Micro_Penis (Alexandre Kittel, Claude Spenlehauer, François Heyer, Sébastien Borgo) started in 2006. It can be described as follows: gross improv, illiterate, savagery amongst civilization, collective strain, drool and spit, mental deficiency, foul breath from brass instruments, exploiting human idiocy, musical pornography, sound rubbish chute that does not have respect for anything nor anyone.
After the publication of 3 LPs by Doubtful Sounds and one CD by Chocolate Monk, they have decided to explore new sound directions. Their fifth album "Maison De La Justice" closes a first cycle.
199 copies, silkscreen cover.
« Schleem, appearing here as Lucien Schléèmm and Mister Schléèmm, happens to be one of the four members who make up Micro_Penis, whose nightmarish records have been causing nuits blanches in the house of Sound Proj for many years now. Of course Schleem appears there under his real name of François Heyer, not that that’s much of a comfort under the circumstances. Confused so far? Well, the name-changing strategy is profoundly effective; just ask Xentos Jones, who may or may not be Jim Welton as well as L. Voag and Amos from Amos and Sarah. Indeed the parallels between these Ogrob projects and those incredibly strange post-punk records from the It’s War Boys label is something we really must consider and discuss in more depth some time.
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One of the few contemporaries I can think of who approaches this high degree of dementia would be Kommissar Hjuler, but even he sounds mannered and “arty” compared to the raw vitality of this record. This unprocessed quality is what endears me to many of these Borgo related projects, even if they seem like marginal outliers and the surface may be incredibly repellent; you get a fierce honesty and truth that is hard to find in today’s world of over-mulched culture. If you too are fed up of pabulum, check in here for four pounds of fresh red meat. » (thesoundprojector.com)
Diffusion of noises via loudspeakers attached on the rib cages of four women. Mix of internal noises, bodily fluids’ noises, with the streamed noises. Transmitting bodies, bodies as loudspeakers. Captations via a hydrophonic microphone placed within their vaginas.