Tormentor Radio Show - Vox Populi!

Tormentor Radio Show - Vox Populi!

Samedi 8 juin, à partir de 21h00, l'émission Tormentor Radio Show recevra Axel Kyrou et Mithra de la formation Vox Populi!

Interview en français.

This Saturday, June 8th, starting at 9:00 PM, Tormentor Radio Show will welcome Axel Kyrou and Mithra from Vox Populi!

Interview in French.

Live Streaming at :

https://www.anarchiste.info/radio/libertaire/streaming/

or at :

http://media.radio-libertaire.org:8080/radiolib.mp3

Tormentor Radio Show official links :

https://linktr.ee/tormentorradioshow

Facebook event :

https://www.facebook.com/events/432045052955007

Various Artists - Rituals

Cassette, 2xC60
Label : Bog-Art, Germany, 1986
Ripped by Dualtrack


Tracklist :

A1. Paul Kelday - Doomsday Machine (3:08)
A2. Bogart - Insanity (4:47)
A3. Pacific 231 - KHPR (7:09)
A4. Louis Pasteur - Your Master's Voice (6:17)
A5. No Unauthorized - Shub Niggurath (4:42)
A6. FâLX çèrêbRi - Sequenzia (4:44)
A7. Kim Il Jung - Dead Man's Coition (2:29)
B1. Vox Populi! - Gutta Percha II (4:41)
B2. Genetic Plans - Electra (7:46)
B3. Chazev - M.C.O. Rite (4:49)
B4. Solomonoff & Von Hoffmannstahl - God Is Love (4:15)
B5. Tagesschau - Lassie's Fenster (4:34)
B6. Comando Bruno - 33-A Ritual (5:42)
C1. Elcarna - Le Dormeur Du Val (7:08)
C2. Hags - Saintetan (Cymbal Version) (3:28)
C3. Mario Marzidovsek - Dioxin (2:43)
C4. Norma Loy - Church And Words (3:41)
C5. Anthon Shield - Ritual And Rite (5:34)
C6. Gurk - Sex Mit Wurmern (Hommage A Franz Talent) (3:49)
C7. Bruno Cossano - Hanshsex (5:02)
D1. Friends In Low Places - De L'Inconvénient D'Être Né (6:51)
D2. If, Bwana - The Trumpet Sounds (4:40)
D3. Das Synthetische Mischgewebe - No More Rites (10:15)
D4. Volksschule - Call The Hell (5:12)
D5. Vatikan - Secrets (4:09)

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Mireille Kyrou / Vox Populi! - Experimental Lineage

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Label : Nostalgie De La Boue [ndlb#132], Ivory Coast, 2019


" This release is composed of the only two recorded works by musique concrète pioneer Mireille Kyrou (1931-2017), and of ‘Koro Wild’, played and composed by her son Axel Kyrou, main member of Vox Populi!

Mireille Kyrou was born in September of 1931 in the town of Cairo. Her mother was French and her father was part of a family that migrated from Palestine to Egypt.
She studied piano from an early age and was sent in 1955 to Paris to complete her musical learning. She studied harmony with the famous French composer Olivier Messiaen for two years, before joining the GRM (Groupe de Recherche Musicale) in 1958, the experimental music research center which had just been created by Pierre Schaeffer, the inventor of musique concrète some ten years before.
There, the working time was divided in two. Working on her own music, using the top-notch equipment available there, while trying to create the equivalent of the classical musical notation for musique concrète. If this new music had the ambition of becoming the new classical music, it had to be writable and reproductible, as much as the ‘old’ one. The results were to be found in Pierre Schaeffer’s main book, Le traité des objets musicaux, released in 1966, though it eventually ended as a failure, as history confirmed.
She quit the GRM in 1961 to devote herself to family life, raising two sons, Ariel, born in 1962, and Axel, born in 1964. She married Ado Kyrou, a Greek film director and writer, very close to the surrealist group of the 50s and early 60s. He’s mostly known for his book Le surréalisme au cinéma, which was translated in several languages.

The only available recorded track by Mireille Kyrou is ‘Etude 1’, released on the mythical album from 1964, ‘Musique Concrète’, edited by Philips, also featuring music from giants of musique concrète, such as Pierre Schaeffer, Iannis Xenakis, or Luc Ferrari. The main sound sources for this track were a comb and a feather.

The second track featured here, ‘Film Musique’, is unreleased, and recorded in the same environment and historical period as ‘Etude 1’. It is the soundtrack of an experimental film, which nothing seems to be known about. Although Mireille thought that the track wasn’t supposed to be listened without the film, she eventually agreed to release it.

Mireille had a peculiar love for the Vox Populi! track called ‘Koro Wild’ and insisted that it would be played at her funeral. It proved to be a strong experience, felt by all friends and members of the family attending the ceremony.
‘Koro Wild’ was recorded over a long period, 1994 to 2007, in France, Japan and Burkina Faso. All field recordings and instruments done and played by Axel Kyrou. First released on taâlem. "

Axel Kyrou

Special thanks to KGB for the artwork !


