Chantage are Eve Blouin and Vivien Goldman. This exclusive re-issue features the artwork from the original 7“, the extended version of "It’s Only Money" from the Chantage 12“ and the dub version by Adrian Sherwood which previously was only released on On-U Sound under the project name Playgroup in 1983.

It's Only Money EP

It's Only Money

Chantage (Eve Blouin + Vivien Goldman): It's Only Money

First teaser from the Llamps' first album: Beautiful Catalan country power pop by this fine group around (ex-)members of The Liminanas, The Bellas and T Time Fantasy.

The Llamps

The Llamps: I Must Go

Here we are! Back for the second volume of Back from the Canigó ! In the same spirit as Back from the Grave, our goal is to look back at what happened in the South of France near Perpignan at the beginning of the 21st century.
 As you can hear it in the first volume, the city of Perpignan (and its region, Northern Catalonia) has been a strong place for underground rock'n'roll for many years. In the 90’s, there were a lot of garage bands and an important mods community. These guys created a spirit in the city that’s still present today.

Back from the Canigó Volume Two

Belladelic

Les Bellas: Belladelic

Heratius could be described as like a mix of Etron Fou Leloublan and Faust (in acoustic mode that is), with hints of Albert Marcoeur, Red Noise, in a music that is full of invention with typically French eccentric touches. This double LP features the studio album Les Boniments (1979) - never before released on vinyl - and the first ever vinyl reissue of Gwendolyne (1978).

Gwendolyne / Les Boniments

Ragtime du Surmâle

Heratius: Ragtime Du Surmâle

LIVE RESIDENCY IN PERPIGNAN / FRANCE ON 15-16-17 MAY !

Taken from "Monkey Banana Kitchen" CD/LP/DL.

"Family Fodder exude an exhilarating sense that everything was possible, that there weren't any limits to imagination and humour.  The scope of their musical range remains as dizzying and exciting as it once was." (Time Out New York)

Staubgold proudly presents the legendary first album from 1980 by UK underground heroes Family Fodder, for the first time reissued on CD and vinyl. The CD version comes as a lovingly assembled compilation (total running time: 79:52 min !). It features the complete "Monkey Banana Kitchen" LP, the 12" EP "Schizophrenia Party" (1981) and the 7" singles "Film Music" (1981) and "The Big Dig" (1982), all originally released on Fresh Records. Guest musicians include This Heat's Charles Bullen on drums, guitar, vocals, percussion and viola.

The Wire magazine listed "Monkey Banana Kitchen" among their "100 Records That Set The World On Fire (While No One Was Listening)" and wrote: "A loose collection of friends and, more often than not, wanderers, Family Fodder reached their apex (or at least one of them) with Monkey Banana Kitchen. The music took the ferocity of contemporaneous British punk and scaled it way back. They also eschewed the giant pop hook, replacing it with the hoop jumping of songs in three languages, instruments played for only four seconds, harmonic call-and-response motifs and opaque but symbolic political lyrics. Multiple reprises of phrases and fragments result in a much more subtle and effective memory-tickle. I can't count how many instruments finally made it onto the album, though piano (providing much of the rhythm), melodica, sax, synth and cowbell dominate. Their integrated eclecticism is actually layer after thin layer of dub, jazz and New Wave - peering down into this multi-ply music, you detect traces of structural complexity, and the pop that's there blurs. Lesson No 537 from Fodder members: participate only when absolutely necessary - knowing when to pare down makes it easier to transcend."

Family Fodder: Savoir Faire

LIVE RESIDENCY IN PERPIGNAN / FRANCE ON 15-16-17 MAY !

Taken from "Schizophrenia Party (Director's Cut)" LP/DL.

For the first time reissued on vinyl in a strictly limited edition of 500 copies and coming with four exclusive bonus tracks, "Schizophrenia Party (Director's Cut)" represents the second chapter in the career of UK underground heroes Family Fodder after their legendary debut "Monkey Banana Kitchen". This full-length album features the complete 12" EP "Schizophrenia Party" (incl. the 9min monster tune "Dinosaur Sex") from 1981 and the 7" singles "Film Music" (1981) and "The Big Dig" (1982), all originally released on Fresh Records.

