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nomads homads [on a rooftop]

gp & billy in schaerbeek on 29 april 2013

do you remember where were you on the 13th of july two thousand?

postmillennialism ep [the blackest wife alive]

a cufnosed circus presents <b>postmillennialism</b> by the blackest wife alive, which was recorded on 20130127.

1   la limite entre deux communes [4.55]

2   il était nommé après un footballer brésilien [5.09]

3   dancing with five in a living room [3.08]

music by cavello, q, de la rosa, beckins & nawrocki

words by nawrocki

artwork by weronika ogłoza

recorded, produced & mixed by nuño gomez

guitars by mr. cavello, q que le q & cresconio de la rosa

bass by hiroyasu beckins

voice & drums by billy nawrocki

thanks to our family & friends, the beatles, buddha, jesus, محمد بن عبد الله بن عبد المطلب, haruki murakami, edgar poe, kamagurka, sammy beckett, verhelst, mark danielecki, jacques brel, emil cioran, ألبير camus, че́хов, brouwers & mauro pawlocki.

thanks to sun ra, charles mingus, enrico morricone, rudy trouvé, syr, grand corps malade, serge gainsbourg, sohrab, andrew lloyd webber, anouar brahem, kurt cobain, miles davis, waranoa, sytze, loïc kervyn de meerendre.

thanks to bandcamp, soundcloud, blogspot, dropbox, winamp, myspace, notepad, firefox, google, facebook, microsoft, msi, epiphone, fender, trace elliot, sjak zwier, dunlop, earnie ball, dan electro, hagström viking, esp ltd, thomann, key music, planken, billy saté, big muff, holy grail, tunamelt, dd-6, dd-7, tu-2, re-6 et cetera.

thanks to chesterfield, levi's, h&m, drum, jupiler, rizzla, gauloises, duvel, leffe, dr. pepper, converse, paradijs, minecraft, andersom, bordeaux rood & checkpoint.

thanks to connexxion, veolia, ns, htc, uu, rentex, nokia, van kerckhoven, credoc, albert, citroën, samsung, nmbs, rabobank, hontenisse, utrecht, montpellier, breda, rotterdam, hulst, schaerbeek & zuid-oost.

thanks to komma, muziekgieterij, ceres, dbs, speelonk, mezz, rocksupplies, novanois & we would not only like to thank 'novanoïs' for giving us a spot to rehearse, but we would also like to apologise for the noise we made on their lazy sunday afternoon.

other people we'd like to apologise to are the ones that would be offended by our band name. as a matter of fact, it is an attempt to ridicule racism and sexism[, a bit] like 'woman is the nigger of the world' by john lennon or, more recently, 'rape me' by nirvana. we are ashamed the world is not yet as emancipated as we had imagined. free pussy riot, damn it!

the actual reason to choose this band name was the fact hiroyasu beckins started the bass line that defines the last song, which reminded the others of 'timebomb' by the whitest boy alive. actually, hiroyasu never decided to play the riff of ‘timebomb’, his bass line just anticipates/reacts on what was happening around him. we do like the song though, as we do like the bakery eirik bøe used to buy his bread near fløibanen as well.

because of this accidental intermusicality, billy jokingly proposed ‘the blackest wife alive’, somewhat inversing the name of the writers of ‘timebomb’, albeit he thought it might be too controversial. then again, who the fuck will ever listen to this album anyway? a cufnosed circus expects no more than 20; the five who participated, the girlfriends of them, the adorable lady who made the sleeve, two wanderers, three bots and five lost souls. on top of that, avant-garde would be nowhere without provocation.

and we do love women, and blacks, and black women.

we're xenophiles & we disagree on the english language lacking proper words for ethnical origin or colours of skin. no one is white or black. in light, white is the presence of all colours and black the absence. in painting, it is the other way around. then, they are approximations of complete lack of colour, in black’s case. black is the unseeable. we've never met anyone completely white nor completely black. skins can be an approximation of lightness or darkness, but never the colour that would be the equivalent of complete absence of colour. so the choice of the title is a fuck you to dualism. there is not black nor white, nor blurry greyness – it’s all the colours in between, not a mixture of two opposites, but a mélange of all the colours. 

open hectic pertinent misbehaviour ep [billy navrovski quintet]

a cufnosed circus presents open hectic pertinent misbehaviour, an ep by billy navrovski quintet. this music was recorded at novanoïs [schaerbeek] on 20130127 by hiroyasu beckins. more than about having found the perfect pop song, this ep is about scrutinizing and misbehaving on a sunday.

