petite&jolie news

[2009-10-05] Julian Winter has a new release

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0200

"Just imagine cold caves, dark dens, vicious vaults or even strong smelling sewers. Wouldn't it be interesting to pack all these scenes in a musical piece?"

Here is all you gotta say, we couldn't do anything else but tell you about Julian Winter got an other project released online, even if it's not on petite&jolie :p

[2009-09-01] And here is a new videoclip!

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Flashbacker went back from NYC a month ago or so, where he met Asako and Doro ( doroasako / dorako on "Pantoufle Tagada" ) and tapped some funny footage in order to finally release a great dreamy videoclip.

Here you can watch it and hopefully, share it!

Je Reviendrai from Maxime Lethelier on Vimeo.

[2009-08-12] Balùn people are working hard!

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Hello there,

Just a small piece of news to give you some updates about Balùn, who featured the first release of petite&jolie with their amazing "Alicia" pop tune.
They are working on new tunes and they have been featuring a radio show at Puerto Rico where they played them live and, guess what?

Its been recorded!

So jump on it, click and enjoy!

[2009-08-07] Valzi - I Nvr <3 U | Melanchochiptronica for neverending sorrow

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Following Julian Winter's release which received a warm welcome from you, our cute followers, here is a release from Valzi who takes influences from deep in the chip music scene, as Valzi actually comes from the tracking scene, inspiring it with melancholic chords and growing melodies and finally shaping an ambiguous feeling between sorrowness and "joie de vivre," as we often say in France.

Behind all these clicky beats, taping the time passing by, and these mellow but cute harmonies, there is a real letter of apology, written in notes and surely delivered the cutest way ever, delicately slipped into a pink envelope or even better, inside of its companion cover designed by no one other than Postics, a great illustrator we met at Rouen in October for a very nice exhibition of his work.

ps: We also strongly recommend you check the work of Postics!

[2009-07-08] An almost p&j gig happening at Brooklyn, NYC !

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Hello dear readers!

I had news a few days ago about a gig happening in a week and half that you won't want to miss at all, if you're living at/near NYC of course :)

Indeed, balùn will be playing with Windy Hill Mill, featuring half of dorako / doroasako!

This gig will happen the 16th of July 2009, at 9 PM anddo you even know whats the best? Its F R E E.

Address:
Coco 66
66 Greenpoint Av.
Brooklyn.

If any of you are taking some pictures, don't hesitate to tell us!

ps: I just got the information that Flashbacker of petite&jolie (the other creator of p&j actually) will be doing visuals there! Don't miss him and don't forget to pay him a beer!

[2009-06-11] Julian Winter live at AtticAddict!

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200

AtticAddict is a project which feature Flashbacker of petite&jolie and two friends of his. They manage to tape livesets of musicians taken in some weird places (most of the time, an attic) and then upload and share the sessions on their website.

Flashbacker had the opportunity to meet Julian during the "atticaddict@berlin" sessions and tape him.

Enjoy!

[2009-05-20] Camomille & Apegenine :: This is the end, my brother...

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Good things often come to and end. Then remain sweet memories of great moments spent believing in ideas and sounds.

Petite&Jolie is somehow related to the camomille netlabel family, we met on the Internet before the netlabel era and contributed together to this all so its quite normal we are sadden to hear both labels will be shut down.

So, in order to end it as a final masterstroke, Vincent decided to release Hypocondriac (aka Apegenine Volume 2) for free as 320kbps .MP3s or .FLACs.
Expect people like khonnor, transient, papercutz, shiftless, surasshu, kaneel, hunz and much more.

We love you both Camomille and Apegenine.

[2009-05-12] Julian Winter - L'art pour l'art | Toy-folk for the coming summer?

Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Finally, here is a new release!
And what would be better than some folk with a twist of breezy pop?
Well, some toy-folk mixed with spoken words and aerial pop of course!

And here we are, introducing Julian Winter and his debut ep on petitejolie.

Julian is a sweet guy who has a kind of fondness for toy instruments and making sounds out of these poor & left-aside instruments.
Not only the fact he managed to make this ep with some cheap e-guitar and e-bass, a broken microphone and an old keyboard... he even ran into household articles and recorded them.

Thanks to Julian Winter, all these objects can get back to life by being a part of his very nice debut ep, where words are flowing along with soft pads, kitchen goods slowly beating the time behind the guitar arpeggios... where the time stops and let us rest a moment, watching the rain falling, waiting for the sun.

