J3 sEUQCAJ has created a new band with Alfamatrix/Aiboforcen member “Benoït”. The band is called SKANDA, which reminds me of the name of ferry companies from the baltic sea, but will focus on electro/industrial mixes. One track can be heard here.
“Exstrophy of Amphigouris” has been officially released this week by the french label hERMETIQUE. The final product is very beautiful. Under a transparent DVD case, the cover layout is superb, and inside a glossy print booklet gives all the information about the album as well as more exclusive designs. The CD itself has an esthetical print of black and silver, which contibutes to the quality of this release. A complete web site is dedicated to this release (with full trailer, wallpapers, listenable extracts etc) and can be found at hERMETIQUE where the album can also be ordered. The album is also distributed all through Europe in specialized record shops.
J3 will be on stage again, with JCS47, on April 28th as Theee Rebearth Corporation V.3.47 in a festival organized by Les Sons Paranormaux. Other artists appearing will be the legendary ZEV, pioneer of the industrial movement since 30 years, as well as KK.NULL from Japan. The Gig will take place at the Centre d’Animation Curial, 90 Rue Curial 75019 Paris. More info here. Theee Rebearth Corporation V.3.47 are also scheduled to appear at a famous Industrial-Cheese festival in Switzerland later this year. J3 says Gniiiiii.
“A Reassuring Voice On The Television” is the first official compilation released by the burgeoning French Label Hermetique. Press says that “having impressed dark ambient and industrial music fans with previous releases from Propergol, Dusk Of Hope, Radiodrama and Post Scriptum. “A Reassuring Voice On The Television” stays true to the mission of Hermetique as well as the labels aesthetic offering seven exclusive songs by established Hermetique artists as well as new comers Sea-Green Series, Old Iron Fence”. The compilations also includes one exclusive track from nEGAPADRES.3.3. The track entitled “Transe Low (Magyar Dwarf Mix)” is a remix of the band’s latest album track “Transe ov Exstrophy” about 14 minutes long. The track announces the official release of nEGAPADRES.3.3.’s new album “Exstrophy of Amphigouris” on hERMETIQUE later this spring.
“Exstrophy of Amphigouris” will finally be officially released by the french label hERMETIQUE. Release dates are still unknown but it’s beginning of 2005. The release will be under dvd-size jewel box with hyper-esthetic printed cards included and limited edition t-shirt. The label is also planning the re-release of the previous n.3.3. records including “Rebearth”, but there is also a competing project of “Circle Records Anthology” including all the circle products on the german label Ironflame. At the moment we still don’t know which one, or both, will take place.
On May 6th, 2005, J3 sEUQCAJ will perform with T-Circle member JCS47 nAEJ eHPOTSIRHC (from DSO – Drahomira Song Orchestra and possibly B17 tIONEB (formerly Metastatic Carcinoma, now Cobra’§ Egg) in Paris. The performance will be by “Theee Rebearh Corporation v.3.47” and the location is “Le Point Ephémère”. The festival is called “Week End Sous Tempsion” and info can be found here. Music for this performance will be prepared by S3, J3 and B17, but S3 will not appear on stage. Drahomira Song Orchestra will also appear as itself the next day. JCS47 nAEJ eHPOTSIRHC is cureently experiencing the first stages of “Crotte au Cul”, following J3’s nomenklatura in his book “The several moods before going on stage”, not published on TTKK editions in 1986.
J3 has also started working with Benoît Blanchart from “The Forces of the Sony Electronical Dog” (Aiboforcen) on several tracks and has contacts & plans with important industrial artists (including some from Himalayan countries) for studio and stage projects.
On May 6th, 2005, J3 sEUQCAJ and T-Circle member JCS47 nAEJ eHPOTSIRHC have performed as “Theee Rebearh Corporation v.3.47” in Paris. The set was 45 minutes long, based on former n.3.3./à;GRUMH… tracks, as well as extracts from Polar Praxis (S3’s solo project) 1982 release “Gory Oscillation” and original recordings made by S3, J3 and JCS47 for the event. Mixes on stage, image projections, J3’s uncontrollable shakes and screaming & litanies, as well as JCS47’s amazing ritual chimpanzeeic movements, made this event absolutely unique and acclaimed by both the hypnotized audience, press and music world moguls. The performance was videotaped and will be released as a special DVD thru our shop.
