Bio+Larkian+Les Poissons Autistes - S/T

Three:four is happy to introduce you to its first totally Swiss record.
Although half of the label is based in Lausanne, we haven’t had the
opportunity to work with local bands before. Consider it done with this new
record that gathers the cream of the scene from Romandy. Their
discographies are proof enough of the vast musical universe they evolve
into, with a tendency for all experimentations.
Bio + Larkian + Les Poissons Autistes’s record is the result of a remote
collaboration that occurred through the exchange of files between those
three Swiss bands from the experimental and electroacoustic scene. Within
seven tracks, the musicians explore and mix up their various backgrounds,
going from folk to electro, through jazz, post-rock, metal,
country-western, classical music and even Mongolian traditional folklore,
with a lot of noise in the midst. All that could be summed up by the fifth
track: "Vous faites vraiment trop chier" (which translates roughly as: «
You fuckers »).
Mastered by Julien Grandjean at Jetlag Studio in Vevey, this release is a
500 CD edition that comes in recycled cardboard digifile format, printed by
Stumptown Printers. The cover was made by Didier Oberson and the result is
just astounding.

Swiss composer and guitarist Julien Baillod (aka Bio) was born in 1972.
After being involved in post-rock and jazz-punk bands, he is now evolving
on different kinds of underground scenes, from post-rio to contemporary and
electronic avant-garde.
He is also writing music for plays, performances and movies and is involved
in contemporary art, working on sound installations and soundtracks
with/for Arthur de Pury, Martin Widmer, Jeroen Visser, Anthony Bannwart and
Eric Thomas.

Larkian, aka Cyril Monnard, is a Lausanne based guitarist who uses his
instrument as a sound generator. With the help of real-time loop-samplers
and various effect processors, he constructs a musical world made of deep,
powerful and intense soundscapes, with a fluctuation of atmospheres between
the symptomatic pain and the feverish excess of an underlying madness.
Since the project started at the end of the nineties, several Larkian
albums and EPs (solo works & collaborations) were released on different
labels, such as Tricycle Evolutif, Dead Vox, October Man, Cathedral
transmissions, Silent flow, Adozen, Three:four and Basses Fréquences. On
this project, Cyril Monnard had the opportunity to work in association with
various artists like Yellow6, Phoantoam, D’Incise, and [SIC].

After relocating from Jura to Geneva and Lausanne, Philippe Simon and
Stéphane Babey created Les Poissons Autistes in 2001. They begun as a noisy
act operating field recordings on computers and amplified objects through
microphones, but then gradually brought new instruments and new references
to the fold. They now add guitar, bass, trumpet, cello or piano to their
sound, which can be used as it is or heavily altered through digital
effects. Beyond their collaborations with Bio and Larkian, Les Poissons
Autistes also joined forces with Michael Frei (Hemlock Smith), Arnaud
Sponar (Opak/Goodbye Ivan) and Consor; other associations being planned
ahead. The band released various records on Everestrecords, Helvet
Underground, Midinette, Mercurochrome, Deadvox, Gentleman and on a few
other labels.

Tracklist :

01. Si j'étais chez vous, je partirais (7:25)
02. Le garçon qui ferait plaisir à maman (5:02)
03. Sans rancune (6:19)
04. L'éteignoir à filles (6:48)
05. Vous faites vraiment trop chier (7:36)
06. La chaussette vide (6:06)
07. Le kiki dans l'eau froide (10:26)

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