Labels
Born Bad
- 01. Les gens
02. Al Boustan
03. Le grisou
04. Président
05. X-crise
06. Le cavalier riant
07. Effondrement
08. Yallah Mickey Mouse
09. Animal
10. Petit destinCYRIL CYRIL
Yallah Mickey Mouse
(Born Bad)L’autoroute blanche, la piscine le dimanche, le Mont Saint Michel … alle treten in Szene, Cyril Cyril schütteln die Schneekugel. Helvet underground werden sie genannt. Cyril Cyrils Sonntag feiert die Trance, wir kommen an, versammeln uns. Gesamplete Stimmen, mal zögernd, mal stöhnend, Miami Beach, ok, let’s go. So eröffnet sich das neue Album von Cyril Cyril, Yallah Mickey Mouse. Wieder packen sie ihre Instrumente und ihre Wurzeln an den gekräuselten Spitzen. Es geht nicht darum, zu entwirren, die Klänge formen sich. Eine visionäre Klangerzählung, eine Einladung unorganisierten Reisens. Vielfältigste Einflüsse werden zu diesem Projekt der persönlicher Emanationen und Studioforschung herbeigezogen. Eine Hommage an die Freunde von Hyperculte in Erinnerung an ein ägyptisches Kamel, eine augenzwinkernde Phrasierung von Cha Cha Guitry, l‘animal von Gerard Manset oder la main von Indochine. Wir sind hier, sie sind auf der Bühne. Am Anfang sind wir alles nur Menschen. Die Stimme spricht, Bilder entstehen vor unseren Augen, jetzt müssen wir ihnen Platz machen. Also bewegen wir uns ein bisschen, wir schwingen mit den Schattenspielen, die das Licht der Öllampe wirft. Cyril Bondi am Schlagzeug der besonderen Instrumente, sein Körper auf den Groove der Zauberer eingespielt, die Fanfaren delirierender Insekten beginnen. - 01. Peba
02. Rew Be Me
03. Femme Africaine
04. Montealla
05. La Musique
06. Idesouse
07. Iseo
08. TimtituStar Feminine Band
Femme Africaine
(Born Bad)Aus einer abgelegenen Region im Nordwesten von Benin kommt die siebenköpfige Star Feminine Band, eine Gruppe junger Mädchen im Alter zwischen neun und fünfzehn Jahren, die frech, unbeschwert und voller Energie Genres wie Garage-Rock, Pop und traditionelle Songs ihrer Heimat durcheinanderwirbeln. Geboren wurde die Band 2016 als Idee des professionellen Musikers André Baleguemon. Er wollte eine ausschließlich weiblich besetzte Band zusammenstellen, die sich den aktuellen Themen der Zeit annahm. Im Zentrum sollten Gitarre, Schlagzeug und Keyboards stehen, weil er diese Instrumente seit seiner Kindheit im ländlichen Tchaourou als Zeichen von Moderne bewundert hatte. Der Grund für seine Initiative: „Im Norden haben Mädchen keine Möglichkeiten weiterzukommen und Frauen werden an den Rand gedrängt. Ich wollte einfach zeigen, wie wichtig Frauen in der Gesellschaft Nord-Benins sind, indem ich ein weibliches Orchester gründe.“ Gesagt, getan: Unterstützt von der 35.000 Einwohner zählenden Stadt Natitingou, die fünfzehn Stunden Fahrt vom Regierungssitz Cotonou entfernt liegt, veröffentlichte André eine Pressemitteilung beim Radiosender Nanto FM, in der er kostenfreie Musikstunden für Mädchen anbot. Dem Aufruf folgten Dutzende junger Musikerinnen.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 13.11.2020
- Genre
- World
- 01. Maintenant je suis un voyou
02. Hallucination
03. Dans la Galaxie
04. EveBRUNO LEYS
Maintenant je suis un voyou
(Born Bad)[engl]You heard him first on WIZZZ Vol. 2 with the explosive “Maintenant je suis un voyou (Now I’m a hoodlum).” Here he is again, with his full EP never released before. But, let’s go back in time… In early 1967, Bruno was attending medical school in Paris. Driving back to the university with a friend, Bruno sang along nonchalantly with the songs on the radio. His friend was surprised to discover his lovely voice and encouraged him to audition for a group composed of friends from the university who were looking for a singer. Bruno was not selected for the group, but became friends with one of its members, Emmanuel Pairault. Emmanuel had been studying economics, but decided to enter the music conservatory instead, to learn the drums and the use of the illustrious “ondes Martenot,” a primitive electronic musical instrument. He composed a few solo numbers, remarkable for their use of that instrument. Looking for someone to write lyrics to go with his instrumental tracks, he asked Bruno to try a few. Bruno and Emmanuel thereby put together a small repertoire, with no ambition other than to have fun. Although the details are now forgotten, they worked hard to bring their song to the attention of Nicole Croisille (a singer and actress), who suggested sending the demo to her friend Norbert Saada, who headed a label called La Compagnie.- Format
- 7''
- Release-Datum
- 14.09.2020
- Genre
- Sixties / Psychedelic
- 01. Léo Clarens et ses Rythmes Orientaux - Cha Cha Cha au Harem
02. Zina Nahid - Danse du Sud
03. Fred Adison et son orchestre - Inch’ Allah
04. Benny Benett - Couscous
05. Kemal Rachid et ses Ottomans - Loukoum
06. Benny Benett - Ismaïla
07. Kemal Rachid et ses Ottomans- Bagdad
08. Staiffi et ses Mustafa’s - Danse l’amour
09. Los Cangaceiros - El Mechoui
10. Kemal Rachid et ses Ottomans - Au café turc
11. Los Matecoco - Baklava, loukoum, kadaiff
12. Léo Clarens et ses Rythmes Orientaux - Shish Kebab
13. Raymond Lefèvre - Lawrence d’Arabie
14. Trio Joroca - On m’appelle l’oriental
15. Mohammed Ben Abdel Kader - Arabian Night
16. Roger Morris et son orchestre - Oriental Express
17. Ali Baba et son Ensemble - Mahomet de TunisV/A
CHA CHA AU HAREM - Orientica - France 1960/1964
