Artaud,Rimbaud,hip hop and a sardine...

Cindytalk play tonight at L'Embobineuse,Marseille together with KK Null and Evil Moisture.

...époustouflant...

La plus petite ville du "Cindytalk tour 2009", Cherbourg, aura sans doute été le lieu d'une des plus belles performances.

Après des répétitions magiques au cours de la balance de l'après-midi, donnant lieu à de nouvelles constructions sonores-vocales. L'atmosphère a commencé à se charger d'une énergie très particulière, comme si de miniscules choses se mettaient en place avant l'arrivée de la nuit.

Progressivement la salle s'est remplie, dépassant les 120 personnes, des amateurs énamourés du groupe, des curieux, des oreilles ouvertes aux expériences sonores. La soirée a été une inoubliable montée d'adrénaline et d'émotions.

Vers 21h, les Cherbourgeois de Minh [May] ont su harponner le public en propulsant leurs titres toujours en équilibre entre groove et tension. Une ambiance à la fois chaleureuse et attentive, propre à cette salle si particulière. A nouveau l'Epicentre s'est mis à respirer et à trembler sous le feu des plages énergétiques de Minh [May] plus en verve que jamais.

Le changement de plateau a permis de transformer progressivement l'ambiance. Quelques titres coldwave, post-punk et electro-pop plus tard, un dernier X Mal Deutschland puis le silence.



Après la mise en place minutieuse des musiciens: Shrill au laptop, Gary Jeff à la basse, Paul Middleton à la batterie et Dan Knowler à la guitare. L'attente et la tension sont devenues palpables. Entrée de Cinder dans un élégant kimono bleu, cheveux rougeoyants dans des jeux de lumières subtiles et minimalistes, puis le groupe a initié une lente introduction, une montée entre brûlure, caresse et stridulations. Le chant tout d'abord rentré, introspectif et intérieur s'est progressivement déployé vers la salle au rythme ondoyant et berçant des vagues sonores. Pendant près d'une heure, les plages imbriquées et enlacées se sont succédé. Sculpture sonore, poésie totale, temps en apesanteur, instants de magie, coeur et épiderme mouvants sous la peau de la musique. Au milieu de ce temps suspendu, des échos du "Prince of lies" et du titre fantôme final de "Wappinschaw". La morsure noise-industrielle du nouvel album "The Crackle of my Soul". Un concert transformé en véritable création sonore et émotionnelle en direct.
Dans le public, des personnes magnétisées, se balançant ou "explosantes-fixes" (cf André Breton). Une vague finale, expérience sonique, guitare en spasmes noise, sons électroniques comme tressés et abrasifs, la basse bousculant les fondations rythmiques comme des effets sous respiration artificielle et un incroyable désossage de la batterie, Paul démontant ses cymbales puis jouant tel un scratcheur mutant et tribal, écho au chaos de Neubauten.
Un membre du public le rejoignant pour prolonger les vibrionnantes stridences et fracas des cymbales tournicotantes. La voix se retire, les sons s'éloignent, de lointains échos sonores.

Puis s'élèvent des cris, des hurlements, des applaudissements, après cette heure d'osmose. Près de dix minutes pour remercier, exprimer l'énergie reçue et partagée et demander un rappel.
Le groupe ne revient pas, laissant émerger le désir.

L'impression d'avoir vécu des minutes hors du monde.

Une nouvelle fois, l'Epicentre aura été propice à d'étranges espaces de magie. Trinity tient à remercier vivement le public, les bénévoles, l'équipe de l'Epicentre et les trinitéens présents pour avoir contribué à la réussite de ce moment.

Stanislas
lundi 12 octobre 2009

Cinder & Dan photo par F.D. (Trinity)
Cinder&fan photo by Ed Luna

"Prendre le public par la peau du cul..."

"En tout cas, le show ils savent ce que c'est. Ils démarrent sur un truc très calme, mais ils savent prendre le public par la peau du cul et l'obliger à rentrer dans leur trip. Tous calés comme il faut (et sous les spotlights Laughing ), très bonne harmonie, les morceaux qui s'enchaînent de manière über-fluide, on est littéralement ailleurs pendant une heure, et même l'atterrissage est super bien géré."