"Family Fodder exude an exhilarating sense that everything was possible, that there weren't any limits to imagination and humour. The scope of their musical range remains as dizzying and exciting as it once was." (Time Out New York)

Family Fodder: Film Music

Founded in 2010, on the ashes of Los Santos, an ultra-local band well recognized by the veterans of the Perpignan scene, The Hands is a quartet with its roots as much in the modern garage scene of the mid-2000s (like Jack Of Heart, Movie Star Junkies or The Intelligence) as in more classic groups such as the Gun Club, Joy Division or Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd.
After two self-produced albums, "On The Words" (2014) and "We Are Other Men" (2016) and a few European tours, their third album, "Reflections", finally arrives in 2022 after six years of absence.
Recorded by their friend Renaud Picard (Crank, Hair & The Iotas), mixed by Briane Blanc (the band's singer) and mastered by Luis Mazzoni at Vintage Sound Studio, this third album is perhaps their mostly anticipated and surely their best so far.
Alternating between heady tracks like "Thanks" or "In The Middle“ and softer songs like "We Are So Lame“ and "Seven Years“, the group reveals their real identity throughout the ten songs of this album. As always self-produced for their own label Broken Arm Records, "Reflections“ will be released in collaboration with Staubgold and Cougouyou Music.

Reflections

We Are So Lame

The Hands: We Are So Lame

Recorded from 1984 to 1986, "The Impossible Humane" is the sole album by The New Blockaders side project Mixed Band Philanthropist. Originally released on the German Selektion label in 1987 and impossible to find nowadays, Staubgold makes this rare gem of Industrial goes Musique Concrete available again in a strictly limited edition of 400 copies. Furthermore the reissue contains two bonus tracks taken from the 7" single "The Man Who Mistook A Real Woman For His Muse And Acted Accordingly".

The album is assembled of exclusive source material by the who's who of the Industrial music scene of the time, including contributions by Nurse With Wound, Organum, Andrew Chalk, The New Blockaders, Etant Donnes, H.N.A.S., P16.D4, Asmus Tietchens, Controlled Bleeding, Smegma, Merzbow and many more. "A classic chunk of destroyed musique concrete. Assembled from a variety of musical and spoken sources, this is a nonstop barrage of genius. Filled with headsnapping changes, sexual innuendo and general confusion, it's a totally great listening experience," said The Wire magazine.

Mixed Band Philanthropist: The Man Who Mistook A Real Woman For His Muse And Acted Accordingly

The Lo Yo Yo’s only album from 1985 for the first time reissued on vinyl. Featuring Mick Hobbs (The Work, Half Japanese) and Alig Fodder (Family Fodder), produced by Charles Bullen (This Heat). Limited to 500 copies worldwide.
The Lo Yo Yo was founded in 1984 by Family Fodder’s John Pearce, aka Alig Fodder. They were active for two years and released one cassette, one split cassette with French band Look De Bouk and one full-length LP.

Extra Weapons

The Lo Yo Yo: All The Atrocities

Taken from "Just Love Songs" LP.

Alig Fodder: "We collected all the love songs together without all the annoying instrumentals, dubs and solos. Lou Reed once sang: 'No kinds of love are better than others'. I think he meant something else.

The 'kinds of love' here include: the love for a child, nostalgic love and imaginary journeys, love renewed and shared, love of animals, love of music, nostalgia, love in loss and memory, love in kinship across generations, poetic and physical loving, love of the unknown or unfamiliar and the desperate love of needing."

Family Fodder: Déjà Déjà Vu

Formed in Perpignan in the South of France in 2019, Minerves emerge with the furious longing to reshape the sound landscapes of a certain adolescence that received the bursts of Velvet Underground, the mysterious revelations of the early Pixies, the tormented verses of Sonic Youth.

Nurtured by pop psych garage and 90s post punk, the four Minerves wake up at dusk and attempt a naive, nocturnal and hungry topology of rock'n'roll. Produced by Briane Santo B., the tireles preacher of Perpignan garage, Minerves' first eponymous album is released by Staubgold and its French subsidiary Cougouyou Music.

Minerves

Minerves: Bakelite

The first ever release of mythic Colombian groups Ensamble Polifónico Vallenato and Sexteto La Constelación De Colombia. A full-length album of exclusive archive recordings featuring members of the Meridian Brothers, Frente Cumbiero, Ondatrópica, Romperayo and Los Pirañas.

Bland rock and pop music took over Colombia in the 1980s. For a country with so much musical heritage this was blasphemy. Ensamble Polifonico Vallenato and Sexteto La Constelación de Colombia were two groups who, in the late 90s, fought to redress the balance.

