70 et en capturer un morceau...

Les granges brûlées
Directed by Jean Chapot
Music by Jean-Michel Jarre
- La chanson des granges brûlées

listen

Continental Circus
Directed by Jérôme Laperrousaz
Music by Gong with Daevid Allen
- What do you want

listen

Halloween
Directed by John Carpenter
Music by John Carpenter
- Halloween theme

listen

Veruschka
Directed by Franco Rubartelli
Music by Ennio Morricone
- La bambola

listen

Sweet movie
Directed by Dusan Makavejev
Music by Manos Hadjidakis
- Nocturne a deux voix

listen

We are spending the week in France and so we thought we would make a selection of Made in France music. This is what it looks like:

Pierre Barouh / Ça va, ça vient listen

Jean-Jacques Burnell / Euromess listen

Bernard Fèvre / Pendulum listen

Eliane Radigue / Kyema listen

Igor Wakhevitch / Materia Prima listen

This also means that for the first time in years I will find myself beating drums that aren't mine. Now this might not seem like a very serious matter but the fact is that I have gotten very attached to my two 1974-75 Rogers kits (people close to me can attest to that fact).

I acquired the first kit (above) from a friend many years ago. The drums were beat up and had been covered up with a gold sparkle wrap (they were Pacific Blue originally). Spare parts are scarce and usually expensive so when I found the New England White kit in Toronto I did not think twice. Both kits are from the same transition year when Rogers introduced the Memriloc hardware system. Dating drums is not an easy task and the fact that Rogers went through a number of restructuring phases in the seventies makes this even more difficult. Fortunately, other Rogers enthusiasts have collected old catalogs and made them available online for all to consult. Another useful resource is The Rogers Book written by drum historian, Rob Cook. But I doubt this is very interesting so I am going to stop here.

Follow this link for tour dates and subscribe to this blog to be notified when new material and updates are posted.

2. On a different topic, we are nearing the end of November, which means we are heading to Europe in a few days. Visit the shows section for details.

3. ... and subscribe to this blog to stay informed and be notified when new material and content is made available.

1. Cliquez sur l'image [ci-haut] afin de télécharger les versions démo des pièces Haydée morcelée, En chaîne et en vogue et Aude aux ondes. Ces chansons, dont les premières versions ont été enregistrées il y a environ trois ans, n'étaient disponibles jusqu'à présent que sur une maquette « fait maison » (100 copies, numérotées à la main, dispersées aux quatre vents). Quant à Sur les écrans statiques et Tes clichés déclenchés (version démo), elles sillonnent notre premier 7", d'ailleurs encore disponible…

2. Aussi, de nouvelles dates de concerts en Europe ont été ajoutées à notre section « shows »… more, very very bientôt!

3. Enfin, vous pouvez vous inscrire à notre blogue afin d'être averti, sans déférence et en différé, de nos activités cybernétiques (apparition de nouvelles entrées et autres trucs téléchargeables).

In terms of useful information, there’s not much else to add ... except for material and thoughts on a regular basis.

Some other stuff maybe:

We ended up on the Polaris list earlier this year and got nominated at the GAMIQ. We are now in nomination for Alternative Record of the year at l’ADISC. No voting this time. At least as far as we know.

We posted a video from our April performance at the Musée D’art Contemporain de Montréal. Accompanying us with projections that night was Karl Lemieux.

There are also new photos. Take a few minutes to follow the links to the photographers’ pages. Thanks to them for sharing the material.

So this site is not going to be bilingual. News will be but everything else will be improvised.

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Bonjour à vous,

Nous voici donc avec un tout nouveau site web, ainsi qu'avec la bienheureuse confirmation que notre album, Au Contraire, sera disponible en Europe et aux É-U en octobre (et ce, en CD et en LP)! Nous irons d'ailleurs en sol européen d'ici quelques semaines… Les dates de concerts seront affichées et régulièrement mises à jour sous la rubrique concerts.

Un espace sera réservé pour les photographies sur notre nouveau site. Nous en profitons pour saluer le talent des photographes qui ont bien voulu fixer nos façades dans le temps. Des hyperliens vous propulseront promptement vers leurs zones respectives.

Nous avons ajouté à la section “video” un extrait du concert donné au Musée D’art Contemporain, en mai dernier. Derrière les projecteurs, ce soir-là, se cachait le cinéaste Karl Lemieux, géniteur d'images fascinantes et tortionnaire des pellicules calcinées.

Que dire d'autre? Au contraire a été sélectionné pour recevoir le prix canadien Polaris, et plus récemment, en nomination au GAMIQ et à l'ADISC.

Enfin, sachez, chers visiteurs, que ce site ne sera pas bilingue. Les « nouvelles » le seront assurément, mais pour le reste… le choix de la langue sera laissé à la discrétion des expressions concernées.