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French ambient metallers, Abysse, floored us with their two song EP entitled Le vide est forme.Filled with huge swells of sound and complex musical arrangements, this disc made the Ripple office stop and take note. A few months back, we were able to spend a few moments with the band to find out more about how they create their wondrous sounds and to find out more about the music scene in France.
Defined as a beginner musician was an easy step “Hey Guys, it’s time to learn instruments and create a rock band” (Summer 2004). Easy as fuck, uh?
We needed barely 3 years to create what Abysse is now. Mastering instruments, developing, creating.. We recorded “Le vide est forme” in summer 2008, exactly 4 years after the killing question: “Hum, who wants to play guitar? You Vincent? So I’ll learn bass. What is a bass guys?”
Entering in this professional recording studio was time to feel like a musician and say ‘Hey, I’m part of a rock band. Not the best, not the perfect one, but a cool rock band. That’s what we wanted guys, we’ve done it!’ A year after, we can say that it was a little step, and we are now in front of the wall.
From where we’re sitting, the French music scene appears to be a burgeoning entity of massive creativity. Being that you’re there, does it feel the same way?
What do you see as being the biggest obstacle in getting your music heard in some of the more major markets, such as the U.S.?
The business of music is a brutal place. Changes in technology have made it easier than ever for bands to get their music out, but harder than ever to make a living? What are your plans to move the band forward? How do you stay motivated in this brutal business?
) We stay unskilled in some domains, we need elders to get what we want, a label that works for you if you work for them. These two last questions give you a taste of how our business works.
A special little treat for all you waveriders.
All-star rock super group Terrible Things featuring Fred Mascherino (Taking Back Sunday), Josh Eppard (Coheed & Cambria), and Andy Jackson (Hot Rod Circuit) have just released their debut single “Revolution” yesterday via iTunes & ShockHound, and they’ve asked the Ripple to make the song available in full-stream on our site. Always being a fan of free, legal music, we couldn’t resist.
The full-length debut is due out late summer on Universal Motown. The album’s concept is about the arson that ravaged Fred’s hometown of Coatesville, PA. So if you like what you hear, go out and support the band.
Athens, Ohio’s blackened thrash masters, SKELETONWITCH have a busy summer lined up, as they’ve been tapped for Ozzfest, as well as a Canadian tour with HIGH ON FIRE. The band will be appearing on the second stage at Ozzfest along with former tour partners GOATWHORE and SAVIOURS and other acts including DEVILDRIVER, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY and KINGDOM OF SORROW. The band is currently several weeks into a tour with CANNIBAL CORPSE, which made a stop at the annual New England Metal and Hardcore Fest in Worcester, MA. That tour wraps up on the 15th in Tampa, FL.
The band’s upcoming dates are as follows:
5/11 Emo’s- Austin TX $
5/12 Meridian- Houston, TX $
5/13 House of Blues- New Orleans, LA $
5/14 Freebird Live- Jackson, FL $
5/15 State Theater- Tampa, FL $
7/8 Rickshaw Theatre- Vancouver, BC %
7/9 Pogue Mahone- Kamloops, BC (SKELETONWITCH Only)
7/10 Starlite Room- Edmonton, AB %
7/11 The Republik- Calgary, ALB %
7/13 Royal Albert Arms- Winnipeg, MB %
7/14 Crocks- Thunder Bay, ON (w/ High On Fire)
7/16 Opera House- Toronto, ON *
7/17 London Music Hall- London, ON *
7/18 The Blind Dog- Windsor, ON *
7/20 The Casbah- Hamilton, ON *
7/21 Time To Laugh- Kingston, ON *
7/22 Le Cercle- Quebec City, QC
7/23 Capital Music Hall- Ottawa, ON *
7/25 Mohawk Place- Buffalo, NY (SKELETONWITCH Only)
8/14 San Manuel Amphitheatre- Devore, CA #
8/17 First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre- Tinley Park, CA #
8/19 First Niagara Pavilion- Burgettstown, PA #
8/21 Comcast Theatre- Hartford, CT #
8/22 Susquehanna Bank Center- Camden, NJ #
8/24 Comcast Center- Mansfield, MA #
$ w/ Cannibal Corpse, Lecherous Nocturne
# OZZFEST 2010
% w/ High on Fire, Russian Circles
* w/ High on Fire, Priestess
SKELETONWITCH are supporting “Breathing the Fire” which was recorded in Seattle, WA with legendary producer, Jack Endino (Nirvana, High On Fire, Soundgarden). The album was released by PROSTHETIC RECORDS on October 13, 2009 and debuted at number 151 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart and number 2 on the magazine’s “Heatseekers’ Chart.”
Hailing from past and current projects such as The Pacific, The Beautiful and Damned and Ellie Sky…..Joseph Taylor, Robert Pierret, Tim Galvin and Michael Monosky formed in 2009 and began writing tracks for what has now become Cannoneers of the New Command.
