Accident du Travail
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD4) LP $17.25
Twenty-four minutes of Ondes Martenot recordings by Julie Normal (Cradle of Smurf) and Olivier 2MO (Cheveu). Maximal repeatable sound beauty, “somewhere between the lilting decay of Discreet Music and the disorientating phantom flirt of Maryanne Amacher's Sound Characters (Making the Third Ear)” according to Doug Mosurock. “It's an impressive, subdued work, and anyone looking to end their evening on a restful comedown should look within.”
Atelier Méditerranée
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD6) 7-inch $12.00
Music by children from the Institut Médico Educatif Ambroise Croizat in Saint Ouen, performed and recorded as part of a workshop led by David Lemoine (Cheveu) and Antoine Capet. Arranged by Lemoine, this “outsider electro-noise or something” throbs with the vibe of disturbed humanity. Part of a series that includes the homeless, convicts in jail, and street musicians.
Cro Magnon
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD3) 7-inch $7.25 (Out-of-stock)
Teenage female duo Haley Fohr (of Destijl recording artists Circuit Des Yeux) and Katie Leming power their way through three gloriously fucked lo-fi cassette jams with squonking, mis-articulated garage guitar licks and drums as detonators. Classic destructo-punk. Not to be confused with the 1960s Cromagnon, but you knew that.
Theatre of the Macabre
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD1) 7-inch $7.25
A precarious concept album for the tragic era of the working poor that generated some priceless flailing among the chattering class, but Detailed Twang seem to have the levelest head when they describe it as “Strange and pleasingly ill-fit mash of distorted horror rap, electronic tweedling, screams, monsters sound, and manipulations of all sorts. Mostly instrumental, and heavy in every sense of the word.” Six tracks over and done with in less than ten minutes. For crying bones and bludgeoned hopes.
Chéri
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD7) LP $19.50
Anti-funk lovers rock akin to Antilles no wave or a more disorienting “Little Johnny Jewel” by a quartet of young Parisians -- Charlene Darling (ex-Pussy Patrol); Fifi (Total Crane); Ines Di Folco (Lycée Paul Bert) and Alexandre David Gabriel (Alias) -- who believe they make African hi-life or reggae filtered through Lucrate Milk.
Minitel
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD2) 7-inch $7.25
“Ripe with schizophrenic angst,” our friends at Siltblog can't help but notice, “The A-side is clearly borne out of the avant soil once trod upon by Ilitch and DDAA, while the flip sounds like the band harvested an entire field of wormwood, distilling it into a noxious absinthe of Swans-like potency…. [B]lind carnage … follows…. Bruit-Direct is growin' real live monsters, no two ways about it.” Both guitarists also play in Sister Iodine.
Scorpion Violente
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD5) LP $18.00
Cold war psy-ops, martial, nihilistic mechanics, and cyborg bass boost that should fulfill all mad passions for proto-NWD super-repetitive, instrumental, minimal synth, mutant disco. Imagine The Flirts’ ragged, switchblade-toting cousin, raised by mutant vermin. Or PiL doing the Escape from New York theme. Or D.A.F.'s early material. Or even 20 Jazz Funk Greats-era Throbbing Gristle. Three songs. 45 RPM