Powerdove
NEWS
- 13/11/2019
Powerdove : de retour en France en novembre !
Nos chouchous Powerdove, concentré en duo autour de la voix dangereusement suave d’Annie Lewandowski et du barouf poétique de l’ogre végétarien Thomas Bonvalet, sont de retour en France et en novembre ! → CONCERTS À VENIR : 26.11 • Toulouse (31) • DAda 28.11 • Paris (75) • Petit Bain – Release Party ‘Soleil Enculé’ Arlt 29.11 • Genève (CH) • Festival Face Z, Salon
- 09/04/2018
Powerdove en tournée du 9 au 14 avril 2018 !
Pour être discret, Powerdove ne cultive pas moins l’un des plus étranges et beaux territoires de la musique américaine d’aujourd’hui. Annie Lewandowski revient ce mois-ci les bras chargés de douces mélodies saturées d’une électricité statique sans égale, que les bigarrures inouïes de Chad Popple et Thomas Bonvalet achèvent de rendre parmi les plus inouïes, inédites, renversantes que la chanson contemporaine nous ait offertes
- 11/11/2017
Powerdove en tournée en France du 12 au 19 nov.
Nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer le retour du trio hirsute et doux Powerdove en Europe du 12 au 19. Une belle occasion d’asseoir la beauté sur ses genoux et de ne pas la trouver amère du tout. À Bruxelles, Lille, Caen, Londres, Paris (FGO – Barbara), Genève, et Lyon. ~ En tournée : 12 nov • Bruxelles (BE) Les Ateliers
- 15/02/2017
Powerdove ‘War Shapes’ nouvel album / tournée mai + juin 2017
‘War Shapes’ est le 4ème album (sortie le 26 mai 2017) que signe Annie Lewandowski sous le nom de Powerdove. Cette instrumentiste formée à l’improvisation la plus savante, y écrit et chante de douces chansons inquiètes dont elle s’applique ensuite, en les soumettant à quelques perturbateurs de choix, à révéler chaque zone d’inconfort et de
- 11/06/2015
POWERDOVE en tournée en mai-juin !
Powerdove nous revient en mai en France, avec un détour par l’Italie et la Suisse, accompagné par Chad Popple au vibraphone en remplacement temporaire de John Dieterich qui ferraille en ce moment avec sa tribu Deerhoof. Le fiévreux Bonvalet sera toujours de la partie pour chahuter les notes et les atomes. S’ensuivront quelques concerts en solo
- 11/06/2015
‘LESS PLAYBOY IS MORE COWBOY’, GO !
Édition spéciale cette année pour le toujours épatant festival ‘Less playboy is more cowboy’ puisqu’il s’inscrira au coeur du 30 ème anniversaire du Confort Moderne, pilier culturel de la bonne ville de Poitiers et trésor national. Comme toujours la programmation est foudroyante et nous ne sommes pas peu fiers de voir y figurer deux de nos valeureux poulains ‘La
- 03/02/2015
powerdove : ep ‘Weeping Into The Willow Sea’ free download
On vous offre un EP de remixes de Powerdove intitulé ‘Weeping Into The Willow Sea’, soit deux titres du chef-d’oeuvre ‘Arrest’, évidés, retournés, et chahutés par les glings fantômes de Freddy Rupert (aka Former Ghosts) et Coppice. #1 ‘Weeping Willow’ (Freddy Ruppert remix) #2 ‘Into the Sea’ (Coppice remix) Transmission, reception, interference and mix by Coppice
- 16/12/2014
LABEL XMAS SALE / PROMO DE NOËL
20% SUR TOUT NOTRE SHOP PENDANT 1 MOIS ! * 20% DISCOUNT ON THE WHOLE CATALOG UNTIL JANUARY 15th ! * ~ ENTER CODE XMASSALE ON OUR BIGCARTEL ~ CATALOGUE (MM011) Powerdove ‘Arrest’ (LP/CD) (MM010) Pillars and Tongues ‘End Dances’ (LP/CD) (MM009) Ramona Córdova ‘Quinn To New Relationship’s (LP/CD) (MM008) Ramona Córdova ‘Spring’ (7″) (MM007) Powerdove ‘Do You Burn?’ (LP/CD) (MM006) La Terre Tremble !!! ‘Salvage Blues’ (LP/CD) (MM005) Electric Electric ‘Discipline’ (double
- 09/12/2014
Powerdove : live solo Chapelle ‘Civitella Ranieri’ (Ithaca, NY, 2014)
A ceux qui se demandaient ce que seraient les chansons de Powerdove sans le tohu-bohu génial de John Dieterich et Thomas Bonvalet, l’album live ‘Powerdove Solo at Ranieri Chapel’ (Chapelle ‘Civitella Ranieri’, Ithaca, NY, 2014) apporte cette réponse minérale : Annie Lewandoski, seule à la guitare, souffle à voix nue ses mélodies intranquilles contre la réverb’ naturelle et c’est aussi bouleversant
- 31/08/2014
Powerdove x Arthur Russell (cover) : ‘You Can Make Me Feel Bad’
‘You Can Make Me Feel Bad’ est le 3ème extrait de l’album ‘Arrest’ , mais aussi une reprise du regretté Arthur Russell. On dit d’Arthur Russell qu’il ne serait jamais parvenu à une version définitive d’une de ses chansons, en laissant parfois 40 versions différentes d’une même chanson après sa mort. Voici la lecture langoureuse interprétée par Powerdove. English below ‘You
- 12/08/2014
Powerdove : ‘Paper Tiger’ 3e extrait de ‘Arrest’ en streaming + tournée française !