Tracklist :

1. Mireille Kyrou - Étude 1 (5:11)
2. Mireille Kyrou - Film Musique (11:08)
3. Vox Populi! - Koro Wild (13:13)

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Various Artists - France

Cassette, C90
Label : Harsh Reality Music, US, 1989
Ripped by Luca Fiore


Tracklist :

A1. X-Ray Pop - Touf Touf (3:23)
A2. Aehos - Rectitude No. 4 (12:52)
A3. Brume - Panzerfaust 3 (3:50)
A4. La Sonorité Jaune - Reha (3:12)
A5. Sempiternels - L'Annunciation (Du Vide) (7:28)
A6. Betrayal - Mauri (5:18)
A7. Vox Populi! - Let Us Get Higher (8:02)
A8. Hänzel & Gretzel - C'Est Le Père Sadique (1:53)
A9. Hänzel & Gretzel - Teutir Spregue (1:09)
B1. M. Nomized - The Girl In The Sweating Room (4:33)
B2. Das Synthetische Mischgewebe - Bloody Slime, Significant Symbol For The Force Of Tedious Habits (12:28)
B3. Costes - Fart In My Face (2:14)
B4. Bernard Donzel-Gargand & Philippe Moënne-Loccoz - Cellules (7:28)
B5. Totentanz - Future Prospects (4:33)
B6. RWA - Jesus Trash Can (2:48)
B7. Alain Basso - Poussières Dans L'Extase (4:04)
B8. X Non X - Loiseau Malade (2:18)
B9. Nos Yeux Aveugles - Z.T.T.01 (7:00)

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Vox Populi! - Half Dead Ganja Music

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Label : Nostalgie De La Boue [ndlb#92], Ivory Coast, 2017


Official net-re-release celebrating the 30th anniversary of the cassette album. Remastered by Axel Kyrou for the 2013 vinyl re-release that is now deleted. Here are a few excerpts of the LP's reviews :

"Like a misty dream upon timeless beaches where female phantoms dance about bringing comforting company which touches beyond flesh."

"This Half Dead cassette turned LP from 1987 sounds like a band improvising an exotic musique concrete Voodoo Ritual in the Catacombs below, and above, EARTH. Half Dead Ganja Music exists as a rare artifact of a timeless endeavor to create a feeling, through self-less creativity, of a limbo realm between physical earth realities and the mystical realm that is paralleled in our emerging beings. This is Occult music without pretension, but with effortless release to the juxtaposition of human and non-human senses."

"The latter's favorite. Half dead ganja music? No doubt. Mellowtonic bearddrone bongscrape made right via heady ritual aromas obscuring distant fumble-clunk and dazed mumble-grunt... just crank that bass and revel in Throb Almighty."

"Layers and layers of processed tape and hazy, wordless female vocals like a baklava, sweetened with drone instead of honey. However there’s something oddly uplifting about this music and very, very beautiful."

"It’s a trip in any sense of the term, transporting us via twelve succinct studio and live recordings across fields of Persian-influenced vocal glossolalia, airborne drones and sparse drum machine pulses to mind-swallowing vortices of synth swirl, but never letting anything settle for too long, always discreetly segueing to another part of the same hallucination before spreading out some more with an expansive live finale. Highly recommended!"


Tracklist :

Studio Side
1. Schmacht (2:46)
2. Gole Mariam (3:26)
3. Da Ma (3:26)
4. Golnessar (3:01)
5. De La Cohorte Mystique (4:28)

Live Side
6. Freaking At Ffm (2:18)
7. Perse Voir La Lumière (2:40)
8. Fassle (3:03)
9. Taghmanantes / Gin Gina / Un Jour (10:07)

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Here is the list of Vox Populi! releases available for free download or in physical format :

Physical releases available on blogs for free download :
Introduction À La Théorie De La Subjectivité Relative [Cassette, 1982]
La Cathédrale Morte [Cassette, 1985]
Sucre De Pastèque [Cassette, 1986]

Available on the Internet only :
The Teen Recordings [1979-1981]
Live, Excalibur, Paris [29th March 1988]
Neynarea [1988-1996]
Best Of Vox Populi! + Ethnyc [1985-1993]
Valley Of Capsules Plays Vox Populi! [2012]
La Cathédrale Morte [Remastered, 2012]
Ébats Spirituels [Remastered and Augmented, 2013]
Aither+ [Remastered and Augmented, 2013]
Half Dead Ganja Music [Remastered, 2017]

Physical releases you can buy :
Cthulhu Revisitation [CD, 2007]
1987-1990 [CD, 2008]
Soft Entrance To Nature's Camino De Luz [Mini CD / FLAC, 2008]
Mystic Entertainment [CD, 2009]
Aramesh [CD, 2009]
Funk Off [CD, 2013]

Various Artists - Golgata !

