First the Deity Guns and then Bästard who had an
important role among
the independent French musical landscape of the 90ies are at
the origin
of what on this side of the Atlantic could be considered as
the late echo
of the no wave movement in New York. These rigorous pioneers
from
Lyon (France) had no rivals when in was question of setting
up
tormented musical atmospheres.
During the years their influence became more and more important
even
if the modest group leader, Eric Aldéa, did not seem
to realise this
success. He would rather notice that if a few people started
playing
music after having listened to them then it would be extremely
rewarding.
After "Trans lines appointment", recorded by Lee
Ranaldo, Aldéa and his
band wanted to invest new territories. Becoming more mature but not
less entrancing than their little brother, Bästard were born.
"Two persons although very musically opposed took part in what was left
of the Deity Guns. The first one had no musical notions, everything was
just "scrrrrr" and "frrrrr" with whatever could make noise,
the other one
could easily play all sorts of musical instruments and followed a classical
education. We suddenly spread our musical field by adding machines
and strings and then shut ourselves up until it came out!"
The big adventure lasted five years. From 1992 to 1997
four albums were released. But the last one, "Radiant,
Discharged, Crossed-Off" reaches a high point that still
is considered by a lot of people as the beginning of what
was going to be post rock.
However Eric Aldéa has fond memories of Bästard's
great standing on stage:"It was short but unique. Even with machines, we still
were a group who played and gave its all: The human standing
came
out even more during concerts and the versions that we played
on stage were often better".
After having improvised an album with Yann Tiersen, rather
than keeping on playing the same things all the time, the
band stopped nearly at the top at the end of their creativity
cycle.
Nearly 10 years later, while the members of the group have
followed different musical ways (the 3 albums of Narcophony,
Eric Aldéa's band, and recently the excellent "Highway
to jail" of Spade&Archer, the new project of the
drummer Frank
Laurino are all available on our division 0101) and while
we already had the chance to produce a fantastic anthology
of
the
band, here comes the live album that shows this incredible
feeling with the stage.
Yet Reloaded… was recorded when the members grouped
together for once during the concert for the 20th anniversary
of
the "Confort Moderne" in Poitiers (France) the
24th September 2005 and a second CD with a recorded concert
in Rome
in
1994 is added to the album as a bonus.
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