Un mois (jour pour jour) avant la sortie du nouvel album de Powerdove, voici ‘Paper Tiger‘, le 3e extrait de ‘Arrest’. Les pre-orders du LP vinyle et CD sont toujours disponibles sur notre shop BigCartel. Le groupe sera en tournée en France du 20 septembre au 2 octobre. Annie Levandowski : chant, sampler, melodica John Dieterich : dobro, guitare
- 15/07/2014
‘Arrest’ de Powerdove : pre-order album et extrait #2 ‘Into The Sea’ en écoute !
‘Into The Sea’ est le 2e extrait de l’album ‘Arrest’ de powerdove à paraitre le 15 septembre. Aujourd’hui, les pre-orders du LP vinyle et CD sont ouverts sur notre shop BigCartel. Retrouvez l’album ‘Arrest’ en ligne sur le site.
- 30/06/2014
POWERDOVE ‘BE MINE’ : 1ER EXTRAIT DU NOUVEL ALBUM
‘Be Mine‘ est le 1er extrait du prochain album de powerdove, ‘Arrest‘, qui sortira le 15 septembre 2014 chez Murailles Music (pre-order le 15 juillet). L’artwork est signé Mark Beyer (USA), dessinateur culte de BD (série ‘Amy and Jordan‘, RAW Magazine), qui s’est aussi illustré dans les pochettes des albums de The Residents, John Zorn, Coldcut, Ptôse…
- 23/03/2014
POWERDOVE : Germany, Denmark, Sweden tour starting now !
Germany, Denmark and Sweden : Powerdove‘s intimate and rowdy folk music is a warming gift for the cold early days of spring in Northern Europe. Especially for this tour, Chad Popple (Gorge Trio) is replacing John Dieterich (on tour with Deerhoof) and will play vibraphone in the band. NORTHERN EUROPE SPRING TOUR 2014 23 mar • Hambourg
- 16/11/2013
POWERDOVE ~ TOURNÉE DU 17 AU 24 NOVEMBRE 2013
Échappée de son ancien groupe (les excellents The Curtains), Annie Lewandowski concocte avec Powerdove l’un des projets folk les plus intrigants du moment en s’entourant de son vieil ami californien, John Dieterich (Deerhoof) et du Français Thomas Bonvalet (L’Ocelle Mare). Avec une voix blanche où résonnent des échos de la chanteuse Nico, elle entonne à tâtons de frêles comptines
- 27/03/2013
powerdove & winter family : en concert au point éphémère, paris, le 30 mars 2013
- 23/03/2013
POWERDOVE : Première tournée française + sortie album ‘Do You Burn ? le 11 mars 2013 (MM007)
20 mars BORDEAUX • Le Novo Local 21 mars NANTES • Stereolux w/ Electric Electric >> +INFOS 22 mars TOURS • Le Temps Machine >> +INFOS 23 mars POITIERS • Le Confort Moderne w/ Gablé >> +INFOS 24 mars BAYONNE • Le Musée Basque >> +INFOS 25 mars TOULOUSE • Les Pavillons Sauvages 26
- 08/02/2013
Murailles Music est Pyrénéen !
22.02.2013 La terre tremble !!! Biarritz L’Atabale w/ Piano Chat http://bit.ly/Xm8Rbx 21.02.2013 La terre tremble !!! Pau La Centrifugeuse http://bit.ly/12GFKqq 24.03.2013 Powerdove Bayonne Le musée Basque http://bit.ly/XzflGX 26.03.2013 Powerdove Pau La Centrifugeuse http://bit.ly/Y5AUNy 04.04.2013 My Name Is Nobody Tarbes Le Celtic Pub 27.04.2013 Papier Tigre Pau Festival ‘À tant rêver du roi’ http://bit.ly/ZcUqIS 28.04.2013 My
- 25/01/2013
POWERDOVE : ‘Wandering Jew’ (official video)
- 05/01/2013
mm007 : powerdove : ‘do you burn ?’ new album & tour march 2013 !
