Fanny L’Héritier: Lyrics & music, vocals, pianet Hohner & analog keyboards
Guillaume Médioni: Guitars, bass, banjo, rythmic arrangements, recording, music production & mastering

Charming songs from two women who remind me of the artiest of electro-pop of the late 70s / early 80s but brought into today; this would have been completely at home on Rough Trade next to Young Marble Giants 40 years later...

“Passing through this extraordinary and tormented trip, you particularly come...

This is the third release by this group from Lyon, France, part of the very vibrant and exciting French scene that is currently churning out amazing bands and records.
Chromb! are a little less noisy than some of the other bands in this scene (Ni, Poil) and a little more melodically oriented/song oriented, while definitely not being wimpy in any way.
Great melodies, great playing from all four musicians and surprisingly good vocals from a band with a slant towards the zaniness that only the...

Antoine Mermet : saxophone, synthétiseur, delay, voix, composition
Camille Durieux : synthétiseurs, voix
Léo Dumont : batterie, voix
Lucas Hercberg : basse, voix, composition

“CHROMB! has been making CHROMB! for ten years, five albums and many concerts. And CHROMB! is music. The band is driven by four heads, propelled by an overflowing imagination, electrically powered and impervious to classification.
Sometimes its mother is jazz, since CHROMB! looks like her in photo

Léo Dumont - drums, percussion, objects
Camille Durieux - keyboards, synths, vocals
Lucas Hercberg - bass, synth, vocals
Antoine Mermet - alto sax, delay, synths, vocals

This is the greatly awaited fourth release by this group from Lyon, France, part of a very vibrant and exciting French scene that is currently churning out amazing bands and records!
Chromb! are a little less noisy than some of the other bands in this scene (Ni, Poil) and a little more melodically oriented/song

Antoine Arnera - Piano, electronics, voice, composition
Boris Cassone - Bass, mellotron, voice
Jessica Martin Maresco - Voice
Guilhem Meier - Drums, amplified percussion, voice, composition
Marie Nachury - Voice
Grégoire Ternois - Marimba, toms, dun dun bells, gong
Mihaï Trestian - Cimbalom
Anne Quillier - moog, rhodes, voice

Well, all you need to do is to scroll to the video at the end of all this and you will know very, very quickly whether or no

Here’s what YOU need to know: Le Grand Sbam is the latest from the amazing Lyon, France scene, and features two classically trained female vocalists + the great trio POIL + a vibraphonist/percussionist. Bang. Done!

Grand Sbam is a collective of creation, research and musical experimentation that defends living music in all its richness, complexity and universality. It brings together professional musicians from multiple and complementary traditions and practices (learned and popular, current and..

Anthony Fleury: baritone guitar / organ / voice
Thibault Florent: guitar / organ
Etienne Ziemniak : drums

One long, developing 40’ mass of a album, this is at times comparable a bit with bands like Horse Lords and 75 Dollar Bill. “Erba Spontanea is an adventitious plant, a wild, almost hallucinogenic herb.
The four acts of this 40-minute play are an experience for the body and the senses. In the rumbling of the organ, the clawing of the two guitars and the tireless hammering of

Ricardo Arias: transverse flute, soprano sax, kazoo
Mauricio Ramírez: percussion, drums and jaguar
Nicolás Eckardt: guitar & electric banjo
María "Mange" Valencia: soprano & bass clarinet, alto sax, shehnai

Excellent, entrancing album from Dur et Doux, interestingly featuring an ensemble from Bogota, Columbia. Not strictly acoustic, but certainly more acoustically based than many of the (great) noisy French bands they tend to release! Recommended.
“A creature of a strange...

JUST under 30’ of music on this split release between the Columbian band MULA and the French band POIL. Each band gets about 13-ish minutes.

MULA side
santiago botero: bass and lead vocals
maria 'mange' valencia: alto sax and backing vocals
juan ignacio arbaiza: tenor sax and backing vocals
pablo muñoz: baritone sax and backing vocals
kike mendoza: electric guitar and backing vocals
diego herrera: laptop and backing vocals
camilo bartelsman: drums and backing voc

Anthony Béard: guitar, scream
François Mignot: guitar
Nicolas Bernollin: drums
Benoit Lecomte: bass

Amazing and powerful instrumental avant rock from this quartet. Maybe you could say that this sits somewhere between Don Cab and Happy Family?
François is the guitarist on the last Present album, so you know he’s a monster, but they ALL are.

