LYDIA LUNCH & PHILIPPE PETIT
Twist Of Fate
MONO035CDVD
Monotype Records 2011
08 Tracks. 47mins34secs / 06 Chapters. 43mins01secs

PHILIPPE PETIT
Philippe Petit Scores Henry: The Iron Man
AGO030
Aagoo Records 2011
03 Tracks. 40mins17secs

LYDIA LUNCH & PHILIPPE PETIT: Twist Of Fate
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PHILIPPE PETIT: Philippe Petit Scores Henry: The Iron Man
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Twist Of Fate documents the creative partnership between American songstress, poet, writer and actress Lydia Lunch and French experimental sound artist and turntablist Philippe Petit across an album and a DVD. Lunch emerged in the mid-seventies as part of No Wave combo Teenage Jesus And The Jerks, which formed in New York in 1976, and has maintained the same fiercely individual and independent spirit for over thirty years. Her considerable body of work spans countless solo records, collaborations with anyone from Einstürzende Neubauten, Henry Rollins or Sonic Youth to Oxbow and Omar Rodríguez-López, as well as numerous films, books and plays.

A journalist, record label owner and musician, Philippe Petit has been a figure of the underground music scene for over twenty five years, yet his first solo release, Henry: The Iron Man, only came out in 2009. Since though, he has delivered a number of essential records on labels such as Boring Machines, Aagoo, Sub Rosa or Trace Recordings, collaborating with numerous artists and musicians often operating as Philippe Petit & Friends. He his also one of the masterminds behind Strings Of Consciousness, a loose collective counting some twenty more or less regular members.

On Twist Of Fate, the pair bring together their respective sonic universe into a bleak and disturbing soundtrack. Continue Reading »