Powerdove is – Annie Lewandowski: vocals/ prepared piano/ keyboard/ guitar – John Dieterich: guitars/ bass – Thomas Bonvalet: harmonica reeds/ six string banjo/ amps/ microphones/ feet tapping/ hand clapping/ tuning forks/ concertina/ guitar/ dry poppy pods/ whistlings Album ‘Do you burn’ to be released on Murailles Music & Africantape credits released 11 March 2013 Recorded
- 01/01/2013
POWERDOVE ‘Do You Burn?’ (official video)
BIO
Reconfigured as a French-American duo, Powerdove is releasing its fifth album and it’s a dazzling balance of diaphanous melodies and explosive arrangements, at once poppy and in-your-face experimental. Conceived on the Aegean Sea, the staggeringly beautiful songs of Machination suggest high-precision mechanisms that have been expertly tweaked to register the pulse of a hypersensitive and mineral form of songwriting.
Hearing ‘Machination’’s eight songs, which either gently undulate or seem to fight and play with the turbulence of wind and roil—you will not be entirely surprised to learn that their dream-origin was on a sailboat. Over the course of ten weeks in the Spring and Summer of 2019, Annie Lewandowski and her companion went boating by themselves on the Aegean Sea. Though both experienced sailors, nothing had prepared them for the extremities of this experience—the exaltation and the terror of the winds, the wonderment at the beauties of nature, the despair of witnessing plastic overwhelm the beaches and the sea. There was no other routine than to write every morning, when Annie’s dreams were still fresh and palpable and she could feel the opposing pulls of real and imaginary lives. When after seventy radiant days of wind and sun they got off the boat at Lavrio in Greece, she had sketches of all of the songs.
With her calm voice, Annie Lewandowski plumbs the depths of love and solitude, of memory and forgetfulness, of the strange and the familiar. She aims at the heart with a disarming sparseness of words, a lyricism which touches on intimacy (when the one your love no longer desires you, on ‘Someone Else’) and the political (the border, place of fantasy and abomination, on ‘Machination’.) Red Stain, hatched during one stiflingly hot and windless morning’s fever-dream, hurls her into a psychedelic reality where time has been abolished and loved ones become strangers.
Contrasting with this bruised and fitful vein of inspiration is the sweetness of the vocals and the keyboard figures and myriad percussive sounds imagined by Thomas Bonvalet, which at once envelop and reveal the songs. ‘Machination’ was recorded at the Grange Cavale studio in Dordogne following an MO whose logic is endemic to the duo and also slightly magical—forms are spontaneously generated from within a sonic configuration decided upon by Thomas before even hearing Annie’s songs. With a lightweight set-up, he produces a wide range of unique sounds using mainly a small electric guitar whose strings have been muted with scotch tape, and whose sole amplification is through little pocket amps spread throughout the space and triggered with a foot-switch. To each speaker is assigned a tambourine which vibrates to every sound. You will recognize the clicking of the on-off switches, a timer, a metronome, fragmentary sounds which play with depth-of-field.
A purely musical dialogue is set into motion: “I’ve always preferred to keep some distance from meaning and words,” explains Thomas Bonvalet. “I believe deeper and richer correspondences can be created through abstraction, correspondences between two objects that exist simultaneously but not on the same plane.” And quoting the philosopher Clement Rosset: “Music is not representational, it imitates nothing, speaks of nothing, it is somewhere else (…), free-form, floating, adrift by its very origin, as one would say of a bottomless surface or clothing without a body.”
This surface, this clothing without body, could also suggest what we may be seeing in the sublime cover image of ‘Machination’, haunted as it is by memory and its erasure. When he settled by a pond in the forest of Double in Dordogne, Thomas buried all his personal photographs in the ground. Ten years later, he dug them up and found them altered, charged with new meanings, new shapes and new colors. Like ghosts reincarnated.
LINE-UP
Annie Lewandowski: vocals, sampler, synthesizers, mini-amplifiers
Thomas Bonvalet: audio stutter pedals, tambourines on mini amps, noise gates, mechanical and digital metronomes, six string bass banjo, electric guitar, cellphone, drum skin, tuning forks, mechanical egg timer, microphones, honk horn, foot bell
Manuel Duval: sound
LINKS
PRESS
SONIC MASALA (UK)
“Arrest is taking the lilting, plaintive, playful machinations of the likes of Joanna Newsom or Joan As Police Woman, then driving it gleefully through a gauntlet of homemade vibrations, fabrications and laments. What remains is an album that is as abrasive as it is comforting; bracing even as it embraces. Its a truly wonderful experience that deserves to ferment, grow, and soar.”
