★Editions Gravats
Le Présent
Opéra Mort - collaborators of the late, great Ghédalia Tazartès in Reines D’Angleterre - float their first new suite of roving, hallucinatory electro-acoustic works in 4 years on a return to Brittany’s Editions Gravats label.
Archives 2/3
A second batch of weirdo curveballs from Laurent Petitgrand’s cult French duo Geins’t Naït, pumping a bad belly full of french industrial grot and slop recorded between 1986-1993.
Gag Flag
After scrawling his name on releases with close affiliates the Mannequin (Laugh Tool, MNQ 080LP, 2016) and Unknown Precept (A-Tranquility, PRECEPT 003EP, 2014), new Brussels transplant Maoupa Mazzocchetti finds good company among the oddballs on Editions Gravats for Gag Flag's blend of avant-dance music and absurdist experimental pop. For Gag Flag, Mazzocchetti adopts the persona of Snippet Boy, a fictional avatar who first came to life in his live shows, and now on the album sleeve. Lurking beh…
Vu Du Dome
Mutant troubadour Laurent Gérard, aka Èlg, makes an ideal addition to the misfits at Editions Gravats with Vu Du Dôme, a patently strange record resembling a sort of cryptic opera or the dramaturgy of a waking dream. Leading listeners up the garden path after the Mauve Zone album (NP 021LP, 2016), the French-Belgian artist's latest album feels like a stroll around a topiary maze at twilight on a warm night, with Èlg acting as a spectral protagonist narrating/ranting in first person while a…
Jimi W
Low Jack’s Gravats label returns with this limited vinyl-only LP featuring mind-smudging dancefloor edits of Black Zone Myth Chant’s Judgement Mixtape. Essentially hybridizing DJ Screw’s slompy psychedelia with the cosmic tang of Hieroglyphic Being, the five cuts on Jimi W explore heavy-lidded junctures of refractive, oily rhythms and warped chromatic vibes in a bow to ancient, mystic dance spirits and the enduring inspiration of 4th world, new age musicks.Homing in and expanding upon details of…
Mane Thecel Phares
*Re-press edition of 200 copies - Exceptional slab of squashed, Afro-centric psychedelia and hypnotic Footwork from Low Jack’s Editions Gravats label made in an edition of 350 copies* Low Jack and Jean Carval’s Gravats label open 2015 with a killer new album from prolific psych-drone artist High Wolf under his Black Zone Myth Chant alias. ‘Mane Thecel Phares’ is a wigged-out trip thru Afro-centric, riddim-driven psychedelia, breaking down the boundaries between Sun Ra, DJ Screw, and Vox P…