[larr25] michel henritzi . walking with the shadows
Figura muy activa en la experimentación sonora francesa, entre el background de Michel Henritzi se encuentra la dirección de los sellos A Bruit Secret y Turtle´s Dreams, y la escritura en magazines como Revue&Corrigée y Sound Projector, entre otros. Su trabajo como músico esta sobre todo ligado a los intimidantes Dustbreeders, una brutal banda basada en las posibilidades del feedback como medio de agresión. En su actual faceta en solitario, como siempre en él muy basada en la improvisación, se expresa tan solo a través de la guitarra y un amplificador, mostrándonos su lado mas introspectivo, y melancólico. Este "caminando con las sombras", grabado en directo, es una buena muestra de ello. Tomando ideas del blues y la música japonesa, incluyendo una cuidada utilización del silencio, su música posee una muy intensa pero elegante carga emotiva, a veces casi opresiva en su descripción de paisajes solitarios y sombríos. Paisajes que enraízan perfectamente con las fotografías de su habitual colaboradora Kumiko Marino y su serie "Walking in the shadow", de la que forma parte la imagen que ilustra este lanzamiento.
1.sake’s dreams .mp3 .flac
2.clouds go faraway.mp3 .flac
3.kabuki-cho lights die at dawn .mp3 .flac
4.backyard .mp3 .flac
5.walkin in the shadow .mp3 .flac
1.sake’s dreams .mp3 .flac
2.clouds go faraway.mp3 .flac
3.kabuki-cho lights die at dawn .mp3 .flac
4.backyard .mp3 .flac
5.walkin in the shadow .mp3 .flac
Michel Henritzi – guitar & amp
1 – sake’s dreams
2 – clouds go faraway
3 – kabuki-cho lights die at dawn
4 – backyard
5 – walkin in the shadow
These silent songs are inspired by black and white slide pictures of Kumiko Karino. Picture sleeve is issued from "Walking in the shadow" series by Kumiko Karino (c).
Recorded live at Pannonica, Nantes, the 18 January 2008
Thanks to Rinji Fukuoka, Frédo & Pannonica crew.
About
This project is improvisations around blues mood, i don’t play blues, just with idea of blues. I play on a slide pictures show of a japanese young photographer named kumiko karino. It is a meeting with 2 loneliness visions of japan life, we are both interested by wasteland, backyards & junkyards, kind of empty places and shadows. I used her pictures like a score with black & white passages. I don’t look really pictures during the concert, just i feel their mood and lights changing. It is like silence and noise, speed or slow in music. I always be interested by feedback, play abstract blues is kind of history feedback. I stayed 4 months in japan last year and i wanted work with my feeling and experiences of this country too. I could listen lot of enka music (sentimental & melancolic songs from 60s and 70s), kind of japan blues. i try put this feeling in my music. I must say im melancolic guy. In music i always been interested by junk part of music like amp hum, feedback, wrong playing, mistakes, silences, crakles on vinyls … things than most of musicians try to erase. It is ghost part of music, i love them. Unconsciensness of music play inside that. Before this solo project i played in abstract way with loud noises, maybe today i want tell stories, find more direct link with audience.
I was involved in industrial bands in 80s and runned a cassette label AKT. I released some stuffs with a french band NOX and internationnal compilation with Nurse with Wound, Die Form, Sprung aus den wolken, Etant Donné … at this time i played noise guitar & tapes. Some years later i start another band with friends DUSTBREEDERS. We work on sound installations and performances. We used only vinyl eaters (mange-disques), kind of box turntables connected on guitar amp. We play feedback in loud way. Sometimes with the japanese screamer from Hijokaidan : JUNKO.
Webs
http://michelhenritzi.canalblog.com/
http://www.myspace.com/michelhenritzi
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=sx7fVorDy8k
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=yTBd_gajfBE
http://www.dailymotion.com/mychannel/shangsa/video/x6fevb_michel-henritzi-kumiko-karino-walki_music
Michel Henritzi – guitars, lapsteel, amp ...
From abstract blues to noise.