Ensamble Polifonico Vallenato started as a joke, a parody of the bad vallenato music a bunch of University students would hear on the bus into campus. Their idea was simple: “to play whatever and see what happens”. The resultant music was as heavy as rock, as acidic as punk and as far-out as the most left-field free jazz. At the heart of it all was fiery accordion and acerbic vocals, often playing in call-and-response, just like the classic vallenatos of yore. The lyrics formed a big part of the group's identity; they were deep, sarcastic and surrealistic, and revelled in toying with Colombian clichés.

The music soon stopped being a parody. The students began to learn more and more about Colombian folklore and their sound evolved. Soon, they ditched the accordion, replacing it with flutes from Colombia's Caribbean coast, and renamed the group Sexteto La Constelación de Colombia. The musicians were now more mature, though no less experimental.

Both groups were rebellious, counter-cultural and added to their reputations with anarchic live shows. At the time, the reaction was mixed. To quote the group, they were “approved by a few but disapproved by a lot.” For many musicians who saw them play during their short lifespans they offered an alternative, a new form of Colombian music that was rooted in their country's heritage but could be as innovative and experimental as any jazz or rock. A seed was sown that started a new branch of Colombian tropical music.

The band members now play in groups like Meridian Brothers, Frente Cumbiero, Ondatrópica, Romperayo and Los Pirañas, bands that have released albums and toured internationally, as well as finally won critical and public approval, while maintaining the revolutionary spirit that will ensure that the evolution of Colombian music is not ready to stop yet.

Ensamble Polifónico Vallenato: Chandeath

The art of Kammerflimmer Kollektief is deception. It is a persuasive and seductive art, resulting in incorrect assessments and doubtful perceptions. It is an art of disorientation and misdirection. In the Kollektief’s current production Désarroi (disorientation), their 10th and wildest album, they do it again: Welcome to the Kammerflimmery!

Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Désarroi #1: Mayhem!

Perpignan Burning: the Southern French capital of garage rock in search of the riff. Or as Lou Reed would put it: „You can’t beat two guitars, bass, and drums.“ Content: 27 previously unreleased tracks on the double LP and six digital-only bonus tracks. 

All tracks on this compilation were recorded in or around Perpignan, France, and go to the musical extremes of an extreme city. Whether garage punks or freakbeat mods, country punks or city rockers, whether pioneers or new to the scene: the only thing that counts is the riff.

Pascal Comelade, infamous riff explorer since the 1970s, is the unlikely godfather of this bunch of punks and rockers. He opens the trip with his emblematic cover design and closes it with his own Riffifi orchestra to the ultimate riff of The Stooges’ „I Wanna Be Your Dog“.

Perpignan Burning

Johnny Tramuntana: Téléphonez-Moi (Perpignan Burning)

Akşak is the exciting encounter of two exceptional musicians from different generations: legendary drummer Jaki Liebezeit (Can, Depeche Mode, Chet Baker) and percussion wizard Holger Mertin (Drums And More). Like a zen master of the minimal, repetitive beat, Liebezeit - famous for his hypnotic precision -  creates with only few sound colours the perfect matrix for Mertin’s unleashed playing on any imaginable percussion instrument. The result is a mighty, complex pulse - the groove of a better world.

On the basis of that musical matrix, sound magician Joseph Suchy has produced a jaw-dropping album which defies any categorization. Even if other instruments like violin, guitar, brass or electronics sometimes seem to take the lead, the compelling pulse is always in the center of this swinging music. Liebezeit, Mertin and Suchy have created a timeless masterpiece which despite its complexity always stays melodic and danceable. That’s how modernity sounds (and swings) !

Liebezeit Mertin: Yallametal

Taken from "While the recording engineer sleeps" CD/LP/DL (Wilhelm Reich Schallspeicher, 1989 / Staubgold, 2015).

Staubgold proudly presents the first ever reissue of "While the recording engineer sleeps", the first album by The Cocoon, recorded in 1985. The Cocoon was a kind of psychedelic supergroup featuring legendary figures of the German music scene of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s: Gunter Hampel (vibraphone, piano, flute, bassclarinet, lead vocals), Jürgen Gleue (lead vocals, bass, guitar), Matthias Arfmann (guitar, bass organ, electric piano, lead vocals), Rüdiger Klose (drums, vocals) and Thomas Keyserling (flute, alto saxophone). Most songs were written by Hampel and Gleue with Gleue providing the lyrics.

The legendary jazz composer, bandleader, vibraphonist, bassclarinetist, flutist and baritonsaxophonist Gunter Hampel is one of the most influential musicians, composers and pioneers of the world wide jazz evolution. He is the major instigator of the european jazz movement since 1958. On his own Birth Records label he recorded more than 200 (!) albums, most of them together with his Galaxie Dream Band.

