Sebastien Tellier - Sexuality

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Me too! Is there a tracklisting yet?

tracklist:

01 Roche
02 Kilometer
03 Look
04 Divine
05 Pomme
06 Une Heure
07 Sexual Sportswear
08 Elle
09 Fingers Of Steel
10 Manty
11 L’amour et la Violence

there are YSI's on the other thread.

http://www.recordmakers.com/sebastientellier/index.jpg

<3

i was actually reading a profile of him in the new fad3r today and this is either gonna be really great or a monumental disaster

when does it come out

i know we're on to 'sexuality' now, but the videos on record makers' youtube channel for 'politics' are hilarious. they mostly consist of him ranting in french wearing a fringed leather jacket, huge sunglasses, and a sombrero. he's insane. i love it.

It is really great, very italo synth heavy and strangely moving vulnerability. Darker and much more melancholy than 'Politics'

I think I had this guy mixed up with someone else .... then one of his older tracks showed up on lovefingers and I was like "wow." got some catcihng up to do

this is either gonna be really great or a monumental disaster

Hmm, I don't think of Tellier as trying to create something that *could be* a disaster. It's already kind of a disaster right? He doesn't confound expectations because he's already told us not to have any. "Wonderafrica" contains lines like "lady love on the lam" and something about flamingoes and another song sounds like the chorus during the Haunted House ride at Disneyland.

The pictures with Guy-Manuel are like an inverted robot version of these:

http://members.aol.com/jesusimages/ImagesJun06/frenchhorn.jpg

interview with FACT

Son of a Magma member, interesting...

He looks like a French Vincent Gallo, who bases his music around the theme of being perverted.

he's way uglier than gallo and seems to have a better sense of humor. tellier >>>>>>>>>>> gallo

so like if someone who had the leak wanted to email me a rapidshare site where i might be able to find it i probably wouldnt get mad at them

yeah, I can't find it either :-)

For real, please help us.

"roche" is killing me right now

OK, this album is amazing.

It sure is. I just got my tickets to see him in May.

ah ! I'll see him at the end of the month.

where can this be got? is it out?

Not yet - it comes out late feb

Sexual Sportswear 12" is out since oct2007 (on Record Makers), new album will be available at the end of the month. xpost

ronan u can find it on slsk

(or email me)

also spencer OTM--i am lovin kilometer right now

loving this right now. it's kind of got an electro-balearic vibe that im really diggin. also, from what i can hear this record has a major cross over appeal which wasn't necessarily the case with his earlier work.

his best yet i think!!

I was totally into this after one track and kind of bored after six or seven. Maybe I'll give it another go.

I just bought the vinyl this afternoon. What a cover.. Can't wait to play it.

comes out on Monday 25th Feb in uk
gonna see him at ICA tonight

White vinyl!

i love 'divine', kind of reminds me of hall & oates or something.

Yeah, and the vocals are very "Good Vibrations".

It really makes me think of Denim, more than anything else, in a pretty good way.

The synth wash-out at the end of "Look"

vinyl is on sale at phonica now uk people

the chicken's got a certain, sex-u-al-i-ty!

love love love kilometer

so i like this album but does anyone else find the drums/hi hats a little flat sounding? it bothered me in the sorcerer album too, like 'kilometer' has this big, uh, expensive sounding synth-hook and then some really cheap drums that sound all CASIO

I'm pretty sure the cheap drums are deliberate.

After playing this a few times over the weekend I now unreservedly love it. It makes me want to go out and buy a tigerskin rug and an enormous watercolour featuring naked Amazonians cavorting in front of an epic sunset on Venus.

i think i dont have a sense of humor about drums :-/

Great feature on him today in one the big French dailies. Apparently, before making music he had a) been a construction worker, b) worked in spare parts warehouse c) voluntarily signed into a mental ward

i like that all it really takes to 'get' his image is a gis
http://a572.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/120/l_f213fd6a9bfba28455daec7d36800a6b.jpg

by image i mean abstractly obv

got a link to that french daily?

voilà voilà: http://www.liberation.fr/culture/musique/311984.FR.php

merci!

