The Sand continues his series of ep dedicated to one and only tune. This time the song is Diamonds. The versions were performed by the Three Degrees with Chenard behind desks - one for each new year since 2001.

The Goof, The Bag and The Ugly are the three legs of The Socks. They went on some ultra classic trash r'n'b tunes to decipher wether a little good was to be found in the baad, or the contrary.

Please forgive them if they appear to you yummy or foolish, they are clumsy and shy but have there some pretty hot beats for ya!

Chenard's jazz-age funky cut-n-paste cubist appropriationist art urge the listener to step away from the computer and start dancing, or at least tap those toes. Funk, soul, jazz, and ethnic samples collide seamlessly and effortlessly in these groovy tracks, complemented by Chenard's equally groovy pop art cover graphics.

Originaly released on Webbed Hand Records in nov 2004.

'Vodoun' plays on the contrast between soulful voices from Benin and the porn grooves of Chenard Walcker. The sound is rough, close to saturation. So Faders up !

Chenard went to Benin (Western Africa) years ago. He bought there some tapes by two traditionnal singers, Le Roi Alokpon and Alekpehanhou. All the voices of 'Vodoun' were sampled from these two tapes.

Benin is where is practiced the rite of Vodoun. It's also historically the place from where the slaves were sent to America. That's how Vodoun was imported to Haiti, and it evolved to Voodoo.

Holes, holes, holes in the O, Michael Jackson, David Axelrod, François de Roubaix, Serge Gainsbourg, Nino Ferrer, Russ Garcia, Soundgarden - holes in the Beach Boys, Miles Davis, Bruno Nicolai, Ennio Morricone, G&M Angelis, Piero Piccioni - holes in a long list of songs with the word 'Hole' in their title... even including some by the Beatles. Shame on Chenard !

The soli on tracks 04, 08 and 09 were played by Remco Takken, Ditmer Weertman and Jelis Stam. They play together in an experimental band called Schors. They sent all their albums to Chenard. Many thanks to them.

The guy on the cover actually killed himself just after he had finished his painting on a Tel Aviv wall.

Captain Beefheart met Chenard for a short recording session. The cute pasty things that came out may be heard as some sort of musical anagrams... Breakbeat heartbreaking anagrams.

The two guys have already worked together once, and created a couple of songs, Tornado [fsz002] and Cruel [fsz004]. And for some more pain, the song Electricity was also released in january 2005 on the Comfortstand Recordings compilation People Doing Strange Things With Electricity Too.

We at FSZ are pleased to welcome a new oola-oop recycling artist who goes by the name of Run. Run is french. Run is cute - Da Doo Run Run - and he's a genuine encaustic tamer.

The music from Recycle was recorded with his combo 'les Tortues Sous Pression' ('Turtles Under Pressure') between 2001 and 2004. It is released here as an ecologic acoustic gesture. We think you should listen to his freak beats and follow his advice : sort to recycle.

CHENARD WALCKER CAN'T WALK; CHENARD WALCKER CAN'T TALK; HE'S A BUNNY MAN; ARE YOU WITH US? 'COS WE'RE THE ROBOTS; ROBOTS; R-O-B-O-T-S; AND WE'RE IN FOR CHENARD; C-H-E C-H-E C-H-E CHENARD; WE DROIDS HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO SAY; C-H-E CAME ON OUR WAY; NO FEET NO TONGUE HE WAS OK; C-H-E C-H-E C-H-E ROBOT; NOTHING TO LOOSE; NOTHING TO SAY; WALCKER-WALCKER-WALCKER ROBOT; FATHEAD? OR GOOFBALL? OR BOZO? JACKASS? GOOSE? CUCKOO? TWAT? OR EVEN ZANY; THAT'S HOW HE'S CALLED C-H-E-N-A-R-D; BLIP-BLIP-BLIP COME ON; FEEL THE BLIP-BLIP-BLIP; WE ROBOTS ARE BIG FREAKS; C-H-E BIG FREAKS; STOP.

'Blue Oranges' is the first collaboration between Chenard Walcker And Roy 'Chicky' Arad for the Free Sample Zone / But they already did one together for Comfort Stand / So color the dancefloor with these erotic tunes / A new track was added in early august / It was recorded while Chenard was in Tel Aviv for the second time / It's called 'Black' / The music is to be played loud / And not though computer speakers if possible /

The title 'I Vanunu' is in reference to Mordechai Vanunu, the world's first nuclear hostage, who did 18 years of jail for having revealed to the London Times, in 1986, that Israel was making nuclear weapons. More infos on him here.

The album was recorded in one shot and mixed just afterwards. It wasn't planned, and wouldn't have been done without Ram Orion, who proposed Chicky and Chenard to use his recording skills - and his studio - as they were at a terrasse driking black coffees in Tel Aviv. Back to France, Chenard overdubbed some soli and did artwork after Chicky's suggestions. 'I Vanunu' was also released as plastic by Israeli label Pit/Kit on the 1st of august, just three months after it was recorded. Check out the translation of Chicky's poems.