permanent members:
laugier (bass & lead vocals), benito (drums and backing vocals) & morcillo (guitar)
occasional members:
earl slick, paulo furtado, evil eddy jo, plain jane, robert aaron, michael beckett, dead combo, skerik, lio, steven bernstein, alain johannes & jean-marc montera
guitarist, solo artist and producer, earl's best-known as one of david bowie's guitarists. earl has gone on to play on a variety of other projects (Ian Hunter, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Phantom - Rocker & Slick, etc) before coming back to bowie in the early 21st century. earlslick.com
paulo furtado
his the legendary tigerman project is as a one-man band show following the tradition of the roots and original Blues from the Mississippi's delta. paulo also got another project called wraygunn: this band, formed in Coimbra in early 1999, plays a mix of grrrreat rock, soul, gospel and blues. wraygunn.com legendarytigerman.com
evil eddy / plain jane
long time writing partners-in-crime guitarist Eddy Jo "Evil Eddy" Martinez and vocalist Angela "Plain Jane" Rogers have formed Lone Vein in 2001. it's midnight blues, tombstone blues, intergalatic blues, it's New York blues.
here thanks to robert aaron lonevein.com
robert aaron
NY multi-instrumentalist, solo artist, producer, grrrrrreat guy who played with Fischerspooner, Wyclef Jean, Eric Andersen, Mick Jagger, Blondie, Masters at Work, Luscious Jackson and James White to name a few.
here thanks to steef and armand thomassian
michael beckett
there are two things michael beckett loves: technology and noise at extreme levels. with Schneider TM or with his own projects like kptmichigan, super reverb and the beautiful new born children, michael delivers everything at high volume. here thanks to landini.
thebnbc.com
paul antonell
paul is a professional audio engineer with over twenty years experience in mixing, recording and producing music in all genres. founder of the clubhouse recording studios in 1986, paul is an award-winning specialist in Surround recording and mixing who worked with Dr John, Al Di Meola, George Clinton, Boosty Collins and Parliament Funkadelic among many others.
here thanks to earl slick clubhouseinc.com
steven bernstein
New York City !!! new York City !!! bernstein is a jazz trumpeter best known for his work in the Lounge Lizzards, Sex Mob and the Millennial Territory Orchestra. he has released four albums under his own name on john zorn's Tzadik records and has performed with jazz giants including medeski, Martin & Wood, as well as artists as diverse as aretha franklin or lou reed.
alain johannes
Along with his partner natasha shneider and drummer jack irons, alain is a founding member of the band Eleven. with our friend paulo furtado, he was the first one that we thought about when we first imagined what could be the hifiklub project. as well as his work with Eleven, alain has also collaborated with many other bands and artists, both as a musician and as a producer (Queens Of The Stone Age, Chris Cornell, Spinnerette or Eagles Of death Metal).
skerik
skerik is a saxophonist from Seattle. Often performing with electronics and loops, he is a founding member of Critters Buggin and Garage a Trois.
skerik has been a member of, performed frequently, or toured with the following: Les Claypool's, The Meters, The Headhunters, Tuatara (with Peter Buck), Mad Season, Roger Waters and many others. he leads Seattle-based "punk-jazz" ensemble Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet.
lio
singer and actress, enormous pop icon in francophone Europe during the 1980s ... you know her, she is fantastic www.universlio.com
dead combo
their music could be the latest trademark of Portuguese indie/alternative sound, music, even culture. dead combo mixes Portugal's very own Fado with "Western Spaghetti" Music, Jazz, General Alternative and World Music in a brilliant fusion of sounds solidly built together. www.deadcombo.net
landini
the godfather? nope, he's too young for that... we know what we owe him, musically speaking. the first one outside of the band with who we worked. he did it grrreat. he's still doing it grrrreat! midi-festival.com
davy bergier
who are you asking for ? the musician ? the composer ? the business man ? the consiglio ? the friend ? the remixer ? incredible ! d0b.free.fr
Our friends... we thanxxx
julien bengel
he knows how to do it and he does it right ... what? everything!
steef
dangerous gorgeous nutcase faithful attentive wanker brillant (most of the time). as a composer, his chamade beat projet is an amazing mix of jazz, hip hop, soul and broken grooves. chamadebeat.com
olivier amsellem
Marseille? yeah! stereotype? nope, well not artistically speaking. approach: sober and contemporary. theme: abandonment. weapon: his eyes! myspace.com
léopold
la classe with attitude!!!
