isn't anything?

Special Favourites

2010-09-15T10:14:00.000-07:00

SUMMER

2010-07-01T05:25:00.000-07:00

'I am vertical' NEW EP is coming !

2010-05-04T12:30:00.000-07:00

Cook him up by Anything MARIA

Anything MARIA live @ Le Scopitone / PARIS - janvier 2010

2010-05-03T03:13:00.000-07:00

Karte Blanche Anything MARIA

2010-03-16T01:16:00.000-07:00

// Day 2 - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

http://www.legrandbazart.com

Anything MARIA // Karte Blanche @ Le Grand BaZART.com

2010-03-15T03:37:00.000-07:00

Hello Folk!

Ne manquez pas dès aujourd'hui - et jusqu'à vendredi - la Karte Blanche Anything MARIA pour Le Grand BaZART
www.legrandbazart.com

// Day 1 - Panda Bear ou l'Alchimie du Son

ALL ABOUT MARIA #1

2010-03-01T12:41:00.000-08:00

Top 10

(not in order of preference - except Closer Musik)

any other suggestions?

1. Closer Musik - Maria

(thx BH)

2. Mazzy Star - Mary of Silence

3. Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Out of Reach

4. CAN - Mary, Mary, So Contrary

5. Monks - Drunken Maria

6. The Beatles - Mary Jane

7. Jackson 5 - Maria

8. Todd Rundgren - Black Maria

9. Mary Wells - You Beat Me To The Punch

(first lady of Motown)

10. Caetano Veloso - Maria Bethania
(ahhh Caetano...)

JAHWOHL!

2010-03-01T12:17:00.001-08:00

In The Meantime...

2010-02-15T01:12:00.000-08:00

SAVE THE DATE

19 Février (20h30) au Scopitone/ Kiss The Girl #4

22 Février (21h00) à L'International/ SFR French Pop Mission

Would you like a drink?

2010-02-14T23:22:00.000-08:00

Dudes and Dudess!

My NEW EP is coming SOON (Jawohl!). Would you accept a drink in the meantime?

My WINES and SPIRITUALS are not that old (well you know...) but our house certifies quality since 1998!

100% Handcraft

100% Witchcraft

100% Care

100% LOVE

Just make your choice!

http://www.myspace.com/anythingmaria

Teenage Kicks Can Last For Ever

2010-01-28T13:37:00.000-08:00

"Don't ever tell anybody anything

If you do, you start missing everybody"

JD Salinger

The Dark Side of The Spoon

2009-10-02T08:04:00.000-07:00

or being on tour with a Sabbath Assembly Band

The Sabbath Assembly band, comprised of
- Robert A. Lowe (LICHENS),
- Kyle Forrester (CRYSTAL STILTS),
- Jex Thoth (I HATE RECORDS),
- Laura Leontine (THE ASSAULT),
- Sophie Gonthier (ANYTHING MARIA)
- David Christian (NO-NECK BLUES BAND)

Featuring GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE as the "Sacrifist"

DON'T MISS THE TOUR!!!

Oct. 03.2009

Live @ Germ Bookstore

Philadelphia, PA

Oct. 04.2009

Live @ Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY

featuring GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE as the "Sacrifist."

Oct. 05.2009

Live @ Bar Matchless

Brooklyn, NY

(with Anything Maria, Coconuts and NIAO)

Oct 08.2009

Recording @ WFMU FM, NY

Oct 09.2009

Live @ Bard College

(with Anything Maria)

Oct. 30.2009

SEATTLE

Oct. 01.2009

Mississippi Studios

Portland OR

What is it all about actually?

OCCULT USA: THE PROCESS CHURCH OF THE FINAL JUDGMENT

Featuring GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE as the "Sacrifist," Timothy Wyllie, Adam Parfrey, and The Sabbath Assembly band performing original Process Church songs.

