Hmpty017 - Amute - Black Diamond Blues

Hmpty017 - Amute - Black Diamond Blues
CD/Download
Release - 24.10.2011

EN: Amute, Jérome Deuson's musical alias, released its two first albums, both internationally acclaimed,  on canadian label Intr-Vision Records in 2004 and 2006. Jérome then decided to focus on the live aspect of his music, and began integrating other musicians to the compositions. Written and recorded as a full band, the album Infernal Heights For A Drama came out in 2009 via Still, Jérome's own imprint, founded in 2005. Flying away from minimalist folktronica, Amute embraced a sensual and powerful electro rock.

Now back as a solo act with his fourth album, Amute reveals a more experimental and melancholic side. Black Diamond Blues creates its own universe, where every element, acoustic or electronic, lives and blends in complex compositions, not far from the works of Tim Hecker or Christian Fennesz. Black Diamond Blues is a dense and very personal album, a story that never repeats itself, where melancholy sails on noisy, folk and electronica waters.

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FR: Sous le pseudonyme d’Amute se cache le projet musical de Jérome Deuson. Après deux albums acclamés par la critique internationale, sortis respectivement en 2004 et 2006 sur le label canadien Intr-Version Records, Jérôme décide de se focaliser sur la scène et intègre des musiciens à ses compositions. Composé en groupe, l’album Infernal Heights For A Drama voit le jour en 2009 (via Stilll, label créé par Jérome en 2005) et se détourne des ambiances d’électronica folk minimale pour se diriger vers un rock électronique puissant et sensuel.

Ce quatrième album marque le retour d’amute en solo vers une musique plus expérimentale et mélancolique. Le nouvel album Black Diamond Blues rassemble un univers où chaque élément acoustique ou électronique vit et se mélange à des compositions complexes proches des univers de Tim Hecker ou encore de l’autrichien Christian Fennesz. Black Diamond Blues est un album dense, assumé et très personnel. Une histoire qui ne se répète jamais où la mélancolie navigue dans les eaux tumultueuses de la noise, de la folk et de l’électronica.

  Amute - Black Diamond Blues by humptydumptyrecords 


Hmpty016 - Zoft - Electrically Haunted

Hmpty016 - Zoft - Electrically Haunted
Release: 24.10.2011
CD/ Vinyl (November 2011)/ Download

EN: Brussels-based duet formed by drummer Damien Magnette and guitarist Nicolas Gitto, Zoft proposes a deviant and ludic take on rock, combining high energy and twisted rythm patterns. After extensive touring across Europe, Damien and Nicolas settled to record their first album, the aptly titled Electrically Haunted.
With this strikingly mature debut, Zoft enters the realm of unclassifiable bands. Influenced by the works of Steve Reich, Pierre Schaeffer or japanese outfit RUINS, the duet blends together mad rythms, chanted lyrics, repetitive motifs, abrupt guitar sounds and a jazzy feel that might recall ZU, Mike Patton's Fantômas or their label neighbours K-Branding.
On stage, the band is surrounded by sound sculptures and home-made instruments, making the audience part of a performance where the light show takes a special place in creating a warm and chaotic ambience, in perfect adequacy with the music.
Electrically Haunted was home-recorded by Mehdi Ayari in two weeks in the countryside, mixed by Yvan Hanon with Damien Magnette, and mastered by Frédéric Alstadt.
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FR: Ce duo bruxellois formé en 2008 par Damien Magnette (batterie) et Nicolas Gitto (guitare) propose un rock déviant à tendance ludique combinant puissance et rythmiques joyeusement tordues. Après avoir tourné intensivement aux quatre coins de l’Europe, Damien et Nicolas ont posé leurs valises afin de mettre en boîte leur premier album répondant au doux nom d’ « Electrically Hauted ».
Auteur d’un premier album à la maturité musicale étonnante, Zoft se hisse sans hésitation au rayon des groupes inclassables. Influencés aussi bien par Pierre Schaeffer que par Steve Reich ou encore les japonais de RUINS, le duo mélange allègrement rythmes foutraques, paroles scandées, passages répétitifs, sons de guitares abrupts et influences jazzy. Ce mélange haut en couleur n’est pas sans rappeler les italiens de ZU, Fantômas, le désormais fameux projet de Mike Patton ou K-Branding, leurs voisins de label.
Sur scène, le groupe est accompagné de sculptures sonores et d’instruments maison, les deux comparses plongent les spectateurs dans une performance immersive où la lumière se synchronise avec la musique créant une ambiance chaude et chaotique en parfaite adéquation avec leur musique.
Electrically Hauted a été enregistré à la campagne en deux semaines par Medhi Ayari, mixé dans la foulée par Yvan Hanon et Damien Magnette et masterisé par Frédéric Alstadt. 
  Zoft - Electrically Haunted by humptydumptyrecords 

Hmpty014 - South of No North - Octopussies Liquor Store


Hmpty014 - South of No North - Octopussies Liquor Store
Release - 24.10.2011
2xLP featuring an etched side (300 copies) / CD / Download
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Cédric Stevens, a.k.a. Acid Kirk, is one of Belgian techno's pioneers. Since 1993, he has been DJing all through Europe's biggest clubs, sharings stages with many of the world's finest DJs. In 1997, increasingly obsessed with free jazz, psychedelic, experimental and avant-garde music, he co-founded Elf Cut Records, where he worked as A&R. At the same time, he started working on a new project, Syncopated Elevator Legacy (S.E.L.), where he could explore new musical territories.

S.E.L.'s studio work has been praised by many artists (Christian Fennesz, Vibracathedral Orchestra, My Cat Is An Alien), and some of its songs caught John Peel's ear, who played them on his BBC show.

In 2003, Cédric, Flash Bunny (Jean-Henri Rigo) and Naan (David Meunier) founded the  DRIFTING BEARS COLLECTIVE. South of no North, their epic psych-noise debut, was released in 2007 thanks to Le Bonheur, Brussels’ “multimedia grocer's”. Vinyl only, the album did well, and was highly praised by english magazine The Wire.

The trio shifted to quintet with the arrivals of Squeaky Lobster (Laurent Delforge) and Sun Papa* (Laurent Baudoux) and soon began working on a new album, with a radically different approach, much more professional and cohesive. The band changed its name to SOUTH OF NO NORTH to deliver a second album, Octopussies Liquor Store. This new record marks a big step forward, in the production as well as in the writing, more mature and daring, not afraid to extend one of the compositions to 35 minutes. Their love of psychedelic, free jazz and obscure forms of world music is still patent, but this new step sees them evolve radically, and add krautrock and experimental noise to the trip.

*Active for many years under the aliases, or as member of Sun Ok Papi Ko, Scratch Pet Land and Fan Club Orchestra. All three projects were released by german avant-garde label Sonig.

   South of No North: Octopussies Liquor Store by humptydumptyrecords
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