Member Since: 4/6/2006
Band Website: naingnaing.com
Band Members:
This is primarily François L'Homer solo project
Miss Maya sings some songs at most of the shows.
Djengo Hartlap has help me a lot at the beginning with the technology and still does the post-pod.
Orkhan Murat (Tear of a Doll, Nosfell) played the turkish drum sample.
And Franck Sinistra (Fisherman, El Justiciero, Marijane Miracle) sang "Toad Fever".
Maya, Orkhan and myself also play(ed) in Tear of a Doll.
Check this video (the live pictures are from a gig with NoMeansNo in Sept 1996 at the Bataclan, Paris, two days before I moved to Burma) :
Influences: Some of my favorite artists are :
Important ones are missing above, like Pink Floyd "Ummagumma", J.S. Bach, Nikhil Banerjee (sitar), Shostakovich (especially the quatuor performed by the Borodin String Quartet), Ali Akbar Khan (sarod), Sibelius (for the violin concerto)...
Movie directors: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Gilliam, Jan Svankmajer, Kurosawa, Jeunet & Carot...
Writers: George Orwell, William Burroughs, JL Borges, Henri Miller, Abe Kobo, Kadare, Georges Perec, William Styron, Celine, Hunter S. Thompson, Both Murakami (Haruki & Ryu)
Painters: Hundertwasser ! and a few more...
Sounds Like: Sounds unique (just check it), but has some similarities with some of the works of:
Secret Mommy, Listen with Sarah, Matmos, Hugh Le Cain, Björk, Pink Floyd, Pierre Schaeffer, Jim Fassett, Hanna Hartman, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Wendy Mae Chambers, Xerophonics, Beatle Barkers, Autechre, Pierre Henry, Aphex Twin, Reed Ghazala (for the insect instrument) and Keuhkot. Tell me if there are more...
Record Label: (Re)Aktion Records (France) for the 1st Album
Type of Label: None