chinese models
 

CATALOGUE - MAILORDER

Talitres

NEWS

Tour

Bands

Catalogue - Mail order

Distribution

Contacts

Newsletter

Links

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[February 04th, 2010]

>> Vinyls, vinyls ! Emily Jane White "Victorian America" and Le Loup "Family" available on vinyl version.

EMILY JANE WHITE 'Victorian America' x 2, double gatefold vinyl (includes coupon for free mp3 download of entire album)

LE LOUP 'Family" vinyl (include coupon for free mp3 download of the entire album)

EJW vinyl double gatefold

Available on our mailorder and soon in all the (good) european record stores.

>> LE LOUP on tour

le loup poster tour feb march 2010

  • 10 February: TOULOUSE - Le Saint des Seins (with Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains) - FR
  • 11 February: PAU / La Centrifugeuse - (with Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains) - FR
  • 12 February: BORDEAUX - Château Palmer - (with Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains) - FR
  • 13 February: TARRAGONA - Sala Zero - SPAIN
  • 14 February: VALENCIA - La Pepita (Mercado de Campanar) - SPAIN
  • 16 February: SANTANDER - Café de La Artes - SPAIN
  • 17 February: ANGLET - Ecuries de Bajora - FR
  • 18 February: NANTES - L'Olympic - (with Scary Mansion) - FR
  • 19 February: SAINTES - Théâtre Geoffroy Martel, Coconut Party - FR
  • 20 February: CHERBOURG - Epicentre tbc - FR
  • 21 February: POITIERS - Confort Moderne (with Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains) - FR
  • 23 February: PARIS - Le Cafe de La Danse - (with Scary Mansion) - FR
  • 24 February: ROUEN - L'Emporium - (with Scary Mansion) - FR
  • 25 February: ORLEANS - Astrolabe - (with Scary Mansion) - FR
  • 26 February: BRUXELLES - Le Botanique - BELGIUM
  • 27 February: NIMJEGEN - Doornroosje - THE NETHERLANDS
  • 28 February: BRUGGE - Cactus Club - BELGIUM
  • 02 March: BELFORT - La Poudrière - FR
  • 03 March: TOURCOING / Le Grand Mix - (with Scary Mansion) - FR
  • 04 March: STRASBOURG / La Laiterie - (with Scary Mansion) - FR
  • 05 March: ST GALLEN / Grabenhalle - (with Scary Mansion) - SWITZERLAND
  • 06 March: TOULON - Omega Live - (with Scary Mansion) - FR

 

[Nov. 23th, 2009]

>> FRANCOIS AND THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS on tour

  • 03 Dec. 09: PARIS / Espace B - FR
  • 04 Dec. 09: BORDEAUX / Le CAPC (with Vetiver, Julie Doiron) - FR
  • 15 Dec: TOULOUSE / Les Musicophages - FR
  • 16 Dec: ANGLET/ Les Ecuries de Baroja - FR
  • 10 February 2010: TOULOUSE / Le Saint des Seins (with Le Loup) - FR
  • 11 February: PAU / La Centrifugeuse (with Le Loup) - FR
  • 12 February: BORDEAUX / Château Palmer (with Le Loup) - FR
  • 15 February: COLMAR / Musée du Jouet - FR
  • 21 February: POITIERS / Le Confort Moderne (with Le Loup) - FR

[September 17th, 2009]

>> SCARY MANSION - "Make Me Cry" - out, october 26th

Leah Hayes is the mastermind behind the Brooklyn-based rock group SCARY MANSION. After playing for several years as an Antifolk singer/songerwriter, Hayes picked up bassist Bradley Banks, and former-Fugue-member Ben Shapiro. She then found herself fronting a wild rock band. "I still write the songs and sing, but I like having boys making crazy noise behind me.

Though Scary Mansion is surely the world's only thunderstick/bass/drums rock trio, the band is most notable for its rare mix of sentimental melody and rocky noise, often likened to Weezer and The Pixies. Hayes's lyrics embody the alienated cleverness of Morrissey or Stephen Merritt. On "Scum Inside", she laments, "When I think of all the scum inside, I just die." On the chorus of "1%", she recites over and over, "You 1% like yourself." And all the while the music goes from clean to distorted, from comforting to explosive.

