"Suspicious Minds" is taken from  "David Fenech & Pierre Bastien – Suspicious Moon" available for preorder on Improved Sequence 

https://improvedsequence.bigcartel.com/product/david-fenech-pierre-bastien-suspicious-moon-imp078

Limited Edition White LP (100 copies only)
Standard Edition Black LP
CD

*LP ships June 3rd 2022*
*CD ships Feb 28th 2022*

Suspicious Moon
A collection of Elvis Presley covers recorded by the duet David Fenech & Pierre Bastien

The idea of “Suspicious Moon” started at a party around the topic of blue color. David Fenech had chosen to play “Blue Moon” and Pierre Bastien asked to join in. It was a very enjoyable party and then they recorded the song and decided to plan an album exclusively based on covers of the King. Not that we were absolute fans of Elvis… but as a starting point to go somewhere else. And this is what we reached: in many aspects a premiere for the two musicians. Pierre focuses on (prepared) trumpet for the very first time, while David is heard extensively as a vocalist and is more than ever responsible for all arrangements and textures.

Playing other people’s material is also a premiere for both of them. 11 tracks around very well known standards. Like familiar places that are changed when seen in a different light. Please enjoy.

“Our choice of the Elvis Presley song book for this record may seem strange to many. It seems strange to me as well. Not that I dislike the original music, but before our sessions it had never been a direct source of inspiration. Paradoxically, this distance gave me freedom and flowing ideas. I hear similar qualities in David’s parts too. We hope that our relaxed attitude and its positive outcome will be reflected in this album” – Pierre Bastien

“The strange thing about these recordings is that the creative process was so fluid and natural… that it seems that through playing other people’s music, we almost reveal something of ourselves. As if these tracks were our creation, as if they were our own children!” – David Fenech

Pierre Bastien (born in 1953) is a French musician who builds his own machineries, at the cross between music and visual art, that blends live trumpet sounds with screen projections of on-site, mechanical sound sculptures in a very poetic way. His work is described as “a timeless sounding orchestra, both futuristic and slightly dada, conjuring ancient traditions in its surprisingly sensuous music.”. Around 1986 he started participating in Pascal Comelade’s Bel Canto Orquesta. At the same time he created – and literally built – his own orchestra called Mecanium : an ensemble of musical automatons constructed from meccano parts and activated by electro-motors, that are playing on acoustic instruments from all over the world. Collaborating in the past with video artist Pierrick Sorin, fashion designer Issey Miyake, singer and composer Robert Wyatt and Aphex Twin (who released three of his albums on his label Rephlex) to name a few, he is one of the most influential experimental musicians working in the field. In 1986 he formed his own self made one man orchestra, Mecanium and made over 20 records over the years. “A mad musical scientist with a celebrity following” (The Guardian ).

Tracklisting :
01. Jailhouse Rock
02. Heartbreak Hotel
03. Are You Lonesome Tonight
04. Hound Dog
05. Love Me Tender
06. Suspiscious Minds
07. Don’t Be Cruel
08. Blue Moon
09. Bridge Over Troubled Water
10. Fever
11. In The Ghetto

Suspicious Moon

David Fenech & Pierre Bastien – Suspicious Minds

Jac Berrocal + David Fenech + Vincent Epplay – Zilveli Villa 

This 7 inch vinyl single is dedicated to the Villa Zilveli, a house by Jean Welz that was built in 1933 for Athanase Zilveli. The house was built on the hillside of the butte Bergeyre, in Paris. Purposefully built by Jean Welz, the two large windows offer remarkable views: the one on the west façade offers an unobstructed view of the Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre basilica, while the one on the south side offers a view of the entire height of the Eiffel Tower. This unique heritage was left abandoned for a decade and empty of any occupants, raising the concern of heritage defenders. The writer Virginie Despentes even made it the imaginary squat of one of her characters in her novel Vernon Subutex. An order of dangerousness was issued in 2006 by the Paris City Council. In June 2019, the artist Jean-Paul Goude acquired the villa at auction for 2.2 million euros. In April 2021, faced with the impossibility of restoring the dilapidated building, Jean-Paul Goude announced his intention to destroy it and rebuild it identically. This record is in memory of the original building, which has now been destroyed.

Tracklist :

 A1. Zilveli Villa (4:11) 
 B1. IZevil (3:50)
 B2. Lettre à Madame Le Ministre (0:20)

Jac Berrocal – trumpet, voices, megaphone, lyrics
David Fenech – electric guitar, bass, bodhran, snare, edits
Vincent Epplay – synthesizer, rhythm box, percussions, phone recording, edits
Marc-Henri Lamande : Corps messager / corps langagier (in Lettre à Madame Le Ministre)

Artwork by Julien Pacaud
Graphism by ALEP
Mastered and cut by Noel Summerville
Limited edition of 493 copies, produced and published by AcoustiArc

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Jac Berrocal + David Fenech + Vincent Epplay - Zilveli Villa

Rhys Chatham + David Fenech – Tomorrow starts tonight
Label : KlangGalerie (gg435)
Format : CD

Tracklisting :
01. In search of tomorrow
02. Tomorrow together
03. Tomorrow starts tonight

1 and 2 recorded and mixed in Paris in 2022
3 recorded by Jan Bruckschwaiger at Replugged, Vienna (May 12 2022)
Mastered by James Plotkin
Thanks Walter and Lisa Robotka, Tea Soza, Pascal Regis

The first duet album by Rhys Chatham and David Fenech, two well-known musicians of the experimental scene. It is a long piece of music in a minimalist spirit, where the two guitarists meet and merge with Rhys’ trumpets, flutes and vocals and David’s small percussion.This record has an organic feel and natural development that makes it unique. Tomorrow starts tonight !

