mueros

bit of a tradition at this time of year so here’s mine and i guess the others ‘ll put there’s when they get ’round to it.

its a bit of a top 11, ‘cos i couldn’t forget vic chesnutt not that there’s any real order.

I’m fairly sure all of these were released in 2009, but i could be wrong….

nisennenmondai – destination tokyo (smalltown supersound)
the acorn – glory hope mountain (bella union)
evangelista – the prince of truth (constellation)
animal collective – merriweather post pavillion (domino)
casiotone for the painfuilly alone – vs. children (tomlab)
sunn o))) – monoliths and dimensions (southern lord)
om – god is good (drag city)
current 93 – aleph at halucinatory mountain (durtro)
aethenor – faking gold and murder (vhf)
james blackshaw – the glass bead game (young god records)
vic chesnutt – at the cut (constellation)

there you go…. be seeing you…..

chris.

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Et un autre top 10 pour 2009… No real order…

apse – climb up
delphine dora – multitudes mongs from walt whitman’s leaves of grass
dysrhythmia – psychic maps
evangelista – the prince of truth
katatonia – night is the new day
louis sclavis – lost on the way
sunn o))) – monoliths and dimensions
themselves – crownsdown
zu – carboniferous
aethenor – faking gold and murder

let’s listen to 2010 now

Eric

right a bit of a chronological confusion last night so this is now an edited/corrected version….

Its taken nearly 2 months to get around to writing this post, but hey, things happen in the real world too.

I think we left off somewhere around brussels, in the middle of the whole thing, then things got more intense, messy and interesting, which are probably 3 words that would quite adequately describe mueros, so it all fits together.

So after Brussels we crossed another border to get to Tilburg, bit of a revelation really, well received, well fed, well watered by Jan and the crew at cul de sac, nothing really bad to say about this gig to be honest a few hiccups here and there. Even our friend Baz from Utrecht came over specially to see us which was fantastic. A late night, much drinking, partying, all good.

We managed to blag a filler gig in tournai, thanks to eric from maria goretti quartet the day after – more beer…. too much beer to be honest.

And finally Paris…. ah Paris, cramped streets, stressed out van logistics, certain members of the crew deciding not to sleep at all, but otherwise good. Sharing the bill with fellow niçois Hannah (fantastic show, and good to meet up in such exotic climes) and Zumabrek. We did ok for a first show in paris, good energy.

So thanks to everyone who helped and received us so cordially during the tour no room to mention names here so you all know who you are.

And of course a huge thanks to our tour companions Plimplim (live sound, opening sets wherever possible) and Steph Coda (video and lighting wherever possible).

In conclusion? …well it seems so long ago now i have evidently forgotten tons of details so i hope you enjoy the photos and the mp3 and can try to imagine the rest…. i’m sure the others will add their 3pence worth over the next few weeks. Steph is beavering away at the 23 hours of footage taken over the 2 week period, i’m sure there’ll be some fruits of his work to be seen soon.

well we ain’t any richer than we were before, and we don’t really care, onwards and upwards, that which does not kill us can only make us stronger – any questions?

Here’s an mp3 of ‘traces’ live at Nantes from the only audio recording of the tour:

Have a good 2010 everyone, watch this space….

love & peace

hey there, half the band is sick but we’re still here, heading into the home straight.

this is what is left of the tour van….

start with shouts….

big shouts to denis and le Kran (nantes) for everything

shouts to David, Nathaly and Nina for putting up with us in tours for longer than expected

shouts to Bastien and ouimaisnon in lille

and shouts to Jason in Brussels for putting us up here exactly where i’m writing this.

so what news from the front?

so the gig in the hague got cancelled last saturday and we just lazed around tours instead,

lille was yet another light and sparsely crowded concert but the vibe was good, and the competition was stiff (lot of gigs in lille and the area).

monday was spent bumming around a beach resort on the belgian coast, very cold, wet, impressive landscapes, long discussions about the future of music and the cost of mussels.

the famous english breakfast……

and finally last night brussels, a good place to play the cafe dada, good beer, a few people, finally playing in froeign climes and to a different mentality, noticable change.

good news is that we got a date for friday in tournai (BE) at the Cornwall, one less day off is probably a good thing.

anyway onwards and upwards…..

the advantage of not having a tour manager is that at least he won’t disappear with the money and the drugs

the disadvantage of not having a tour manager is that there is no money or drugs

good ambience in nantes, nobody there, but fond memories of a cool autonomous collective « run » by good, good people. thanks to them, we’ll be back….

and of course plimplim who joined the ranks in bordeaux did his thang live and proved invaluable on the sound front.