Scary Mansion's newest record, "Make Me Cry", comes out on Talitres Records in Europe on October 2009.

[August 30, 2009]

>> EMILY JANE WHITE new album "Victorian America", out october 12th

The Emily Jane White second full-lenght "Victorian America", recorded in San Francisco and Portland, will be released on october 12th. More informations on this release soon. Emily Jane White is currently on tour in Germany, and will be back in Europe to support this new release late november, early december.

EMILY JANE WHITE - "Victorian America" // 1 - Never Dead - 2. Stairs - 3. Victorian America - 4. The Baby - 5. Frozen Heart - 6. The Country Life - 7. Liza - 8. The Ravens - 9. Red Serpent - 10. Red Dress - 11. A Shot Rang Out - 12. Ghost Of Horse

[August 05, 2009]

>> LE LOUP - new album "Family" - out, september 21st

Like most families, Le Loup has grown since its inception. What began as the bedroom project of Sam Simkoff is now a full-sized band, with all five members contributing vocals and songwriting credits. The band's music - originally a blend of keyboard loops, banjo, and computer wizardry - has grown as well, encompassing everything from shape note harmonies to polyphonic percussion.

Simkoff and band-mate Christian Ervin produced Family themselves, having previously worked together on the band's debut, The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly (2007). Unlike that first album, Family doesn't rely on synthesizers or electronic support. Instead, the musicians took a more elemental approach, capturing the organic sounds of their instruments before treating them with various effects.

The result is an album of experimental rock songs and campfire sing-alongs, set amidst swirling textures and murky production. Le Loup is still a young family, of course, but Family is nothing short of a musical coming-of-age, and adulthood never sounded so promising.

>> FRANCOIS AND THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS - "Plaine Inondable", out september 2009

Frànçois came to Bristol from France in September 2003. He drew a picture and put a note in a window announcing his arrival, and asking people to make music with him. He started going to car-boot sales to find some instruments he could use. Overnight, Frànçois won the hearts out of this town. Well of course, he’s a sweet kid, but he’s also armed with an eager sense of adventure and a keen taste for pop thrills.

In January 2004 he played his first live show, taking to the stage alone, making use of keyboards (played with his foot), a guitar, live samples and a drum machine, mixing playful and experimental ideas with his natural pop-tune sensibilities and sweet bilingual vocals. The string of live performances he has since played has all been eagerly anticipated and utterly charming. Musically, you could say he is reminiscent of STEREO TOTAL, VELVET UNDERGROUND, HOOD, and FRANÇOISE HARDY and yet he is also like nothing else at all.

In 2008 Fránçois took a break and went back to live with his parents in France with the intention to stop the music side of things and to hide behind his brushes and watercolour paints. There he found support from a bunch of local friends who convinced him to do some recordings of the works he had prepared for a show in Paris at the Centre Pompidou. The recordings of “Plaine Inondable” took place partly in Charente-Maritime and partly in the Basques Country. For those sessions the musicians were the polyphonic quintet Bost Gehio and members from Unkle Jelly Fish.

[May 25, 2009]

>> FOREST FIRE

FOREST FIRE (album "Survival") at LA ROUTE DU ROCK FESTIVAL / PALAIS DU GRAND LARGE (w/ Papercuts) ST MALO (FRANCE), August 15th.

>> THE WALKMEN

  • 16 July: BENICASSIIM / Benicassim Festival - SPAIN
  • 18 July: LISBONNE / Super Bock, Super Rock Festival - PORTUGAL

[APRIL 15th, 2009]

>> BE MY WEAPON - 'march/2009'

BE MY WEAPON is DAVID FREEL / SWELL (guitars, vocals, etc…) and RON BURNS (drums). The album was mostly recorded at ‘The Pink Boot’ studio in the western cascade mountains of Oregon, starting around august 2008, and ending in march 2009 (with two months spent touring in the middle).

