AETHERLONE

Ashtray Service

Mon, 07 May 2012 22:40:59 +0200

Hi,

I’m very proud to annonce that the B Side of my soon to be released single “Not A Dance” will feature a remix by Ashtray Service, a band that I love since a handful of years now.

A few years ago, I got in the mailbox something I was starving of for 3 years. It took me several death threats and a lot of blackmail but, hey, it was here. As far as I know, this thing is called LEBOX and it’s ALL the Ashtray Service’s LP and EP.

Well, in the unbelievable case of you’re not aware of this band I STRONGLY recommended you to go to their website and take a ( well rather “a lot of” ) listen. These guys are nothing less than Lo-Fi Superheroes beating the crap out of all this “indie” overproduced shite we can ear now and then.

The beauty of it; they’re doing this just for fun, expecting nothing more than good times and makin’ incredible tunes.

The shame of it; you can’t listen to all their 8 beautiful records on myspace.

So, go on their myspace (yes they don’t have Facebook/Twitter/Soundcloud, as I told you they don’t care) make pressure on them (death threats are welcome), and maybe they will release something to the public, who strongly need it, I assure you.

Thanx for reading me.

Best

http://www.myspace.com/ashtrayservice

Not A Dance Single Out June 2012

Mon, 07 May 2012 12:20:49 +0200

Not A Dance

Single Out June 2012

Album teaser by Mathilde Jouannet

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:04:55 +0200

Album teaser by Mathilde Jouannet

XXL (XIU XIU + LARSEN) / FAREWELL POETRY / AETHERLONE 27 JUIN...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:06:30 +0200

XXL (XIU XIU + LARSEN) / FAREWELL POETRY / AETHERLONE
27 JUIN 2012 - DIVAN DU MONDE - PARIS - 20H

DEATH DISCO PODCAST 1 First part of a mix I did at a party in Paris last year. Just a bunch of...

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:43:00 +0200

DEATH DISCO PODCAST 1

First part of a mix I did at a party in Paris last year. Just a bunch of tunes I like to dance to. It was fun to make, that’s why I share it. I’m not a DJ whatsoever so see no pretentiousness in it.

Yes you can dance to desperate music, enjoy 45mn of pure No Fun.
Tracklisting:
Glenn Branca - Lesson N°1
Joy Division - Transmission
Section 25 - After Image
Kleenex - Ain’t You
Wire - Sand In My Joints
The Cure - Jumping Someone Else’s Train
The Passions - Pedal Fury
The Rapture - Notes
Minimal Compact - Statik Dancin’
Gang of Four - To Hell With Poverty
Delta 5 - Train Song
Liars - Mr. Your On Fire Mr.
LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge

Sweeping the dust

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:01:07 +0100

Sweeping the dust

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Preview: AETHERLONE album due in 2012

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:53:00 +0200

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Sun, 26 Jun 2011 08:09:10 +0200

Eagle/Deer: Summer of Sepia. BUY or DIE

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:55:00 +0200

<a href=”http://eagledeer.bandcamp.com/album/summer-of-sepia” data-mce-href=”http://eagledeer.bandcamp.com/album/summer-of-sepia”>Summer Of Sepia by Eagle/Deer</a>

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Nacopajaz Mina May Ashtray Service Jean Charles Versari & Poptones studio Climax Mastering Boy...

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:24:00 +0200

Nacopajaz

Mina May

Ashtray Service

Jean Charles Versari & Poptones studio

Climax Mastering

Boy and the Echo Choir

Tazio & Boy

Emmanuel Kormann Le Galactic

Philippe Levy Photographie

FORTHCOMING 27/07/12 with Xiu Xiu Larsen and Farewell Poetry, Divan du Monde, Paris PAST...

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:52:00 +0200

FORTHCOMING

27/07/12 with Xiu Xiu Larsen and Farewell Poetry, Divan du Monde, Paris

PAST SHOWS

13/03/11 with CHELSEA WOLFE, Humanist Festival, Dijon

30/01/11 MO’FO Festival, Mains d’Oeuvres, St-Ouen

24/09/10 with HOQUETS, Espace B, Paris

08/09/10 with Bye Horus, Pop In, Paris

Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Aetherlone/170921961736 Twitter:...

