Who
played what on what song, when were they recorded, what kind of wine
was used to boost the session, how dusty was the red carpet -has the
carpet ever been red-? Here's a dive into the dephts of the magnetic
recording sessions of Awaken.
... (some
pre-shots of FOUR DREAMS SUITE, still unavailable yet)
Tygersmyle
(from
FOUR DREAMS SUITE)
-featuring
Snowcat:
guitar, tapes.
Comments:
An
excerpt of this 1987 take appears at the end of the official recording
of the
"Four Dreams Suite". Recorded: July 1987. Listen
to this song:
get PARTY IN LYCEUM'S
TOILETS.
Four Dreams Epilogue
(from
FOUR DREAMS SUITE)
-featuring
Snowcat:
guitar, tapes.
Comments:
An
excerpt of this 1987 take appears at the end of the official recording
of the
"Four Dreams Suite". Recorded: July 1987. Listen
to this song:
get PARTY IN LYCEUM'S
TOILETS
Günz
(Overture) (from
FOUR DREAMS SUITE)
-featuring
Snowcat:
synthesizer
Recorded: Autumn of 1987.
Günz
(The
Nine Elements Of Life) (from
FOUR DREAMS SUITE)
-featuring
Snowcat:
synthesizer
Recorded: Autumn of 1987.
Funk
Is In My Brain (IQ)
-featuring
Snowcat:
synthesizer, tapes
Recorded: Autumn of 1987.
Koyaanisqatsi
(Phil
Glass)
-featuring
Snowcat: synthesizer, tapes
Recorded: Autumn of 1987.
Soon
(Gates Of Delirium) (Anderson/Howe/Moraz/White/Squire)
-featuring
Snowcat:
synthesizer, piano & tapes.
Recorded: December 1987. Listen
to this song:
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-featuring Snowcat:
synthesizer, tape
effects, sampling, bass, various percussive stuff. Recorded: February 1988.
Comments:
A strange cover of METROPOLIS' almost-hit. 17 minutes of
experimentation.
The
Test
(from
FOUR DREAMS SUITE)
-featuring
Snowcat:
synthesizer.
Recorded: March 1988.
Picture
From An April's Dream
(from
FOUR DREAMS SUITE)
-featuring
Snowcat:
synthesizer, whistle.
Recorded: April of 1988
Cucumber
Phone (from
FOUR DREAMS SUITE)
-featuring
Snowcat:
synthesizer.
Recorded: April of 1988
Drumsolo
-featuring
Snowcat:
drum synthesizer, drummachine. Recorded: April of 1988. Comments:
An improvisation with drummachine and drum synthesizer. Listen
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-featuring
Snowcat: guitar, computer.
Recorded: April of 1988.
Sandrine
(from
FOUR DREAMS SUITE)
-featuring
Snowcat:
synthesizer.
Recorded: May of 1988.
Dark
Spring (from
FOUR DREAMS SUITE)
-featuring
Snowcat:
piano.
Recorded: May / June of 1988.
Yesterday
Or Tomorrow
-featuring
Snowcat: piano, voice.
Comments: One
of the few pieces that didn't make it
on
FOUR DREAMS SUITE, though it eventually evolved into
"Sandrine". Recorded: Around
May
of 1988.
Sadness
Cry
-featuring
Snowcat:
synthesizer. Recorded: 1st of June of
1988. Comments: One of the few pieces
that didn't make it on FOUR DREAMS SUITE. The tape
only surfaced in 2007.
Interlude
6
(from
FOUR DREAMS SUITE)
-featuring
Snowcat:
synthesizer.
Recorded: June of 1988. Listen
to this song: yes
Sandrine
(from
FOUR DREAMS SUITE)
-featuring
Snowcat:
piano. Recorded: July 1988 Comments:
piano version. A raw feeling. Used to be online. Listen
to this song:
yes
Günz
(Over The 'A') (from
FOUR DREAMS SUITE)
-featuring
Snowcat:
piano. Recorded: Spring or Summer of 1988. Comments:
An excerpt of this
1988 take appears at the end of the official recording of the "Four
Dreams
Suite". Listen
to this song:
get "PARTY IN LYCEUM'S
TOILETS"
Günz
(Overture / Over The 'A' / The
Nine Elements Of Life) (from
FOUR DREAMS SUITE)
-featuring
Snowcat:
synthesizer.
