zoviet france - something spooked the horses

[ryanh206]

ZF: my favorite band for years and years. I have almost everything they've recorded, but the best thing I think they've ever put out is a recording I got from a woman on YouTube. It's a live recording called "Zoviet France - Live @ Archa Theatre, Prague 1997" - I listen to it everyday while I paint - Believe me, it is their masterpiece imo. Better than Shadow, Thief of the Sun....check it out if you can find it.

[magnusbijec]

@ryanh206 well, that stuff was recorded in Prague during their 1997 live gig but not released officially...unfortunately, it is a great work indeed (and luckily, I have it too...)

[gdaysquire]

This band influenced Devin Townsend according to one of his interviews.

[NedsMissingTeeth]

One day I'll find something appropriate to put into a message. Until then, I'll just inform you that I love everything about democracy. Even the stuff that the elite determine. I hate stuff.

Most stuff. Fuck you. And your stuff.

[108rinchen]

This is probably the best track on this album, but overall it rates highly, although not a highly as Mohnomishe, Just an Illusion, Loh Land, in.version, What is Not True, or my absolute favourite - Shouting at the Ground.

[transparence]

<3 beauty



[EliorFein]

i don't know why but i really like that c&ap.

[CraaaaazeeyIzm]

These guys are from my hometown and I've seen them on so many occassions and everytime it's been an experience. The last time I went to see them it was in a tiny little pub in Newcastle called The Cumberland Arms. They never showed to do the gig and I remember thinking that you couldn't get much more minimal than that! Great to see some z*f up on here, thanks.

[damnelderly]

fuck im jealous

[rockdeadrockstars]

werent you pissed? I would have been pissed

[sborges433]

I'm big time on ZF, but must say that aside from Something Spooked the Horses (one of ZF's most impressive tracks to date), the rest of the album was a bit too minimal, not as grand as this incredible opening track.

[lafolieverte]

i agree with you!

i really wish 'stainless'/'dust and scratches' had taken a majority of the album rather than the rest of the tracks

cheers

[magnusbijec]

Yeah, agree...this opening is excellent! Maybe the best after Storey left the band...

[pidza21]

mmmmm Zoviet France...inner music!! love it.

[magnusbijec]

brilliant piece! :z*f: rulez!!! thanks for an upload...indeed, interesting album but Mohnomishe or What is not true...the latter really is a extraordinarily transcendental experience

[edshipsey]

i would certainly agree with you on the transcendence of what is not true, when the looping shipping forecast comes in at the end of the last track you really feel like you have travelled some distance it is so evocotive, but of what escapes me , great music for lieing down to and half hearing with your unconcious mind.

[magnusbijec]

@edshipsey well, it seems the feelings of different people on the same tracks really is convergent...in case you listen deeply with every single cell in your body...this is important otherwise one can land in absorbing just noisy tunes...and that would certainly be a pity...

[churchofvalis]

Thank you! Just right. I wish I had this album.  Keep doing things like this.