aw fuck, what a unique voice and sound. RIP
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link
awww shit
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link
RIPdude was from another planet. don’t know if I’ll ever fully comprehend transportes
― brimstead, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 22:05 (three years ago) link
aww! no. one of thee best. beyond unique.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcpD7DOvng
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 22:06 (three years ago) link
just listening to him for the first time now. diasporas. sort of prefigures late period Scott Walker
― Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 23:05 (three years ago) link
got into him right at the peak of an exhaustion with sample collage and was just grateful there seemed to be precedent for such a personal solution -- he sings his way right out of the trap, for such assembled music all the most important things aren't samples. those first three records quietly tower above, I could not love them more
these days the thing that hits me the most is the way his kids turn up in the music. normally, samples of kids are the worst cliche. somehow with him, keeping parenthood profound and mysterious and totally normal and beautiful
fave deep cut from a 1999 french comp - Ghédalia et Elie Tazartès - 'Titus & Annick' - https://we.tl/t-t3xJjPPQTx
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 05:36 (three years ago) link
thanks for that, Milton
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 05:39 (three years ago) link
hey wow, should have checked! so obscure it's on bandcamp with CDs still in stock (strong comp btw) - https://erratum.bandcamp.com/track/gh-dalia-tazartes-titus-annick
just sent a friend these recs
https://ghedalia-tazartes.bandcamp.com/track/assassins-1https://ghedalia-tazartes.bandcamp.com/track/transmalabarhttps://ghedalia-tazartes.bandcamp.com/track/motherhttps://ghedalia-tazartes.bandcamp.com/track/country-3
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 06:10 (three years ago) link
I hope there would be a possibility to preserve his apartment as some kind of home museum. Or at least document it thoroughly (à la Francis Bacon's studio). Tazartes' work exemplifies the notion of life-as-art.
― jvc, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 10:23 (three years ago) link
RIP
I listened to the first side of Une Eclipse Totale de Soleil for the first time - pretty exciting stuff. those pictures of his apartment and the interior work of art he created therein remind me of my first boyfriend.
― lord of the ting tings (map), Thursday, 11 February 2021 03:11 (three years ago) link
the emmanuelle parrenin / detlef weinrich album that tazartes appeared on (recorded in 2019 but released a month before his death) is one of my favorite albums of the year - reminds me heavily of brigitte fontaine + areski's collaborations, with a more obvious electronic element (weinrich = tolouse low trax)
https://ra.co/reviews/25426https://shop.versatilerecords.com/album/emmanuelle-parrenin-detlef-weinrich-jours-de-gr-ve-lp-verlp41
― donna rouge, Monday, 26 April 2021 22:39 (three years ago) link
thank you so much! had not heard of that.
― "Gaspar? No way." (sleeve), Monday, 26 April 2021 23:48 (three years ago) link