adrien
is he going to be Giorgio Gomelsky, Andrew Loog Oldham or Allen Klein ? we'll see. for now: a friend, a qualified professionel and a talented musician.
alif tree
as a musician, Alif is a fervent defender of acoustic sounds, from philharmonic music to pop via jazz and world music. A sound-engineer and producer skilled in digital techniques, he has been navigating through the universe of recording-studios, sound-stages and television, as much as record-labels, for the past fifteen years. alexalif.free.fr ray
mighty mighty impassive fuckin' poser
louis
most faithful between the faithful ones. a guide.
frédéric et olivier
the solution: communicate!!!
fredericteschner.com
chase
he lets us see everything, almost, lol supercult.com
willy
black master will baby! try him
rachel ward
how do you say it again "correspondante américaine?"
siobhan solberg
ahhhhhh oui!!! en français dans le texte
Our partners
La Valette du Var
LCAS
Tandem
Kulte
Coming Up
FNAC
Ferarock
Recording session with Jean-Marc Montera
Marseille, GRIM studio, 07/30/08. What a great day! Jean-Marc Montera did a recording session for hifiklub(...)
Live at MIDI festival
... special week, special night, special place & special band. Hifiklub played live at MIDI Festival(...)
Live Live Live 07.25.2008 MIDI Festival - Hyères/ Villa Noailles (Fr)
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We love The MIDI Festival: july 25th, 26th, 27th !!!!
Don't miss it ___ With: JAMES CHANCE & LES CONTORSIONS & ROBERT AARON, ZOMBIE ZOMBIE, YACHT, A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW, SO-SO MODERN, TEAM GHOST, GIRLS, HIGH PLACES, LAWRENCE ARABIA and ANORAAK
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hey man what's up ??? midi festival, robert aaron & us: newspaper
French Accent bonus track
« i'm so glad », our Skip James cover with special guest Michael Beckett, has been mixed and remixed by Landini
« babe doll » (Alif Tree remix) is now online!
« babe doll » ( Davy Bergier remix) is now online!
« get a move on » (Landini remix) is now online!
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Recording session with Jean-Marc Montera Marseille, GRIM studio, 07/30/08. What a great day! Jean-Marc Montera did a recording session for hifiklub second album. He put some crazy guitar parts on four songs.
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Live at MIDI festival ... special week, special night, special place & special band. Hifiklub played live at MIDI Festival (Villa Noailles, Hyères, French Riviera, 07/25/08) with Robert Aaron. James Chance joined the band on the three last songs. We had such a grrrrreat time !!!!
Plus, we played three brand brand new songs for the first time ever...
pics by the mighty Eric Lenoir
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Get back Guinozzi! So that's official: Hifiklub rhythm section Benito + Laugier joins Get back Guinozzi! line-up for the next live shows of this fantastic new english/ french band.
Benito becomes Sly Guinozzi.
Laugier becomes Royal Guinozzi.
Stay tuned!!!
pics by Laugier + Benito
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Save the last dance for me by Pierre Mikaïloff
French writter Pierre Mikaïloff wrote this novel about hifiklub next album ... in french!
Journal du professeur Phil Von Swanberg (extrait) – Lieu indéterminé – France
« Journée 1 de l’expérience
Les patients (trois membres du groupe Hifiklub + Lio) sont arrivés ce soir au laboratoire. Ils pensent encore être venus enregistrer un album. Il sera bien temps de leur apprendre la vérité demain matin.
Journée 2
Matinée
Dans un premier temps, ils ont montré quelque réticence à se prêter à l’expérience. Igor, mon fidèle assistant a dû faire usage de « persuasion ». Ensuite, tout est rentré dans l’ordre.
J’ai commencé par étudier l’épiderme de mes « sujets », m’attardant peut-être un peu trop longtemps sur celui de la jeune femme. « On a beau être une sommité scientifique, on n’en est pas moins homme ! », comme l’a souligné Igor.
Après-midi
Pour déjouer leur méfiance, je les ai entraînés dans le studio où nous avons effectué quelques prises. Ils sont désormais convaincus que je suis bien le célèbre producteur de disques Phil Von Swanberg de Bucarest.
