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Teaser for next release by Equipment Pointed Ankh #epa on #bruitdirectdisques OUT IN 2022 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl6IhYbtC0Q/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Kenji Kariu, Sekai (Bruit Direct Disques, 2020)

It’s not easy to come across information about Kenji Kariu. I just know he plays guitar in a band called OWKMJ, which, from what I can tell from the videos I found online, is a completely bonkers math-prog-jazz DMT trip of a band. Sekai, though, his 3rd solo album and his debut on French label Bruit Direct, has a very different vibe.

The first feeling you get is that the record isn’t even meant for you to listen, such is the intimacy and fragility that emanate from the songs. They’re all built on very essential drum machine beats and a few, sparse chords played on synths or guitars. The star of the show is Kariu’s voice here. Everything revolves around simple, almost childish, melodies that are sung in an understated, middle-of-the-night hush tone. Then there are layers of more vocal sounds, used as back up for a 60s pop vibe, or mangled by weird effects for a more contemporary and slightly eerie left-of-center feel.

The more you listen to the record, the more you realize it’s not as low-key and demure as it seems, and you really appreciate Kariu’s depth of vision: for example, “Atelier” is really an amazing pop song of the 80s throwback variety, shimmering with chorus-laden guitars and with a bassline that’s as simple as it is groovy. But then you have stuff like “Birthday”, with its very raw home recorded feeling, or “YanaKotori”, sounding like a children’s TV show theme. I can’t help being reminded of Kevin Ayers when I think about this approach.

To add to the weirdness, the record is complete with a lyric sheet translated from Japanese. I didn’t read the lyrics through the first few listens, but when I did I was really fascinated: they all seem to operate through a dreamlike, hallucinatory state (dare I say hypnagogic?) with a lot of synesthesia and sometimes funny connections: “The rabbit came out of the ATM / I left the line, I was confused / It was a good old day, I used to have a centipede.” Maybe there’s a cultural barrier there, or maybe Kariu is just a genuinely strange and very interesting guy.

Click here to listen to “Atelier” on Bandcamp or buy the record from Bruit Direct’s website.

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#Maraudeur begin their 5 date mini-tour of England this evening in Brighton. Go check them out. If anyone can help with a northern show (Manchester/Leeds/Liverpool) on Saturday 21st October it is much appreciated. tour dates: 17/10 Brighton 18/10 London 19/10 Bristol 20/10 Sheffield w/Duds & Purpur Spytt 21/10 ** [Looking for a northern show] New LP via #bruitdirectdisques: https://bruitdirectdisques.bandcamp.com/album/maraudeur (at England)

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#word Center lp available from the band and us, #linkinbio #bruitdirectdisques https://www.instagram.com/p/CnmP0PgLUyG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Zusammen Clark in #yellowgreenred #bruitdirectdisques thanks @mattkorvette from the #subunderground https://www.instagram.com/p/CfezpHtrgPG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Great piece about the chronophage lp here, still hate bandcamp though. Lp out on #bruitdirectdisques pretty soon now! that's https://bruit-direct.org for ya, if you're in EU, UK, Asia (at Brussels, Belgium) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeicgXIL-Hc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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#hot #epa new release on #bruitdirectdisques shipping out soon #equipmentpointedankh "from inside the house" https://www.instagram.com/p/CmY-3zotljH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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#bruitdirectdisques https://www.instagram.com/p/CSgcd95Aqmt/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Video from @al_karpenter new lp up on the #bruitdirectdisques yt channel #hits https://www.instagram.com/p/CQeK93tr7kL/?utm_medium=tumblr

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#bruitdirectdisques reviews #yellowgreenred thanks @mattkorvette https://www.instagram.com/p/CLCND0JgJK3/?igshid=1e027zshuuyfm

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Oso el Roto, Pop de Cuchillo (Bruit Direct Disques, 2020)

Music is cool and all, but sometimes I get the feeling that we need something more. Not sure if it's the truth or just nostalgia, but I feel like until a couple decades back music used to be a much more collective experience. Well everything used to be a much more collective experience. Now it's so hard to talk to people, because you always have an escape pod in your pocket. And music’s in there. It’s just a great excuse. Eyes meet on the subway and they immediately go: sorry, can’t talk right now—I’m listening to something. 