(Born Bad)[engl]In 1963, David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia won seven Oscars. Launching its actors to stardom, including Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif who played Prince Ali Ibn Kharish at the age of thirty. The latter incarnated the West’s vision of ??the Middle East which was simultaneously elusive, refined and elegant. His fiery stare, impeccable mustache and immaculate haircut had something to do with it: the Egyptian actor was a sex symbol of an era passionate for James Bond and OSS117 spy adventures. In the Jordinian desert, he fascinated an audience that was in search of an escape and the thousand and one nights. This appetite for a colorful and fantasized exoticism, was also prominent in France’s music of the sixties. The country that welcomed Omar Sharif’s first feature films outside of Egypt (Goha, La Châtelaine du Liban) produced a delirious amount of music of Latin or Middle Eastern inspiration, grouped behind the genre named “typical” . This “typical” production is enough to scare away the most motivated and adventurous of listeners: overabundant and often blurry versions, anonymous performers (often accompanied by the same arrangers) and only a few noteworthy songs. Venturing into the moving waters of orchestral music undoubtedly causes disappointment, but here and there, springing up in the middle of a vast ocean, one can find a few cha-cha-cha pearls played in a Cuban or Middle Eastern style.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 21.08.2020
- Genre
- Soul / Funk / Jazz
- Format
- CD
- Release-Datum
- 21.08.2020
- Genre
- Soul / Funk / Jazz
- 01. Ghost of the Water
02. Les Huitres a CancaleLE VILLEJUIF UNDERGROUND
Les Huitres a Cancale
(Born Bad)[engl] LE VILLEJUIF UNDERGROUND are back, with a 2-song single out on the only home that will have them, Born Bad Records LISTENERS: THIS IS VILLEJUIF IN SURROUND SOUND HIGH DEFINITION! “Ghost Of The Water” , is a hallucination of alcoholism, from different shaky view points and sounds like a sci-fi space/opera Lee Hazlewood western if soundtracked by a collaboration between The UV Race/The Strokes 2001: Space Odyssey “Les Huitres a Cancale”, is a Kenneth Koch-like animal call to stalkers, and strangers out there on the lose in the “moi aussi” generation and rolls like an ageing Gainsbourg slow dancing on codeine, a druggy ballad for the tranquillised. And just when you thought the world of music had ended, Le Villejuif Underground is BACK from retirement!- Format
- 7''
- Release-Datum
- 31.07.2020
- Genre
- Garage / Powerpop
- 01. Petit Orang-Outan Part I
02. Petit Orang-Outan Part II- Format
- 7''
- Release-Datum
- 20.07.2020
- Genre
- Garage / Powerpop
- 01. Les Masques - Il faut tenir (1969)
02. Isabelle Aubret - Casa Forte (1971)
03. Christianne Legrand - HLM et Ciné Roman (1972)
04. Jean Constantin - Pas tant d'chichi ponpon (1972)
05. Billy Nencioli & Baden Powell - Si rien ne va (1969)
06. Marpessa Dawn - Le petit Cuica (1963)
07. Jean-Pierre Sabar - Vai Vai (1974)
08. Sophia Loren - De jour en jour (1963)
09. Isabelle - Jusqu’à la tombée du jour (1969)
10. Sylvia Fels - Corto Maltesse (1974)
11. Frank gérard - Comme une samba (1972)
12. Ann Sorel - La poupée des Favellas (1971)
13. Charles Level - Un enfant café au lait (1971)
14. Andrea Parisy - Les mains qui font du bien (1970)
15. Audrey Arno - Quand Jean-Paul rentrera (1969)
16. Aldo Frank - T’as vu ce printemps (1970)
17. Christianne Legrand - Cent mille poissons dans ton filet (1972)
18. Clarinha - Lemenja (1970)
19. Hit Parade des Enfants - Aquarela (1976)
20. Jean-Pierre Lang - Tendresse (1965)
21. Magalie Noël - Une énorme Samba (1970)
22. Françoise Legrand - La LuneV/A
TCHIC TCHIC - French Bossa Nova - 1963/1974
(Born Bad)[engl]Ever since the late 1950s bossa-nova revolution, Brazil’s influence on French music has been undeniable. Pierre Barouh, Georges Moustaki and a vast array of lesser known artists, all made the Musica Popular Brasileira (MPB) an axis of promotion at the service of a cool and metaphysical, modern and mixed Brazilian lifestyle. Some were seduced by the poetic languors of the bossa, some were looking for fun, and others just loved the American hybridization of jazz-bossa, jazz-samba. What is bossa nova? One of its creators, Joao Gilberto said: "Its style, cadence, everything is samba. At the very start, we didn't call it bossa nova, we sang a little samba made up of a single note - Samba de uma nota so .... The discussion around the origins of bossa nova is therefore useless”. It is nevertheless useful to remember that these magnificent Brazilian songs, which the guitarist describes as samba, were shifted and balanced around improbable chords. "I like things that lean, the in-betweens that limp with grace," said Pierre Barrouh, quoting Jean Cocteau. With emotion, arrangements for violin and supple guitar licks, bossa nova rapidly changed. A transformation that can be heard in the Tchic, tchic, French Bossa Nova 1963-1974 compilation, the result of a cultural reappropriation, which traveled through the United States and supplemented itself in France. - 01. Aluminium
02. Ether Ok
03. Hump Bump Dump Jumpin
04. Ellie Jane #2
05. Dmpa
06. Hey Void
07. Prazepam Street
08. The Jordan's Rules
09. Pajo
10. Cablé Au PlastiqueMARIETTA
Prazepam St.
