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Newcastle upon Tyne in north east England.While often dissonant and made of industrial textures, their music also falls into the ambient music category.They have increasingly added electronic elements but without adopting computer based composition techniques over time.All audio equipment distorts sound to some degree and, eventually through mechanical and electrical failure, fucks it up.Screen based productions (film and video)
2.CD) Charrm, UK
Feedback
1996 (CD) Staalplaat, Netherlands
The Decriminalisation of Country Music
2000 (CD) Tramway, UK
_utdrag
2003 (3 inch CD in 10 inch clear vinyl sleeve) amino, UK
Music For A Spaghetti Western
2005 (CD) Klanggalerie, Austria
shteirlel
2008 (8 inch square clear polycarbonate record hand cut by King Worldwide) alt.Cathexis Recordings), subsequently on Absolute (Parade Amoureuse and Soleilmoon), and subsequently on Collusion
1986 (Fight!Screen based productions (film and video)
Loud Visual Noises
A film by Stan Brakhage (U.Includes an excerpt from Cair Camouflet from the album Look into Me.Includes excerpts from the album Shadow, Thief of the Sun.Shadow, Thief of the Sun produced for television broadcast only.City
A video production by Karas (Japan, 1993).Includes excerpts from the album Shadow, Thief of the Sun.Commissioned soundtrack title: Silence Des Mers Avec Scooters.Nuit Et Brouillard, France, 2001).Euphony
A video production by Louise K Wilson (UK, 2005).Tremor
A film by Ravi Deepres (UK, 2005).Harry Smith Anthology Remixed, alt.August 2007
An exhibition which brought together the work of 84 leading artists and musicians, who were invited to make a visual artwork in response to a chosen track from the album release the Anthology of American Folk Music, an anthology edited by New York artist, musicologist and experimental filmmaker Harry Smith, first published by Folkways in 1952.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.Their investigations have taken them into fictional cultures where nothing is easily located and reality often slips into the hypnagogic.On the 1997 Digilogue album, :Zoviet*France: maps an unrecognizable psychic terrain with oblique references to American movies of World War Two battles.Guhl (Voice Crack),
Spaceheads and Max Eastley,
Spaceheads,
Illusion of Safety,
Noisegate,
Vitriol,
Tone Language,
SubArachnoid Space,
Alien Soap Opera,
Nick Parkin,
Downpour,
K.Zoviet France
Interview by Brian Duguid
Like Nocturnal Emissions, Soviet France have become a cult band.With a reputation for obscurity that
would put many others to shame, they've been quietly producing their own distinctive blend of industrial sound
collage throughout the last decade.The Blue Nile, who
combine discordance with harmony in a wonderfully serene music that has few easy landmarks to refer to in the rest
of its musical terrain."None of us had any real musical background, we just decided to be in bands.Of course, at the end of the seventies everyone was forming bands (didn't you?But most of them seemed to find their favourite three chord thrash, get stuck there, and give
up within a year or two to become accountants.Soviet
France's are not that surprising when you come to listen to their music."We were into all the more familiar stuff, like Can, and Neu, and early Kraftwerk, all the German bands.We felt closer to it than
conventional commercial music.We're just as much into Motorhead as we are into Stockhausen.Motorhead just as much as you do in
Stockhausen."So that's the influences out of the way.But there is more to the music of Soviet France than just genre or
stylistic considerations.Most conventional bands are performers.We weren't interested in that at all.We were interested in a lot of the
power within music for creating states of mind.It's generally a cyclic, abstract music,
looping and shifting textures of noise around to create a soundscape that certainly doesn't exist anywhere else in this
world.It's lack of obvious connections to any conventional instrumentation or sometimes any other recognisable
sounds can make it sound alien and unwelcome.This side of the mix will inevitable trigger instinctive associations in the mind of the listener, helping
to personalise it and drawing them in.Although Soviet
France feel their music is a highly personal expression, there is quite a lot there to attract others to it."We produce music all the time.We make music just because we like doing it.We have a huge archive of unreleased material.When we come to release something, on CD or whatever, the reasons for choosing that particular material is that
it seems more important musically to us than anything else we have lying around at the time ..."Making music is what I like doing more than any other serious intellectual or physical activity that I'm involved
in.Anything else is subsidiary and secondary to it.We're fortunate in a way, in that
because part of the way that we produce the music is to enter into a sort of altered state of consciousness, without
trying to sound too pretentious.Because we're
listening to it in a different state of consciousness, it's like listening to somebody else's music.In many ways, to release a piece of
our music really is giving something of ourselves away to people.I've never had any children, but the closest thing I can imagine to it is like losing a child ...Because it isn't actually
composed, it's arguable whether it's ever likely to produce a single masterpiece.Also, it means that the music is to
a large extent irrepeatable.Because this means there is such a huge
quantity of Soviet France music, and such a seemingly huge quantity of potential music still to come, it
makes brief excerpts (like albums) seem somehow less important.It's someone
else's personal expression, not ours.But that's hardly the point.The point is that what Soviet France do anyone can do: if music really
can have intuitive, subconscious application, and if only music that someone produces themself is ever
really going to give them the meaning that they need, then surely they should get out their and do exactly what
Soviet France have done.We set up a few mikes around the place, wherever we decide to make the recording.We generate about two to three hours worth
