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Hi, welcome to the La STPO website. I'll try to update it on a regular basis, now !
2010
July : the band is in the studio to record the tracks "Corte" and "Offre Spéciale de Lancement de la Chute".
The first one was lost in a crash of the hard-drive of the studio ; so we had to redo it.
Alas another track, "30 000 Fois", was also lost for good.
June 2 : gig in our town, Rennes (F) at Le Jardin Moderne.
The set-list is : Son Essentiel, Le Minisme, La Vallée des Empreintes, Offre Spéciale de Lancement de la Chute, Le Femme Immortel, Lorsque.
This is the first live appearance for "Offre Spéciale".
May : one La Stpo track on the new Antibothis book + CD Compilation .
The track is called "Kiotosmorama" after a painting of the same name from Asger Jorn.
This is a fully remastered version of the song appearing on the "Les Explositionnistes" CD album.
The Book anthology has 135 pages (in english).
The cd compilation includes The Master Musicians of Joujouka, Lydia Lunch with Philippe Petit, Checkpoint 303, Kal Cahoone, Gintas K, Orbit Service, Anla Courtis, La Stpo, Jabe Radion Newton and Adi Newton / T.A.G.C., Zeitkratzer, Pietro Riparbelli/K11, Gjoll.
Full infos here.
March : the band records the track "La Vallée des Empreintes".
Johann Mazé is part of it as guest, with his trumpet.
This title will appear in our next full-new recording.
2009
October :
CD compilation "Mom" with one La Stpo track from our label beta-lactam ring records.
Other bands in this compilation include : Volcano the Bear, The Legendary Pink Dots, Un Festín Sagital, Orbit Service, Nurse With Wound and Andrew Liles among others.
Full infos here.
July 23 : the split is 'record of the week' for the french online magazine Octopus !
Read the review here.
June 17 : very interesting reviews of the split can be read here :
Losing Today.com.
Brainwashed.com.
May : our new album, a split record with the fantastic band Volcano The Bear, is now out on Beta-lactam Ring Records.
It's called : "The Shy Volcanic Society At The Bear And Bird Parade".
More about it here.
May 19 : La Stpo has now a myspace page. la stpo myspace.
May 16 : The CD compilation entitled 'We all believe in Utopia' on the french label 'In Poly Sons' is now out. We have one track on it called "Le Minisme" (and not 'Minisme' as incorrectly titled on the cover).
Read more about it here.
May : La Stpo is now 25 ! We started in may 1984 ...
Sad news : Johann Mazé (trumpet) has decided to leave the band. However, when we record the new track "La Vallée des Empreintes", he'll be part of it.
April : the band is back from the tour. We played the first night in Augsburg. Sascha took pictures of the event, as well as some short videos which he's uploaded on YouTube (be warned : the sound is heavily distorted). The second night we were in the Jazz Cave of Hofheim am Taunus and played two sets of 45 minutes, with encore. This was again a great time. But most unfortunately, while on the road, we've been informed that the third gig in Bielefeld was cancelled due to an incredible german law : it is strictly forbidden to make music the day the christ died !!! Truly stupid indeed.
The set-list was : Avant, Idol, Colonies, Sadyhoqk, La Vallée des Empreintes, Le Femme Immortel, Lorsque, Le Minisme, Guayaki, Son Essentiel, Underground Woman, I Cuento Blumen. Encore : german version of 3 Expériences de Survie.
April : the band will do a short tour of Germany.
8 : Augsburg
9 : Hofheim am Taunus / Jazzkeller Infos here
10 : Bielefeld / Bunker Ulmenwall Infos here
March 11 : We played live in our town, Rennes (F) at L'Antipode. Infos here. The set-list was : Avant, Le Minisme, Son Essentiel, Le Femme Immortel, La Vallée des Empreintes, Lorsque.
2008
November 30 : The band is in the studio to record a new track called "Le Minisme".
This more than 10 minute song will appear on a CD compilation of the french label In Poly Sons.
In "Le Minisme" one can hear for the first time in a La Stpo song trombone (played by Guillaume).
The mix took place on january 9,2009.
November 19 : A book (in french) has just been published ; it's called "l'underground musical en France".
Full infos here.
325 pages dealing with all the underground and experimental french bands. La Stpo is of course in this book : pages 261-262.
October 6 : There is a fantastic set of 105 pictures from our parisian show at the Maison des Métallos in april 26, which can be viewed on the Traverses Website.
Traverses is a website as well as a printed magazine (in french) dedicated to new and prog musics. Highly recommended.
Sept 23 : Since the end of june, the band has a new member : Guillaume Dubreu. He's playing bass, cello and trombone.
June 14 : La Stpo was part of the Nodutgang festival in Bodo, Norway (just above the arctic circle). Three nights and days (midnight sun !) really cool, with JH Peron, KK Null and other great artists...
We had a fantastic audience !
You can find a free download album used to promote the festival at this address.
April 26 : we played at the festival L'étrange Musique in Paris (Maison des Métallos).
Among other invited artists were : DDAA, Ghedalia Tazartes
A french guy has made an audience recording of our set, and put it online with a nice comment. You can find it here.
Jean-Pierre Turmel of Sordide Sentimental, who runs the UBIK76 blog, wrote a great review of the show (in french). Read it here.
2007
In november, the band did a wonderful tour in Germany : Bielefeld, Würzburg and Darmstadt.
2006
In december, after a short tour in the Netherlands, the band has welcomed a new member : Johann Mazé on trumpet
This site is maintained and hosted by chris mcbeth. I am always looking for live photos, posters, audio material (both official and bootleg), and any info at all one might have for the stpo site. Any information is greatly appreciated! all input will be credited/documented. Does anyone know of any bootleg releases of STPO??? Contact chris with any information.
