Laetitia Sadier goes solo

lovely!

Excited! I was pleasantly surprised by Silencio, it was much more polished and enjoyable than I expected after feeling lackluster about The Trip and the last Monade album.

I haven't bothered with her solo stuff but I do miss (pre-Dots and Loops) 'Lab. Is Silencio a decent place to start

Silencio is worth checking out but not particularly similar to pre-Dots and Loops Stereolab

She's also got this Little Tornados band that hasn't gotten much funding yet...

http://indiegogo.com/projects/little-tornados-1st-album-we-are-divine-production-and-vinyl/x/8144374

Let's do something about that.

^amen to this. About half the Little Tornados LP is up on soundcloud and it's very nice. Worthy of a vinyl release.

got Silencio for my birthday - pretty sweet. Pleasantly lacking a lot of the things I found annoying about latter-day Stereolab, which I (apparently correctly) attributed to Gane.

yes, I heard this last week and liked it WAY more than I expected

it's not quite as sonically rich as a 'Lab record but all her melodic/songwriting chops are well in evidence

still haven't heard the new one yet

to be clear, I am talking about the new one (Something Shines)

I was unfamiliar w/her previous solo work

So hey, she's been on an American tour this month annnnd had a chance to chat with her!

http://www.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2015/09/23/we-hung-out-with-french-singer-and-musician-laetitia-sadier-before-her-show-at-brick-and-mortar-tonight

nice! love her so much

great interview!

Thanks!

She's got a new band going:

Find Me Finding You, the new album from the new organization called the Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble, manages to strike new chords while touching familiar keys in the song of life.

From its percolating opening beat, Find Me Finding You locates new systems within the sound-universe of Laetitia Sadier. When we hear synth lines diving, lifting and drifting, unusual guitar textures, the plucked sound of flat wound bass strings or the bottomless pulsing of bass pedals stepping out of the mix with an exquisite vibrancy, this is the sound of the Source Ensemble! This designation implies a new togetherness phase; alongside long-time collaborators Emmanuel Mario and Xavi Munoz, keyboard and flutes parts played by David Thayer were essential contributions, as well as further keys, synths and electronics from Phil M FU and several intense guitar sequences from Mason le Long. The duet with Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor on "Love Captive" (not to mention Rob Mazurek's distinctive coronet playing!) gives voice to an ideological cornerstone of Find Me Finding You - that, should we be responsible enough to endeavor into a world of basic incomes and open relationships, we would make astonishing strides as a society. These sorts of things can only be done in agreement with others.

First single -- very Young Marble Giants at the start, I think!

https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/laetitia-sadier-source-ensemble-undying-love-for-humanity

spotify link or it doesn't exist

(ducks)

Love the single (unsurprisingly).

modern cosmology — "a time to blossom" (2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O0KGPNhZhU

i like this a lot.

like the other modern cosmology record wasn't even that good. this is transcendent though; cocteaus go sunshine pop. really looking forward to the forthcoming thing.

Gorgeous!

okay, this is completely great.

ooh, thanks for the heads up, didn't realize this was out

it

's oh so good and i highly recommend it. very much a different thing entirely from the first modern cosmology record - and i'd say that definitely works in its favor. thoughts overall will come into clearer focus with more listens, but damn this is some good shit.

New album is fantastic and the solo show tonight in SF was WONDERFUL. Just her, her guitar, some preprogramming, live loops at points and at one point her trombone. Wonderful night out!

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kqdyhnklmmv34nmml6btyqv6/bafkreifsi4dmlt2cai5aeh25akqmablweenaqfw3ts4fdr2byrugovhzte@jpeg

I will always love that she plays a right handed guitar upside down

Album sounds good to me on first listen. She's not doing anything I didn't expect, but she is doing her style well

https://img.broadtime.com/Photo/418467268061:360

this is coming out on record store day — first four solo albums. will probably be expen$ive.

oops wrong thread!

but hey, i'm seeing Laetitia this weekend — did not think it was going to be an actual "solo" show! That is interesting / cool.

This is pretty nice, though (tbh) nothing Gane or Sadier have done apart from Stereolab has measured up to prime-time Stereolab

I saw her in SF, too. It was a great, intimate show. But she was under the weather and made some mistakes. Per her 'disclaimer,' it did really feel like a warm-up show. She ended the performance by speaking really candidly to the crowd, and shared that she was concerned she might lose her voice. She's got a long tour ahead of her, and I hope she is hanging in there! Seeing her live was really special.

Ah, if there were mistakes, I didn't sense them as such, or at least nothing beyond what can normally happen in a live show -- I recall one song having a false start moment but that was about it! But yes, I hope that tea for her throat helped!

the last time i saw her (pre-pandemic!) in philly she broke her guitar mid-song, arranged with the opening band watching in the wings to borrow one of theirs, restrung it to deal with her being left-handed (?) all while her group held it down, without missing a groove. so so good

I'm re-reading my post and feeling guilty for coming off so negative. She was great, and the rawness of the performance was really something special. The new album really shines! :)

"the last time i saw her (pre-pandemic!) in philly she broke her guitar mid-song, arranged with the opening band watching in the wings to borrow one of theirs, restrung it to deal with her being left-handed (?)"

She plays a conventionally strung right handed guitar, but lefty. That's her thing.