Browse by Artist: LE VOLUME COURBE

Artist:	LE VOLUME COURBE
Title:	I Killed My Best Friend
Label:	ASTRALWERKS
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ASW 30873CD

"I Killed My Best Friend is the debut album from Le Volume Courbe (French for 'The Volume Curve'), a trio of London-based musicians lead by French expatriate Charlotte Marionneau and inspired by the do-your-own-thing ethos of Nico, Patti Smith and Yoko Ono. After moving from France to London Charlotte Marionneau began composing and making tracks, receiving vital encouragement from musicians like Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval and David Roback, My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields and Colm O'Ciosoig, all of whom contribute to the record. Most of it was recorded at home. It's a lo-fi punk record, but punk in attitude rather than in musical style. It is a strange, otherworldly concoction of sounds filled with fragile vocals and haphazard guitars, flowing like an enchanting and elusive diary of dreams."

Artist:	LE VOLUME COURBE
Title:	I Killed My Best Friend
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	HJR 014LP

"This is the long-playing debut of Charlotte Marionneau. Her 'Volume Curve' project features contributions from Hope Sandoval, David Roback, Colm O'Ciosoig and Malcolm Duffy, amongst others. Kevin Shields' contribution -- as co-writer, performer and producer -- is so thorough-going that this album really marks his first fully-realised music since My Bloody Valentine. The sound-world here -- it has the integrity of a classic soundtrack -- is intimate and uncanny, playful and compelling, brimming with musical ideas."

Artist:	LE VOLUME COURBE
Title:	Theodaurus Rex EP
Label:	PICKPOCKET RECORDS
Format:	10"
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	FREE 001EP

"Le Volume Courbe is the work of Charlotte Marionneau, along with her friends and band: Melanie Draisey, Lascelle Gordon, Theodore Hall, Chris Mackin, Barney Slater and Wildcat. The Theodaurus Rex EP is the first release on Pickpocket Records, Kevin Shields' and Charlotte Marionneau's label. A heady and captivating collection of eclectic ideas and delicate moments, the EP includes the touching and fragile 'I Love The Living You', with My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields, used as the closing track in Nick Moran's 2010 movie 'The Kid'. As well as two other original tracks, 'Born to Lie' and 'Lazy', it also includes a cover of Nico's 'Le Petit Chevalier' -- a song Le Volume Courbe played at their first ever gig; a Nico tribute show."

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