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Member Since: 8/3/2006
Band Website: stringsofconsciousness.info
Band Members: An echo of those gorgeous late summer nights, when it finally gets cooler and you can feel a sweet breeze coming in... though do not stay out too long or some creatures might catch you...Discography:Strings of Counsciousness : Fantomastique Acoustica (CD - Off Rds) (4 sgs + remixes by: Rothko - Mira Calix - Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Gamial Trio -Leafcutter John - Scanner - Marsen Jules - Sutekh - Si-cut.db + 2 videos)Strings Of Consciousness & Foetus : asphodel (VA. Wire Tapper 18 free with The Wire 284)Strings of Counsciousness : Our Moon Is Full (CD/LP - Central Control International)Kammerflimmer Kollektiev / Strings Of Consciousness (10' - Karl Records)Sonic Glimpses (instru) / Sirenade 'Round Midnite (pict. disc 7' - CCI)Strings Of Consciousness & My Brightest Diamond : gone away (VA. Tear It Down. CD - Asthmatic Kitty)2 songs on BiP_HOp Generation vol. 8 (Digipack CD - BiP_HOp)VA. Riddim Collision 9 (Jarring Effects)to listen to more music from us:http://www.virb.com/stringsofconsciousness
FEEL FREE to read detailed infos about each member of our collective on our websitewww.stringsofconsciousness.info
Composing :
Hervé Vincenti (guitars/samplers/keys) Perceval Bellone (saxophone/piano/harmonium/tibetan bowls) Philippe Petit (laptop/turntables)
Playing on the RECORDS:Raphaelle Rinaudo (electric harp) ; Alison Chesley (cello) ; Andy Diagram (trumpet / electronics) ; Pierre Fenichel (double bass) ; Stefano Tedesco (vibraphone) ; Karim Tobbi (guitar) ; Nicolas Dick (guitar) ; Lenka Zupkova (violin) ; Hugh Hopper (electric bass) ; Mark Beazley (bass) ; Bela Emerson (cello).VOCALISTS :J. G. Thirlwell ; Scott McCloud ; Eugene Robinson ; Barry Adamson ; Black Sifichi ; Pete Simonelli...
Influences: Dununuh dununuh! WEEWEEWEE! RAWWWWWR! Boommmmchickaboomchick aaaarghhhhhhhlouub... crac boum uuu... So many things can influence, from the weather to our little bird whistling under the window... in no particular order some that we enjoy : FoetuSteroid Maximus, Ken Nordine's "colours", oXbow, Edgar Allan Poe, Wire, Hyeronimus Bosch, Cows, Sort Sol, Die Haut, Forests, X-Ray-Spex, William Carlos Williams, Music Machine, Tod Browning, Black Flag, Aphex Twin, AATT, Cabaret Voltaire, Autechre, Suicide, HP Lovercraft, Goz Of Kermeur, Fugazi, Ennio Morricone, No Means No, Adult, The Contortions, Ciccone Youth, Felix Kubin, Gun Club, Nurse With Wound, Guapo, Joy Division, MBV "loveless", The Cure "pornography", Christian Marclay, Khanate, Werner Herzog, Syd Barrett, Godzilla, Talk Talk, Radio Birdman, Gaudi, Xenakis, Throbbing Gristle, Cramps, Tom Verlaine, Igor Stravinsky, Lydia Lunch, Soft Machine, Luc Ferrari, God (the band), Sir Conan Doyle, Schneider TM, early John Waters, Ornette Coleman, Kraftwerk, Mingus, Hint, Glenn Branca, Lautréamont, Neurosis, Sun City Girls, Jam, Unwound, Tod Dockstader, Hasil Hadkins, Pita, Surrealism, Big Black, Alice Coltrane, Pere Ubu, Devo, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Condense, Dif Juz, Mouse On Mars, Jesus & Mary Chain, Steve Reich, Fad Gadget, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Stooges, Naked City, Eraserhead, Andy's Car Crash, Michelangelo Antonioni, Headcleaner, Olivier Messiaen, VU, Ray Dennis Steckler, Brian Eno, 13th Floor Elevators, Jesus Lizard (live), Violent Femmes, Tetsuo 1, Boss Hog, Clouddead, Duchess Says, Damned, Sun Ra, Animal Collective, Tortoise, El-P, Einstürzende Neubauten, Swamp Rats, Gastr del Sol, Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band, Tuxedomoon, Made To Measure, Slint, Alog, James Joyce, Kas Product, Bauhaus, Pebbles/Back From The Grave/Ugly Things compilations, Kim Fowley, Kepone, Thomas Brinkmann, The The, Seeds, Gvs.B, Fennesz, The Fall, les Shadoks, Birthday Party, William Faulkner, The Deviants, Gallon Drunk, Sun Ra, Boredoms, Mars, The Monks, Silverfish, Supersilent, Pussy Galore, LCD Soundsystem, Bark Psychosis, 50/6Ts SF flicks, Bernard Herrmann, The Residents, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Erik Satie, PanaSonic, The Durutti Column, David Lynch, Morton Feldman, Pixies, Dinosaur Jr., Sam Shepard, Magazine, Pharoah Sanders... & many many more...
Sounds Like: a video by Anne (Castle Films / building castles out of matchsticks) asphodel
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according to the press :
JULIAN COWLEY / The WIRE / February 2008 Our Moon Is Full is seductively mysterious. Immediately attractive and defiantly oblique, packed with melodic hooks, deceptive shimmering surfaces, strange words and driving industrial-strength guitars. Like the best of Lynch or Jarmusch, it blends quirky charm with noir menace, the familiar with the surreal. The imagery is arresting ; the arrangements brilliantly realised. One to return to over and over…
UNCUT / UK / September 2007 This ambitious work succeeds by sounding like a David Lynch film scored by a strung-out Morricone. Chris Roberts
NME (New Musical Express) / UK / September 2007 Like a grumpy Tom Waits soundtracking A Clockwork Orange, its tales of evil smoulder creepily into your brain stem.
STRINGS OF CONSCIOUSNESS : Strings Of Coltrane voyage 2 satchidananda (a cover from Alice Coltrane's Jazz anthem) live @ MIMI festival - July 2006video filmed & edited by Gilles Berne
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Record Label: check discography above
Type of Label: Indie