Rhys Chatham is best known for his compositions for electric guitar orchestra… he began his musical career as a harpsichord tuner, studied flute with Sue Ann Kahn, studied shortly thereafter with electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick and later with La Monte Young (also as a member of his famous “Theatre of Eternal Music” ensemble). He also played with Tony Conrad in an early version of his band The Dream Syndicate. In 1971, while still a teenager, Chatham became the first musical director of the famous venue The Kitchen in New York. He has played and recorded with musicians as varied as Charlemagne Palestine, Sonic Youth, Arthur Russell, Jonathan Kane (Swans), George Lewis, Band of Susans, David Toop, and in his large guitar ensembles with members of Tortoise, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hüsker Dü…

David Fenech is a French musician living in Paris, guitarist, singer, improviser. He plays a wide variety of instruments and is an accomplished guitarist with his own technique… but his main instrument may well be the microphone, his music being composed of whatever he records with it. His distinctive, slightly baroque style, on the bangs of rock, jazz and improvised music, has often been described as “a kind of musique concrète punk”. He has performed and recorded with musicians as diverse as Felix Kubin, Tom Cora, Pierre Bastien, Jac Berrocal, Ghédalia Tazartès, Nurse With Wound…

01 - In Search Of Tomorrow

Laurent Perrier + David Fenech - Plateforme # 3
LP - Bam Balam Records 
Release date : June 20, 2020 for Disquaire Day 2020

Side F : Plateforme # 3.1 - David Fenech (18’01”)
Laurent Perrier : Buchla + Serge modular synthesizers
David Fenech : Electric guitar, Percussion, composition, mix

Side P - Plateforme # 3.2 - Laurent Perrier (18’51”)
Laurent Perrier : Eurorack modular synthesizer, composition, mix
David Fenech : Prepared electric guitar

After two albums on Baskaru with Felix Kubin, Lawrence English, Gianluca Becuzzi (2014) and later Francisco López, Tom Recchion, Christian Zanési (2016), Laurent Perrier continues his Plateforme series by inviting French musician David Fenech. Plateforme is a concept, a restrictive framework Perrier imposed on himself: to create an electronic music piece using solely a set of sound recordings provided by a "collaborator".  “I simply asked the musicians to send me raw stuff close to their sound style" explains Perrier. "Some sent me a lot of material, others very little". The result shifts between Krautrock on side F (produced by Fenech) and Electroacoustic Music with a taste of Ralph Records on side P (produced by Perrier).  


David Fenech is a French musician living in Paris. His style has been described as ʻa kind of punk musique concrèteʼ. He uses the studio as an instrument, using a large panel of recording techniques. He has played and recorded with musicians such as Nurse With Wound, Felix Kubin, Jad Fair, Tom Cora, Rhys Chatham, Pascal Comelade, Jac Berrocal, Ghédalia Tazartès, Ergo Phizmiz, Pierre Bastien, and many others.
https://davidfenech.fr

Laurent Perrier is a French electronic musician who composes and performs exclusively on modular synthesizers. An ex-member of the French cult industrial band NOX and founder of the record label and record shop Odd Size Records. He's now releasing his own music under the many monikers (Zonk’t, Pylône, Cape Fear, Heal). He's also deeply involved into composing for dance companies, plastic art, theater on top of working in sound design and teaching modular synthesizers in a training center. He recently started a collaboration, with Jean-Benoit Dunckel (Air), the missing link between Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder and Pierre Schaeffer.
https://zonkt.bandcamp.com

Laurent Perrier + David Fenech - Plateforme 3.2

Laurent Perrier + David Fenech - Plateforme 3.1

to be released February 2013 on Gagarin Records.

“grand huit” is one of my alltime favourites (felix kubin). recorded completely on a small 4 track studio, this is the first solo album by david fenech, now reissued and remastered on vinyle for gagarin records. with a new visual by new york based artists Martha Colburn. 