Jürgen Gleue was a founding member of the infamous neo-psychedelic band 39 Clocks with whom he released four albums between 1981 and 1987. Under the moniker Phantom Payn he later on recorded another six albums of acid-driven psychedelia. Together with Rüdiger Klose he furthermore played in the psychedelic rock band Exit Out. Klose also contributed to the 39 Clocks, Phantom Payn and avantgarde group Die Kastrierten Philosophen.

First known as a founding member of Die Kastrierten Philosophen, Matthias Arfmann later became famous as the producer of German hip-hop / reggae star Jan Delay. And Thomas Keyserling, also a member of Hampel’s Galaxie Dream Band, played with Agitation Free and was a guest musician on two legendary German Krautrock albums: Tangerine Dream’s "Electronic Meditation" and Amon Düül’s "Yeti".

Cocoon: Teenage Dope Slaves (short version)

This is the first ever stand-alone vinyl release of the Bel Canto Orquestra's legendary concert in Montpellier in 1983.
Founded by Pascal Comelade, Pierre Bastien, Cathy Claret and Laurent Churet, the Bel Canto Orquestra was constituted of toy instruments only. During its lifetime from 1983 to 2015, other members included Victor Nubla, Pip Pyle, Jac Berrocal and many more.
Includes bonus track "Résumé Du Concert Du Bel Canto Orquestra Du 7 Mai 1992" which is a never before released piano summary of the Orquestra's 1992 concert.

In Concerto 1983

Bel Canto Orquestra: Park Güell

Imagine a road trip aboard a beautiful American convertible, the landscape passes by and you can hear this warm Sixties soundtrack of Santa Maria Death Trip somewhere between the surf rock of La Luz, the sunny pop of Allah-Las and the psychedelic garage sound of their Perpignan fellows The Limiñanas.
After two EPs, critically acclaimed by the French specialized press like Rock & Folk and Rolling Stone, here is their first full-length album «Lili’s Garden», released on Staubgold/Cougouyou Music in 2025.

Santa Maria Death Trip: So Special

Staubgold proudly presents the legendary first 12“ EP from 1979 by UK underground heroes Family Fodder, for the first time reissued on CD and vinyl. "Sunday Girls (Director’s Cut)" comes as a lovingly assembled full-length album compilation. It features the complete "Sunday Girls" EP, the very first Family Fodder 7" single "Playing Golf" (1979), the "Debbie Harry“ 7" from 1980, the 7“ A side "Warm" (1980) and last not least two tracks from the rare "Te Deum" 12“ (1979) by Alig Fodder’s pre-Fodder project Frank Sumatra.

Family Fodder: Playing Golf

Ever since she migrated from pitching editors on the little-known music of Robert Nesta Marley to becoming one of the foremost chroniclers of the perfect storm of reggae, punk, hiphop and Afro-Beat, the London-born, New York-based Vivien Goldman has made documenting music her primary life work.  But between 1979-82, Goldman was also a working musician, creating songs that, years later, would be sampled by The Roots and Madlib. These rare girl grooves are now collected for the first time on 'Resolutionary', courtesy of Staubgold Records.

Vivien Goldman: Launderette

The waiting has paid off: With only their second album Telebossa have succeeded where others often need a life’s work - namely the creation of their own musical language. While Chico Mello and Nicholas Bussmann were still exploring the Bossa tradition through role models such as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Caetano Veloso, and Joao Gilberto on their debut album from 2011, their mixture of Brazilian style elements and New Music has now become a model in its own right.

Telebossa: Funeral De Um Lavrador

Telebossa’s Nicholas Bussmann is once again, after 2012’s "Like You", transforming into Nicholas Desamory to release “You only need to know how it feels to believe” – a House album of such warmth and rough elegance, it will leave the scene all excited. House has always been an open genre, allowing to sample, adapt and incorporate other styles. On “You only need to know how it feels to believe”, it’s the reduced string and vocal arrangements that lead to this album’s specific sound – the warmth – and evoke at the same time the great Norman Whitfield and the infamous Arthur Russell. This is how House music has to be in 2016 !

