Fuzz Club Records/The Reverberation Appreciation Society, 2013
1. The Janitors - MMB
2. Dark Bells . Wildflower
3. The Time And Space Machine - Black Rainbow
4. Sonic Jesus - Reich
5. Acid Baby Jesus - Mesmerized
6. Electric Eye - 6am
7. Tales Of Murder And Dust - Hypnotized Narcissist
8. Cult Of Dom Keller - No Where To Land
9. The Vagabond Stories - Mental Disfunction
10. Whistlejackets - March Hare
11. Pinkunoizu - The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
12. Desert Mountain Tribe - Coming Down
13. Giobia - Orange Camel
14. The Cosmic Dead - Mausoleum
15. The Woken Trees - Order
En
cette fin d'année alors que les radios les plus vulgaires et consensuelles de la
bande FM sortent tour à tour et dans un dessein on ne peut plus vénal
leurs compilations de hits, véritables tapons de coprolithes que
l'industrie musicale cacochyme mais prolifère nous a encore abondamment
tarti cette année; Fuzz Club Records et The Reverberation Appreciation Society nous offrent à nous autres, séides de la confrérie psychédélique contemporaine, le second volume de la compilation The Reverb Conspiracy.
Il
est vrai que là où l'album, œuvre à part entière, s'appréhende comme le
noble produit du travail de l'artiste, la compilation récolte quant à
elle moins de crédit et est souvent perçue comme un modique catalogue
dans lequel on a semé ça et là une tripotée de morceaux. Et pourtant,
bien au delà de la portée promotionnelle qu'elle peut revêtir, il lui
arrive d'encourir une plus auguste destinée. C'est le cas lorsqu'elle
saisie l'esprit d'une mouvance musicale, se faisant alors
calice de l'essence qui imprègne toute une congrégation de groupes:
chacun muni d'une fertilité bien singulière mais partageant la même foi
et cette façon quasi similaire de la communier. Quand on évoque la dimension
biblique d'une compilation on ne peut s'empêcher de penser à la fameuse
série Nuggets, et son premier tome: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era (1965-1968),
véritable recueil des racines du garage rock et intarissable source
d'inspiration pour des générations de musiciens, ou encore les 20
volumes de la collection Rubble qui esquissent le paysage de la
Grande-Bretagne psychédélique de la dernière moitié des années 60. De
nos jours et vivant à l'ère de la cyber-connexion, on apprécie le
remarquable travail et l'exhaustivité de The Psychedelic Underground Generation ou de The Active Listener,
qui nous gratifient mensuellement de compilations digitales et
gratuites reprenant l'ensemble de ce qui se fait de bon au sein de la
présente galaxie psychédélique. Mais pour tous les monomanes du
microsillon entretenant encore un rapport tactile avec la musique, c'est
bel et bien The Reverb Conspiracy qui incarne actuellement le Lapsit Exillis de ces compilations. Avec ce second volume, c'est à nouveau sous un admirable reliquaire peinturé par Nonni Dead
et renfermant un double-vinyle que l'on retrouve une délectable
sélection de groupes émergents de la bouillonnante scène underground
européenne. Ici l'héritage majoritairement revendiqué se veut du krautrock,
post-punk, shoegaze et de la scène psyché des années 80/90. Lumière sur
cette compilation qui, n'en doutons pas, est en passe de devenir
culte...
At the end of the year, while the crudest radios are releasing with mercantile aims their compilations of hits, veritable heaps of stools that the sickly music industry has copiously defecated this year; Fuzz Club Records and The Reverberation Appreciation Society are offering to us, companions of the contemporary psychedelic brotherhood, the second volume of The Reverb Conspiracy compilation .
If it is true that the album is apprehended as the noble product of the artist's work, the compilation receives usually less credit and is often perceived as a modest catalog in which are planted here and there a gaggle of songs. Yet far beyond the promotional scope that the compilation can take, it sometimes incurs a more glorious destiny. This is the case when it captures the spirit of a musical movement, making itself the chalice of the essence that permeates an entire congregation of bands: each with a very singular fertility but all sharing the same faith and communion's way. When talking about the biblical dimension of a compilation we can not help but think of the famous Nuggets collection and its first volume : "Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era (1965-1968)", complete collection of garage rock roots and inexhaustible source of inspiration for generations of musicians, or the 20 volumes of the Rubble series which outline the landscape of the psychedelic Britain from 60's latter half. Today and living in the era of cyber-connection, we appreciate the outstanding work of The Psychedelic Underground Generation or The Active Listener as they gratify us monthly with free and digital compilations featuring all the good stuff from our psychedelic galaxy. But for all the microgroove's monomaniac who still maintain a tactile relationship with music, it is indeed The Reverb Conspiracy which currently embodies the "Lapsit Exillis" of these compilations. With this second volume, we find once again a double vinyl inside a wonderful reliquary painted by Nonni Dead and featuring a delectable selection of bands emerging from the ebullient European underground scene. Here, the mostly claimed legacy is krautrock, post-punk, shoegaze and the psychedelic scene from the 80/90's. Light on this compilation that, without any doubt, is going to become cult...
At the end of the year, while the crudest radios are releasing with mercantile aims their compilations of hits, veritable heaps of stools that the sickly music industry has copiously defecated this year; Fuzz Club Records and The Reverberation Appreciation Society are offering to us, companions of the contemporary psychedelic brotherhood, the second volume of The Reverb Conspiracy compilation .
If it is true that the album is apprehended as the noble product of the artist's work, the compilation receives usually less credit and is often perceived as a modest catalog in which are planted here and there a gaggle of songs. Yet far beyond the promotional scope that the compilation can take, it sometimes incurs a more glorious destiny. This is the case when it captures the spirit of a musical movement, making itself the chalice of the essence that permeates an entire congregation of bands: each with a very singular fertility but all sharing the same faith and communion's way. When talking about the biblical dimension of a compilation we can not help but think of the famous Nuggets collection and its first volume : "Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era (1965-1968)", complete collection of garage rock roots and inexhaustible source of inspiration for generations of musicians, or the 20 volumes of the Rubble series which outline the landscape of the psychedelic Britain from 60's latter half. Today and living in the era of cyber-connection, we appreciate the outstanding work of The Psychedelic Underground Generation or The Active Listener as they gratify us monthly with free and digital compilations featuring all the good stuff from our psychedelic galaxy. But for all the microgroove's monomaniac who still maintain a tactile relationship with music, it is indeed The Reverb Conspiracy which currently embodies the "Lapsit Exillis" of these compilations. With this second volume, we find once again a double vinyl inside a wonderful reliquary painted by Nonni Dead and featuring a delectable selection of bands emerging from the ebullient European underground scene. Here, the mostly claimed legacy is krautrock, post-punk, shoegaze and the psychedelic scene from the 80/90's. Light on this compilation that, without any doubt, is going to become cult...
