23/04/2025 It's been some time that I know Sousbock,
from the clumsy rock band to the high quality project of
dictator-who-drums-who-sings Sébastien Bournier. Amongst all their
releases, I've always had a soft spot for Parenthèses. the first album they released it in 2006. Which was the very moment I was working on the juicy Beppu Nights stuff. Talk about the memory lane...
When Seb talked about redoing the whole album,
I wasn't that excited. I love the original version, and don't get why
artists start to redo their past stuff with modern tech, usually
removing the original patina it had. But some high powers decided it
sounded like a demo, and that it should be redone. Amen. Since there
was no way to stop the drummer-who-sings-who-dictates, I decided that I
wanted to be part of it. As a tribute to the Beppu Nights
era, somehow. So I play on a couple of songs, as I love to put it. And
the guys did a very good job refreshing the record. To know who made
what, check the credits on the artwork.
And before I forget, the release of Parenthèses 2026
starts with a terrible lie. I didn't play any Mellotron on the song
"Quelques Coups Bas De Plus", but a mighty Emulator. I kindly asked the
singer-who-drums-who-dictates to correct the mistake, to which he
opposed a strict and dry veto. Hardly suprising from a
singer-who-dictates-who drums, though...
16/04/2025 Rumour has it: Gilles' long awaited album is still due for September 11, 2025.
Rumour has it: It will be preceded by a non-album single on June 27, 2025.
Rumour has it: The album will have a physical release featuring the single as bonus track (prepare your wallet).
Rumour
has it: The album and single will feature familiar faces and
brand new team members working in (almost) perfect harmony.
Rumour has it: Gilles' album and single will be completely devoid of Lunear members, too busy doing their thing. Which is:
18/03/2025 Stop being so confused! Gilles opens the door to his several activities on this easy landing page. No more secret... (?)
22/01/2025
Let It Rock, the excellent reviews and interviews site you surely know for having reviewed several of my records,
has tasted the cocktail and sorted out the ice cubes, tiny as you know
they are. good way to welcome some faith and spirit. Read it here.
16/01/2025
Friends, enemies, nuisances and ladies, happy 2025 etc etc etc... Did you know that on your beloved Unboxing album, amongst the many session musicians, are three guys who play in Lunear?
Do you know? Do you care? Well you'd better, since the French-Spanish
scum just released a single, which is based on their latest album From Above's
song "So Let's Go". It features the (beautiful) aforementioned song and
end with a more or less acoustic / stripped down version of it. And in
between is a brand new crazy, firework Red Bull-led quasi-instrumental
piece named "Buried In The Sand". Highly recommended for those who need
a boost of anything and who like tight, bulldozer-like musicianship. Lunear
don't offer you this song for free (they got a shot of the entrepeneur
mindset, mind you), you need to let go (no pun intended) of 2 euros
from your wallet, but hell yeah it's worth the investment. Because,
between you and me, Gilles' forthcoming album will much more expensive
- so prepare to save. Duh!
11/12/2024 All you want from Christmas is Gilles Snowcat's new single Staff Wanted. Period. It's here.
18/11/2024 All you want from Christmas is Gilles Snowcat's new single Staff Wanted. I said Christmas, so don't expect anything before 1st of December.
22/10/2024 Our shopping centre has been renewed! It's never been easier to enjoy Gilles' love songs after dark and make them yours.
25/09/2024 Collaborator Keith Walsh reveals some pre-Brick Bosso work: Urban Joe by Googlephonics.
Originated from 1992, it features impressive synth-bass work and
cuts-like-a-knife guitars from Curtis Adamo. 3 songs are available so
far. Hat trick to the duo for the highly creative "Imagination" that
wouldn't dissapoint Brick Bosso fanatics. Get it here.
02/09/2024 Somewhere in New York City, from Chinatown to Skylark: Tiny Little Ice Cubes. And don't forget Monaco.
22/08/2024
Coming (rather) soon!
25/04/2024
Fellows unboxed guests
Sébastien Bournier, JP Benadjer and Paul J. No strike back with a new Lunear album, From Above.
You might have to wait until 17th of May to get your hands on it,
unless you're smart. Yours truly is. From
Above features 4 songs clocking around 48 minutes in
total, so it ain't no punk album, but rather a highly melodic
progressive album. It is finely produced (by a guy named David Paredes)
and played with sheer
elegance, featuring so... many... keyboards, powerful and creative
drumming and
joyfully driving bass. The guitar parts are quite interesting, though
<trigger warning> it is a
keyboard-dominated album </trigger warning>, so don't expect many heavy riffs or crazy Jimi-infused
soli.