Was The Process Church truly "one of the most dangerous Satanic cults in America"? Or were they an intensely creative apocalyptic shadow side to the flower-powered '60s and New Age '70s? Scores of black-cloaked devotees swept the streets of New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, and other cities selling magazines with titles like Sex, Fear, Love and Death, and a controversial theology proposing a reconciliation of Christ and Satan through awareness and love. Marianne Faithfull, George Clinton and Mick Jagger participated in Process publications, and Funkadelic reproduced Process material in two of their albums.

The inside story of this legendary group has at last emerged with Feral House's LOVE SEX FEAR DEATH by Timothy Wyllie and other former members.

To celebrate the recent release of LOVE SEX FEAR DEATH, Feral House, Process Media, and Soundatone present a simulation of an actual Process Church “Sabbath Assembly” ritual.

A Touch of Evil

2009-10-02T07:32:00.000-07:00

or BOTH SIDES OF USA IN JUST ONE DAY

Yesterday was indeed an amazing day...

MAINSTREAM AND GLITTERS IN THE MORNING: we were invited @ the Wendy Williams Studios where a friend was guest (a typical american Talk Show - a very funny one actually). A SHINY SIDE OF AMERICA?

THE DARK SIDE OF THE SPOON: then on 3 PM begins the rehearsal with The Sabbath Assembly, a project in which I am one of the singers (D' you remember Polanski's Rosemary's Baby????? Sort of...)

Actually a project on the shadow side of the flower-powered '60s and New Age '70s.... grrr SCARY, isn't it?!
THE SHADOW SIDE OF AMERICA?

Well, hmmm... has anybody put some LSD in my cup of tea?

NEW SONGS

2009-09-29T18:33:00.001-07:00

New Songs? Soon? Sure!

anything but New York City

2009-09-29T17:05:00.000-07:00

Well, amazing things happening here... new projects, new people...

-be prepared for some crazy anecdotes sometimes life fucking makes me high-

- life is a killer -

what about anything MARIA?

A few gigs here and there but where the fuck can I find a transistor for my sampler???

Just a trial: what happens if I add a great drummer + a freaky bass player? Ideas ideas ideas all over the place, floating notes, killing words but where the fuck can I find a transistor for my sampler???!!! It sucks...

answers in a few days...

LIFE is a KNIFE

2009-09-18T14:16:00.000-07:00

Just to remind you of this WUNDERBAR EP vinyl (a collector!) you could have for just 10 euros!

TRACKLISTING

SIDE A
High Addiction Original
3 Minutes 30

SIDE B
High Addiction Meisterfackt RMX
Some Girls (featuring EVE)

Just email me at anythingmaria@gmail.com!

ANYTHING is VERTICAL

2009-09-18T13:57:00.000-07:00

ALIVE is VERTICAL

2009-08-06T08:53:00.000-07:00

I've found the perfect sentence (thanks to a great thesis I've found on the net The Metaphysics of Music at Schopenhauer and Cioran written by Ludmila BEJENARU) to express the way I feel each time I play music
No need for words
It is pure abstraction
I have some visions sometimes
and sounds too
Sounds and visions
I haven't the words
I never have the words
I've never had the words
Those words
These are the words:

"THERE IS NO ART BESIDES MUSIC THAT EXPRESSES AN IDEAL ASPECT OF WILL, THE WILL ITSELF IN ITS PUREST ESSENCE"
Arthur Schopenhauer

... I guess I should read more about that guy...

anything but Mary

2009-08-06T08:37:00.000-07:00

or a fleeting thought for Blessed Virgin Mary (Mother of Jesus)

anything but MARY

2009-08-06T03:14:00.000-07:00

or a fleeting thought for Mary Lisbon (The Virgin Suicide)

anything but MARY

2009-08-06T02:50:00.000-07:00

or a fleeting thought for Mary Weiss (The Shangri Las)

Very Very Close

2009-08-06T02:38:00.000-07:00

Shangri-Las - Give Him A Great Big Kiss

Sonic Youth - Little Trouble Girl

This is Horizontality

2009-08-02T05:27:00.000-07:00

or Anything to Anywhere

I AM VERTICAL

2009-07-25T00:23:00.000-07:00

or The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Lightness or Gravity?

