DF n°100, Interview with FAITH & THE MUSE, December 21st, 2009

We met William Faith as his band played at Le Crock More in Perpignan for a very memorable show. The audience was hysterical, and it was one of those moments when you feel a real communion between the band and the audience. Their album :Ankoku Butoh: had just been released, so we talked a lot about that and the career of the band. During this same show, we made a review of the French translation of the American classic book of essays Apocalypse Culture. 

The photos below were taken in Perpignan during their show at Le Crock More on November 28th, 2009, and at the Nuits Underground au Palais on July 24th, 2010. Thanks to Fred for the interview shot and to Jean-Sébastien for his recorder.

Here's the playlist :

FAITH AND THE MUSE, The Woman of the Snow, Twilight, When to her lute Corinna sings, In the Amber Room, Sparks, Battle Hymn, Bushido, Cernunnos, Joy, Elyria, The chorus of the furies, All Lovers Lost, Nine Dragons, When we go dark, Shattered in aspect, The birds of Rhiannon

ATARAXIA, The nine rituals

JAGERBLUT, Dornwald

TESTING VAULT, Tombstone part 2

DE MANGE MACHINE, Phénomènes vitaux

MONTE CAZAZZA, Sex is no emergency

RICHARD H. KIRK, Black honeymoon

BIG CITY ORCHESTRA, Sweet Potatoes

CONTROLLED BLEEDING, Voices of the Dead

PETER PRINCIPLE, A walk in Dinosaur Hill

EMPIRICAL SLEEPING CONSORT, Dream side 1

FRANCE SAUVAGE, Os hyoïde

BRUME, I did not remember my name/fire again!

JAC BERROCAL, Marie Antoinette is not dead ou dans quelle position je vous laisse

SPK, Alocasia Metallica

Download Link 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?3vv4m9whtimov7x

Download Link 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?ucilyiac0ulz9b2

DF n°98, Interviews with AND ALSO THE TREES & CINDYTALK, November 23rd, 2009

What an amazing show! With interviews with Simon Huw Jones from And Also The Trees and Cinder from Cindytalk!! We met Simon in Toulouse as his band was doing an acoustic show in the beautiful Chapelle des Carmélites, and we met Cinder in Bordeaux for the very first gig of the band in France. If you like sensitive, elegant and ice-cold voices, this show is for you! We also talked about the annual Extreme festival, which is dedicated to bizarre cinema and which is quite an event in our city of Toulouse.

Here's the playlist:

AND ALSO THE TREES, This Ship in Trouble (instrumental), Domed, Simple Tom and the Ghost of Jenny Bailey, The Untangled Man, Impulse of Man, The Street Organ (acoustic), Prince Rupert, So This is Silence, A Room Lives in Lucy (acoustic), Wooden Leg, There were no bounds, Slow Pulse Boy, Roulette, Needle Street

NOVEMBER, A part of me, A day of spring

CINDYTALK, In This World, Feathers Burn, Empty Hand, The ghost never smiles, Arrival, Janey's Love, Debris of a Smile, Traumlose Nacht,  Dream Ritual, Spirit behind the circus dream, Old Jack must die, Transgender Warrior, Snowkiss

L'AU-DELA, Soundtrack of Lucio Fulci's film

FAITH AND THE MUSE, Elyria

THE MOON LAY HIDDEN BENEATH A CLOUD, Madhr Title 2

Part 1 / And Also The Trees : http://www.4shared.com/audio/LleMimX4/douchecindyaatt231109part1.html
Part 2 / Cindytalk : http://www.4shared.com/audio/CusEUBFY/douchecindyaatt231109part2.html

DF n°97, Interview with CHARLES HAYWARD, November 9th, 2009

Here again, we had an interview with another legend, Charles Hayward, known for his very influential band This Heat. We met him as he played in Carmaux during the Rock in Opposition festival. He is a very charming person and it is easy to understand why so many artists have wanted to play with him.