Nicholas Desamory: You Only Need To Know How It Feels

Two brandnew and exclusive tracks by one the best French bands around. Getting their start in October of 2009, The Limiñanas are the brainchild of Lio and Marie Limiñana. Beginning as a home studio project the duo spent much time flipping through John Barry and Ennio Morricone LPs and books on Victorian era architecture, watching Noir films, and basking in the sun of Southern France seeking inspiration. Their first single came by way of Chicago's venerable Hozac records, followed up by a single 7" release, “Je-ne-suis-pas-tres-drogue”, on Trouble In Mind in April 2010. It's been noted that there are traces of Serge Gainsbourg, Beck, Stereolab, Gospel, Yeh-Yeh, guitar fuzz freakouts, and Nugget's-era stompers in the Limiñanas music. All of which may be true, but Limiñanas' sound is irreverent and singular.

The Woods/The Inventor

The Limiñanas: The Woods

Two brandnew and exclusive tracks by Perpignan’s finest newcomer band. We are proud to introduce to you our new label Cougouyou Music, a division of Staubgold. Linked to our record store of the same name in Perpignan in the deep South of France, Cougouyou Music has a focus on the local scene in Northern and Southern Catalonia.

In My Mind

Joy Rage: In My Mind

In 2014 Cologne/Perpignan duo Klangwart travelled to Bogotà for a recording session with prolific Colombian group Meridian Brothers. "Monserrate“ is the first track from those sessions to be released - a collective composition by Markus Detmer and Timo Reuber with Juanita Añez Rothmann (voice), Valentina Añez Rothmann (voice), Eblis Álvarez (cello), Damián Ponce (drums) and César Quevedo (bass). Features a fine remix by Perpignan’s dub master Le K aka Sylvain Garcia on flipside.
Linked to our record store of the same name in Perpignan in the deep South of France, Cougouyou Music has a focus on the local scene in Northern and Southern Catalonia.

Monserrate

Klangwart: Monserrate

Taken from "Live At Skymall" LP/DL.

Jan Jelinek, Hanno Leichtmann and Andrew Pekler have formed a trio that can truly be called a supergroup. As solo artists, all three members are among the most renowned of Berlin's electronic musicians. When playing together as Groupshow the three instrumentalists - themselves largely informed by minimalist sensibilities - engage with the idiom of free-form collective improvisation, which has a long tradition in Germany dating back to the days of Fluxus and Krautrock. Consequentially the individual members' roles are not entirely fixed.

"Live At Skymall" was recorded live in Berlin and Lisbon in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

http://www.groupshow.de (Groupshow)
http://www.faitiche.de (Jan Jelinek)
http://www.static-music.com (Hanno Leichtmann)
http://www.andrewpekler.com (Andrew Pekler)
http://www.staubgold.com (Staubgold)


Groupshow: Countdown To Naptime (edit)

Taken from "We Know Nonsense" CD/LP/DL.

Long-awaited reissue of the second full-length album from 1982 by late 70s/early 80s UK DIY super group The 49 Americans. The main instigator behind The 49 Americans was Andrew "Giblet" Brenner who assembled a loose, disparate group of musical/non-musical practitioners as an experiment in equality and democracy. This democracy included David Toop, Steve Beresford, Max Eastley, Lol Coxhill and Peter Cusack (coming out of the anything goes improv scene), Nag and Bendle of The Door And The Window, Viv Albertine of the Slits, Vivien Goldman (her Adrian Sherwoood/John Lydon produced Dirty Washing 12" on 99 Records is a classic), Giblet's mum and many more. 

"Think of The 49 Americans as a band, in the conventional sense, and you're lost." (David Toop)

The CD version comes as a lovingly assembled career-spanning compilation. It features the complete original "We Know Nonsense" album as well as 23 (!) bonus tracks taken from The 49 Americans' first album "E Pluribus Unum" (1980) and their 7" "The 14-Track Single (1979)". A 16-pages booklet contains "The Incompleteable Story of The 49 Americans".

The 49 Americans: Glimpse Go By

Taken from "We Know Nonsense" CD/LP/DL.

Long-awaited reissue of the second full-length album from 1982 by late 70s/early 80s UK DIY super group The 49 Americans. The main instigator behind The 49 Americans was Andrew "Giblet" Brenner who assembled a loose, disparate group of musical/non-musical practitioners as an experiment in equality and democracy. This democracy included David Toop, Steve Beresford, Max Eastley, Lol Coxhill and Peter Cusack (coming out of the anything goes improv scene), Nag and Bendle of The Door And The Window, Viv Albertine of the Slits, Vivien Goldman (her Adrian Sherwoood/John Lydon produced Dirty Washing 12" on 99 Records is a classic), Giblet's mum and many more.