As usual, everything he says has to be taken with a large grain of salt... The mental hospital thing has popped up before though, in more details. It seems he came back from a UK show to find his place empty, his girlfriend gone, and that's when he committed himself there.

i think tellier's character/schtick has largely made up for the fact that some of the songs on this are kinda boring

So I saw him at beaubourg last friday : great concert although the venue is not designed for that kind of performances (it's like an amphitheatre).
Tellier was playing the guitar (and a bit of piano) with two guys playing synth/sampler and piano. very good lightshow in the spirit of the album (a bit jean michel jarre style, especially on the intro "sexual sportswear"). he played all the songs from the album + a few from previous ones (including la ritournelle by himself on piano).
he's a very funny/sweet performer. The speeches betweens songs were as much pleasure as the songs themselves. very human which means not a perfect show but a very moving one. my favorite performance was "l'amour et la violence". a great, great version started by himself on the piano then the synths gettinh in. it was longer and more powerful than the album version.
anyway, loved the concert and might see him again in April.

Nice!

Exciting, hope he comes to the USA.

Sebastien Tellier to represent France for the Eurovision Song Contest???

http://news.google.fr/news?hl=fr&ned=fr&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1198247206

yeah i know! so rad http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/10784

wtf?!?!?!

I spit coffee over my keyboard when I saw it as well :-)

He's going to sing "Divine" in English.

http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/10784

sorry, wrong link. it's here:

http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/10783

he walks in gainsbourg's path, following "les sucettes" !
Can't wait to see that...

It's hard to take seriously an official page written in such poor English, but I guess I'll just take their word.

I'm quite baffled by this: "The album is currently at number two in the French chart"

well, there is a HUGE hype about him in France (at least in Paris). He's everybody's darling (especially the media and hipsters).

WFT?! As a long-term Eurovision fan whose loyalty was severely tested last year, I am several stages beyond excited about this...

It's a pretty inspired choice - he's certainly got that Euro pomp about him.

http://photos-e.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v183/138/91/580531179/n580531179_601716_1648.jpg

wow awesome

Why did he bury Snakefinger up to his neck in the sand?

explanatory jpg

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/10.23.02/gifs/residents-0243.jpg

that inspires more questions than it answers

http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v183/138/91/580531179/n580531179_601715_9856.jpg

Dude's going to be really embarrassed if he gets beaten by the Irish turkey.

I don't think anyone has any expectation of this guy actually winning this thing.

Headline on french yahoo: http://fr.yahoo.com/

I have a feeling a DP robot will be in tow.

I got the album from Pure Groove in the UK who included a Tellier "mixtape" CD which is fun.

Total was about $29 which isn't much more than ordering from the US Amazon. I'm bummed there isn't a special edition with the awesome "Sexual Sportswear" video.

this album is great. i didn't expect something so minimal, the synths and drum machines just glisten. it's kinda like italians do it better for people who go to dinner parties. think 'elle' is my favourite at the moment, but it seems like the kind of album where every song is a potential favourite, i love records like this

love the scarface vibe on 'sexual sportswear'

t's kinda like italians do it better for people who go to dinner parties.

Nice one!

http://www.thefader.com/ys_assets/0004/5384/tellier2_main.jpg

i'd like to know where he gets his slacks

lol @ sex moans on more than one track

heheh. so has anyone like, tested this album yet?

album is called "sexuality" dude (xp)

(i)it's kinda like italians do it better for people who go to dinner parties.(/i) I've not heard a note however I shall be purchasing this tomorrow!

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heheh. so has anyone like, tested this album yet?

-- r1o natsume, Saturday, March 15, 2008 3:16 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

dude.

So when is this "Europe Vision" thing? As feelthy Amerikaner schweinhund I don't really have much of a grasp on this kind of thing; the official website is staggeringly unhelpful and seems to assume I already know.

