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WEAVIL 050CD
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Bo 'Weavil is totally psyched to have the opportunity to release the second album by Reines d'Angleterre -- this time, a thoroughly studio affair. Reines d'Angleterre is a fascinating collaboration between avant-outsider musician Ghédalia Tazartès and two electronic botanists, èlg and Jo aka Opéra Mort. This album covers more of the wild ground the band started with on 2010's Les Comores (SIDRA 003LP), but going further into a musical terrain that defies definite description -- a slow trip into wizard's intimacy, synthetic jungles, undersea zoos and Tibetan-industrial complexes. It feels like one has stumbled into disturbing dreams from a different realm. A quality of mystery, trickery and hallucinatory movements slip and shift across the recording. This is out-there, experimental music with no fixed idio, with a unique quality that defies most of today's recordings.
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WEAVIL 050LP
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LP version, limited to 500 copies. Bo 'Weavil is totally psyched to have the opportunity to release the second album by Reines d'Angleterre -- this time, a thoroughly studio affair. Reines d'Angleterre is a fascinating collaboration between avant-outsider musician Ghédalia Tazartès and two electronic botanists, èlg and Jo aka Opéra Mort. This album covers more of the wild ground the band started with on 2010's Les Comores (SIDRA 003LP), but going further into a musical terrain that defies definite description -- a slow trip into wizard's intimacy, synthetic jungles, undersea zoos and Tibetan-industrial complexes. It feels like one has stumbled into disturbing dreams from a different realm. A quality of mystery, trickery and hallucinatory movements slip and shift across the recording. This is out-there, experimental music with no fixed idiom, with a unique quality that defies most of today's recordings. Embossed card cover.
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SIDRA 003LP
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LP release. Reines D'Angleterre (trans. "Queens Of England") is a band made up of French avant-garde legend Ghédalia Tazartès and a couple of hyperactive young Parisian upstarts, Jo Tanz and él-g. Both of these characters are steeped in subversive operations covering psych-folk and "toon-psych" films (él-g), and the Tanzprocesz label (Jo Tanz). They also both perform under the moniker of Opéra Mort and have made work as Lö Jengi. Reines D'Angleterre are a damaged conglomeration of live concrète, sound poetry, faux ethnicity and sincere eccentricity. Les Comores (a reference to the island off the eastern coast of Africa which France still administers as an "overseas collectivity") is comprised of inexplicable ethnic residue and feasts on duality: chaos and order, narrative and anti-narrative, construction and destruction, comedy and dread. The glottal panoply of vocals ride in tandem with electronics: cracked, beaten, weathered and bruised. This is a brain-meltingly dark, gloriously unstable affair, but not one devoid of emotion. Edition of 400 hand-numbered LPs, housed in a heavyweight matte black embossed sleeve with insert.
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