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L 'Ocelle Mare / Le Ton Mité
L'OCELLE MARE (F)
After a year of focusing on collaborations (Radikal Satan, Austin Townsend...both on the Bordeaux based DIY label "les potagers natures"), Thomas started to tour solo as L'Ocelle Mare in september 2005 (playing nylon strings guitar,six strings banjo, harmonica and percussions), opening shows for his friends DEERHOOF (on KILL ROCK STARS) in the USA, playing in Europe with LE TON MIté and label mates CHEVREUIL and recently touring in Israel. His first solo album, recorded in caves, woods, ruins and churches in his native country side ("la Dordogne", in the south west of France) in july 2006, is going to be released on RUMINANCE the 15th of January.
January 27, 2006 in the "Bostonist"
http://www.myspace.com/ocellemare
LE TON MITé (F)
www.myspace.com/letonmite
www.zicmuse.com
BREEZY DAYS BAND (USA)
"We find out what we are doing by doing it. Presently we think of telling a story by building piles of qualities/adjectives. We think of "degree of articulation/coherence/crystalinity" as the major parameter by which we separate into oppositions, cognize our activity and tell stories. We hear oppositions in degree of coherence in our sound. In our instrumentation: unison guitars play against a set of drums. Guitars are regularised repetitions of a sounding element and follow a crystaline lattice formation in their gridded playing surface. Drums are irregular constellations of sounding elements without fixed or codified interelations. We try to play our instruments to bring out these qualities. Our tunes range and separate along the regularity parameter by combining recieved/intuitive music with calculated material; floating crystals in soup. We try to continue these ideas at every level of observation that we can think of (within the timbres of the guitars, within the timbres of the drums, the forms of our sets, in our visual presentation, our typography, etc.)."