P f e / MUSIC STREAM

You can hear the music of P f e at Last.fm. Herewith the player embedded. You can click on this player (bottom right) and transform it into a POP-UP while browsing the other posts here. or use the mini-player (same content) on the right 'column'... You'll always find here a mix of songs from PERMANENT FATAL ERROR and ULAN BATOR. I'll add some mp3 download little by little and little players into the posts. Please visit us at Last.fm Pfe's page and feel free to join the Last.fm Pfe group!

Damo Suzuki's Network / 2008 JAN 19 (IT) PHOTOS

The concert with Damo and the "reggiana team" was really great, I enjoyed a lot. We performed 1 song of... 2 hours, yep :) We were 9 on stage! and found place and vibes for everybody. There were Luca Giovanardi (Julie's Haircut), Francesco Donadello and Jukka Reverberi (Giardini di Mirò), Enrico Fontanelli (Offlagadisco pax and Volvo Tapes), Nazi Comunale (La Grande Orquestra De La Muerte), Giulio Vetrone, Luca Rossi (Ustmamo, Fennec, nada...).

A wall of photos of the show with Damo Suzuki in Calamita (Cavriago, IT) is viewable at WWW.CALAMITA.NET/DAMO.HTML . Fews pics hereunder.

Photos by Cristina and Davide
A big thanks and hello to the Calamita and Luca Kalporz!

with Damo Suzuki and French Doctors = DAMO SUZUKI'S NETWORK / October 23, 2003 Paris (FR) : "HOLLYARIS"

In early 2003, Nicolas met by chance DAMO SUZUKI in Koeln. Some months later, we were performing together, recorded and released! It's been the very first of some shows we did all together. The french crew/soundcarriers, aka the "FRENCH DOCTORS", was (and still "is") composed by ourselves through long friendship stories and musical connections. We did not rehearsed and met at the soundcheck. The show was released later in 2005 by the german label 45/Indigo as "HOLLYARIS" (CD2). I think that this is a very good one, I am very happy and proud of what we did and to get it released: 6 "songs", a bit more than one hour of performance. (CD2 is pARIS, The CD1 is a live from HOLLYwood/L.A. with another team around Damo...). You can hear (stream) some pieces of the album at the MySpace page of the FRENCH DOCTORS collective, aka: Edward Perraud (drums...), Nicolas Marmin/Aka_bondage (bass, electronics...), Sebastien Borgo/Sun Plexus (guitar, objects, electronics...), Franq De Quengo/Dragibus (guitar, objects, electronics...), and meee Olivier (bass, acoustic guitar, electronics). This was only the beginning of the story... (to be continued)Thanks to Hic et Nunc (booking) and Jiesse (promoter) at le Cafe de la Danse. Hello to Black sifichi who performed before us on that night. Special super thanks to patrick Da Silva (live sound-ingeneer) and Monsieur Tom Meyer at Master & Servant for the mastering (it's funny because he also mastered tiiiiime ago the 3 first Ulan Bator albums... Was like, 8 years after: "hey Tom?! how are you?!" when I knew that Damo was mastering his performances with him since a long time...!So, some words about HOLLYARIS release. Hereunder the track-listing of the CD2 which is the PARIS concert featuring the lovely people you can see and read a-b-o-u-t above:

01. ouverture (14:25)
02. un pantin sauvage (08:07)
03. parfum (07:47)
04. une rue sans visage (08:03)
05. un voyage a travers toi (14:38)
06. fin du traitement (10:50)

REVIEW by X-RAY:
"DAMO SUZUKI'S NETWORK "HOLLYARIS" 2 CDS DIGIPAX LONGBOX (Funfundveirzig)
"When Damo Suzuki, ex-singer with the now legendary band Can releases a new album, there's one thing you can be sure of, namely that it will be totally different from everything he's released before. He is the one who by his unconditional adherence to improvisation (Damo himself speaks of "Instant Compositions") carries the spirit of Can into the 21st century. Damo pursues his musical vision with a determination few other artists can match. Hollyaris is comprised of excerpts from two performances, each with a totally different lineup. The CD Hollywood was recorded on August 31st 2002 at the Knitting Factory Los Angeles. Damo's voice is very much in the foreground here, which is justified by the fact that his singing is extremely melodic (in fact, the first track is reminiscent of his wonderful vocals on Can's "Future Days" at times). Apart from the voice, it is Len Del Rio's exact percussion which propel the improvisations and Kevin Lee on Moog and Theremin (!) supplying the spacey-spooky sounds who stand out from the rest of the band. Also, it seems that the location of each performance had an influence on what has been captured on tape: On Hollywood, one can discern the occasional elements of westcoast psychedelia, which is mainly due to the three guitars playing. But it's the PARIS CD which is the real surprise of this set. It was recorded only some 14 months later, yet it sounds like a decade has elapsed since the LA-gig. Whereas the latter band played psych- and avantgarderock with the occasional nod in the direction of Can, the music on Paris is much more subtle. With the sole exception of the drummer, all of Damo's five collaborators use electronic processing tools. Thus Damo's singing is presented here in a totally new setting for him. The fact that Damo can adapt his singing so effortlessly to this modern context speaks volumes for his artistic vision and his will to communicate with his fellow musicians (which has always been his ultimate concern). More than any other of Damo's releases, Paris focusses on the search for a collective expression, the communication and understanding across genres and generations. Damo once said that when he goes onstage, he is not so much thinking about the music which he will play but about creating a collective experience with his audience within the moment. The music on Hollyaris bear witness to that attitude."

with Damo Suzuki and French Doctors = DAMO SUZUKI'S NETWORK / December 11, 2003 Paris (FR) PHOTO

