Who are :zoviet*france:'s successors?

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I'm not really sure there's been anything on the level of :z*f: though since they broke up. Rapoon and Dead Voices On Air are some obvious post :z*f: projects to look at.

tons of great drone records flying around these days, but can't think of any that precisely follow up zf. Tod Dockstader's Aerial #1 has lots of murkily global shortwave samples blending into one full on brain, but I wouldn't say he's 'following up' zf either

Note: “The Reformed Faction of Soviet France” make music, release music, play concerts and have no intention nor interest in talking about Zoviet-France.
If interested journalists wish to write about Zoviet-France we politely request they contact Zoviet-France.

Bitter much?

Still very interested in hearing this.

really looking forward to the new record

i tried to find the thread where Ally said, "Is there anyone who DOESN'T like zoviet france??" but i can't find it now :(

Another contender for the "universally liked ILX band?"

Weird, yeah, maybe true. I like them, to a degree.

here's the other thread Tracey may have referring to: Zoviet France: Classic or Dud?

I never listen to my own music and can't abide much of what is touted by others in the thinking press..whatever that is. The Wire was an excellent magazine about 13 years ago, when it was a genuinely eclectic mish mash of musical genres. Now you have flavour of the month asswipe electronica half-wits, those guys who have just discovered the faust tapes for the first time and feel like they have made an archaeological find. I fell out of this space years ago when I found out that most if not all of the experimental records (or indeed bands) touted by the so called thinking press are only touted because they pay for advertising space. Old trick. Shite.
I buy TONS of music, new and old but wouldn't dream of wasting my money on some architect who seeks to win phoney prizes with phoney academic institutions for making records that sound like exploding cement mixers.

Spare me from the misery of another record by boring intellectual half-wits, baseball headed men, mobile telephone wielding arts council lackeys, loveys, doveys, southern bastard art grants, norman foster designed concert building types, ex-flour mills full of boring norwegians (with apologies to all non-boring norwegians) and people who sleep in darkened bedrooms listening to other peoples music and commenting on what they do or don't like.
...knitting circle.

-- milton parker (milton.parke...), February 18th, 2006 6:08 PM. (Jon L)

I thought of Z-F too when I heard this

-- Rockist_Scientist (Al__suca...), May 14th, 2006 9:14 PM. (RSLaRue)

He is. or was(?)

Duh. BUT-- you surely can't believe that all of the records or bands touted by the thinking press are crap. The Wire is quite full of shit most of the time, but what about the lesser-known press? Foxy Digitalis? Blastitude? Musicyourmindwillloveyou? All non-print, of course, but if we're talking about experimental music here, these are among the real places to go.

I just think it's sort of silly to dismiss all good press on experimental groups as resulting from adverts-- depends on the press, the group, and the amount of advertising saturation.

Finally, I miss zoviet*france, and can't think of many other groups (other'n Rapoon) that can take their place. (Though the drone of Hive Mind and Double Leopards fills my appetite for newer stuff).

There is a difference between the way musicians view the 'thinking press' and afficianados of 'interesting' music. A few years ago, a friend thought it was fun to invite me to a "Wire' bash at a swanky pub (more like a wine bar serving expensive Germanic beer) in a swanky part of London and I went. It was full of loveys and doveys and swanky ex-NME types and writers who braved the sun to leave their squalid, darkened nests. The 'flavour of the month' musicians were there in leagues, the feted, the fancied and the eminently dull. The architects, the mad inventors, the underwater violinists and the curved balls. What a miserable collection. Who is Marissa Merchant?

Frankly Mr.Shankly, it's a sickening wreck.

"I just think it's sort of silly to dismiss all good press on experimental groups as resulting from adverts-- depends on the press, the group, and the amount of advertising saturation."

If you pay good money for an advert, do you get a bad review?

this is one of my favorite ilm posts

What I want to know is - how do groups like Wolf Eyes get themselves on the cross-continental art circuit that many acts in WIRE seem to be on? So many of those tiny art/noise/harsh groups travel so very much - does everyone start out rich?

Seriously, does anyone know? The cost of all that air-hopping has got to be prohibitive, where is all the money coming from?

Go ahead, funny/cruel answers welcome (and, of course, expected), but if anyone really has the truth, post that too.

Formerly known as The Reformed Faction of Soviet France, Robert Storey and Mark Spybey (as Andy Eardley is now not part of the group anymore) graced Berlin with their presence and performance.

oh ffs!!!

i didn't know he was in download
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqelKakpZSQ

The dronier moments of Animal Collective come pretty close.

but no cigar

still there, spybey?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnDZDYT8Ouk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX5MvbJQhEA

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Predecessors:

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

hahaha I had forgotten about my exchange with Mr. Spybey here

There is a difference between the way musicians view the 'thinking press' and afficianados of 'interesting' music. A few years ago, a friend thought it was fun to invite me to a "Wire' bash at a swanky pub (more like a wine bar serving expensive Germanic beer) in a swanky part of London and I went. It was full of loveys and doveys and swanky ex-NME types and writers who braved the sun to leave their squalid, darkened nests. The 'flavour of the month' musicians were there in leagues, the feted, the fancied and the eminently dull. The architects, the mad inventors, the underwater violinists and the curved balls. What a miserable collection. Who is Marissa Merchant?