And if you really really love it, think about supporting Julian Winter by sending him an email... and why not, sending him a few bucks so he sends you a "DIY" cd version of his ep. Click for more informations

[2009-05-01] Pam - Música para sentir que me ama | 13 minutes of sweetness

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Pam released on TLHOTRA a new charming EP that is looping every nights at my place. I felt like you had to know about it!

[2009-03-29] "Scarlatta Le Voyage Boto" featuring a track of los balunes!

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Hello dear readers!

Yes. We are aware you must be worrying about us lately as we didn't release for a long time but don't worry, we have something to come finally.

In waiting for a nice upcoming release, we've been told that our friends from Balun were featured in a nice animation named "Scarlatta Le Voyage Boto".

So don't hesitate clicking right now to discover this amazing piece of cuteness!

[2009-03-06] Pam is back!

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200

We received a few days ago an email of Pam who wanted to say "hi" and inform us he released a tiny ep named "The lost tracks" which could be considered like an addition to the "Ah!" release.

So we definitly advice you to run and get these tracks and add them to your latest p&j directory :)

[2009-02-11] Petite&Jolie :: Loving people back... always!

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Patécrème, a french website/blog (with a very nice layout!) wrote a lil note about our netlabel, as they have been - magically - linked to it, so we felt like we had to tell you to go and visit this cosy place.

They cover many different topics, from the "cool sites" to the "DIY stuff" and there even is an interview of lackluster.

As its mostly in french, we are giving you the opportunity to read the note 'bout us in english: Petite&Jolie on patécrème (en) - admit it, its always fun to read automatically translated texts!
And now, the original text
Petite&Jolie on patécrème (fr)

Again, much hearts sent to patécrème!

[2008-12-31] pj005 :: Pam - Ah! | We wish you a happy new year!

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0200

As simple as ABC.

We received, listened, enjoyed, released.
It would be the formula of the perfect and unexplainable "coup de coeur".

And what would be the best thing to start a new year with such a soothing piece of simplicity?

Pam definily came up with a concept: Simple melodies, cute'n'weird ambiances, no percussions.
Seriously, would you need more?

Its like the right soundtrack to make a final point about the year 2008.
Tiny synth sounds, played with simplicity honesty and even naivety, minimalism at his best.
The soundtrack of changes, introspection and even more than that all: the ballads of your past days!

Shhhh, listen.

Petite&Jolie wishes you a happy new year.

[2008-07-30] pj004 :: Risch - Missing monsters | Your perfect soundtrack for this hot summer!

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

After a release on "nothing less" than the well-known Monotonik netlabel, Risch pays a visit at petite&jolie and we have to admit he definitly knows how to cook this very particular electronica up, evoking a lot of early year 2000 influences by mashing up breakbeats and pop-esque melodies.

Drills'n'pink, here's what you ask? here's what you get and we don't have that bad habit to lie to yourself, do we?

No need to be a synesthete to see these monsters appearing in front of our eyes, jumping, hiding, pulling your legs and making grimaces.

Sometimes quiet, and then mad, they all have their own personnal stories to tell you when walking downtown and here, at the petite&jolie treehouse, we hope you'll be listenning at them hopping down the streets, because we love when people are enjoying life this way... after all, isn't all about enjoying the moment?

Of course, this release is best enjoyed burnt and dragged into its cute cover, designed with love by Emi whose first appearance on petite&jolie will be, for sure, remarked.

So now let's go! Catch these missing monsters!

[2008-05-02] Ema's exhibition at Berlin!

Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Hello dear petite&jolie followers!

If you are in Berlin around this weekend and even after, you should go pay a visit at 'Galerie Tristesse Deluxe' and attend a lil&cute party.
Indeed, Ema, one of our cute graphic artists, is exhibiting some of her works there.

The exhibition will happen from May 3rd to 17th, opening on saturday 3rd at 7pm, with live performances starting at 9:30pm.
It should definitly be an adorable party.

Gallerie Tristesse Deluxe
WallStr 15
10179 Berlin

More info on the flyer!

Ema hope to see you there!

[2008-04-16] pj003 :: kaneel - la pink note | your daily dose of bluespoptronica!