May 24th. France directly qualified to go to the final, loads of other countries have two semi finals on May 20 & 22 first.

i accidentally put "roche" at the beginning AND end of this album on my ipod and it works really well!

you guys should youtube some other contestants and past winners of eurovision. europe is wack-y.

also, vice interview with tellier is pretty funny. excerpt:

"Do you have a girlfriend?
Yes. She is my muse. On the record there are many samples of female moaning. That was my girlfriend. I took her into the recording booth and fingered her sensually. Those moans are moans of sexual pleasure."

wowzers.

http://vice.typepad.com/vice_magazine/2008/02/london---sebast.html

hahaha awesome interview

I love this guy:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a348/ddelara/tellierdivine.gif

i can barely even make out who that is

sweet

Oh noes, hardcore porn peddler Spencer violated Photobucket's terms of service!

ack!

I'm tempted to go see him play on a Mediterranean beach this summer: http://www.worldwidefestival.com/sete.php

There's a reason I specifically mentioned "in English" upthread : it's turning into an issue.

http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/11096

The song France sent to the contest in 1990 was partly in English (ok, only the four words in the title, but still) - White And Black Blues (written by Gainsbourg, sung by Joelle Ursull).

i think this is my favorite album of the year so far. that fucking glistening sound is just wonderful. it seems to build on discovery's whole 80s aor thing really well, these song forms offer more room to play around in that area. like the over-the-top supertramp-ness of the 4th track (even down to that damn wurlitzer sound). and i've been listening to van halen a lot lately so those "jump" synths in "kilometer" really hit me (especially since it's such a killer tune anyway).

i can totally see where people are coming from re: the puniness of the beats in this and the sorcerer record, but it doesn't bother me. but i'm kind of a lame chillout dude so maybe i'm predisposed to flat-ass beats

i can't believe sexual sportswear is the single! kinda weird, no?

oh wow "divine" is his eurovision song.

sorry, haven't read this thread since first hearing clips a couple months ago/mostly listen to it in the car so not really looking at tracklist much

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz58Hw9hldw

: D : D : D

Does anyone know about this guy from Paris called Rob?

xp wow!!

same rob who plays clavinet on the first phoenix record?

Not sure, this guy: http://www.myspace.com/dontkillrob

power glove guy?

that's a good song.

Yeah, some of his other songs are great too and very much in a similar vein.

Alright, saw Seb last night. What an amazing night. Anyone and everyone should go see him.

The STEAK soundtrack he did with/for Mr. Oizo is KILLER. It's like the Euro-funk Donuts or something.

Ringardos

omg! Moroder! Daft Punk! John Carpenter! it keeps getting better!

woah, thx!

Plug It

one more. but, like, it's ALL good!

answering a question asked by myself on another tellier thread - what's a "chiver"?

apparently, "Chiver is inspired by French independent film 'Steak' (released a year ago).
It's the name of a crew which everybody wants to be part of.
Tellier perfomed in and scored the film."

link to plug it not working

'Elle' is so nice

is this record good? I liked his first one.

I also like Rod Stewart and girls. Will I definitely enjoy this record????

then you will love this record

YES

the production by Guy-Man is good. Tellier's vocals often grate as he goes for this fragility and sexiness but just ends up irritating - is best when this is played down as on 'Divine' and 'Elle', the latter would still work sped up and Braxified.

loving this....makes me want to sit around the house in my bath robe...drinking mojitos.

i still think kilometer is by far the best track

probably my album of the year. These days "Look" is the one I have stuck in my head

kilometer, divine, & sexual sportswear are the standouts to me

coming 2 nyc on dec. 11

anyone going to the sf show? just bought my ticket.

btw videos for "Divine" are up, the official is sweet and his performance at the ESC is awesome as well

OFFICIAL VIDEO

ESC

golf cart entrance + helium verse = godly

the moulinex remix of kilometre is pretty :D

I MEAN KILOMETER

I'm going to the SF show. Psyched!

I saw him last week - the guy has gotten seriously good. Not sure how his onstage banter translates in an American context.

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Damn.

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Christ.

Good live show. Many hot ladiez there

B-)

Millesimal fineness, thank you

sweet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r0eqCzg6UU

ok that video is completely crazy! And the end is kinda disturbing too. 100% what I expect from Tellier though.

tbh I find the "diamond trail" more disturbing...

