This year, the featured projects are Me In The Bath (with three albums) and Still Living Creature (with one EP)
The releases
All of these releases
- are made available as free, or donation supported (if you wish so) digital download
- are Creative Commons BY-NC-SA open-licensed
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Still Living Creature - Rogue Analog
The contribution of the project to the Netlabel Day 2016
4 tracks EP. Featured track : 01 - Rogue Analog
download : mp3 ogg flac mmpz " The concept behind Rogue Analog took birth on a saturday evening at the dirty end of the winter 2015-2016, it was actually gracefully given as a catchy name by Fulvio, as an idea, a guideline for a future release. Shangril thought that it was a good idea to cease to dig in the more and more experimental way with Still Living Creature and to try to write a few tracks with an aesthetic, like a vision of a future has seen from an already ancient past, with flashy leds and analog sound.
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Me In The Bath - Au Fond Du Parc
a live record with two guest musicians in an acoustic trio configuration
7 tracks album. Featured track : 02 - Past Time
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" Mostly playing improvisated, energic and catchy alternative rock tracks, Me In The Bath in an acoustic trio configuration featuring Le morse and Fulvio, played in the Janneyrias' park on June 25, 2016. Singing about geting old, life & death, cars passing by and the necessity to express something, the band did not forget to include two versions of some of its most popular songs, "Dreamin" and "Somethin" -
Me In The Bath - Something I Had To Tell You
a solo studio full-length, his second one for this year to date, blending the rock and noisepop, lofi influences that are usual to the project, with a strong perfume of Velvet Underground, early Beck and Pixies harmonics and sound
13 tracks album. Featured track : 05 - Middle
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" In a nuanced and coloured album, with a first half demanding to the audience and difficult, and a second phase more easy and relaxing, Me In The Bath is here to speak about the emptyness of living in the far suburbs and spend time at the cornershop, the magic of the bus line that would drive you downtown, the fact of dealing with sickness and a way too hard world to live in, and overall, the feeling of love saw as an idealistic goal giving to life its sense, for a comprehensive picture of what is the artist's view about the world, in his such idiosyncratic manner of making music -
Me In The Bath - First Birthday Party
a live solo acoustic record focusing on the lofi-folk side of the project
Featured track : 03 - My Toundra
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" Being back for a solo concert played in a garden chair at the occasion of a private party -and you can distinctly hear the tots shouting and running all around the artist :), Shangri-l is here with his unimitable rough sound and straightforward performing technique, with a mix of some improvisated tracks just singin' which feeling is flowing in the air, and some of the better-known of its popular songs, like "You", "La Numéro Un" or "My Toundra"... And "Something"
Participating label artists
Me In The Bath
Set up by the songwriter and multi-instrumentist Nicolas "Shangri-l" Chartoire upon the ashes of his solo carreer, Me In The Bath is an open club welcoming from time to time various musicians, mostly coming from somehow notable past bands from the Nord-Isère scène such as Gorbie's Stuff or Brainless On Line.The project started in october 2010 with the publication of "Not One Soul To Love Me" which would eventually end up on the "Together We Stand" EP in 2011. Over years, Me In The Bath proven to be a consistent player in the fields of libre culture and rockin' noisepop.
This year, Me In The Bath presents three recordings for the event.
These releases are coming after Introducing Snakes In Ireland published this Spring, that has been described by the band as a major turn and acclaimed by the circle of fans that uses to follow this music project.
Still Living Creature
Due as well to Shangri-l who uses this moniker for his work in the field of electronic music, Still Living Creature, while recording electro/house tracks since the late 90's, really started in 2007 with the recording of Lost Tracks EP.Initially prefiguring what is now called the "minimal scene" with slow-tempo and very melodic tunes, Still Living Creature evolved over time to a kind of somehow experimental but yet melodic IDM.
Now the project is heading back to its electro-house roots of its earlier eras, going back to the dancefloors with some kind of raw but appealing material for this newest EP.