Here's the playlist:

TERRIBLE EAGLE, Warcrime

23 SKIDOO, G-2 Contemplation

LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, City of Needles

SOL INVICTUS, Old Londonium weeps

FAITH & THE MUSE, Cantus

ONE STARVING DAY, Secret Heart

INADE, Abandoned Inferno

JEAN ROLLIN'S ROSE OF IRON, Bruits et voix dans un cimetière

CHARLES HAYWARD, Thick skin, paper thin, Not waving, No Bones, Outcomelt, Daddy needs a throne, S.P.Q.R, Time in Motion, Independence

CRASS, Poison in a pretty pill

TURBUND STURMWERK, Title 8

ATTRITION, What shall I sing

LAND, Die Andere Hälfte des Himmels

TRIBE OF CIRCLE, Psalms of Repentance

GAE BOLG, Death of the West

YOLK, Requiem

JACNO, Triangle

Part 1: http://www.4shared.com/audio/nr8N7KHf/hayward91109part1.html

Part 2: http://www.4shared.com/audio/64_z6bEv/hayward91109part2.html

DF n°96, Interviews with DEUTSCH NEPAL & DER BLUTHARSCH, October 26th, 2009

This show was programmed just before the show of And Also The Trees in a beautiful chapel in Toulouse, so we started by playing some songs from this cult band, then we broadcasted two interviews we had in Paris with our all-time-hero Peter Andersson from Deutsch Nepal and Albin Julius from Der Blutharsch. It took place on September 21st at a venue called Le Zebre, in a kind of cabaret atmosphere. During this show, we also did a review of the film The Serpent's Egg by Bergman as this strange piece of cinema was just released on DVD in France.

The photos below were taken during the concert in Paris, except for the first one, taken on May 22nd in Leipzig as Deutsch Nepal was playing on the same stage as Nocturnal Emissions.

Here's the playlist:

CONTRASTATE, Virophilia

AND ALSO THE TREES, River of Flame, This Ship in Trouble, Slow Pulse Boy, A Room Lives in Lucy (acoustic)

THOMAS BEL, Die Linien der Herbstes

DEUTSCH NEPAL, Neris of Tears, Untitled 1 (w The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud), UR Blackhouse, Tender Lover, Scoria (w.Bocksholm), Chatrine I from Above, We are all prostitutes, Procession, M/S Elusive Pain, City of Stone, Bird of Steel

DER BLUTHARSCH, Time is thee enemy 2, First 12, Flying High 1, When did Wonderland end 8, The Smell of Blood and Victory 10, Flying High 2, Time is thee enemy 9, The Philosopher's stone 2, Flying High 4, Flying High 9, Flying High 8, The Track of the Hunter 15

LEWIS/GILBERT, Barge Calm

THIS HEAT, Makeshift Swahili, A new kind of water.

Download Link 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?8vqlql5b6hyv3ub

Download Link 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?81v7a51663qwk14

DF n°95, Interview with LEFDUP & LEFDUP, October 12th, 2009

In September 2009, we had the opportunity to meet Jérôme and Denis Lefdup at Le Snark, the place where they work in Paris. Their last film, Histoire Trouble, had just been projected during the Etrange Festival. These two guys are really geniuses of their kind, using images and sounds in an iconoclast way. In France, their work as graphic designers, musiciens and video innovators became famous with the TV shows Haute Tension in the eighties and L'Oeil du Cyclone in the nineties. It was a time when we thought that everything was possible with the TV medium. Unfortunately, TV became the insane absurdity that it is now. We talked about these TV shows, their last film and many other things during this long interview. It was a great sharing moment with these two brothers whose work has often been compared to The Residents.

Here is the list of songs we played:

AND ALSO THE TREES, The critical distance/The Saracen's head

DEUTSCH NEPAL, Drugmother

DER BLUTHARSCH, Flying High n°4

KNIFELADDER, Torn from Memory

PERE UBU, Watching the Pigeons

CINDYTALK, Debris of a smile

DAWN & DUSK ENTWINED, L'ultime quête

LEFDUP 1 LEFDUP, Tiviskrin, Nepla Relou (Lucrate Milk), Ze Tri (Ptôse), 15h38mn, Seeding the clouds (Tuxedomoon), Tripot, No Kods (Lucrate Milk)

