Here's a few minutes of James & the fellas in action a few nights ago at Les Instants Chavires in Paris. Thanks to La Nuit La Nuit for the footage.
3/13/15
James Chance et Les Contortions at Stereo Bar, Glasgow, March 12, 2015
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| James Chance, Stereo Cafe Bar, Glasgow, 3.12.15, by Jayjay Robertson |
He’s tonight accompanied by a French three-piece band and quite probably the last time Glasgow witnessed a band as drum-skin tight would have been Mike Watt’s gig at Broadcast last year. This latest Gallic incarnation of Les Contortions are as lean and as precise as a band are ever likely to be; swerving from be-bop jazz to popping funk to Van Vliet-style discord in the blink of an eye or a wave of Chance’s fist, they carve into the material with an assuredness that’s jaw-dropping.
I’m left wondering if this sort of thing is the purest form of that old devil called punk rock. Guys like James Chance are the true outsiders, the risk-takers, the experimenters. It’s light years away from angry men with guitars, but sometimes it’s the people who play music entirely for themselves that are the true renegades. And James Chance is certainly that.
Read the entire review at Louder Than War.
2/19/15
James White & The Blacks featured on Mojo Mag comp, March 2015 issue
For you complete-ists out there, "Sax Maniac"
by James White & The Blacks is included on the CD that accompanies
the March 2015 issue of MOJO magazine. It also includes cuts from Bush Tetras, Funkadelic, Curtis Mayfield, Arthur Russell, 23 Skidoo, ESG and others.
2/18/15
Contortions' BUY vinyl reissue from Futurismo now available for pre-order!
As announced back in November, the vinyl reissue of the Contortions' BUY from Futurismo is now available for pre-order. It ships in March and it looks gorgeous!
Fully remastered and featuring two bonus tracks recorded at a brief
reformation, this LP comes on heavy 180g limited edition coloured vinyl
with Free Download. The record is encased in a mirror and neon gatefold
sleeve containing a new large 12pg booklet featuring rare photography by
the late great Anya Phillips and newly written text by the legendary
James Chance himself. Get hip, get contorted. Don’t think just BUY.
Tracklisting >
01. Designed To Kill
02. My Infatuation
03. I Don’t
Want To Be Happy
04. Anestetic
05. Contort Yourself
06. Throw Me Away
07. Roving Eye
08. Twice Removed
09. Bedroom Athlete
10. Terminal City (bonus cut)
11. Incorrigible (bonus cut)
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