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Editorial Nudista (Presentación en Feria del Libro Cba 2011)

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turbina (insession)

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Beautiful sounds and the bass line is poetic.
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Bosques de Groenlandia - Camerún (in session)

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Felt - The world is as soft as lace

The Big Blue (1988)

Felt - The World Is as Soft as Lace (The Splendour of Fear, 1984)

If I could I would change the world

But you know my visions...

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The Big Blue (1988)

About The French Semester

After some delay, a new five-song E.P. recording will be out shortly on New and Used Records of San Francisco. The songs will be a short trip across the variegated landscapes we traversed this past year. This E.P was produced and mixed by The French Semester here in LA, but was mastered by Jeff Lipton of Peerless in Boston. Lipton has been the amazing engineer behind Big Star, Jeff Tweedy, Burning Spear, and the Magnetic Fields.

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The French Semester is a five gun salute to the foreign and the familiar. Five friends from LA bonded by an insistence on analog grooves and live instrumentation for a new musical pop-art thats always changing. Raised on the baroque of late 60's folk acts like the Left Banke, macabre 80's dreampop of the Rain Parade, and the DIY 90's esprit de corps of Guided By Voices, the band has been hailed for charting its own path amid a flood of garage, alt-country, and synth-rock repeaters. At the core is an almost obsessive songcraft with a heavy premium on lyrical impressionism: "we all are passerbys, thinking we all are bastards/ born in a village, faces with the city lights in them." The songs tell of dusty Third World goodbyes, and sanctuary in the human and urban landscapes of Europe and America. Forged from diverse experience in homelands afield such as Vietnam, India, and the Phillipines, the various members embrace and deliver their message like carrier pigeons sent to remind you that 'we're not so different all of us'. All the while, burying the hook in a smooth, ear-pleasing live set that usually ends in a flurry of dancing bodies. The French Semester is Riaz Tejani, Gil Disloquez, Charles Maxey, Elaine Bagorio, and Russ Quintana. They recently toured France and Spain, and are finishing a new E.P. expected for release early this fall. For inquiries please contact pianomanagement@live.com

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Los Angeles

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United States

Occupation

This land is your land

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Editorial Nudista (Presentación en Feria del Libro Cba 2011)

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turbina (insession)

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Bosques de Groenlandia - Camerún (in session)