Cassette, C60
Label : Res Publika, Sweden, 1988
Ripped by paphio23


Tracklist :

A1. Prima Linea - Supremus (5:51)
A2. Tasaday - La Luce E Il Respiro (4:49)
A3. Bourbonese Qualk - Accidental 2 (3:51)
A4. Bone Orchard - Dead Eighteen (3:15)
A5. Royal Family & The Poor - Dog Star (4:30)
A6. Twice A Man - Cloud Sky Damage (5:12)
A7. Omala - The Heat Retainer (4:22)
A8. Strafe Für Rebellion - Licht (2:49)
B1. Vox Populi - Ovan V (4:09)
B2. Die Form - Deadline ; Despair (3:07)
B3. Hula - Motor City (5:31)
B4. Dum Dum Score - Exbakavox (3:35)
B5. Z.I. Group - Suppression (4:19)
B6. Sluagh Ghairm - Incantation (8:18)
B7. Pacific 231 - Enhance Your Sexe (3:22)

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Various Artists - Ataxie Mentale

Cassette, C90
Label : Tâche de Sang Production, France, 1987
Limited edition of 50 copies
Ripped by Romuald Berthault


Obscure and very rare but excellent compilation tape.
Packed in a tin can with booklet.


Tracklist :

A1. Der Komsks - Ich Bin Kalt
A2. Der Komsks - In The Corner
A3. La Nomenklatur - Ostao
A4. X-Ray Pop - Bébé Cosmique
A5. Pacific 231 - Prélude
A6. Pacific 231 - Kz
A7. La Strada - Djouallah
A8. La Strada - Obsession
A9. David Chazam - Drivin'My Car
A10. CHAAU - New Frankeinstein
A11. CHAAU - No Name
B1. Vox Populi! - Bemafu
B2. Vox Populi! - Néoplasie 4
B3. Le Syndicat - Corniches Et Sagaies
B4. Borgovnia - Dzigen Wart
B5. Minamata - Emle
B6. No Unauthorized - En Couleur
B7. Berlinerluft - Hippke & Schröder
B8. Castor Nost - Sombre Eté
B9. BB Speedok - Gonocoque
B10. N.S.I - La Machine A Coudre
B11. N.S.I - The Cockroach
B12. P.L.Z - Pasqua T'es Un Gros Con
B13. P.L.Z - Le Pape A La Télé

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Rien Ni Personne ~a french compilation

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Label : Nostalgie De La Boue [ndlb#80], Ivory Coast, 2016


In 1985 was released by spanish label STI an obscure compilation tape of french artists, that I consider as a milestone in the history of french underground musics, and that was also the very first post on that blog : Le Défilé Des Épaves. Some of the artists appearing on this cassette are still active today, and many many more have appeared since then.

Thirty years later, I've decided to propose a new panorama of french underground musics, according to an inclusive definition : artists living in France whatever their nationality and french artists living abroad.

Here is the result : 91 tracks (including 80 previously unreleased), more than 9 hours of amazing music covering many sub-genres of post-industrial and experimental musics (ambient, bruitism, dark ambient, drone, electroacoustic, electronica, improvised, industrial, minimal synth, minimalism, modern classical, musique concrète, noise, post-folk, ritual, tribal, etc.). As it is a very masculine scene, I've done my best to invite as much women as possible : as a result, 13 artists/tracks include a female element.

Given their quality, I really think that many tracks here deserve to appear on a physical release. If a "real" label wants to organize a redux physical version of this compilation, please contact me or the artists.

The compilation comes with a 12p booklet with tracklist and informations about all tracks. It is included when you download the complete album ; if you choose to download a few tracks only, see below the link to download the booklet separately.

Those who prefer to burn CDrs can separate the tracks on 8 albums : CD1 : tracks 1-9 / CD2 : tracks 10-20 / CD3 : tracks 21-32 / CD4 : tracks 33-43 / CD5 : tracks 44-55 / CD6 : tracks 56-69 / CD7 : tracks 70-80 / CD8 : tracks 81-91.

Many thanks to all artists involved and to Jef Benech' for the artwork.


Tracklist :

1. Art & Technique - Scratchy monday (6:46)
2. Vincent Laubeuf - Des stèles (couchées sur le sol) (10:09)
3. In Aeternam Vale - Dans ma maison (4:19)
4. ßęđŧīmĕ Šŧōŗĩėş - Īċĕ (4:06)
5. Pylône - Modal (8:28)
6. The Dead Mauriacs - Ectoplasme dada (3:42)
7. SRVTR - Holy shit (9:04)
8. Maxime Barthélemy - Bleu, blanche, rouges (6:06)
9. Christine Mannaz-Dénarié - Le songe de Sisyphe (16:26)

10. Laurent Saïet - Invocation (4:35)
11. Lieutenant Caramel - Der einsame Engel (8:09)
12. Palo Alto - Elementary mauriarty (10:19)
13. ceMeuble - Feel and smell more (6:03)
14. Emmanuelle Gibello - Eat me mister E (3:10)
15. Le Syndicat Faction Vivante - Douleurodrome (8:34)
16. Tiger Gong - Bass export (6:02)
17. Philippe Lamy - FDK (10:49)
18. Zonder / Ronsky - Cancrelat (5:33)
19. Raphaël Leray - Recurrence (2:36)
20. Pansyshell - Brouillon de chair (6:58)

