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Artist:	NOZE
Title:	Craft Sounds and Voices
Label:	CIRCUS COMPANY (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	CC 002CD

"Of electronic memory one never heard that! Forget the samples, better enter in a musical world populated of cardboard boxes, bottles, Scotch tape, racks, claps, mouths, hammers, brushes, reeds, spatulas of plaster... With the origin of Nôze refreshing universe, a singular duet full of references but creating a single style: harmonious mixture of electronics and acoustics, daring combination of voices and choruses, but also of instruments and craft sounds (guitars, clarinets, pianos, prepared pianos, hammers, boxes)... it's always grooving in the 11 pieces of the album all guided by a kick for the rhythmic. Singular, different but catchy: Nôze's tells the pleasure of composing like one writes with complete freedom, when effervescence succeeds the melancholy, humour with the grace, the improvisation with the rigorous control of the instruments. The pieces are well linked like many festive combinations and amusing innovations. To discover an organic album with a remarkable color and refrains. Listen to the birth of an eclectic duet with a proper style. Recognize the magic of a sound history when it starts."

Artist:	NOZE
Title:	How To Dance
Label:	CIRCUS COMPANY (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	CC 004CD

Nôze is made up of the Parisian duo Nicolas Sfintescu (aka DJ Freak) founding member of Circus Company and Ezechiel Pailhès. This is their second full-length release. They are back with choruses, old stories and relentless post-digital refrains and with the energy of what they give into their live shows and even their basement compositions. One year after their brilliant Craft Sounds & Voices, they have constructed their outstanding follow-up to their European tour. How to Dance is composed of new incitements to run straight to the dancefloor, with skillful trance, chiming pianos, raging beats and fun ambulistic melodies. These are refrains that engrave themselves on the brain, and grooves that take over the body like a viral disease. How To Dance restores the most festive part of the electro scene through a positively dancefloor album: let's shake!

Artist:	NOZE
Title:	EP1
Label:	CIRCUS COMPANY (FRANCE)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	CCS 006EP

"This record is the first of a series from Nôze, Organizing an 'avant garde meeting', beyond the concepts already in place....forget about nu-jazz, trip-hop, house, or techno. From the most dancefloor song (Canicule) passing by click and bleep style (Outamimonclic) to a very melancholic ballade (Newlyn), Nôze are showing a new sight of jazz through electronic music. Are Nôze the ultimate 'Electrofree' fusion? A record which gives another idea of what electronic music can bring to improvised music. And mutually. A record where are confronting the acoustics of instruments (piano, prepared piano, clarinet, saxophone...) -- and the synthetic of data processing. That is to say the unpredictable vitality of the one confronted with the clockwork regularity of the other one. The objective does not aim at technical perfection where everything is clearly expressed, it plays with the suggestion, the unspoken, the imagination."

Artist:	NOZE
Title:	How To Dance EP
Label:	CIRCUS COMPANY (FRANCE)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	CCS 014EP

French duo Nôze return with choruses, old stories and relentless post-digital refrains. This EP features an in-edit track called "I Am." If you've enjoyed Nôze live, you should freak out on that one. It start with a strong rhythm, cut up voices and leads to a psychedelic synthesizer gimmick. The B-side gathers two major tracks from the How To Dance full-length. After international demand, "Love Affair" and "Lovin' All People" are now available on vinyl.

Artist:	NOZE
Title:	Dring
Label:	GET PHYSICAL MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	GPM 035CD

This is the fourth album by Nôze, the Parisian duo of Nicolas Sfintescu (aka DJ Freak), founding member of Circus Company and Ezechiel Pailhès. Since the release of their 2008 album Songs On The Rocks, the duo have developed like good wine, full of maturity and sophistication, asserting their character in a renewed fashion, with more depth and subtlety. Make no mistake about it, Nôze are still Nôze, they have simply swapped their colorful electro-cosmopolite entertainer costumes for the no less flattering attire of velvety pleasures and joyous melancholy and a re-emergence of their first love -- improvised music. The fellas have quieted down a bit after two crazy years touring the world, and deliver a brilliant, multi-headed album. Dring was born from multiple encounters and collaborations, disrupting the duet's recording routine: if the "Nôze sound" is resolutely turned towards instrumental music, this time the pair gave their friends complete freedom, as title after title, recording session after recording session, Nôze gradually became more of a "real" group with shifting and porous boundaries -- a spontaneous process, which progressively became this album's backbone, also an opportunity to express their gratitude to the worlds of jazz and improvised music and highlight the talent of their faithful collaborators: Thibaut Frisoni (guitar), Alexandre Authelain (sax and clarinet), Matthias Mahler (trombone) and Emiliano Turi (drums). Nôze now travels along the edge of house music, playfully making light of its codes, and more broadly making light of the codes of all festive musical genres that cross their path (cumbia, klezmer, reggae) and especially their own musical vocabulary: reviving the jazzy and experimental ardor of the early days, now sustained by the demands and maturity of accomplished musicians and performers that made their success and fame. With this album, Nôze offer themselves at their very quintessential best, where technical and musical virtuosity constantly share the limelight with the light-hearted but profound expression of joy, celebration and melancholy. Featuring contributing artists Riva Starr, Wareika and dOP.

Artist:	NOZE
Title:	Kitchen Remixe
Label:	MY BEST FRIEND (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MBF 12023EP

This track was originally released by the French couple from Paris: Nicolas Sfintescu (aka DJ Freak) founder of Circus Company and Ezechiel Pailhés. "Kitchen" is remixed by Thomas Schaeben, owner of Firm Records. Thomas is actually one of the few guys left in Cologne who experiments with a lot of hardware and guitars in professional studios. He totally re-played the "Kitchen" theme and added some strong heavy delays and nice crazy beat programming. On the flipside, Skat from Paris produces supercrazy funk-house. In his shuffle version of "Kitchen" he manages to cut up sounds like a world champion. A superb rhythmic dance track!

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