Perform with : Kumiko Karino, Junko, Rinji Fukuoka, A Qui Avec Gabriel, Masayoshi Urabe, Chie Mukaï, Tamio Shiraishi, Mico, Yukiko Nakamura, Tetuzi Akiyama, Taku Sugimoto, Shin’ichi Isohata, Toshimaru Nakamura, Masafumi Ezaki, Ami Yoshida, Ito Atsuhiro, Jojo Hiroshige, Fumio Kosakai, Kiyoharu Kuwayama, Tetsuo Furudate, Mattin, Miguel Prado, Ivar Grydeland, Luca Massolin, Quentin Dubost, Bruno Fernandes, Nicolas Moulin, Fergus Cullen, A (aka Greg Henrion), Aya Onishi & the Nihilist Spasm Band.
Member of : Dustbreeders (w. Yves Botz and Thierry Delles), Howlin’Ghost Proletarians (w. Fabrice Eglin), Mile of String (w. Thierry Delles) O Death Jug (w. Christophe Langlade)
Concerts in : France, Japan, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Belgie, Neederland, Germany, Danemark, England and Ireland.
Discography :
Michel Henritzi "Yokohama No Shadows" CD - Dyin' Ghosts (fra) 2013
Michel Henritzi & Rinji Fukuoka "Le Jardin Bizarre" CD - An'archives (fra) 2013
Michel Henritzi & Junko "Fear of Music" 7' - L'Esprit de l'Escalier (usa) 2013
Michel Henritzi & Junko "Live/Dead" CDR - Les Champs Brûlent (fra) 2012
Michel Henritzi & Rinji Fukuoka "Outside Darkness" CD - PSF (japon) 2011
Michel Henritzi "Walking in the Shadow" CDR - N.O.T (fra) 2011
Michel Henritzi "Kyoto No Tsuki & Dyin' Shadows" CDR - Dyin Ghost Rec. (fra) 2011
Michel Henritzi & Junko "Berlin No Tsuki" CDR - Tochnit-Aleph (germany) 2010
Michel Henritzi, Junko & E+S=B "Dublin No Tsuki" CDR - Last Of Our Kind (ireland) 2009
Michel Henritzi, Junko & Masayoshi Urabe "Ecstasy of the Angels" CD - Opposite (usa) 2009
Michel Henritzi "Shinjuku Blues & Whispering Shadows", CDR - Dyin'Ghost records (fra) 2009
V.A "Inner Ends of the Coils", CDR - Nothing Out There (fra) 2009
Michel Henritzi "Walking with the Shadows" MP3 - Laraskito (spain) 2009
Michel Henritzi, Junko, Aya Onishi & Rinji Fukuoka "Live", CDR - Anarchives (fra) 2008
Michel Henritzi, Junko & Mattin "Je t'aime!" CDR - Absurd (greece) 2008
Michel Henritzi "Nothing" CDR - Dyin'Ghost records (fra) 2008
Michel Henritzi, Shin'ichi Isohata, Xavier Charles "duo(s)" CDR - o-musubi (japon) 2008
Michel Henritzi & Tetuzi Akiyama "broken blues" CDR - Absurd (greece) 2007
Michel Henritzi (feat. Bruce Russ ell, Taku Unami, Shin’ichi Isohata, Mattin) " Keith Rowe serves Imperialism " CD - wmo/r (eusk) 2006
Michel Henritzi, Rinji Fukuoka & Kumiko Karino " Live at U.F.O Club " DVD- There (japon) 2006
Michel Henritzi / Brandon Labelle / Minoru sato / Guiseppe Ielasi / Achim Wollscheid " Social Music " Book + CD - Errant Bodies (usa) 2002
V.A " Meeting at Offsite vol.1 " CD - IMJ (japon) 2002
Howlin'Ghost Proletarians "The Last Farewell" miniCDR - Nothing Out There (fra) 2009
Howlin’Ghost Proletarians " The Singer " CDR - Absurd (greece) 2006
Howlin’Ghost Proletarians " Dead Roads " CDR - Absurd (greece) 2004
Dustbreeders & Junko "s.t" DVDR - 0E dans l'O (france) 2006
Dustbreeders / Guilty Connector " Bells " CDR - Utsu Tapes (japon) 2003
Dustbreeders & Junko " Mommy Close the Door " CD - Starlight Furnitures (usa) 2003
Dustbreeders " Le Proces Cannibal " LP - Elevage de Poussière (France) 1999
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