21. Airworld - Rien ni personne (6:59)
22. Rainier Lericolais - Side A (3:58)
23. Rainier Lericolais - Side B (3:44)
24. Horse Gives Birth To Fly - Conradass (10:40)
25. Mutation Urbaine - Troubadour contemporain (6:58)
26. Trèfle Noir - Invocation (5:14)
27. Z & the Organs - Lombrics révolution (3:41)
28. Martial Bécheau - Javel noise 2 (2:02)
29. Joachim Montessuis - Extase à tous les étages, ou rien (9:43)
30. Le Syndicat - Structure (5:50)
31. Thierry Jolif-Maïkov - Anthropophage nuit (4:02)
32. 2kilos &More (feat. Black Sifichi) - Only hazardous (8:18)

33. Marc Hurtado with Vomir - Saturne (2:33)
34. Bruno Capelle - Ballata veneziana (9:15)
35. Outside Field - Cicadas and planes (5:00)
36. Madame B - A girl named Blue (3:52)
37. FLØG - Surgery 42-1 (7:53)
38. Jacques Barbéri & Laurent Pernice - La misérable et triste fin de la bergeronnette printanière (5:48)
39. Das Synthetische Mischgewebe - Die unausweichliche pittoresque (9:00)
40. Flavien Gillié - Le graphe du désir (5:29)
41. Overload System - Les mauvais hommes (8:11)
42. Paskine - #default001 (6:12)
43. Éliane Blaise - Frayées - intimae in micro circum polaris (edit. µ reducere) (9:37)

44. Flint Glass & Mode In Gliany - Undulating shadows (5:34)
45. Pacific 231 - Curvature (9:51)
46. No Way Out - Industrie lourde (5:17)
47. Amor Fati Trio - Danse sacrale (4:38)
48. Vincent Epplay - Les chiens de l'île de Pag (4:40)
49. De Motu Cordi - Exi(s)t (5:56)
50. Geins't Naït & Laurent Petitgand - You dit her (6:49)
51. nobodisoundz - Ochre suunmoon (3:38)
52. Strangelucid - Storm (5:31)
53. Black Egg - Gravity (4:00)
54. Benjamin Aït-Ali - Miniature II (2:28)
55. Carroll Catcher - Mon peau rouge (10:53)

56. Internal Fusion - Autrement dit (6:54)
57. Hélène Breschand - Dévoration (1:56)
58. M.NOMIZED - Abyss (9:37)
59. Tôf - Fond de mer (3:38)
60. ERT - La marche de l'escargot russe (5:59)
61. Noir Boy George - Les masques à gaz (2:22)
62. Magali Dando - The hidden corridor (5:51)
63. Klimperei - Akogare (2:58)
64. Jef Benech' - Douche froide chez les Massaï (2:32)
65. Somekilos - Right thing to do (5:42)
66. Mecano Lacrymo - Bleu de Prusse (3:18)
67. Entre Vifs - Session T7-1 : Substantiellement (15:23)
68. Roro Perrot - Gueule de chambre (1:33)
69. Zu Maia - xported2 (3:36)

70. The Grief - Algesia (Norscq remix demo 1993) (4:36)
71. Duncan Pinhas - Kobol (4:15)
72. Cheval Rétréci - Mugyo (12:20)
73. Minamata After Dark (feat. Mors Mea) - The death posture (5:52)
74. Marc Sarrazy - Lobotomy nostalghia (5:24)
75. RRR - Final (hi-fi) (5:54)
76. Terrine - Beer noodle (2:19)
77. Yannick Dauby - Radiolaire (7:27)
78. Treha Sektori - Onverth emh (5:19)
79. L'Étrange Couleur de l'Orichalque - Mouvement armillaire inversé (15:03)
80. Versolo - Reste de moi (4:57)

81. Vox Populi! - Mush dubby gnarls & vrooms (4:55)
82. Cent Ans De Solitude - Rien, ni personne (11:24)
83. Bertrand Gauguet - Hypnos IIA 2 (3:31)
84. Klaus Legal - Cher et tendre ulcère (5:11)
85. David Fenech - Traffic jams (5:32)
86. Patrick Wiklacz - Twist my night (6:46)
87. Phronèsis - The weird track (6:11)
88. 若潭 (ruò tán) - Emptiness & skin (5:53)
89. Astreinte - Le spectre visible (8:30)
90. Paul Grémare - #A.vers (rhythm chafed) (11:27)
91. Colombey - La France (1:57)

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Various Artists - F-rants

Cassette, C90
Label : audiofile Tapes / S.J. Organisation, US / France, 1988
Ripped by Rainier


I've already posted that tape a while ago but Rainier's rip sounds better than mine so here it is.