(Born Bad)[engl]In 20 or 30 years, we’ll talk about Guillaume Marietta the same way we talk about Arthur Russell or Robert Johnson today – people ignored by their contemporaries and rediscovered later in prestigious anthologies or picaresque documentaries. Future being rather incertain these days, it would maybe be better if you didn’t lose any time and enjoy Marietta right away. Sure, it won’t be easy to map Marietta’s journey – one of the key players of the GrandeTriple Alliance De l’Est, an anarchic scene which exploded between Metz and Strasbourg in the early 2000s, fronting bands such as A.H. Kraken, Plastobe?ton and The Feeling Of Love. In 2015 he released his first solo album, Basement Dreams Are The Bedroom Cream, an amazing collection of 4-track twisted lullabies who got him comparisons with Syd Barrett and John Frusciante. Then comes his second LP and suddenly you lose the track – footprints have been covered – no more of that sweet demo sounding folky weirdness : La Passage?re is recorded in Los Angeles with Chris Cohen and it’s a lush and mesmerizing record, like Berlin with windows wide open or a sun-drenched The Idiot. A record that gives Marietta’s music new layers of depth and complexity – even if he loses part of his audience in the process. - 01. Harold Berty - Django
02. Ti L'Afrique - Pop Soul Sega
03. Claudio Veeraragoo - Qui fine arrivé
04. Paul Labonne – Ti Malgache Ti Madras
05. Georges Gabriel – Pop Séga
06. The Features Of Life – Soul Sabattah
07. Roland Fatime – S.I.L.V.I.E
08. Jean Claude Gaspard - Machin Sex
09. Jos Henri - Apolo pop 76
10. Coulouce – Beau-Père
11. John Kenneth Nelson – Change to Manière / Missié Coutou No2
12. Lelou Menwar - Capito
13. Daniel Delord - MariaV/A
MORIS ZEKLER - Fuzz & Soul Sega from 70's Mauritius
(Born Bad)[engl]A tax haven and dream destination for wealthy travelers, the Republic of Mauritius is a multi-ethnic country that is currently experiencing full economic and social ascension. Banking, textile, tech, tourism industries… in this fast-paced melting pot, business is strong. But not too far from the heavenly beaches and luxurious hotels are quasi-shantytowns, reminding us that a large part of the population, often Creole (of Afro-Malagasy origin) are still excluded from the "economic miracle of Mauritius." These Creoles are mostly descendants of slaves who were deported in mass in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from Madagascar and the East African coast for the cultivation of spices and coffee and later sugar cane. On the margins of these hellish plantations was secretly created a music called tchiega, chéga or tsiega, a distant cousin of the blues. The music from Mauritius in the 70s found on this compilation naturally evolved from this original sega. Created at the crossroads of Afro-Malagasy, Western and Indian cultures, pop, soul and funk arrangements, syncopated ternary polyrhythms, saturated guitars, psychedelic organs and Creole vocals, this musical phenomenon is as incredible as a tropical flower in bloom. The Mascarene Archipelago, located in the South Western part of the Indian Ocean includes the islands of Reunion, Mauritius and Rodrigues.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 14.04.2020
- Genre
- Soul / Funk / Jazz
- Format
- CD
- Release-Datum
- 14.04.2020
- Genre
- Soul / Funk / Jazz
- 01. Vox Low - It's Rejuvenation (Tolouse Low Trax Version)
02. Vox Low - Rides Alone (Abschaum Reprise)
03. Vox Low - What If The Symbols Fall Down (Pilooski Floating Dub)
04. Vox Low - Trapped On The Moon (Orestt Version)VOX LOW
Relectures (Remixes)
(Born Bad)[engl]PILOOSKI Cédric Marszewski aka Pilooski started as a sound designer for Radio France. Later, he joined the journalists Guillaume Sorge & Clovis Goux of the D*I*R*T*Y collective. Together, they released the compilations Dirty edits and Dirty space Disco for the Tigersushi label and “Beggin”, a remix that has been used in many commercials around the world. Cédric produces Tristesse Contemporaine, Hypnolove, Perez, Discodeine, he has worked with Jarvis Cocker (Pulp), Baxter Dury, Matias Aguayo and Kevin Parker (Tame Impala). He has published numerous remixes under the name Pilooski for Bryan Ferry, LCD Soundsystem, Tame Impala, Jarvis Cocker, Nina Simone, Alain Chamfort, Mark E. Smith Von Sudenfed, also Metronomy, Yelle or Joakim, Who Made Who (with Discodeine). Cédric is Musical Artistic Director for brands such as Hermès , Christophe Lemaire, Lanvin, Bonpoint. He collaborates with advertising agencies: Saatchi & Saatchi, Publicis, BETC, Young & Rubicam, Sid Lee for worldwide advertising campaigns (Lipton, Mastercard, Clarins, Adidas, Orange, Hermès parfum, Lacoste, Balenciaga). He composed the music for Joyce A’s feature film. Nawashati’s feature film “Blind Sun”; collaborated with Les Films du trésor (“Populaire”, Régis Roinsard), Europa Corp (“Arthur et les minimoys”, Luc Besson).- Format
- 12''
- Release-Datum
- 21.02.2020
- Genre
- Electronic
- 01. La treve internationale
02. Maracabela
03. Les flots
04. libertas et firegarasc
