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TSR 010CD
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This is the third release on Tigersushi for the ever-proteiform French artist Alice Daquet. Sir Alice walks the thin line intersecting completely different universes: fundamental research, musical creation and art. At 23, she already claims a long-running past as a teenage punkette -- from age 14 to 19 she ransacked as many café-concerts as possible with her crew. However, she is also a true experimentalist, via her scholarship at IRCAM where she tackles new technologies in music. Hers is a case of extreme post-post-punk artistic schizophrenia that has Daquet partake in an incredible array of art ventures ranging from multimedia to performance art via music and without her character losing even the slightest of her rage. Under the Sir Alice moniker, she develops an original musical project that effortlessly blends experimental music, electronics and punk. This new release is dark, scrawling, and pleasantly unsettling, as it mixes childlike melodies and Frenchified off-kilter nursery-rhymes with deep, disturbing electronics and tape manipulation. Signed to Tigersushi Records' roster she has already released an EP (1) and a mini album (2). She's featured on Nouvelle Vague's debut effort as well as on forthcoming releases courtesy of Patrick Pulsinger and Chicks on Speed. Sir Alice is one to watch, with a mixture of unease and glee.
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TSR 012EP
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"Sir Alice is Tigersushi's new darling (not to be mixed up with Alice Machine). At 23 years old only she already has a serious teenage angst background, performing as a punk-rock singer from the age 14 to 19. Whilst slumming all the usual live-band joints, she starts a career as an academic at IRCAM where she teams up with Marc Collin (the man behind trailblazing musical ventures Ollano, Suburbia, Volga Select) who takes over the production decks. A seriously hyperactive youngster she spans a thousand project a day including art-installations and multimedia performances with the same untamed rage. A serious, enthralling case of musical schizophrenia. Follow, Follow... Tracklisting: A : Bouda Is A Material Girl -- 'We are at war'. The No Logo uproar is brought to further musical heights with this cut-throat pop song that makes up for a perfect soundtrack to Bret Easton Ellis' fiction. It's easy to understand why one of Sir Alice's all time fav. is none other that Thurston Moore. Just like Sonic Youth's charismatic leader, Alice has hidden plenty surprises in the mix, right behind the anger wall. B1 : Ballad -- This perfectly exemplifies the case for musical schizophrenia. The tempo slows down and the tone is that of ambient rock in a manner that would have us coin big name references such as Einstürzende Neubauten or Leila. B2 : Princess -- Another peek into the girl's singular universe. Eerie mixture of childish innocence and tormented structure. An early deed for Alice that was originally recorded a mere Dictaphone."
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TSR 006CD
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From one of Tigersushi's finest embodiments of musical schizophrenia, Alice Daquet, a seriously hyperactive extended EP that walks a thin line between her teenage punkette past and being a student of experimental music. Produced by Marc Collin (Ollano, Suburbia, Volga Select). "There's a remarkable variety on No. 2, from the clipped robot voice samples and alarm pulses that turn 'La Maîtresse' into a quietly paranoid nightmare to the breathy exultance and gentle guitar chimes introducing 'Onanisme.' When she concentrates on creating manic pop, however, she's probably at her best." -- All Music Guide
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