Recorded: Spring or Summer
of 1988
Lady
S
(from
FOUR DREAMS SUITE)
-featuring
Snowcat:
synthesizer, voice.
Recorded: July of 1988
The
Last Escape Of Lady S
(from
FOUR DREAMS SUITE)
-featuring
Snowcat:
synthesizer.
Recorded: July of 1988
Electric
Time
(#1 -bits)
-featuring
Snowcat: guitar, voice.
Recorded: September - December 1988
Electric
Time (#2 -complete)
-featuring
Snowcat: synthesizer. Recorded: Around December 1988.
Electric
Time (#3 -complete)
-featuring
Snowcat: synthesizer. Recorded: Around December 1988.
Still
Today (#1)
-featuring
Snowcat: synthesizer. Recorded: Around December 1988.
Still
Today (#2)
-featuring
Snowcat: piano. Recorded: Around December 1988.
I'm
9
-featuring
Snowcat: synthesizer.
Recorded: Around December 1988.
...many
other pre-shots of
FOUR DREAMS SUITE and ELECTRIC TIME, still unavailable (but you
never know)
1989
The "11th of January
Sessions"
Sandrine
(from
FOUR DREAMS SUITE) Polygonal
Mirror
(from
FOUR DREAMS SUITE) Cucumber
Phone
(from
FOUR DREAMS SUITE) Dark
Spring (from FOUR DREAMS SUITE)
-featuring Snowcat:
piano. Recorded: January 1989. Comments:
Very similar to the 1988 versions. 11th of January, 1989.
Memories
Of A Teenage
Cat
-featuring
Snowcat:
piano,
voice. Recorded: January 1989.
Comments:
The writing session. 22nd of January 1989.
Memories
Of A Teenage
Cat
-featuring Snowcat:
vocals, add. kbds. |Vincent T.:
kbds.
& drumprog. Recorded: March 1989. Comments: The first studio recording
of AWAKEN. True
80's sound. A must. Listen
to this song:
yes
The "June 1989 live session"
Blue
In Green
(M. Davis) Electric
Time
Afterglow (T. Banks)
Sandrine
(from FOUR DREAMS SUITE)
-featuring Snowcat:
piano. Recorded: June 1989 Comments:
acoustic piano solo, all-instrumental, during a very
small private show. "Electric Time" and
"Sandrine" (a part of the "Four Dreams
Suite") have been finally recorded on second album.
Rilyh
-featuring Snowcat:
kbds, sound effects. |Vincent T.:
add. kbds.
& prog., sound effects. Recorded: September 1989. Comments: Original song +
audio collage.
Help!
(J.Lennon/P.Mc
Cartney)
-featuring P’tit
Bout: vocals |Snowcat:
kbds. |Pol:
drums. Recorded: November (?) 1989 Comments:
1st version jam. Jamming on a Beatles' song. The
only jam
with a guitar player named Pol or so...
Help!
(J.Lennon/P.Mc
Cartney)
-featuring P’tit
Bout: vocals |Snowcat:
kbds. |Pol:
guitar & drumprog. Recorded: November (?) 1989. Comments:
2nd version, jam, jamming on a Beatles' song. The
only jam
with that guitar player named Pol or so... Listen
to this song:
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-featuring P’tit
Bout: vocals |Snowcat:
bass gtr
|Pol:
guitar &
drumprog. Recorded: November (?) 1989 Comments:
Jamming ! The only jam
with a guitar player named Pol or
so... Listen
to this song:
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=>
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We're Almost There(B.Holland/E.Holland) I'll Be There(H.Davis/B.Gordy,Jr/B.West/W.Hutch) Koyaanisqatsi(P.Glass) Des Bleus Au
Coeur(JM.Jarre/P.Juvet) Weep
In Silence (K.Hensley/J.Wetton) Help!(J.Lennon/P.McCartney) Many Too Many(T.Banks)
-featuring Snowcat:
synthesizers,
tapes & bass
guitar. Comments: Various
covers, May 1991. A matter of vacation and playing with tapes...
... and some more lost ideas on lost tapes!
1992
Misty
Window Bees
-featuring Snowcat:
kbds. |Vincent T.:
prog. Comments:
instrumental version, March 1992. Same
version as on the « NUMB » demo tape, but the vocal melody is
played on strings.