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0200

F i n a l l y, after nearly two months of silence, we are back with a new release and as usual, it's with a certain excitement.
Not only because it's been said months ago kaneel would come up with a release for petite&jolie, nor because this release is mixing two years old tracks from his grenier with fresh new materials but for the reason an album of kaneel has been released by Apegenine Recordings and at petite&jolie, we love it when our boys (and girls :p) are just collaborating with various people, on various projects, for the sake of making this world a cuter place!

So here we are, presenting to you this release of Guillaume Richard, dealing with nostalgy driven melodies and playfull clickbeats, soften by naivety and harden by the usual angst which define quite well Guillaume's usual style.
Going from blues to ambient, new folk to glitchtronica, mixing all of this with a twist and a tint of pop, kaneel tries his best to prove music is only a matter of sounds and not of genres, even a matter of emotions and damn, it's all about a final result than a particular recipe to apply.

Once playing with knobs, then playing live his melodica, he's been cooking this romantic and nostalgic release for your only pleasure, bringing new definitions to the sound of petite&jolie and we can't do anything else than simply enjoy this.

[2008-02-18] Petite&Jolie MiniParty@ Brooklyn

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200

This is an amazing piece of news we are really glad to tell you about...
A mini P&J party is going to be held in march at brooklyn!

When?
05.07.08 - 8pm

How much?
Nada, rien, nothing.. (i.e. FREE)

Who?
Doroasako
Balùn

Where?
Soundfix Records
110 Bedford Ave
Brooklyn

We hope some of you dear followers will be able to go there and support these two great bands!

[2008-02-07] Your favorite zookeeper is back from the petite&jolie zoo!

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200

We, at Petite&Jolie, are excited to present you the second release of petite&jolie and not only because it's a wonderful travel through poptronics, melodies of "joie de vivre" and, let's dare saying so, zoomotions, but also because it's not everyday we'll be releasing a double EP.

Indeed, El Zoológico is back at Petite&Jolie with his concept of catching the "essence" of animals through small'n'catchy tunes, classifying them by ecosystems.

Await emotions driven through pitzacattos and fuzzy synths, get ready for cuteness, fasten your belt, and don't believe what they are saying around you, it's really cute and fancy animals you see jumping all over your head when you're listenning to this sweet release from El Zoológico.

[2008-02-05] In waiting for the second release of petite&jolie...

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200

We just got this great piece of news.
Kaneel finally got his album for Apegenine Recording done and right now on presales to be finally released on the 25th of November!

So, YAY for him.

Next good piece of news? The next release of p&j of course!

[2007-11-13] [pj001] - Pantoufle Tagada

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0200

Finally, it's here!
The first Petite&Jolie release is now downloadable.

14 tracks of pure cuteness for you people to listen during this strong autumn.

The cuteness will transport you on a pony ride from Purusha's (Ogredung) progtoytronica to papercutz's (Apegenine) childtronica, from Doroasako's progressive folktronica to El zoológico's pizzicato , passing by Original Recipe's (Vinyl Republik) fresh pianopop to kaneel's (Camomille, Ogredung) "joie de vivre" glitchtronics, vim's (Monotonik) spring melodies to fah's (Ronin) analog cute-acid without forgetting surasshu's (Apegenine, Camomille) electro music with video game gimmicks while balùn people (Aerotone) are coming up with their cutey electropop and dot tape dot (spar.RK, NatureBliss) rejoins with his toy harp and trumpet experiments. In the meantime, makunouchi bento (Camomille, Ogredung, One) will delight your ears during a sweet and tender music box interlude for your christmas parties while Nej will come up with some sweet electropop and treacle (BEE Records) will bring back the groove to some cutetronica.

So head now to the release part of the website to enjoy it!

[2007-10-01] Collecting, adding people, making it cute...

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0200

Yes.
I've received 11 tracks so far and i'm still waiting for some people to give some news.
In the meantime, the tracks will be sent to flashbacker so he'll finish the coverart.

You can check the artist lists as some new names are showing everyday :)

[2007-09-20] Some names are showing!

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0200

YAY!
As you will notice by visiting the website again, everything is taking its place slowly.

I added some names in the artists list, these names will appear on the compilation so it's bringing a bit of "commercial marketing buzz" to the petite&jolie and god, we love it.

[2007-09-06] domain bought, petite&jolie soon launched :)

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0200

Here it is, petite&jolie domain has been bought and we are preparing the first release: a sweet compilation with various people from various genres.

I'll soon pimp some names around so stay tuned!