The band just released their debut 7″ and will be rockin’ the loft tonight @ 7pm
“Their uncoming 7 inch single Sadie was a Girl / Shake the Law is good old fashioned garage band rock n’ roll, the like of which is all too rare these days. Sadie introduces herself in style with a guitar riff straight off a lost Primal Scream song. It is simple, joyous and authentic rock music. These four boys don’t stretch themselves much but no one expects (or really wants) them to. The classic drum beat and vocal mid section is ensured to be a live highlight, I can almost hear the synchronized handclaps now.” – Music Review Unsigned
Also got a good lot of new and old today…
New Adds
Cast Spells – Bright Works And Baton
First Aid Kit – The Big Black and The Blue (Free 7” with Purchase)
Jamie Lidell – Compass
Kingdom – Mindreader 10″
Kings Go Forth – The Outsiders are Back
Lovvers – Strangers 7″
Pure Ecstasy – Voices 7″
Simian Mobile Disco – Temporary Pleasure
The Budos Band – S/T
The Hundred In The Hands – This Desert EP
The Stooges – The Electric Circus
V/A – Jahtarian Dubbers Vol. 2
Restocks
Babe Rainbow – Shaved EP
Bell Gardens – Hangups Need Company EP
Bonobo – Black Sands
Elliott Smith – From a Basement on the Hill (Reissue)
Elliott Smith – New Moon (Reissue)
Elliott Smith – Roman Candle (Reissue)
Future Islands – In Evening Air
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Midlake – The Courage of Others
Simian Mobile Disco – Attack Decay Sustain Release
The Black Keys – The Big Come Up
The Locust – Peel Sessions
The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! – I Love You! I Love You!… Have and Awesome Day! Have the Best Day of Your Life!
V/A – Brazil Classics at 20
V/A – Pebbles, Vol. 1
Team Alizée from Une Enfant Du Siecle
I want to be part of the Alizée PR team.
Pick me, Pick me…who do I need to persuade? Alizée, JR…who
Put me in coach I’m ready….
I say this because I would like to have “A” source for upcoming events, information….I think it would be appropriate for it to come from some “official” source.
There is no real “go to ” source to rely on for all appearances. * That would be nice! In lieu of jumping all over the place looking for tid bits of information. The same for all official article releases could be released through this source.
I always considered Le Nid as a third party source. Don’t get me wrong…The Best third party source. But should I start to consider it a quasi official source??? Le Nid seems to be the source for “most” but not all information releases lately. Why is that? And not the Alizée Tumblr, Myspace, Facebook, official website….
That is why I say should I consider Le Nid quasi official?
If a tour is planned Tumblr would be great for updates just as Phoenix uses it as a diary.
By the way this FHM #2 rating can’t hurt if a tour is planned…what great timing, MY GOODNESS SOUL SISTER YOU WERE BORN UNDER A LUCKY STAR. Seriously, I don’t play the lottery but if you published a number to play I would run, not walk, to play that number.
But I still really really want to know what is going on…for instance…
Tuesday June 1 – EVENT
MICHEL Serrawollies, fisherman
and singer ALIZEE for
“I PESCADOR IN FESTA”
at St. Erasmus
fishermen’s festival,
from June 2 to 5 knew the port
Tino Rossi Ajaccio.
Would be cool to have that “easily found”
Alizée, JR, whom ever…really, I am just talking about some small online efforts. If you do not want this information to be found…well that is a different story and I can honor that. You know that movie “What woman want” well, “What Alizée fans want” that’s me…you have my email…will work for lottery numbers…
Alizee, French FHM as the sexiest
Readers around the world already know this…all I have to say is…
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
8:00 PM; $5 – $15 sliding scale suggested donation at the door.
Seattle composer/pianist Keith Eisenbrey will perform from his own compositions, as well as exciting new works by local composers Richard Johnson, Brian Cobb, and Sean Osborn. The thematic focus of the recital will be performances of Liebeslied (Amended), Keith’s 2006 completion of Benjamin Boretz’s intriguingly unfinished Liebeslied (1974), together with two large scale works that branch directly from it: Boretz’s 1976 (“…my chart shines high where the blue milks upset…”), and the pianist’s 2010 Sonata Liebeslied.
Keith Eisenbrey brings to his pianism a composer’s imaginative musical understanding, and to his composition a mysterious and majestical whimsy. Cerebral and sensuous, remorselessly speculative, his music seeks to illuminate those most intimate of our personal spaces: the silences across which, in which, and out from which music, thought, and utterance unfold. His works include solo pieces for various keyboards, songs, and chamber works. He is a co-founder of Banned Rehearsal, an ongoing argument in creative musical expression, which will soon celebrate its twenty-sixth anniversary.
8:00 PM; $5 suggested donation at the door.
Curtis Taylor is a filmmaker and theater artist. In Seattle he founded a storefront performance venue named Vodvil. Under that auspice he created original folk operas. More recently he uses film to consider themes of art, life and time. Tonight he presents a brief variety show in the form of a séance. Redd Foxx and Andrei Tarkovsky will both be summoned forth by a concealed medium. Mr. Taylor will screen two short music films, Church Weather and Bachianas No. 5. There will also be an excerpted stage reading from A White White Day, a work-in-progress being created by Mr. Taylor for his 2011 residency at New City Theater in Seattle. The musical guest for the evening will be the folk-grass duo The Gloria Darlings.
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