Tracklist :

A1. The Grief - Automatic Piece (6:20)
A2. Lieutenant Caramel - Donald Au Moyen Age (6:21)
A3. La Sonorité Jaune - Hilessia (3:40)
A4. Cri Primal - Untitled (4:15)
A5. La Destination - Diaspora (6:48)
A6. S.T.P.O. - Idol (Live) (1:10)
A7. Le Syndicat - Presque (7:23)
A8. Galeshka Moravioff - Untitled (5:31)
A9. Élève Modèle - The Big Baboon By The Light Of The Moon (4:23)
B1. Étant Donnés - Mes Yeux Clos, C'Est Mon Coeur Entre Tes Mains (7:18)
B2. Orient Express - L'Offrande A Itzpapalotl (Live) (5:29)
B3. Pacific 231 - Mahol (2:16)
B4. Jérôme Noettinger - Le Macheur De Verre (8:59)
B5. Anne Gillis - Wohohin (3:56)
B6. Dreaming With Vox Populi - Luna Plexus (6:40)
B7. Pierre Perret - Excerpt From "Gaia, La Terre" (7:04)
B8. Aversion Sonore - Lai (5:56)

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Various Artists - La Bande Originale D'Un Film Imaginaire

Cassette, C46
Label : On A Faim !, France, 1988
Ripped by Rainier


Tracklist :

A1. Unknown Artist - La Mer
A2. P. Et Goitre De Galine - Fun Métal Klakette 1
A3. D.D.A.A. - Bruit Du Bas Pa-Tat
A4. M. Nomized - Eaux Troubles
A5. Unknown Artist - Vertigo
A6. Brume - Mardi 14h30
A7. Décades - Petite Valse
B1. Unknown Artist - Obsession
B2. P. Et Goitre De Galine - Fun Métal Klakette 2
B3. Brume - La Chambre
B4. Brume - Death Thème
B5. Vox Populi - Jube Man
B6. Invisible Man - Arrivederci
B7. Unknown Artist - La Belle De Rome

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Vox Populi! - Aither +

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Label : Nostalgie De La Boue [ndlb#36], Ivory Coast, 2013


Last months have been a prolific period for Vox Populi! re-releases, as will be next ones. After "La Cathédrale Morte" (net-release), "Ébats Spirituels" (net-release), "Half Dead Ganja Music" (LP), here is the net-re-release of "Aither", the second Vox Populi! LP from 1989, with 3 unreleased tracks from the same period, all remastered by Axel Kyrou in 2013. "Aither" sounds like a synthesis of the different music styles the band has developed during the 1980s. It was originally released by Visa, a famous french independant label, and some of the tracks were included on the "1987-1990" CD released by Infrastition in 2008, but the entire album is available again for the first time.
More is coming. Very soon will be released "Funk Off" (CD), a compilation of early 80s tracks by Vox Populi! and Pacific 231. And finally, in the fall of 2014, Vinyl-on-demand will release a Vox Populi! vinyl boxset (2LP + 7" for members) with 130 minutes of music from the 1982-1988 period, including their complete first LP "Myscitismes" from 1985.
Again I want to warmly thank Axel and Mitra for their inspiring music and their generous politics of sharing.


Tracklist :

1. Djamileh (4:47)
2. Tik & Tics (3:36)
3. Le Nénuphare (2:48)
4. Narme-Air (4:08)
5. A Cup Of Tea For Suzuki (4:14)
6. Zen-Dub (3:22)
7. Allo Rechte (1:19)
8. Homo Religiosis (2:13)
9. Akasha (7:47)
10. Herrvoragende (2:18)
11. Narguile Toundra / La Grande Plante Fibreuse (5:47)
12. Aither Suite Part 1 (3:59)
13. Aither Suite Part 2 (1:43)
14. Aither Suite Part 3 (1:36)

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As always when I post something by Vox Populi!, here is the list of all their releases, available for free download or in physical format :

Physical releases available on blogs for free download :
Introduction À La Théorie De La Subjectivité Relative [Cassette, 1982]
Ectoplasmies [7", 1983]
La Cathédrale Morte [Cassette, 1985]
Myscitismes [LP, 1985]
Untitled (Imaginaires) [Cassette, 1985]
Sucre De Pastèque [Cassette, 1986]
Ébats Spirituels [Cassette, 1986]
Half Dead Ganja Music [Cassette, 1987]
Untitled (Créations Alternatives) [Cassette, 1988]
Aither [LP, 1989]
Face To Face Vol. 2 [LP, 1989]
Cthulhu Revisitation [CD, 2007]
1987-1990 [CD, 2008]

Available on the Internet only :
The Teen Recordings [1979-1981]
Open Skies [1986 / 1990]
Live, Excalibur, Paris [29th March 1988]
Neynarea [1988-1996]
Best Of Vox Populi! + Ethnyc [1985-1993]
Valley Of Capsules Plays Vox Populi! [2012]
La Cathédrale Morte [Remastered, 2012]
Ébats Spirituels [Remastered and Augmented, 2013]