of material, and then post produce it.At the time of this interview, the group had performed live less than a dozen times.Performance is a slightly different matter to the production of a studio recording:
"The only difference is in the editing.Live performance is a continuous sort of musical production, almost identical
to the way that we produce music for a recording.Having initially attached themselves to the
label Red Rhino, they quickly became the label's token "weird" group, producing esoteric and obscure music that
was sure to find its own cult audience but probably not get much further.It was round about that time where everybody seems to have arrived at the same point and started lots
of things, like Nocturnal Emissions, and what Throbbing Gristle were doing, and Test Dept's early days, and
everybody else ...We were aware of what everyone else was doing, but because we were in Newcastle
which is quite a cultural island in itself, we didn't feel any bonding to that at all, we didn't feel any attachment to
it.We didn't feel that we had to conform to
any kind of preconceptions about what we were doing at all ...It seemed to coalesce, particularly
after punk.Punk was quite significant in that it opened up in a lot of people's minds a crucial idea, which was that
you can obtain the means of production, and you can make your own music, and you can make it available to the
general population quite easily.That also coincided with a general upgrading in technology, like the synthesiser and
cassette recording technology.With the ability to produce something with less rough edges, it also resulted in a music that was more positive in
feeling, less of a reaction and more of a contribution.We still make them available.It was a very important period of development, which is why we haven't disavowed them.We had to deal with that
then to come to where we are now.If anything, anybody who has reviewed our music over the last ten years, the
thing that would strike them is that we've probably become a lot softer in our musical approach.It's no more
accessible now, in fact it's probably even less accessible than it was in the early days ..."If you've been doing music for ten years, you do become more sophisticated, both in terms of your practical
approach to making the music, and also in the ideas which you use to inform the music.In the early days the whole
idea was to be confrontational.You use noise
and extremes of noise to shock people into a new way of perceiving things, a new state of mind."The impact that the first Throbbing Gristle LP had on me was way beyond anything I'd ever heard.It was
complementing something that I knew I had within me anyway, and at the same time it was like 'fucking hell,
there's people actually doing this kind of stuff'.Some of the feedback we get, with people writing letters to us, it's very obvious that when people first come to
Soviet France they find something, both within themselves, and at the same time so new to them that it does shock
them into a new idea about music altogether."An album like Look Into Me sits
in a perfectly normal CD or LP sleeve.These products really are
something special.The band have managed to keep their visibility as individuals at a minimum level.The Residents
achieved notoriety throughout the seventies (and boredom thereafter) by refusing to allow their individual identities
to become known.Test Dept, trying to present themselves as a collective unit in order to reflect their political beliefs
have acted in a similar way.The band's name is known but the individuals forming it are rarely singled out for
attention.Soviet France, aware of how the industry operates and trying to avoid its less pleasant tendencies,
have also kept their individual identities out of the picture as far as the music is concerned, while remaining perfectly
accessible to those who bother to contact them.It's not secrecy, and it's not a deliberate marketing ploy like the Residents use.Anybody who really
wants to can find out who we are and talk to us personally, like you're doing.But we cottoned on really quickly to
the idea of the cult of personality, and realised that it was a fundamental means of control used in the music industry,
and so we deliberately set our faces against that.We set about creating a complete antithesis to it.We've never
allowed photographs of ourselves to be published, or haven't until now anyway, and we've never really identified
ourselves as personalities at all."Soviet
France can actually be funny too.Cynical humour about the industrial
movement, cynical humour about the political state of the world or this country.With our Resume service you can add photos and build a complete resume to help you achieve the best possible presentation on the IMDb.If you have a My Ticketmaster account, this artist will be added to My Alerts in My Ticketmaster.If you are under 13 years old, you must not fill in this form or provide any information about yourself.Of(checkUni("Enter City or Zip Code"))!Among the group's many album, Misfits, Loony Tunes and Squalid Criminals, What Is Not True, Gesture Signal Threat, A Flock of Rotations, Assault and Mirage and Unentitled are available.Some of the information on this page is provided by All Music Guide and does not necessarily reflect the views of Ticketmaster.All Music Guide is a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC.URL for paid search terms.Their investigations have taken them into fictional cultures where nothing is easily located and reality often slips into the hypnagogic.Shteirlel (Lathe, 8", Ltd, cle)
Alt.Work Terminal (CD, Album)
Soul Crush (Zoviet Fra...Earth (CD)
With Us Today, Sucking...In Memoriam Gilles Deleuze (2xCD)
On The Edge Of A Grain...Results are hard describe with ordinary terms.Its agressive (at least in the early phase), but it have nothing to do with power electronics or harsh noise.Add Release: Click this button to add a release to this artist's discography.Hessians and recorded steadily up to 1990; highlights of this period include Norsch...Buy MusicWant to see your products in Yahoo!Build your own online store or Advertise with us.Current Advertisers Sign InHelp improve Yahoo!View RSS FeedMake money with Yahoo!Shopping APIs, now powering Yahoo!Information about prices, products, services and merchants is provided by third parties and is for informational purposes only.
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