Noir Desir : Tostaky 1992

Noir Désir is a French rock band from Bordeaux. They were active during the 1980s , 1990s and early 2000s , and have had two albums certified double platinum in France and three certified gold .



Bertrand Cantat and Serge Teyssot-Gay met in 1980 at secondary school after Cantat moved to Bordeaux from his hometown in Normandy; Teyssot-Gay was 17 and Cantat was 16 at the time. The two teenagers shared a love of music, particularly Led Zeppelin, The Who, and AC/DC and so they decided to form a band. Tesyssot had a strong musical background and a decade's worth training in classical guitar, however Cantat could not play any instrument at the time, and so became the singer for their band. They met Denis Barthe , during the summer vacation who shared a similar passion for music and he agreed to play drums for the band , although he had never played them before.

The band originally called themselves "Psychoz", then "6.35", "Station Désir" and finally "Noirs Désirs". In 1982 Teyssot-Gay and Leriche left the group to form BAM (Boîte A Musique).

Their first critical and popular success came in 1989, with their album," Veuillez rendre l'âme (à qui elle appartient) ". The album won Noir Désir the Bus d'Acier for 1989, an award given by the press to the best French rock group of the year .

With its harder and more aggressive sound and an almost complete lack of promotion, the third album Du ciment sous les plaines (1991) received lacklustre reviews compared to" Veuillez rendre l'âme (à qui elle appartient) " and no singles were released from it.
In May 1991 a concert in Besançon was cut short after four songs when Bertrand Cantat collapsed on stage.
As a result the band took a break from touring until the release of their next album, Tostaky.



Tostaky was produced in London, a city the group admired for its musical output.

The word "tostaky" is a slang contraction of the Spanish expression "todo está aquí" (everything is here), one of the slogans used by Mexican revolutionaries led by Emiliano Zapata .

In December, 1996 the success of Tostaky was continued with the release of 666.667 Club, which would be certified double platinum a year after its release.[9] In 1998, after receiving a remix of their song "Septembre, en attendant" in the mail, they decided to produce the album One Trip, One Noise which comprised a collection of their songs remixed by young musicians.



In 2003, following an argument about infidelity, Bertrand Cantat, drunk at the time, beat his girlfriend Marie Trintignant, also drunk, multiple times in a hotel room in Vilnius, Lithuania. The following morning Marie Trintignant was found in a coma in her bed and died a few days later.

A post mortem examination showed that she had suffered multiple head injuries.

Cantat admitted to hitting her 4 times, however prosecutors argued that it was in fact 19 times in all. He later alleged she had fallen and hit her head on a radiator, becoming unconscious from this impact, not his blows directly.
On 29 March 2004, a Lithuanian court sentenced Cantat to eight years in prison after he was found guilty of manslaughter. After a year spent in Lukiškės prison of Vilnius, he was moved to a prison near Toulouse, France.



Cantat was freed on parole on October 16, 2007. A condition of his release was that he must receive regular psychological counseling and refrain from public reference to his crime in interviews or in music.

In November 2008 the band released two free tracks on their website, performed by the whole band.

TRAXS :


1. "Here It Comes Slowly" - 3:03
2. "Ici Paris" - 3:37
3. "Oublié" - 4:33
4. "Alice" - 3:55
5. "One Trip / One Noise" - 4:12
6. "Tostaky (Le continent)" - 5:29
7. "Marlène" - 3:03
8. "Johnny colère" - 2:17
9. "7 minutes" - 6:00
10. "Sober Song" - 2:51
11. "It Spurts" - 3:53
12. "Lolita nie en bloc" - 3:30

HERE IT COMES SLOWLY


Crawling like a thunder slug
now it smells like a war drug

here it comes slowly
here it comes slowly

deeply burried in the bowels
now it spurts out of the wells

here it comes slowly
here it comes slowly

we can keep that beast away it still lays in its gore
we'll never stand fascism anymore
no way out miracle, just stop it your blood
has your neighbour really understood ?!

we all wallow in dirt
but there's a shadow to hurt
crawling like a thunder slug
now it smells like a war drug
deeply burried in the bowels
now it spurts out of the wells
sad shit flowing to the skin
no one forget what you mean
if it grows up like a death tree
why don't we beat it down here and now

7 MINUTES

between skies and fields
this land in midnight lights
cold summer, cold summer
till the end of time
the earth's like a belly
an heavy sleeping beast
but with her big eyes open
and cities are inside
still standing on the hill
this city's like an ocean
enjoy the metal waves
in which we drown ourselves
don't you breathe anymore
are you far from the next corner ?
your race is burning the pavement
welcome to the city
the city's done for you
yell with the underdogs
make sure they won't bite you

IT SPURTS

Nobody we 'll drag me into this
stinking thoughts i know
you won't never carry it off
even if you're kind with me



get out leave me alone
and have a nice day asshole
i know why you're a pretty cynic shit
that i can't stand anymore
so sorry about that but
i feel like you pick on me boy

get out leave me alone
and have a nice day asshole
listen and see
don't try it with me (x3)
i told you

well you been drinking a lot
and your head's going round
of course you think i'm a
parano ac silly dirty wicked boy
and you're a pain in my aah
so come on stop i fuck you shut up i'll kill you fuck off you always drive me crazy

Get out leave me alone
and have a nice day asshole
listen and see
don't try it with me (x3)
i told you
you don't even know anything true
about my life

poison
explodes
and spurts out of our souls

SOBER


oh lord, hear me please
you have to make me sober
aspirin, come on please
i don't want to suffer

i found one of my socks
under the telephone
i've never asked these bells
to ring in my home
what have i done to my hat?
i had no hat before
something like a tearing's running on my bones

it's allright now
but what an awful night
i'm almost reaching the kitchen
i'll drink water till i die (about yesterday)

yesterday was the time of lavishness
everything 'round me was only loveliness
i was the king but the night was reigning over me
so much excitement but now this pleasure's gone without me

it's allright now
but what an awful night
i'm almost reaching the kitchen
i'll drink water till i die
i'll drink water till i die
i'll drink water till i die
aspirin, come on please
i don't want to suffer
oh lord, hear me please
you have to make me sober
but i don't know what's going on there

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