(Boncamin about the Nantes gig)
Photo by Ed Luna

More photos by boncamin/Jean Delpech:

Japan/UK

Flyer for the Genève gig.

"Few days ago Blind Cave Salamander (as Paul Beauchamp, Julia Kent and myself) played a show in Geneve, Switzerland, to launch our new album "Troglobite", just been released on Shayo. This show has been a double bill with one of my favourite band ever Cindytalk. I've been in touch with Gordon "Cinder" Sharp of Cindytalk for years, but this has been the first time we ever met and i've got to see them perform live. The show went really well and I wanna thank Yann of Shayo and everyone @ L'usine for having set it up, but further than that I' ve to say that not only Cindytalk live set made me cry but that between Blind Cave Salamander and them has been love at first sight and for sure our paths will cross again and there will be collaborations -live/studio/spiritual...- between our bands.
Cindytalk have been far from the scene for a pretty long time, but now they are back with a new instrumental album of very intense and abstract music/sounds that I strongly suggest you to buy; it is titled "The Crackle Of My Soul" and should be out on the first week of Nov."
(Fabrizio Modonese Polumbo of Blind Cave Salamander)

Under Full Sail to Cherbourg-Octeville!

Drums:
Paul Middleton

Guitar: Dan Knowler

Bass Guitar:
Gary Jeff


Electronics: Shrill

Voice/Electronics: Cinder

Cindytalk play at L'Epicentre - Cherbourg-Octeville tomorrow,Oct 10th.

Photography by Jean Delpech

Entretien élégiaque

This month's edition of French magazine Elegy features an interview with Gordon Sharp and a Cindytalk track in their sampler,the unreleased "Old Jack Must Die".
Copies are available here: Elegy E-Shop

Crackles

L'Heretic Bordeaux, Aquitaine
2 Oct 2009
Video by musica eternal

Paris tonight!
Le Klub, Ile-de-France

By the Loire

Photography by Jean D.
Thanks to Stephen Jenn Andersen/No Projekt for the link!

Swisshness

6 Oct 2009 Kab De L'usine
Genève,Switzerland
with BLIND CAVE SALAMANDER



Photo:Cindytalk @ Brighton's Latest Music Bar
Sept. 2009
By GREG NEATE

Cindytalk live in Bordeaux 2.10.2009

Videos created and uploaded by musicaeternal.
A million thanks.

For bigger,better quality clips, go directly to the youtube page:
Cindytalk Live in Bourdeaux

"Au coeur de tes oreilles..."

Cindytalk have just started their French tournée!
Yesterday,the band played in Bourdeaux and tonight the noise and crackle melodies move to "Le Floride" in Nantes.

Guts of London

Video by Shrill,2004

"Guts Of London" appeared in 2003 as the B side to "Transgender Warrior".

(Follow the link or scroll down this page to stop or pause our Ghosts' player).

Tenebrous Waters

CINDYTALK will be warming-up for their forthcoming tour by supporting good friends THE TENEBROUS LIAR at a gig in Brighton next Tuesday evening.

Edina Posters

Posters for Cindytalk's
Voodoo Rooms gig,
Edinburgh Oct 24th 2009.



Design by Andy McGregor

.com

Cindytalk's official website is currently under a temporary look awaiting a proper revamp.
Under the main page's "Fire in Our Eyes",a player reproduces Cindytalk's live set at Otoya Kobe,May 2005.

eMEGO 097,crackling...

Official announcement and pre-order:
emego097

White label

The Archive recently acquired the white label test pressing for The Wind Is Strong.
Cinder mentioned that the handwriting is quite possibly
Nick Ralph's,producer and founder of Midnight Music,the UK post-punk/experimental label active during the 1980s and early 1990s.
Artists on the label included Cindytalk, Robin Hitchcock and The Egyptians, Sad Lovers And Giants,Wolfhounds-who became Moonshake- and MCarthy-who went on to become Stereolab.
Cinder also explained:
"Nick played a huge part in financing,recording and releasing our first 4 albums".

"Equally Insignificant" and "Brain Bomb"

Books containing Freeze/Cindytalk references:
Andy Hutchinson's semi-biographical novel and Mark Fleming's "ride through the highs and lows of mental illness experienced by a Scottish twentysomething".
Andy,long-time Freeze/Cindytalk friend,is a regular of this blog.