WIRE (UK)
“On their third album, this trio stir up a thick, unclassifiable brew of contrasts. Through 11 taut tracks they reference the classical avant garde, 1970s prog folk, free improvisation and 1980s post-punk – there’s even an Arthur Russell cover.”
TOME TO THE WEATHER (...)
“Arrest is full of these brilliant moments where sound comes from all angles, being played in highly complex, rhythmic and idiosyncratic melodies by Lewandowski, Deerhoof‘s John Dietrich and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Bonvalet.”
The Wire
“A bright, detailed recording and fully committed performances result in an exhilarating album, zinging with empty space and surprises. It’s a definite advance on Powerdove‘s last outing in 2010, the more wistful Be Mine.”
CONTACT
Booking : Julien Bitaudeau
Promo : Varvara Papaspanopoulou
TAGS
'Someone else' (excerpt from 'Machination' - Film by Annie Lewandowski 2021)
'Machination' (Film by Charles-André Coderre)
'Frost Broken Willow' (excerpt from 'Machination' - Film by Thomas Bonvalet 2021)
'Tenderly' live Festival Visions, Plougonvelin 2019
'War Shapes' live (Ithaca, 2016)
'Invisible show' at Accademia Carrara, Bergamo (Italy) 2015
'When You're Near' (video by Eben Portnoy)
'Under Awnings' (video directed by Domestic Infelicity)
Concert à Emporter / Take Away Show by La Blogothèque, 2015
'Wandering Jew' (official video)
Powerdove_DoYouBurn from Gaby Wolodarski on Vimeo.
'Do You Burn' (official video)
'Easter Story' (Live Conservatoire d'Orléans)
Session le cargo (shot in Paris, march 2013)
DISCOGRAPHIE
Machination
Murailles Music2021
LP/ Digital
BuyBitter Banquet
Fo'c'sle Records2018
CD
War Shapes
Murailles Music2017
CD / LP / digital
BuyArrest
Murailles Music2014
CD / LP / digital
BuyDo You Burn ?
Murailles Music / Africantape2013
CD / LP / Digital
Buysplit 7″ with Curtis Mc Kinney
Northpole Records2012
7"
Be Mine
Circle into Square Records2011
CD
EP Self-Titled
demo2010
Digital
EP Live at the Maybeck House
s/r2010
CD
Past shows
- DateCountryCityVenuewith
- 05/14/2020FranceParis (75)Le Beau Festival, La Boule Noire (ANNULÉ)Aksak Maboul, JFDR event
- 12/01/2019FranceAvignon (84)Les Hauts Plateauxinfos event
- 11/30/2019FranceVaulx-En-Velin (69)Grrrnd Zero / GZ Anniversaire 15 ansHeimat, Balladur, Physique, Pan Pan Paninfos event
- 11/29/2019SuisseGenève (CH)Festival Face Z, Salon d'HiverBruit Noir, Vox Low, Lfant infos event
- 11/28/2019FranceParis (75)Petit Bainrelease party de Arlt 'Soleil Enculé'infos event
- 11/26/2019FranceToulouse (31)DAdaJeffers Waldo event
- 08/03/2019FrancePlougonvelin (29)Festival Visions 7,77 - Fort de BertheaumeBorja Flames, Drew Mcdowall, EYE, Tanz Mein Herz, Shackleton, France, Techno Thriller, Tzusing, Vessel, Unit Moebius.infos event
- 09/04/2018Grande-BretagneLondonCafe OTOinfos event
- 09/03/2018Grande-BretagneNewcastle upon TyneCobalt StudiosMushinfos event
- 09/02/2018Grande-BretagneEdinburghHenry Cellar's Barinfos
- 09/02/2018Grande-BretagneGlasgowSharmanka (matinee performance)
- 09/01/2018Grande-BretagneLiverpoolBean There Coffee Shopinfos event
- 08/31/2018Grande-BretagneDorsetFestival End of the Road (BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction) - Larmer Tree Gardens (Tipi Tent)infos
- 08/30/2018Grande-BretagneBristolCryptCacophonus Sarcophagus event
- 04/14/2018FranceChabeuil Festival Rencontres entre les mondesinfos event
