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:Zoviet*France: are one of the pioneer bands of industrial and ambient music from the 80’s and have obtained somewhat of a cult-like status do to their sometime obscurity.
:Zoviet*France: was formed in 1980 in Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K., by Ben Ponton, Lisa Hale, Peter Jensen, and Robin Storey. The band took their influences from krautrock bands such as Can, Neu!, and Kraftwerk, and electronic piponeers like Karlheinz Stockhausen. Having a huge collection of unreleased works, :Zoviet*France: produce all of their works from live improvisations of industrial textures, tribal rhythms and dissonant melodies. The first work of the band “Garista” (1982) was self-released as cassette, a format that they would use during all their career.
Later in 1982, :Zoviet*France: released their first official album “Untitled” on Red Rhino Records. Later releases include the albums “Norsch” (1983), “Mohnomishe” (1983), “Eostre” (1984), “Gris” (1985), “Misfits, Loony Tunes, and Squalid Criminals” (1986), “A Flock of Rotations” (1987), “Shouting at the Ground” (1988), “Just an Illusion” (1990), “Look into Me” (1990), “Shadow, Thief of the Sun” (1991), “Collusion” (1993), “What is not True” (1993), “Digilouge” (1995), “Feedback” (1996) and “The Decriminalisation of Country Music” (2000).
:Zoviet*France: has also included members Paolo Di Paolo, Andy Eardley, Mark Warren, and Mark Spybey.
The Marquee Club is opening it’s doors again in London’s Soho, this time located at 14 Upper St Martin’s Lane. The main launch it’s been announced for the 5th of September 2007, with a special show featuring The Move, one of the most reputed bands in the history of the oringinal club in the 60’s.
The last reincarnation of the club opened it’s doors in September 2004 at 1 Leicester Square. It was run by Plum Promotions and was closed in December 2005. Plum Promotions is once again running the new version of the celebrated club. I hope to have more details soon about the new club. For more information please visit The Marquee Club official web site.
Thanks to Alex Piva for the pictures and information.
This news via The Marquee Club
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“Mention an appreciation of 8 track tapes, and you’ll get a lot of bewildered looks. At one time 8-track was the only portable music format, and now it’s been unfairly reduced to a punchline – a thick plastic icon of the 60’s and 70’s.
There are a number of reasons to be genuinely sore at 8-tracks. You couldn’t rewind the carts, the internal mechanisms could fritz out, and worst of all – the songs were often put on the tape in a different order than the album. “
Read all about it at Retro Thing
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This is one of my all-time favorite movies but it’s also some of the best soundtrack music for fantasy movies ever recorded.
See more at Muppet’s News
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Musician and photographer Deborah Anderson has announced the release of her forthcoming cafe-book for the fall, which will include a collection of her portrait photography and latest music productions.
Deborah says in her Myspace blog: “It has been almost three years since i decided to put a book together of images that I shot since first picking up a camera professionally. Finally I have completed this journey and am in the midst of editing the content of this beautiful story told in images and songs.
It shall be published and released worldwide this Fall/Autumn. Accompanying this book is a CD of songs that I recorded solely on my Mac computer using a program called Garageband. So for the past year I recorded songs on my trusty laptop whilst traveling or just sitting home on my porch. New York, Paris, London and LA have been the backdrop for these musical endeavors and this I believe is why I have been able to create an eclectic sound and verse to accompany the visual of the book.”
Read all about it at Deborah Anderson
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