Brittany Pilgrims

We do our own stunts

iScape Nippon: Shoren-In Priest (Audio)

Here it is, Monday again...
Every week or so a share of original sounds recorded in Japan this past October. Listen, glisten to the quivering of gardens, the shouts of crowds , the palpitation of radio waves, and the yeahas of western worship.

Track 9: transient trance of a priest at the Shoren-in Temple

Ouh! Ah!

On a desk from outter space, this lamp is litterally absorbing (rejecting?) our friend... Or does our friend from outter space have a very curious head?...

Or like the Jaxx people say: Where's your red hat ?!

iScape Paris: Having a Beer On The Top Of Montmartre

Super 8 Stencil Variation

Smoking With Bob (Tryptique)

Amsterdam, April 2005

iScape: The Streets of London

iScape Nippon: Floating Empire

The imperial palace of the floating world resting on a cloud in Kyoto.

Walled Paper

PP = KK

All these Art or Vandalism articles about Pierre Pinoncelli's act (let's not call it performace) at the Centre Pompidou are very cute.

PP looks more like an aging man who is resorting to easy sensationalistic stunts in order to have his name engraved in some art appendix about neo-dadaism, whatever that means, before being engraved himself. Isn't our own little homage to the Dada exhibit much more subtle?

Marketplace, Porto July 2005

iScape Nippon: Hypnotic Radio (Audio)

Every week or so a share of original sounds recorded in Japan this past October. Listen, glisten to the sounds of gardens, crowds, radios, and western worship.

Track 8 : Imagine yourself two blocks from Daitokuji in a Kyoto neighborhood of small old houses full ancient streets chimes. You are getting ready to go to sleep, turn on the radio and experience hypnotic surrealism.

Bahbel: Krups! ... Ich tat es mehr (Audio)

Because some poetry deserves to cross the borders of nations and languages

Track 2 is for the hearts in the breaking of the valentines coming

Orginal words of Oops! ... I did it again by B. Spears, 2000

iScape San Fran: The Streets of San Francisco

The sweet world of the largest Chinatown in the US ...



and its harsh philosophy




"No hope for the US and the rest of the world"

iScape Nippon: Jikokuten

The picture is of Jikokuten (also known as horny-dude-with-tits), a Deva king and one of two guardian gods of temple gates. This Jikokuten inhabits the Nio-mon (gate of the guardians) of the Kurama temple just north of Kyoto.

iScape Nippon: Night ride through Kyoto's Imperial Palace (Audio)

Every week or so a share of original sounds recorded in Japan this past October. Listen, glisten to the sounds of gardens, crowds, radios, and western worship.

Track 7: At night, on the way home from the Nanzen-ji temple you decide to take a short cut through the Imperial Palace. A lot of Kyoto's temples and gardens remain opened at night for people to cross, wander around, or play badmington under a lamp post (true). The Imperial Palace at the heart of the city has huge gardens enlaced with wide gravel alleys, convenient for biking and for escaping the noisy metropolis. This is a travel back from modern zeal, back from time, back from light.

Jamaican Weezdom (Audio)

On this day when we remember Dr. Martin Luther King, it seems appropriate to share some fresh words of peace and non-violence. The stage is to Nieta Michael and his words aired every Friday nights on Reggae Jamz (excerpts) from WZBC.

Peace from, between, and within

Armand&Alcyde

I don' like reggae !
I love it!

Fractals...

Sonic Youth Pilgrims: Orange Jos' Angel's Pitt

The news is out Sonic Youth will be releasing a new LP this coming year. Should we be rejoicing with the upcoming noise, I don't know. They don't really seem to know either. The album is being recorded in that same studio that gave birth to Sister and Experimental Jet Set Trash and No Star, two completely amazing albums.

To celebrate the news over the next few days we'll post about the high times of the trip that started it all: The Sonic Youth Tour 02 (yeah... for the release of the infamous Murray St). To show our love and dedication, Armand and I decided to follow our fellow sonic youngsters from NY, to Boston, then to San Diego, and finally to Los Angeles. We actually failed miserably on this last town, scheduling being a skill to none of us. But we had quite some fun and art sensations before that realization.

Let me take you there, before the sun goes down...

Ezekiel (Videos)

Today we go back in time, October 2003, Mellen st, where the discoveries of fire and wheel took a whole new meaning.
The evolution of man in 4 steps:

1 Learning the hard way
2 Wheel of fortune
3 Spice it up
4 Back to the future

Which Way Art ?

Looking at people looking at the Victoire de Samothrace one wonders about people's wonderment.

Is art the thing, the transfer, or its reflections on the audience faces?



And what is it with having pictures of oneself standing by some cataloged art piece?

Super 8 Stencil Series

iScape Nippon: Noh on the Radio at Bon (Audio)

Every week or so a share of original sounds recorded in Japan this past October. Listen, glisten to sounds of gardens, crowd, radio, and western worship.

Track 6: Roaming through the waves of the FM band at the Bon guesthouse in Kyoto.

In my two weeks of traveling in Japan, my warmest memories are of the time spent with Kazuo and Tomoko at the Bon guesthouse, and everywhere around Kyoto. Kazuo, the owner of the place, is just the most amazing person, and Tomoko the kindest. You really have to meet them to get the whole sense of their kindness and hospitality. If you stay a few nights talking in the small courtyard of the house you will hear stories of the sushi master, the world traveler in the Americas, Europe, and Africa, the patchinko life, and of all the various people and guests that came to meet Kazuo.

In the early morning, he will take you just minutes away to a very intimate temple of the Daitokuji complex to experience zazen meditation. In the afternoon, he can rent you a bike, which is really the best way to get around Kyoto, or take you to the outskirts of Kyoto (Kurama, Arashiyama...) to visit temples that hardly see western tourists. And at night, you will chill out, talk about life in Kyoto's sentos (Japanese public baths, they have all sorts of baths - I dare you to try to electric one...) surrounded by scary looking tatooed yakuzas.

Kazuo and Tomoko are dear friends to me as I am sure to anybody who spends one night at the guesthouse Bon.

further proof: http://savedscribbles.blogspot.com/2005/11/few-days-in-kyoto.html

Bon baisers de Montreal

The ember of the Americas pays its respect to our beloved poets victims of censorship