Originally produced in 2002 as a limited edition cd, Off is now pleased to re released this grand guignol production! Philippe Tasquin (see also OCD022) at his best, writing, playing, singing like one of the best Hollywood or Broadway writer! It's swinging, it's burlesque, it's symphonic pop, it's cabaret, it's crazy, it's fun, it's Tasquin! Produced and mixed by the other Belgian master Pierre Vervloesem who also co composed a few tracks and played on all of them. This is the original booklet:
Digital and physical release on the 24th of April 2015. The cd with booklet is only available via the Off site, just click on add to cart at the end of the post.
Track listing:
1: Introduction
2: Quiet Village
3: Christmas Crime
4: Harry Finally Found a Job 5: 216 6: Whodunit 7: Finally 8: The New Liberace 9: What Went Wrong? 10: Blind Alley 11: Damned Messiah 12: The Paramount 13: Town Without Pity
OCD023: Jean-Marc Lederman Experience / The Last Broadcast On Earth
The Last Broadcast on Earth is a concept album revolving around the possible last radio show on earth before...?
An intruiging music adventure unwraps in front of you in this multiplatform album em- bedded in a videogame.
3 questions:
Is this the latest day on Earth ? Why is there only radio station broadcasting ?
What happens at the end of the night ?
From Julianne Regan to Arianna Froxeanne, from Tom Shear, Jay Aston to Frank M. Spinath, from Japan to the USA and Italy or India, 13 singers from 8 different countries gather around a mysterious project involving you, driving at night on a deserted road and listening to the only radio on air... This multisensorial experience will come out first as a free videogame and a website, both main part where an idea is spread over several platforms (IOS/Android/PC/MAc).
13 singers from 8 different countries: Julianne Regan (All About Eve) Anna Domino Jenna Fearon Arianna Froxeanne (The Frozen Autumn) Sophie Drakenvleugels and Raya Shaduwjaagster from Dark Poem Mari Kattman (Mari & The Ghost) Takeko Akamatsu (Craftwife) Jay Aston(Gene Loves Jezebel) Frank M. Spinath (Seabound, Ghost & Writer) Jay Aston ( Gene Loves Jezebel) Jacques Duvall Bruce Geduldig (Tuxedomoon) Tom Shear (Assemblage 23) Sam Devos (For Greater Good) Jean-Marc Lederman (The Weathermen, Alain Bashung, Fad Gadget) With apperances from Bertand Burgalat and Matt Johnson (The The)
17 songs, more than 52 minutes of music recorded as a one track with radio calls, adverts and great songs by amazing singers. A journey like no other that makes you want to return to listen to it like it really was the last broadcast on earth!
Composed, played, arranged and produced by Jean-Marc Lederman (bio).
The digital release has been taken out of all platforms at the demand of Jean-Marc. Physical release on the tenth of April 2015. The cd is a limited edition of 300 copies.
Nice reviews already: here and here, in Idieyoudie here! And in German in MedienKonverter here and here in ElectroZine. And a 98 points on 100 in Peek-a-boo music magazine here!
