TARTINE DE CLOUS - Compter les dents CD Female-Fronted the album is held together

the album is held together by threads of spirituality

Still at the band's heart

Parisian-by-choice Detlef Weinrich aka Tolouse Low Trax turns the page again

Ike Yard sits between the sinewy proto-body music of the Neue Deutsche Welle and the shattered grooves of their No Wave peers in New York

TARTINE DE CLOUS - Compter les dents CD Female-Fronted the album is held togetherliner notes by Alasdair Roberts (musician) : It begins with a shoebox of mysterious provenance, full of recordings from the Vende department on Frances western seaboard: songs of love and war, life and death, played out on land and sea. Songs passed down and sung by ordinary men and women, gracefully delivered with the poetic economy which unites the folk song of all peoples. Next it takes a group of contemporary musicians to make selections from this