05. Passer laisser
06. L’appel de la foret
07. We »re so in love
08. Pagode
09. Giles and Jones
10. Undying eyesGASC, JULIEN
L'Appel de la Foret
(Born Bad)[engl]Confession, fiction, and observation. This is how the trajectory drawn by Julien Gasc seems to evolve from one album to the next. While Cerf, Biche et Faon took the form of a diary and Kiss Me, You Fool! that of a collection of stories, L'Appel de la Forêt concludes this trilogy in a tender and spontaneous dialogue, broaching the present with clairvoyance through melodies with bright glimmers. More adventurous than its predecessors, which respectively took root in the south of France and in London, this third chapter offers a kaleidoscopic vision, multiplying geographies and temporalities to ingrain itself in the moment all the better. Through a collection of dances of diverse origins, Julien places himself at the heart of the everyday – embracing it, sublimating it, and calling for a transfiguration to escape its imminent disaster. His voice circulate through this fragmented horizon; it is raw and immediate, sometimes so stark that it disappears, making way for its interlocutor, like an invitation to occupy the space shaped by his ritornello. Emancipated from his dandy’s costume, the rare moments where he puts it on again are to more effectively elude it. The address is deliberately frank and above all benevolent. Beyond an amorous chant d’amour, it is an ode to freedom and to the full awareness of our human condition that unfolds before us.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 31.01.2020
- Genre
- Singer-/Songwriter/Folk
- Format
- CD
- Release-Datum
- 31.01.2020
- Genre
- Singer-/Songwriter/Folk
- 01. Initiation
02. L'oiseau
03. Moustache
04. Qu'il est bete ce garcon
05. J'ai trouvé un journal dans le Hall de l'aeroport
06. Mange pas les bras
07. Pierre bats ta femme
08. Spiderman
09. Fais moi savoir
10. Noix de Cola
11. Viens ma belle
12. Ca va, ca va
VASSILIU, PIERRE
Voyage
(Born Bad)[engl]"Voyage", to Pierre Vassiliu, was not only the title of an album of his, but also a philosophy of life. Travels were not for vacation or rest. They were synonyms of meetings, new music and sometimes, simply, life. These experiences around the world nourished his work, and his career allowed him to set foot on every continent. But his most beautiful travels took place in recording studios. "My parents showed up on a beach, with a camper. They landed there and we stayed for years." Sitting by a lake in Sète, Lena Vassiliu recounts how her parents Pierre and Laura chose an empty spot in the Casamance region to enjoy a few years loving each other under the sun. The legitimate child of this trip, she was conceived in Senegal. At the time, her mother said: "I want to give birth standing on my feet, holding a tree, in the sacred wood where only women can enter!" Today her mother adds: "Pierre was reluctant, so we ended up in a private hospital in Dakar." Laura Vassiliu still lives in the same apartment in Sète. Folon's original drawing for the artwork of the ‘Voyage’ LP is framed in the living room, making Pierre’s ghost more present. Laura remembers well the beautiful moments, and travels were a part of them. "Not only the moments were beautiful. On trips, he was more beautiful as well.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 08.12.2019
- Genre
- Singer-/Songwriter/Folk
- Format
- CD
- Release-Datum
- 08.12.2019
- Genre
- Singer-/Songwriter/Folk
- 01. J'attends la bombe
02. Dernier homme
03. #1
04. Venera 16
05. La jungle
06. The Pleasure Principle
07. Mariposa
08. A l'ombre du Coolangata géant
09. #2
10. The Fur
11. Videolife
12. Les Adieux au plaisir
13. The Drowning (Bonus)PLEASURE PRINCIPLE
s/t
(Born Bad)[engl]I’m going to say “I” because I think I can’t write about my music other than in the first person. I’ve been playing drums since I was fifteen years old and I’ve always had bands since. Even if I always contribute artistically, to different degrees, my latitude of action, from a creative point of view, has always been limited by the fact that I am a drummer. Like many people, I learned to play very approximately the guitar and keyboard, and I spent years going over obsessions and recurring patterns, in my room and in my head, without doing any of that, and knowing that even though I was and still am extremely involved in my past and present bands (Skategang, La Secte du Futur, Marietta to a lesser extent, and ), the music we were making was only partially representative of me. I’ve always listened to a lot of reggae, dancehall, music from Ghana, Nigeria, Congo, and overall music that is based more on repetition and intention than composition, and that’s something I could never really develop in there. In 2015 my brother and friend Benjamin Dupont, the human behind Bryan’s Magic Tears, moved into my flat share / Noah’s Ark at 35 rue Clignancourt, in the 18th arrondissement, and it was him who unlocked everything by showing me how to record music by myself ; and one September morning, lying on my back, I saw the light. - 01. Insane
