One autumn, two winters and one summer. That is how much time it took for Geneviéve Castrée to change her musical identity from "Woelv" to "Ô Paon". Two years of gestation and four visits to Montréal's Hotel2Tango recording studio. Courses announces from the start its difference from previous records by Geneviève. The sky is heavy and the universe got darker. The lyrics are more solemn, exploring the shadowy parts of our society: wastelands, greed, the absurdity of power, violence, loneliness. Thierry Amar (Silver Mt. Zion, Black Ox Orkestar, Godspeed You! Black Emperor) expertly arranges the recordings, adding a [...]
photos by Greg Cristman , words by BBG Earth consulted their entire catalog at their appearance with Ô Paon at Le Poisson Rouge on Thursday (6/16). That included material from their much lauded recent Southern Lord release Angels of Darkness Demons of Light 1 . The band, who is currently touring on the (considerable) strength of said record, concluded their tour last night in Newport, Kentucky, but will begin a second leg of [...]
Thirty nine years ago, the biggest raid that had ever been staged in America's war on drugs took place when a task force of state, local and federal law enforcement agencies combined to take down a secretive group of hippie acid dealers and hashish smugglers known as the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. On August 5, [...]
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Geneviève Castrée blows minds live...and has been doing it for some time. Hypnotic low tones mix with jarring howls and unleash some pretty deep emotions from her audience. It doesn't seem to matter that most of her audiences don't speak the language (which, for some reason, is excessively important in this country, when compared to audiences in other countries), Ô Paon transcends. The question for the last couple years has been, "when will there be an album?" Well, the album came and, while nothing can do the experience of seeing her live justice, Courses fills the void [...]
It's time to listen to the tracks I have not posted recently. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. These are some of the songs that would get there own individual posts on GIMME TINNITUS, if I only had the time. This mix starts out with a party jam and ends all indie rock. Listen. Downloadables: Partee Hardee (mp3) by Javelin See Spaces ( Jacob Safari Remix) (mp3) by Teeth Anything Above Nothing (mp3) [...]
Amy Bezuna - "Doubles" MP3/download [from forthcoming album Restaurants & Bars] Sam Prekop - "The Silhouettes" MP3/download Purling Hiss - "Limerence / Space Roots" MP3/download O Paon - "Chevaux" MP3/download [former member of Woelv] I felt GREAT today, and my joy resulted in a wonderful day at home with my daughter - who is at [...]
Another year at Anacortes' always-amazing What the Heck Fest and, instead of describing its summer camp-y uniqueness, I'm just going to throw same names and songs at ya. Highlights: O Paon, Mt Eerie, Karl Blau, Earth, Lori Goldston, Arrington de Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Singa, Nicholas Wilbur, Ropin' the Wind (a indie-star-studded Garth Brooks cover band), Angelo Spencer & Les Hauts Sommets, Kimya Dawson. O Paon is Genvieve Castree. Formerly known as Woelv, she makes amazing webs made from darkness. She just put out her first full length, which doesn't seem to be online yet, but [...]
What the Heck Fest is a festival out of Anacortes, Wa put on (more-or-less) by Phil Elverum of Mount Eerie and Geneviève Castrée of Woelv. It's kind of like summer camp with tons of indie bands. They've been at it for 8 years now. This year's fest was awesomely diverse (highlighted humorously saturday night with Olympia black metal superstars Wolves in the Throne Room following posi indie folkster Kimya Dawson) and I really couldn't have been more pleased to have the presence of so many things that didn't fit the k records/indie rock mold that people assume this festival is [...]
Je crois que je pourrais m'asseoir là et attendre que l'automne fasse ses preuves et que je puisse enfin récolter les présents que m'offre l'arbre... Geneviève Castrée est une musicienne québécoise et aussi dessinatrice. Connue sous le nom de Woelv ou de Ôpaon, sa musique, comme un fruit trop mûr, laisse indéniablement des traces indélébiles. Je ma tache trop (c'est mon point faible) ! [MP3] Woelv - La Cordillère des hommes [MP3] Ôpaon - Raffinerie
Dead Meadow Part two of playing December catch up... 1. Black Mountain - "Tyrants" 2. Pale Faced Gentlemen - "Fraulein" 3. Dead Meadow - "What Needs Must Be" (mp3 on the page) 4. Xiu Xiu - "I Do What I Want When I Want" 5. Bodies of Water - "I Guess I'll Forget the Sound, I Guess, I Guess" 6. Paint It Black [...]
Some years ago Phil Elvrum put an end to his much-lauded Microphones project and named his new one-man-band after an area in Anacortes, WA called Mount Eerie. Since then his songs have become more natural and the recordings less meticulous and fetishistic. In a good way. (He's also taken to self-releasing on vinyl only and in limited quantities.) Back in 2004, when Pitchfork still cared , Phil's first release as Mount Eerie was a CD-r that he sold at shows in Japan. He's since decided to give these tracks away for free on the [...]
Geneviève Castrée - Pamplemoussi, Les Tetes Molles [Page 4] Geneviève Castrée is a Canadian drawer of pictures, composer of stories, dreamer of dreams, and singer of songs. Her world is a musical storybook exhaled in one natural breath from the side of her tiny, hesitant mouth. In comics, her pictures are French fables about children and animals giggling with the characteristic whimsy of rounded edges, but frightened with careful fragility and introspective abstraction. [...]
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