For some reason, David Freel started writing a whole load of songs in 2007 (ditto 2008): 10 of these songs were used on Swell’s last album ‘South Of The Rain And Snow’ and 10 are used here on Be Me Weapon’s.

[March 20, 2009]

>> FOREST FIRE - "Survival", out april 27th

"Homegrown hymns for those with no religion." FOREST FIRE is a band from Brooklyn, NY and Portland, Oregon. We're happy to announce that we will release their full-lenght in France, Germay, Austria, Switzerland and Benelux on april 27th. The story of "Survival"....

>> SCARY MANSION - french tour late april, early may. Album "Every Joke Is Half The Truth" out now :

  • 22 April: PARIS / La Maroquinerie *
  • 23 April: GRENOBLE / Le Ciel*
  • 24 April: AJACCIO / L'Aghja*
  • 25 April: BOURGES / Le Printemps de Bourges Festival, L'Auditorium (with Bonnie Prince Billy)
  • 27 April: CLERMONT FERRAND / Le Rat Pack
  • 28 April: BORDEAUX / Le Saint Ex
  • 29 April: CAEN / L'Espace Puzzle*
  • 30 April: VENDOME / La Chapelle*
  • 01 Mai: NIORT / Le Bristrot de L'Eclusier

* Festival Les Femmes S'en Mèlent

[Feb. 09, 2009]

>> SCARY MANSION - "Every Joke Is Half The Truth"

To say that Leah Hayes is poised for greatness would be underselling how much she’s already accomplished in her 26 years. Massachusetts-bred Hayes attended art school in New York before moving to France where she played in a band called Satan’s Fingers, collaborating with David Ivar from underground pop legends Herman Dune. Growing up playing piano and guitar, Hayes also took up the Thunderstick, an Appalachian instrument similar in tone to the banjo. Her collection of ballpoint pen notebook illustrations Holy Moly was published by Fantagraphics in 2004 and her first graphic novel, Funeral of the Heart, was published in April, 2008. >>...>>>

SCARY MANSION ON TOUR IN APRIL 2009

  • 22 April: PARIS / La Maroquinerie * // FRANCE
  • 23 April: GRENOBLE / Le Ciel* // FRANCE
  • 24 April: AJACCIO / L'Aghja* // FRANCE
  • 30 April: TOURCOING / Le Grand Mix* // FRANCE

    * Festival Les Femmes S'en Mèlent

    more to come....

>> EMILY JANE WHITE // EURO TOUR, FEB. / MARCH 2009

>> FRANCE

  • 13 Feb. : TULLE / Les Lendemains Qui Chantent
  • 14 Feb.: TOURS / Le Donald's Pub
  • 15 Feb.: TOURCOING / Le Grand Mix (w/ Essie Jain)
  • 16 Feb.: PARIS / La Maroquinerie, Festival Les Nuits de l'Alligator
  • 17 Feb.: FEYZIN / L'Epicerie Moderne
  • 18 Feb.: POITIERS / Le Confort Moderne
  • 19 Feb.: TOULOUSE / Samba Résille
  • 20 Feb.: HYERES / Le Théâtre Denis
  • 21 Feb.: CLUSES / L'Atelier
  • 23 Feb.: LIONS SUR MER / L'Hôtel de La Plage
  • 24 Feb.: BREST / Le Vauban
  • 25 Feb.: EVREUX / L'Abordage
  • 26 Feb.: NANCY / L'Autre Canal

and GERMANY

  • 27 Février: DUISBURG / Steinbruch - GERMANY
  • 28 Février: WREDENHAGEN / Cafe Scheune- GERMANY
  • 01 Mars: HAMBURG / Grüner Jäger - GERMANY
  • 02 Mars: MÜNSTER / Pumpenhaus - GERMANY
  • 03 Mars: MÜNCHEN / Feierwerk, Organge - GERMANY
  • 04 Mars: LANGENAU / Kapilio - GERMANY
  • 05 Mars: TÜBINGEN / Sudhaus - GERMANY
  • 07 Mars: VIRNEBURG (Eifel) / Wohnzimmer mit Galerie - GERMANY