- 04/12/2018FranceLilleL'AéronefDominique Ainfos event
- 04/11/2018FranceMassyCENTRE CULTUREL PAUL B.This is the kitinfos event
- 04/10/2018BelgiqueBruxellesLes Fabriques event
- 04/09/2018FranceParisEspace BKaraocake event
- 11/19/2017FranceLyonTBA - Anniversaire du Grrrnd Zero infos
- 11/18/2017SuisseGenèveLa ReliureFederico Dal Pozzoinfos event
- 11/17/2017FranceParisFGO - BarbaraLa Terre Tremble !!!infos event
- 11/15/2017Grande-BretagneLondresThe DentistAshley Paulinfos event
- 11/14/2017FranceCaenLe BazarnaomLa Terre Tremble !!!infos event
- 11/13/2017FranceLilleCentre Culturel LibertaireMAG, Luzerne, Ville Noireinfos event
- 11/12/2017BelgiqueBruxellesLes Ateliers ClausAshley Paulinfos event
- 06/11/2017FranceBiarritzPioche Projects event
- 06/10/2017FranceJurançon (64)La Ferronnerie event
- 06/09/2017FranceGerm (65)Chez Lily event
- 06/08/2017FranceConcots (46)La LogetteFaustine Seilman, Infatigable Dead Horse event
- 06/07/2017FranceBordeauxiBOATChris Coheninfos event
- 06/06/2017FranceTarbesCeltic Pubinfos
- 06/05/2017FranceToulouseLe DAdainfos
- 05/19/2017FranceLyonQuirky Festival, Le Bal des FringantsBégayerinfos event
- 05/18/2017FranceParisL'Espace en CoursGaspar Claus solo event
- 05/17/2017FranceNantesLe lieu uniqueTrombe event
- 05/16/2017FranceMettray (37)La Grange IntergalactiqueTasty Grany event
- 05/15/2017FranceRennesLe TerminusCantenac Dagar event
- 05/14/2017FranceLanvéocFestival l'Ex-Îleinfos event
- 05/13/2017FranceCherbourgLa ChercheUltra Kabron & Rafhell event
- 06/08/2015FranceToulouseThe Persimmon HouseDavid Simard event
- 06/07/2015FranceLa Chapelle Gonaguet (24)Prieuré de Merlande (SOLO)
- 06/06/2015FrancePoitiersFestival Less Playboy is More Cowboy (SOLO)Moon Duo, Wand...infos
- 06/05/2015FranceMetzLes Trinitaires, Chapelle (SOLO)Elvis Perkinsinfos
- 06/04/2015FranceSarregueminesLe Terminus (SOLO)
- 06/03/2015FranceStrasbourgLe Troc'afé (SOLO)
- 06/02/2015FranceLyonLa Triperie (SOLO)Bess of Bedlam event
- 05/31/2015FranceCaenGroarg Palace (SOLO)Portier Dean
- 05/30/2015FranceRouenAître St MaclouSourdureinfos event
- 05/29/2015FranceParisOlympic CaféMichel Henritzi & À qui avec Gabriel + Dana Valserinfos event
- 05/28/2015FranceLa Roche-sur-YonLa Gâterie
- 05/27/2015FranceLimogesLe Phareinfos event
- 05/26/2015FranceBordeauxLe MaestroKim Myhrinfos event
- 05/25/2015FranceTarbesCeltic Pub
- 05/24/2015ItalieBergamo (It)Accademia Carrara
- 05/22/2015FranceSan Martino Spino (It)Festival Musica Nelle Valli event
- 05/21/2015FranceGrenobleLe CielRouge Renardeinfos event
- 05/20/2015SuisseGenève (Ch)Cave12infos
- 05/19/2015FranceClermont-FerrandL'Hôtel des Vil-e-sinfos
- 05/13/2015Grande-BretagneLondon (Uk)Bethnal Green Working Men's ClubRichard Dawsoninfos
- 10/02/2014FranceAnglet (64)Ecuries de Barojainfos event
- 10/01/2014FranceLabège/ToulouseMaison Salvaninfos event
- 09/30/2014FranceNantesLe Lieu UniqueWovenhandinfos event
- 09/28/2014FranceMondeville / CaenLe BocalHerr Geisha and the Boobs, Chat Blanc Le Stagiaire Vert, Poney Crevé event
- 09/27/2014FranceMontreuilLe ChinoisYann Gourdoninfos event
- 09/26/2014BelgiqueBruxelles (Be)Les Ateliers ClausYann Gourdon & Hervé Boghossian, Hayvanlar Alemiinfos event
- 09/25/2014FranceMetzLa Chaouéeinfos event
- 09/24/2014FranceStrasbourgStimultaniainfos event
- 09/23/2014SuisseVevey (Ch)Le Bout du Mondeinfos event