Yeah I forgot to mention that but it was quite disturbing too.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs152.snc4/36963_468694828218_10492353218_6373730_4228726_n.jpg

remix album out

why do the french like uffie?

because they haven't been introduced to you yet.

uh uh. i've met the french and they should really know better.

Great, great live version + lol @ the lying on the piano bit at the end

http://vimeo.com/12394398

That's an incredible performance.

Was just listening to Broadway from Politics thinking I hope he has a new album out this year, is a new one due soon?

There was a brief and vague record makers promo video in the past few months, gist of which was sebastien in the studio, so, hopefully

http://sebastientellier.bandcamp.com/album/love-songs

From his early days discover a gem such as « Fantino », which was featured in Sofia Coppola's Lost In Translation or « Universe » which is the key song in Daft Punk's cult Electroma' film. from the Ritournelle' years, « Broadway » is a true diamond, such as « Benny ». His score for Narco and his acoustic live album Sessions are filled with connoisseur's choices like the Christophe cover « La Dolce Vita » which has gained cult-status. Add to this package the 4 best tracks of Tellier's acclaimed Sexuality album, and 3 unreleased & exclusive live tracks recorded in Japan early this year and you have an album that will give you thrills !

released 29 April 2011

New album out in March. Very excited about this, especially after watching this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD8JMFqrg9E

Actually just checked the album is out April 16th.

I know there's white, milk and dark chocolate ones, but blue?

http://i40.tinypic.com/syrwvk.jpg

(Pépito = a french chocolate covered biscuit brand)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w96Edv7Ccg

http://www.electronicbeats.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/teaser_mainimage/img/sebastien-tellier_my-god-is-blue-cover_electronic-beats.jpg

Hmmm "The Neverending Story"-inspired visuals set to what sounds like Era/Enigma with Serge Gainsbourg on vocals? I'm not sold yet.

agree - not really into this, but we'll see what the album's like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NoDxugOpg8

hmmm not really feeling this

v french touch

super NSFW video for Cochon Ville: http://vimeo.com/40291506

wow did not know his band was kkk

lol @ beyonce underwear and entire thing really, excellent film

wow this too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD8JMFqrg9E

album art
http://i.imgur.com/gNQre.jpg

I really need to hear this album soon. Really like both the singles so far, hope the rest is as good.

the video for cochon is pretty wtf/fun !

He really captured perfectly that whole 70s new age sect aesthetic I'm just not sure I dig the music that goes with it

love the band's outfit (this side of the atlantic, not KKK but old spanish religious : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capirote)
the track itself is not great but fun dancefloor stuff and I like the sound.
he looks so crazy !

lol @ beyonce underwear

Liberté, égalité...

i would enjoy that video a lot more if there weren't all those shots of men hitting women, i know the video doesnt like 'support' that stuff and is meant to be some sort of parody of decadence and depravity but i still hate seeing that esp in a fun music video context

Just listened to the samples of this on Amazon. My first thoughts are it sounds like he's made a prog record. A lot of the songs seem to have the same pace, Cochon Ville seems like the only upbeat song. I hope the it's better than the clips would suggest, Sexuality is probably one of my top five albums of the last five years.

@s1ocki : yeah, I totally see your point but as you say I think it doesn't support that at all, obviously (including the woman with the gun in her mouth) and on the other hand, there's also a guy with something about to blow in his butt...
basically it's just "fun" !

:|

well, I may have not expressed myself very well or else and anyway, I can totally understand if you think the video is not ok at all !

yeah i was sort of half-paying attention to the video, so the first time i just noticed the "fun", like the naked dancing and the bottle rocket in the butt. but then i sat down to watch it again paying closer attention and i got a little grossed out by the choking and slapping.

but the thing is the video, the song and the whole album, I guess, are about the excesses and crazy things that happen in sects with the guru, the cheesy/creepy religious outfits, the fanatic members, the sex scandals...

The first two tracks are amazing.

The ones here. Haven't streamed the whole thing yet.

I've been told he's pretty good live. Anyone seen him? He's only got one gig planned in London.. hoping to get tickets for that.