Anything, Whatever

It's all about Verticality

Is it all about Verticality?

LET'S SORT OUT THE DUALITY...

... HORIZONTALLY!

ANYTHING but ME

2009-07-24T04:20:00.000-07:00

And if you complain once more/ You'll meet an army of me!

Khamsa by Samuel Guigues

Lust For Life

2009-07-23T17:21:00.001-07:00

...Like a Sharp Knife

Knives Out by Samuel Guigues

Anything but Ecstasy

2009-07-23T17:10:00.000-07:00

Sonic Youth sounds like Rapture (Do You Believe in Rapture?)

Anything but Ecstasy

2009-07-23T16:59:00.001-07:00

My Bloody Valentine sounds like Ecstasy (and Wine)

My Bloody Valentine, Isn't Anything (1988)

Now you know almost anything about MARIA...

I AM VERTICAL

2009-07-23T15:33:00.000-07:00

Music makes me feel so ALIVE - I could DIE

Knives Out by Vincent Delort

The More I Fall The More I Fly

2009-07-23T15:28:00.000-07:00

It's all about verticality!

Is it all about verticality?

Falling and Rising
Rising and Falling

Falling = Rising
Rising = Falling

What about horizontality?

horizontality = water ≠ waterfalls
horizontality = sleep
horizontality = you stretched out on my bed ≠ sleep
horizontality = the quiet power
horizontality = wisdom
horizontality = the deepest landscape streaming through the cab's window
horizontality = this invisible line i madly follow, this sublime point ahead
horizontality = desert
horizontality = silence
...
horizontality = coffin
...death?

death!

Gravity's Rainbow by Samuel Guigues

I AM VERTICAL

2009-07-23T15:07:00.000-07:00

(je bande donc je suis)

Seventh Heaven by EVE

I AM VERTICAL

2009-07-23T14:58:00.000-07:00

thanks to Barnett Newman

Je Manque Donc Je Suis

2009-07-23T14:38:00.000-07:00

- tu me manques donc je suis

(Nan Goldin is the Queen)

Telluric Music

2009-07-23T14:04:00.000-07:00

anything MARIA anything MARIA anything

anything?
anything anything anything anything anything anything anything
c'est n'importe quoi, c'est n'importe quoi,
ça ne rime à rien, ça n'a l'air de rien!
!c'est faut!
anything est désinvolture
!lazy lazy lazy!

si anything ne signifiait pas anything, ça désignerait certainement
un kaléidoscope
une boule à facettes
un puzzle…
…anything est cet instant fragile ou s'épousent les parties et le tout…
entropie - néguentropie
ou bien ce serait un néant
une nuit noire et béante
ou s'engouffrent toutes choses et leurs contraires
...et les amants…
la nuit… insondable inspiratrice
anything aime jouer avec le chaos, se pencher vers l'infini, plonger dans l'inconnu, copuler avec les extraterrestres, enfanter des monstres, fricoter avec l'occulte, sympathiser avec le devil… mais n'en reste pas moins monomaniaque de la forme et de l'organisation! heil!
!invocation des forces de la nature!

anything aime les paradoxes et les oxymores, les touts et leurs contraires, les accords irrésolus, grâce et disgrâce, l'asymétrie, l'irrégularité des formes,
les guitares qui grincent et qui débordent
et toutes ces choses
qui agitent
les eaux

d'ailleurs, puisqu'il est question d'agitation,
il faut quand même signaler que anything est un élément perturbateur, turbulent de première, dissipé, impertinent…
Oh my goodness!
!renvoyé!
d'ailleurs, puisqu'il est question d'eau,
ajoutons que anything aime les fluides qui n'en finissent plus
de
couler
couler
couler
à flots
les flux et les reflux du corps
et de l'esprit
… Ô, to drift …

MARIA?
maria maria maria maria maria maria maria maria maria maria maria maria maria
rime avec anything
veille sur anything
en bonne mère qu'elle est,
Sainte Marie Mère de Dieu
Amen