UN DEPARTEMENT, Corges de Beauce/Une fée à table

PALO ALTO, Séquence 4

PHILIPPE PETIT & LYDIA LUNCH

BAKTERIELLE INFEKTION, The Hunt

DEUTSCH NEPAL, Tintomara-Thiudinassus

AVA GARDNER, Waiting wonder

HOROLOGIUM, De Caceria el Paraiso

Part 1: http://www.4shared.com/audio/aiU0uc0B/lefdup.html

Part 2: http://www.4shared.com/audio/8etS46XK/lefdup2.html

 Noisy Neighbours

Histoire Trouble

DF n°94, Interview with BRUCE LABRUCE, September 28th, 2009

We met Canadian film-maker Bruce LaBruce as his film Otto, or Up with Dead People, was projected at the Etrange Festival in Paris. We had been following his cinema for quite a while, and this new film was among his best ones, exploring a melancholy neo-gothic vein we had not been used to in his films, even though humour is still present, and of course a lot of sex between males and artful creativity. Apart from talking about his work and broadcasting the interview we had with him, we also talked about the release on DVD of another film dealing with homosexuality, but in a much more classic vein: Victim by Basil Dearden.

Here's the playlsit :

FOETUS & MARC ALMOND, the universal cess pool

PERE UBU, The story so far

DER BLUTHARSCH, Flying high 9

DEUTSCH NEPAL, Jacques Yves Cousteau in memorandum

AND ALSO THE TREES, Feeling fine

JEAN-LOUIS HUHTA, Halfway between the world and...

OTHON MATARAGAS & ERNESTO TOMMASINI, Metalipsis

LA JOUVENC, Going home

ULTRA MILKMAIDS + V, Load

4^th Sign of the APOCALYPSE, Ascending the river

EYES AND TEETH, Sonicize

BLACK SUN PRODUCTIONS, His secret secretions

MINIMAL COMPACT, Morpheus Secrets

CINDYTALK, Playtime

YOLK, I want to fight

LEFDUP & LEFDUP, Seeding the clouds

OUT OF SIGHT, White rooms

MOMENTS PRESENTS, Tel

ANDREW LILES, A numbers game

INADE, A lefthanded sign

LAURENT PERNICE, Sur la terre...

Download Links : Part 1 : http://www.mediafire.com/?o73d2woiry17bio

Part 2 : http://www.mediafire.com/?ao5co538f140136

DF n°93, INDUSTRIAL MUSICS & BOYD RICE, September 14th, 2009

For this show, we dealt with two important books as far as industrial music is concerned. The first one is "Industrial Musics vol.1" by Eric Duboys, the other one is "Standing in Two Circles: The Writings of Boyd Rice", as they were just published by French adventurous publisher Camion Blanc/Noir. Of course, we played many songs by NON and other early industrial bands.

Here's the playlist :

BLACK SUN PRODUCTIONS, Time uncaptured

CARMODY, Sleep on mirrors

LAURENT PERNICE, Situation

CABARET VOLTAIRE, The damage is done

EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, Abfackeln!

TEST DEPT, Shockwork

SPK, Walking on dead steps

ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO, Necrosis en la poya

NON/BOYD RICE, Lucifer the morning star, Discipline, People, Abraxas, Total War, Everlasting fire, Let's keep it friendly, Theme from Pearls before swine, Cleanliness and order, Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Why did the feminists cross the road, Many hands

LUFTWAFFE, The cross of Lorraine, Kalki's Army (live)

AIN SOPH, Honorii Ponteficis

ANDREW LILES, It is now 1974

PAIN TEENS, Wot's de matter

DER BLUTHARSCH, The philosopher's stone 2

LYDIA LUNCH, Suicide Ocean

Download Links :

Part 1 : http://www.mediafire.com/?27zb4pj1qe83j01

Part 2 : http://www.mediafire.com/?cgz8oo2dbhzby4w

DF n°91, Interview with DIE WEISSE ROSE, August 17th, 2009

This interview with Danish project Die Weisse Rose was directed in September 2008 in Barcelona, while the post-industrial band of Thomas Bojden was invited to perform at the Mediterranean Autumn Festival, but we had to wait a few months for the actual release of their first album, A Martyrium of White Roses, on Cold Meat Industry. During this same show, we talked about the second and last volume of the French translation of the book Looking for Europe, published by Camion Noir.