Play it again, Sam! and the band have agreed to releasing the à;GRUMH… songs progressively on the following legal download services. The songs are released album per album as Play it Again Sam! is in fact releasing its entire back catalogue, product by product. In a couple month, all à;GRUMH… songs recorded on PIAS and Scarface records should be available on the following networks:
iTunes
EUK
OD2
Karma
Sony Connect
Bleep
Fnac
Free Record Shop
DJ Download
Playlouder
Recordstore
Tune Tribe
Despite non-stopping offers for stage appearance in concerts, tours and festivals, à;GRUMH… is still decided NOT to come back on stage. But the band members do not agree on it.
J3 would like to do it, partially because he misses the stage action, having left the band in 1989 on the eve of their largest tour. He is also still extremely connected with the music world and willing to record and perform as it remains his main passion.
S3 on the other hand thinks differently. “There is a time for everything”, he says, “Monty Python were on TV the other day and people were asking them if they were going to work together again. Terry Jones was explaining that it would be awful. He said that when they were young, they came up with 20 ideas per minute and had so much energy to create the sketches and the comic effects, and that now they’re all too old to be “as good as back then”. He said that they had reunited for a sketck for BBC a few years ago and it wasn’t very good. So hear me out : youth is the time for creation, maturity the time for reflexion. And that is so true with music too. All the best bands in the history of music were created by teenagers or students in their young age. And most of the best ones either died or stopped music at an early age. Apart from the 60’s and 70’s “dinosaur bands” who still tour after 30 or 40 years, very few artists really propose something new and revolutionnary in their older age. There are exceptions of course, such as Peter Gabriel or Bowie, but mostly I am right. “Perfect carreers” in rock are bands like Young Marble Giants, Joy Division, Original Mirrors, Executive Slacks, Bronski Beat, Jimi Hendrix, and even big bands like The Beatles, The Clash, etc, who appeared, threw everything they had to say and disappeared. And I do hope I can say à;GRUMH… was like that. I pity these old bands who get back together, whatever the reason is, to make money, to have fun, to be a star again… I don’t want to go see them on stage in 2005, old, just a prody of what they once were, without that energy of youth and the urgency of what they had to say, when they had deciced to say it ! I’d rather keep my memories of their concerts at the time they were “the present” of rock’n’roll. Look at TG. They were a total legend. They were the most respected band in the history of industrial music. And now with that TG-2 fiasco and the hundred thousand pounds fee they have got for the reunion performance, and Genesis dressing up like Samantha in Bewitched, they are now seen as a big joke. I do not want à;GRUMH… to look like that. I do not want to come back on stage at 42 years of age (i’m actually 57), weighing 875 kilos, not having touched my guitar for so many years, and with nothing really interesting to do up there, just because some german (or else) concert promoter wants to make some money ! It would be simply awful and totally pathetic. I don’t want to ruin the great memories people have of our concerts. And to the many fans who write to me and say “but I wasn’t even born when you guys played on stage”, I must say, well that’s life. I too wasn’t “born” when Janis Joplin played on stage, I too would have loved to see Jim Morrison or Jacques Brel performing. Tough luck !! In life, you can’t get everything you want !! Being à;GRUMH… on stage was a great experience. I have wonderful memories of our concerts and tours. And I don’t want to ruin MY memories either !”.
We recently received this message. It is a tradition for à;GRUMH… to publish the messages we receive from this person from SWEDEN. So here we go.
From: “David Lxxxxg”
To: J3SEUQCAJ@hotmail.com
Subject: Well à;GRUMH… now your nightmare is back!
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:22:40 +0100
Hi J3 !
At last I discovered you guys at the internet !
You may wonder “who’s this now ?”
Well this is the guy that bought his first à;GRUMH… LP 18 years ago and also had to buy the 1989 years CD “a hard knight’s day” to discover MY MESSAGE recorded at your release… Well that was fun, and as I look back I can not do else than… LAUGH ! Of course I did and still like your music, even though I’m NOT that fanatic to ride the concerts !
I thought you guys died by ADIDAS…hrm, AIDS or just split. It seems like I was wrong ! Anyway, I will NOOOT bother you guys in futuretime, just say “no no no Hello-low-low-low”… And à;GRUMH… will have a more successfull new year of 2005 !!! ÅÄÖ…?
From the one and only ÐaviÐ Ð. (at “message from Sweden”), but 15 years older now, than at that time ! still I’m musically genre independent ! You don’t have to reply this mail, if you don’t want to !