Ils ont improvisé un titre nommé Catfish, sous les yeux ébahis d’Igor, qui a eu à peine le temps d’enclencher l’enregistrement. J’ai dû, hélas, lui infliger de ma main une petite correction pour punir cette étourderie.
Soirée
Lio et les Hifiklub commencent à me poser des questions embarrassantes. Ils ont exprimé le désir de sortir se promener dans le parc. Aussi, ai-je été obligé d’invoquer la météo pour leur expliquer que c’était parfaitement impossible. J’estime qu’il est encore prématuré de leur parler de la « créature » qui rôde aux abords du château.
Journée 3
Matinée
Igor n’est pas apparu ce matin au petit-déjeuner. J’ai fouillé la demeure de la cave au grenier. Nulle trace de lui.
Serait-il sorti sans m’avertir ? Aurait-il été assez imprudent pour se promener seul dans le parc ?
Après-midi
Même stratagème que la veille. Pour calmer les appréhensions de tout le monde, je les enferme au studio, leur demandant d’enregistrer un deuxième titre. Igor parti, je suis obligé de me débrouiller seul avec le Protools.
Derrière la vitre de contrôle, j’observe leur étrange comportement. Ils ont revêtu des combinaisons blanches et ont entamé une sorte de danse rituelle autour du kit de batterie. Lio est en robe lamée et talons aiguilles, j’avoue que ma pensée s’égare un moment. Revenir à l’expérience…
Ils improvisent un titre qu’ils nomment Wish Witch et enregistrent en une prise. Après cela, ils refusent de continuer. Je leur demande de quitter le studio et de regagner leurs appartements, au lieu de cela, ils s’enferment dans la cabine de prises et me répondent en termes injurieux. Une mutinerie ! Il ne manquait plus que ça. Et Igor qui ne reparaît pas.
Soirée
Je suis redescendu au studio. Les Hifiklub continuent leur danse rituelle et refusent de répondre à mes questions. Ils semblent avoir atteint un état de transe. Cette expérience est en train de m’échapper complètement. Soudain, je remarque l’absence de Lio. Elle a réussi à filer ! À moins que… Non, je refuse d’envisager cette possibilité, ce serait trop horrible.
Nuit
Impossible de dormir. D’étranges visions me venaient à l’esprit aussitôt que je fermais les yeux. D’autre part, d’ignobles cris ont retenti en provenance du parc, vers quatre heures du matin. J’ai crû reconnaître Igor, mais je n’en suis plus très sûr. Je me suis mis au balcon pour crier son nom, mais ma voix s’est perdue dans la nuit. J’allais refermer la fenêtre lorsque j’ai perçu distinctement, à quelques centimètres de mon oreille, une voix féminine qui prononçait : « Bientôt ton tour, Professeur, patience… » J’ai poussé un cri qui a dû raisonner dans toute la maison. Il faut que je parvienne à contrôler ces réactions irrationnelles. Je suis un scientifique. Tout a une explication logique.
Journée 4
Matinée
J’ai attendu longtemps que quelqu’un me rejoigne à la table du petit-déjeuner, mais personne n’est venu. Comme le service me paraissait anormalement long, je suis allé me rendre compte de la situation en cuisine. Stupéfaction ! Le personnel avait disparu.
Je fonce au studio. Je jette un œil derrière la vitre de contrôle. Je suis presque rassuré de voir que les Hifiklub sont toujours là, continuant leur singulier rituel. Quelque chose me paraît cependant anormal. Je les recompte. Ils sont maintenant quatre ! Un de plus. Mais je ne distingue pas leurs visages au travers de la visière des combinaisons. Je suis parcouru d’un frisson. Se dominer, se dominer, se…
Je tente à nouveau d’ouvrir la porte de la cabine. Il faut qu’ils retirent ces foutues combinaisons. Impossible d’entrer.
Je retourne dans ma chambre et prépare mes bagages à la hâte. Je dois quitter les lieux au plus vite. Igor, Lio et le personnel de la maison ont disparu, les Hifiklub ne sont pas au mieux de leur forme… Cette expérience est un échec, inutile de se voiler la face.
Je partirai cette nuit. Traverser le parc. Ensuite, gagner la route et tenter de rejoindre la ville la plus proche.
Nuit
J’empoigne ma valise et descends l’escalier sur la pointe des pieds, sans allumer la lumière.
