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Le Ruffiant

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 02/04/2005
Band Website: www.leruffiant.co.uk
Band Members: Tage Skotvold: Instruments (Guitar, self made instruments, acousmatic sounds, recorder, african-thumb piano, sliding flute, harmonica, accordion, xylophone, sampling, programming (Logic / Max MSP) and producing)

Kiran Chahal: Words and Vocals

Influences: life - movies - wierd people - good times, bad times - instruments and their timbre - alcohol - music - musicians - coffee

There used to be a long list of bands here, and they can all say to have had some sort of influence or another as all music one listenes to consciously or subsconciously influences my music. These are however either bands, people or composers I would like to give some extra credit to:

beastie boys - aphex twin - sonic youth - steve reich - radiohead - tom waits - thom yorke - air - kurt schwitters - maya ratkje - lasse marhaug - motorpsycho - amon düül II - tv on the radio - beck - iannis xenakis - kaptein kaliber - keith jarret - king crimson - john zorn - mr bungle - kraftwerk - einsturzende neubauten - david bowie - lou reed - gentle giant - genesis - nirvana - queens of the stoneage - we - lennie tristano - madness - mahavishnu orchestra - sun ra - modern jazz quartet - mouse on mars - people like us - pink floyd - portishead - sleater kinney - the soundtrack of our lives - the source - stereo total - stereolab - tiger tunes - tomahawk - peaches - xploding plastix - yeah yeah yeahs - yo la tengo - monsieur meuble
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Satisfaction

Just posted a new tune - funnily enough exactly one month since the last one! Just have to wait for stupid myspace to process the tune and put it out here on the page now. Hang tight!XLe Ruffiant
Posted by on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:12:00 GMT

The resurrection of Dal Segno

The resurrection of Dal Segno: I just had to do it - after Kiran sent me some vocal ideas for it - a couple of weeks went by.Yesterday we met up, and spent a few intense recording hours together.The r...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:13:00 GMT

New member of Le Ruffiant!

Today I met with Kiran - the new singer in Le Ruffiant.She is great! We recorded a new song, which you might have noticed - hope you like it!!Our aim is to record lot's of great new songs like 'I Thin...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:18:00 GMT

New Music

I FINALLY sold my tired old PC, and have ordered Logic (The software I use to make music) - and I can start making music again! I cannot wait!Ta
Posted by on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:40:00 GMT

Rockin' Bones VI Available now

MUSIC VIDEOSFuneral Dress - "Party On"The Hormonas - "A**hole In Town"The Jump Boys - "Bondage Baby"Onethirtyeight - "There's An Earl On Mars"El Guapo Stuntteam - "Battles Across The Stereo Spectrum"H...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:48:00 GMT

Freshhh

I've just got a new website from TagSko Productionshttp://www.leruffiant.co.uk Check it and write my guestbook innit!Love Le Ruffiant
Posted by on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:39:00 GMT

DVD Release August

Le Ruffiant's Rakd video is scheduled for a release on Rockinbones in August 2006! Preorder your copy today!Love xLe Ruffiant
Posted by on Tue, 30 May 2006 16:14:00 GMT

Various Projects + Live

As you may or may have not seen - I've posted the Area51 link as a bulletin a few days ago, go and have a look, it's there for you to see!Another project that might interest you is the Interactive Dra...
Posted by on Mon, 22 May 2006 05:10:00 GMT

MySpace mp3 player problems?

Are you having trouble with the MySpace mp3 player and still want to have a listen to my tunes?13 tracks available from my website:www.leruffiant.co.ukenjoy
Posted by on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 07:22:00 GMT

Explanation time

As you can see I've made two songs with quite similar names, they are connected to my final work in my Creative Music Technology degree, it's a triology (I guess I'm in danger of sounding pretentious,...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:05:00 GMT