Here's the playlist: 

DEUTSCH NEPAL, Tender Lover

DER BLUTHARSCH, Pleasures received in Pain Track 10

HINT, Wu Wei

BAUHAUS, All we ever wanted

HUMAN FLESH, Tomorrow

THE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHICAL COMMISSION, Have you ever?

HOROLOGIUM, Towards the first circle

ROME, A legacy of unrest

DIE WEISSE ROSE, A martyrium of white roses, Im Nebel, At the doorstepf of our temple, Nicht Schuldig, The solitary volcano, Letzter Will, Unser Leben geht dahin wie ein Geschwätz

AGHAST, Call from the grave

BELA EMERSON & PHILIPPE PETIT

ARNICA, Tu Tierra

SIEBEN, Love's promise

CINDYTALK, Disintegrate

ANTICHILD LEAGUE, Germs of decay

DEATH IN JUNE, Touch defiles

NON, Scorched Earth

IN GOWAN RING, Kingdom of the shades

KAARNOS, Outermost oak

SKROL, Fall away

Download Links:

Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?iiu2x3paezpbbls

Part 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?tcwd0ickq0a7ceb

DF n°90, Interview with NORSCQ / THE GRIEF, August 3rd, 2009

The Grief was one of my favorite bands as a teenager after I bought the Huis Clos box in a French cult recordshop named L'Atomium early in 1988. I find their music still as inspiring and original today as it was at the time. Norscq was one of the members of this trio and he went on in the electronic music field after the split of the band in 1992. Apart from being a legend, he is also a very lovable guy full of humor. We met him at his apartment in Paris a few weeks before the release of his Gelatinosa Substantia album. We talked extensively about this coming release. At the end of the show we talked about Ettore Scola's Brutti, sporchi e cattivi, which was released on DVD in France, but the very end of the show is missing.
Norscq's portrait was made by our talented photographer MySS. 

THE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHICAL COMMISSION, The fires of London

ALPHA SEQUENZ, The bitterness

ROME, Flight in Formation

ARNICA, Hijo de Deva

DIE WEISSE ROSE, As the last of the petals are shattered

NORSCQ, The Man with a Plan, The Holy Crow, Les yeux des calamars, En fait il était complètement défoncé, Il est étrange de voir à quel point, Il est vrai que les douces amertumes...

THE GRIEF, Kittystra, Fycazz on Bananas, Après Coup, Daedalus 2, (Whale) Dissas

SUNNO))), Aghartha

HOROLOGIUM & DER ARBEITER, De Caceria el Paraiso

DEFICIT DES ANNEES ANTERIEURES, Bonus 2

KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT, Superhimmel

DEFILE DES AMES, The banner of Vanity

Download Link : http://www.mediafire.com/?zzr5x3e2ouhng4k

DF n°89, Live with SPIRITUAL PROCESS & Interview with DERNIERE VOLONTE, July 20th, 2009

For this show, we had an interview with Geoffroy D. from French martial-synth-pop masters Dernière Volonté. The interview was made in Paris after their show at Le Café de la Danse. At that same moment, my colleague Sebastien told me about a neofolk band named Spiritual Process who were making a cover song of Dernière Volonté's "L'Eau Pure". As they were charming young guys, we invited them in our studios for an acoustic show. They brought some records they liked, and then we broadcasted our extended interview with Geoffroy, made in a strange basement with the eyes of a crazy pitbull dog staring at us.

Here's the playlist :

DIE WEISSE ROSE, Nicht Schuldig

ARNICA, Lligueu les besties

L'ORCHESTRE NOIR, Assassins and other friends

SPIRES THAT IN THE SUNSET RISE, Spike fiddle song

KNIFELADDER, Alpha male

COSEY FANNI TUTTI & PHILIPPE PETIT

Live with SPIRITUAL PROCESS

NORSCQ, En ce temps-là, sa tête abritait...

CINDYTALK, The beginning of wisdom

DESIDERII MARGINIS, Forlorn part2

ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO & SPIRITUAL FRONT, Your sex is a star

ANTLERS MULM, A thousand beats

LES CHASSEURS DE LA NUIT, Titre 11

DERNIERE VOLONTE, Soldat, Ma vie s'éteind, La nuit revient, Mon mercenaire, L'eau pure, Les yeux fermés, Par notre sang versé, Une erreur, Ultime soupir, La Légion, Nous maintenons notre histoire, Roma

DARK DAY, Giantess

ZERO KAMA, V.V.V.V.V.