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:03:00 +0200

Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Aetherlone/170921961736

Twitter: www.twitter.com/aetherlone

Bandcamp: www.aetherlone.bandcamp.com

Myspace: www.myspace.com/aetherlone

Français : Aetherlone est le projet et l’oeuvre de Sebastian Müller-Thür qui n’en est pas...

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:12:00 +0200

Français :

Aetherlone est le projet et l’oeuvre de Sebastian Müller-Thür qui n’en est pas à son premier coup d’essai. Ce jeune parisien multi-instrumentiste et ingénieur du son poursuit avec ce projet une recherche de long terme, avec ses protocoles d’expérience et ses étapes témoins, prenant aujourd’hui sa forme pleine et mesurable. Au milieu des années 1990, époque où il arrive sur la scène parisienne (celle du fameux squat l’Hôpital éphémère), l’effervescence est au mélange des genres. Tout le monde tourne alors les yeux vers la ville de Bristol avec Massive Attack, Tricky, Portishead, tandis qu’il officie aux platines et au sampler de plusieurs groupes, aiguisant ses talents de DJ et d’arrangeur/producteur avec d’ores et déjà un sentiment d’urgence : « d’écrire la musique ».

Il prendra donc vite ses distances avec l’évidence d’une musique « ouverte à toutes les influences », pour dessiner plutôt son propre territoire, quelque part où sa formation de plasticien et son goût pour l’art minimal (Richard Serra, Donald Judd, Barnett Newman) pourraient interagir avec ses conceptions musicales héritées du Free Jazz de John Coltrane, comme de la New Wave et de groupes tels Talk Talk et son chanteur Mark Hollis, ainsi que des fractures d’un Sonic Youth ou du Tabula Rasa d’Arvo Pärt.

Suite à une période riche en expériences scéniques (Divan du Monde, Espace Confluences, Glaz’art , Flèche d’Or), il se concentre sur la définition d’un langage musical qui lui sera propre. Pour le projet Aether, fondé au début des années 2000, notre multi-instrumentiste s’entoure de nombreux musiciens et chanteurs, contribuant à la polymorphie du paysage musical né dans son laboratoire. Un subtil agencement de beats électroniques et de musique ambient, où la recherche sonore, très fouillée, laisse déjà apparaître, en creux, le désir d’une écriture plus dépouillée. Les structures des morceaux sont en forme de labyrinthes extatiques, des susurrements de voix et des vocalises lyriques se disputent sur un ciel troublé de basses jamaïcaines et de synthétiseurs futuristes. Le premier LP d’Aether sobrement intitulé Se perdre : contre, qui sort en 2005 sur Ethylen Records – label qu’il fonde lui-même en 2002 - avec quelques collaborateurs – recevra un bel écho chez la critique.

L’année 2006 sera plutôt consacrée à la production et au travail de studio, auprès d’autres groupes très prometteurs comme Mina May. Concentré derrière la table de mixage, il prend une dernière phase de recul. Ses vœux d’indépendance et de radicalité, en tant que musicien, vont se retrouver dans sa musique elle-même. Nourri par une retraite solitaire de deux ans, où il compose les morceaux du projet renommé Aetherlone, il re-déplace son regard vers le centre du territoire qu’il a dessiné jusqu’alors. Il se met à chanter de sa propre voix, qui devient l’aiguillon-sismographe de son monde flottant; l’auditeur est souvent surpris que la mélodie se décuple subrepticement en nappes cycloniques, rappelant les affinités de l’auteur avec la musique sérielle d’un Philip Glass ou d’Autechre. Pourtant la part de l’électronique diminue au profit de l’organique. La plupart des compositions sont construites autour de guitares électriques hypnotiques et vagabondes (“Here and Now”), de pianos en suspension (“Carnival”) et sons de claviers cabossés (“The Unemployed Soulhunter”), avec cette voix écorchée qui trouve, dans ce songwriting lumineux, un équilibre fragile mais précieux.