[Dec. 1st, 2008]

>> RALFE BAND in ITALY

  • Thursday 11 December, RIMINI, IT / Velvet (+ Eugene McGuinness + Lilli Burlero)
  • Friday 12 December, VILLAFRANCA DI VERONA (Vr), IT / Arci Kroen (+ Duo Ex Machina)
  • Saturday 13 December, TARCENTO (Ud), IT / Villa De Rubeis Florit (+ Maurizio Abate)

[Nov. 05, 2008]

>> SWELL - "The Lost Album"

SWELL - "The Lost Album"

1. bongstarr 2. wy don't you leave 3. so would i 4. two dimes in the sun 5. easy 6. fuc yew 7. what i saw 8. bitter friends 9. sunshine everyday

 

 

recorded in LA, SF, and NY sometime between '95 and '97

"i believe they have all been released sometime, somewhere... either as promo cds or german eps or 7" vinyl or something pretty damn obscure... I doubt that anyone has them all, but it's possible - i don't have them all. this i am sure of..." D. Freel / Swell

[August 12, 2008]

>> RALFE BAND - "Attic Thieves" - out october 13th, 2008

Continuing from 'Swords', their brilliant dada road-movie debut on Skint Records, 'Attic Thieves' confirms Ralfe Band a special place as one of England's most original, melodic and richly poetic bands.

Inside its old mirrored room you will find Oly Ralfe's latest almanac of twelve richly varied songs and instrumentals. The recordings here range from the beautifully personal to the eerily comic, with song lyrics peppered with mysterious alter-egos, all reflecting an inventive band journeying across a dreaming landscape uniquely Ralfe Band's....>>>.....

[July 29, 2008]

>> THE WALKMEN - You & Me, out soon on Talitres for France, Switzerland, Benelux, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, Poland, Greece and Austria

The music that inspired the Walkmen to compose You and Me follows in a tradition of song writing that goes back to early rock 'n' roll: the intimacy and energy of Elvis Presley's and Buddy Holly's early recordings, and the massive voice and orchestration of Roy Orbison. And it carries on through people like Bob Marley and Randy Newman and on to bands like The Pogues and The Modern Lovers - the sort of songs that are very much a product of their time and place while firmly rooted in tradition. The vocals were performed live right in the room with the full band, and sometimes a horn section too

[July 2, 2008]

>> (Swell) - "South Of The Rain And Snow", album (digipack) avaible through Talitres; out in France, Switzerland, the Benelux

SWELL - BIO

"The Lost Album" - nine "tracks that got left behind" from Swell's recording sessions for 1997 LP Too Many Days Without Thinking. A "Lost" but "fantastic" album - out in october.

(Swell) european tour (France, Benelux, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, etc...): october / november 2008

[March 13, 2008]

>> EMILY JANE WHITE - "Dark Undercoat" ; new release ! new project !

Armed with little more than an acoustic guitar and her fragile alto, San Francisco folk singer/songwriter Emily Jane White offers complex tales of melancholy and isolation. While comparisons to contemporaries like Cat Power and Hope Sandoval are frequent, Emily's music owes a clear debt to classic female jazz and blues singers such as Billie Holiday.>>>

EMILY JANE WHITE ON TOUR /// FESTIVAL LES FEMMES S'EN MELENT (µ):

  • 22/04: LAUSANNE / Le Romandie (CH.)
  • 23/04 : PARIS / Le Point Ephémère µ
  • 24/04: BORDEAUX / Le Son'Art µ
  • 25/04: GRENOBLE / Le Ciel µ
  • 26/04 : METZ / Les Trinitaires µ

[Feb. 15, 2008]

>> THE SLEEPING YEARS - "We're Becoming Islands One By One" / Release date: March 17th, 2008

We’re becoming islands one by one’ is the debut album by Dale Grundle’s new project The Sleeping Years.