1 chocolat [4.27]
2 persisting multiple margins [1.37]
3 scrutinize lightly [1.54]
4 what someday will [have] become [4.17]

music by billy navrovski quintet
recorded on 20130127 at novanoïs, schaerbeek
mixed at casa del'louique, february 2013
produced by gp & josé
vocals by nuño gomez
drums by billy navrovski
strings by q, mr. cavello, cresconio delarosa & nuño gomez
picture  by cantalia

billy navrovski quintet consists of billy, q, mr. cavello, nuño gomez & cresconio delarosa

how i'll lose my key [near brick lane]

what we did in london eleven months ago

filmed by bayar

five sonatinae for guitar and bass ep [billy navrovski trio]

a cufnosed circus presents five sonatinae for guitar and bass by <b>billy navrovski trio</b> that was recorded the same week as the things on soundcloud, but without cresconio delarosa. a second layer of paint was added on the twentysecond of september 2012 under the influence of some unspecified stubbornness.

1. cisza przed burzą [navrovski, montgomery, beckins]
2. powoli tworzenie [montgomery, navrovski]
3. zgiełkliwy/turbulencja [navrovski/navrovski, montgomery, beckins]
4. i tak dalej [navrovski, montgomery, beckins]
5. wieczorna, pijana lampa [montgomery, navrovski]

there is some space for words, some for envision. movements of claps, carts or coïncidence and there's a hidden blues. the picture on the front was found in the wide web, but due to our genes/roots we have lost track of the photos origin. props for weronika ogłoza, camille wren & l.r. vis.

a year with a queen ep [the drowned magicians]

a cufnosed circus presents a year with a queen to show what gp and billy sound like when they perform live with just the two of them. the audio quality may not be as good as we like [some songs were recorded with a phone or a photocamera] but we hope that the vibe of a livegig filters through.

how i'll lose my key [billy / montgommery, navrovski]
mystifying garderobe [gp, billy / navrovski, montgommery]
in a bar [billy,gp / montgommery]
somewhat myopically [navrovski, montgommery]
an ode to 2:39am [billy / montgommery]
darkening neon lights [gp, billy / navrovski, montgommery]
this skilful misleading [billy / montgommery]

the drowned magicians are
günther pierre montgomery &
billy navrovski

released on the first of april, 2012

"how i'll lose my key" and "mystifying garderobe" were recorded by philippe gyselbrecht at novanoïs, bruxelles [be]
"in a bar" and "an ode to 2:39am" were recorded at gp and billy's place
"somewhat myopically", "darkening neon lights" and "this skilful misleading" were recorded by jan franzen at muziekgieterij, maastricht [nl]

epk

 

our epk!

novanois

moodswintro & madou

how i'll lose my key & this skilful misleading

an ode to 2:31qm

the drowned magicians at novanoïs last week and a friendly man with a moustache recorded everything. it wasn't the best concert ever played, but nonetheless we hope it's enjoyable. here's the setlist:

1  moodswintro & madou

2  mystifying garderobe

3  in a bar & somewhat myopically

4  how i'll lose my key & this skilful misleading

5  an ode to 2:31qm

6  darkening neon lights

a night without a queen

12/11/10


güntherpierre montgommery [vocals, guitars]
robin cavello [guitars]
q [guitars]
billy navrovski [bass, horn]
cresconio de la rosa [drums]

a night with a queen

12/11/10
güntherpierre montgommery [guitar, vocals] 
cresconio de la rosa [guitar]
q [guitar]
robin cavello [drums]
billy navrovski [bass]