La musique d’Aetherlone passe ainsi de l’électro brumeuse et hétéroclite à un folk acide et illuminé, anachronique et cérémonial, qui doit autant à Robert Wyatt qu’à Michael Gira. Procédant par échos, reflets et ombres, son esthétique de la ritournelle et de l’errance trouve enfin une issue discographique, avec un album sortant en Septembre 2012, co-réalisé par Jean-Charles Versari (Les Hurleurs - Jason Edwards).

English:

Aetherlone is the project and the work of Sebastian Müller-Thür who is everything but a newcomer. It is the culmination of a musical journey undertaken by a young multi-instrumentalist and sound engineer from Paris, which took him through several stages of experimentation and as many breakthroughs, which Aetherlone both mirrors and bears witness to.

Mixing musical genres and inspirations was the flavor of the day when he first appeared on the thriving Parisian scene as a member of the influential Hotel Ephemere squat in the mid 90s,. At a time when Bristol, the city where bands like Portishead, Tricky or Massive Attack were defining the future of music, was the place to be, he started honing his craft as a DJ, producer and arranger in several outfits. It gave him the opportunity to let his skills at turntablism and sampling shine through, driven by the same essential urge: “to write (the) music’

Realizing that writing and making a ‘music that was drawing from all kind of influences’ was slightly too comfortable and not altogeher satisfactory, he took to defining the outlines of his own musical world. In this world, his education as a plastician, his taste for minimalistic art (that of such artists as Richard Serra, Donald Judd or Barnett Newman) was to suffuse a vision of a music inherited from and paying tribute to Free Jazz and John Coltrane, British New Wave as played by such acts as Talk Talk and their mastermind, singer-songwriter Mark Hollis, and also rooted in Sonic Youth’s noisy art rock.and Arvo Part’s Tabula Rasa.

After having seized all opportunities to perform live with several line ups in such prestigious and influential venues as The Divan Du Monde, the Espace Confluences, Glaz’Art or the Flèche d’or, he dedicated himself to shaping a musical language that he could claim his very own. In the very early 2000s, the multi-instrumentalist started playing under the Aether monicker, with many guest musicians and singers that helped him to bring even more variety and depth to the musical language he had been crafting and perfecting on his own. His yearning for a stripped-to-the-bone songwriting was already blatant in his carefully-wrought sonic experiments which deftly interwove ambient music and electronic beats. Upon listening, one is caught in an estatic maze-like world of futuristic keyboards, ominous Jamaican bass lines, whispering voices and lyrical vocal outbursts. Aether’s first LP, the soberly-named Se Perdre: Contre, recorded with the help of a few fellow musicians, was self-released in 2005 on his own label, Ethylen record which he had created in 2002.

He spent most of 2006 in recording studios, producing and sound engineering for many other up and coming outfits such as Mina May. He took advantage of his work behind the mixing desk to ponder over and outline the boundaries of his own approach to performing and writing songs. His music was bound to stem from his craving for independence as well as from his refusal to give in to any kind of fashion. He then took some time off the music scene for two years, meanwhile working on his own, and perfecting the songs of his new project, which was now called Aetherlone. His new sound reflects a slight change of focus on the universe he had already carefully shape, and gives a whole new significance to his voice: it has now become the center of gravitas in a world of shifting sounds. The listener is caught in an ever-changing whirlpool of layers of melodies subtly building up as the songs gather momentum, in tracks reminiscent of Philip Glass’s serial music or of Autechre.

And yet, his work is now less IDM-orientated than it used to be, most of the tracks being based on mesmerizing and meandering accoustic and electric guitar parts (as in “Here and Now”) on spare piano lines (as in “Carnival”) or on some warbly and far-off keyboard flourishes (“The Unemployed Soulhunter”). But it’s the singer’s heartfelt, lamenting and deeply-affecting vocals that make each song such a subtle and exquisite gem. They are the backbone of a songwriting which ventures into hazy, dream-like electronica as well as into the lands of a radiant, out-of-time and trance-inducing acid folk which owes as much to Robert Wyatt as to Michael Gira.

At long last, this twilight-like soundscape of melodic echoes and serpentine reflections is to be issued on an album in September 2012, co-produced with the help of Jean Charles Versari (of Les Hurleurs’ and Jason Edwards’ fame).