Sur le seuil de la porte, au moment de plonger dans l’obscurité du parc, je suis pris de remords. Je ne peux tout de même pas abandonner les Hifiklub ainsi ! Je descends une dernière fois au studio.
A ma grande surprise, tout est allumé. Et qui vois-je assis sur le fauteuil du producteur (MON fauteuil) ? Igor !
Il est en train de mixer Wish Witch, à fond, sur les Genelec. Il se tourne vers moi et croasse :
- Nous vous avons attendu, Professeur… Nous avons dû commencer sans vous.
Je me précipite vers la vitre de la cabine. La pièce est vide ! Je me retourne vers Igor, mais celui-ci est retourné à son mixage. Il ne m’entend plus. Je décide de partir.
Je remonte, traverse le hall sans encombre et plonge dans l’obscurité du parc. Avec un peu de chance… »
C’est ici que s’arrête le fragment du journal du professeur Von Swanberg. Lio et les membres d’Hifiklub ont jusqu’à ce jour refusé de s’exprimer sur les faits relatés. Joint par téléphone, le chanteur du groupe a simplement déclaré avant de raccrocher :
- Il faut écouter le nouvel album. La réponse est dessus. Je dois vous laisser maintenant…
Pierre Mikaïloff
Pierre Mikaïloff est écrivain et essayiste, il a publié en 2008 "Cherchez le garçon" (Scali) et "Tournée d'adieu" (La Tengo).
pic by popel coumou
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We got to confess yep, we're recording a new album. actually, almost everything has been already recorded.
here are the names of the 10 new tracks:
- wish witch
- over
- won't come
- miss willy
- jean genie "brooklyn"
- lonesome machine gun
- rugbymen
- catfish
- what if
- black master will
we're very proud to tell you that the "klub" got some new occasional members: skerik, dead combo, lio, steven bernstein and alain johannes.
our friend robert aaron is still there too.
more news soooooooooon !!!!!!
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les vieilles charrues festival so we played in Carhaix for les vieilles charrues remettent le son festival (03.08.08). we did "wish witch" and "jean genie" for the first time live ... here are some souvenirs
pics by Alain Marie
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babe doll video clip directed by Jean-Luc Charles, babe doll video clip has just been shot.
we did it between january and february in Toulon (Fr) with some of our friends like Manon, Gilles Malbet, Sandrine Reisdorffer, Laure Grandon, Frederic Landini, Fabass, Bernard Sebastien, Leopold Trouillas and many more...
here are a couple of exclusive pictures from the shooting, by Laure Grandon.
all pics by Laure Grandon
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hifiklub live at marsatac festival hifiklub feat. Earl Slick on guitar played at Marsatac Festival (Marseille, 09/28/07).
the setlist for this special concert was:
- soho nightspot (new version)
- over (new song)
- records made from records
- black master will (new song)
- saro jane
- catfish (new song)
- dee dee
- babe doll
- shower of gold (new version)
- wont come (new song)
- what if (new song)
- lonesome machine gun (new song)
- action/ reaction
- first class fake cowboy (new version)
... about hifiklub live at marsatac festival (n°619)
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Kulte compilation /// babe doll check out the new Kulte compilation with "babe doll" (track n°1)
pic by olivier amsellem
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... ohhhhhh yeaaaah !!! hifiklub first album "french accent" out now in france on parallel factory (distribution by rue stendhal). this release includes special partnerships with the FNAC stores, rock n folk magazine, blast magazine, coming up magazine, the ferarock radios, radio néo and the french brand kulte.
"french accent" album cover by frederic teschner studio
Coming Up (summer 2007) - hifiklub portrait
Rock n Folk (july 2007) - "french accent" review
Blast (summer 2007) - "french accent" review
Nuke (n°5/ 2007) - hifiklub by Pierre Mikailoff
Magic (september 2007) - "french accent" review
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Blast Article Pop melodies and rock tourneries are proposed on this album. "French Accent" is enthralling, like a No wave boomerang which would burst the heads of our « frenchitude ». Because, yes, the members of Hifiklub are french, but as they have "too much class for the neighbourhood" they moved to New York. While Johnny Hallyday, "the prodigal son", returns to the country of the frankaouis (french), some musicians will breathe inspiration elsewhere. Earl Slick, guitarist of Bowie and Lennon, produced "french accent", where we also find collaborators of Chic, Fisherspooner. that is a mouth full isen't it?
