Some finds from over the weekend! Hope to have good news later this week about the Baby Lemonade compilation. So please visit the blog, Twitter and Facebook pages for Cloudberry!
Positive x Infinity: this is the name of the new compilation by the great Emotional Response label from Flagstaff, Arizona. All 14 tracks included in the vinyl LP are exclusive to this release! In it we find label stalwards like Mick Trouble, The Ocean Party, Seablite and legendary bands like Boyracer and Even as We Speak. So looks like a must have to me!
Airhockey: this pop project from Miami have a new song called “The Signs” that sounds pretty good. I wonder and wonder why there were no bands like this 10 years ago when I was living in the Florida city. If you like your pop dreamy, check them out.
Night Hikes: not too long ago I was recommending the track “Avila” by this Seattle band. Now the band has released the second single out of their upcoming album “Chalice”. This new song is called “Vera” and it is as good as the previous one.
House Depot: this band from Melbourne sounds amazing. What is going on there. So many good bands! They have released a new cassette album of 8 songs on Spoilsport Records. You can preview two of the tracks on it, “Cruise Control” and “Sometimes, Sooner”, and I have to say they are very strong ones! Hope to see them soon on a bigger release.
Painter: lastly this superb sounding dream pop band from London. They have two songs they released last week, “Cuttlefish” and “Standing Still”. That’s all so far on their Bandcamp. But I am going to be keeping track. They are very good! The band is an all-girl ensemble, formed by Emma, Milly, Rose, Mel and Sophie
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I received a lovely fanzine some weeks ago featuring French indiepop of the 1990s. I thought then why not feature an obscure band from that time?
Bellaloïd. I only know the name of one member, Lionel Julien or Jake Juyen, whichever name he used. Were there any other band members?
The band was around the mid 1990s releasing a string of singles and a mini-album. According to Discogs the mini-album was released first, in 1994, on the Dsk3t Rcds label. It was a self-titled cassette that included 6 songs, “Josh Can”, “Flexity”, “From the National Road to the Waterworks”, “Nº Deux”, “Carroussel” and “River (King Lear)”.
In 1995 they would release three records. The first I believe was a 7″ record on the fine French label Les Tartines. On this 7″ the band had two songs, “On the Lips of the Living Face” on the A side and “Lonesome Cowboy and Me” on the B side.
Les Tartines would then release a 10″ for the band with three songs, “Waltz’s”, “Waterproof” and “Dedalus”.
A label called Unity Mitford released a CD single with three songs too: “Great Day”, “The Aviary” and “And”. The songs for this record were recorded by Thierry Sintoni at Unity Mitford Studio and were produced by Christophe Chiappa.
It seems there is another record that was released by the band in 1996 on Dsk3t Rcds. It is not listed on Discogs though. It was called “Except if Time Takes Our Love (the Ultimate Discography)”. It feels like it was a 7″ but i am not 100% sure. Two songs were included here “Scantily Clad” and “On the Lips of the Living”. The song “Scantily Clad” has a video available on Youtube. It mentions that the footage comes from the recording of this single at the Cube.
Aside from these releases the band appeared on two compilations. On the “Frances Two” tape compilation released by Les Tartines the band contributed the two opening songs, “Rosetta Song” and “From the National Road to the Water Works”. This is a fine comp that included nice bands like Loons, Gypsophile and Mumbly among others. I can’t say what year this tape was released.
Then in 1996 the band appeared on yet another tape comp, “L’Essaim”. This one came out on the Maya Label (BZZZ 1). Here the band contributes two songs too, “Loveline” and “Torture’s Bed”.
That seems to be all the songs the band released. I do know that Julien continued making music as he reappears in the 2000s with bands like Legumen, Snack Delta, Mecca-N and Deleted Sin. But what about the time between the mid 90s and the mid 2000s? What was he doing?
Not much more info on the web. So whoever can fill in the blanks and answer some of the many unanswered questions, I’ll be very thankful to you!
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