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Underground – good news for 2023!

Underground – good news for 2023!

New albums are in preparation. Unreleased, nothing but unreleased material! Underground music, for sure: we took some out of the safe, we created and produced others at the Audiorama studio. And to celebrate this and also the end of this year 2022, we offer you 20% on any purchase of our records! Indeed, the year 2023 is off to a good start at Audiorama: 2 albums planned for the 1st quarter, just that!

Danger – Combo Combo

We unearth unreleased material from the second half of the seventies. Corbo Combo and Danger are 2 underground bands from Strasbourg which foreshadowed Alesia Cosmos in many respects. Totally improvised, radical music perpetrated by activist musicians from the Strasbourg underground, some of whom are future members of Alesia Cosmos.

You will listen to 2 unreleased concerts in Mulhouse and Strasbourg at the end of the 1970s. With Michel Froehly (bass and guitar), Dominique Gasser (sax), Bruno de Chénerilles (guitar, drums) and Marie-Berthe Servier (vocals).

This double CD album will be released on the Polish industrial/noise/experimental label Impulsy Stetoskopu.

Alien Disko

A parallel project to Alesia Cosmos, which brings together two of its members. Bruno de Chénerilles (guitar, moog, live electronics) and Pierre Zeidler (clarinets, sax) recorded and mixed in October and November 2022 at the Audiorama studio.

And there, you will listen to a series of radical improvisations in duet, an elaborate mix at the borders of free, noise, electro, jazz… with acoustic, electric instruments and electronic treatments.

The CD album will be released on the Audiorama label in the spring of 2023.

Your 20% discount!

In the meantime, on the occasion of this end of the year 2022, take advantage of a 20% discount on all the records of the online store, by entering the promo code CHRISTMAS directly in your basket before paying for your order.

Small Hits : unreleased versions

Small Hits : unreleased versions

A new single by Alesia Cosmos. On Small Hits, two unreleased versions of the most famous titles of the group : The Last Line and Pat’lin de Merde.

The Last Line was the first title on the second album Aeroproducts (1985). A high energy rock song with a distorted electric guitar riff. In 2019, Pascal Holtzer remixed the original tracks and produced this yet unreleased extended version.

Pat’lin d’Merde was the most famous title on the first album Exclusivo! (1983). This quirky pseudo punk anthem united all generations of listeners in a great burst of laughter. When Bruno de Chénerilles composed this bomb in his studio, he himself sang the very first version of it. This yet unreleased sketch has a nice spontaneous energy.

Small Hits is a CD single in a limited edition of 100 copies slipped into a simple cardboard sleeve designed by Bruno de Chénerilles.

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In our online Record Shop, you can find all albums by Alesia Cosmos : Exclusivo!, Aeroproducts, Live at Audiorama, Vavavoom! and this new single Small Hits. A lot of albums, singles and limited editions by members of the group and some of their friends.

New : Art Edition

A very limited special edition of 20 copies of the vinyle double album Aeroproducts by Alesia Cosmos is dressed with 2 original etchings by Christophe Meyer. Each copy is numbered and signed by the artist. You’ll find it in the Record Shop too. Have a look ! Go to the Record Shop

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VAVAVOOM ! a new cd

VAVAVOOM ! a new cd

A brand new CD on record label Audiorama. Composed by Pascal Holtzer, Pierre Zeidler and Bruno de Chénerilles, 3 members of Alesia Cosmos who met for this trio side-project.

Recorded in May 2021 at studio Audiorama, it was mixed and mastered during that summer. VAVAVOOM ! Is available : you can order it on the Audiorama Record Shop.

Starting with original tracks composed and proposed by Pascal Holtzer, the 3 fellows met in 2 recording sessions. Pierre Zeidler (clarinet, saxophone) and Bruno de Chénerilles (live electronics, moogs, theremin) played freely with these tracks avec ces pistes during 2 sessions. The whole material was then remixed by Pascal Holtzer.

