Tahiti 80 - All Around Christmas (mp3)
Mederic’s top 10. 2009
1/Michel Legrand - Peau d’Ane O.S.T
Vinyl cut please, I listened to it every single night of the Activity Center’s tour before goin’ to bed
2/Rebolledo - Gerrero
Raw and simply delighful, a serious contender to Gemini’s edit by Pilooskouac-couac
3/ The Horrors - Primary Colours
This was my last summer holidays album in Vendée
4/ Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
I started to love that record in my wife’s car, I now think it’s a classic “our last summer as independants, do you remember?”
5/ Malakai - Ugly Sides Of Love
I waited for ages to listen to “Another Sun” so big up to Geoff Barrow’s Invada record label
6/ Duncan Brown - Give Me Take You
One of the most beautiful thing I’ve been listening from the late 60’s, thanks to Chris & Denis
7/ Mysteries - V/A Space.Rec
Indonesian electronic music, thanks Pattra for letting me know!
8/ Johnny Hallyday - Vie
Well, well, well…I got nothing to declare, sir
9/ Broadcast & The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age
so I don’t have to mention The Wicker Man soundtrack again
10/ Nino Nardini & Roger Roger - Jungle Obsession
Timeless library record reissued on French label Vadim Music
In 2010, I’m looking forward, like everybody!, to the Tron Legacy Soundtracks and Plastic Beach by Gorillaz and well…to that “My Bloody Valentine - Loveless” reissue I bought 2 years ago on ebay
Hey!
An old friend of ours visited us yesterday at our studio and he said more or less that we looked like shit (some more than others, someone whose name begins with a X). Thanks, man. We might look older, thinner but at least it means that we’ve been working hard at the TLab.
We’ve just finished a serie of 3 intensive weeks of rehearsing/ arranging new songs.
To be honest, at times it felt weird, as we now have 2 new “official” members in the band (Raphaël & Julien).
—-2+ 4, means that Tahiti 80 is now a six-piece—-
We soon found out (even though we kinda knew it) that touring & performing live is actually very different from working on new material.
Why? Warum? Perche? Mais Pourquoi?
First, it takes a while to get everybody comfortable enough so they can make comments, express opinions etc.
Secondly, we have to learn to speak the same language, being a musician with absolutely no knowledge of music ( eg “Let’s keep that, erm, “theme “going for the first, erm, 2 bars and then when we get to the chorus let’s stay on that note, erm a D#, sorry a Eb, for erm, a while…everybody OK?”), and being musicians who kinda have telepathic powers as we’ve been playing together for ages, it sometimes hard to communicate ideas to others. Still working on it, but it’s going good.
Now, we’ve got a bunch of songs in stock, some are more advanced than others, some were demoed first, alone or collectively, some were created in the live room, so in the end they all sound quite eclectic at the moment, which is very interesting I think.
The first collective effort to be printed on tape is a cover of A.R Kane’s ‘Crack Up’ that we’re recording for an Amnesty International compilation. It’s been fun and I guess it was very wise to start with a song we haven’t written, so we don’t feel too much pressure working on it.
Hope everyone’s well!
More on this later…
Luv
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