The lyrics used to be Lunear's
low point (in your truly's very 'umble
opinion), but here Bournier wrote some top-notch stories that, backed
by excellent songwriting and arranging, propels Lunear among the
best
acts of the 2020's.
The bad news is that Lunear's wonderful inspiration doesn't translate
into their dull promotional video, sadly unworthy of the group's talent, a
bland waste of time that you'll watch at your
own expenses.
It's a no-brainer to say that more info is available on Lunear's website.
04/04/2024 Brick
Bosso tells you that you don't have to explain. You just
have to watch
and listen.
20/02/2024
R.I.P Mr Beaver. He played drums on Gilles' Last Summer On The Beach
maxi-single. He was also the leader of Tina
& The Funksters with Tina Santin, Ian 'Fusian'
Rigillo, Axel Dumont and Hudson Silveira. He is now in heaven. Prior to
his passing, he had started recording a song of his own writing, Buonanotte,
with Tina, Fusian and Axel. And yours truly who sings and plays some
synthesizer. The Funksters made a video as a tribute to him. Watch it
here.
25/01/2024
Recorded as a bootleg in 2012 (not
1982!), Gilles' version of Philip Glass' Koyaanisqatsi is
now available
on streaming.
17/01/2024
Years
ago, Gilles contributed to a few tribute
albums. They have their own page
now.
18/12/2023 Brick Bosso
gets visual, psychedelic and speaks magic.
22/11/2023
The first
two albums of Secret
Faces,
on which yours truly is doing some guest appearance, have been
remastered. It seems that if you click on the album covers below,
you'll get to hear them. Cool.
18/10/2023
When
Ana
Cozman
sings, you're transported in an aquarelle in the blink of an eye. You
might not believe me. In this case, you may try it for yourself. Click
on the aquerelle below and hear the colours.
05/09/2023
You're
not gonna like it, but in order to make things clear for fragile 2020's
people, from now on a part of my catalogue features a trigger warning:
29/08/2023 Lew Ellyn,
formerly known as Glen Llewellyn Smith, thinks the world has gone
crazy. Amongst musicans on the album, you'll find the usual suspects
Hudson Silveira, hetpampa and yours truly. And Glen, of
course.
Or should I say Lew Ellyn. World Gone
Crazy
is available on various online shops, like
this one...
Lew
Ellyn, that you know as Glen Llewellyn Smith, co-wrote a
new
song for my
forthcoming album. And he just recorded and released his own version. "Something New In Waterloo",
that's
the song. The B-side is called "Solitude".
And I play the keyboards on that one.
The whole single Solitude In
Waterloo
is here.
04/03/2023
Saturday
4th
of March 1989 was recorded the first version of "Memories Of A Teenage Cat".
It
surely deserved a remaster
for its anniversary.
17/02/2023
Remember
"Legs
& Liquor" from MokoMoko
Collection?
Sure you do. But the dub version? It was released a few months after
the album, and has just been remastered and finally gets the
international release it deserves. Try it on Spotify
or any of your favourite online shops.
07/02/2023
Happy
Year of
the Cat (or Rabbit) to my
Asian friends! Do you remember the soundtrack of cat-minded
people?
And happy Mardi Gras
to the happy few
(like me) who were bron on Mardi Gras Day...
09/12/2022
You
have the
full Unboxing
collection? So you're familiar with my friends and collaborators
hetpampa, Bill Bayer, Glen Llewellyn Smith and Keith 'Brick Bosso'
Walsh. Those cats have news for you:
hetpampa
released a new album, Alma,
featuring yours truly on two tracks, and a bunch of other guests,
including piano virtuoso Hudson Silveira. It's on the best online
shops, and your job is to click
here and listen now.
Bill
Bayer is
launching a crowdfunding so he can pay his musicians on his forthcoming
album Now.
Support
him (and his starving musicians) here
and
now (like the album's title)
Glen Llewellyn Smith
changed his
artist name into Lew
Ellyn. He
went to check into his tapes from 1999 until now and released them as Ark-Hive
Collection.
Listen to Lew Ellyn's moving collection of songs here
and
now.