Track listing:
1/ Schau Mit Liebe with Frank M. Spinath
2a/ DJ Kling Klang intervention with Bertrand Burgalat
2b/ So Long with J.P. Aston
3/ The Last Love Song with Anna Domino
4/ Never Take Fire by Ghost & Writer
5/ The Reassuring Undertone with Sophie Drakenvleugels & Raya Schaduwjaagster 6/ L’amour c'est la mort with Jacques Duvall
7/ Funky Town
8/ “The Killing Woods”
9/ The Last Phone Call by The Weathermen
10/ Yumemite Aino (I Was Dreaming Of You) with Takeko Akamatsu
11/ No Regrets with Froxeanne
12/ Into My Arms with Jenna Fearon
13/ Wolves by Mari & The Ghost
14/ I Love You, Sandy with Tom Shear
15/ Good Night with Sam Devos
16/ Dreams Are All Faded Away with Julianne Regan
17/ Various weather reports
First EP for that new, young and very talented band. Formed around Brussels Jazz conservatory students, Four of a kind delivers the kind of classical Jazz our parents were loving. It is a choice of various reasons, notably their love for the 50ties. They have won a few awards already and are invited to play in various Belgium festivals. All the tracks on the EP are original compositions. A straight departure from the experimental/ noise/ jazz that Off does habitually, but definitively their kind of Jazz! And my father would have been happy for once! No Wiplash music but close! Mixed and mastered by Pierre Vervloesem who told me: "They are so pro that this could be their 73rd album!" Website: here
pic.by Serge Sluyts
Digital release on the 6th of April 2015. Trak listing:
OVD015 : Pierre Vervloesem / Pot-Pourri Vol.3 Eleventh in a chronological series of 11 digital only remastered releases (6 solo (5 augmented with bonuses, lives and remixes), 1 duo, 1 unreleased duo and 3 pots-pourris and coming at the pace of one every month is the Vol.3 of the mini Pot-Pourri series. The Pot-Pourri series presents for the first time all the never released music ever composed by Pierre (bio) Vervloesem. A long time desire on his personal agenda, it took a few months to Pierre to remember, locate and clean the various old K7, tapes and various mp3 he succeeded to find. It covers all the material he started to record when he was twenty years old up to now. The songs here are demos, live recordings, unreleased tracks, various ideas and proper fun times. We have to thank the various fans and friends who were keeping some of those treasures without Pierre knowing, particularly long time friends and occasional collaborators Jean-Pierre Jonckheere (see OPV07), Alain VDS (see OVD012) and Manu Ribot (see OPV004). Most of all the musicians who played at least once with Pierre can be heard on the tracks and it would be impossible to name all of them ( since Pierre doesn't know for sure who is doing what sometime), but they will probably recognize themselves, notably Richard Belgium (see OPV003) who's singing on a few songs. Digital release on the 3rd of April 2015. Track listing: 1: Nullo Problemo (Demo) 2: Give It a Punch 3: Old Steel 4: Pot-pourri (Live) 5: Rest in Peace 6: That Night 7: Sparklet Nasal 8: Pim Pam Poum 9: Chez Claude no. 5 10: Speed 10 11: How Could I Be Such a Fool 12: V! 13: Velvet Razor 14: Tidbits 15: Acid Heat 16: Tigadoudou 17: Vreuwr
"I hope you're aware of the fact that I'm not a real singer"... That's what lyricist Jacques Duvall (he wrote songs for Jane Birkin, Sparks, The Runaways, Lio) told Jean-Marc Lederman when asked if he was interested in participating as a vocalist in Jean-Marc's new musical project. Lederman, one of the most versatile keyboard players in continental Europe (he worked with French rock icon Alain Bashung and numerous British bands such as Fad Gadget, The The and Gene Loves Jezebel) dryly answered: "That would be no problem, since I'm not a real musician". The diabolical duo named themselves LEATHERMAN and their first album consists of somewhat deranged cover versions of several favourite songs of theirs. If you believe that beauty can sometimes be slightly out of tune, then you're a candidate to fall in love with this very peculiar record. LEATHERMAN's goal is not to deconstruct or to shock, both participants are devoted popular music lovers.
They just attempted to prove that a good song can perfectly stand the test of being left in the rough and non conventional hands of genuine amateurs, as opposed to well skilled but jaded pros. Digital and physical release on the 27th of March 2015. “Romania” is a single cd or a splendid red 180 gr vinyl.