Recorded in London, it follows on from the successful trilogy of EPs released in 2007. Born in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, Dale started his first band Catchers while at school. Their debut album ‘Mute’ was recorded with Mike Hedges in France and released on Setanta Records.

Produced by Dale, ‘We’re becoming islands…’ features songs influenced by the language and culture of his home in Ireland. Dale sings of people trying to stay connected in a world seemingly designed to keep them apart. The album even features a Dictaphone recording of his father speaking by the lockkeeper’s cottage where he grew up. >>>>

[JAN. 06, 2008]

>> IDAHO - "The Forbidden ep ~ Alas: Special Edition" - out, feb. 11th 2008

It was during rare moments of cool sunlight that Jeff Martin (IDAHO) was able to create his last release 'The Lone Gunman" (Talitres, 2005) amidst a trial by fire initiation into the corporate world of TV scoring. But now, with a writers' strike shutting down the industry, he is free to pursue his true love. Half way into the completion of the next release, he sees it fit to re-release the now out of print The Forbidden ep /Alas '97/'98 on one CD. These records represented an unexpected turn from Idaho's beautifully bombastic rocker "3 sheets to the wind" '96, paired down from a full size band to a duo. These 2 long out of print cd's represent a study in economy and subtlety that still sound fresh and new today. The last song "the sun is all there is" gives the listener a hint of what to follow a few months later at the millennium change with " Hearts of Palm" which was voted one of the top five releases of the year by French paper "Libération" along with Radiohead and Johnny Cash.

The commercial edition comes in a deluxe digisleeve packaging and with an extra disc that include some cues Jeff wrote for the score for the film "How to make the cruelest month" in 1997 between recording 'The Forbidden e.p.' and "Alas".

And, finally, IDAHO on tour in Europe - february 2008:

  • 30 Jan. 08: FORLI / Diagonal - IT.
  • 31 Jan. 08: MILANO / Magnolia - IT.
  • 01 Feb. 08: FIRENZE / Vipers - IT.
  • 02 Feb. 08: VILLAFRANCA DI VIRONA / Acri Kroen - IT.
  • 03 Feb. 08: BOLOGNA / Locomotic - IT
  • 06 Feb. 08: LAUSANNE / Le Bourg - CH.
  • 08 Feb. 08: ROUEN / L'Emporium - F.
  • 09 feb. 08: DIKSMUIDE / 4AD (with Trumans Water + The Bugs) - www.4ad.be - BEL
  • 10 feb. 08: BRUXELLES / Botanique (La Rotonde) -www.botanique.be - BEL
  • 11 Feb. 08: WEINHEIM / Cafe Central - GER.
  • 12 Feb. 08: LEIPZIG / Conne Island - GER
  • 13 Feb. 08: MUNCHEN / Orangehouse - GER
  • 14 Feb. 08: VIENNA / B72 - AUT.
  • 15 Feb. 08: ERLANGEN / E-Werk - GER
  • 16 Feb. 08: DRESDEN / Beatpol - GER.
  • 17 Feb. 08: HAMBURG / Knust - GER.
  • 19 Feb. 08: BERLIN / tba - GER.
  • 21 Feb. 08: ROUBAIX / La Condition Publique - FR.
  • 22 feb. 08 : PARIS / La Maroquinerie (with Le Loup) - www.lamaroquinerie.fr - FR.
  • 23 Feb. 08: BELFORT / Festival Generiq - FR.
  • 24 Feb. 08: ST MALO / La Chapelle St Sauveur - Festival La Route Du Rock, Collection Hiver - FR.
  • 26 Feb. 08: POITIERS / Le Confort Moderne - FR.
  • 27 Feb. 08: LYON / Le Sirius - FR.
  • 28 Feb. 08: GRENOBLE / Le Ciel - FR.

>> THE SLEEPING YEARS

The Sleeping Years is the solo project for ex-Catchers singer-songwriter Dale Grundle. After three EPs (limited edition, beautiful artwork and packaging) in march, june, then october 2007, Talitres will released on march 17th, 2008 The Sleeping Years debut album.

>>> Trash Can News