- 09/22/2014FranceLyonLe PériscopeAr Ker, Odessey & Oracleinfos event
- 09/21/2014FranceSaint-Martin-de-Lansuscle (48)Le TempleMarylin-Rambo, Radio Suicide DJ set
- 09/20/2014FranceMarseilleL'EmbobineuseNunna Daul Isunyi + Petra Pied de Bicheinfos event
- 07/30/2014AllemagneHamburg (All)Hörbar
- 07/28/2014AllemagneKarlsruhe (All)Gudrun's Houseinfos
- 07/27/2014AllemagneBerlin (All)Heinz / AudioFile
- 07/26/2014DanemarkFanø (Dk)Fanø Free Folk Festival event
- 04/01/2014SuèdeSandviken (SE)Kungeninfos event
- 03/30/2014SuèdeTorpåkra (SE)Torpåkra Ljudstation event
- 03/29/2014SuèdeFalköping (SE)Galleri Shoinfos event
- 03/28/2014SuèdeUddevalla (SE)Uddevallakassetteninfos event
- 03/27/2014SuèdeMunkedal (SE)Munkedals Folkets Hus event
- 03/26/2014SuèdeStockholm (SE)Club Mother, Restaurang LandetReceptaclesinfos event
- 03/25/2014SuèdeGöteborg (SE)Kultur i Västsinfos event
- 03/24/2014DanemarkFrederiksberg (København) (DK)HCØ69 event
- 03/23/2014AllemagneHamburg (All)Astra-Stubeinfos event
- 11/24/2013FranceParisL'index event
- 11/23/2013FranceCherbourgLe Transatinfos event
- 11/22/2013FranceSaint-Pierre-des-Corps (37) / ToursLe RexyMonte Isolainfos event
- 11/21/2013FranceSaint Nazairele VIPinfos event
- 11/20/2013FranceLaval6 par 4Ramona Cordovainfos event
- 11/19/2013FranceParisLe Café De La DanseRamona Cordovainfos event
- 11/18/2013BelgiqueBruxelles (be)BrassPattoninfos event
- 11/17/2013FranceRoubaixLa Cave aux poètesGablé event
- 03/30/2013FranceParisLe Point ÉphémèreWinter Familyinfos event
- 03/29/2013FranceOrléansSalle de l'InstitutPeter van Poelhinfos event
- 03/28/2013FranceLyonGrrnd ZeroMazalda + Antinfos event
- 03/27/2013FranceMarseilleLe GrimLee Nobleinfos event
- 03/26/2013FrancePauLa Centrifugeuseinfos event
- 03/25/2013FranceToulouseLes Papillons sauvages event
- 03/24/2013FranceBayonneLe musée Basqueinfos
- 03/23/2013FrancePoitiersLe Confort ModerneGabléinfos event
- 03/22/2013FranceToursLe temps machinePerrine en morceauxinfos event
- 03/21/2013FranceNantesLe StereoluxElectric Electric, Double Nelsoninfos event
- 03/20/2013FranceBordeauxNovo Local event
- 03/19/2013EspagneMadrid (Spain)Utopic_us event
'Someone else' (excerpt from 'Machination' - Film by Annie Lewandowski 2021)
'Machination' (Film by Charles-André Coderre)
'Frost Broken Willow' (excerpt from 'Machination' - Film by Thomas Bonvalet 2021)
'Tenderly' live Festival Visions, Plougonvelin 2019
'War Shapes' live (Ithaca, 2016)
'Invisible show' at Accademia Carrara, Bergamo (Italy) 2015
'When You're Near' (video by Eben Portnoy)
'Under Awnings' (video directed by Domestic Infelicity)
Concert à Emporter / Take Away Show by La Blogothèque, 2015
'Wandering Jew' (official video)
Powerdove_DoYouBurn from Gaby Wolodarski on Vimeo.
'Do You Burn' (official video)
'Easter Story' (Live Conservatoire d'Orléans)
Session le cargo (shot in Paris, march 2013)
NEWS
- 13/11/2019
Powerdove : de retour en France en novembre !
Nos chouchous Powerdove, concentré en duo autour de la voix dangereusement suave d’Annie Lewandowski et du barouf poétique de l’ogre végétarien Thomas Bonvalet, sont de retour en France et en novembre ! → CONCERTS À VENIR : 26.11 • Toulouse (31) • DAda 28.11 • Paris (75) • Petit Bain – Release Party ‘Soleil Enculé’ Arlt 29.11 • Genève (CH) • Festival Face Z, Salon
- 09/04/2018
Powerdove en tournée du 9 au 14 avril 2018 !
