A most useful tip! Pity I missed them in SF by a year...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 September 2020 00:58 (three years ago) link
Wowowow, last week I came closer than ever to shelling out a fortune for Shadow, Thief so I'm so glad I saw this.
― ed.b, Friday, 25 September 2020 02:15 (three years ago) link
awesome, yeah get in here ILM lurkers and fans, these are gonna sell out soon
― sleeve, Friday, 25 September 2020 03:08 (three years ago) link
FYI the 1st "unreleased" album (The End Of Nothing, The Beginning Of Everything) is actually the previously-grey-area "Music For A Spaghetti Western" but it has been retitled and has actual track names now, and more tracks than the original 4.
― sleeve, Friday, 25 September 2020 15:09 (three years ago) link
That is great to hear. Any insights into "Russian Heterodoxical Songs"?
― stirmonster, Friday, 25 September 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
not yet... hoping that isgenuinely unreleased. and to clarify above, what I mean is that the long track (Scene 2) appears to have been broken up into a bunch of individual tracks, there is no extra material but there are more tracks and they have new names.
― sleeve, Friday, 25 September 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
Are you sure about the above, sleeve? Having now listened to The End... I don't think it's the same as Music from a Spaghetti Western.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 5 November 2020 12:37 (three years ago) link
not 100%, but there's a sample in the latter that has the title of the former? my box won't be here for a while yet I assume
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Thursday, 5 November 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
got my copy of Shadow, Thief of the Sun
yay
although
I don't understand why it's a 3LP with two blank sides, rather than the 2LP it claimed to be ...
― lukas, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
Mine is 2LP FWIW.
― Freeze Instr., Wednesday, 18 November 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
That's strange that you got a 3LP version. mine is 2LP too.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
Yeah it's a 2LP with three sides of music and one blank side.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
hoping this shows up on the West Coast in the next week or so
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Thursday, 19 November 2020 01:57 (three years ago) link
I thought maybe the two single-sided discs would be identical, but no. I'll post pictures of the label art later.
― lukas, Thursday, 19 November 2020 03:27 (three years ago) link
Did you order multiple records? I got two 2LPs but the 4 overall discs were split into 2 packages, one with 1 disc the other with 3. I panicked because I thought I was missing a disc and emailed VOD but figured out they just moving the v records around to cut down the shipping cost.
― ed.b, Thursday, 19 November 2020 12:17 (three years ago) link
ohhhh that could be it, yeah
― lukas, Thursday, 19 November 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, November 5, 2020 4:37 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Thursday, November 5, 2020 6:57 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
I was wrong, and it isn't. totally riveted right now on my first listen.
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Thursday, 26 November 2020 04:58 (three years ago) link
Russian Heterodoxical Songs is astonishing, a worthy addition to the canon right in between JAI and LIM
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Thursday, 26 November 2020 22:40 (three years ago) link
Listen to Misteltan (Live Winter Solstice 2019) by :zoviet*france: on #SoundCloudhttps://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/4KEVjhands in the air ambient
― lukas, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
Châsse 3
<3 <3 <3
Most beautiful and integrated package so far, no oddball 7"s or blank sides, just eight gorgeous double albums
I had not actually caught up with 7.10.12 or Tables Are Turning so I am enjoying those a lot
unreleased 2LP "A Long Walk" is good as well
lots and lots of perfectly executed lock grooves this time around
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Monday, 14 March 2022 17:56 (two years ago) link
yeah the fact that they had done a Motorhead cover was an interesting discovery.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 14 March 2022 18:04 (two years ago) link
lol wait what? I missed that somehow
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Monday, 14 March 2022 18:05 (two years ago) link
Bomber, it's on the Third Collusion album that mops up various tracks originally released on singles, compilations etc.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 14 March 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link
Somebody on Discogs has uploaded pictures of this release which have me salivating. Way out of my price range unfortunately but looks magnificent
― I am using your worlds, Monday, 14 March 2022 18:20 (two years ago) link
my brain is exploding that they covered it, though listening now on YT and of course they "cover" it as only ZF could.
waiting for this still, but very, very happy that "The Decriminalisation Of Country Music - Themes For Tramway" is finally on vinyl. i was at the live performance they did of it in Glasgow.
i was hoping they would include "Patina Pooling" in this box so i could offload my copy as it is flaking bits of rust all over the place.
― stirmonster, Monday, 14 March 2022 20:19 (two years ago) link
xp the albums are being released as individual 2LP standalone as well, 24 euros + shipping via VOD website
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 00:50 (two years ago) link
Their podcast, "A Duck in a Tree," is worth a listen.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 00:52 (two years ago) link
absolutely
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 00:53 (two years ago) link
lotta cool stuff on their Soundcloud as well
I loved Popular Soviet Songs and Youth Music from 1985, and the 2004 cd edition was fantastic, bound between two round gray felt pieces cut from black market Red Army caps, and held together with a Soviet military pin
― Dan S, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 01:17 (two years ago) link
Yes, including a 2018 live recording from Kyiv which they've made available free but are requesting donations for Ukraine disaster relief.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 06:21 (two years ago) link
this is blowing my mind still, from the Rapoon thread:
Some of the late 80's - early 90's ZF records were Robin Storey solo with other members just contributing artwork... A Flock of Rotations, Assault and Mirage, Shouting at the Ground, Just an Illusion and Shadow, Thief of the Sun, at the very least.
really? is this confirmed anywhere? so ben ponton only contributed artwork to these???
― stirmonster, Wednesday, March 16, 2022 5:25 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Info was on the now-dead unofficial ZF website which had detailed music/production/artwork credits for the whole discography.
― atonar, Thursday, March 17, 2022 5:40 AM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Found it on archive.org:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120320095815/http://www.the-edge.ws/zoviet/disc.html
― atonar, Thursday, March 17, 2022 5:45 AM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Had also heard this at the time from the person who ran DOVe who released 'Shadow...' - arguments around credit and attribution were largely the cause of the fracturing of the group. In any case you can hear the pretty sharp change in sound from 1992 on.
― atonar, Thursday, March 17, 2022 5:50 AM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink
thanks for the link - fascinating!
93's What Is Not True is one of my very favourite ZF releases but it's undeniable that it is a radical change of sound.
― stirmonster, Thursday, March 17, 2022 6:13 AM (five days ago)
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 16:02 (two years ago) link
Storey talks a bit more about it in this interview:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010218131126/http://www.pretentious.net/Rapoon/articles/tdr.htm
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 16:36 (two years ago) link
lol what
I will prob never hear these, but it's a cool idea
via their FB:
Our first NFT (non-fungible tape)By speeding them up by a factor of several hundred and using extreme audio compression, we've discovered that the entirety of our unreleased recordings will fit onto this 3-minute loop cassette. This will be made available as a one-off exclusive release of its own that will be sold in a private auction tomorrow. The cassette will come with details on the the speed factor used and an explanation of how to decompress the audio. Once sold, these recordings will never be made available again.To register your interest in participating in the auction, please add your name as a comment on this post.
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Friday, 1 April 2022 15:12 (two years ago) link
dude, check the date
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 1 April 2022 15:41 (two years ago) link
ahahaha got me
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Friday, 1 April 2022 16:17 (two years ago) link