So if you’re an artist that has had an oblique approach to music for a long time, like Oso El Roto, who’s been experimenting with sound since the mid-90s, you might feel the same uneasiness I feel and you might think to use that to make a record like this one here, Pop de Cuchillo. From what I understand, he composed these songs live on YouTube while people sent him suggestions about what to do. Most of the record is made of collages of audio messages from his friends or song ideas people wrote to him while he was doing it live. Now, you might think this sounds like a cool gimmick, but you don’t need to hear the record. Wrong!

This Pop de Cuchillo has bona-fide hits. The title track, a more or less straightforward hip-hop song with a mean sneer; “Amigo”, my favorite, which reminds me of Sun City Girls and Faust; and “Cerca de Ti”, a sweet sad song with sharp claws. And the rest of the record sounds really alive: just a messy bundle of leftfield rap, samples, found sounds, alien voices, things that sound like old traditional melodies and a unique weirdo sensibility.

In the accompanying notes, Oso El Roto says the subject of the album is “the comic absurdity of wanting to be a rock singer in poverty and capitalist horror of the Chilean reality”. Unfortunately no lyrics are included, but it’s fairly easy to infer Oso’s message. The grotesque landscape we live in makes it harder and harder to let your freak flag fly. Records like this are the bastion of weirdness we need to remind ourselves to be free.

Click here to listen to Pop de Cuchillo on Bandcamp.

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Stefan Christensen, The Upcoming Flame (Bruit Direct Disques, 2019)

I get it, you might not be in the mood for a record that sounds as sad and desolate as this one, but listen here: music is more than a mood. Sometimes the fact that a record actually sounds like that time you were so depressed you stayed up all night, not even drinking or anything, and at sunrise you picked up the guitar and started strumming it aimlessly, wondering what is IT, the thing, the big thing, what is it, what’s the point of it and why am I asking if I don’t even know the question, and all of a sudden you kinda liked the music you were playing, and you had the funny thought of recording songs while you were in that mood because maybe that was you at the most creative and loose, laughed and forgot about it, maybe the fact that this record kinda sounds like that makes the sad mood overwhelming.

But there’s more to The Upcoming Flame: you’ve got the psychedelic repetition of songs like “Arrows” or the ‘rocking’ “Unkempt Power”, tapes and field recordings and weird eerie noises that mix with the guitar (this album is mostly guitar: strummed, scraped, feeding back, gently picked in seemingly improvised but endlessly fascinating patterns), sometimes taking the forefront of the recording, other times just creating a dusty, dirty backdrop. Christensen’s vocals are sparse, stark, and he sounds like a weary mystic who found his place in quiet, contemplative, peaceful hopelessness.

It’s a lo-fi, intimate and evocative journey of an album. It’s not a fun journey, but it can be uplifting just for the sheer beauty of the compositions (close your eyes during “Substitution Days” and take it in, but watch out for the sudden ending). When I talk to people about it, and I do, I mention Dead C, Pink Reason, Jim Shepard. They go “That good?” and I say “You decide” because you have to make the effort for fuck’s sake.

Click here to listen to The Upcoming Flame on Bandcamp.

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#bruitdirectdisques review of The Submissives lp at yellowgreenred.com Thanks @mattkorvette ! https://www.instagram.com/p/CeZbcjgrDYb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The Submissives "wanna be your thing" lp out now on #bruitdirectdisques #linkinbio (at Montreal, Canada) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cautoq0Lsbz/?utm_medium=tumblr

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#ZusammenClark "Earlier" lp next on #bruitdirectdisques https://www.instagram.com/p/CaF2lhNA6hx/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Z.B. Aids - If you don't need me (radio edit)

New video for Z.B. Aids - If you don't need me (radio edit)

watch it! Video directed by Jonathan Martin

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