"Think of The 49 Americans as a band, in the conventional sense, and you're lost." (David Toop)

The CD version comes as a lovingly assembled career-spanning compilation. It features the complete original "We Know Nonsense" album as well as 23 (!) bonus tracks taken from The 49 Americans' first album "E Pluribus Unum" (1980) and their 7" "The 14-Track Single (1979)". A 16-pages booklet contains "The Incompleteable Story of The 49 Americans".


The 49 Americans: It's Time

Taken from "Bruit Et Temps Analogues" CD/LP/DL.

Staubgold is proud to reissue the one and only solo album of Patrick Vian (Red Noise), originally released in 1976 on the Egg label. The album is available on vinyl in a strictly limited edition of 500 copies and for the first time ever on CD and as a download.

A wonderful and obscure gem of electronic music certain to please the fans of Krautrock, French 70s electronic music and Kosmische Musik. Patrick Vian plays Moog 2C, ARP 2600, Moog Sequencer and piano and gets help from jazz musician Mino Cinelu (who had played with the likes of Gong, Weather Report and Miles Davis) on drums and percussion. Georges Granier adds Fender Rhodes, marimba, noise and scissors. Bernard Lavialle (Ame Son) plays guitar. Together they create a unique hybrid of experimental electronic, jazz and world music. This highly original sound made Steven Stapleton include Patrick Vian to the famous Nurse With Wound list of adventurous music.


Patrick Vian: Oreknock

Taken from "Too Young To Be Ideal" DL.

This download-only compilation by The 49 Americans includes the complete "14-Track Single" 7" and "Too Young To Be Ideal" 12" plus six bonus tracks (alternative takes), originally released in 1980 and now for the first available in digital format.
On occasion of its 15th anniversary, the Staubgold label is proud to reissue the complete back catalogue of The 49 Americans. Further releases include the group's second album „We Know Nonsense“ (staubgold 123 - CD, vinyl and download) and their first album "E Pluribus Unum" (staubgold 124 – vinyl and download). All downloads feature exclusive bonus tracks (live recordings and studio outtakes).

The main instigator behind late 70s/early 80s UK DIY super group The 49 Americans was Andrew "Giblet" Brenner who assembled a loose, disparate group of musical/non musical practitioners as an experiment in equality and democracy. This democracy included David Toop, Steve Beresford, Max Eastley, Lol Coxhill and Peter Cusack (coming out of the anything goes improv scene), Nag and Bendle of The Door And The Window, Viv Albertine of the Slits, Vivien Goldman (her Adrian Sherwoood/John Lydon produced Dirty Washing 12" on 99 Records is a classic), Giblet's mum and many more.

"Think of The 49 Americans as a band, in the conventional sense, and you're lost." (David Toop)


The 49 Americans: Big Dicision

Pascal Comelade and Richard Pinhas met in Paris in 1974, when Pinhas was beginning to go on stage with his group Heldon. With Heldon and, afterwards, solo, Pinhas became the pioneer and accelerator of electronic music in France, and a fundamental reference throughout the world. Comelade’s electronic period was much shorter, from 1974 to 1981. From 1983 on, he developed his policy of instrumental, strictly acoustic music.
Comelade and Pinhas met again in 2020 for this LP album, "Le plan de Paris". It contains six titles that were either previously unreleased or completely revisited, developed, remixed.

Le plan de Paris

Pascal Comelade / Richard Pinhas: Third

For the first time officially available outside of Colombia, Bogota's Meridian Brothers present on the Staubgold label a delightfully surreal and playful compilation of their works from 2005 to 2011. "Devoción (Works 2005 - 2011)" features the best moments of three albums which previously have only been released on the local Colombian La Distritofónica label. Traditional instruments, electronics and distorted vocals are dragged through an array of influences to create a world that is as original as it is unclassifiable.

Straddling the line between new and old, the Meridian Brothers' mischievous blend of Latin rhythms and psychedelic grooves is the creation of Eblis Álvarez, one of the key figures of the experimental music scene in Bogota. As with all of the Meridian Brother's releases, every instrument on "Devoción (Works 2005 - 2011)" was played and recorded by Eblis himself. A true avant-garde guitar player and composer he also plays in Mario Galeano's band Frente Cumbiero and was one of the 42 musicians involved in the recording of Ondatrópica, released through Soundway Records in 2012.

A real musical maverick, labelled a genius by his contemporaries in Colombia, Eblis Álvarez and his Meridian Brothers finally get the full, worldwide attention they deserve.


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