I love these photos by Matthieu Saura :
Paris at Mouvement/Octopus festival, december 11, 2003:
Permanent Fatal Error + Damo Suzuki's Network + Whitehouse!So..., Nicolas and me were quite busy that night: we started first with Permanent Fatal Error, then 15 minutes later we performed with Damo Suzuki, together with our killer collective French Doctors (us 2 plus Edward Perraud, Sebastien Borgo/Sun Plexus and Franq De Quengo/Dragibus). Thenafter we had a little rest with... Whitehouse performing. A great and exhausting night.Here we are Damo and Olivier during the DSNetwork show :)
Big thanks and hello to David Sanson and Mouvement/Octopus for these shows

BIAS! with Xabier Iriondo / first EP, december 2005

In 2004 and 2005, by several meetings at Xabier Iriondo's recording studio, we recorded little by little the BIAS! project. It's been released by Wallace records in december 2005 as number 8 of the Wallace mail series: It's a 3'' cd in a special cover. Some excellent special-guests here are: Cristiano Calcagnile and Paolo Cantu from Uncode duello! You can hear some tracks here: BIAS! at MySpace + BIAS! page at wallace records

Damo Suzuki's Network / VIDEO live at Cox18, Milano (IT) 2003 oct 18

The gig of yesterday at the Calamita was really a nice one. Waiting for some pictures to host here, herewith an old live extract of the DAMO SUZUKI'S NETWORK featuring myself. This was at the Cox18 in Milano on october 18, 2003. The musicians around Damo were Xabier Iriondo, Fabrizio Modenese Palumbo aka (r) of Larsen, Nicolas Marmin/Aka_bondage of Pfe between others, Billét of Cut and Pfe, Olivier/meee, and Massimo Pupillo of ZU who did a super-guest powerfull appearance later on the gig. This was part of a tour I'll document later here.

P f e / MANIFESTE

"we're a living soundtrack band,
we're playing and singing,
we're playing rock with acoustic guitars,
we're playing rock with electronics,
we're deafblues."

Ulan Bator / VIDEO live at Nouveau casino, Paris (FR) May 29, 2007

This video directed by Julien Perrin. We are Amaury Cambuzat (voice, guitar), Olivier Manchion (bass, backvocals) and Alessio Gioffredi (drums) . We're performing "EMBARQUEMENT" from VEGETALE album.



This is curently the last performance I did with Ulan Bator. It was on May 29, 2007 in Paris at the Nouveau casino, together with Apse.

Faust / Nuits-sonores festival 2006, Lyon (FR) LIVE

This is part of a documentary to be released later this year. The director is Julien Perrin. He runs the (NO) KRAUTROCK STORY web/blog. Here we are performing live in Lyon at the Nuits-sonores festival*, on may 23, 2006. The people on stage are founder members Werner 'Zappi' Diermaier (drums, metal...) and Jean-Hervé Péron (voice, bass...), with Olivier Manchion (it's mee, on bass), Amaury Cambuzat (guitar) and Keef Rob (synth). We're performing "GIGGY SMILE" (sometimes entitled "Picnic On A Frozen River", anyway both on FAUST IV album) and "I GOT MY CAR AND MY TV" (from SO FAR album). A great concert featuring for the first time ever on stage in the story of the "Inventors of Krautrock" a complete performance of FAUST 'CLEAR' album!



You should also visit www.faust-pages.com
* A big thanks and hello to Violaine Didier and Benoit Maume

Damo Suzuki's Network / 2008 JAN 19 (IT) LIVE

2008 JANUARY 19
CAVRIAGO (Re) - Calamita
Hey, this has to be said! Next saturday night here will be hot: DAMO SUZUKI is back here and I'll perform again with him together with a very fine team of "reggiani": People of Julie's Haircut, Giardini di Mirò, Caboto, Offlagadiscopax, Ustmamo... Please see the names details on the poster. We'll improvize for a long time for sure. As often in Italy this should start around... 22.30, 23.00,... hmmm,...

P f e / PHOTO GALLERY at FLICKR

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P f e / LIVE by Musiques Volantes festival, metz FR (Nov.11, 2004)

P f e live at Musiques volantes festival, Metz FR, Nov.11-2004.
Music: P f e, various songs of LAW SPEED album, 2004
© Pfe/sacem FR + © Musiques Volantes
Thank you to MV/Geraldine

P f e / VIDEO : A-PIC by Aka_bondage (LAW SPEED, 2004)

Home-made video by Nicolas / Aka_bondage
A mix of photography and Interferences.
Music: P f e "A-PIC" from LAW SPEED album, 2004
© Pfe/sacem FR + © Aka_bondage

Permanent fatal error / NEW ALBUM, 2008

I'm more than happy that in few days we'll start the new recording at URS studio, in the mountains near Reggio Emilia (IT). 2005/2007 have passed so so quickly with Faust, Ulan Bator and a nice family event, that PFE, which never stopped, has been "iced", except for some very few solo/duo shows shows (see DEAF SUN-DEAF BLUES together with Andrea Bermabini (video) and a recent collaboration with Simone Pellegrini). I decided late 2007 to restart "hard". There are new members, excellent musicians: SEB MARTEL (guitar), NICHOLAS THOMAS (vibraphone) and, and..., and FRANCK LANTIGNAC (drums), who was the first drummer of Ulan Bator. These guys, together with GIULIO C. VETRONE, BILLET, NICOLAS MARMIN and myself (aka the core members) are PFE. Oh, i should not forget Lionel Darenne the sound-ingeneer! He recorded "LAW SPEED" and we'll do together the new one too. His magic hands/ears gave THE sound to PFE since its birth. All of this is very exciting.

I will send some pictures here during the recording session, if not too much stressed about (no doubt I will).

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