HOUSEWIVES are a genreless band from London who play experimental music thatpoints to the future. Using prepared guitars, electronics, percussion and saxophonethey create an enveloping sound of syncopated rhythms and antithetical songstructures. Droning bass lines underpin ethereal samples, whilst precise guitar linesmix with minimal drum parts in ecstatic fashion.Their kinetic live sets have cemented their reputation as one of the most exciting livebands in Europe; championed by the likes of Tom Ravenscroft (BBC 6 Music), Radio3 Late Junction and pioneering experimental musician Charles Hayward (This Heat).They join the like of Liars, Animal Collective and The Knife in laying the gauntlet forexperimental music this decade and pushing the boundaries of what a live band cando.

Started in 2004. Got started on in St Ettiene once.    The best thing we did was playing a show on a bridge on Christmas day 2005. Everything else is irrelevant. 

(the) Kurws formed in May 2008 as an unexpected result of a ping pong session. Since then they have pursued their own search, not so much in defined genres, but within the very foundations of rock, expression, and sound. It is a workshop where improvisation penetrates through composed material, a congealed form of the creation process. Armed with repetitions, recombinations, variations and contrasts, they frolic with memory and expectations. Post punk, krautrock, rock in opposition, funk, no wave - they present modes of playing, motives, and riffs we have heard time and time again in a totally different context, dissected from their original environment, placed side by side, used in a brand new manner, deconstructed and distilled.

"Life […] is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing”    Du bruit, de la fureur, une musique qui s'imprègne avant tout de pulsions de vie.  Contre l'idée du leader charismatique, le relai se passe entre eux, à la recherche constante d'un équilibre pris entre folie névrotique et mélancolie contemplative.  The Psychotic Monks s'expriment dans un chaos à la fois réfléchi et incontrôlé.    Une vie partagée entre leur studio où ils expérimentent et produisent eux même leurs disques et la route (60 dates en 2016, en passant par Rock en Seine et les Bars en Trans…). Le résultat donne des rencontres poétiques entre des murs de sons distordus inspirés par la clique de Ty Segall (Wand, Fuzz...), des univers absurdes et romantiques, empreints aux mots de Nick Cave ou a la vision de Wim Wenders, la complainte d'un Eliott Smith qui carbure au premier BRMC, ou encore une certaine idée des Floyd alchimistes.    Ils naviguent à bord de leur Nostromo, laissant toujours la place aux imprévus. Une manière de se perdre pour mieux se retrouver.

Le trio art-punk/post-punk bruxellois Milk TV est de retour avec un nouvel LP «Neo-Geo» (Exag Records), rempli de succulentes sonorités laitières! 

 

House of John Player is the ongoing bedroom/lo-fi project of Dean Spencer – which has moved through guitars, keyboards, loop pedals, and songs of total charm… somewhere between Animal Collective, Durutti Column, Ariel Pink… - Allan Harrison (MCP) Since way back in '06, House of John Player has been lucky enough to share the stage with such fine bands as Quack Quack, Les Baigneurs, Action Beat, Gentle Friendly, Ponytail, Manatees, Chops, a.P.A.t.T, Jonquil, Picastro, David Thomas Broughton, Creeping Nobodies, Tigers!, Baby Venom, Nisennenmondai, Al Duvall and many mo'