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12 Frustration
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You, lucky bastards, should get our
new release for springtime. It should
be called “Uncivilized”. And maybe,
we are going to cook something special
for our 10 years birthday before
the end of 2012.
Junior: Next year will it still be the
nearest future?
Nattsol: Thanks to the unique and
very powerful sound, Frustration can
be called “one of the most modern”
post-punk bands. How do you manage
to achieve this?
Nicus: We use different types of production
for our records: our first release
was recorded in a sound
engineer school (yes: our first record
was homework for a student!). After
that, we used the D.I.Y. solution, with
my 8 tracks reel to reel analog
recorder, which I looooooove: it gives
you a rough and dirty sound. It quiet
limited but it’s easy and fast to record
and mix. And then, Jean-Baptiste Guillot
from Born Bad Record sent us in
real, big and good studios, with real
sound engineers. From this point, you
don’t really manage your music… unless
you accept to become a real pain
in the ass for the sound guy! You
have to deal with super modern equipment
and a guy who knows how it
works when you don’t! So it takes
time get what you want.
Junior: Talent is a crime.
Nattsol: How can you describe the
contemporary French post-punk/coldwave
scene?
Fab: As Police sang:”so loooonely…
so looooonely…”. Exept Charles de
Goal and Passions Armées.
Nicus: I don’t really know it. I work
at night, so I don’t go to concerts, except
when I play.
Junior: Boring.
Nattsol: And how can you describe
Frustration, using only adjectives?
Fab: Organic.
Nicus: Tensed.
Junior: Is Frederic Campo an adjective?
Nattsol: In your opinion, what makes
post-punk sound so relevant and fresh
nowadays?
Fab: Sorry: ain’t got no answer.
Junior: Frustration.
Nicus: The fact that you don’t hear it
on the radio or on t.v! It makes you feel
special not to be in the mainstream.
Nattsol: Many thanks for the interview!
Any final words?
Fab: Thanx. See you!
Nicus: Stay frustrated!
Junior: We are young, we run green,
keep our teeth nice and clean, see
our friends, see the sights, feel alright.
Questions: Pall ‘Nattsol’ Zarutskiy
‘Grave Jibes Fanzine’
Zurück Placenta – Zurück Placenta
album review
Label: Manic Depression
Format: CD
Year: 2007
Web: http://babel.17.free.fr/biozuruck.htm
http://www.myspace.com/httpwwwmyspacecomzuruckplacenta
In 2007 Manic Depression
Records released an album, which was
found during an archeological research
and became a sensational proof that
in France tribes existed till the early
90’s! It is so because according to this
release, Zurück Placenta was much
more a tribe than a band. It consisted
of post-punk/coldwave musicians, who
run wild – vocalist Fabrice Gilbert
(who’s now in Frustration), guitar player
Jean Franceschi (Babel 17), bassist
Pat Sciberras, keyboardist Christophe
Julien, drummer Olivier Tonus and
primeveal artist Julien. Speaking generally,
this album sounds as a pagan
dark ritual, put in obscure punk and
coldwave frames, and it does sound
much closer to British goth punk bands
(like UK Decay, In Excelsis etc) than
to any coldwave band that ever existed.
So it can’t stop amazing how Zurück
Placenta with its obscure tribal sound
could start to exist in cold and decadent
France.
So, the conclusion is simple
– if you love dark punk and punk gothique
and you consider yourself more
a punk than a “waver”, - Zurück Placenta
is a 100% musthave for you.
So don’t miss it.
Grade: 10/10
Pall ‘Nattsol’ Zarutskiy
‘Grave Jibes Fanzine’