big night in tours last night, sharing the bill with the excellent k the i!!! and walter gross, fantastic joint improv between sets – mueros with a rapper and mpc dj – a crossroads between post-rock and hiphop, looking forward to future collaborations of this kind, if you were’nt there – tough shit for you!

ok that’ll do for now, next stop lille, tomorrow (081109)

later……..

peace and love.

english update by chris here….

french update by matthieu further down the page…….

remember remember the 5th of november!

guy fawke’s night

celebration of yet another failed attempt at revolution

so two nights into the tour, and no one has been left by the side of the road.

spirits are good, spirits are chasing us

lessons learnt wherever we go

the slow process of waking up at telepherique HQ, thinking about breakfast, coffee and cigarettes

moving on to nantes this afternoon, entering unknown territory, and we don’t have any maps, and the gps is just plain weird.

time to let someone say something in french…….

Réveil en douceur et dans la bonne humeur. Il pleut sur la cité girondine, ça change… Le départ pour Nantes est prévu vers 12h30 aujourd’hui ( »j’ai rencontré l’homme de ma viiiiie! Oh ooooooooo! »); Jérôme vient se greffer au groupe. La sixième patte de la bête, l’homme qui définira le son, la tête pensante et travailleuse. Le troisième concert s’annonce déjà prometteur. Aucun mal de tête(16ans et 18 ans d’âge, la qualité ne trompe  jamais!). Tout va bien.

peace and love to you all

see you on the other side

We have at last received the CDs from the pressing plant, finally its over, just got to sell the damn thing now….

you can buy it here at the very reasonable price of 12 Euros (P+P included),

or drop us a line and we can meet up over a coffee if your in the area (no P+P to pay)

or catch us on tour over the next two weeks (dates posted elsewhere on here)

Mueros

Press release

October 2009

‘du sang frais pour les uns’

…fresh blood for the chosen few, and shades of grey for all!

It is now autumn 2009, after two years of labour, mueros finally releases its latest album. Self-produced and recorded in various locations (their now defunct rehearsal space, their homes and at Echo Canyon [FR] in St. Jeannet). It is nearly an hour long and contains nine tracks some of which have yet to be played live.

From long four part post-rock symphonies (rien ne sera/all lies) to short blasts of primordial feedback (-k-) and even occasional bursts of tribal industrialism (the title track, open the doors) to Eno-inspired minimalism (echos), the album functions as a coherent ensemble representing mueros’ evolution, experimentation and pure obsession with noise and sound over the last two years.

The album will be officially released at the end of October 2009 when they play the volume in nice just before departing on a two week tour of France, Belgium and Holland to promote it.

peace and love to y’all.

ok, we’re near to being ready, and in spite of still having 2 dates left to book, its probably time to give out some info:

311009 – le Volume (Nice FR)
w Maria Goretti Quartet
6 rue Defly 06000 Nice – France

031109 – le baloard (Montpellier FR)
w Harris Matrix
21 boulevard Louis Blanc 34000 Montpellier – France

041109 – le Cafe des Moines (Bordeaux FR)
w Sylvain Caro
12 rue des Menuts, 33000 Bordeaux – France

051109 – le KRAN (Nantes FR)
w plimplim
3 rue de Bitche 44000 Nantes – France

061109 – Donald’s Pub (Tours FR)
w K the I??? + Walter Gross
16 rue de la Longue Echelle 37000 Tours – France

071109 – de Vinger (Den Haage NE)
25 Bagijnestraat 2511 CK Den Haag – Netherlands

081109 – la Chimère (Lille FR)
w ouimaisnon
95, boulevard Montebello 59000 Lille – France

101109 – Cafe DaDa (Brussels BE)
34 rue de la Violette 1000 Brussel – Belgium

111109 – tbc (any help would be welcome)

121109 – Cul de Sac (Tilburg NE)
48 Heuvel 5038 CS Tilburg – Netherlands

131109 – tbc (any help would be welcome)

141109 – Yono (Paris FR)
w Hannah, Wipping Willow, Zumabrek
37 rue vieille du temple 75004 Paris

and that’s it, come one, come all, we’ll have a ball!!

also any offers of help with lodgings would be welcome….

peace & love to y’all

here it is, une belle affiche, as they say round here, gonna be a big night that one.

here is a preview of the design that got sent off to the t-shirt manufacturers this week.

fantastic work by our dear friend pitou.

should have it on sale here and at concerts before the concert in nice.

voici le design du nouveau t-shirt ; magnifique travail de notre ami pitou.

Bientôt en vente ici et en concert.

p+l to all