Member Since: 22/01/2008
Band Website: www.ckrl.qc.ca
Band Members: Simon Castonguay
(Guest : Simon Elmaleh)
Influences: ...Nature and urban sounds of any kind, Padmasambava, any Verb of any Language, Nurse with Wound, Le CERCLE BLUXIEN, nature's blind will and multiple forces, Fela Kuti and real afrobeat, Lautreamont and real poetry, Rimbaud and real vision, Henri Chopin (rip), Dada, German Hörspiel, David Michael Bunting Tibet, Scanner, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Pandit Jasraj, Classic african-american ballads, Ahmad Jamal, Beastie Boys, Yvon Deschamps, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Gilles Gobeil, Jose Saramago, Tigran Mansurian, Kramer, Upanishads, Holger Czukay, Kierkegaard, Laurie Anderson, Donatien Alphonse François Marquis de Sade, Woody Allen, Martin Tétrault, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Lacan, Classical iranian music, Robert Ashley, Jan Svankmajer, Shiva,«Bob Dylan», Primitive christian church literature, Aphex Twin, Philip Glass, Ganesh, Fluxus, Jewish Mysticism, le chaos, Rudolph Steiner, Alfred Jarry, Mallarmé, Heidegger, Ethiojazz, Eric Dolphy, Death (the american metal band), William Basinski, John Zorn and Tzadik, Michel Foucault, protopunk like The Monks, Giorgio Agamben, Uri Caine, Guy Debord, Xenakis, Robert Normandeau, Tropicalia, Slavoj Zizek, Roger Doyle, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Four Tet, Dreyer, André Breton, Francis Dhomont, Bollywood, Plato, St-Paul, Facteur Cheval, Hindoustani ragas, Appalachian music, John Jacob Niles, Lovecraft, Vipassana Meditation, Dhrupad (Dagar Bros), Tim Hecker, Master muscians of Jajouka, Coltrane, Bible, Mike Patton, Lennie Tristano, Murcof, Edgar Varese, SeaShanties, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Michaux, Egon Schiele, Merzbow, palestinian or tibetan, active or passive... anyform of resistances against brutal oppression from the mental street-crossing sergeants and the sun shadowing wall's openers-and-closers (fucking light's controllers), Gherasim Luca, George Bataille, Claude Gauvreau, Peter Brook's Marat/Sade, Polux (rip), St-Augustin, JL Borges, Anthony Braxton, Nietzsche, Gurdjieff, Goya, Jack Nicholson in The Shining, Coen Bros, Saraswati, Cecil Taylor, Kurt Cobain, René Char, Shoa and russian gulag literature, Baudelaire, William Lawes, Charlie Parker, Boulgakov, Homere, Seneque, Bouddha, Klaus Kinski, Gilles Deleuze, Antonin Artaud, smoked salmon, Gnosticism, Charlie Patton, Bauls of Bengal, Kafka, Paul Valery, Coil, North indian food, Jesus, tibetan/bhutanese folk music, Eleni Karaindrou, Ambiances Magnetiques, les métaphores eschatologique, Gandhi, Glenn Gould, Henri Bergson, Rolling Stones, Robert Charlebois, Leo Ferre, Spinoza, Werner Herzog, Pandit Pran Nath, Bjork, Paul Celan, Jeanne Bourgoin, LaMonte Young, Egyptian book of the dead, Memphis Minnie, Vladimir Vissotsky, Autechre, Stockhausen, Bonnie Prince Billy, Angola 60s & 70s soul music, Garland field recording, BBC sound archives, Mogwai, Ulver, Tom Waits, sex, Ilya Prigogine, Jacques Derrida, Canadien de Montreal hockey club, Nick Drake, Beach Boys, Antony and the Johnsons, Cat Power, Giora Feidman, Kalkeri Sangeet School, Naftule Brandwein, Joanna Newson, Shirley Collins, Max Jacob, Golden Gate Quartet, Rachel's, A Silver Mt Zion and tralala band, Om, Albert Ayler, Thomas Pynchon, Fernando Pessoa, Paul Ricoeur, The Cloud of Unknowing, Milarepa, Dostoievski, Trojan and Studio One reggae/dub, italian food and wine, Trekking in the Himalayas, Michel Henry, John Cage, Jerzy Grotowsky, Rabindranath Tagore, Bardo-Thodol, Wittgenstein, Schopenhauer, Euripide, Huysmans, Elias Canetti, Alpha and Omega, Gaston Bachelard, Brassens, Arvo Part, Poland experimental radio of the 60's 70's, Samuel Beckett, Blaise Cendrars, tennis, Charlemagne Palestine, Jean Dubuffet, Blind Willie Johnson, Gaston Miron, Blind Willie Mctell, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Gary Davis, Marcel Proust, Six Organs of Admittance, Pavement, Legendary Pink Dots, EA Poe, Raymond Roussel, Louis Malle, Fremeaux Associes, Goethe, John Fahey, William James, Thelonious Monk, Dyonisos, K. Penderecki, Rilke, Miles Davis, Marc Ribot, Peter Brötzman, Anouar Brahem, Hildegarde Von Bingen, Stanley Kubrick, Satie, Negativland, les poetes du chat noir, Group Ongaku, Velvet Underground, Raison d'Etre, Jim O Rourke, Swami Vivakenanda, Olivier Messiaen, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Bismallah Khan...
Sounds Like: soundscaped and improvised radiocollages/mash-ups of different human and/or nature manifestations...The music on La Nuit Remue (Horspiel Sessions vol 1) could contain a strange masala taste of some of these organic spieces and spices :Amber Asylum
Autechre
Archives de l'Institut National de l'Audiovisuel
Gaston Bachelard
William Basinski
BBC
Bell Telephone Labs
Mathieu Bergeron
Henri Bergson
Biosphere
Bohren und der Club of Gore
Boris
André Breton
William S. Burroughs
Simon Castonguay
Noam Chomsky
CKRL 89,1 FM
Coil
Coluche
Simon Elmaleh
Michel Foucault
Terry Fox
Fridge
Diamanda Galas
Hilliard Ensemble (Victoria/Palestrina)
Eleni Karaindrou
Kronos Quartet/Throat singers of Tuva
Le Livre des Morts des Anciens Égyptiens
Guillaume de Machaut
Cosmas Magaya, Alexio Magaya, Simon Magaya
Man Ray
Charles Manson
Dumi Maraire & Ephat Mujuru
Merzbow
Mum
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nurse With Wound
Mike Patton
Arthur Petronio
Ilya Prigogine
Radio France
Religion for Retarded
Jacques Rosenberg
Klauz Schultz
Shinjuku Thief
David Tibet
and more and more and more...
Record Label: La nuit remue (web)
Type of Label: Indie