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Julien Bourgeois – Swedish Music Landscape

Microcultures – Microcultures tote bag

A.P. Witomski – Transmissions

He's now one of our major actors in the Songs From Another Room, project. But A.P. Witomski is mostly known as a talented cold electro-pop songwriter, often compared with Depeche Mode. Beyond the musical legacy, this first album explores a new world in itself, that might welcome you in its strange and distant atmosphere.
2012 - Selfproduction

Angil – NOW

Angil has released some of the most remarkable albums in French pop music, these last years. However, this new record, NOW, achieves a long dream of melodic perfection, experimental work and visceral effects, mixed together. A true masterpiece. And we're not the only ones to say it.
2012 - We Are Unique / Microcultures

Folks – French Songs & 1, 2, 3

He used to sing in English but now his tunes are written in French, always with the same sensitive, folky and personal approach. Meet Folks and enjoy this double CD with the first album 1, 2, 3 and the new tracks French Songs. French Songs & 1, 2, 3
2012 - Microcultures

Folks – Seven Ways

Folks' first EP, where indie hits with powerful and immediate melodies can be heard already. 2009 - Selfproduction

The Notes – Wishing Well

Golden Glow – Tender is the Night

Tender is the Night is the first album by the Manchester band Golden Glow. Our friends in the US, Bleeding Gold Records, released a very nice 33rpm vinyl that sounds like a brit-pop labo, mixing shoegazing, coldwave and introspection witout forgetting to be catchy all along.
2011 - Bleeding Gold Records

Jacob Faurholt – Dark Hours

Dark Hours is Jacob Faurholt's fourth album. A long dark bluesy voyage into the Danish folk spirit.
2011 - Raw Onions Records

IWMO – Demo EP

First EP from a Parisian one man band who believes in a fight between machines and wilderness. Well, his music does sound like this fight indeed. And that's pretty cool in an unclassified genre.
2010 - Selfproduction

REZA – Moonless

Moonless is REZA's second album, whose songwriting has been compared to Leonard Cohen, Giant Sand or the Go-Betweens. Not bad for a Parisian artist.
2009 - French Toast

REZA – Supermaan

Supermaan is a great album being microcultivated. You can buy it right here or participate in the funding of the project on the page. Both ways, we'll be happy.
2012 - French Toast / Microcultures

Mr Dame – Mr Dame

A very nice and surprising pop album, sung in French, by a Swiss band with no fears.
2010 - VDE Gallo / French Toast

Pokett – Three Free Trees

The French Jim O'Rourke. That's him.
2011 - French Toast

New Pretoria – The Backyard's Legacy

The French Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Here they are.
2007 - French Toast

Les Marquises – Lost Lost Lost

A new side project for Jordan Geiger (Minus Story, Hospital Ships, Shearwater): sad and dreamy songs, drowned in a shivering electric atmosphere. Still no rest for ghosts.
2011 - Lost Recordings

Les Marquises – Lost Lost Lost (vinyl)

A new side project for Jordan Geiger (Minus Story, Hospital Ships, Shearwater): sad and dreamy songs, drowned in a shivering electric atmosphere. Still no rest for ghosts.
Vinyl edition contains 8 remixes (mp3 tracks)
2011 - Lost Recordings

David Abel – Beyond The Black Sea

A very sweet and nice (artwork included) pop-folk album, by a Parisian songwriter who knows how to deal with acoustic tradition, in a delicate and sensitive sense of balance.
2012 - Autoproduction

Thos Henley – A Collection of Early Recordings

Before the first EP, Golden Europe, this collection of early recordings will give you a perfect introduction you to the "little prince of folk".
2011 - Balades Sonores

Thos Henley – Golden Europe EP

Golden Europe was the first EP to be officially released and let Thos Henley being welcomed as a major folk songwriter to be. We hope for the next recordings to arrive soon.
2010 - Balades Sonores

La Féline – Wolf & Wheel

Sentimental yet wild and catchy, this trio, lead by a sweet feminine voice, will take you in its paralell fantastic world and you'll follow huming.
2011 - Balades Sonores

La Féline – Wolf & Wheel

Sentimental yet wild and catchy, this trio, lead by a sweet feminine voice, will take you in its paralell fantastic world and you'll follow huming.
2011 - Balades Sonores

Lonely Faction – So Few Comfortable Places

"A sort of Nick Drake at the Beach Boys" says Lonely Faction's songwriter about his own music. Yes, there is something really intimate and loneseome in these tunes, but they're always up for a touch of mellow lightness, through their voices in harmony and sweet, catchy choruses.
2012 - Selfproduction

Pierre & Marie – Pierre et Marie

Pierre is our national R. Stevie Moore in a way, with 20 albums, press recognition but no official release since 1998. With Pierre & Marie, the duet explores all kind of variations (from folk to electro pop) around the idea of a simple and pure melody.
This album like any other productions from Pierre & Marie is recorded on a CDr. Enjoy the DIY songwriting experience.
2010 - Selfproduction

Pierre & Marie – Late in the Day

"Late in the Day" is their newest album for now, but it probably won't last forever. Purchase it now to be sure you have the new Pierre & Marie album. And also to be sure you'll listen to some fine music.
This album like any other productions from Pierre & Marie is recorded on a CDr. Enjoy the DIY songwriting experience.
2010 - Selfproduction