Download Links : Part 1 : http://www.mediafire.com/?vbyzfssqgcq7gk3

Part 2 : http://www.mediafire.com/?73499flza36kd5n

Part 3 : http://www.mediafire.com/?55v93g18ac66zy6

DF n°86, Interview with JARBOE, June 8th, 2009

When we met Jarboe, it was such a strong emotion that we almost felt like bursting into tears. Apart from her artistic talents and the fact that she has one of the most impressive female voice of our era, she is such a generous person, with that slow-speaking Southern flavour in her accent, and she has such a charisma that you can only be seduced. Meeting her was a real gift, and I hope we will have the opportunity of talking to her again in the near future. We dedicated this radio show to her work, which is very eclectic, and that's a good thing!

Here's the playlist:

KNIFELADDER, White walls

CURRENT 93, Invocation of almost

JARBOE, Summoning Tigers in dark eden, Within, Song for dead time, Dear 666, My buried child, Blood and honey, Mouth of flames, A sea of blood and hollow screaming, Bornless, Everything for Maria, Erase, The Long march of ghosts, In my Garden, Pure War, Blackmail, Decay, Kali Lamentation 4, Circles in red dirt, Scorpion, Receive, Children of God, Kali Lamentation 5, Mother's milk

Part 1: http://www.4shared.com/audio/9uLPn0b6/dfjarboe8juin09part1.html

Part 2: http://www.4shared.com/audio/WzuY2buu/dfjarboe8juin09part2.html

DF n°84, Interview with NAEVUS, May 11, 2009

We met the English band Naevus as they were invited to perform for the first time In France at the Café de la Danse. The concert was organized by our friend Vincent and, as we have been quite seduced by this band since their first album Truffles of Love, we wanted to know more about them and Joanne and Lloyd were really charming persons.

LES CHASSEURS DE LA NUIT, excerpt 3 Homo Homini Lupus

PSYCHIC TV, I am making a mirror

JARBOE, Let go

GOBLIN, Witch

CONTRASTATE, Locked inside a dying horse

NAEVUS, Chairs are men, A nausea, Eden, Kill your Friends, Break no Bread, Traffic Island, The Lonely Remedial, How dogs die, Look at the State, Visions Rushed, Mistakes, Water's work

RETARDER, Turn that Light off, Tongue in the Wind

NOVEMBER NOVELET, We fade away

DIE WEISSE ROSE, At the doorsteps of our temple

EVIL TWIN, Ice Pick for an old flame

ANTLERS MULM, Painted Grave (Blue version)

GIFBAF, Opus zéro (souplesse dans l'infini)

QUATTROPHAGE, Palimpseste 4

MAEROR TRI, Yearning for the secrets of nature

Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?x5jvc05f6rgvxtk

Part 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?h7gs8q6hrgqjgmg

DF n°81, Interview with DRAHOMIRA SONG ORCHESTRA, March 30, 2009

Drahomira Song Orchestra is one of France's most hidden treasures. Their music is pure obsessional beauty. This concert at the Maison des Métallos was a real revelation and it gave us the will to open our commemorative compilation Icy Breath on Burning Flesh with this very creative band. It was one of their very first interviews. At the end of the radio show, we programmed excerpts of the bootleg recording of the concert.

JARBOE, Bornless

CHRISTIAN DEATH, Gloomy Sunday

VLADIMIR HIRSCH & DIAMANDA GALAS, Gloria: Deliver me from mine enemies

CABARET VOLTAIRE, Moscow

DRAHOMIRA SONG ORCHESTRA, Clématite, Beauty I now know, Argentine, Reime, Red now, The orgy persons, Starmania

BRUCE GILBERT, You might be called

CURRENT 93, Let us go to the rose

DAWN & DUSK ENTWINED & GOLGOTHA, A seeker divine

MOMENTS PRESENTS, Aicha

NIMP, La balançoire américaine

ANDREW KING, Have you news of my boy Jack

Live Drahomira Song Orchestra Feb. 14, 2009, Maison des Metallos

Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?7lqac400avnzs52

Part 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?w2n2xwwu81tu5qu