Drahomira Song Orchestra is a French duo consisting of former film students Julien Pacaud and Jean-Christophe Sanchez. They make sometimes ambient, sometimes drony, sometimes industrial musical compositions...or I guess they're more like musical scrapbooks - musical ephemera (hehe). Their music is unlike anything I have heard before, yet it has always felt very familiar, like they taped in and recorded some sort of collective unconscious and put it to beautiful music.
They are also filmmakers and graphic artist - I haven't been lucky enough to see any of their films, but both Julien Pacaud's graphic art (as displayed) and Jean-Christophe Sanchez's paintings are remarkable and consistently intriguing. Their art can be viewed over their very fun website, and can be purchased at DeviantartArt
You can download some of their albums at their last.fm page, and some more over at Mutant Sounds. You can find a couple albums of theirs for sale here and here.Here are a few tracks off their 1999 album Strange Baltic Laboratoire, which has quickly made its way into one of my all time favorite albums:
The Rules by Heart
Gymnastik Nocturne
Fin de Journée au Politburo
Now Change Head Back Sorry
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website (check out their 'Employee of the Month Maker' under Bonus)
myspace
last.fm
discogs
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