-featuring Snowcat:
kbds. Comments:
1st version, March 1992. the
very moment it was written (improvised actually)! A new
version appears on second album "PARTY
IN LYCEUM'S
TOILETS".
Lori don't go right now(A.Stewart/P.White) En rire d'être obligé d'en pleurer(S.Gainsbourg) Personne n'aime personne(J.Duvall/A.Chamfort/M.Moulin) Les passantes(A.Pol/G.Brassens) Anthem(J.Lord/R.Evans) Chisel hotel's breakfast / Numbness of
highlights
Winter dancer tale
How do you keep the music playing(A.Bergman/M.Bergman/M.Legrand) Le vide au coeur(S.Gainsbourg/A.Chamfort)
-featuring
Snowcat: piano, voice.
Comments: A
rehearsal on an old piano, found on a tape recently, recorded on 15/4/95.
The "Unplugged Rehearsals
Part 2"
The story of my life(N.Diamond) Misty
conclusion
Numbness of highlights
Forgive me(R.Rambo/D.McGuire) Cucumber
phone(from
FOUR DREAMS SUITE) Love
doesn't live here anymore(B.Caldwell/B.Meyers) Requiem
for a golden destiny
Sandrine(from
FOUR DREAMS SUITE) Musique
vieille(G.Presgurvic)
-featuring
Snowcat: piano, voice.
Comments: Another rehearsal on an old
piano found on the same tape, recorded on 23/4/95.
The "Boum Boum,
Aciiid & Limonade" session
Bonnes
Vacances, Caroline La Jolie Au Bois Dormant Limonacide
Limonade
Sans Bulles Spleen
14
-featuring
Snowcat:
keyboards & programming. Comments:
From an unfinished demo tape : "Boum Boum, Aciiid & Limonade".
-featuring
Snowcat:
vocals, thrash bass, keyboards, programming |Cedric
Hamelryck:
add. gtr, gtr solo. Comments:
Outtake from "PARTY IN
LYCEUM'S TOILETS". Was finally
dropped out the album for timing reasons.
-featuring
Snowcat:
vocals, keyboards, programming. Comments: different from the
PARTY IN
LYCEUM'S TOILETS take, though recorded
during the same sessions.
-featuring
Snowcat:
vocals, syntheziser, bass guitar. Comments: used
to be online, now unavailable. Features : Lady S -intro- / Tygersmyle /
Cucumber
Phone / Picture From An April's Dream / Lady S / Dark Spring / Lady S
-outro-.
Still
Today / I'm Nine
-featuring
Snowcat: keyboards,
programming.
Comments:
new version from an old 1988 song.
Outtake from "PARTY IN
LYCEUM'S TOILETS". Was finally
dropped out the album for timing reasons.
-featuring Snowcat:
guitar, bass, drumprogramming.
Comments:
January 2001. Work in progress.
Lake
Of Silence #1 -work in progress
-featuring Snowcat:
guitar, keyboards, programming. Comments:
January 2001. Work in progress.
Just
Dregs #2 -work in progress
-featuring
Snowcat:
voice, guitar, keyboards, bass, programming. Comments:
Spring of 2001. Work in progress.
Lake
Of Silence #2 -work in progress
-featuring Snowcat:
voice, guitar, keyboards, programming. Comments:
Spring of 2001. Work in progress.
The "April 2001
covers"
Guide
Vocal
(T.Banks) Heataze
(T.Banks) Somebody
Else's Dream
(T.Banks) Strange
World
(S.Harris) The
Thin Ice
(R.Waters) Street
Of Dreams
(R.Blackmore/JL.Turner)
-featuring Snowcat:
vocals, keyboards, programming. Comments: Covers
of Alain Chamfort
2002
Le
Train Du Temps
-featuring Snowcat:
vocals, keyboards, programming. Comments:
French
song, text by Kathleen Sheridan
One
Wild War (demo)
-featuring Zou:
guitar |Snowcat:
keyboards, programming, bck vocals.
Comments:
work
in progress Listen
to this song:
yes if you're a Magnetic Member of AWAKEN-FRRRR
One
Wild War
-featuring Bridge:
voice |Ambre:
voice |Zou:
guitar |Snowcat:
keyboards, programming, add. guitar, bck vocals.
Comments:
Used
to be online. Listen
to this song:
yes if you're a Magnetic Member of AWAKEN-FRRRR
-featuring Miyu:
vocals |Snowcat:
keyboards, guitars, programming, backing voices.
