SPECTRE OF LOVE (28/08/06)

The new Stranglers album, Suite XVI, will be available on september 18th. The first single is called Spectre Of Love and will be released a week before (11/09). Meanwhile, you can listen to a couple of audio samples (including 2 JJ songs) on the Stranglers official site :
www.stranglers.net

!!! Paul Roberts has left the Stranglers !!! The band will continue with JJ Burnel singing again (yeaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh), sharing vocals with Baz. First gig of the new line up was last saturday, with JJ singing about 50% of the songs ! The next Stranglers album will be called Suite XVI (sweet sixteen) and will be available in september.
www.strangled.co.uk

DOMINIQUE BUXIN INTERVIEW PART 4 (08/04/06)

Fourth and last part of Dominique Buxin interview, from Walking Everywhere to the end of the band, via The Overnight Day, Un Jour Parfait (JJ Burnel) and Bob Morane.

DOMINIQUE BUXIN INTERVIEW PART 3 (05/03/06)

Third part of Dominique Buxin interview, starring the complete PS first album, plus Fire & Water, JJ Burnel and James Hadley Chase !

DOMINIQUE BUXIN INTERVIEW PART 2 (20/02/06)

Dominique Buxin interview Part 2 : September 80-July 82. Nagasaki Mon Amour, Men & Construction, Scoutisme, football, Boris Vian, etc !...

DOMINIQUE BUXIN INTERVIEW PART 1 (06/02/06)

The man in the shadow,the guy who wrote almost every Polyphonic Size lyrics (Je t'ai Toujours Aimée, Winston & Julia...) without ever appearing on stage or on records covers. Dominique interview part one, made in January-February 2006.

KPW 50Y (06/11/05)

To celebrate his 50Y birthday, Kloot Per W has just released a 21 tracks compilation, featuring 2 Polyphonic Size songs : HAPPY COUPLES and SIBERIA. Siberia is a totally unissued PS number, taken from the PS archives, recorded live in Amsterdam in 1984. Happy Couples was Walking Class Hero single B side. On the same CD, L'Europe, something Kloot used to sing live with PS, this time recorded with Geert Van Roelen.

KPW will also release a tribute to John Lennon called IMAGINE NO JOHN LENNON, with many guests, including JJ BURNEL, who's singing I AM THE WALRUS. Waooo ! More infos and complete track-list on Kloot's website.

Talking about JJ Burnel, everybody here should absolutely get (by any mean necessary) WALTZ IN BLUE, an ex-tra-or-di-nai-re song JJ has recorded for a japanese cartoon, Gankutsuou.

POLYPHONIC NEWS : KOMPUTERWELT (15/08/05)

KomPuTerWelt is now available in mp3 on this site. You can download it in the audio page, or click on the link below. This Kraftwerk cover version was recorded by KPW and Roger-Marc Vande Voorde in 2005, and can be found (in a different mix) on Kloot's "Clone Version 0.1" CD (released on PMP records). Lyrics written by Dominique Buxin.

KomPuTerWelt (3mn 35 / 3,3 Mo)

BELPOP (11/08/05)
with special thanks to Stephane Werquin

"Winston & Julia" appears on a new CD compilation : "Bel 80 - Het beste uit de belpop van 1982" , available on Universal Belgium (Ref 987.271-7). This project is part of a belgian TV show devoted to the 80's musical scene, presented by Marcel Vanthilt (formerly in Arbeid Adelt! with Luc Van Acker).

Great picture sleeve designed by Ever Meulen, master of the "ligne claire".

More info (in flamish) and full track-list on Humo website.

Coming out from the new belgian scene, the TAXIDERMISTS have just recorded a stunning cover version of an ultra rare Polyphonic Size track : Party (from the 1980 Pragmatic Songs EP). The tune is mixed with an incredible french translation of "I Wanna Be Your Dog", and a couple of Jacques Dutronc 60's verses. This magical electrocollage must be absolutely downloaded. Don't miss it. The Taxidermists have also recorded a smashing tribute to Taxi Girl, called B.R.U.X.L.

TAXIDERMISTS PARTY DOG (5mn 30 / 7,5 Mo)

Picture sleeve Taxidermists Party Dog : Front / Back

So, here is our cover of Polyphonic Size's very own "Party".
This is a bastard cover, some sort of three-headed hydra. Indeed, when we dissected the instrumental (in order to rearrange it), we noticed a riff identical to the Stooges' "I wanna be your dog". Coincidence? One would have to ask Roger-Marc Vande Voorde. Anyway, what a stroke ofluck since David had already translated the lyrics of "I wanna be your dog" in French. We wanted to record a "yéyé" cover of the tune. We have a collection of different covers of this Iguana song, in many different languages (even in Walloon! - southern Belgian dialect), but we'd never heard or heard of a cover of the track in French. So, we decided to mix both covers together. Then, while listening to Jacques Dutronc's "Et moi et moi et moi", Nathan noticed many verses with rhymes very similar to David's translation of "I wanna be your dog". We decided to add them too. The final result was named "Party Dog" and lasts for 5 minutes & 28 seconds. Arolde sings the backing vocals.

Taxidermists, Brussels, June 2005