I can't believe there are no threads on Emil Beaulieau
I have come across these amazing videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV6lEuMNMf0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lxjze2ou5I&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fle9U1MExXk&feature=related
Living in Italy i never had the chance to see Emil Beaulieau live, but i always appreciated the videos. Also i wonder if he'll be back to action anytime soon?
My favorite Emil records:
Moonlight In Vermont
Bigfoot
Memories
My favourite is the personalised cassettes RRRon was doing for a while; packaging is just amazing and VERY Ron, the sound is just fantastic too. Does anyone else have one they just LOVE?
I'm also partial to:
Chop Shop plays Emil (really more a Chop Shop album, but hey it's just incredible)
Merzbow/Emil Live In Chicago LP
Born In The USA and PS I Love You both on Hospital (the former is a reissue, originally on Abnormal)
The solo CDs/LPs have never quite got to that same level for me, although there's nothing wrong with any that I've heard, either.
My personal favorites remain Pure series discs:
*Memories - for it primitive and simple approach. A must for those who liked Americanoise comp tracks!
*Dedicated to Masami Akita
*Dedicated to Richard Rupenus
latter remains possibly still THE best TNB "collaboration".
I know I am probably biased towards early amazing experiences - and these were the first ones I got.
As for live gigs, I have seen Emil play maybe... 10 times? Mostly thanks to Yankee Know-How tour. First gig I saw was 2003 London, and it blew my mind. Was it TNB who had just finished - when suddenly instead of DJ music, noise hits the PA at full volume. A lot of people are wondering what is happening, but suddenly you see movement in crowd behind you and there is Emil playing in middle of hall - doing his dressing up routine - but also delivering noise to perfection. It is very rare case when "humor noise" captures on such level - but it was most certainly best act of the night and there was pretty intense line-up.
I got hours of video footage as well as audio recordings of Yankee Know How tour. Some of the stuff is brilliant. Intent to do DVD release or DVD+CD release has been bending for years... but maybe, there would be still demand for it? There is probably 1 hour of Prurient video interviews. 30 mins of music, 30 mins of blowjobs. Not sure if he'd want all that published now, haha!
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on July 10, 2012, 09:22:08 AM
I got hours of video footage as well as audio recordings of Yankee Know How tour. Some of the stuff is brilliant. Intent to do DVD release or DVD+CD release has been bending for years... but maybe, there would be still demand for it? There is probably 1 hour of Prurient video interviews. 30 mins of music, 30 mins of blowjobs. Not sure if he'd want all that published now, haha!
That DVD would be well received I would hope.
Had many discussions with Bob from Xome on the subway about his tour with Prurient & Emil Beaulieau in Dom's van, not too many details I remember, or Bob remembered, but I could imagine those gigs must have been amazing night after night.
I really like Damaged / Destroyed as it has a tight sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dabw_hrIbQ0&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL22702326AA91D019
^EMIL@NORCAL NOISEFEST 05
Saw this recently its sick also, in 3 parts
Brainwashed video series The Eye focuses on Emil Beaulieau: America's Greatest Living Noise Artist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVUzdm6Nrag&feature=relmfu
"moonlight in vermont" is a fucking masterpiece.
Americas Greatest Noise 2xLP is his most rapresentative work in my opinion. If i recall correctly Emil destroys Pain Jerk here. Most of what already mentioned are must-have classics. All the video VHS i got from him years back are something i couldn't ever get rid off, too.
I love the 7" that Emil put out on Tochnit Aleph, the "Destruction Of Output" where he messes up Con-Dom, Column One, Dachise & Astro. Short, sharp and to the point (of noise). This was my first introduction to Emil...simply the best.
Quote from: andy vomit on July 12, 2012, 07:29:32 PM
"moonlight in vermont" is a fucking masterpiece.
That!!
+1 for pure cd "memories" + americas greatest... 2LP
Agreed with everything said here, but we cannot forget this definitive document:
http://youtu.be/vyDpDz7fLkg
"America's Greatest Living Noise Artist" VHS
Totally into those:
Memories CD (Pure/RRR)
Dedicated to Masami Akita CD (Pure/RRR)
Dedicated to Richard Rupenus CD (Pure/RRR)
Moonlight In Vermont CD (Reissue from Hospital Productions)
Damaged + Destroyed CD (Reissue From Freak Animal Records)
Also, someone uploaded the whole America's Greatest Living Noise Artist VHS on Youtube.
For those who noticed it, enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyDpDz7fLkg
Let's give this a bump-o.
Currently spinning Abusing the Little Ones (Self Abuse Records)
All based upon Ron's mangling of Self Abuse 7" series. Took a bit of volume cranking at first and has quite a thin sounds, honing in on lots of high pitched squeals for the most part. Once you get adjusted it's a great record. Seems like a lot of long drawn out scree and tones get exercised amidst some very choice moments of lofi chaos. Several artists getting remixed here but I've not really been interested in examining who is who. You can tell when something in a more industrial/PE vein is getting murdered though and it makes for a really effective and worth having LP overall I think.
Any new thoughts/news/insights into the world of Emil? Seems like Ron is probably totally uninterested in putting out more work or contributing to things besides (the already plentiful) task of running RRR these days. It's a shame but understandable. Emil Beaulieau has got to be one of my favourite noise acts of all time though and is unmatched in the way it touches upon so many angles but seems to work. How many harsh noise artists can get away with doing a shitty version of Ursonata at a gig instead of any 'noise' and still have it meet every expectation you'd have?