Comments:
yet another take
The "Hotels &
Airport Tryptic sessions" web-singles:
Seaside
Casino Romance
Sunset
On Your Secrets
Summer
Clouds Hotel
-featuring Snowcat:
vocals, robot vocals, keyboards, drum programming, bass guitar, guitar.
Comments:
Used
to be online. Listen
to these songs:
yes
if you're a Magnetic Member of AWAKEN-FRRRR
The "Nekokawa
sessions"
A
Glass Of Nekokawa
A
Song For My Money
My
Life Is A Bug On A Videogame
Doom
Entry
*
Isières
By Night
* Another
Step In The House
-featuring
Snowcat:
keyboards, programming.
Comments: the
instrumental side of AWAKEN. Listen
to these songs:
yes
(except *)
Cold
As My Heart (robot-neko-remix)
-featuring
Snowcat:
robot vocals, keyboards, programming, guitar, bass. Comments:
another different take. Listen
to this song:
yes
The "Spring 2002 demo"
Down
The Drain
Cold
As My Heart
Requiem
For A Golden Destiny
-featuring
Snowcat: vocals, keyboards,
programming. Comments: for a Japanese
producer to listen.
-featuring Snowcat:
vocals, keyboards, programming, bass guitar, guitar.
Comments:
Used
to be online.
Gohongi
No Hoshi
-featuring Snowcat:
synthesizer, drum programming, bass guitar, guitar Listen
to this song:
yes
2004
Drunken
Kuma
-featuring Yoriko
Konishi:
voices |Snowcat:
keyboards, guitars,
drum programming, bass guitar Listen
to this song:
yes
Drunken
Kuma (drunken beat mix)
-featuring Yoriko
Konishi:
voices |Snowcat:
keyboards, drum programming.
Comments:
The
first attempt of making the dance mix. Listen
to this song:
yes
Drunken
Kuma (new drunken beat remix)
-featuring Yoriko
Konishi:
voices |Snowcat:
keyboards, ti99/4A computer, drum programming.
Comments:
The
final dance mix, reworked from the previous one. Listen
to this song:
yes
Still
Today / I'm 9
-featuring Snowcat:
keyboards, programming.
Comments:
Original from
1988. Another different take. Listen
to this song:
yes
Kaoruchan
No Kisetsu
-featuring Snowcat:
keyboards, programming.
Comments:
Used
to be online.
When
Alena Entered The Quiet Room
-featuring Snowcat:
vocals, keyboards, guitars, drum programming, bass guitar, percussion Listen
to this song:
yes
-featuring Thanh
Duye^n:
voices |Snowcat:
keyboards, programming.
Comments:
The legend of the Cat-That-Sleeps, Awaken's first Vietnamese song. See special page Listen
to this song:
yes
Chu' Me`o Ngu? Que^n (karaoke
remix)
-featuring
Snowcat:
keyboards, programming.
Comments:
An instrumental remix to do karaoke. See special page. Listen
to this song:
yes
The "Summer 2005 vacation"
Tears In Heaven (E.Clapton/W.Jennings)
Just A Song Before I Go (G.Nash)
-featuring Snowcat:
keyboards, programming |Itsuo Hyûga
:
add. programming.
Comments:
An instrumental version of Koiko's "Vitamin". Listen
to this song:
yes
Wasabi Kiss
-featuring
Snowcat:
keyboards, programming, voice | Thùy : harmony voice |Itsuo
Hyûga : add. programming and effects.
Comments:
A
rare
take that was played on Sunshine Miyazaki radio station. The official
version for It's Oh! Music release will be different, this one's a
collector.
The "Ca` Phe^ & Pizza
sessions"
As A Start
: Ca` Phe^ & Pizza
As
A Start: Ca` Phe^
& Pizza (karaoke remix)
-featuring Snowcat:
voice, guitar, bass guitar, snare drum,
keyboards, programming.
Comments:
Forshadows "BEPPU NIGHTS". The rebirth of AWAKEN. Recorded: June of 2006 Listen
to this song:
yes
The "Beppu Nights sessions"
The
Train Is Leaving Kokura
Beppu
Nights
Diamond
Ring Department
The
Collectivists
I
Know Time Is Passing By...