Press Release from Gagarin Records :

This fantastic musical journey, written by French composer David Fenech back in the year 2000, is entirely produced on 4-track cassette. Its title refers to the French word for “roller coaster” and “looping”, as well as to the symbol of infinity. “Grand Huit” (“Big Eight”) is a rare example of “cinema pour l’oreille” made of songs. The music already bears the strong handwriting of its creator: a unique mix of field recordings, outlandish singing (mostly in fantasy language) and expressive musical sketches. Bearing in mind the year of its origin, “Grand Huit” could also be seen as a soundtrack to another “carnival of souls”, marking the uncanny transition from the 20st to the 21st century while leaving all the old ghosts behind. Lonely souls and memories waving good-bye. David Fenech’s early work permanently alternates between rawness and tenderness. It offers a great cosmos of sounds ranging from downgraded samples, detuned organs and off-beat rhythms to environmental noises, toy piano, hurdy-gurdy, sine tones and Chinese theatre bells. The overall melancholic and narrative vibe of the music lets your mind drift away easily, so don’t put milk on your oven while listening. Gagarin Records is happy to present a re-mastered and slightely edited version of this masterwork for the first time on vinyl. The LP comes with a beautiful full colour poster and cover art by New York based visual artist Martha Colburn.

Tracklisting :
Side A :
A1 – Petit Huit
A2 – Confieso que he vivido
A3 – Mister Master
A4 – Un lâcher de lucioles
A5 – Jukebox
A6 – Boeuf Bourguiba
A7 – Opera En Toc
A8 – Jaune d’oeuf en cage

Side B :
B1 – Petit Soleil
B2 – Grand Huit
B3 – Solaris
B4 – Heeels
B5 – Coralingo
B6 – Goulashnikov
B7 – Love that feel…

http://davidfenech.fr/
http://gagarinrecords.com/



10 Heeels

01 Petit Huit

02 Confieso Que He Vivido

05 Boeuf Bourguiba   Opera En Toc

06 Jaune d'oeuf en cage

07 Petit Soleil

09 Solaris

11 Coralingo

12 Love That Feel

04 Un Lacher De Lucioles   Jukebox

Jetzt Melodies

Tracklisting  : 

Ivor Cutler ‎– Yellow Fly (Velvet Donkey - Virgin 1975)
Alabaster DePlume - Turpentine (To Cy & Lee Instrumentals Vol.1 - International Anthem 2020)
Irena Havlová + Vojtěch Havel - Malé Modré (Little Blue Nothing - Arta Records 1991)
Keeley Forsyth - It's Raining (Debris - Leaf 2020)
Ernest Hood - Neighborhoods (Saturday Morning Doze - Thistlefield 1975)
Alanis Obomsawin - Odana + Bush Lady (Bush Lady - Radio-Canada 1985)
Charlene Darling - Des orties (Saint-Guidon - L'Amour Aux 1000 Parfums 2019)
David Fenech + Klimperei - Tarzan en Tasmanie (Rainbow de nuit - forthcoming on Marionette Records)
Arthur Russell – Just Regular People (Iowa Dream - Audika 2019)
Iva Bittova – Proudem Mleka (River of Milk - Eva 1991)
Linda Perhacs - Moons and Cattails (Parallelograms - Kapp Records 1970)
 Jac Berrocal + Jason Willett + David Fenech - Cocoquanthusiastic (Xmas in March - forthcoming on Megaphone + Knock Em Dead Records)
Dionne Warwick - Land of make believe (Make way for dionne warwick - Vogue 1964) 
Lech Jankowski - Lullaby Waltz (Institute Benjamenta Soundtrack - Atelier Koninck 1998)
Born Heller - I Want To + No More Lamps In The Morning (Born Heller - Locust Music 2004)
Laurent Perrier + David Fenech - Plateforme 3.1 (Plateforme #3 - Bam Balam 2020)
Pauline Oliveros - Let It Be So (Crone Music - Lovely Music 1990)
Lakshmi Shankar - Khyal- Raga Dhani (Les Heures Et Les Saisons - Ocora 1985)
Pancrace - Krummhorn (The Fluid Hammer - Penultimate Press 2019)
Pierre Bastien + David Fenech - Don't Be Cruel (unreleased track 2020)
C.W Vrtacek - The Waters (Days Of Grace - Dom America 1992)

Musique de fond lors des annonces des morceaux : 
David Fenech - Blue Monochrome (unreleased track  2020)

Les Oreilles Libres - Carte Blanche à David Fenech

David Fenech (born in 1969) is a French musician living in Paris. He plays a large variety of instrument and is a skilled guitar player with his own technique. His main instrument is the microphone and his music features whatever he puts under it. His baroque style has been described as ‘a kind of punk musique concrète’...

He has played and recorded with musicians such as Jac Berrocal, Jah Wobble, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Felix Kubin, Jad Fair, Tom Cora, Rhys Chatham, James Plotkin, Shugo Tokumaru, Ergo Phizmiz, Nurse With Wound, Pierre Bastien, Jean-Hervé Peron and many others. His recordings have been published on Cold Spring, Sub Rosa, Blackest Ever Black, Wergo, Gagarin Records, Jelodanti, inPolysons...

"One of my alltime favourites" (Felix Kubin)

"Truly unpredictable, you never know where any given tune is heading, or which stylistic outfit he is going to whip out next from his magic trunk of disguises. He makes it look easy, but you can bet there’s 500 kilograms of sheer talent and hard work behind his every move. Recommended! " (Ed Pinsent - The Sound Projector)

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