Pic.by Michel Clair
Track listing: 1: Cry To Me (The Rolling Stones) 2: Looking For You (Nino Ferrer) 3: A Horse With No Name (America) 4: I Put A Spell On You (Screaming Jay Hawkins) 5: La Dolce Vita (Nino Rota) 6: The Sun Died (Ray Charles) 7: Can't Seem To Make You Mine (The Seeds) 8: I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor) 9: Dream Lover (Bobby Darrin). 10: Four Strong Winds (Neil Young)
+ 10 instrumental heavily remixed versions on the cd A Horse With No Name:
If green felt and failure had a sound, if lucre was anything less than filthy, if there was any merit at all to the meretricious, LAS vegas would not exist formed as it was around the dueling talents of Kris Engelen, Raphaël Rastelli, Eugene S. Robinson, and Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock and capturing, or as near as possible, the chill of endless neon and nights full of nothing but.
WHO: Kris Engelen (programming/synths), from Brussels, solo creator of ambient/industrial Lost. Raphaël Rastelli (programming, recording/mixing), co-founder of Brussels-based cinematic doom band von Stroheim. Eugene S. Robinson (voice/lyrics) as "The American Friend". Sings for OXBOW (bio, interview). Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock (songwriting, lyrics, guitar, voice/theremin) started Baby Fire (see OCD018).
WHAT Eugene S. Robinson was invited to contribute to "Bureau d’Echange du Mal: Dust Soup", a track featured on Baby Fire’s debut album No Fear, released on Cheap Satanism Records (Belgium).
LAS vegas grew out of this. LAS vegas is this. LAS vegas is nothing if not this.
Eugene, Raphaël, Dominique and Kris pic. by Séverine Bailleux
Nice review in French in Music in Belgium here, in Perte & Fracas here, in Over blog here, and in Indie Rock Magazine here. "Un souffle désertique, chargé de fantômes, un paysage aride qui touche infiniment. Exit de LAS Vegas provoque beaucoup avec très peu. Less is more et cætera." Website:here. The digital release as a different cover:
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Cover art by A.L., original pic. by Kris Engelen
Digital release on the 20th of March, physical release on the 3rd of April 2015. Track listing:
Grand
Scissors
Hole Man
Haku
White Snow White
Cream
Lucre
Champagne
Black Lily
Limited edition of 300 hand numbered copies in black digisleeve with printed inserts.
What they say in Radio Kultura about the clip for the song 'Champagne': "Le résultat est lunaire, ambient, voir même souffreteux et d'une exceptionnelle beauté froide. "
and another one: White Snow White
Here it the latest video: Haku
And a Bandcamp only bonus remix of Cream by Sklif here:
OVD014 : Pierre Vervloesem / Pot-Pourri Vol.2 Tenth in a chronological series of 11 digital only remastered releases (6 solo (5 augmented with bonuses, lives and remixes), 1 duo, 1 unreleased duo and 3 pots-pourris and coming at the pace of one every month is the Vol.2 of the mini Pot-Pourri series. The Pot-Pourri series presents for the first time all the never released music ever composed by Pierre (bio) Vervloesem. A long time desire on his personal agenda, it took a few months to Pierre to remember, locate and clean the various old K7, tapes and various mp3 he succeeded to find. It covers all the material he started to record when he was twenty years old up to now. The songs here are demos, live recordings, unreleased tracks, various ideas and proper fun times. We have to thank the various fans and friends who were keeping some of those treasures without Pierre knowing, particularly long time friends and occasional collaborators Jean-Pierre Jonckheere (see OPV07), Alain VDS (see OVD012) and Manu Ribot (see OPV004). Most of all the musicians who played at least once with Pierre can be heard on the tracks and it would be impossible to name all of them ( since Pierre doesn't know for sure who is doing what sometime), but they will probably recognize themselves, notably Richard Belgium (see OPV003) who's singing on a few songs. Digital release on the 9th of March 2015. Track listing: 1: Le fleuve 2: Ladyfriend 3: Intestin d’oiseau 4: Le grec (Live) 5: Bacon & Eggs 6: Lucky 7: Lusitania 8: Pil pam poum (Démo) 9: Ma vie avec les papillons 10: Me, My Sex and I 11: Chez Claude no. 4 12: Nothing Magical 13: French Fries (Live) 14: Composition pour synthétiseur 15: Holiday Out (Live) 16: Palmer