-featuring
Snowcat:
analog and
numeric keyboards, organ, synthesizer programming, guitar, bass guitar,
loops,
drumprogramming, voice, effects | Thùy
: add. effects. Comments: see special
page Recorded:
10-12/2006 Listen
to these songs:
yes
-featuring
Snowcat: synthesizer.
Comments: recorded in
Beppu, the first demo of the piece. Recorded:
Spring
Misty
Conclusion
-featuring
Snowcat: synthesizer.
Comments: recorded in
Beppu Recorded:
21st of
May. Listen
to this song: yes
The
Tale Of The Magic Thursday
-featuring Snowcat:
voice, electric piano.
Comments: semi-live
in studio, just for no reason Recorded: Friday the 13th of July Listen
to this song: yes
Ru*?a
Ma(.t Nhu* Me`o (Ha`n Ngo.c Bi´ch)
-featuring Snowcat:
voice, guitar, programming, loops, electric piano,
keyboards.
Comments: cover
of a Vietnamese children's song Recorded: 10/2007. Listen
to this song: yes
-featuring Snowcat:
voice (1), guitar
(1,2), organ (1,2), synthesizer programming (1,2,3), computerized
percussion
(1), drumprogramming (2,3), numeric synthesizer (1), analog synthesizer
(1,2),
flute (1), add. violin (1).
Comments: see
special page Recorded:
11/2007 Listen
to these songs: yes
2008
Famous
Blue Raincoat (L.Cohen)
-featuring PatLap:
voice,
guitar |Snowcat: organ.
Comments: a
cover from Leonard Cohen.
Recorded:
2007 - 2008. Listen
to this song: yes
Beppu
Nights -disco take-
-featuring
Snowcat:
synthesizers,
voice, ti99/4A computer, drumprogramming.
Comments: a
disco version of "Beppu Nights", available on video and as b-side of "I
Know Time Is Passing By...".
Recorded: January
2008. Listen
to this song: yes
(and here
too, and also here)
Blurping
The Blurp -2008 version-
-featuring Snowcat: voice,
computer programing, keyboards.
Comments: for the Evidences
compilation.
Recorded:
January 2008.
I
Know Time Is Passing By... -2008 take-
-featuring Sébastien
Bournier : voice, drums
| Paul G : guitar | PatLap :
harmony voice | Gilles Snowcat : keyboards,
computer
| Louis Ykoz : add. computer.
Comments: the
web-single version.
Recorded: January
2008. Listen
to this song: yes
First
We Take Manhattan (L.Cohen)
-featuring
Snowcat:
voice, synthesizer,
loops, guitar
(featuring
Hello Kitty guitar picks).
Comments: a
short cover from Leonard Cohen
Recorded: 19th. June 2008. Listen
to this song: yes
Me
Beside You
(N.Diamond/B.Bacharach/C.Bayer-Sager)
-featuring
Snowcat:
voice, synthesizer,
loops.
Comments: a cover from Neil
Diamond,
to welcome new members of our page on FaceBook.
Recorded: 23rd June 2008 Listen
to this song: only
for members of Awaken page in Facebook
Günz
(from FOUR DREAMS SUITE)
-featuring
Snowcat: synthesizers,
loops. Comments: a jingle version for radio
show "Comme Sur Des
Roulettes" on Radio Si.
Recorded: 12th of
July, 2008.
Riding
The Yellow Line Gives Vibrations
-featuring
Snowcat: synthesizers,
organ, guitar (featuring
Hello Kitty guitar picks), bass,
loops.
Comments: a musical illustration of
Beppu City, only
available on video. Recorded:
Filmed
in April,
music in July,
2008. Listen
to this song: yes
The "Worst
sessions"
2D-Ghosts
(worst remix 2008)
-featuring
Snowcat: synthesizer, guitar
(featuring
Hello Kitty guitar picks), programming.
Comments: for an online compilation
project.
Recorded:First of
October, 2008.
Seaside
Casino Romance (worst remix 2008)
-featuring
Snowcat:
organ, drummachine, guitar (featuring Hello Kitty guitar picks), tape effects (vacuum tubes
included), voice.
Comments: for an online compilation
project. Recorded:
2nd of October,
2008.
Listen
to these songs: yes
The "Watertown
sessions"
Spirits
Of 1983 (2008 take)
-featuring
Snowcat: synthesizers, computer programming. Comments: a new version, October 2008,
for members of our page on FaceBook, as introduction to the WATERTOWN
SUITE.