He is indeed pretty good live. He's a killer guitar and piano player and will probably be chugging wine onstage.

yeah, on a good day, he's brilliant on stage. the talks betweens songs are key !

one of the best moments of his previous tour : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UetofCspA0

this one is also great : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dylwj7mbSGI

huh, doesn't seem to work ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dylwj7mbSGI

these are great

wow would go see

this is prob a stupid question but does he talk in English or French?

i imagine he talks, in french.

When I saw him he was using (extremely charmingly) broken English. He was such a bizarre and charismatic presence though that it wouldn't really have mattered. To start the show he had a body double come out on stage after lights lowered for about 30 seconds, got applause, immediately handed guitar to real Tellier.

Am once through the new LP and not quite sure what to think...seems to sag in the middle a bit, much more varied stylistically. But the tracks that stick out immediately (mostly the first 1/2) are amazing.

where are you listening to it??

seems to be available via 'usual sources'. Although I guess it's legitimately out via French iTunes? I am not using French iTunes.

I've been told he's pretty good live. Anyone seen him? He's only got one gig planned in London.. hoping to get tickets for that.

― mmmm, Monday, April 16, 2012 5:57 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is this the Eurostar-sponsored thing or is there a standalone gig?

so far my impression is that this guy is better at link bait than actual music

ur crazy

tracer that is nuts.

if you're not familiar with the most beautiful song ever recorded in the history of the world then i demand you drop what you are doing for the next seven and a half minutes and have your life immediately changed for the better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fUPHfn3J6Q

otm

the most beautiful song ever recorded in the history of the world?

nice, pretty, a bit dull. dgi.

Try these, maybe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr2j-j7DNSw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O_TEADsr3Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppzikI4KrNo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly80OS_-EGk

^^^all beautiful, all inferior to La Ritournelle

HEY THIS A GREAT FUCKING SONG

― max, Sunday, September 2, 2007 4:18 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is basically for driving next to a beach at dusk, probably in a really nice car and wearing a suit (seersucker? probably a one-button coat, cut low--no tie; the shoes are the most expensive part of the outfit anyway) with your chick next to you (in a really nice dress, hair up & back) and everything's blowing in the wind

― max, Sunday, September 2, 2007 4:22 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

awesome bass line too

― max, Sunday, September 2, 2007 4:28 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^think abt that post all the time

ha thats kinda disturbing but also p otm

sorry 4 heteronormativity

Yeah, he has a real presence live and it's far more instrument based than you might expect- he often pays for a full piano. He also picks up local players to fill out the band, and rumour has these are chosen largely by their shoes.

sorry 4 heteronormativity

― max, Monday, April 16, 2012 7:59 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

u have changed so much in 4 years (u r a chick now)

xpost - seandalai. It's the Eurostar thing w/ Gilles Peterson etc. They are releasing another batch of tickets soon according to the website. I'd rather see him on his own.

seen him three times - varied from awesome to "interesting" (ie. the last time I saw him on the tail end of the Sexuality tour, when you could feel he was starting to get bored with the material)

inconceivable

Agree with the earlier posts about La Ritournelle being the most beautiful song ever recorded, this version is quite special.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zub1-8l0bnU

Broadway is almost as good too, especially the "I feel I'm losing you" bit, which breaks my heart everytime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lBF8dZGJMU

So the new album is good but sadly not in the same league as the last two albums. The production is amazing but by about track eight I started getting bored of him using that same drum beat for almost every song. I'm not too worried as it took me a long time to really fall for Sexuality.

Anyone know when this actually comes out in the UK? I think the April 23rd release date is just for France.

so far, the little I've heard seems unremarkable/bad. but I just listened to it once... I will wait till I listen to the whole thing properly some times before I make my mind up.
for instance, I thought "cochon" was quite meh at first but now I kinda like it !

Cochon sounds even better on the album as it's one of the few songs that actually has a different beat. I was just expecting a lot more from this album.

its v atmospheric and groovy, even by tellier standards, itll prob reveal itself in time

well I might have a nice surprise then because I'm expecting something quite bad after the first few reviews I've read...
I've had the synth riff from "cochon" stuck in my head quite often lately !

i need a 7 minute version of chochon ville asap