Brick Bosso is a
busy guy. Between
two shows of MindFree,
he
records a song or two as Brick
Bosso,
inclusing this surprising "Bodhisattva
Kiss". Check it and listen to it here and now.
10/11/2022
Author
&
music historian Peter
Checksfield just released his Undercover
encyclopedia of the 500 Rolling Stones covers you must hear.
And guess what?
Gilles' version of "This Place Is Empty" is included. Get your copy on Amazon
15/09/2022
Are
you such
a boring musician? Maybe. Check the 3rd edition of The Rock Star
Paradox
to find out... and solve your problem!
Release on 21st of September 2022
01/09/2022
Back
to
school, back to shopping centre. It's easier to buy a part of Gilles
now.
29/08/2022
Gilles
doesn't play any instrument nor sings on this Brick Bosso single.
He made a dub
mix.
17/06/2022
Book
your
day on 5th of August 2022. Someday,
a song from Cold Chisel, has
been covered by Gilles. I said not before 5th of August.
01/06/2022
After
the
whole list of songs written by Gilles, here's the complete list
of covers
done by our old Cat. Official or not.
12/05/2022
The
maxi
single is now done. Last Summer
On The
Beach (We Were Drinking Limoncello). Here's the
cocktail
menu:
1- (You’ve Been
Drinking)
My Limoncello -single version-
2- Lemon
Body
Scrub -new song-
3- Just
How Many
Times -originally from Cold Chisel-
4- Blue
Wave
-originally from Eddy Grant-
...and a bonus track too! You want a preview or not? Jump here...
25/04/2022
The
maxi
single is now almost done recording. Homestretch, guys,
homestretch! And We See Limes Studio
has new
pictures.
05/04/2022
Some
welcome
updates to the website have been done for you: in order to save you
some preciosu time, Gilles' full discography
has links to
most of the recordings. The guest page
also has cleaned up
links and more features.
03/04/2022
After
some 3
years indulging in We
See Limes
Studio, Gilles finally got back on stage
for a rather
chaotic and short performance. The band
consisted in Myles
Simpson (drums), Hudson
Silveira (organ & piano), Ben Carmona
(guitar) and Gilles
(voice).
Two songs were performed: (You've
Been Drinking) My Limoncello and Keith Richards' Crosseyed Heart.
22/02/2022
On
this Super Cat's Day
(スーパー猫の日) in Japan,
let's celebrate the 10th anniversary of Mokomoko Collection's
release!
On Cat's Day!
11/02/2022
Keith
Richards' Crosseyed Heart by
Gilles
with Ian Rigillo, Nicolas NikoZark
Leroy, hetpampa and Sébastien bargio
Bournier has been released today!
02/02/2022
Keith
Richards' Crosseyed Heart by
Gilles
with Ian Rigillo, Nicolas NikoZark Leroy, hetpampa and Sébastien
Bournier is mixed and done. Yessss!
14/01/2022
Recordings for an unexpected new single, along with some session work
for Glen Llewellyn Smith.
28/12/2021
Gilles' dub experiments
are now
available on a single page.
27/12/2021
Wow, five
more Aperitivo
pages for you today! They guide you to more albums to discover if you
want to continue your journey into the snowy feline's world.
17/12/2021
Tired of the same Christmas songs played over and over? Well Gilles'
drunken Xmas cards may not soothe you then. Or
maybe yes,
who knows. Some are still available and a friendly cost. Hey it's
Christmas after all.
29/11/2021
You know Glen Llewellyn
Smith,
he plays and composes on the holy Unboxing album. The guy
just released a
new single, End
Times Undone. And there's
a video featuring G.S. and drummer Myles Simpson (another Unboxing
lad). You watch it here.
24/11/2021
A bunch of live pictures
and
the updated 9 facts
about Gilles
on Gilles' profile.
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October 2021 Oh my, this Pandan Smash cocktail is so
inspiring...
September 2021 ....
August 2021
Gilles is either resting on his laurels, or working on stuff. You guess.
June 2021
For you if you love to dance, the first album of EDM project Minus Ion Re-Generation
is out.
It's called 150,
maybe because most pieces are at 150 bpm. Pretty simple, isn't it?
Listen, buy, beg, borrow or steal here: Minus
Ion Re-Generation page
May 2021
For you if you love to dance, the first non-album single of EDM project
Minus Ion
Re-Generation
is out.
It's called Bubble
Tea Motorway.
Listen, buy, beg, borrow or steal here: Minus
Ion Re-Generation page