Pour être discret, Powerdove ne cultive pas moins l’un des plus étranges et beaux territoires de la musique américaine d’aujourd’hui. Annie Lewandowski revient ce mois-ci les bras chargés de douces mélodies saturées d’une électricité statique sans égale, que les bigarrures inouïes de Chad Popple et Thomas Bonvalet achèvent de rendre parmi les plus inouïes, inédites, renversantes que la chanson contemporaine nous ait offertes
- 11/11/2017
Powerdove en tournée en France du 12 au 19 nov.
Nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer le retour du trio hirsute et doux Powerdove en Europe du 12 au 19. Une belle occasion d’asseoir la beauté sur ses genoux et de ne pas la trouver amère du tout. À Bruxelles, Lille, Caen, Londres, Paris (FGO – Barbara), Genève, et Lyon. ~ En tournée : 12 nov • Bruxelles (BE) Les Ateliers
- 15/02/2017
Powerdove ‘War Shapes’ nouvel album / tournée mai + juin 2017
‘War Shapes’ est le 4ème album (sortie le 26 mai 2017) que signe Annie Lewandowski sous le nom de Powerdove. Cette instrumentiste formée à l’improvisation la plus savante, y écrit et chante de douces chansons inquiètes dont elle s’applique ensuite, en les soumettant à quelques perturbateurs de choix, à révéler chaque zone d’inconfort et de
- 11/06/2015
POWERDOVE en tournée en mai-juin !
Powerdove nous revient en mai en France, avec un détour par l’Italie et la Suisse, accompagné par Chad Popple au vibraphone en remplacement temporaire de John Dieterich qui ferraille en ce moment avec sa tribu Deerhoof. Le fiévreux Bonvalet sera toujours de la partie pour chahuter les notes et les atomes. S’ensuivront quelques concerts en solo
- 11/06/2015
‘LESS PLAYBOY IS MORE COWBOY’, GO !
Édition spéciale cette année pour le toujours épatant festival ‘Less playboy is more cowboy’ puisqu’il s’inscrira au coeur du 30 ème anniversaire du Confort Moderne, pilier culturel de la bonne ville de Poitiers et trésor national. Comme toujours la programmation est foudroyante et nous ne sommes pas peu fiers de voir y figurer deux de nos valeureux poulains ‘La
- 03/02/2015
powerdove : ep ‘Weeping Into The Willow Sea’ free download
On vous offre un EP de remixes de Powerdove intitulé ‘Weeping Into The Willow Sea’, soit deux titres du chef-d’oeuvre ‘Arrest’, évidés, retournés, et chahutés par les glings fantômes de Freddy Rupert (aka Former Ghosts) et Coppice. #1 ‘Weeping Willow’ (Freddy Ruppert remix) #2 ‘Into the Sea’ (Coppice remix) Transmission, reception, interference and mix by Coppice
- 16/12/2014
LABEL XMAS SALE / PROMO DE NOËL
20% SUR TOUT NOTRE SHOP PENDANT 1 MOIS ! * 20% DISCOUNT ON THE WHOLE CATALOG UNTIL JANUARY 15th ! * ~ ENTER CODE XMASSALE ON OUR BIGCARTEL ~ CATALOGUE (MM011) Powerdove ‘Arrest’ (LP/CD) (MM010) Pillars and Tongues ‘End Dances’ (LP/CD) (MM009) Ramona Córdova ‘Quinn To New Relationship’s (LP/CD) (MM008) Ramona Córdova ‘Spring’ (7″) (MM007) Powerdove ‘Do You Burn?’ (LP/CD) (MM006) La Terre Tremble !!! ‘Salvage Blues’ (LP/CD) (MM005) Electric Electric ‘Discipline’ (double
- 09/12/2014
Powerdove : live solo Chapelle ‘Civitella Ranieri’ (Ithaca, NY, 2014)
A ceux qui se demandaient ce que seraient les chansons de Powerdove sans le tohu-bohu génial de John Dieterich et Thomas Bonvalet, l’album live ‘Powerdove Solo at Ranieri Chapel’ (Chapelle ‘Civitella Ranieri’, Ithaca, NY, 2014) apporte cette réponse minérale : Annie Lewandoski, seule à la guitare, souffle à voix nue ses mélodies intranquilles contre la réverb’ naturelle et c’est aussi bouleversant
- 31/08/2014
Powerdove x Arthur Russell (cover) : ‘You Can Make Me Feel Bad’
‘You Can Make Me Feel Bad’ est le 3ème extrait de l’album ‘Arrest’ , mais aussi une reprise du regretté Arthur Russell. On dit d’Arthur Russell qu’il ne serait jamais parvenu à une version définitive d’une de ses chansons, en laissant parfois 40 versions différentes d’une même chanson après sa mort. Voici la lecture langoureuse interprétée par Powerdove. English below ‘You
BIO
Reconfigured as a French-American duo, Powerdove is releasing its fifth album and it’s a dazzling balance of diaphanous melodies and explosive arrangements, at once poppy and in-your-face experimental. Conceived on the Aegean Sea, the staggeringly beautiful songs of Machination suggest high-precision mechanisms that have been expertly tweaked to register the pulse of a hypersensitive and mineral form of songwriting.
