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Le Volume Courbe
The Vatican Cellars, King Of Spain
Presented by: Back and to the Left| 0 | OXFORD: The Jericho Tavern |
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| P | Saturday 11th October, 2008 |
| N | 8:00pm |
Event information
The Le Volume Courbe album - hard to describe indeed - isn't rock 'n' roll, and isn't world music. It's out of this world music. It's in your own world music, what-in-the-world music. It's just a few seconds longer than Chris Marker's seminal 1962 film La Jetee. It comes to you with the I Killed My Best Friend video - "the quickest, cheapest video ever made" - which with delicious, tongue-in-chic noir style involves a girl, a gun and a cigarette. And is Bonnie And Clyde meeting (Jean-Luc Godard’s 1965 French New Wave road movie) Pierrot Le Fou. Only much shorter. And far more mischievous.
Aside form the new album, if you’ve got a fat wallet, you might care to track down the band’s only former UK single: a vinyl of album opener Harmony. Featuring Charlotte on vocals, guitar and keyboards, with Spencer Bewley on guitar, keyboards, joined by the enigmatically named ‘Mole’ on drums. The single originally came out on Alan McGee’s defunct Poptones label as a seven inch format only – and is already changing hands for above the odds sums on the likes of eBay and Opal Music.
Enchanting and elusive, this diary of dreams is one of the year's most extraordinary debuts – and a good runner for album of the year (so far) by our reckoning. Part gentle Isobel Campell, part breathy Kim Gordon stylings, this is great stuff. Listen long and listen close.
Venue information
OXFORD: The Jericho Tavern| 0 | 56 Walton Street Jericho Oxford |
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| > | www.myspace.com/backandtotheleft1 |
| ! | 01865 311775 |