I'm gutted I never got to see him and that my discovering noise as a living, breathing, operating thing of it's own happened just a few ball hairs away from what, in retrospect, was a pretty golden era for foreign artists touring the UK.
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on July 10, 2012, 09:22:08 AM
I know I am probably biased towards early amazing experiences - and these were the first ones I got.
As for live gigs, I have seen Emil play maybe... 10 times? Mostly thanks to Yankee Know-How tour. First gig I saw was 2003 London, and it blew my mind. Was it TNB who had just finished - when suddenly instead of DJ music, noise hits the PA at full volume. A lot of people are wondering what is happening, but suddenly you see movement in crowd behind you and there is Emil playing in middle of hall - doing his dressing up routine - but also delivering noise to perfection. It is very rare case when "humor noise" captures on such level - but it was most certainly best act of the night and there was pretty intense line up
this was my first experience of rrr Ron amidst a night of superb bands
saw again 12 to18 months later at same venue with similarly great line up-thanks due Gaia.
I will never, ever, ever ever ever stop raving about the "Anti-Performance" tape. Emil's characteristic turntable work using RRR anti-records as source. An absolute Top 10 desert-island noise tape for me.
(There are 5 very reasonably-priced copies on discogs, too, ahem.)
Quote from: A S I T G on May 15, 2013, 02:34:35 AM
Agreed with everything said here, but we cannot forget this definitive document:
http://youtu.be/vyDpDz7fLkg
"America's Greatest Living Noise Artist" VHS
A missing link between noise performance and stand-up comedy.
just watched the link.
wonderful.
I love being Po faced as much as the next person but this reminds me of the joy of loud uncomplicated by concept noise.
It seems there is a new EB release on Hospital that has emerged with little to no fanfare from what I can see.
https://hospitalproductions.bandcamp.com/album/polio
Already pretty confusing release. It says something about Ron destroying records 'from the fdr era' and contains a weird catalogue number in reference to that. I've only had a very cursory listen on my phone and will need to properly hear it later but I wonder if it's actually prurient records being played across the first side? Something is going on here with tongue in cheek understood only by Ron and Dom. I could be over thinking it but given the rrr tendency toward pranks, wrong footing and having been out of the Noise game for some time I don't know what to make of this very sudden appearance of EB for the first time in years. Anyone able to shed further light?
Noticed this release a few days ago and I was thinking the same. Can't help with info..
Quote from: Duncan on July 05, 2020, 11:07:39 AM
It seems there is a new EB release on Hospital that has emerged with little to no fanfare from what I can see.
https://hospitalproductions.bandcamp.com/album/polio
Already pretty confusing release. It says something about Ron destroying records 'from the fdr era' and contains a weird catalogue number in reference to that. I've only had a very cursory listen on my phone and will need to properly hear it later but I wonder if it's actually prurient records being played across the first side? Something is going on here with tongue in cheek understood only by Ron and Dom. I could be over thinking it but given the rrr tendency toward pranks, wrong footing and having been out of the Noise game for some time I don't know what to make of this very sudden appearance of EB for the first time in years. Anyone able to shed further light?
The 3rd track sounds so familiar, I definately know it, I thought it might be from the soundtrack of the movie "The Thief of Bagdad" which is from 1940 and would fit in the whole FDR era, but I haven't got a full rip of the soundtrack to go through...
100% new Emil material recorded this year.
I think after a bit of reflection I was just massively overthinking it, but that's only a testament to how much I love Emil and RRRon's wicked sense of fun/fucking with people. Ordered the tape. Gonna spin this digitally tomorrow. Totally thrilled to see it happening.
Two interviews:
Ron Lessard Is a Noise Music Hero (https://www.vice.com/en/article/mb3k58/ron-lessard-is-a-noise-music-hero) (2017)
RRR's Ron Lessard Talks Noise, Record Labels & Cowboy Music (https://miscdissonance.blogspot.com/2019/10/against-grain-1-rrrs-ron-lessard-talks.html) (2019)
I watched a bit of Emil Beaulieau live gigs I have on mDV tapes. So good live gigs it seems disgrace to stash them for decades and nobody ever see them. Now handed over my old computer to repair, and HOPEFULLY there would be possibility to make transfers of tapes to files... and see what to do with them. There is also very short Emil interview, if that could be found.
Polio tape was really good. Listened it multiple times. 3 times, one after another, and still leaves you hungry for more. I really hope the man would return active into noise, as he clearly has ability to do noise that nobody else does. even if he boldly would rip other peoples noise to make it, hah..
i was gonna ask if the new tape made it over to any euro distros but spotted it on FA ... adding to basket ... new emil is best news i've heard in a long time. i'd love to see a live return (never got to see him live).
Quote from: CMSFoundation on December 02, 2016, 11:17:34 PM
I will never, ever, ever ever ever stop raving about the "Anti-Performance" tape. Emil's characteristic turntable work using RRR anti-records as source. An absolute Top 10 desert-island noise tape for me.
(There are 5 very reasonably-priced copies on discogs, too, ahem.)
strong second for this.
Emil Beaulieau - October 14, 1996 - Mama Kin Music Hall, Boston MA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArZ_LEEAhXs
Not sure if already posted somewhere but this performance made me smile, great combination of absurd humor and noise!