Category Archives: Vox Populi

With a tremendous thanks to Axel from Vox Populi!, I can present to you “Open Skies”. As Axel can explain it far much better than me here’s the fact about “Open Skies”:

‘Recently, I had some spare time and I decided to clean up the mess in my cellar. To my great surprise, I stumbled on a bag containing a few long forgotten VP! cassettes from the year 1986. All recorded in our home studio, very often in live conditions. When not recording on a reel to reel tape machine, we had always a cassette recorder running on. Most of the songs of ‘Open Skies’ are taken from this discovery, using just a mastering device and making a few edits. I added 3 other unreleased tracks to make up an album length of music. They are Miveye Bahar, Razaye Axel and Kikoala, all from 1990.

‘Open Skies’ is a reference to a dream that made a very lasting impression to me, as it felt incredibly real and so pleasant. The whole scene is quite simple : I’m floating in the air with some fluffy clouds bellow me, but,  above, there is a kind of huge beatific ocean. I easily move on through the air to the water and get drawned in its etereal kind of humidity and then get back. I just play with the situation and the elements. Wherever I take my attention to, the skies are open and accessible.

here’s the line up :

Axel Kyrou: Synth, Organ, Rythms, Loops, Mixing and Production

Arach Khalatbari: Percussions, Vocals, Jaw’s harp, Shruti-Box

FR6 Man: Bass, Guitar, Vocals on 1

Mitra Khalatbari-Kyrou: Vocals, Small Instruments

Mehdi Haddab : Shamizen on 6, Oud on 14

Cram : Guitar on 4, Bass on 8

Kiyoshi Maejima : Guitar on 6 and 14

Chester Harlan: Guitar on 8

Pacific 231 : Electronics on 10

Bobak : Ney on 13

Most of our musics are freely available, so if you enjoy our trip…’

3/4 of the band (from left to right FR6, Axel and Mitra) taken in the spring of 1987.

With thanks to Laurent of the Art Of Losing for the links.

Teen Recordings [cassette] 1979-1981

Introduction À La Théorie De La Subjectivité Relative 1982

Ectoplasmies [7"] 1983

Imaginaires [Cassette] 1984

La Cathédrale Morte [Cassette] 1985

Myscitismes [LP] 1984

Ebats Spirituels [Cassette] Cthulhu, 1986

Half Dead Ganja Music [Cassette] Cthulhu, 1987

Untitled [Cassette]“Creations Alternatives” 1988

Aither [LP] 1989

Face To Face Vol. 2 [LP] 1989

Cthulhu Revisitation [CD] 2007

Tracks:

1. Caballo Blanco
2. Le Mystere Moyo
3. First Alien Voice
4. Improdelica
5. Abegi Dezine Benclo
6. Miveye Bahar
7. Relyoun
8. Sunshine Boy In India
9. Second Alien Voice
10. Ala Okik
11. Bechkan
12. Sound Incense
13. Razaye Axel Jube Hast
14. Kikoala

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Alex from Infrastition and AxeL from VP! have given me the kind permission to post this cd on my blog, even with still some copy’s left for sale at Infrastition. The first six tracks on this cd are taken from the Aither lp. Track’s 7 To 9 are from the H.N.A.S./Vox Populi! split album. Tracks 10 to 31 are unreleased songs from 1987 to 1990. Excellent stuff in there from that period Psychedelic music, Persian folklore and all kind of mind elevating sound form. Here is an explication from AxeL why he is making all this available:

“This proposal steps from my own behavior: I download quite a lot but I often buy the items I love most. I believe that this is an attitude shared by many of the musical maniacs that are not afraid to open the door and get to see what’s exactly lying on the door step. That’s the new way to consume music. We should try to see how we can take advantage of it instead of fighting the downloaders or the blogspots. Apart from these commercial considerations, we should all be glad that most musics are now available to anyone, as soon as they have access to a computer. This is a situation I would not even have dreamt off 25 years ago.”

Tracks:

AITHER

1. Djamileh
2. Le Nénuphar
3. A Cup of Tea for Suzuky
4. Herrvoragende
5. Narguile Toundra
6. La Grande Plante Fibreuse (live 1988)

Homme Femme Autruche ou Radiateur

7. Lunar Plexus
8. Samouraï
9. Permanent Revolution Pt 15

UNRELEASED Tracks

10. Soleymani Dub (1990)
11. Cooling with VP! (1990)
12. Radio Téhéran (1990)
13. Far Away From Home (1987)
14. Allo Rechte ? (live 1988)
15. Vapanda’s Flying Garden (1989)
16. Sunshine Boy’s Earthly Delights (1989-1990) (to track 28)

29. Sunshine Boy’s Initiation (1989)
30. Au Dessus De La Falaise … (1990)
31. Kachalestan (1990)

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Buy this cd and other stuff from Vox Populi! (The new cd “Mystic Entertainment”) from Infrastition

There is also another cd called ‘Aramesh’ by Vox Populi! & Pacific 231, and will be available from Rotorelief.

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