Release of the album The Myth Of The Machine

Here it is, here’s the release day of The Myth Of The Machine on digital! You can download it, either for free or the amount you wish. There will be a limited cd edition to be released on September 29, the day of the release concert & party. You can pre-order it by email me at yes at iamcatseye dot com for 10 sFrs, 10€ or 12$, port included.

Live photos from Fribourg Plage

Photography by Serge K. Keller.

Silent Pavement radio review

The new song “Silent Pavement” reviewed on air. Thank you Radio Fribourg!

Outdoor live date on the “beach”

Cat’s Eye will play live at Fribourg Plage on Friday July 27th. So there’s gonna be sand, cocktails and music, yes!

Cat’s Eye on TV

Photographs from the release gig at La Spirale, Fribourg, Nov 5, 2010

www.laspirale.ch. Photographs by Yvan Cougil

Around The Corner: video

A video of Around The Corner, track 2 of the upcoming double album. Images taken from the footage I shot last summer in New York. It’s homemade, just for the internet, just for fun.

Take-away show(-like): Between These Walls

Here is the “Take-away Show” we shot earlier this month. We “stole” (or were inspired by?) the concept from lablogotheque.net, a french website. There are several principles, in order to make a video that is like an anti-high budget polished, 12-cameras, but still a little bit interesting. One of them is making only one sequence shot for the whole song. A second one is choosing an unexpected place to shoot and use it as it is, without moving/bringing stuff.

Mark Olexa was filming Seb and myself. We shot/played the song live in a bathroom. Seb used the toilets, the dustbin, the shower and a tambourine as percussion. The song I choosed to play is “Between These Walls”, which is my LP second track of part 1 of the album. It was a lot of fun making the video.

Mark edited it, worked on the grain, the tones, etc and here’s the result.

Leaving New York never easy

I’ve just spent an amazing week in New York! On the music side I realized
an old dream, playing on the monday night open mic at the Sidewalk Cafe, a place on East Village known for its anti-folk scene (Moldy Peaches, Regina Spektor, Beck). I played on the piano, well actually a detuned acoustic piano, I guess it must be… the “anti- touch” of the place.
Also brought back home new gear.

Listen to a new song

New song called “Blur”, click here to listen (streaming)

Composed, recorded, mixed, mastered by cats’ eye on January 29, 2010

This afternoon I’ve decided to do the following thing:

Composing (and improvising), recording, mixing, mastering one song. I wanted to experiment with distorted guitar layers. Here’s the result.

This is not perfect, for ex. the double voice is improvised, this is the first take you hear. I wanted to use only spontaneity in the process.

If you’re interested, you can dowload it for free by just clicking here.

RSR Radio Paradiso

Yesterday we went to Radio Suisse Romande la 1e for an interview and a song live. The program’s called Radio Paradiso and it’s always fun to go there. There’s a cool atmosphere in this big radio studio.

Fnac showcase from thu april 16

Pictures by Biscotte. It seems there was an erotic litterature week in the fnac the week we played. Look at the books behind us. Funny
From left to right (first picture): Jacques, Mary, Seb and me.

Paper cup

This is the opening track of the album Perspectives. (Listen here)
It’s funny because when I composed it, I was ready to throw it away, thinking “it’s too obvious, too simple”… And when I previewed the album for some friends, everybody asked me why the other songs are not as cool as this one. Anyway.

What is it all about? I would say that these 2 sentences in the lyrics sum it up: “Watching the constellation we would unconsciously choose. Sometimes a dream makes your feet holding on the ground”.
I’m pretty sure.

This is the first song we recorded in the studio with Sacha. First day, a morning in summer, July. I recorded my guitar/pilot vocal tracks and them we added stuff. Sacha recorded the kick and snare, I played tambourine. Then I don’t remember in which order we did it, but Sacha laid some electric/acoustic/dobro guitars (I did some acoustic as well), bass and I played my “laptop garage band” hammond organ and some Rhodes. Then the vocals.