02. Pulse
03. Slave Markets feat Jason Williamson
04. When does a banknote starts to burn
05. Brume
06. Some friends
07. Lil' white sister
08. Pepper spray
09. Le grand soirFRUSTRATION
So cold streams
(Born Bad)[engl]During the 1990s, wherever you lived in France, you could see certain groups between 5 and 10 times a year - sometimes even without really wanting to. Guys who played so much, all the time, everywhere, that it was impossible to spend more than three months without being at one of their concerts. Right down to the depths of the Var or Jura, they pushed tons of kids to start their own band or fanzine, to access something different. It was more than just music. It was a spirit, an idea. A way of looking at the world. Rules are no longer the same. Music no longer has the same weight, the bands we come across between 5 and 10 times a year - sometimes even without really wanting to - are rarely the right ones, and the kids from the far reaches of the Var or the Jura have something else to do than formig bands or fanzines. But the spirit and the idea are still there. And in the last 10 years, in France, no group has played them better than Frustration. Like all these groups, Frustration we have seen them 5, 10, 100 times - sometimes without really wanting to. And because we're not quite the same either - more informed, more busy, more jaded, less easily impressionable - we always said to ourselves that we've gone around it, that their whole comedy is getting old.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 18.10.2019
- Genre
- Postpunk / Wave / Noise
- Format
- CD
- Release-Datum
- 18.10.2019
- Genre
- Postpunk / Wave / Noise
- 01. CASSIUS SIMON - Please Mister Hitchcock
02. SPARTACO ANDREOLI - Eins Zwei Drei
03. BILLY'S SAX - Le fil direct
04. LOS ALBINOS - Chacha bepop
05. LOS GORAGUEROS - Mambo Miam Miam
06. ROL BASTI - Casoar
07. GILLIAN HILLS - Chacha Stop
08. SPARTACO SAX - Ne nous fâchons pas
09. NORMAN MAINE - Paris
10. LES BRETELLES - Marchand de Melons
11. LOS CHIQUITOS - Ca c'est du poulet
12. NORMAN MAINE - Mundial Chacha
13. JACK ARY - Chacha Transistor
14. HENRI SALVADOR & JEAN YANNE - Allo Brigitte
15. CASSIUS SIMON - Tabou
16. LES GOUAPES A MUSIQUE - La tarte a la Nana
17. LOS CANGACEIROS - Bip Bip
18. JACK ARY - Défendu défendu
19. LES KILI CATS - Le Soukou soukou
20. LOS ALBINOS - Voulez vous Chacha ?V/A
VOULEZ VOUS CHACHA? French Chacha 1960/1964
(Born Bad)[engl]Careful, "Let’s not get angry" suggests Spartaco Sax, the famed song accompanying French daily paper FRANCE-SOIR’s campaign against road violence: music isn’t that serious, often times really not. In any case, it is with this not so serious ear that one should listen to this selection of chachacha, mambo and other genres to twist and madison to, as music-lovers pinch their noses and block their ears. And yet, these breezy and light songs under their false airs of effortlessness draw out an astonishing analysis of late 1950s France with its partying baby boomers. Put on your dancing shoes, everyone on the dancefloor, let’s go baby. The record starts out with an esoteric organ, a guitar straight out of a western, a vibey rhythm section, a speeding saxophone, a glamorous voice, a curious keyboard, a slightly panicky tempo... "Please Mr Hitchock!" calls out a voice from the unknown, on an arrangement that’s about to lose control. The tone is set. Eins Zwei Drei, cries out Spartaco Andreoli, creator of the Chachacha for tunas, lyrics that are absurd accompanying music that isn’t so much so. And this is just the beginning. I can already see those making fun of it, and yes, I admit it does sound a bit comically-tragic, but more often than not, a persistent riff or melody will get stuck in your head, a chorus that you’ll start unintentionally humming, your foot that starts beating unbeknownst to you.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 18.06.2019
- Genre
- Soul / Funk / Jazz
- Format
- CD
- Release-Datum
- 18.06.2019
- Genre
- Soul / Funk / Jazz
- 01. Mon amour il est gentil
02. Ecoute moi camarade
03. Je n'aime pas le jour je n'aime pas la nuit
04. Daag Dagui
05. Je pense a celle
06. Si massoud (je t'aime et je t'aimerai)
07. L'amour Mâak
08. Tu n'es plus comme avant
09. 20 ans en France
10. Je suis seul
11. La Madrague
12. Clichy
13. Cherie Madame
14. Dis moi c'est pas vrai
15. Adieu la France
16. Mini jupeMAZOUNI
Un Dandy En Exil - Algerie/France - 1969/1983