Physical releases you can buy :
Cthulhu Revisitation [CD, 2007]
1987-1990 [CD, 2008]
Soft Entrance To Nature's Camino De Luz [Mini CD / FLAC, 2008]
Mystic Entertainment [CD, 2009]
Aramesh [CD, 2009]
Half Dead Ganja Music [LP, Remastered, 2013]
Funk Off [CD, 2013]

VOX PoPuLi! / VOX 231 - Ébats Spirituels

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Label : Nostalgie De La Boue [ndlb#23], Ivory Coast, 2013


After more than half a decade of alternative / independant / post-industrial / experimental music blogging, it seems obvious that french band Vox Populi! is very much cherished by many of us. The good news is that it is reciprocal : Vox Populi!'s frontman Axel Kyrou and his life/musical partner Mitra Khalatbari are some of the most blog sharing supportive artists I know. As a result, the nearly complete Vox Populi! discography is available on blogs for free download, especially on Atlantis Audio Archive, The Thing On The Doorstep, Nostalgie De La Boue and Art Of Losing. Some of us even posted unreleased material Axel had especially assembled for sharing on our blogs. See the list below for finding all that.
In the same spirit, Axel and Mitra proposed us to rediscover one of the band's early classics : the split cassette with VOX 231 released in 1986 by Cthulhu Records, "Ebats Spirituels". He remastered the original recordings and added some unreleased material from the same period he recently rediscovered after he had his Revox repaired. Sometimes this year, the second Vox Populi! cassette released by Cthulhu Records in 1987, "Half Dead Ganja Music" (that is in my opinion one of the best albums of the band, if not THE best), should be re-issued on vinyl. That's great news ! But if you ask me this is not enough : I think a large part of the music produced by Vox Populi! during the eighties and early nineties should be re-released on physical format. For example, I'm dreaming of a 5 or 6 LPs boxset on Vinyl-on-demand. And I'm sure I'm not the only one...


Vox Populi! physical releases available on blogs for free download :
Introduction À La Théorie De La Subjectivité Relative [Cassette, 1982]
Ectoplasmies [7", 1983]
La Cathédrale Morte [Cassette, 1985]
Myscitismes [LP, 1985]
Untitled (Imaginaires) [Cassette, 1985]
Sucre De Pastèque [Cassette, 1986]
Ebats Spirituels [Cassette, 1986]
Half Dead Ganja Music [Cassette, 1987]
Untitled (Créations Alternatives) [Cassette, 1988]
Aither [LP, 1989]
Face To Face Vol. 2 [LP, 1989]
Cthulhu Revisitation [CD, 2007]
1987-1990 [CD, 2008]

Available on the Internet only :
The Teen Recordings [1979-1981]
Open Skies [1986 / 1990]
Live, Excalibur, Paris [29th March 1988]
Neynarea [1988-1996]
Best Of Vox Populi! + Ethnyc [1985-1993]
La Cathédrale Morte [Remastered, 2012]
Valley Of Capsules Plays Vox Populi! [2012]

Vox Populi! releases you can buy :
Cthulhu Revisitation [CD, 2007]
1987-1990 [CD, 2008]
Soft Entrance To Nature's Camino De Luz [Mini CD / FLAC, 2008]
Mystic Entertainment [CD, 2009]
Aramesh [CD, 2009]


Tracklist :

1. VOX PoPuLi! - Opium (2:27)
2. VOX PoPuLi! - Ovan V (3:19)
3. VOX PoPuLi! - Echreman (1:48)
4. VOX PoPuLi! - Be Hedayat III (2:18)
5. VOX PoPuLi! - Bio Berim (2:28)
6. VOX PoPuLi! - Coutchoulouh (5:58)
7. VOX PoPuLi! - Be Mafu (3:22)
8. VOX PoPuLi! - La Nuni Kamenuna (2:07)
9. VOX PoPuLi! - Gatcham (2:31)
10. VOX PoPuLi! - Sunshine Boy's Earthly Meditation (1:12)
11. VOX PoPuLi! - Bozorg (1:29)
12. VOX PoPuLi! - Miss October (2:23)
13. VOX PoPuLi! - Sunshine Boy's Initiation (3:04)
14. VOX 231 - Whenna (2:35)
15. VOX 231 - Nephesh (2:48)
16. VOX 231 - Alkaest (4:12)
17. VOX 231 - Sol Invictus (4:35)
18. VOX 231 - Christus Janua Vera (6:21)
19. VOX PoPuLi! - Ondes Free Part 0 (0:29)
20. VOX PoPuLi! - Ondes Free Part 1 (0:47)
21. VOX PoPuLi! - Ondes Free Part 2 (3:00)

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Various Artists - Extremity Exhibition

Cassette, 2 x C60
Label : Technological Feeling, Italy
Ripped by Carlo


Tracklist :