Watertown
Suite: (Waterown
| Goodbye
(she quietly says) | For A While | The Train) (B.Gaudio/J.Holmes)
-featuring Snowcat: voice, synthesizers, guitar
(featuring Hello Kitty guitar picks), computer programming, loops.
Comments: a cover from Frank
Sinatra, for members of our page on FaceBook, Yahoo
Groups and various die-hard fans.
Recorded: October 2008 Listen
to this song: become a die-hard fan and
you'll find...
Nhạc
Cho Em Mèo
-featuring
Snowcat: piano.
Comments: another take of the piece,
just before starting the "This Mouth" sessions. Recorded:
Autumn Listen
to this song: yes
The "This Mouth
sessions"
Nha.c
Cho Em Me`o (part 1)
They Burn The Mountain
Don't Worry, Em Mèo
Kabosu~Hachimitsu~Snack
(interlude)
The
Blue Hanger
Yanagigaura
Nha.c
Cho Em Me`o (part 2) bonus track
-featuring Snowcat:
voice, numeric & analog synthesizers, organ, piano, bass
guitar,
percussion, guitar (featuring Hello Kitty guitar picks), computer
programming, loops.
Comments:
Snowcat's
solo
music.
Recorded:
November
2008, bits in Spring Listen
to these songs: yes
2009
Hold
On My Heart (T.Banks/P.Collins/M.Rutherford)
-featuring
Snowcat:
voice, synthesizers, programming, loops.
Comments: a private cover of Genesis, as a present for fans.
Recorded: 17th April 2009 Listen
to this song: be a die-hard fan and you'll
find...
Stars (Kawaguchi/Akimoto)
-featuring
Snowcat: voice,
synthesizers, computer programming.
Comments: a private cover of Mika
NAKASHIMA, as a present for fans.
Recorded: 9th May 2009 Listen
to this song: be a die-hard fan and you'll
find...
No^~i
Dau Ngo.t Nga`o (Quô´c Du~ng)
-featuring
Snowcat: voice,
synthesizers, guitar (featuring Hello Kitty guitar picks), computer programming.
Comments: a private cover of a
Vietnamese song, as a present for fans.
Recorded: 5th June 2009 Listen
to this song: be a die-hard fan and you'll
find...
The "Blue Hanger
sessions"
The
Blue Hanger (2009 pink disco yellow mix)
Don't Worry, Em Mèo (2009 on the pops)
Riding The Yellow Line Gives Vibrations (2009 still shaking mix)
-featuring Snowcat:
voice, smooth synthesizers, percussion, computer
programming, aircraft drummachine, Okinawan flute.
Comments: Disco single from "This
Mouth".
Recorded: June 2009 Listen
to these songs: yes
Theme
From Beppu Nights
-featuring
Snowcat: synthesizers, computer programming.
Comments: a short instrumental version
to illustrate a slide-show.
Recorded:
7/2009 Listen
to this song: yes if you're a Magnetic
Member of AWAKEN-FRRRR
Misty
Window Bees 2009
-featuring
Snowcat: voice, organ,
synthesizers, programming.
Comments: a new take of an old Awaken
song.
Recorded: 09/2009 Listen
to this song: here
The "Smile At The Camera
sessions"
Smile
(C.Chaplin / J.Turner / G.Parsons)
I Am A Camera (T.Horn / G.Downes)
Just For Today (G.Harrison)
Uncertain Weather (T.Banks / M.Rutherford)
-featuring
Snowcat:
voice, synthesizers, programming.
Comments: Some covers.
Recorded: October
2009. Listen
to these songs: yes if you're a Magnetic
Member of AWAKEN-FRRRR
The "Last Evening In Ôita
sessions"
My
Last Evening In ôita
Chase Around Ôita Eki
-featuring Snowcat:
voice, keyboards, smooth synthesizers, computer
programming.
Comments: A tribute to an evening in
the city of Ôita, Japan.
Recorded:
September & October 2009. Listen
to these songs: yes
The "Xmas 2009 sessions"
You
Make It Feel Like Christmas (N.Diamond) Christmas
Won't Be The Same This Year (P.Sawyer / L.Ware) The
Blue Hanger (Merry Xmix)
-featuring Snowcat:
voice, synthesizer, bass guitar, guitar (featuring Hello Kitty
guitar picks),
synthesizer programming, loops, drumprogramming.