(Born Bad)[engl]1958, in the middle of the liberation war. While the rattle of machine guns could be heard in the maquis, in the city, the population listened at low volume to Algerian patriotic songs broadcast by the powerful Egyptian radio: "The Voice of the Arabs". These artists all belonged to a troupe created by the self-proclaimed management of the National Liberation Front (FLN), based in Tunis and claiming to gather a "representative" sample of the Algerian musical movement of the time, among which Ahmed Wahby (who sang Wahran Wahran, a song popularized by Khaled) and Wafia from Oran, Farid Aly the Kabyle, and H'sissen, the champion of Algiers’ Chaâbi. The same year, singer Ben Achour was killed in conditions that have never been elucidated. Algiers, by a summer evening in 1960. Cafe terraces were crowded and glasses of anisette kept coming with metronomic regularity, despite the alarming music of police sirens heard at intervals and the silhouettes of soldiers marching in the streets. The mood was good, united by a tune escaping from everywhere: balconies, where laundry was finishing drying, windows wide open from apartments or restaurants serving the famous Algiers shrimps along with copious rosé wine. Couples spontaneously joined the party upon hearing "Ya Mustafa", punctuated by improvised choirs screaming "Chérie je t’aime, chérie je t’adore". - 01. Anne et Gilles - Conversation
02. Christine Combe - Transformations
03. Jean-François Gaël - Prefiteroles
04. Steve Waring - Image
05. Anne et Gilles - Le Gnou
06. Christine Combe - Conseils aux enfants sages
07. Jean-François Gaël - Sucre Candi
08. Le Groupe Organon - Adieu
09. Alain Savouret - La dictée
10. Anne - Vendredi, les caramels au chocolat
11. Anne - Lundi, les croûtes aux groseilles
12. Le Groupe Organon - Vivre
13. Anne et Gilles - Le soleil
14. Steve Waring - Me uno Me douno
15. Naomi Moudi - Who dat
16. Anne et Gilles - Les Hiboux
17. Steve Waring - Fais voir le son
18. Anne et Gilles - Le môme néant
19. Anne et Gilles - Cela est certainV/A
CHEVANCE - OUTREMUSIQUE pour ENFANTS ( 1975-1984)
(Born Bad)[engl]France at the crossroads of the 70s: the Chevance collection revolutionizes music for children. Mixing forward-thinking folk and avant-garde jazz, driven by a strong literary spirit, its exceptional catalog was created under the direction of producer Philippe Gavardin, in the tradition of the Saravah label or iconoclastic publisher Harlin Quist. Anti-fables, songs from mysterious countries, wild bestiaries... It brought together a band of classically inspired free musicians, propelling its singers into orbit by exploiting all the fantastical potential of texts by Jean Tardieu, Robert Desnos, Jacqueline Held and many others. More strictly instrumental, its younger sibling, the Sonoriage collection completed the company, dedicating itself to the acousmatic exploration of children's familiar environments. In the land of Presidents Giscard and Mitterand, thermal clothing and elbow pads, Sautet films and Sunday roasts, the carpeting of a nursery is strewn with a handful of 7-inches. There, exotic birds and courteous elephants guarding a castle built with cakes form a Front for the Liberation of the Imaginary: colourful, systematically framed illustrations standing out against the cream background of gatefold sleeves… doorways to a maze of sounds at the crossroads between the neatest form of chanson and the most prospective jazz.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 12.04.2019
- Genre
- Soul / Funk / Jazz
- Format
- CD
- Release-Datum
- 12.04.2019
- Genre
- Soul / Funk / Jazz
- 01. Train station
02. Bande de...
03. Family houden
04. Autofile
05. Ik ken blij
06. Oorlog
07. CarapaceWILD CLASSICAL MUSIC ENSEMBLE
Tout va bien se passer
(Born Bad)[engl]In current times, how should mental disability be dealt with in an unrestrained, open-minded way? How can we take on this difference not as a barrier but as an opportunity? By directly confronting its creative force and abounding energy. And what better place for this than on a stage, where disability ceases to be a "negative" and becomes a "positive", finally revealing exceptionally strong human beings, without any blinders or artifices. From experimental group Les Harry's, to hip-hop collective Choolers Division, to the multifaceted projects of Atelier Méditerranée (now BRUT POP), many are the initiatives that have explored this channel in recent years, arousing the interest of an audience not always prepared for the intensity of such a world. One of the most memorable initiatives being at the Sur Les Rails mini-festival, created by Atelier Méditerranée in Paris in 2014. When a handful of lucky few got to discover the Wild Classical Music Ensemble: Linh Pahm, Johan Geenens, Wim Decoene and Sebastien Faidherbe, four mentally disabled persons, led by the Belgian musician and violin-maker Damien Magnette. That evening they delivered a brutal, wild and Promethean concert to a stunned audience. However one question remained unanswered: how to translate such a physical and visceral experience onto a record? And should it even be done? The group’s first album that was released in confidentiality on Sub Rosa, had gone under the radar and no one seemed to know how to approach it.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 29.03.2019
- Genre
- Avantgarde / Klassik
- Format
- CD
- Release-Datum
- 29.03.2019
- Genre
- Avantgarde / Klassik
- 01. John Forbes
02. Sorry JC
03. Postmaster Failure
04. Wuhan Girl
05. Backpackers
06. Bataclan
07. Subterranean
08. Come back
09. Can you vote for me ?
10. Pernety
11. Haunted ChateauLE VILLEJUIF UNDERGROUND
When will the flies in Deauville Drop?