A1. Armando Velasco + Armando Sanchez - El Sabado
A2. XY.M.NX. - $.D.O.Z.
A3. Costes Cassette - Debout Sur Tes Fesses
A4. Hybryds - Mè Hen Na
A5. Jean-Claude Charlier Et Son Orchestre - La Tristezza D'Un Cane
A6. La Sonorité Jaune - Anyone Can See I Love You
B1. Jean-Claude Charlier Et Son Orchestre - Voulmarre Voüllu
B2. Masters Of The Ungentlemanly Art - _____
B3. La Sonorité Jaune - Meaningless
B4. Parasophe - Pierre Vallin, Les Origines
B5. Vox Populi! - Mithra
B6. Audiopeste - Ho-Ha-Ho
C1. Armando Velasco + Vistas Fijas - Cumbiosis
C2. Bruno Cossano - Triumph Of The Crime
C3. TV Cherubs - Scheriproct (Part I)
C4. Costes Cassette - Costes Cassette Et Les Laids Bébés
C5. Negativ Person - My Body (During And After The Weariness)
C6. Hybryds - Ritual Beat
D1. Motva - Macabre Noire
D2. S Core - Matrix
D3. NY.M.NX. - Stratificazioni Di Acciaio
D4. Oto Von Oth + Philippe Fauconnier - Mr Lucien
D5. Juventudes Apatridas - Cultura Acera
D6. TV Cherubs - Scheriproct (Part 2)

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Various Artists - Osculum Infame 1

Cassette, C60
Label : M.T.T. Records, Italy, 1986
Comes with booklet
Ripped by Carlo


Tracklist :

A1. Pacific 231 - Thoh
A2. Mauro Teho Teardo - Assalto
A3. Massimo Toniutti - Antilirica/Brelirica
A4. Funharm - Ideal Planes
A5. De Fabriek - Drono III
A6. De Fabriek - Kbenzo.....Happy
B1. Ost Morbi - Coglione
B2. Vox Populi - Be Hedayat II
B3. Vox Populi - Taer
B4. F.A.R. - The New Dawn
B5. Alberto Fioricarones - Partenza Senza Viaggio
B6. Alberto Fioricarones - Prima Che La Strada Diventi Sentiero
B7. De Fabriek - Drono II
B8. De Fabriek - Kbenzo.....Happy

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Various Artists - France

Cassette, C90
Label : Harsh Reality Music, US, 1989


That cassette was part of a series of "national" compilations released by excellent US cassette label Harsh Reality Music.
Download as well The Netherlands and Spain.


Tracklist :

A1. X-Ray Pop - Touf Touf (3:23)
A2. Aehos - Rectitude No. 4 (12:52)
A3. Brume - Panzerfaust 3 (3:50)
A4. La Sonorité Jaune - Reha (3:12)
A5. Sempiternels - L'Annunciation (Du Vide) (7:28)
A6. Betrayal - Mauri (5:18)
A7. Vox Populi! - Let Us Get Higher (8:02)
A8. Hänzel & Gretzel - C'Est Le Père Sadique (1:53)
A9. Hänzel & Gretzel - Teutir Spregue (1:09)
B1. M. Nomized - The Girl In The Sweating Room (4:33)
B2. Das Synthetische Mischgewebe - Bloody Slime, Significant Symbol For The Force Of Tedious Habits (12:28)
B3. Costes - Fart In My Face (2:14)
B4. Bernard Donzel-Gargand & Philippe Moënne-Loccoz - Cellules (7:28)
B5. Totentanz - Future Prospects (4:33)
B6. RWA - Jesus Trash Can (2:48)
B7. Alain Basso - Poussières Dans L'Extase (4:04)
B8. X Non X - Loiseau Malade (2:18)
B9. Nos Yeux Aveugles - Z.T.T.01 (7:00)

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Various Artists - F-rants

Cassette, C90
Label : audiofile Tapes / S.J. Organisation, US / France, 1988


I usually try my best not to post anything that was posted elsewhere before. That wonderful "F-rants" compilation of french artists, put together by Pascal Dauzier, was recently posted here, but my rip was ready to close the S.J. Organisation series... So here it is.


Tracklist :

A1. The Grief - Automatic Piece (6:04)
A2. Lieutenant Caramel - Donald Au Moyen Age (5:59)
A3. La Sonorité Jaune - Hilessia (3:22)
A4. Cri Primal - Untitled (3:54)
A5. La Destination - Diaspora (6:20)
A6. S.T.P.O. - Idol (Live) (1:04)
A7. Le Syndicat - Presque (6:54)
A8. Galeshka Moravioff - Untitled (5:04)
A9. Élève Modèle - The Big Baboon By The Light Of The Moon (3:56)
B1. Étant Donnés - Mes Yeux Clos, C'Est Mon Coeur Entre Tes Mains (6:50)
B2. Orient Express - L'Offrande A Itzpapalotl (Live) (4:58)
B3. Pacific 231 - Mahol (2:01)
B4. S.T.P.O. - Non (Live) (1:12)
B5. Jérôme Noettinger - Le Macheur De Verre (8:15)
B6. Anne Gillis - Wohohin (3:33)
B7. Dreaming With Vox Populi - Luna Plexus (6:05)
B8. Pierre Perret - Excerpt From "Gaia, La Terre" (4:48)
B9. Aversion Sonore - Lai (6:57)

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Various Artists - Émergence Du Refus Volume 1

Cassette, C60
Label : Émergence Du Refus, France, 1986
Ripped by Rainier


It's time for a few "Émergence Du Refus" compilations, as requested by Tony Machette.