This creative process led to VAVAVOOM ! All along the 11 tracks, the album creates a very special sound universe, sometimes groovy, even creepy, but always humoristic, not very far from Alesia Cosmos.

You can be among the firsts to support this artistic enterprise on label Audiorama : Order now the album on the Record Shop !

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Alesia Cosmos Live at Audiorama : out now !

Alesia Cosmos Live at Audiorama : out now !

The new album Alesia Cosmos Live at Audiorama is out now ! Order your own copy  now . If you are a true fan of Alesia Cosmos, please share these good news with all your friends. Many thanks in advance for all your support !

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Alesia Cosmos Live at Audiorama

  • To be among the first to receive the double CD

  • Alesia Cosmos Live at Audiorama - double CD at the price of 15 € + shipping

  • To support us in this production without external funding.

To support the group

In these difficult times, artists and labels have great difficulty in continuing their creations and distributing them. More than ever, their audience is their first and essential support.

If you enjoy Alesia Cosmos music, order your CD and receive it in a few days where ever you are in the world.

And we will be delighted to see you in the flesh for new concerts in Autumn.

Alesia Cosmos Live at Audiorama

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3rd album – mix in progress!

3rd album – mix in progress!

December 2019 – 3rd album by Alesia Cosmos is currently on a mixing session at Audiorama studio – recorded live in October 2019 – Could be a double album – Label wanted! – Alesia Cosmos is back ! Look at the video, share, like and subscribe to the blog for news.

The garage concert

The garage concert

Alesia Cosmos played their concert at the garage – April 26, 2019 – at Zone d’Art in Strasbourg, France. Some photos and sounds recorded by very special fans. Photos : Jean-Luc et Jean-Louis – Recordings : Milou et Laurette. Thanks a lot !

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AEROPRODUCTS is re-released

AEROPRODUCTS is re-released

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Here we are ! The 2nd album AEROPRODUCTS is now available in a brand new production : new cover, remixed, remastered, with bonus tracks.
It’s now a complete and renewed double album on vynil or CD on the french label Rotorelief.
You can order it right now on Records page up there on this website.

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Agitation Frite – vol 3

Agitation Frite – vol 3

Agitation Frite is a striking panorama of the French musical underground. In this last of the three volumes, Philippe Robert documents the practices of this musical network. This book of 410 pages contains 26 interviews, including those of François Tusques, Joëlle Léandre, Delphine Dora, Jean-Baptiste Favory, André Jaume, Gérard Siracusa, Daniel Deshays, Philippe Carles, Theo Jarrier, Jacques Debout, Bruno de Chénerilles ….

And do not miss the pages where Alesia Cosmos is mentioned. A long interview with Bruno de Chénerilles p.74 to 80 and the first LP Exclusivo !, ranked by Jacques Debout among the 12 unavoidable recordings p.85

 

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In addition, it also contains more than 600 recommended record chronicles. From psychedelic rock to free jazz, from sound poetry to electroacoustic, from acid rock to Rock In Opposition, from library music to “experimental song”, from anti-yéyés to outsiders, from punk rock to rock indus, field recordings to free improvisation, hardcore to post-rock, noise to black metal …

Well known in the industry, Philippe Robert is the host of the blog Merzbo-Derek, a contributor to Revue & Corrigée and a former Jazz Magazine contributor, Les Inrockuptibles, Octopus, Mouvement. In addition, He has dedicated several books to creative music. Among which : Musiques expérimentales, Post-Punk, No Wave, Indus & Noise, Agitation Frite 1 et 2 and with Guillaume Belhomme, Free Fight This Is (Our) New Thing.

PHILIPPE ROBERT – AGITATION FRITE 3. TÉMOIGNAGES ET CHRONIQUES DE L’UNDERGROUND FRANÇAIS – Ed.LENKA LENTE – Book in French language – 410 pages – OCTOBER 2018

This 3rd volume of the essential tryptic Agitation Frite is available on the website of the French publisher Lenka Lente or on Amazon. The first 2 volumes, too.