(Born Bad)[engl]bass player looking like the main character of a surf movie shot in Chernobyl. A guitar player who’ll take french rap or thaï music over the Stooges, anytime. A keyboard player invited at reharsal by mistake who got the job cause he felt asleep on his synth. An australian poet-singer lost in France with no papers, sleeping in a cabin in the backyard of the Villejuif house where the whole band lives, sets up shows and records the most vital, exciting and enthralling records heard in France for a long, long time. PRs & managers would kill for such a story - this one is 100 % accurate and happened just like any great story : by chance. Just like the music of the Villejuif Underground, the result of happy accidents and unholy alliances, something that was never meant to be but became an astonishing fandango of sorts. Think Fat White Family covering Oingo Boingo with Beat Happening’s gear. Think Beck’s One Foot In The Grave remixed by Daniel Johnston and Brian Wilson. Think Ausmuteants, the Spits, the Feeling Of Love or A Frames when they really nailed it. Actually, you shouldn’t think about any of this cause whatever you do, you’ll still be far from reality. Way too far. Especially now with the release of When Will The Flies In Deauville Drop?, their second album and the first one on Born Bad Records.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 07.12.2018
- Genre
- Garage / Powerpop
- Format
- CD
- Release-Datum
- 07.12.2018
- Genre
- Garage / Powerpop
- 01. Ghetto Blaster
02. CEO
03. Marry me
04. Lilac Tree
05. Change
06. 4 AM
07. Sweet Jesus
08. Slamino Day
09. Oscillo TrailBRYAN MAGIC TEARS
4 AM
(Born Bad)[engl]Remember those moth-eaten American bands on unreachable Midwest labels that, in the mid-1990s, would drop choruses that would make the Smashing Pumpkins green with envy, with the crummiest sound in the history of electricity? Maybe not. Well, Bryan's Magic Tears could have been one of them. This project launched four years ago by Benjamin Dupont (Dame Blanche), which features members and ex-members of La Secte Du Futur and Marietta, indeed has it all to occupy this niche, which, by the way, has quite fallen into disuse these days: toxic melodies, guitars oscillating between whiplashes and caresses, ghostly sonorities and a convoluted name referring to some obscure Parisian acid dealer. But wait: this is not about a vain stylistic exercise put together by some gifted kids who fantasize about a time they missed, nor a sad revivalist meeting of old farts who still haven’t gotten over turning 40. If listening to Bryan's Magic Tears brings the 90s to mind, it's not because of the sound – which, as it happens, is very close to that of their tour partners Le Villejuif Underground or Jessica93 – but because of a state of mind that was peculiar to the time and to this particular moment in adolescence, when the last illusions aroused by the fall of the Berlin Wall were slowly fading away, when the dark clouds of the first Gulf War were piling up; this carefree, jaded spleen perfectly depicted in Gregg Araki's films or in songs by Sebadoh, Beat Happening or Nirvana – or even in this famous line from Lou Reed's "Romeo Had Juliet": "It's hard to give a shit these days ".- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 07.12.2018
- Genre
- Garage / Powerpop
- Format
- CD
- Release-Datum
- 07.12.2018
- Genre
- Garage / Powerpop
- 01. Frogs
02. Do not love me too much
03. Machine gets old
04. The Ugliest Rabbit of the Seventies
05. Ghost
06. Not easy to cook
07. Sirens call
08. Pendejo
09. Au Revoir
10. Frogs OutroCANNIBALE
Not Easy To Cook
(Born Bad)[engl]If Cannibale’s members brought their breakfast back up when talking about “Not easy to cook”, their listeners would be surprised. These fortysomethings being signed by Born Bad Records, the image of greaser-looking garage rockers would come to mind, but with bits of exotica stuck between the teeth, Nino Nardini & Roger Roger’s “Jungle Obsession” spilled on the table, and plastic-bottled tropical glam puked by some even more stupid incarnation than Wayne’s World’‘s Mike Myers. The stage is set, now you have to clean up everything. Why mention all this? Because there’s a world of difference between the beginning of Cannibale’s success story and this second album. It wouldn’t take much to feel as if Freddie Mercury showed up in a Renault 16 supersport to play marimba for old oafish rock fans. And actually, that’s about it: The Rocky Horror Picture Show meets Fela Kuti in rain boots. And though the amount of cows hasn’t increased in the Normandy hole these guys hail from, the number of their shows did. Between “No Mercy For Love” (their 2017 debut album), and the new one “Not easy to cook”, these Frogs – to quote the title of the opening track – did not switch from psyche cumbia to coarse-grained autotune, but rather roamed roads like doped cyclists: more than 100 dates in less than a year (including quite a few with Frustration and the Villejuif Underground), festivals such as Rock en Seine, and a eulogistic press review: “Indolent rhythms invoking Latin America and Africa.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 18.11.2018
- Genre
- Garage / Powerpop
- Format
- CD
- Release-Datum
- 18.11.2018
- Genre
- Garage / Powerpop
- 01. Colosse De Rhodes
02. Sous La Mer C'est Calme
