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The complete name of the new song is "Too many tiny GM dayglow pets next door. your lawn will die!" (from my live session @ Epsilonia Radio Show 20-05-2010). Musique concrete meets hardcore ! The last part however is pure concrete as it is almost entirely made of edited insect sounds (except half the bass drum which support the cricket bass and a mere frog drum).
1 - News :
With 5 years in the making, Naing Naing next album is still in the works, but close to te end. Now the whole thing exceeds 100 minutes. So it will be released as a double CD. This one will work as a kaleidoscopic array of pop concrete styles (concrete hardcore and punk, concrete gamelan, concrete blues, concrete gregorian. Enough, you got the picture).
In addition a Naing Naing live CD (50 minutes) will be released soon by Chicago-based Sleepy Mammal Sounds Records. It was recorded in Nantes, France in a cool venue called Lieu Unique which used to be a LU biscuit factory.
2 - Regular propaganda :
As you can hear I try to use concrete sounds as musical instruments, merge oil and water, make unquantized computer music and risky live performance using concrete USB guitar and USB tabla. Doing so I deliberately focus on sounds that can be recognized by listeners: frogs / toads, wasp buzz, ice cubes in a glass, toothbrushing, bird calls, washing machine, obsolete diesel generator, ducks, goose, cows, pigs, dentist drill, trains, sheep, clocks, crickets, wind, eating an apple, & more.
Most of my songs are from a unique source of sound (one wasp buzz) or thematically grouped sounds (various species of frogs) that are turned into drums, bass line and melodies. But I also did a few songs with what I call "compromise" (like the toothbrush dance music which has drums samples). I finally found a tag for my music : CONCRETE POP !!!
"Pop Concrete" is to be understood as "Musique concrète that is not historically affiliated with GRM/IRCAM" not as mere mainstream pop : It emcompasses concrete gamelan, concrete punk, concrete blues, live concrete tabla solo, toothbrush dance music and more quirky stuff such as touching melodies made of the sound of my dentist's drill set to a funky beat.
Here a recent video made by english students (including Grace Poulter) using my old track Brosse à danse from 2000 - 2001 :
Re-Aktion Records just got me a new digital distributor :
Javanese gamelan made of ice cubes in a glass and played with a MIDI guitar (Paris, June 21st, 2008 - Fête de la musique). Fingers play ice cube and gong sounds while the foot-controller controls the slenthem (an indonesian instrument) :
Concrète Rock'n'Roll : my Ramones cover featuring Miss Maya (Tear of a Doll) on vocals and sledge hammer, the Burmese diesel generator (again!) and various construction and civil engineering machinery sounds :
Pics by Ellie Van Brande, Antwerpen, Sept. 2007
"Animal Hop" (in the player) is a remix of LISTEN WITH SARAH that will be released on a LWS remixes sampler by Womb Rds (UK). Other tracks here are older (2000-2004) except the live songs. "Ice cube in Pelog" is a live performance of a concrete gamelan piece entirely performed on "USB guitar".
This is Naing Naing "Animal Farm Blues" (according to YouTube Insight it is mostly popular in Egypt, Libya and Iran) :
(Also available on YouTube).
NAING NAING "TOOTHBRUSH FEVER" CD (14 tracks / 60 minutes of music like this / digipack + 16 pages colourful booklet with explanations) is available though paypal here. (12 euro postpaid worldwide)(Re-Aktion rds, 2004)
But NN "Toad Fever" EP-CD (below) is out of print.
I am still working on NAING NAING second full length album (14 tracks 2005-2008) which should be released at the end of 2008. And new TEAR OF A DOLL songs are in the pipeline as well.
Listen to the whole 1st album on last.fm
All Dodoll Records for free & full download at last.fm (Naing Naing, Tear of a Doll / Tears of a Doll & Heimat-los) !
NAING NAING "Toothbrush Fever" is available in the USA on CD Baby.
For live shows, I use a different software and improvise parts of the songs to ensure that live versions are different from the album stuff. Some songs are performed with a MIDI-fyed guitar controlling the laptop, some songs are just played behind the laptop. The show also features Miss Maya singing on a few songs.
I have not got the chance to play with artists playing the same type of music yet, I shared shows with artists such as : Victims Family, Experimental Dental School, Stanley Kubi, Tapetronic, The World/Inferno Friend Society, Capsule (the one from Belgium), PAK, Digep, Ed Mudshi, Stig Noise Soundsystem, DJ Rupture & Andy Moor (the Ex), Koonda Hoonda, USA is a Monster, Cheveu, Fire Flower Revue, Video Love, Love to Love, Les Suce-Pendus, Headwar, Salmigondis and more.
Ice cube music performed live in Paris early 2007 (This old video from an early concert is not representative of what I do now (but I just cannot capture newer videos right now) :
Free MP3, reviews, details on how those songs were made are available at www.naingnaing.com
NAING NAING "Toothbrush Fever" CD and "Toad Fever" EP are in full preview on last.fm
Naing Naing "Toothbrush Fever" on Itunes.
Live set list as of June 2008:
1 - Intro medley (Doing time + wind & rain + Le Coq Mégalo)
2 - Animal Hop remix
3 - Mind the step
4 - Greensleeves
5 - Chocolate addict at the dentist
6 - Ice cube gamelan (in pelog)
7 - Washing machine goes to Froggland
8 - Sadisco
9 - Quack addiction
10 - Rock'n'Roll Technical School (Ramones)
11 - Sarabande (by Haendel - cricket & gong)
12 - Brosse à dance
13 - Webbed
14 - Animal Farm Blues
15 - Toadstools
16 - Mi Ma La Bu
About me: Naing Naing is my Burmese name. My original French name is François. Long ago I played guitar in late HEIMAT-LOS (Pioneering Hardcore Punk in France in the 80s), then I played in TEAR OF A DOLL (that has merged Hardcore punk, Experimental, Avant / Noise rock, Prog-rock & indian music in the 90s). I also appear on some recordings by COSTES, COSMIC WURST and WIDE OPEN CAGE.
I have been involved in learning languages (mostly from Asia like Japanese & Burmese) and some exotic musical instruments: Saung (Burmese Harp) and a few others from India & Indonesia I eventually had to drop by lack of time (tabla, sitar, gamelan.) After spending 6-7 years in Myanmar (Burma), working as an interpreter for a famous humanitarian organization, I finally came back to my home town Paris in 2006. I'm the father of two half Japanese girls.
I am running the following myspace profiles :
NAING NAING (since 1999)
TEAR OF A DOLL 2nd era (since 1992)
TEARS OF A DOLL 1st era (1988-1992)
HEIMAT-LOS (1983-1988)
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Tags : concrète pop ; musique concrète ; experimental music ; organic electronica ; avant-garde ; sound manipulator ; field recording ; found sounds ; frog music ; ice cube music ; insect music ; virtual tabla ; live concrete MIDI guitar ; avant pop ; concrete pop ; musique concrete ; offbeat ; weird ; brosse à danse / brosse a danse ; musique concrete meets hardcore punk