Tracklist :

A1. Vox Populi! - Carmino De Luz
A2. No Unauthorized - L'Enfant Malade
A3. Le Calvaire Du Samedi - Mordue Par Un Oeuf
A4. Costes Cassette - L'Avant-Garde, L'Amour
A5. Vae Soli - Solstice
A6. Isidore - Corridor
A7. L.O.S.P. - Hordes
B1. Jeff Laryngo - Aérophagie
B2. Axis Mixor - Untitled
B3. La Sonorité Jaune - Caresses Intimes
B4. Baudrite D. - Volumétrie
B5. 3 Jours & 3 Nuits - Testament De Dieu
B6. Formule Tag - Frankie (Live)
B7. Les Visiteurs Du Soir - Le Maudit
B8. Moïra XII - Untitled
B9. La Nébuleuse Sonore - Cymbales & Synthétiseur Pour Décompositions

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Vox Populi! - Introduction À La Théorie De La Subjectivité Relative

Cassette, C60
Label : Vox Man Records, France, 1982
Limited edition of 100 copies
Ripped by Rainier


"Only 100 copies of this cassette, which was the first VP! release, were released in 1982. That makes it one of our rarest items. These songs came out just after 'The Teens Recordings' featured above".
Axel Kyrou


Tracklist :

A1. 34210 (3:00)
A2. Syad (4:36)
A3. Sinuf (5:32)
A4. Ketchup Johns (2:57)
A5. Zone (5:05)
A6. Oyez Oyez (1:45)
A7. B. A. Bah! (1:40)
A8. Tac (2:36)
A9. Scoubidou 1 (0:45)
A10. Back To Lurp (1:12)
A11. Yep (0:23)
B1. Gosh (1:40)
B2. Après La Pluie (2:22)
B3. Operette (0:55)
B4. Vamp (2:11)
B5. Fnouf (1:42)
B6. Saft (1:12)
B7. Wosl (1:33)
B8. Pozl (0:58)
B9. Un Fantôme (1:20)
B10. Scoubidou 2 (0:54)
B11. For Ever (4:07)
B12. Lovely (2:11)
B13. Obsession (2:00)
B14. O. B. 31 (1:25)
B15. Subjectif? (3:27)

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Vox Populi! - The Teen Recordings

Unreleased recordings, France, 1979-1981


When I wrote Axel Kyrou that I wished to post the debut Vox Populi! cassette, "Introduction À La Théorie De La Subjectivité Relative", he answered that before I do so, he would like to offer earlier VP! recordings for sharing. He also sent the visual above and wrote the following statement to introduce these recordings :


'The Teen Recordings' were recorded between 1979 and 1981. These are the first and, yet, unreleased recordings by Vox Populi! As the title suggests, I made them during my teens (I'm from 1964), with some help from my elder brother Ariel on vocals, jaw's harp and percussion. I play synth, radio waves, video games, tapes, bass, guitar, jaw's harp and voices. I must say that we had a very encouraging family environment. Our father Ado was a great fan of any kind of unusual and extreme forms of music. I remember very well my father's PA being blown out by one of the first Whitehouse recordings ! He was a TV/film director and a writer. My mother Mireille is a musician and she had worked under Pierre Schaeffer's direction for a few years at the institution that became soon after the IRCAM. For sure, they were on our side and they did help in many ways. A big Thank is due to them.
I hope you'll enjoy these goofy DIY recordings made with very little means.
Wishing to you music lovers all the best,
Axel, for Vox Populi!

PS : apart from Nostalgie de la boue, you'll find many other VP! releases on 3 other musical blogs :
http://thethingonthedoorstep.blogspot.com/
http://misteriosoimpossivel.blogspot.com/
http://atlantisaudioarchive.blogspot.com/
It is our deliberate policy to make most of our music freely available. Vox Populi! returns to Populi, so...


To complete Axel's statement, here are the links of Vox Populi! releases available on blogs for download :
Ectoplasmies [7"]
La Cathédrale Morte [Cassette]
Myscitismes [LP]
Imaginaires [Cassette]
Ebats Spirituels [Cassette]
Half Dead Ganja Music [Cassette]
Untitled [Cassette]
Aither [LP]
Face To Face Vol. 2 [LP]
Cthulhu Revisitation [CD]
1987-1990 [CD]

And here are the most recent Vox Populi! releases you can buy :
Cthulhu Revisitation [CD]
1987-1990 [CD]
Soft Entrance To Nature's Camino De Luz [Mini CD / FLAC]
Mystic Entertainment [CD]
Aramesh [CD]

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