RIEN

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>>> ALL OUR RECORDS ARE SOLD OUT NOW.. You'll have to wait a bit till the new one is released.. let's say 2012.. <<<
BUT ALL OUR RECORDS ARE STILL AVAILABLE ON FREE DOWNLOAD here l'Amicale Underground.

***************** WHO ARE RIEN?

RIEN (= “Nothing”) was initially created as a one-off project in November 1999, just in time to avoid the big shut down of the millennium. On that occasion, they played a first shamanic twenty minute show in their hometown during an "XXX" evening. Based in Grenoble, the four first-hour disciples (aka, dos.3, Dj Goulag and yugo solo) considered this experience so successful (there was no shut down at all…) that they eventually decided to postpone their split-up until the sales period in Japan in 2014.

In 2003, they recorded their debut album Requiem pour des baroqueux, giving the packaging the form of an origami-cube which, when opened, would contain “nothing”. As a first album, it was often described as “one hour of cinematic post rock music”, inspired by the likes of Ennio Morricone, Serge Gainsbourg, Radiohead and provoking enthusiastic reactions from the press. “A UFO, and what a UFO!” rejoiced the French magazine NOVA; “a great, dadaist composition” outbid the Inrockubtibles.

Their Second album 'there can't be any prediction without future', released in 2007 on the bands label L'Amicale Underground, doesn’t pull any fewer punches. Enhanced by a second drummer, francis fruit, and vocally accompanied by such diverse artists as Damon Locks from The Eternals or Julien Brotel, a French poet, this opus turned out to be considerably more personal, more unified, less directly influenced. From Shamanic Western (Jesusfuckingchristallmighty) to jazzy grunge (this is our grunge), over cinematic landscapes (there can’t be any prediction without future) to 80’s pop (B.A.S.I.C) and weird folk (Cowboys don’t cry), RIEN never stops “genre-defying” its listeners - leaving them, when trying to describe what the music could possibly refer to, with: Rien. Nothing. It is probably this which led Richard Robert, journalist of the French magazine Les Inrockubtibles, to rate it ‘best album of the year 2007’ which bestowed on them a steadily growing fan-community. By the way, there can’t be any prediction without future is packaged in a multi-functional pyramid: it gives the cube a roof; it offers the discs a home. And it leaves us puzzled about what will happen next.

Their new album is an EP called '3' and out since April 10. It's the first EP from a trilogy which will be spread till the end of the band in 2014

***************** HOW CAN I BECOME A FAN?

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***************** THEIR RECORDs

EP "3" released on the 10th April 2010 - now Sold out.




LP - There Can't be any Prediction without future - release date 1st April 2007 - Sold Out.

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LP - Requiem for some Baroquese - released date March 30 2003 - Sold Out.



***************** BOOKING!!!

for all booking inquiries : Etienne { AT } julietippex.com

***************** LIVE

RIEN - Le Soleil a toujours Raison - Live @ Elysée Montmartre from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

Member Since:

July 30, 2005

Members:

Musicians :
dos.3_Autistic multitasking faciliter
Dis J'ai Goulag_ _Northern error conveying a peculiar human hope in his excesses.
{aka}_First hour disciple
yugo solo_Coordinator with slavonic methods
francis fruit_permanent guest

Orchestrators in the dark :
Brain aka Cowboy (keyboard sounds), Jull (texts voice), Arash (concert flute), Herr Braun (dark Voice), Rachel (Cool Voice), Apolline (voice)

Contributors ready for anything :
Jah Bluff (good boy driver) - BeeBee-Fuck (former SWAT member reconverted in absurd happening) - Darlak (old mountains spirit rapper) - Drexl (high lands buddhist) - John Bee Figus (former member of the RG- french NSA-, fired for his extreme and proofless theories) - Goldorack (the strongest man of the world) - Pauline (damned soul bound to the group by a voodoo spell)- Riyiad (convulsive poet) - little m (the perfect french accent) - 2.n.i (graphist) - Yann le bourreau aka bobby (motorbike driver) - Pedro (the man with the camera) - Machla (the best "taper" in town) - Colette (the rekord record man)

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Influences:

J.S Bach, Tortoise, Mahjongg, Liars, Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, Deerhoof, Sonic Youth, Trans AM, Oneida, The Beatles, Radiohead, Nirvana, Blonde Redhead, Us Maple, The Chap, Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota, Serge Gainsbourg, Fugazi, Broadcast, Dominique A, Katerine, Graham Coxon, Beck, Can, Miles Davis, Tarwater, Eric Dolphy, Partchimp, Vincent Gallo, Centenaire, Françoiz Breut, Jull, Igor Stravinsky... usw.

Sounds Like:

it sounds.