Fleming is currently the guitarist in the Axidents and was at a gig in Forfar in 1980 when Twisted Nerve covered the Freeze's song Neutral Zone .This is mentioned in the book together with the "hero" painting "Psycho Dalek" on himself while he says that the song itself is "a futuristic masterpiece".

In fact,one of the chapters in the book is also called
Psycho Dalek Nightmares!

(Special thanks to Ken for his always helpful support!)

In This World. Radio stories.

“PLEASE NOTE: SECOND HALF OF ‘IN THIS WORLD’ IS TAPED TO THE BACK!”

Wheesht

Wheesht by Cindytalk with Alasdair Gray


Video uploaded by Burntime TV.

Music From The Empty Quarter (Mfteq),music magazine
Review of Wappinschaw,November 1995
(Thank you Dissecting)

Mego Press Release for "The Crackle Of My Soul"

(Click on the photo for an enlarged version)

Fugued

Last Wednesday (29/7/09) Cinder was invited to sing during the last part of Peter Rehberg's set at Fugue.

Of this completely improvised collaboration,Cinder has said:
"I interacted for the very last part of the set to computer music of an abstract nature but brilliantly filled with implied melody so for me it was perfect to sing to.I didn't do any "big" singing but rather just put a simple human voice into his machine-music.Disembodied but attempting to connect."



Peter Rehberg,also known as Pita and based in Vienna,is author and performer of electronic audio works and operates the Editions Mego label that will release Cindytalk's "The Crackle Of My Soul" in November.

FUGUE is a "weekly intervention from 7-11pm on the 4th floor and roof terrace of 23, providing a safehouse for the unsafe and unfettered with rarest and various accompaniment. Come get lost. "

(Photos by Shrill.Thank you!)

"The Spirit Behind The Circus Dream"

Video uploaded by musicaeternal.
Music by Cindytalk.
Images from David Lynch's "The Elephant Man"

French Tournée

2009/10/02 20:00 @ L’Heretic, Bordeaux, Aquitaine 33000
Cindytalk plus Oharu and Hypos.

2009/10/03 20:00 @ Le Floride Rue St Domingue, Nantes,
Bretagne 44000
Cindytalk plus Les Modules Etranges,Hide&Seek
and Wehwalt.

2009/10/06 21:00 @ Kab De L’usine, Geneve,
Cindytalk plus Blind Cave Salamander

2009/10/08 20:00 @ Le Klub 14 Rue Saint Denis, Paris,
Ile-de-France 75001
Cindytalk plus Hide&Seek

2009/10/10 20:00 @ Epicentre, Cherbourg,
Basse-Normandie
Organised by Trinity

Cindytalk will also be performing what promises to be a very special gig in Edinburgh
on 2009/10/24 20:00 @ The Voodoo Rooms 19a West Register Street, Edinburgh,
Scotland EH2 2AA
(Cindytalk plus support and dj’s).

Release of "The Crackle of My Soul"

"The Crackle Of My Soul" will be released by Vienna based label editions MEGO on November 2nd 2009.
(catalogue number eMEGO 097)
MEGO are planning to release two more Cindytalk works:
"Hold Everything Dear" and "Up Here in the Clouds".
Excellent news from an excellent label.

Silver Shoals of Light

To the Room

"Shapes of Words or Hints of Words"

In 1984,Issue 4 of British magazine "Abstract" published a three-page article about This Mortal Coil.
I am scanning some of it here since it contains a Gordon Sharp photo that you seldom see,together with questions regarding Gordon's work for Ivo's project.



General scans of the magazine:

Scotland's Punk Rock Heritage

Although The Freeze ceased to exist officially by 1982,I was pleasantly surprised to find them mentioned in an American punk magazine last year.
The Issue no. 4 of Loud Fast Rules,published in the summer of 2008,contains a 7-page special titled "Scotland's Punk Rock Heritage".
Consisting basically of the same review found in the punk77 website (click on this post's title to follow the link)),for a band whose discography comprises just two singles,it is quite an achievement to be remembered after so long!
Interestingly,The Freeze item appears on page 66...