MISCELLANEOUS

Aluk Todolo live at the Pixi 2009-09-04 Paris

http://satanowesusmoney.blogspot.com/ Aluk Todolo : au fur et à mesure, d'un long et torrentiel morceau de grumeau primordial façon Lightning Bolt meets Inade circa Aldebaran, émerge un machin aux multiples grooves de mollusque torve de bon cru broadrickien, saisis obsessionnellement de fièvres trancejazz psychnoise ; on pense vaguement aux concerts de Sister Iodine de la grande époque, et on se fait rincer la tête et les cervicales. Publié par gulo gulo à l'adresse

http://www.moonlight666.com/ Aluk Todolo est tout à fait dans un autre style  !
J'aurai du mal à vraiment décrire, mais c'est instrumental, et on part au fur et à mesure des morceaux avec le groupe.
Au final j'ai trouvé cela vraiment excellent, il va falloir que je me penche sur la disco de ce groupe ! !

http://cerclenoir.blogspot.com/ Aluk Todolo a été impérial, mettant à genoux un public en transe. Il faut dire que le trio parvient à imprimer un groove quasi hypnotique à leur art, notamment grâce à un batteur sponsorisé par le Lapin Duracell.
Aluk Todolo réussit à conférer un sens à son magma aux confins de la noise. Enorme !

Aluk Todolo live at God's Haus 2009-09-29 Richmond

http://www.lastfm.fr/ Holy shit. Seriously. What a night.
God's Haus is a house about three miles from my place, a huge house.
The bands set up in the kitchen.

First up was Caves Caverns. Turns out that it's the sound guy from Nara (RIP)'s band. Really spacy, theremin drenched psychedelic noise rock. Two drummers. They had some cool lighting effects with a projector/water/food coloring. Their set was really awesome. The theremin dude also played bass and it went from surf to psyche blasts to walls of feedback. Awesome stuff.

The second act was a dark ambient dude from New York, Lussuria. His set was one long track that gradually evolved from heavenly choir drone to pulsating blasts. At the height of the track he screamed some vocals, before it all finally faded back into the angelic drone and finally to nothing. Reminded me of NTT but more minimalistic. I think the height of the set was the pulsating and the vocals, it was very well done.

Last but not least was Aluk Todolo. They requested that all lights be turned off. The only light in the kitchen was one bulb hanging from the drum set. They started off with about a ten minute long wall of feedback soaked droney black metal, blasting on the drums, bass and guitar wailing. They played all of their tracks almost back to back, most of them went on for more than ten minutes. It was amazing how the tracks morphed from insane black metal to groovy slow jams. Think Keiji Haino mixed with classic Darkthrone mixed with a little bit of Thrones. The last track was seriously one of the most rediculous things my ears have ever heard. The track started off and grooved on, but then as it progressed it just got slower. and slower. and slower. Until it was nearly a crawl. Huge spacy riffs akin to Khanate. Seriously my new favorite. I may say this alot, but I don't think anything could ever top this show.

another review from the same night :
http://blogs.myspace.com/ ALUK TODOLO look just like a black metal band, and they started off sounding like a black metal band with the relentless drums and the ramping up to a certain level of intensity and never letting up from that, but they weren't a black metal band. For one thing you could hear the bass, ha ha! No, seriously, I don't really know how to describe them. There weren't a whole lot of riffs, or dynamics. Mostly a wash of noise without much variation. The guitarist did play with a violin bow in one song which I thought was pretty cool. Overall they didn't grab me all that much, but they're on tour from France, so they must have a fan base over here, and good for them! I hope their tour goes well.

Baltimore's City paper
http://www.citypaper.com/ Maybe we're still just all hot and bothered from last week's Sunn O))) show, but give us more winking paeans to the occult, monastic drone, and robes, please. Enter Aluk Todolo (pictured), a dark-side trio with a penchant for krautrock rhythms, noise seizures, soul-deep psychedelic fiddling, and a good, deep ommmmmmmmmm. Darsombra, Aluk Todolo's labelmate, is a bit of a Baltimore shadow player--one fellow, Brian Daniloski, crafting ambient-metal bad trips to recast your brain matter for one hell of a cold winter.—Michael Byrne

Aluk Todolo live at Music hall of Williamsburgh 2009-10-01

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/10/aluk_todolo_pla.html

http://www.eardrumnyc.com/ Cold Cave's set was preceded by a pummeling from French trio Aluk Todolo. With little warning, the black-clad group started the night by launching into a sustained chord that assumed mass and velocity, like a fire engine hurtling towards a subway train. That opening chord slowly gave way to lengthy, suite-like songs, with the bassist maintaining a rumbling low end and the drummer bluntly urging the swelling sound along. All the while,Aluk Todolo 's guitarist (and de facto leader) ran through a variety of loops, effects, tunings, and restringings that provided variations on the physical heft of the band's initial attack. Humorless? Sure. ButAluk Todolo 's set maintained a visceral intensity that challenged and pleased the audience, who responded with their own roaring, droning applause.

2010-05-15 Marseille - L'embobineuse

Il n'y a que l'Embobineuse pour te faire passer d'un mec en cagoule Walt Disney à Aluk Todolo. Avec un nom pareil, tu te doutes forcément que ces mecs là ne rigolent pas, qu'ils portent du noir et qu'ils utilisent Head & Shoulders pour entretenir leur looooooogues chevelures. Sur scène, le trio opte pour le strict minimum, c'est à dire rien sauf une ampoule à la lumière orangée plantée au milieu de l'espace, qui apparaît comme en apesanteur. Dès la première seconde, c'est le mur de briques qu'ils décident d'envoyer. Monobloc, sans fissure, ni joint. Le truc qui te prend de plein fouet ou qui te passe 100 bornes au dessus du crane. L'approche générale est plutôt minimaliste. Zéro branlette. Aluk Todolo mise tout sur le ressenti. 100% instrumental, le set alterne entre digressions drone rock, vaporisations d'atmosphères black metal et occultes, riffings aux couleurs seventies et des choses indéfinissables que le groupe égraine au grès des courants. Les passages qui auront le plus retenus mon attention restent sans aucun doute ces quelques relents glacials qui lorgnent vers un indus quasi rituel. Aluk Todolo, c'est le genre de truc que tu as envie d'écouter chez toi, seul, au beau milieu de la nuit, pour que l'essence même de la musique n'en ressorte que davantage. Sur scène il m'a manqué une grosse partie du contexte pour accrocher plus d'un gros quart d'heure à une interprétation au final bien (trop) sage.