Anthony Béard : guitar
Nicolas Bernollin : drums
Benoit Lecomte : bass
François Mignot : guitar

“The math-prog masters are at it again with Pantophobie! Expect to be flabbergasted!”-Can This Even Be Called Music

“Ni is a four-headed monster. The big bad Ni has left the linear roads of the French department of Ain, in order to live in a complex world paced by electrical sounds and varying poly rhythms. In its temple, shouts of the quartet make the windows crack, a stunning...

Antoine Arnera - Keyboard, vocals
Boris Cassone - Bass, vocals
Guilhem Meier - Drums, vocals
Anthony Béard - Guitar, vocals
François Mignot - Guitar, vocals
Benoit Lecomte - Bass, vocals
Jean Joly - Drums

What happens when you take two of France's great young bands and you smoosh them together? You get greatness smooshily intensified! Wild, fun and original; don't let anyone tell you that great quirky rock music isn't being made any longer! ...

Boris Cassone – keyboard, vocals
Guilhem Meier – bass, vocals
Adrian Bourget – drums, vocals

This is the fourth Poil album and the first since their collaboration with Ni as PinoiL.
While it still burns with the energy they are known for, either I have gotten a litte more used to their Wildman tactics so it isn’t the first thing I notice, or they’ve kept the musical excellence intact, but have toned things down a little bit [not too much but a little bit] in terms of the noise and..

Antoine Arnera - keyboards, vocals
Boris Cassone - guitar, vocals
Benoit Lecomte - acoustic bass
Guilhem Meier - drums, vocals
Junko Ueda - satsuma biwa, vocals

“The Album
Unexpected encounter between Junko Ueda, eminent figure of the Japanese medieval epic storytelling, whose warm and profound voice summons the terrestrial energies, and the organic madness of the monster PoiL practicing with cosmic rock without net.
Poil Ueda detonnates the limits of rock and w

Antoine Arnera - keyboards, vocals
Boris Cassone - guitar, vocals
Benoit Lecomte - acoustic bass
Guilhem Meier - drums, vocals
Junko Ueda - satsuma biwa, vocals

“Unexpected encounter between Junko Ueda, eminent figure of the Japanese medieval epic storytelling, whose warm and profound voice summons the terrestrial energies, and the organic madness of the monster PoiL practicing with cosmic rock without net.
Just after releasing the debut record, the story continues wi

Félix Gibert: direction, trombone
François Arbon: bass saxophone, bass trombone
Clémence Cognet: violin, trombone, voice
Romain "Wilton" Maurel: violin, voice
Benjamin Bardiaux: keyboards, voice
Rémi Faraut: drums, voice
Manu Siachoua: bass, voice

“Ramdam is a hellish ceremony celebrating the meeting between four musicians of the company l'Excentrale and the trio Ultra Zook.
Ramdam Fatal is a brutal liberation of the music of Auvergne, from the glowing bel

Marie Daviet - Keyboards, cornet, vocals
Lucas Hercberg - Bass, big guitar , voice
Corentin Quemener - Drums, carillon, voice
Charming and odd (mostly) little (pop) songs as only the French can do them. Conditionally recommended.

“Remain seated in a chair. Do not wait, because waiting is already doing something. Do not think, because that too is an activity. Do nothing.
A trio for making unpredictable songs. Sometimes it's rock, sometimes it's the delicate ride or the stran

Timba Harris – violin
Dorothy Wave – voice, keyboards
Toby Driver ¬– bass
Joel C. Murray – drums

“ULTRAPHAUNA is a newborn band of art-rock veterans whose wide-eyed, wriggling form is born of the music of Timba Harris (violin, trumpet) and Dorothy Wave (vocals, synths).
Toby Driver (bass) and Joel Murray (drums) crushed their studio performances in New York and Liverpool respectively, helping bring to life their debut album, No No No No.
As you can imagine from the histor

Fun, zippy, and very obviously a Dur et Doux band!

“ULTRA ZOOK is an unusual rock trio, first of all there is no guitar but a keyboard, then they don't play like maniacs, and finally they don't pout when they play... it's with a sparkling and mischievous eye that they interpret their songs whose originality is equalled only by the philosophical depth of the text.
To make dance the zumba by using tunes of traditional music from Auvergne, to make advance the society with deep philosophical...