Rares sont les anachronismes avant-gardistes. Néanmoins, la musique de Bernardino Femminielli peut se concevoir ainsi, et emprunte à la fois des premières pulsations italo-disco - celles du producteur Giorgio Moroder sur From here to Eternity (1977) ou celles du batteur Marc Cerrone à l'heure de Supernature (1977) - et de ce souffle inaltérable d'une scène DIY sévissant à Montréal et déjà évoquée par l'entremise du label Electric Voice Records ( lire ). Un pied dans un passé à la fois mélancolique et hédoniste, où l'avalanche de couleurs vives se télescope à l'apparition [...]
Alex Zhang Hungtai (van Dirty Beaches ) en William Cody Watson (voornamelijk "bekend" als Pink Priest ) hebben de handen in elkaar geslagen en als soort nieuwjaarsgeschenk een compilatie gemaakt van muziek van henzelf en kennissen, allemaal uit 2011. Het gaat meestal om releases op Bathetic Records . Die compilatie noemen ze Expressway en je kan elk nummer met wat uitleg erbij hier beluisteren. Tracklist: [...]
Montreal's Bernardino Femminielli is back, and this time he's got his white suit on, so you know he means business. "Atlantida" and it's accompanying video by Sabrina Ratté guide you through liquid drone and disco that seems imported directly from a day-glo corner of the cyberspace grid that's probably right down the block from the car lot Max Headroom opened when he retired from public life. All cultural allusions aside, this is a beautiful alignment of digital visual and musical synthesis. Whispered crooning gives the collage of synth, bass, and shredding guitar a human feel [...]
Our favorite synth-wiz Bernardino Femminielli returns with this heavy piece of "Karaoke Nouvel-Âge", marvelously visualized by Sabrina Ratté with this breathtaking ten minute excursion into the unknown business of retro-futurist entertaining. The song itself was recorded as a four-piece, an approach that definitely pays off, as "Atlantida" is by all means another creative leap forward for Montréal's most exciting Italo-synth renegade. "Atlantida" will be part of a forthcoming tape on Robert & Leopold , due sometime in November. Femminielli - Atlantida
Visage Musique is a record label/artist collective from Montréal specialized in dark disco and minimal wave. They have just released Volume 1, a compilation of new and unreleased songs by GOLD ZEBRA , Brusque Twins , Femminielli , TONY COPS and Police des moeurs . AND you can download the whole compilation for free on their Bandcamp . Police des moeurs Incertitude et démission Gold Zebra Back in the Dust Visage Musique website [...]
Ever since listening to the first seconds of Bernardino Femminielli 's amazing tape Carte Blanche Aux Désirs we were guessing that Canada's second city must have a thriving minimal wave scene. Turns out we were correct: Montréal's own boutique imprint Visage Musique just released their initial roundup compilation Volume 1 , a compelling introduction into the city's hidden places of cold wave, italo disco, and related strands of early 80s-informed synth music. The ten-track collection features new songs by Femminielli and the recently loved Brusque Twins alongside other exclusive [...]
Femminielli is the ace solo synthesizer work of the Montreal-based musician Bernardino Femminielli. While the ominous chords, geometric leads, and forlorn march of the "Chauffeur's" beat will be instantly familiar to any fan of the cold / minimal / new / dark / what have you wave(s), the charismatic web spun by the crooner- esque vocals and the overall precise but organic execution of this highly textural, affective piece distinguish it from the efforts of many other musicians who have ventured to or are currently exploring similarly bleak terrains . That's not to imply that the music is in [...]
The slick minimal synth work of Montréal resident Bernardino Femminielli is without doubt one of my favorite discoveries of 2011 so far, with his recent cassette Carte Blanche Aux Désirs , released in March via Los Discos Enfantasmes , probably being the most outstanding pure synth extravaganza I've come across in a very long time. In particular Estados Alterados , the tape's lead-off track which we'd premiered back in February , is still on constant repeat with its upbeat vibes of ultimate seduction. The two tracks on his [...]
Seriously stoked about the upcoming cassette by Montréal's most exciting minimal synth wizard Bernadino Femminielli - evoking dark fantasies already in its title, Carte Blanche aux Désirs is a trip into the most forbidden pleasures of your inner self, amazingly exemplified by Estados Alterados , the first track to surface prior to the tape's release: starting with Femminielli reciting words of purest eroticism over a simple, upbeat drum machine pattern and sparse analog synth lines, the song reaches almost classic chanson-like quality when the artist finally aspirates "te quiero" and falls into that kind of [...]
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