Hearing ‘Machination’’s eight songs, which either gently undulate or seem to fight and play with the turbulence of wind and roil—you will not be entirely surprised to learn that their dream-origin was on a sailboat. Over the course of ten weeks in the Spring and Summer of 2019, Annie Lewandowski and her companion went boating by themselves on the Aegean Sea. Though both experienced sailors, nothing had prepared them for the extremities of this experience—the exaltation and the terror of the winds, the wonderment at the beauties of nature, the despair of witnessing plastic overwhelm the beaches and the sea. There was no other routine than to write every morning, when Annie’s dreams were still fresh and palpable and she could feel the opposing pulls of real and imaginary lives. When after seventy radiant days of wind and sun they got off the boat at Lavrio in Greece, she had sketches of all of the songs.
With her calm voice, Annie Lewandowski plumbs the depths of love and solitude, of memory and forgetfulness, of the strange and the familiar. She aims at the heart with a disarming sparseness of words, a lyricism which touches on intimacy (when the one your love no longer desires you, on ‘Someone Else’) and the political (the border, place of fantasy and abomination, on ‘Machination’.) Red Stain, hatched during one stiflingly hot and windless morning’s fever-dream, hurls her into a psychedelic reality where time has been abolished and loved ones become strangers.
Contrasting with this bruised and fitful vein of inspiration is the sweetness of the vocals and the keyboard figures and myriad percussive sounds imagined by Thomas Bonvalet, which at once envelop and reveal the songs. ‘Machination’ was recorded at the Grange Cavale studio in Dordogne following an MO whose logic is endemic to the duo and also slightly magical—forms are spontaneously generated from within a sonic configuration decided upon by Thomas before even hearing Annie’s songs. With a lightweight set-up, he produces a wide range of unique sounds using mainly a small electric guitar whose strings have been muted with scotch tape, and whose sole amplification is through little pocket amps spread throughout the space and triggered with a foot-switch. To each speaker is assigned a tambourine which vibrates to every sound. You will recognize the clicking of the on-off switches, a timer, a metronome, fragmentary sounds which play with depth-of-field.
A purely musical dialogue is set into motion: “I’ve always preferred to keep some distance from meaning and words,” explains Thomas Bonvalet. “I believe deeper and richer correspondences can be created through abstraction, correspondences between two objects that exist simultaneously but not on the same plane.” And quoting the philosopher Clement Rosset: “Music is not representational, it imitates nothing, speaks of nothing, it is somewhere else (…), free-form, floating, adrift by its very origin, as one would say of a bottomless surface or clothing without a body.”
This surface, this clothing without body, could also suggest what we may be seeing in the sublime cover image of ‘Machination’, haunted as it is by memory and its erasure. When he settled by a pond in the forest of Double in Dordogne, Thomas buried all his personal photographs in the ground. Ten years later, he dug them up and found them altered, charged with new meanings, new shapes and new colors. Like ghosts reincarnated.
LINE-UP
Annie Lewandowski: vocals, sampler, synthesizers, mini-amplifiers
Thomas Bonvalet: audio stutter pedals, tambourines on mini amps, noise gates, mechanical and digital metronomes, six string bass banjo, electric guitar, cellphone, drum skin, tuning forks, mechanical egg timer, microphones, honk horn, foot bell
Manuel Duval: sound
LINKS
PRESS
DISCOGRAPHIE
Machination
Murailles Music2021
LP/ Digital
BuyBitter Banquet
Fo'c'sle Records2018
CD
War Shapes
Murailles Music2017
CD / LP / digital
BuyArrest
Murailles Music2014
CD / LP / digital
BuyDo You Burn ?
Murailles Music / Africantape2013
CD / LP / Digital
Buysplit 7″ with Curtis Mc Kinney
Northpole Records2012
7"
Be Mine
Circle into Square Records2011
CD
EP Self-Titled
demo2010
Digital
EP Live at the Maybeck House
s/r2010
CD
CONTACT
Booking : Julien Bitaudeau
Promo : Varvara Papaspanopoulou