Comments: Merry Xmas!
Recorded: November
2009. Listen
to these songs: yes if you're a Magnetic
Member of AWAKEN-FRRRR
The "Year Of The Snowcat vol1
sessions"
Out
In The Snow (A.Stewart) Don't
Forget Me (A.Stewart / P.White) Anniversary(A.Stewart)
-featuring Snowcat:
voice, synthesizer, bass guitar, guitar (featuring Hello Kitty
guitar picks),
synthesizer programming, loops, drumprogramming.
Comments: Some Al Stewart songs covered
by Snowcat;
Recorded: December 2009. Listen
to these songs: yes if you're a Magnetic
Member of AWAKEN-FRRRR
The "Easy Hand sessions"
One Hand, One Heart (S.Sondheim / L.Bernstein)
The Easy Road (K.Hensley)
-featuring Snowcat:
voice, synthesizer, bass guitar, guitar (featuring Hello Kitty
guitar picks),
synthesizer programming, drumprogramming.
Comments: Collaboration with Diagonales
Recorded: January 2010. Listen
to these songs: yes
The "How Many L sessions"
How
Many 'L' Were In Your Name? My
Last Evening In Ôita How
Many 'L' Were In Your Name? (hi-NRG mix)
-featuring Irène Csordas: voice
(1, 3) | Sébastien Bournier: drums (1) |
Hakim Rahmouni: guitar(1, 3) |
Nicolas Leroy: bass(1) |
Trustno1: synthesizer(1) | Jean-Paul Hupé:
synthesizer programming (2) | Snowcat:
voice (2), synthesizer, bass guitar (2), synthesizer
programming, drumprogramming (3).
Comments:
The return of Awaken!
Recorded: Between
September and December of 2009. Listen
to these songs: here
2010
The "Yanagigaura sessions"
Yanagigaura
(satin caress of the Neko mix)
Chase Around Ôita Eki (warm hypno Neko mix)
-featuring Snowcat:
voice, synthesizer, bass guitar, synthesizer programming, guitar (featuring Hello Kitty
guitar picks),
drumprogramming, aircraft drummachine. Comments: The most
introspective, organic and sensual side of Snowcat's Kyûshû-flavored
magnetic soul ~ love music.
Recorded:
January 2010. Listen
to these songs: here
-featuring
Snowcat: voice,
synthesizers, computer programming.
Comments: Leonard Cohen and Genesis
covered by the Old Cat.
Recorded: June 2010 Listen
to this song: be a die-hard fan and you'll
find...
How
Many 'L' Were In Your Name? -dub- The
Collectivists -dub-
-featuring
Snowcat: voice,
synthesizers, organ, bass guitar, drummachine.
Comments: Some fun trying on dub.
Recorded: July 2010
The "S-Natural sessions"
Various songs from Snowcat /
Awaken's repertoire.
-featuring
Snowcat: voice, piano.
Comments: Snowcat brings a piano in a
dark basement and plays for the cats, rats, dogs, ants, bears and other
friends passing by.
Recorded: Every day from September till December 2010 Listen
to this song: Some are available here.
Other are somewhere but if you are a die-hard fan you'll
find...
The
Train Is Leaving Kokura (2010 demo)
-featuring
Snowcat:
voice, synthesizers, drumprogramming.
Comments: Recorded
as a demo for a group to play it. The final version has been
recorded 4 years... before the
demo. Call it jet lag.
Recorded: 11/2010
The "Mochi Xmas 2010 sessions"
Give
Love On Christmas Day (The Corporation) Swampy
Design / Spilt Milk Garden
-featuring Snowcat:
voice, gorogoro synthesizer, synthesizer programming, percussion,
drumprogramming, bass guitar, guitar (featuring Hello Kitty guitar
picks).
Comments: Mochi Xmas!
Recorded: December 2010. Listen
to these songs: maybe
The "Cat Who Sold The World
sessions"
The
Man Who Sold The World (D.Bowie)
-featuring Snowcat:
voice, gorogoro synthesizer, organ, electronics, drumprogramming, bass guitar,
guitar
(featuring Hello Kitty guitar picks).
Comments: David Bowie stays home?
Snowcat fills in.