Having been recorded in an old night club the trios album as the aura of ghost visiting over their last night drinking.
These young French men have reinvent themselves: New wave Version 2008. With class and attitude, they side with electronic, from pop to contemporary sounds, ah, the James White Sax.. However, nothing retro here, this album is resolutely modern and fortifying, plugged in the world of art (video, literature, graphic designers) and the vibrations of
megalopolis. No concerns, our guys of Hifiklub, did not forget to make us dance.
Jean-Emmanuel Dubois wrote this article about Hifiklub first album for Blast Magazine.
photo session by jaap scheeren/ Hyères (04/07)
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where's Dias ? part. 1, a photo session by Léopold the title of this photo session could be "where's Diad part 1?". ok, no Dias in those pics, but Paulo Furtado is with us. the session happened at our place in Valette du Var when Paulo was recording his parts in June 2006. Léopold Trouillas arrives at the end of the afternoon and decides to shoot near the only sources of light (the bottom of a swimming pool!) of this old abondoned discotheque. those pics represent only one part of the session; the others are not developed yet, but we are hoping Léo will let us see them some day.
photo session by léopold trouillas/ la Valette du Var (06/06)
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NY sessions eat well, that's important for a french guy abroad what's the best kind of food in the city? where can we find the best meal in the city? what will there be at the airport when we arrive? nothing special
when you arrive at the front of the warwick hotel, what do you see? some hot dogs stands, sometimes kebabs
look there are some wraps, not bad the thing is to have a local contact who knows the stop right away, earl says "italian, is that ok for you guys"?so, in the direction of little italy.
Italian streamers and flags, just like in a Sopranos, this is it! a restaurant like any other, with paintings of a doubtful taste, but earl is certain is someone gonna speak with his hands about Zidane and the world cup?
the menus were incomprehensible, but it was the best pasta in the world. earl was right!
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NY sessions #2 it is a day before the beggining of mixing. 8PM, bleecker street. which club should we start with?
lonely planet doesn't know shit! we don't understand a thing with this book! well, they say we can meet Iggy at the Continental. let's go there, we'll see ... lol
here we go! bands playing tonight "like everyday boys, we have 3 or 4 live bands"
you sure that's all? ... lol
looking at all the photos, it feels like everyone has played here shit, it looks like that's Lemmy in this photo, but without his beard
ok we've seen the Continental, now on to CBGB's 6 blocks from here the spot, two weeks before the final closing of the place, it will be more about History and atmosphere than musical emotions tonight
Eddy is here, without Jane and Robert. Direction Arlene Grocery;
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NY sessions #3 Clubhouse Studio, Rhinebeck, one hour and a half from the city. Change of scenery. pleasant suburbs in the country - "ok, we're at the train station" "hi guys, we're workin on "Dee Dee" right now, somebody will pick you up" the studio is installed in an old farm. shit, what are we listening to here? it sounds like "Dee Dee", lol
but what is this kick drum sound, it sounds like a bazzooka. It is a little bit unexpected but it is great. objective: two songs a day. we work from 10 to 2; lunch (sandwich) break; myspace; we work from 3 to 8; we listen over and over again to the songs, then go out to bars.
first, beers at Rhinecliff before whisky at Tivoli. A small bite then a big one
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The Hifiklub Theory From the beginning, hifiklub (trio composed by Laugier, Benito and Morcillo) has been open to external collaborations, with inviting musicians as well as artists or graphic designers, whose work has had an unquestionable influence on the band.
the first volume of our project, that we announce today under the name of "French Accent", has been co-produced by the band and Earl Slick (guitarist for David Bowie, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Ian Hunter, etc.).
we have recorded it with the participations of Earl Slick, Paulo Furtado (a.k.a. The Legendary Tigerman and member of Wraygunn), Robert Aaron (David Bowie, Fischerspooner, Chic, Wyclef Jean, Mick Jagger, Blondie or James White to name a few), Michael Beckett (Schneider TM, The Beautiful New Born Children, Kpt Michigan, etc.) and Evil Eddy Jo/ Plain Jane from New York band Lone Vein. The ten songs have been mixed at the Clubhouse studio in NYC by Earl Slick with Paul Antonell in august 2006.
photo session by olivier amsellem/ la Valette du Var (08/06)
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