03. Samarcande
04. Sayyara
05. La Ville
06. Le Vide
07. Tamam
08. El Bahr
09. Ultra Moderne Solitude 2
10. Yaaa Yaaa YaaaCYRIL CYRIL
Certaines Ruines
(Born Bad)[engl]Of all the Cyrils born in the city of Calvin at the dawn of the 80s, these two were bound to find each other. Two Cyrils like two dizygotic souls whose contingencies have brought their meeting forward. Cyril Cyril. A liberated hydra, born in this city of diplomats where Borges duplicated his rejuvenated ego in “The Other”. On the ruins of their worn out bands, they put together an innately cosmopolitan empire. Because these Cyrils have devoured miles, away from their Genovese haven. A muezzin without borders, Cyril Yeterian came to the disheveled world through Mama Rosin, a three-piece that stirred the ghosts of the rogue bayou, the clammy Mardi Gras of some electric Louisiana. Soon, the world fell in love with their flair. The BBC celebrated them, Jon Spencer produced them, records proliferated. And then in 2017, the honeymoon period passed. Cyril was alone. Well, not quite: music kept popping up around him. Inside his Bongo Joe record store, on the label of the same name, in the underground DJ sets he stirred up, Yeterian explored like crazy, in a binge of exiled grooves. Within the same space-time, Cyril Bondi hit the road. Diatribes, La Tène, Insub Meta Orchestra, the most adventurous projects of the Geneva scene all had a bone to pick with this percussionist in search of unheard beats.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 18.09.2018
- Genre
- Soul / Funk / Jazz
- Format
- CD
- Release-Datum
- 18.09.2018
- Genre
- Soul / Funk / Jazz
- 01. Colosse De Rhodes
02. Sous La Mer C'est Calme
03. Samarcande
04. Sayyara
05. La Ville
06. Le Vide
07. Tamam
08. El Bahr
09. Ultra Moderne Solitude 2
10. Yaaa Yaaa YaaaV/A
ANTILLES MECHANT BATEAU - Deep biguines & Gwo ka from 60’s french West-indies
(Born Bad)[engl]The West Indies – a sweet coastline subject to many clichés from another time. That postcard with coconut trees, a glass of rum to sip on, those so exotic madras dresses... Almost as many as in Compagnie Créole’s "doudouist" songs, that say a lot about the misunderstandings from both sides of the ocean. West Indians are still as stuck with this distorted outlook as in the good old days of the colonies. Because, underneath the veneer of moldy images, a completely different reality is woven. ‘They beat drums but were never number one’ – to misquote the chorus by a Martinique-born French singer. This is the subject of this collection – musicians drumming on percussion as a way of asserting their creolized identity. Songs that tell, in veiled terms, a different reality from what mainlanders were fed with. Special cases, with cries of joy and laments accompanied by cadences, as an invitation to trance, all immersed in the Caribbean melting pot of rhythm. “’Antilles’ Méchant Bateau”, a low-tempo number with a bolero feel, indeed a pure case of the blues, and a terrific saxophone solo. What else would you expect to set the tone for this selection, in which beguine regains its original colors, in the darkness of the gwo ka drums. This 45 by André Mahy, released under the Aux Ondes sublabel, was recorded in the 1960s at Célini’s, one of Guadeloupe’s two main houses.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 18.09.2018
- Genre
- Soul / Funk / Jazz
- Format
- CD
- Release-Datum
- 18.09.2018
- Genre
- Soul / Funk / Jazz
- 01. Dans sa corde
02. Cardiaque
03. Danser un slow avec un flic
04. Elle seule
05. Dans un coin
06. En 3 secondes
07. Insomnie le temps d'une nuitUSE
Selfic
(Born Bad)[engl]It’s always kind of the same: the guy gets on stage – provided that there is one – looking like a lanky jackal, with a sweater or two on, and without notice he starts hitting on a jumble of cymbals stacked on tattered guitars, wedged between two ancient synths. After a few minutes, he ends up shirtless and everything disappears, crumbled and pulverized: the show, the music, the people around you, the stage – if there was one – and you find yourself in a hand-to-hand combat: the struggle of Man against the machine, the New Age of Metal, the big final crash. What matters then is not what this guy is doing, but the faith he’s putting in it. And what he puts in it is nothing less than his whole life, messily arranged in a large pile of hypnogenic patterns, primitive words, barking, anti-theft alarms, control losses, infernal nights. Then everyone’s free to pull the string that suits them in this huge panic – punk, indus, soundtrack to a urban crime film of the year 3000: as if being so harsh, fierce, and vital was not enough, Usé’s music also leaves you the choice – an incredible luxury at a time when anything’s spoon-shed to the point of having storytelling and opinions delivered turnkey, 100% validated and ready to consume. In fact, the music of Nicolas Belvalette (the man behind Usé, who can also be seen in Headwar, Les Morts Vont Bien, Sultan Solitude, Roberto Succo and about 125 other simultaneous projects) could have contented itself with live performance, where it seems to be reaching its full potential.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 10.07.2018
- Genre
- Postpunk / Wave / Noise
- Format
- CD
- Release-Datum
- 10.07.2018
- Genre
- Postpunk / Wave / Noise