L’Eclair release dinosaur
Sauropoda are a type of dinosaur with a very long neck and a very small head. “Sauropoda” is also the title of L’Eclair’s new album. It’s their third. “Think of it as a 2am youtube find. Or that weird looking soviet prog funk LP reissue you never dared to buy,” they write on their Facebook […]
Hyperculte are massively occidental
Geneva-based Hyperculte are double-bassist Vincent Bertholet (also the pilot of the beautifully anarchic “big band” Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp) and drummer/guitarist/singer Simone Aubert (also with Tout Bleu and Massicot). Three years after their stunning debut follows their next strike, an equally gripping second album entitled “Massif Occidental”. Hyperculte make brilliant records. They also offer […]
Cyril Cyril album album
Another special band name – another easy explanation: Cyril Cyril are a duo consisting of two Cyrils. Cyril Yeterian plays accordion, banjo and myriad other instruments, and Cyril Bondi is an extraordinary drummer/percussionist with an experimental bent whose other bands include the wonderful Plaistow. Describing themselves as “muezzin without frontiers”, they are fuelled by an […]
