Nathan Roche
Drink Up, Rainforest Sinatra

from the artist's bandcamp: "... Fragmentary chords and chorusing infinities that collapse back on them selves to feed that every evolving drone... Surrendering yourself to this album's charms is like the sun bleeding through your fingers, therapeutically bleaching your troubles clean away"FREQ"Close your eyes and you could be listening to Iasos, Laraaji or Ariel Kalma, open them and you're on ket in Salford's Islington Mill"Piccadilly Records"Expanding a meditative aesthetic into something imposing and colossal, Bliss Waves (From The Heart Realm) registers like a relaxation tape designed for Poseidon when he's had a rough day"Electronic Sound Magazine∿ ∞ _-¨ Ultradimensional Transportation Music ∿ ∞ _-¨"Forget your worries, lie back, and rest your mind. Watch the sun gently set on this world as pink-tinged clouds drift by like thoughts in your mind and feel yourself letting go . . . nowhere to go . . .nowhere to be. Nothing matters, nothing exists outside of this moment . . . right here. . . right now."

La République Des Granges: ...Nouveau disque de Rien Virgule sous la forme d'un double LP.Sorti le 10 Septembre 2021 en coproduction avec Murailles Music, Permafrost et ZamZamRecSuite à la disparition de Jean-Marc, l’un de ses membres, personne n’aurait su dire si Rien Virgule allait continuer. Les principaux intéressés, Anne, Mathias et Manuel, non plus. Quelle réponse donner à une telle épreuve ?Sur les contours du deuil, la vie s’écoule, et en rejouant de la musique à trois, une évidence s’imposait : c’était la même sève incandescente qui pulsait entre eux, celle qui irriguait les sillons de leurs deux précédents disques, celle qui fascinait le public à chacun de leur concert et en faisait des événements. Et avec elle, vint l’envie de se remettre à l’ouvrage et de se lancer dans un troisième disque.Alors que l’album a pour titre un vers tiré d’un haïku ('la consolation des violettes'), cette forme poétique à la brièveté radicale, il choisit à l’inverse de s’étirer, de s'affranchir des contraintes du simple vinyle et de pleinement déployer ses ailes pour atteindre une envergure inédite.Quand le haïku peut se déclamer en un souffle, la musique de Rien Virgule en déchaîne une multitude, façonnée par les parcours de ses membres qui, à la manière de White Noise, ont longtemps louvoyé dans des pratiques expérimentales avant de livrer leur vision très personnelle de la pop.On prend toute la mesure de l'ambition du groupe qui sur cette durée peut enfin mêler, grâce à une véritable science de la narration, des morceaux écrits où on jurerait apercevoir les volutes mélodiques d’un Robert Wyatt, à d’autres issus de séances totalement improvisées. Ces dernières étant découpées et recollées, à la manière de Teo Macero pour les albums de Miles Davis, jusqu’à composer des fictions de laboratoire avec la bande magnétique.Jean-Marc, avec son instrumentarium bricolé, aura légué sa part de chaos aux autres membres du groupe, qui continuent de faire résonner avec délicatesse un fatras de métal et de verre brisé comme autant d'étincelles de vie.'La consolation des violettes' est un univers tissé de travellings au bord du gouffre, de poèmes tracés au fer à souder et habité d’un élan de liberté viscérale, vibrante et intimement bouleversante.

zamzamrec: ...⧘❒ ⧙❍Surprise Barbue, duo piece of Kevin Valentin and BenjaminMoutte. Ode for synthesizers. Robots with a chlorophyll tastewearing neon pink wigs. They illustrate shaded cinematic frames.They paint misty asteroid vignettes as a tapestry.Cosmic patches, raw textures, arpeggiators either hypnotic orsharp. The character of each keyboards is expressed in a preciseand careful mix, flowing into a synthetic stream in fluorescenthues.With Kabukichō, their debut LP for Zamzamrec, the compositionwas based around the creation of mini landscapes with cosmicand mythological atmospheres. The sounds evoke Sci-fiuniverses, psychedelic ambiances as well as early music andrepetitive music, not to mention the allusions to the pioneers ofelectronic music. Each influence takes place in the differentscenes of the same story.Like their first EP Super Barbu, released on cassette in 2019(ZZ56), the recording creates a unique contemplative experience.Ascending phases and striking chords, frenzied and upliftingsections, for a both rhythmical and meditative effect. While the«live» matter and experiments are remodelled and transcended.The sound becomes denser, more melodic and more balanced.The whole album is shaping by the coherence of a narrative work.Concept album, astral travel, hallucinatory and luminous. Weenter Kabukichō, as we enter in a Philip K. Dick novel : alteredstate of consciousness, parallel universes and Suddenly thevoid...

After the demise of the Ooga Boogas in the Before Time, the four band members went their very separate ways. Being in that band was such an intense high pressure experience, some chillax time was well-deserved.Stacky recorded under the name Leon, Per joined Voice Imitator, Mikey recorded with The Green Child and Rich played in Drug Sweat. All quite deserving projects, but it was Leon's solo outing that garnered the most interest from public and industry alike. The demand for live shows led Leon to recruit Per from Ooga Boogas and a guy named Brad into his touring lineup.The trio was red hot, but inevitably the venues they filled required a fuller sound so Leon recruited Mikey from Ooga Boogas on second guitar. The gruelling touring schedule became too much for family-man Brad, so Rich from Ooga Boogas jumped in to fill his size 11s and off they went for another lap of regional Victoria.Eventually the question presented itself to this freshly-minted foursome: should they continue as Leon's backing band or strike out anew with a fresh identity? The answer came in a moniker too electrifying to resist; a name as clever, enigmatic and indeed, as powerful as the band itself. Power Supply.Back in the shed, jams became songs, jokes became lyrics and long afternoons spent together became the record you're now half-listening to while you yearn for your inbox. Listen though, and you'll hear life through the lens of Leon and the tactile tentacles of his pals. In The Time of the Sabre-toothed Tiger contains ten songs that listen so easy, you'll barely notice when they're gone.