Recorded: 18th of December 2010. Listen
to these songs: be lucky and smart
2011
The "Zane Zane Zane
sessions"
The
Loneliest Guy (D.Bowie) Battle
For Britain (The Letter) (D.Bowie / R.Gabrels / M.Plati) Slip
Away (D.Bowie) Lady
Stardust (D.Bowie) Days
(D.Bowie) Zeroes
(D.Bowie)
-featuring Snowcat:
voice, gorogoro synthesizer, organ, electronics, drumprogramming, bass guitar,
guitar
(featuring Hello Kitty guitar picks).
Comments: David Bowie stays home?
Snowcat fills in. (part 2)
Recorded: April 2011. Listen
to these songs: be lucky and smart
The
Train Is Leaving Kokura (2011 demo)
-featuring
Snowcat: voice, organ,
synthesizers, bass
guitar, guitar
(featuring Hello Kitty guitar picks), drumprogramming.
Comments: One more version, recorded
as a demo for a group to play it.
Recorded: 05/2011
The Moko-Moko demo
tapes
回送
Three Kinds Of Milk
Room 211
Lady ゴミ
I Could Live In An Airplane
Rites Of The Circling Food
Legs & Liquor
My Best Friend Is My Own Ghost
モコモコ
-featuring
Snowcat: voice, organ,
synthesizers, drummachine,
programming,
FX, minus ion generator.
Comments: the demo songs that will lead
to Snowcat's album to come in 2012.
Recorded: 05-07/2011
The "Oiseaux sessions"
Prelude:
Minato A
Kernoa (JM.Caradec) Les
oiseaux volaient à l'envers (Kernoa/JM.Caradec) Qu'est-ce
qui va rester ? (JM.Caradec)
-featuring Snowcat:
voice, gorogoro synthesizer, organ, electronics, drumprogramming, bass guitar,
guitar
(featuring Hello Kitty guitar picks).
Comments: A tribute to singer
Jean-Michel Caradec who passed away 30 years ago.
Recorded: Mai-July 2011. Listen
to these songs: be lucky and smart
The "Deep Kisses sessions"
A
Thousand Kisses Deep (L.Cohen / S.Robinson)
One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong (L.Cohen)
A Thousand Kisses Deep -DUB- (L.Cohen / S.Robinson)
-featuring
Snowcat:
voice, gorogoro synthesizer, organ, electronics, drumprogramming, syn-bass (1),
piano bass (2), dub bass guitar (3).
Comments: A tribute to Leonard Cohen.
Recorded: April-July 2011. Listen
to these songs: be lucky and smart
The "Xmas 2011 sessions"
Oh
No Not You Again! (M.Jagger / K.Richards)
-featuring
Snowcat:
voice, guitar, organ,
bass, drumprogramming.
Comments: Xmas card, tribute
to the Rolling Stones.
Recorded: December 2011. Listen
to these songs: be lucky and smart
The "Moko Moko sessions"
回送
Three Kinds Of Milk
Room 211
Lady ゴミ
I Could Live In An Airplane
Rites Of The Circling Food
Legs & Liquor
My Best Friend Is My Own Ghost
モコモコ
-featuring
Sébastien
Bourdon: drums | Sébastien
Bournier: drums, percussion | Irène Csordas: voice
duet | Cedric Hamelryck:
guitar | Haraa:
treatments, synthesizer, guitar, drone | Jean-Paul Hupé:
synthesizer programming | 日
向逸夫 (Itsuo
Hyûga): harmony voice, choir | Benjamin Leroy:
drums | Maxime Leroy:
acoustic guitar | Nicolas
‘Nicozark’ Leroy: bass guitar, guitar | Marco Mariani: harp
| 長尾愛 (Ai Nagao): harmony
voice, choir | PatLap:
choir | Flavio Pilato:
electric piano, clavinet | Hakim
Rahmouni: guitar | Gilles
Snowcat: voice, organ, velvet synthesizer, silky clavinet,
floating bass guitar, riddim & gorogoro guitar, drum computer,
minus ion generator, computerized cute bowl & walking
percussion, sequencer, dub FX, strategies | Squonk66: drum
computer | Martin Swabey:
choir | Trust No One:
keyboards, guitar, bass guitar, drum computer. Comments: The "Moko-Moko Collection" album.
Recorded: July - December 2011. Listen
to these songs: taste it here!
-featuring
Snowcat: synthesizer, organ, sequencer, voice.
Comments: An opus from Philip Glass, played by Snowcat.
Recorded: January 2012. Listen
to these songs: no no no
